Board 8 > Yahoo's game experts tell you what series should die[ Assassins creed][Sonic]

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http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/5-video-game-franchises-break-192537661.html

Oh my.

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i can't agree with any of those sadly.
#1 should be Final Fantasy The series has been dying since X-2.

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Sonic games have been getting progressively better for like the last 5-ish years!

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I agree with The Sims, and probably THPS. I will gladly consider any shovelware Koei throws at me with Dynasty Warriors stamped across it (although I do NOT pick up every product, I just get the urge to play DW intermittently.) Sonic's on the rebound. I dunno if AC is true or not since I've never played.

To be fair, oversaturation isn't really what killed Guitar Hero. It didn't help, but the truth was that series' time in the sun was marked from the beginning. They got out of it what they could.

Sonic's in the best form he's been in for a while (At least from what I hear) and Assassin's Creed has been improving upon itself with each entry (At least from what I hear). The others are kinda eh, so whatever.

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Assassin's Creed doesn't really need to die.

They just need to stop churning them out so fast and mix it up a little.

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AC sold a ton of copies and most AC fans were happy with it. Canceling a game because of game reviewers is kinda dumb!

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Also I have to echo the commenters. Call of Duty should be somewhere on here. It's been stale since Modern Warfare (Which was amazing, so I don't know what the hell happened).

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I was most pleased with Assassin's Creed: Revelations.

I don't think the issue is release period. I think part of the problem was that so many people were "Damn, Ezio again?" and I think that actively affected some people's opinion.

Personally, as an AC fan I love the fact that I get an awesome new game every year. Can't say the same about other series that have yearly releases!

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Ezio wasn't really the problem for me.

They just need to mix things up a bit more.

And really, they need to cut back on some of the equipment. It's a bit much at this point.

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i can't agree with any of those sadly.
#1 should be Final Fantasy The series has been dying since X-2.

Don't listen to this person.

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They just need to mix things up a bit more.

I have no idea what this means. Do we need to add a rail shooter? Maybe some cover-based mechanics?

And hell no to cutting back on equipment. I love being a walking death machine!

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I mean deviate from the formula a bit. They're getting a tad repetitive. They don't have to make a completely different kind of game, but I had a tough time getting into Revelations at first because I was like, "Oh, I've already played this game three times."

And AC2 had pretty much the perfect amount of equipment.

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If they take away my bombs and crossbows I'm going to kill someone. The only thing I'd drop are throwing knives. Never ever use those.

And this is what kinda bothers me: the core gameplay of AC is so good that I don't know what you can really change about it. How you can "deviate" from the formula?

If you want to argue oversaturation, I guess, but would Brotherhood and Revelations suddenly be better if Brotherhood came out in 2011 and Revelations in 2013 ala standard development cycles?

I guess that's why I love Revelations: it's more of what I love about the series, and there's nothing much I can see done that would make the game better from where it is right now.

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I mean, Pokemon barely changes and has a (nearly) yearly release schedule.

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And I don't play Pokemon either!

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At least you're consistent!

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My favorite is how they're saying Activision should stop making Tony Hawk games, when they already did that. HD remasters don't count and everyone knows it.

And then there's the Sonic comments. They acknowledge that the last two major Sonic titles were good, but apparently that doesn't matter! Or how they say Sonic's been around "non-stop" for 20 years... did they miss the four years between Sonic & Knuckles and Sonic Adventure?

I do think AC:R probably didn't need to be made, but it sounds like it was still a pretty good game. Just maybe not different ENOUGH to make it worth the risk of oversaturation. Personally I'd have preferred if they took last year off and wrapped up the trilogy with AC3 this year, so that game gets the attention it deserves instead of possibly being written off for being the 4th consecutive annual release. Multiplayer games like CoD and Madden can pull that off, single player affairs wear out their welcome after too many games too fast.

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I do think AC:R probably didn't need to be made, but it sounds like it was still a pretty good game. Just maybe not different ENOUGH to make it worth the risk of oversaturation. Personally I'd have preferred if they took last year off and wrapped up the trilogy with AC3 this year, so that game gets the attention it deserves instead of possibly being written off for being the 4th consecutive annual release. Multiplayer games like CoD and Madden can pull that off, single player affairs wear out their welcome after too many games too fast.

I would have been with you until I actually played AC:R. Brotherhood was the largely unnecessary one.

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From: TheRock1525 | #019
I would have been with you until I actually played AC:R. Brotherhood was the largely unnecessary one.

I haven't actually played either of them, I just meant that we didn't need both of them.

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I'm with you there. I'd rather have Revelations (which wraps up Ezio and Altair's storylines nicely and was on the few times I actually teared up during a game ending) than Brotherhood (which had the gameplay improvements but had a very unfulfilling story).

Basically, take Brotherhood and Revelations gameplay mechanics, give them Revelations storyline and called it good.

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Also, and once again this is personal, I really enjoy Ezio as a character and am going to greatly miss him going forward in the series. If the series jumped straight to AC3, I would have missed out on some cool moments with him as a character.

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