What do you consider to be the most bastardized video game franchise of all time?

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nice try snoy. Yea Forums has and always will be a cat board

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Pick anything that had a strong life in the 90s, disappeared after 2005 or really before the '10s, and then now only exists as a mobile title.

Fallout
Metal Gear
Dungeon Keeper
All taken away from their original developers and given to incompetent hacks that didn't care about why people liked the originals.

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monster hunter

you dont even know the name of this cat

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Tend to agree with a lot of the Fallout complaints. 3 and New Vegas were okay, good in their own ways, but 4 casual-ized it into the dirt and not even modding can really save it this time.
There's series that have gotten it a lot worse though. Metal Gear has been on a downwards slope for a long time, Phantasy Star and Front Mission doesn't even approximate their old selves.

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Fallout for sure.

MMOs

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Fallout and Dungeon Keeper are the two most obvious candidates

here's some oc

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fallout

I need more sad cat comments like this.

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Cats don't have names, dumbo.

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say no more

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TES
You fallout nerds have it easy

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If you like cats you have to kys

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kotor and halo

Why do cats cry and scream in fear when I flip them off?

You first. Maybe then we'll get cat/dog solidarity like we should.

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>Fallout - a post apocalyptic role-playing game
>Fallout 76 - a post apocalyptic online multiplayer crafting battle royale game
It's impressive how badly they managed to mutilate the series but I suppose it did take them 75 attempts.

Race traitor like you will be the first to be executed during the day of the injection

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Fuck off tourist.

thats what i thought retard

Take it back please I just want us to be friends

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kys

They understand...

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Asscreed

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I have a cat and a dog and I love them both but I think my cat is trans-dog or something.

TES is in a far better and less bastardised state than fallout.
Granted it ain't lookin good

cringe

Darkstalkers went from being one of Capcom's major fighting game series to being crossover fodder and jerk-off material for weebs who never even played the damn games.

Press F to pay respects

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Paper Mario

>People ITT saying literally anything other than fallout
you fuckers don't know how good you got it

>newfriends acting like cats aren't sacred across Yea Forums

i shiggydiggy

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Final Fantasy

8 was the beginning of the end.
9 was the perfect swan song.
10 was the nail in the coffin.

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What's worse - a sequel that is nothing like the originals, hated by old fans but loved by new players, or a sequel so bad nobody remembers it exists?
Jagged Alliance

A month ago I'd say Elder Scrolls/Fallout, but since last week, Pokemon has taken that title.

FF is actually in an okayish state and looks like it's doing well. But we'll see what Yoshida does with XVI, I'm personally kinda hopeful since he expresses an interest in returning to the series roots.

i'm a brainlet and unironically love 9, 10 and 13 in their own ways. sorry for contributing to the downfall of the series user

>implying FFX was bad
It was the last good FF game.

>inb4 Yea Forums

11 and 12 were good, and 14 was good until 2016

pokemon by far
fallout a close second

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is this some sort of humiliation fetish or what

at least in terms of the lore

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Yeah well allow me to explain
>like Fallout 2
>well this nuFallout is made by a different company, fuck it, what can you do
>NV made by a shell of Black Isle, would you look at that

>TES is made by a single company without changes
>studio steadily goes downhill for almost 2 decades
>last 2 games are flaming garbage
>"why, no, we don't plan on changing anything about our game development, why do you ask?"
At least with Fallout 4 and way more so with 76 you can say that they did not even try, but with TES they are trying and that is why it's so fucking wasteful every time.
There is always a hope for Fallout spiritual sequel, since it's always been more about setting/atmosphere, characters are attachable in the individual games, not across them. Sure it won't be quite the same, but it's doable.
But with TES there is no way, since it's about the world you rolling in, it'd be about the same as "LOTR spiritual sequel'.
Saying
>yeah, I ain't playing that garbage
is not quite the same as
>yeah, what choice do I have
MMO does not count.

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Pretty much anything marxist cucks touch.
Mafia
Wolfenstein
Battlefield

Modern Sonic post-2009

Sonic for sheer number of shit games shat out.
Metal Gear for highest potential squandered
Fallout for "Didn't understand the original concept of the game we're making sequels for" also 76.
Prey for "we literally just used to name of an existing IP that has literally fuck all to do with first game"
Deus Ex for going from fitting social commentary to terrible racism analogy, (bonus points for accidentally implying racism is deserved because the oppressed group DID kill a bunch of people)
Dead Space for making a "buy supplies for real money" action game out of a horror survival game
Dungeon Keeper for turning a beloved classic into a cash-grab that has you wait 48 hours for something that is literally a core mechanic.
TF2 for turning a fun class based shooter with cool design into a hat-collection machine.
Final Fantasy series, because for some reason square is afraid to just do turn based combat any more.
Pay Day 2, for taking a good concept and turning it into a "let's release 2 DLC bits each month until owning the -full- game costs hundreds of dollars"
Watch Dogs if you count it as being originally a Driver sequel (turned it around with WD2 tho, and Legion looks neat)
Nosgoth for making a shit PvP game out of the Legacy of Kain setting.
Batman for having two good games and then just milking that cash cow till it died of AIDS.
Syndicate, Shadowrun and Xcom:Bureau for "Why would you make a shooter out of this?"
Grand Theft Auto Online for taking something that is fun at the core, but dialing the rewards down SO HARD that you have to treat it like a job to get anything (or buy shark cards that are hilariously overpriced)
Not "the worst" but the ones I consider to "hit the hardest"
Redeemed themselves:
Devil May Cry did a nice comeback after DMC:DMC (also DMC3 after the terrible DMC2)
DOOM 2016, amazing after the shitshow that was doom 3
Dark Souls 3 a huge improvement over DS2

Did I forget anything?

Mi scusi?

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isn't it Inkey or something?

Sonic still had soul after that blunder, and Unleashed was great. After Colors everything went downhill.

any got the sad_cat_template.png file?

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Good one. JA2 is one of the best squad tactics ever, but all the sequels are just cheap cash-ins made by some D-tier teams with no skill or vision about what made JA2 so good. It’s truly maddening that nobody is really even trying to make a worthy sequel.

Also, shout outs to Fallout, Paper Mario and Flatout.

Former, because the new fans take over and any future games will go in that direction henceforth

Saints Row
How it started as a gangster game and ended up fighting aliens then ending with Satan in hell is still fucking weird.

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Fire Emblem.

modern fire emblem is nothing like the original SNES games, which are superior in every way to modern fire emblem.

althought I haven't played the last 2 fire emblems so maybe they improved on something but I doubt it.

>DS3 is an improvement over DS2
HAHAHAHAHAHA- Wait, you're serious aren't you?
HHHHHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaah.
I'm glad I'm not this retarded.

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It also got weirdly lazy after 3. I didn’t like 3, I thought that the new city was boring and the plot lacked the gravitas of 2’s more down to earth story, but it still felt like they put some effort in it all.

But 4 and GooH, fucking GooH? 4 is just 3 rehashed with super powers, and GooH is, well, GooH, a lazy asset flip with barely nothing else than repetitive side activities as the main content. I could excuse GooH alone, because it was released as a cheaper game, but having 2 games in row that feel like lazy rehashes, that’s too much for me. Where did all their time go after 3? Agents of Mayhem? What the fuck?

Their excuse about 3 was that THQ was rushing them and while they had a bigger budget they had a smaller workforce and a new engine.
SR4 was just an expansion for SR3 that THQ forced them to make into a full game instead and when Deep Silver bought them they gave them more time to work on it but it was still released as just a glorified expansion at full price.
GooH was a stand-alone expansion as well, but there was hardly any meat to it at all. I had fun with it but you can clear everything in it in less than 5 hours besides the checklists.
SR4 and GooH made Kinzie insufferable too.

How is DS3 not better than DS2 in every aspect?

More?

as a game dks3 is great, though for me its the most boring & forgettable in the souls series

Porcodio