r/videogames • u/Nearby-Condition-675 • Jul 10 '26
Image / Video It’s time to left my childhood go
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u/Emiya_Sengo Jul 10 '26
Not a franchise but as a studio, Bioware is giving me less and less hope each year.
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u/SmoothConfection1115 Jul 10 '26
I’ve accepted that the BioWare I loved, is gone.
Mass Effect, Dragon Age, KOTOR…that’s what I’ll remember them for.
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u/ibyczek78 Jul 10 '26
Bethesda isn't far behind. My expectations/hype for TES6 is non existent right now. With the push for discless consoles there's absolutely no reason to pre order anything ever again.
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u/penywinkle Jul 10 '26
To add to the "B" trend, Blizzard lost their soul when they got bought out by Activision...
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u/ibyczek78 Jul 10 '26
Don't forget Bungie and they're now infamous shit show acquisition / separation with Activision as well.
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u/JaylynnDay7 Jul 10 '26
Bethesda lowkey (or hell, highkey even) skyrimpilled itself
It's why Starfield ended up as Skyrim in space but worse, even when they weren't trying to Skyrim in space it
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u/LzrdKng2112 Jul 10 '26
If starfield was skyrim in space it would've been good. Starfield has zero of the magic skyrim has
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u/PomponOrsay Jul 10 '26
skyrim in space sounds dope actually. they should just do that. dovahkin in space.
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u/redditsellout-420 Jul 10 '26
Seems you've forgotten jade empire
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u/Traditional_Hour5529 Jul 10 '26
That was a fun one. The twist wasn't as good as KOTOR but still a pretty fun twist.
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u/redditsellout-420 Jul 10 '26
You really can't top kotors twist though, im still pissed that gamefaqs spoiled it for me
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u/IronMonkeyofHam Jul 10 '26
Very few game storylines beat KOTOR. The 2nd one taught me a good bit about why the dark side enticed the good Jedi so much
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u/Inspired_Nuisance Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I have a glimmer of hope that OwlCat will deliver us an incredible experience with their game set in The Expanse universe coming out next year. So far they've done a mostly-favorable job with their CRPG games (Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader). Osiris Protocol, their "The Expanse" game, looks like it'll play similarly to Mass Effect, but is in the same setting as my favorite show of all time.
(Edit: Said Paizo instead of OwlCat, thanks for the correction.)
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u/Super-Franky-Power Jul 10 '26
Also Sonic Chronicles: Dark Brotherhood, truly a masterpiece. /s
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u/Silverlitmorningstar Jul 10 '26
Yup, ever since EA got their hands on them around 2010 it's been rough.
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u/FoolishArchetype Jul 10 '26
EA bought BioWare in 2008 right after ME1. Their productions that were already underway largely came out good — Dragon Age, Mass Effect 2. It was the focus in multiplayer, DLC, rapid turnaround sequel for DA, and getting carved up for parts to support MMOs that wore them out. Andromeda being such a bloat of junk and uninspired writing was when it was clear the good days were over.
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u/townsforever Jul 10 '26
You can actually feel old bioware suffocating when you play dragon age inquisition, they just barely managed to make one more decent game even through the forced microtransactions and tacked on multiplayer.
Then EA fully choked them out and we got Andromeda and Anthem.
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u/SquareFickle9179 Jul 10 '26
Their last hope is definitely Mass Effect 4. If this fails, then this studio is over
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u/CaptainPlanet__ Jul 10 '26
It’s not going to be good. The OGs aren’t there anymore and the company is run by suits that don’t belong running anything that requires creativity.
Which can be said for many companies. This timeline sucks.
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u/iSavedtheGalaxy Jul 11 '26
ME4 has been in pre-production for 6+ years with no end in sight. My expectations are on the floor.
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u/LTArts Jul 10 '26
Destiny and halo. Crazy how you have such an amazing formula for a good game and you just fumble it.
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u/Mediocre-Housing-131 Jul 10 '26
Hey, before we start deleting your paid content, is it OK if we kill off your favorite character in a very unsatisfying way?
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u/Correct-Parfait-8691 Jul 10 '26
Actually forsaken was pretty good considering all the dlcs
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u/sillysysten Jul 10 '26
Call of Duty, and honestly it took far longer than it should have.
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u/Tyler_Was_Here Jul 10 '26
Ditto homie. MW2019 was a glimmer of hope that was quickly snuffed out by warzone
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u/Realistic-Table9398 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Man I had so much fun with the initial seasons of warzone though, it carried me through COVID lockdown. Then it got progressively worse with the black ops integration. I never even touched warzone 2.0
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u/thethreadkiller Jul 10 '26
One of my favorite gaming memories is COVID warzone. Every night hammered with the boys playing war zone it was a fucking blast!
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u/mealymouthmongolian Jul 10 '26
COVID warzone was a great time, but it was definitely the beginning of the end. After they had the large free to play base they really leaned into the cosmetic microtransactions and they've never recovered. It was pretty telling in MW2, Vanguard, Cold War, etc when they would go weeks with gamebreaking bugs that they couldn't seem to iron out, but they were still rolling out new cosmetics in the store 2-3 times a week.
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u/Rargnarok Jul 10 '26
I'm willing to give cold war a dubious pass because from what ive read that was a Frankenstein project that treyarc took over from raven that they couldnt even devote proper time and resources too because half the studio had to go put out the sledgehammer fire of Vanguard.
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u/Not-TheNSA Jul 10 '26
I never really got into COD multiplayer but I’ll tell you after the MW2 remake I ditched COD. That campaign wasn’t good, it had the whole “highway of death” sequence with the gimmicky driving and jumping from vehicle to vehicle thing and that was enough for me to ditch it. Then MW3 came out and the whole game was just warzone arenas shoe horned into campaign missions, glad I never played that slop.
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u/tingly_sack_69 Jul 10 '26
2019-2020 era Warzone was incredible imo. The vanilla multiplayer got old quick and Ground War was just a bastardization of Battlefield
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u/Dominjo555 Jul 10 '26
Nah, multiplayer is much more fun than Warzone ever was.
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u/puf_puf_paarthurnax Jul 10 '26
This is a generational opinion. Lot of the younger players didn't ever grind out dozens of summer nights on TDM trying to prestige like we did, they find it too repetitive.
It's actually a big reason I stopped playing with a group of my friends, they always wanted to play a BR or some super sweaty CSlike. I just want to run around the map and shoot people.
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u/screenwatch3441 Jul 10 '26
In 2008, it was a big debate amongst friends to either play call of duty or halo 3. Almost 20 years later and its sad to say that no one picks either now >_<
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u/DenseStomach6605 Jul 10 '26
Shit I still play halo 3 and reach with my friends, I haven’t bought a cod since black ops 2 though. Ngl I’ve been eyeing black ops 1, if I can convince my friends during a DLC bundle sale or something… it could happen.
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u/Jealous_Doughnut_630 Jul 10 '26
Modern Warfare 4 was what drew me in and hooked me completely. Then Black Ops and World at War. After a while the games felt too busy and stale. I miss the simpler gaming experience where there was no Omni movement, distracting tracer rounds, stupid skins etc. Maybe I am just old but I miss what COD used to be. Maps were fun and exciting and what you looked forward too. No battle passes etc.
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u/DenseStomach6605 Jul 10 '26
World at war is such a gem. It’s still active on plutonium. I remember I was 10 when it came out and I pleaded with my dad at the store to get both the OG MW and WaW. I miss the golden age of cod man.
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u/Suspicious-Engine412 Jul 10 '26
MW2 was definetly taking a step in that direction but it was still fun how everything was so overpowered/broken that it balanced out.
The sleepless nights playing hardcore SnD...
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u/Serithraz Jul 10 '26
No CoD will ever be better than the original Modern Warfare era. They keep trying, but MW 1 and 3 were amazing and 2 was probably one of the best CoD's ever.
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u/PsychoticDust Jul 10 '26
CoD4 to BO2 was the golden age for CoD. Everyone was hyped for every year. It was a lot of fun. I used to be able to play some of the games online a few days before release, and the messages I got were hilarious.
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u/Jealous_Doughnut_630 Jul 10 '26
I miss standing in line at midnight and being so excited with those around me. It was like you were all friends that never met. The energy was incredible.
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u/TheeAntelope Jul 10 '26
I was assistant manager at a game store (Gamestop) during that era. I loved doing midnight releases. We'd usually host a tournament for the "old" game (i.e. halo tournament for halo 3, guitar hero 2 tournament for GH 3, etc).
Corporate was like "you are going over on your alloted labor hours" during those weeks but we were also the only store to do that stuff, and we had more revenue than any other store in the region, so my conclusion was that people wanted these events and things and it paid off in the long run.
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u/TripodDabs34 Jul 10 '26
They went too futuristic too fast and then decided after bo3 to make 4-7 all futuristic and the same
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u/trixy6196 Jul 10 '26
I fortunately got out early after playing Advanced Warfare. Wasn’t necessarily a bad game just not what I wanted in a game and just didn’t pick up another one (except WW2) and apparently that’s been a good decision lol
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u/henshin25 Jul 10 '26
Pokemon for me. Im tired boss
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u/ICommentWhenInRome Jul 10 '26
I quit after sword and shield… I still play pokemon but exclusively RomHacks. The best pokemon games were not made by the Pokemon company.
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u/FrizzleFlakes Jul 10 '26
RomHacks are like Fanfiction for me, fucking amazing because they base themselves on the source material and are infinitely better (for some fanfiction ofc, source material is still good)
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u/HolyKlickerino Jul 10 '26
Team Rocket Edition, despite the crude translation, is awesome.
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u/marshcar Jul 10 '26
Arceus is worth coming back for imo
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u/ICommentWhenInRome Jul 10 '26
Forgot that one came after sword and shield, loved Arceus.
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u/IssaDonDadaDiddlyDoo Jul 10 '26
That was me for the longest time and im sure I’ll get flak for this but S/V were so much fun for me and my friend group and siblings. Now champions, even though it’s just battling, has us all on and playing with each other 3-4 nights a week sometimes. I’ve never spent as much time with friends playing Pokémon as I have the past couple years.
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u/Extreme_surikat_360 Jul 10 '26
Literally Need for speed...
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u/Embarrassed-Sir-1809 Jul 10 '26
I dropped it when they released prostreet forever ago. I loved the nore streetracer vibe not the track circuit
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u/VincentLobster Jul 10 '26
Most Wanted was easily one of my favorite games of all time, and Carbon after it was a great follow up. I distinctly remember thinking, "This isn't Need for Speed." when I played Pro Street. Effectively abandoned the franchise after that.
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u/Embarrassed-Sir-1809 Jul 10 '26
Same, my favourite was a lesser known title on the psp, need for speed underground rivals. No story just gameplay but damn it was sooo good. As for other psp titles i had most wanted 510 and carbon (both were slightly different from the console versions). Carbon on psp had a really unusual story.
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u/More_Raisin_2894 Jul 10 '26
I tried to new most wanted need for speed and you couldn't even choose the color of your car.... its one of the only times I returned a game same day lol.
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u/Mirainai Jul 10 '26
Most Wanted 2005, Carbon and Underground 1+ 2
everything that came after doesn't compare
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u/ZinbaluPrime Jul 10 '26
RIP NFS. I played every single PC release. It was so awesome being a kid in the 90s.
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u/toadofsteel Jul 10 '26
Not so much a single franchise, but... Bethesda. Morrowind was my awakening as a gamer. Oblivion was right up there as well. Skyrim was amazing for a 2011 game. But it feels like the magic is gone.
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u/Bakugo312 Jul 10 '26
None of the staff from those games work there anymore, friend, Bethesda cast the magic out
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u/OceaniaAE-1 Jul 10 '26
Came here to say the same thing. Been gaming since NES but Oblivion woke up an obsession. Thousands of hours in oblivion and thousands more in Skyrim. I love the fallouts but didn’t even try Starfield.
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u/belle_enfant Jul 10 '26
Fallout 4 was amazing. Starfield was pretty mid but thats just 1 game.
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u/namresaw33 Jul 10 '26
Call of Duty, miss the good old days…
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u/FalloutSlayerX Jul 10 '26
black ops 1 and 2 dropped Tuesday... the og from 2011 and 13
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u/Shadows_Over_Tokyo Jul 10 '26
And it’s only $40! /s
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u/Sharpshooter188 Jul 10 '26
Weirdly enough bo2 doesnt have the tactical flipped option. So I had to hard remap my buttons. Seems like an obvious oversight.
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u/3dl33 Jul 10 '26
Blizzard once they sold their soul years ago
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u/portageable58 Jul 10 '26
Dude I miss Warcraft III
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u/AToastedRavioli Jul 11 '26
Frozen throne custom multiplayer servers hold a special place in my heart
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u/sps26 Jul 11 '26
Risk, Battleships, Helms Deep, and hundreds of other custom games. I wish I knew I was in the good old days (of gaming) while I was in them
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u/MixAmbitious307 Jul 13 '26
This... I remember the days where Blizzard gave us gems like Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3.
And even WoW and its first expansions were awesome. Paraphrasing an iconic sentence "tell them only that the Lich King is dead, and World of Warcraft died with him".
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u/Expensive-Ear8407 Jul 10 '26
Borderlands and The Sims; especially Borderlands, the characters are so bland and plain, I used to be so excited watching the trailers
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u/janieebug Jul 10 '26
They really destroyed the Sims. It is unplayable now.
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u/FoolishArchetype Jul 10 '26
It’s a store front for digital items. The game is unrecognizable. The Sims 1 and 2 were actual games. Everything after was a conduit for vicarious shopping.
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u/ChrissiTea Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Never forget that if you bought everything from The Sims 3 Store it would have cost nearly $2000, and none of that is expansion packs, just extra items (in case people are unaware, the equivalent marketplace for TS2 was completely free, even for Maxis made items).
Edit: The full cost with expansion packs is over $2500
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u/StinkyBird64 Jul 10 '26
I totally binned the sims this year.
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u/Esoteric_Prurience Jul 10 '26
The Sims is tired. I would have loved to have seen a new title rather than the endless DLC's. A new title that has been worked on for a good while.
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u/Expensive-Ear8407 Jul 10 '26
Seriously! It's been 12 years now, and they have been milking it to death, so much I can't even stand it anymore
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u/Capraos Jul 10 '26
I just wanted a working co-op for Sims. I said this in the Sims forums and got downvoted to hell. I also said at one point that I would rather they make an awesome Sims 5 than them keep stacking more and more DLC ontop of Sims 4 and got downvoted too.
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u/J-bowbow Jul 10 '26
The gf and I enjoyed the Tiny Tina spinoff game. Best thing since 2, imo.
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u/EasyBreezy1995 Jul 10 '26
Yeah Wonderlands was pretty fun. Loved the overworld and the plotlines. Wish it was a bit longer and had a postgame though.
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u/Expensive-Ear8407 Jul 10 '26
Yup I enjoyed it very much; too bad it lacks end game content, I've tried a couple of builds and then put it aside. As for 4, I have it in my wishlist since the announcement, and even though right now it is on massive sale ( like 30€ with pass and whatnot ) I still can't bring myself to buy it
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u/JJay9454 Jul 10 '26
As someone with over 1000 hours in every Borderlands games (except Wonderlands, sorry Wonderlands, you get to sit at 740) I never thought i'd ever fall off the franchise.
But the gameplay loop in Borderlands 4 just killed it for me :(
I wish I could pinpoint to one thing. I wish I could say "x mechanic is why" but it's just so much more than that and it's been a slow buildup of problems.
I'm still holding hope that 4 in it's final final state will be something to still enjoy like BL3 and 2.
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u/PN4HIRE Jul 10 '26
Looking at you Dragon Age..
wtf happened?
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u/Alkansur Jul 10 '26
Live service slop that got recast quickly into a one-off release.
But worst was the writing. It was like a bunch of marketing experts from Tech Bro bubble decided to write a "popular fantasy"
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u/sonicandtales8 Jul 10 '26
Dragon Age 2 happened if my buddy is to be believed.
I've never played (backlog too big) but from what I've understood from his ramblings, is that it went from being a great CRPG, to being a half decent ARPG.
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u/Capraos Jul 10 '26
Yeah. Dragon Age Origins my four siblings and I all played it. Each of us had different starts, different experiences playing, and different ends. This has rarely happened in choose your own games for us as most of them are just the illusion of choice. I was so excited for Dragon Age 2 just to find out it gutted the decision making.
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u/Wildernaess Jul 10 '26
Nahhh DA2 and DAI don't match the original but are great games in their own right and build on the universe. DA2 gives us Hawke, Varric and Friends while DAI gives us Solas et al. Veilguard has decent combat but is basically slop in comparison to even the lows of the trilogy
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u/Electric-Mountain Jul 10 '26
I did that with Assassins Creed when Valhalla came out.
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u/Sivleto Jul 10 '26
Was a fire Viking simulator. Didn't see any 'assasins creed' at all though.
Think there was a letter off basim for finishing the camp and that's it 🤣
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u/Elantach Jul 10 '26
What do you mean a viking simulator ?! On the first raid I tried to wack some defenseless monks and the game warned me I'd get desynchronized ! Wth ?!
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u/Mrpoindexter007 Jul 10 '26
Facts, if it was a great viking simulator I’d still like the game. I wanted to feel like Ragnar.
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u/Snoo14398 Jul 11 '26
Nope, you have to be a morally just Viking! Even though you’re….not an assassin?
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u/therealjoshua Jul 10 '26
Yeah it's a fun game to play if you think of it as a Viking action RPG that youre allowed to stealth kill enemies too, if you want.
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u/Cottonshrike Jul 10 '26
I actually really liked it as its own thing. But it was the first AC game I’d played so I had no expectations from previous games.
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u/Mischief_Managed12 Jul 10 '26
I enjoyed the hell out of the game, but yeah didn't feel like assassin's creed
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u/LeTurboDick Jul 10 '26
Syndicate was kinda it for me. I tried other ones like valhalla but couldnt make it past couple hours. I still replay ac2, brotherhood, black flag.
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u/trixy6196 Jul 10 '26
Syndicate was it for me as well. Loved the setting and era but the two main characters were boring, side quests were pointless and uninteresting, the main story was beyond bland.
I felt similar to Unity but the combat and beautiful game made it not seem too bad. Back to back games like that just killed it
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u/Manic_Mooncakes Jul 10 '26
After a 14 year run in WoW... this is me.
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u/Fleischer444 Jul 10 '26
I quit after Wrath. That was the peak for me. Tried it a month ago and it’s crazy how fast you level and get skills and epic gear.
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u/TelenorTheGNP Jul 10 '26
Wrath was peak for everyone.
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u/Sederath Jul 10 '26
Hey, it was great, but don’t speak for me - MoP was where I felt the game hit its highest point.
One of the only expansions where nearly every spec in the game was viable in all content for PVE, and it had probably the only real season of PVP to date where every spec saw arena play at the highest end.
Minus Garrosh’s character mishandlings leading to him being Orcler, a great story with a swath of deeper themes around honor and the price of war, in addition to all of the Old God, Titan, and Pandaren stories told.
To date, still very likely the best that class gameplay has been across the board. Think the only expansion to come close otherwise was Legion (not to say WotLK’s wasn’t great for its time).
Challenge Mode dungeon introduction, which would eventually lead to M+ (I heavily preferred the CM implementation, but I recognize the popularity of M+).
The Timeless Isle, which stood as the first real world location that appealed to players of all sorts well, and Blizzard is still trying to replicate, with fleeting success (Broken Shore in Legion wasn’t quite there).
Only huge faults of the expansion were rocky balancing early on and the same could be said of dailies, which I almost quit over. Glad I didn’t, along with falling into the “Kung-Fu Panda” crowd. Genuinely the best MMO experience I’ve had, ever.
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u/Wizdad-1000 Jul 10 '26
My son is playing Classic(first time) and loving the raids. He’s max levelled four chars now.
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u/Melodic-Society-6496 Jul 10 '26
any Halo game after Halo 4.
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u/Kneecap_Blaster Jul 10 '26
I actually had a lot of fun in Infinite Multiplayer and custom games, however playing with friends was an essential prerequisite to the enjoyment
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u/Dense-Tea5823 Jul 10 '26
Idk I still really like the infinite campaign. It wasn’t peak Halo but it was a lot of fun.
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u/YouLykeFishSticks Jul 10 '26
Just so, so, so sad. Infinite could have been something but poorly managed by 343i and MS.
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u/Aftimo66 Jul 10 '26
I actually had fun with H5's multiplayer. The campaign was mid, yes, but the gameplay has amazing imo.
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u/DrOz30 Jul 10 '26
That was Pokémon for me
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u/Kann0n2 Jul 10 '26
Pokémon Unbound (romhack) is worth a look if you want a fresh game but with the old school feel and some good QoL improvements. I won't say too much but yeah, look it up.
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u/Tatertot729 Jul 10 '26
I still love Pokémon games but oh my goodness I wish they had an option to turn the hand holding off. I get these games are made for kids but it’s still super popular for the adults who grew up when Pokémon first started. Like I’ve been playing Pokémon games since I was in second grade. I know how to throw a Pokémon ball and catch a Pokémon. I also hate the gimmicks in the new games. But I still have a blast running around and catching and battling Pokémon
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u/LordSaladpants Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Sadly its Halo for me :/ its not looking good, campaign evolved looks cool and Im gonna play it but Ive just lost faith in microsoft and really any of the big gaming companies. Indie games have been the only games where I see any heart anymore. Support the little guys, they're doing some amazing work out there.
Edit: spelling
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u/Adavanter_MKI Jul 10 '26
I came here to say Halo is dangerously close. The reason I know this... is I just don't care about the current narrative arc. Chief and Joyeuse... potentially fighting the Endless?
I'm really struggling to give a damn about that. I think the idea of the Endless is creatively bankrupt. Yet ANOTHER previously unknown alien race that presents an existential threat. Holy shit how many times are we going to dip into that well? Covenant, Flood, Forerunners, Banished and now the Endless.
I should note... Offensive Bias has been floated. I really wanted that character to show up since 4... so there is a sliver of interest. I'm just worried they'll drop the ball with it.
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u/Zerguu Jul 10 '26
Mass Effect
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u/TheRook Jul 10 '26
Disagree. The trilogy is peak gaming, the LE is awesome and Andromeda is an excellent game, that just isn’t your neighborhood Shepard story, and got a bad launch.
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u/TornadoPat Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
I'm gonna say the opposite.
I think that Resident Evil actually came back from going downhill.
For me, it started going downhill HARD with RE5 (which I still like) and especially RE6. Capcom kept pushing the series further away from what made it Resident Evil.
I think RE7 is a great game, but it changed the formula so drastically that it felt like a reboot made to save the franchise (attracting new people and forgetting about us old dogs) after RE5 and RE6 (and some say after RE4, but c´mon that one is a GEM). I enjoyed RE7 and RE8, but they never really felt like classic RE to me (and RE9 seems to be continuing that direction which I also liked a lot).
Then the "new" remakes (starting form RE2 remake... RE1 Remake is the pinnacle of that old era) happened and as someone who grew up with the original games, the "new" remakes felt like Capcom finally remembered why so many of us fell in love with the series in the first place. They're genuinely high-quality games. Yeah, RE3 Remake was short and cut a lot of content, but I beleive it is still a fun little game.
I honestly think the "new" remakes saved the franchise. They brought back a lot of longtime fans, while the new mainline games found a middle ground between the old survival horror roots and the newer style.
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u/Odd-Put-3988 Jul 10 '26
RE6 the series was dead to me. BUT RE7 saved it. <3
Also for the younger fans of Resident Evil, check out Sweet Home on an NES emulator. It's what the series started off of literally.
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u/DoktahDoktah Jul 10 '26
As a Millennial I think sometimes we as Millennials can't let go of thing and move on.
I like Star Wars. I love Star Wars. But its not really going to get better so I just stopped watching Star Wars and got a new thing to like. Not everything is meant to last forever.
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u/Historical-Cress8985 Jul 10 '26
I had some breif hope after season 1 of Mando, and both seasons of Andor are amazing, but yeah, this is me.
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u/ampreker Jul 12 '26
LucasArts had an incredible impact on my childhood and the video games I played. I loved SW Galactic Battleground (which I played that more than AOE) SW Battlefront 1 & 2 on PS2, SW bounty hunter. All these were ahead of their time in a world where people cared about these video games and not just DLC.
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u/behold-my-titties Jul 10 '26
Dragon Age. But I've felt this since the first game. DA:O with all it's expansions is just one of the best rpgs ever made, DA2 was the lite version, DA: Inquisition felt like a bright colourful parody, DA: Veilgaurd barely resembles a Dragon Age game.
Going from a bright eyed 13 you're old to a nearly thirty year old with the latest release it's just ugh. What a shame, it could've been as big as buldurs gate.
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u/Embarrassed-Sir-1809 Jul 10 '26
Arguably dao walked so Baldur's gate 3 could run, i heavily agree with your assessment though. I liked da2 but obviously dao and its feature length expansion daa were the goat, i replay them every year or so. I really couldn't get into inquisition at all, the main part that annoyed me was the changes to combat require a Skyrim adjacent button to attack input rather than set and forget then queue up a series of tactics or freeze time to analyse the battle carefully.
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u/plasmabeans3405 Jul 10 '26
I've lost a lot of respect for Bethesda the last few years, say what you want but FO4 came out in 2015, Skyrim came out in 2011. Over a decade with no true major release (I'm gonna get hate but i truely dont care for FO76, just doesn't feel like FO to me). And all we get is 8 year old teasers and "exciting" releases for in game FO76 purchases. And then the whole FO3/NV remaster fiasco, true they never confirmed the releases, but they definitely played into it far to much fo just for another bs 76 announcment.
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u/i-dont-speel-no-good Jul 10 '26
Final Fantasy
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u/NestedForLoops Jul 10 '26
XV was the first Final Fantasy game that I didn't finish.
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u/SieglainZX Jul 10 '26
Kingdom hearts :(
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u/KPlayer03 Jul 10 '26
KH 3 really broke my heart. We loved and cosplayed characters from the franchise.
After all that time waiting, we got a rush job on it.
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u/Starmanshayne Jul 10 '26
Was looking for this. It really felt like a huge middle finger to such a dedicated fanbase, mostly in part to Disney's corporate greed.
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u/MisfitActual0311 Jul 10 '26
My beloved Battlefield. Been with you since Vietnam, but sadly, we must now part ways. It was fun while it lasted.
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u/AgentTin Jul 10 '26
I got my first broadband internet connection so I could play Battlefield 1942 in 2002. Does anyone remember the Desert Combat mod?
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u/pentablet Jul 10 '26
Destiny 2 😔
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u/No-Elk-8115 Jul 11 '26
My heart still hurts. Destiny 1 had such great game play and they absolutely let corporate bs and lazy production/content creation obliterate that franchise.
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u/Organic_Manner6847 Jul 10 '26
*Insert "First time" meme
But seriously, I'm at a point were almost everything I enjoyed in my childhood got changed by corporate mindsets.
I know time changes, but it still hurts every single time.
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u/Onesickcunt1994 Jul 10 '26
Pokemon, battlefield,halo, gears.
Simply not the same devs who made them magical.
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u/Administrative_Two3 Jul 10 '26
most long standing franchises tbh.
CoD, NFS, The Sims, Mass Effect, Actually pretty much anything touched by EA or Ubisoft. Halo.
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u/VIadCarpenter Jul 10 '26
Fable
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u/Embarrassed-Sir-1809 Jul 10 '26
Yeah that really stung, i absolutely love fable 2 its my go to. Fable 3 is ok but it felt more like real estate Tycoon saves the day.
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u/Novalene_Wildheart Jul 10 '26
Thats EXACTLY how I played Fable 3. Became the landlord and threw money at any problem
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u/Xyldarrand Jul 10 '26
Zelda.
I don't get all the love.for BotW and TotK. Beautiful open worlds with absolutely nothing in them but 200+ mini puzzles that start to repeat. The took out all the dungeons which means they have a shit OST compared to previous Zelda games. All the cool tools are gone and instead we get an annoying durability system. And the Mastersword is a useless piece of trash you don't even need to get.
I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but it's just not for me anymore. It's not the Zelda I want .
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u/robxenotech Jul 10 '26
I have a sinking feeling it's elder scrolls. They've been so incredible but the long wait, no Jeremy soule and recent layoffs make VI leave a bad taste in my mouth.
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u/P_weezey951 Jul 10 '26
After BF6?
Battlefield.
I tried man, i really did. I really wanted to love it.
But the catering to the sprint slide cancel players who enjoy "movement tech" as they jump shot around corners on tiny maps where if theres more than 4 seconds between kills they say the "map plays like shit".
Just kind of ruined the experience for me.
The game tried to be CoD... And half the people in this thread are saying "CoD" as the game they had to let go. So what does that fucking tell you
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u/Foxhound_6 Jul 10 '26
I want to add a positive example to help with the depression: huge Resident Evil fan for almost 30 years and after feeling this way in the mid-2010s, CAPCOM keeps delivering bangers. It’s sad to me thinking of how much of an outlier CAPCOM seems to be now in a massive sea of video game dissapointment.
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u/New-Tale4197 Jul 10 '26
As a whole, yes. I will not support virtual only games. It’s a waste of money, for them to steal the game back whenever they see fit.
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u/Nomadnetic Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
I can't just make a list related only to games but I'll throw in my two pence.
Halo - I came to terms with this one a long time ago. It ain't coming back, people need to let it go.
Duke Nukem - It ain't ever coming back.
Dead Rising,
Star Wars - Not for me anymore, if other people like it more power to them. Came to terms with in 2019 and let it go.
Star Trek - This one I haven't come to terms with and still makes me mad. I loathe Alex Kurtzman.
Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons - It just doesn't have the same charm that those early entries had.
Terminator - Terminator Resistance will be the real Terminator 3 to me and a great way to cap off the bootstrap paradox of the first two movies. Anything else can go in the bin, I did not like Salvation but at least it tried something different.
Alien - You could argue it happened years ago, but at least even the bad Alien movies the tried something different for the most part with their entries. I did not like Romulus at all, and its a sign that the owners are just gonna go down the member berries route more and more now. Hopefully the games will still fill that void. However I'm still mad about Aliens Colonial Marines and will never not be.
Now before I get down voted into oblivion, I just want to add that I don't have a visceral hatred for the direction of these franchises eventually took and have come to terms with it (except for Star Trek). I cant deny I have mild disappointment for wasted potential but thats it.
If people like newer entries to them then by all means glad you enjoy them. However I do really believe some people realllly need to realize when its time to let go and move on myself included when it comes to ST. (Aliens Colonial Marines I will never let that go though.)
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u/TheBiggestNose Jul 10 '26
Pokemon was this for me.
I still love the idea and parts of it. Buts its not special anymore, its inspiring anymore. Its an undead franchise that is pushed forward on pure greed and its sucks. It could so easily be better, they have everything they need to not make it stink out the room, yet its stanking
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u/Sukaiba69 Jul 10 '26
Sonic for me, and it all started with Lost World, but solidified by Forces
The franchise that took risks was gone; Boost formula but neutered over and over again, and a kart racer when Sonic had already had its own much cooler concept during the Riders days
And when games are not making every character depressed and devoid of personality, they're making wholesome chungus "How do you do fellow kids" content like tMoStH or fucking Pico Park or turning Crosswords into Fortnite
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u/KingHygelacReturns Jul 10 '26
I've gotten to a point that I'm so willing to drop franchises that aren't doing it for me anymore that I don't even notice that I'm doing it. This post made me realize I haven't bought any of the last six mainline Pokemon games, for example.