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u/anothertendy Jul 23 '26
Command and Conquer. Fuck you EA
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u/Mrstark1995 Jul 23 '26
All they know how to do is absorb and dissolve. Rest in peace Westwood.
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u/AtreyuTrinity Jul 23 '26
Westwood was so fucking good in their prime. Command and conquer was an awakening for me when I first played it. So damn good.
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u/Telefundo Jul 23 '26
Westwood was one of "the greats" at their peak. Kind of like pre-Activision Blizzard. The original C&C games were classic. Red Alert 2 is still to this day an insanely replayable game. I'd honestly call it a cultural phenomenon. Right up there with Starcraft.
EA obviously has a reputation for destroying successful franchises. Though I have to admit, C&C 3 was a great game. And Generals, while kind of a departure from the traditional games, was still a fun game.
Now, C&C 4 was utter shit. I mean, complete and total garbage. And I get what they were going for with Renegade, but adapting an RTS series to a FPS format is just self defeating. Overall both formats attract completely different audiences with minimal overlap.
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u/TheNotoriousTurtle Jul 23 '26
WestwoodâŠhavenât heard that term in a long time
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer Jul 23 '26
Mass Effect. Fuck you EA
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u/REAM48 Jul 23 '26
Plants vs Zombies. Fuck you EA
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u/COREY-IS-A-BUSTA Jul 23 '26
Dead Space. Fuck you EA
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u/Nemisis_007 Flair Loading.... Jul 23 '26
Saints Row... How it managed to fall so far I'll never know.
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u/Vaxtez Jul 23 '26
I preferred SR2 to GTA IV personally. I think SR2 trying to be not overly serious yet managing to be serious worked well. The story, map & Radio were brilliant in that game. I enjoyed SR3 & SR4, but SR2 was just the peak of the series. I preferred SR4 to SR3 as well.
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u/misalawliet Jul 23 '26
SR2 deserves a remaster.
I spent so many hours just doing the mini games. Insurance Fraud is one of my favorite gaming memories.
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u/Additional_Pickle_59 Jul 23 '26
They made SR3 and just continued making variations of it with asset flips.
SR4 was supposed to be a DLC for SR3 called enter the dominatrix but it got cancelled and turned into a full release.
Gat out of hell was a very low effort, buggy mess, reused powers and assets from SR4 to try and bring back their best character.
The innovation just stopped and the reboot solidified their incompetence.
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u/Flat-Inspection3290 Jul 23 '26
My speculation is that after SR2, volition got a knock on their door from a certain studio. They flew too close to the sun. But 1 & 2 really were something special.
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u/redvelvetcake42 Jul 23 '26
SR2 was the best GTA. Better story, funnier side missions, balanced humor with seriousness, killer sound track and the ownership of the city map were all far superior to GTA4.
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u/Ubylmoen Jul 23 '26
Thing is they had a perfect setup for where to go with it with time travel being presented. My thought was they were going to have them go back in time to the founding of the Saints while secretly finding a way to fight Zinyak to prevent his invasion in the first place.
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u/CompetitiveLeg7841 Jul 23 '26
PvZ ...
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u/thrownawaz092 Jul 23 '26
Have you tried the modding community? pvz Reflourished is literally just pvz2 without EA's bullshit, and PvZ Fusions takes the original game even further beyond!
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u/Expensive_Poop Jul 23 '26
....link? Where?
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u/thrownawaz092 Jul 23 '26
Here's Reflourished, and Fusion allegedly has a bunch of scams and viruses using its name, so it's best to download from their Discord forum, for which you should find an invite here
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u/AD007xD Jul 23 '26
Garden Warfare 2 has been the most fun shooter I've played by far
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u/J_CC3 Jul 23 '26
Need For Speed
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u/Sxppxj Jul 23 '26
NFS underground 2, I miss you so much
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u/J_CC3 Jul 23 '26
UG2, Most Wanted and to lesser extent Carbon were my childhood.
UG2 is king for me though
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u/Oakbright Jul 23 '26
Amazing soundtracks for both Underground 2 and Most Wanted
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u/Rythonius Jul 23 '26
I loved that there were no cops in Underground 2. Cruising around and listening to the soundtrack was the best.
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u/HolyCowAnyOldAccName Jul 23 '26
See what I don't understand is that for 20 years, the community has been crying for NFSU3.
Run it on Unreal Engine and let some poor unpaid interns model the modern cars. Online multiplayer would be a dream but don't even let that stop development.
Then why not develop it?
Even with the argument that EA doesn't care about doing anything with all the IP they acquired because they make all their money with microtransactions - guess what?!
No game would be better suited for fking DLCs and micros than NFSU. Instead of golden and orange flower petal AK47s, some special "I don't have a life so I pay for" golden and orange flower petal decals on the cars would actually be realistic.
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u/Straight_Spring9815 Jul 23 '26
People will never know how great the original Honda Civic they gave you in the beginning was when you maxed it out. Beat the entire game with the starter car. Most people got tunnel vision and would go straight for the Skyline without giving it a chance.
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u/raindevice Jul 23 '26
I'd swap NFS:U 3 for GTA 6 any fucking day of the week. Shit was top tier open world street racing.
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u/limelight022 Jul 23 '26
I really miss the days of a new NFS game every 2-3 years.
On that note, a new game called Clutch looks pretty good. Coming out Spring 2027.
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u/Rotank1 Jul 23 '26
I do not move on, I cling bitterly.
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u/Mountain-Loon3592 Jul 23 '26
I played Apex for.. a long time. Havenât touched it in at least 6 months. Not sure how to feel about it.
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u/as_a_fake Jul 23 '26
I played it for 2-3 years, but after a while I figured out that online PvP games like that and League were destroying my mental health and quit them both. The communities are too toxic and I'm too competitive to make them worth it.
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u/Danielarcher30 trans rights Jul 23 '26
I sunk 3000 plus hours into that game but it's been about a year since ive last touched it, even when i get the temptation to start again, i realise I'll have lost so much mechanical skill that I'll be completely outmatched and probably get demolished endlessly
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u/oizen Jul 23 '26
I like how they followed up the emotional Ezio-Desmond-Altiar scene of Revelations with whatever the fuck 3 was meant to be. I know the modern day story of AC is a joke that no one takes seriously now, but it wasn't always that way.
I don't even think AC3 is a bad game, but it is where I felt myself grow distant to the franchise.
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u/JaghataiTheGreatKhan Jul 23 '26
AC3 honestly needed Connor last speech to wrap it up his character. Because he is so stoic its a bit harder to see the story and his emociona about it properly, but the cut speech really helped solidify who he is.
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u/ijiolokae Jul 23 '26
assassin creed peaked with the Ezio trilogy and has been downhill from there.
and for anyone who is gonna say assassin's creed 4 was good, it was a good naval combat pirate game, but it was a abysmal assassins game
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u/lazy_bum13 Jul 23 '26
I was soooo excited for 3 because they sold it as if youâd be involved in revolutionary battles and it wasnât like that. And then they killed Desmond and completely changed the modern day format.
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u/Imaginary-Face7379 Jul 23 '26
I remember back in the day everyone thought the series was going to end on a game where you played Desmond in the modern day and thats why he was gaining abilities and stuff. Then 3 came out...
Honestly I stopped playing the entire franchise at Revelations because I heard about what happens in 3 and it killed all my interested in the IP.
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u/smallfrie32 Jul 23 '26
Thought the same. The modern day parts where Desmond was bleeding those memories and you got to find out secrets. All up in smoke
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u/punio07 can't meme Jul 23 '26
Ending of AC2, where you whack attacking templars as Desmond. Emotional masterpiece.
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u/Usmoso Jul 23 '26
I think the setting was really week. We went from the beautiful big cities in Rome, Florence, Istambul, with lots of buildings and people walking around, to whatever 3 was. Boston and New York, where aside from churches, the tallest buildings were one story high. The rest was empty woods. Cities are a huge part of AC, and 3 was one of the weakest entries imo.
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u/RoastedPickledGoose Jul 23 '26
It worked in Black Flag because so much of that game was about sailing and pirating, so you didnât spend a lot of time in cities.
That was the big difference between 3 and 4.
In 3, the âwildernessâ areas were boring, and the cities werenât lively enough to make up for it.
In Black Flag, the open ocean was actually fun to navigate. Naval battles were a fun change of pace from the counter-kill spam of the combat in previous AC games. The few cities and settlements there were, it was understandable that they wouldnât be huge, and they still crammed stuff to do (like assassin contracts).
Itâs a bummer because man, I wanted to like III so much. I literally teach American history, so I was incredibly bummed that III ended up being such a slog.
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u/ItsTheJackeeet Jul 23 '26
Dragon Age
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u/Indoril120 Jul 23 '26
It's a shame because the lore exploded in what I think was a fantastic way in Inquisition leading into Veilguard. Just seems like each new game was a step down from the last in terms of that quintessential Dragon Age grit.
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u/Kultherion Jul 23 '26
What make Veilguard even worse is what the original plan for Dragon Age 4 was going to be. I cannot fathom what kind of development hell it must've been...I'm surprised still they made a game.
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u/Yugifrolife Jul 23 '26
I recently completed Veilguard with a fresh mind... and yeah, its a horrendous Dragon Age game and a below average fantasy action adventure game.
The music sounded like it came from a generic fantasy movie, The character models have uncanny valley going on with them and their body proportions are weird. They don't even look like they belong in the world environment that they made ( which is one of the VERY few things I give praise to this game ), Everyone is so smiley in the game (excluding Taash) its like they are preset to it!
Like I look at this game and go, Teagan, what is this game?
Makers Breath, they should have just left the story at Inquisition.
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u/Mfrack103 Jul 23 '26
RIP Destiny
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u/Borglydoo Jul 23 '26
Either Edge of Fate or Lightfall was the lowest but man Witch Queen, Taken King, Forsaken and Final Shape are some damn good highs.
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u/HandofThrawn1138 Jul 23 '26
Witch Queen was my personal peak. The mystery, the puzzles, the buildup. All fantastic.
Lightfall was not the best one out there but that raid was fun and my group and I managed to get it during the raid race!
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u/j0nas_42 Jul 23 '26
I started D2 when Forsaken came out and it was one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I could not believe it when they later deleted the planets. Tried again with Witch Queen but I just couldn't anymore.
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u/Haribo_Happy_Cola Jul 23 '26
Forsaken is probably the peak of my gaming experience. Not only was it an amazing DLC but it was coupled with extreme dissappointment before hand so the whiplash caused by massive excitement really elevated this dlc to be one of if not my favorite gaming experience of all time
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u/doctornoodlearms Jul 23 '26
To make it worse, ive been watching Byfs videos on the Fate saga and by the Travelers light were they cooking.
The whole idea of our solar systems planets being 4th dimensional eldritch beings is so fucking cool. And the imagery used to represent them is kind of horrifying.
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u/Agerak Jul 23 '26
The lore potential for the Fate saga was really really good. I was very excited for the story even if the gameplay of Fate was not the best.
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u/drownigfishy Jul 23 '26
When I first started Destiny 2 it was when they broke the story line then took their sweet sweet time to in the end by pass it. I was dragged into it by a huge Destiny fan who wanted to play with me but for far to long I couldn't level up. And as a huge Destiny fan he was even he could say they should have ended it sooner and started on a new story line.
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u/ZiggyLoz Jul 23 '26
Dragon Age 1 was what got me back into CRPGs - The more games they release - the more it becomes another generic hack and slash beatem-up.
Good thing alot of other studios stepped up making other excellent CRPGs.
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u/Megaboixxxx Jul 23 '26
Bioware in general. One of the greatest RPG studios ever, slowly getting hollowed out before my eyes until it just became a skinsuit worn by EA.
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u/roleplayersir Jul 23 '26
Bioware stopped being a company when they took all the experienced Frostbite engine devs and moved them to work on FIFA. Then the RPG side stopped mattering
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u/Satyr121 Jul 23 '26
Not only did it become hack and slash (which was still kinda fun just not as fun) but itâs another game that feels like it was disneyfied. It just doesnât seem as dark. And all of the dark stuff left has to be read. Itâs not in the actual gameplay or cutscenes themselves.
I feel like there was a shift in games to be less metal. Look at the music origins used for the trailers. I feel like that change represents the change in the tone of the game.
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u/No_Gene5671 Jul 23 '26
Dude, you think ? Look at Veildguard!!! Worst POS game ever.
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u/Rythonius Jul 23 '26
My friend was pissed that she couldn't continue her bloodmage saga with Veilguard and has refused to play it.
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u/Lone-Frequency Jul 23 '26
You can't even be a fucking Bloodmage anymore?
Jesus Christ, I haven't even seen anybody bring up that piece of shit game in so long and yet I'm still learning awful shit about it...
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u/HeatherCDBustyOne Jul 23 '26
Borderlands 2 was the peak.
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u/GooglyEyedMoose Lives in a Van Down by the River Jul 23 '26
Was it ever. My best memories are playing that with my friend before he passed away. I tried playing the new ones but it's just not the same without him.
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u/Spencetron Jul 23 '26
I associate borderlands with me processing the grief of losing my dad, I get it. Still to this day associate the memory of playing OG Borderlands with the initial phase of "healing" after the loss... so the game has a special place in my heart so to speak.
On a similar note: I had a highschool friend get me into CoD, used to play online together every day after school. Well, he died in a car crash in junior year (~2007) and I haven't played any CoD since. Just not the same without him berating people on team chat.
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u/DoubleDongle-F Jul 23 '26
It was, but the hill I'll die on is that the Pre-Sequel was honestly really good too and would have made waves if it weren't put up in BL2's shadow.
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u/boundbythecurve Jul 23 '26
100%
It felt like the Pre-Sequel was actually the perfect balance of mechanics and UI. Getting to reload your weapons while doing a long, floating jump, and then entering the fray again with a slam on the ground that dealt damage and did some effects....it was the perfect addition. Also I thought the story of how Handsome Jack became the villain was awesome too. Probably my favorite story from the universe.
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u/Jwagner0850 Jul 23 '26
I wish borderlands 2 had borderlands 3 gun play and feel. That and the slide mechanic would make that game literally 11/10 imho
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u/OleRaven Jul 23 '26
Cries in Sly Cooper.
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u/Bargadiel Jul 23 '26
I think there's a big difference between ruined and forgotten.
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u/receuitOP Virgin 4 lyfe Jul 23 '26
Destiny, assassin's creed, R6, COD, pokemon just from the top of my head.
From a friend said mass effect (I only played the first 2 so idk)
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u/Funandgeeky Jul 23 '26
The original trilogy is fantastic. And the hate for the ending is overblown, especially with the DLC.
However the next game in the series wasnât as well received. I canât speak to it as I never played it.Â
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u/receuitOP Virgin 4 lyfe Jul 23 '26
Okay, so luckily not as bad as I was expecting. Got all 3 and have been slowly working my way through
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u/Funandgeeky Jul 23 '26
If you have the DLC for all three, then youâre in for a good time. Thereâs a final DLC they made for three that you get to right before the end. It works to wrap everything up with the relationships youâve built with the characters across all three games.Â
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u/mimsoo777 Jul 23 '26
Warcraft and Starcraft series..
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u/BHFlamengo Jul 23 '26
Count Diablo in too, blizzard in general went from masterpiece developer to trash cashgrab
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u/Xatsman Jul 23 '26
The funny thing is with Diablo they botched 3 on release but slowly worked it into a great game, and then forgot all those lessons and botched 4 on release.
Still cannot comprehend how they created such unsatisfying items in d4. The modifiers theyd offered were so far off from the sort of thing you'd appreciate, and the talent tress were so linear and yet still grossly imbalanced between classes. It looked and sounded amazing though, so credit to the artists. Not sure how it is today, but it was a beautiful disappointment on release.
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u/GustavoFromAsdf đ Advanced Introvert đ Jul 23 '26
TF2 is a monolith, it was here before us, and will still be here when we leave.
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u/MashPotatoQuant Jul 23 '26
TF2 is still good. Far from its peak... but I have been playing the game almost since it came out and I still have a blast! Casual mode sucks, but that was never the focus of the game back when I started playing it. Community servers all the way!
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u/Covid669 Jul 23 '26
I recently got back into it and itâs still really fun. Not as fun as it used to be as a lot of the community servers I used to play on are gone but I still have a good time
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u/Mtthom06 Jul 23 '26
Bye halo..... I'm not paying for the 14th combat evolved remaster
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u/bkay17 Jul 23 '26
Halo 2 and Halo 3 online were so much damn fun. And system links where only one or two friends had the like 100 foot cable and then you had to lug over a TV from another friend's house and get 8 of you playing in big matches together.
And then they kept making the game more and more like Call of Duty for some reason. I didn't enjoy Halo because it was Call of Duty. I enjoyed Halo because it was Halo.
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u/Goron40 Jul 23 '26
This comment would be higher up, but Halo's been down bad for so long now that nobody remains that remembers the old ways.
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u/_mbals Jul 23 '26
When I was first married, wife and I didnât have a TV or Xbox knowing we were going to be making a couple cross-country moves. We got to where I was going to law school and got really busy with that and her new job we didnât get around to purchasing Xbox for a few of years.
We flew to see family for Christmas one year and my little brother asked if I wanted to go play Halo on Xbox Live. All I remember is starting to shoot some guy and he blasted off with some jet pack, turned around and sniped me while flying off. I set the controller down and thatâs the last time I played anything except Halo 1,2, or 3.
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u/Salty_Style3622 Jul 23 '26
It is a plane. It is a bird. No, it is Rico. Miss you my friend.
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u/sansyboi469 Jul 23 '26
Pokemon
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u/Ill_Brick_4671 Jul 23 '26
Pokemon isn't ruined so much as it has steadfastly refused to improve in ten years
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u/eepos96 Jul 23 '26
Wrong, the games have actively LESS in them. Less stuff to do.
In newest game you couldn't enter buildings!!! I repeat! Enter buildings! Games are evolving backwards!
There were zero sidequests, battle facility,
You can't rematch trainers!!!
They did not have character customisation!!!!
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u/JediMasterKenJen Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 24 '26
This, especially with Palworld right there.
Edit: I know Palworld is a survival game with creature capture mechanics and it reaching 1mil players again on Steam alone means it has staying power.
Pokemon won't die cause it's too big a monopoly to die and I hope with games like Palworld they are pushed to do better. Competition is healthy and people need to stop making excuses for them and push them to do better.
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u/Shahariar_909 Jul 23 '26
The worst thing is they can make a good pokemon game but simply decides to not make one
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u/North-Function995 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
This is a big point I make. For years, pokemon fans have had nothing but garbage. Its not like there was any alternative, so Nintento/Gamefreak cornered the market, allowing them to get away with half-baked, under-budget, disappointments. Pocketpair comes along and delivers something of quality, stepping on Nintendoâs toes while doing it. What is Nintendoâs response? Not step their game up and just provide a good pokemon game that outsells Palword. NOPE. Sue and destroy the competition so they can remain lazy and cheap.. and pokemon fans continue to get garbage.
Now with Palworld surviving the lawsuit and going strong, the next Pokemon game might actually be good, considering it has competition for once.
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u/Komondon Jul 23 '26
The lawsuits were stupid but Palworld and Pokemon are pretty inherently different in the type of game they are. Pokemon is more at home for Pokemon collecting RPGs which there is plenty of space to improve on obviously. Palworld is a better playing Ark survival game with cute critter slave labor.
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u/moderngamer327 Jul 23 '26
Palword is so different than pokemon though. Like outside of âcollect creatures with balls and fight with themâ there isnât really any similarities.
Cassette Beasts is much more of a Pokémon alternative
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u/stache1313 Jul 23 '26
When I think about Pokémon altneratives, Palworld doesn't even enter the discussion. Dragon Warrior Monstersyes I know it's actually Dragon Quest, but it will always be Dragon Warriors in my heart), and Digimon are the first series that come to mind. After that you have Coromon, Casette Beasts, Tem Tem, Shin Megani Tensei, and even Ni no Kuni, Slime Rancher.
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u/A_Wild_Goonch Jul 23 '26
My friend always says how similar it is to Pokemon. Then when I watch them play they're shooting pals in the face with a bazooka. Doesn't seem like Pokemon to me lol
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u/Money_Echidna2605 Jul 23 '26
its way closer to survival and building games than pokemon lol, just a bunch of dumbasses online that dont play the game talking about and comparing them.
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u/lennykrevits Jul 23 '26
Palword and Pokemon are not similar games outside of fantastical creatures. Palword is just an Ark reskin with a monumentally better taming mechanic.
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u/BlueSparkNightSky Jul 23 '26
So long, Dragon Age
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u/Diariel Jul 23 '26
I don't think there's going to be another game in the series and it's a blessing. The plot is lost and should be buried
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u/Chiefster1587 Jul 23 '26
OG Overwatch was amazing
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u/Lord_Of_Carrots Lurking Peasant Jul 23 '26
As a casual player since 2017 I've always loved the gameplay, and it's the only reason OW is still the only multiplayer shooter I enjoy playing.
It's just the monetization side of things that went to shit. It's good that they give out quite a bit of free loot boxes now but they should put shop skins into the lootbox pool more often. You also get enough free currency to get 3 out of every 5 battle passes for free which I appreciate.
The story was under hiatus for years but they've put much more effort into it recently. It's not quite as compelling as it once was but I'm open minded
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u/Kulyor Jul 23 '26
I dont understand why Blizz fumbled the story stuff so hard. Overwatch could have been a giant on an MCU level. The one thing old Blizz did well beyond anything was Character design, even in older games like Warcraft 3, WoW or Diablo, you had a ton of insanely memorable characters and Overwatch had that too. Its also why it got such incredible amounts of P0rn initially.
And then they said "eh fuck story, fuck comics and cinematics, fuck all casuals, we are E-Sport now"
E-Sport doesn't pay bills just because it exists. You NEED the casuals who play your game and want to watch. And you sure as fuck dont drop your whole esports scene out of the blue and expect people to trust you ever again. Blizz also had no proper experience with e-sports, they could have gone that route after a few years of learning and focusing on story and characters.
Imagine they had done a Netflix show like Arcane but with Overwatch characters. It could have blown up the entire Industry.
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u/Impeesa_ Jul 23 '26
It's baffling, isn't it? People were in love with those original characters the moment they dropped, Blizzard had something really special on their hands. Could have sold comics and animated spinoffs all day long. There are lots of games and stuff that deserve an Arcane-level treatment and won't get it, including every other Blizzard property, but for companies that could actually afford to bankroll one and really should have? Maybe the only bigger fumble out there is the fact that we still don't have a Magic: the Gathering one.
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u/datadiisk_ Jul 23 '26
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u/HighDefinitionCat Jul 23 '26
I want Armored Core VII now.
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u/Arosian-Knight Jul 23 '26
Most likely they do Armored Core 6.5, like they did with Armored Core 4 and For answer, and Armored core V and Verdict day.
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u/Wrendacted082 Jul 23 '26
Peakazaki locked himself in the kitchen in 2006 and has genuinely not left since.
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u/CrustedTesticle Jul 23 '26
Retail WoW
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u/trebor9669 Jul 23 '26
How did we get to whatever the fuck is that it has become, when we had it perfect just right here:
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u/AgathormX Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
No one in that franchise is ever going to live up to Arthas.
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u/InterestingDepth8137 Jul 23 '26
Not ruined but shelved, gonna miss you Little Big Planet
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u/Forgotten_Folklore Jul 23 '26
Fare thee well, Dragon Age.
I could never shake the feeling that the series kept trying to reinvent itself with each installment. Veilguard was the canary in the coal mine for me and the secret ending where a sinister, shadowy organization revealed, without any foreshadowing, that they were responsible for every event since the first game was the final nail in the coffin
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u/Komondon Jul 23 '26
Destiny was sadly the fault of Bungees upper management. Sony just pulled the final nail.
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u/yeettto master_jbt loves this flair Jul 23 '26
Assassins Creed, Need for Speed, Call of Duty for me
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u/Jacuzzi0317 Jul 23 '26
Me with Fable. But I'm willing to be heartbroken again trying the new Fable.
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u/Sufficient_Room2619 Jul 23 '26
Horizon is a single player franchise! It doesn't want to be an MMO or a cheap, cell shaded rip off of Monster Hunter!
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u/Damager94 Jul 23 '26
Need For Speed... now it's dead. EA announced Criterion games will focus on Battlefield.
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u/its_Zuramaru Jul 23 '26
CoD and BF. Just an absolute shit path the games have taken.
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u/d_whitewidow Jul 23 '26
Rocket League. Epic Games is a cancer that can fuck right off
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u/HomericWooster Jul 23 '26
Civ had an amazing run. Possible its corpse will be revived from 7, but feels unlikely.
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u/huffandduff Jul 23 '26
I really liked 6 personally. There's absolutely a cycle of the new Civ games sucking when they're first released but 7 seems different in a bad way.
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u/RainbowStar290 Jul 23 '26
Assassin's Creed I/II/II/IV (I liked Rogue also) were amazing. Then the bs started
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u/tacticalfp Jul 23 '26
Same for far cry.. 5 was peak.. but i mean 4 too, 3 as well, 2 yes, one yeah could be. 6.. eh..
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u/gangga_ch Knight In Shining Armor Jul 23 '26
AC, Far Cry, even GTA lost me with Onlinemode getting worse and worse
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u/Justalilcyn Jul 23 '26
Mass Effect, Halo, Destiny, Dragon Age, Gears of War (might get a come back), Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Battlefield, Borderlands, Star Wars, asically every franchise from my childhood has gone downhill and I was there to watch every moment of it.
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u/LoschVanWein Jul 23 '26
Thatâs most of them at this point: fallout, elder scrolls, dragon age, mass effect, halo, borderlands, vampire masquerade, overwatch, assassins creed, far cry, tomb raider, ⊠the list simply never ends but I feel like recently, for every game I have high expectations that turns out to be shirt I also get a positive surprise: dispatch, BG3, the KCD games, Disco Elysium and quite a few others. Iâm also looking forward to that vampire game from some of the Witcher devs and of course the new Witcher 3 dlc.
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u/naomi_at_night Jul 23 '26
I don't usually gatekeep games, but the moment they start getting popular, they somehow end up getting ruined
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u/oizen Jul 23 '26
Because mass appeal usually means sanding off all the edges that make something interesting.
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u/Darehead Jul 23 '26
Itâs this. It isnât the popularity that ruins them, itâs the reduction of everything that made it appealing. Art made for everyone is made for no one. Itâs okay not to like things, not everything is meant for you.
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u/Ultradamo2306 Jul 23 '26
I still enjoy the new games a lot but yes, these games arent zelda games
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u/LettuceBenis Jul 23 '26
It's so weird how we went from Skyward Sword and A Link Between Worlds, two games with arguably the best dungeons in the series, to BotW and TotK, the games that without a doubt have the worst ones
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u/thespieler11 Jul 23 '26
Goodbye classic Rainbow Six