Name a game series where the fans have a long history of suffering

Kingdom Hearts. Only absolutely subhuman IQs remained for the games after 2FM.

Castlevania
Mgs towards the end
Any treasure game
L4d

Crash fans had to wait almost a decade without any news to hear that something new about the franchise was being developed.

Western Dragon Quest fans

EOPs get nothing.

Shenmue.

Half Life, Portal, etc

you start

mgs is still enjoyable from a gameplay perspective even if the writing only makes you mad.

>Series starts out
>The majesty of the DK IP given to Rare at the start of their prominence as great game devs
>super popular
>gets 2 sequels
>god tier
>gets 3d game for N64
>loses iconic characters and has less quality than the original trilogy but still good
>Potential for DK to really be what it needs to be on the gamecube
>Donkey Kong Racing looks really good
>Rare bought out by microsoft
>DK is dead in its tracks
>Decade of nothing but spinoffs
>Finally retro is making new DKC games
>Returns comes out
>Really good
>Tropical Freeze comes out
>Masterpiece
>Nintendo's marketing fucking slaughters the game's sales with normies
>Metroidfags get angry because retro isn't making metroid prime 4
>Kill all of the sales from non-normies
>On one of the biggest failures of a console in nintendo history
>No sign of the next DKC game
>Not even any shitty spinoff games (like Donkey Konga) or good ones (like Jungle Climber or Jungle Beat)
We are in the middle of the 2nd dark age of DK

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Didn't TF just sell a fuckload on Switch? DK's never been one of the big face franchises like Mario and Zelda, I think one game every couple years is about par for the course, like Metroid.

>DK's never been one of the big face franchises like Mario and Zelda

I mean thats just not true. DK is one of the most popular video game characters of all time. God knows how many 80/90s movies made references to it.