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The Four Most Repetitive Video Game Franchises Ever

While a lack of innovation can often be the downfall of many great titles, these four franchises are known not only for having tons of games in their rosters, but also for continually releasing titles that are largely the same year after year.

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Retroman3822d ago (Edited 3822d ago )

That sums them all up and it is getting boring playing same games since 2006

fsfsxii3822d ago

I came to this gen in 2008, it got stale in 2010, then, i discovered Niche games.

thorstein3822d ago

Indeed. But why didn't they mention Madden 25. Yes, there have been 25 iterations of the damned franchise.

Eonjay3822d ago

Wrong, wrong wrong

3. Poxemon
2. Zelda
1. Mario

tacotruck3822d ago

Much like the case for CoD and AC titles, most AAA game franchises are products of getting the most money for the least amount of effort. While the end-product is often very similar to the previous entries, the popularity of the series makes most people simply look past those faults.

SnotyTheRocket3822d ago

Yeah. They've been working on ACIV since Revelations. Totally no effort? Right?/s

savaroth3822d ago

Nahh.. Final Fantasy has not been repetitive. It had fairly open world and moved to linear gameplay. It had story line and well.. Not sure what the whole XIII thing was about, but imo it pretty much sucked.

So repetitive no, crappy yes.
Same goes for dragon age only more extreme. It went from an AAA title to a ZZZ thing

I pretty much liked the Star Ocean series evolvement before the series was shut down.

With the Dune series they went from a RPG/adventure thing to strategy ( both were great ) to Dune 2000 which sucked, but that was never repetitive. Then again that series is ancient.

Guess people can find more examples like that ;)

HammadTheBeast3822d ago

Old Final Fantasy games were completely different from one another. New one's are lam£.

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x5exotic3822d ago (Edited 3822d ago )

- Uncharted 3 practically copy-pasted UC2
- Post-criterion NFS aka when they started to suck
- Assassin's Creed aka played them all but only finished 2
- Every FPS

EDIT: Scratch all the above; FIFA and PES games are most repetitive... all they do is play the same sport. Heh. No really they keep releasing the same game every year with just little difference.

PurpHerbison3821d ago (Edited 3821d ago )

Battlefield deserves to be on there. Wasn't there ALREADY talks of BF5 before 4 even released??? Dynasty Warriors hasn't been relevant since the PS2 so it doesn't deserve to be on that list.

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UnHoly_One3822d ago

I hate when people use "repetitive" as a way to say a videogame is bad.

Newsflash: ALMOST ALL VIDEOGAMES ARE REPETITIVE.

When you get right down to it, almost all games have you doing the same things over and over until you get to the end of the game. Or in the case of multiplayer, every match is essentially the same thing over and over.

My point is, if that thing you are doing over and over again is FUN... Then what the hell difference does it make???

Are some games "more repetitive" than others? Sure, but the same rule still applies. Maybe a game bored somebody else in 20 minutes but it was still fun for me after 20 hours... The point is, it's all subjective.

r3f1cul3822d ago

i gotta agree, fun is subjective to the individual playing the game and even good original titles you end up doing the same basic things in them after a period of time. point is as long as A. people continue to buy and support games and B. are having fun i dont see the issue

x5exotic3822d ago

Ummm no.

Keeping the same style is good, but keeping the same substance is horrible and not so creative.

God of war has different situations to put you in, and focuses on each situation individually to make its quality worthwhile, whereas open world games focus on doing the same boring thing for about 40-80 times just so you can have a trophy, (i.e quantity over quality and unwarranted extra hours of gameplay to make you think it's a good game and worth 60 bucks)

FF practically changes its gameplay style with every game.

Relientk773822d ago

How about Madden, and like every yearly released sports title

2pacalypsenow3822d ago

You cant really change how football is played .

Theres no story just gameplay tweaks and if you compare Madden 06 to madden 13 its a huge diference

MaverickStar73822d ago

I see that with annual sports games and even many other franchises. The average person will scoff and say its just the same thing every year. Sure football at its core is the same. Sure a COD or AC game carries the same formula. But they miss all the details and changes that make it a different game, even though the core essentials are there.

PurpHerbison3821d ago

Maybe the officials throw more flags in the newer versions of Madden. NFL sure is changing football.

kratos_TheGoat3822d ago

nothing was worst then re6 and ac1 at least cod was fun

raiden-493822d ago

Huh? No monster hunter that's odd.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein44d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai58d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger57d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop58d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky57d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood57d ago (Edited 57d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever57d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion57d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm58d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long58d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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