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what games franchises should now be retired?

(hi will m.!!)

new PESlol answers pls

i think so- it's the first that srings to mind, aside from championship manager

sonic

yay! this is a question for the podcasti am recording tonight. thanks SeeZee-N!

Even better if you guys answer "What video game franchises should be retired and what should they be replaced with?" Bonus points for conciseness, funniness and originality. Invisible points.

oh god sonic, yes

mortal kombat as well

Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia. And the very least, they should go on a break (unless the new Prince of Persia is as good as I've heard it might be).

it would be nice for there to be a final Zelda, one where Ganon is as evil and dark as he was in Ocarina of Time - something really huge and final-feeling.

Tony Hawk could conceivably get better if a better firm got hold of it, but I don't see that happening, so it should be put out of its misery - THPSII was one of the all-timers and it's a shame that it's fallen so far.

fifa obv!

silent hill needs to be destroyed to be saved I think

You're about four years late with Tomb Raider polyphonic, the last three have been super-sweet!

sonic agreement here

personally I'd say the fifa games are a fucking joke being released as a full game every year instead of a base game with cheaper seasonal add-ons. but that's just my opinion.

Zeldas have been an excellent showcase for "Here's new technology, how can it simulate the old technology and what new stuff can it do", though I suppose most of the great new ideas fall on barren ground EG I don't know if there was much else on the DS that made much use of the drawing-on-maps stuff from Phantom Hourglass.

The only game that I can think of for retirement is Tekken, because I just seriously don't think they're going to beat 3, but every one that comes out I'll still want to play. Everything else I'm still optimistic about - what if the next Spyro game isn't an enormous pile of crap? That would be awesome! I basically blame Tomb Raider actually, for proving that going back to basics and then building on that can make an amazing game.

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Mario Galaxy and the DS Mario game are pretty great. As long as nintendo keeps up the quality, viva la mario.

Sonic is otm though.

Galaxy is tops but I don't trust The New Nintendo to do another one ever. The new Animal Crossing game is a port of the DS one!

You're about four years late with Tomb Raider polyphonic, the last three have been super-sweet!

Really? I played the demo for the most recent one and it looked pretty cheesy.

Well, whaddaya want? There's tombs, she raids them. Secrets, gunfights, wholesale destruction of endangered species. The plot's not amazing, but the controls work well (the lack of a button to specify that actually I'd like to grab this ledge I've jumped at is one of the best changes there), and they've stripped off all the crap that they added over the years which led to EG Angel of Darkness. It's not Zelda->Ocarina of Time, but I don't think the original game require radical re-invention.

Galaxy is tops but I don't trust The New Nintendo to do another one ever. The new Animal Crossing game is a port of the DS one!

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what is nintendo thinking when they do shit like this?

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sensible soccer

just let it be now pls

what is nintendo thinking when they do shit like this?

casual assholes like me and my loved ones will eat it up because now it's on the teevee and you can see what's going on!!

ariane

Katamari Damacy :(

Katamari should've been retired after the second PS2 game though, it's all been downhill from there.

has keita takahashi even been involved since that one? iirc he didn't even want to make we <3 katamari and only agreed to do so because he feared namco would fk it up royally

awwww i haven't played katamari since the the second one & was hoping this might be a return to form

all of the final fantasy/seiken densetsu spinoffs

yesssssss

JimD - I absolutely agree. Katamrai was pretty much the last game I expected to see get so whored out.

Zappi - the new one is a return to form, in that it seems to be half the exact same game with a crappy, crayon (cell-shaded?) filter applied to the graphics, which suck?!? I tried the two level demo last night and it just felt completely pointless (at best)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwfpuDQOZJA

New pro evo is plumming new depths of sucktitude.

As soon as PES goes FIFA will completely stop improving.

Why championship manager? It's still great every year.

sonic and zelda pretty otm

I wouldn't even mind if we kept getting churned-out katamari sequels which just had new levels and objects but the same gameplay. Trouble is, every game since the second has tried to introduce new types of level which expect you to only collect certain types of object from the world. Which instantly kills dead the whole joyful "roll up everything you can" feel (which is what makes the first two great) and replaces it with a fiddly pain in the arse.

ok i tried the katamari demo and it seemed a bit off. the level that was inside had too much stuff to roll up, there were things everywhere! kinda took any skill out of it. oh well will pick up a copy when its super cheap in a few of months time.

what happened with nobinobi boy? Like nobody(nobody) discussed it at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbAM_Po00Bk

on this clip, it looks like the graphics in katamari forever alternate between the cell shaded, to other styles?

well i'm looking forward to it anyway.

From what I've read you get to choose which one you want whenever you want in an options menu; the demo forces you to suffer through enjoy the new ones. Katamari Forever doesn't look like a terribly good idea, and definitely not worth full price, but it seems like they didn't fuck it up six ways to sunday like the Xbox version. It definitely needs to be the last- the way it's been marketed in Japan (as "Katamari Tribute") and the whole greatest-hits construction makes me hopeful it will.

xpost JimD, We <3 Katamari was chock full of item-specific levels!

The new Katamari soundtrack cover almost justifies the game...

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Well maybe my memory's failng me a bit, but didn't we <3 have objecives that were along the lines of "get as many of these as you can...but if you get other stuff too that's ok"? As opposed to the more recent "get lots of these...and avoid everyhing else!". I just don't remember ever thnking "oh shit, I didn't mean to pick THAT up" in the second game, but seemed to find myself thinking it all the time in later ones.

*cough* halo

Not sure, JimD, it's been a while since I played it. I haven't played anything past <3, actually- there was the one PSP game and the crappy 360 one, right?

in we <3 there is an "avoid all cows and bears" stage which is intentionally annoying; i'm guessing most players just rolled up the first cow/bear and then ignored the stage.

if they figured out a way to get rid of the timer, katamari could be interesting again.

Take out the time limits and you got nobi nobi boy - and trust me, you don't want that. Actually, you can already play all the Katamari games without a timer after you beat each level and the game like that is just completely unfun (you can use it to explore and hunt around for cousins or presents you've missed, I guess, if that's your thing).

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