The Worst Raped Game Franchise of All Time (Poll)

[Astral Rag]

Syndicate is missing from your poll OP.

 

[wyes gull]

Have to go with Dungeon Keeper. As bad as the others are, they all end up with bad games. This one's freemium abortion doesn't even deserve to be qualified as such. And it's not like the franchise was big enough to endure the blunder; no, this one will stay under the ground (ouch) for the foreseeable future.

Also, have we decided to collectively forget about BoS? Because that's Fallout rape as well.

Oh and Thief would probably warrant a spot on there.

 

[Oracsbox]

Where's the option all of the above ?

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

Sonic the Hedgehog

It's been non stop rape over and over it's like a bukakke of multiple developers over Sonic's corpse and then just raping and raping and raping some more.

 

[Deitti]

Command and Conquer. I cannot believe someone approved C&C4.

 

[Abu Antar]

This question must be rephrased.

Which company is responsible for the most franchise rapes?

 

[Viata]

This question must be rephrased.

Which company is responsible for the most franchise rapes?

EA

 

[Oracsbox]

As bad as Fallout rape was

Command and Conquer was utterly gang smashed

 

[Abu Antar]

This question must be rephrased.

Which company is responsible for the most franchise rapes?

EA

 

[RapineDel]

Thief. Broken Sword was up there for a while too, the latest one isn't as bad as 3 and 4, though pretty uninspired an feels like they've run out of ideas.

 

[udm]

Jagged Alliance rape is easy to handwave, because none of the newer games was ever titled "Jagged Alliance 3". Thief rape is also easy to ignore since they never called it Thief 4. Therefore the award still goes to Fallout series, particularly with all the nonsensical lore Bethderp created (just like how Star Wars is dead to me because of Roundhead Rian's Episode VIII and Jar Jar's Episode VII).

Spoiler

Ok now this is reaching autismo levels of mental gymnastics

 

[Morality Games]

Which game series has has experienced the most dramatic fall from grace? Where is the stench of Decline the most foul? Where the anus has been so brutally violated that you can't help but look away in disgust and disbelief?

A poll added since lately we haven't had nearly enough of them. Only 1 choice allowed so think carefully!

The single most meaningful answer is Ultima. We're talking about the original epic exploration/story-driven RPG franchise, a nine game series where, going off a high note, the eighth game failed super hard and the ninth game failed on every single conceivable criteria that a game can possibly fail to the maximum degree of severity imaginable by man.

Fallout is a competitive pick and will obviously win due to the nucleus of the Codex being a Fallout 1-2 fansite and Fallout 1-2 being the archetype through which 40-60% of Codexers appraise the value of an RPG. Problem is that Fallout never really *needed* a game after the first and you can ignore the rest much more easily than if you just stopped playing the Ultima narrative after the 7th game's expansion -- all the more so because it received an eventual revival (FO:NV) that succeeded in all the exploration/story/interactive elements of prior games and laid the franchise to rest in a thematically/narratively appropriate and satisfying way, regardless of what happened afterwards.

The rest of are kind of 'eh'. Thief didn't really "fall from grace" so much as fade into irrelevance, and then, upon trying, failed to reassert itself, Fable never attained grace to begin with, Sonic was always bad, etc.

 

[Siveon]

I'm going with Ultima with Fallout tied. The only thing Fallout has over it is the fact it got a really good game in between 3 and 4, whereas Ultima has been shit ever since 8.

Actually with that logic, I'd say then Ultima and Jagged Alliance tied with Fallout just right under it.

 

[Valky]

Heroes of Might and Magic was a trilogy though? I'm pretty sure they stopped making them after 3 because they wanted to end on a high note.

 

[Excommunicator]

if Underworld Ascendant counts as part of Ultima then it's definitely Ultima

 

[oldmanpaco]

Ultima. The way the series went from epic highs (U7) to shit (U8) to "WTF is this!" (U9) was pretty impressive.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Sonic. I don't think anything else even comes close to such a dramatic fall from grace.

There's a few hidden gems in the shitheap, but it's pretty bad. I'd have never guessed it would turn out this way if you asked me in the early 90s.

 

[Skdursh]

Anyone who doesn't vote Ultima is wrong. Shroud of the Avatar and Underworld: Ascendant are literal crimes against humanity. Also, I'm going to say it, Ultima 8 is a great game if you ignore the platforming and stop bitching about how you can do some morally "questionable" things.

 

[Dexter]

Poll should be multiple choice with at least 3, possibly even 5 allowable answers, otherwise people are just going to gang up on one or two options with everything else getting 0 votes and you can't rank the results by severity of rape.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Fallout no doubt sure seeing what EA done to Sim City/Maxis and what happened to X-Com and JA2 is painful but all those other games had spiritual descendants worth playing but as for post apocalyptic RPG there was nothing till Atom RPG. Sure Metro 2033 and Prypates were fun but those were more FPS/survival games. Not to mention Sim City at-least was granted death and Nue X-Coms are not as popular while the horribly scarrred corpse of Fallout is still raped and pimped to casual crowds for quick buck by Todd.

 

[Egosphere]

Silent Hill

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Atom RPG

Russia to the rescue as usual for post apocs.

 

[Falksi]

Out of all those for me Dragon Age is the one which make me feels most violated.

Whilst flawed, for the time it was the perfect marriage between old school & new school, with enough traditional CRPG elements to keep them relevent in gaming & the games good, but enough new/modern/3-D elements to cross the boarder for the casuals.

That should have been the turning point where devs & suits alike realized that there was money to be made in good games & from games which included CRPG tropes of old. It felt like the moment where you'd found out all the whips, handcuffs & chains weren't to restrain you for a raping, but instead they were there for practical use in every day jobs such as training the horse, restraining criminals & hoisting heavy goods.

And when DA:2 arrived it was like the lover you'd re-embraced turned around, laughed manically, whipped the whips & chains back & used them to pin you down and let a gangbang loose as part of some twisted scheme all along.

When DA:I was released it was like that lover then took all your photos, possessions & memories & forcefed them you by making the gangbangers eat them, and making you the end section of the gangbangers Human Centipede.

 

[SausageInYourFace]

When I look at Sonic and Shining Force, I see game series that were well established and pretty much perfect and timeless in their particular niche. You'd think making sequels to those games can't be that fucking hard, it should pretty much be a licence to print money. And compared to their Nintendo counterparts Mario and Fire Emblem carried on pretty much without major hiccups. In general Nintendo seems to be incredibly good at adapting and reiterating concepts for many years to keep the games interesting but somehow hold on to what made them good in the first place.

So it baffles me the more that not only were they unable to keep putting out good Sonic and SHF games but it took them fucking years of one shitty game after another with horrible reviews and horrible sales and they still somehow fail to get the fucking memo. That level of human incompetence is truly puzzling.

I mean, the changes to the Fallout series are absolutely haram in the eyes of RPG enthusiasts but those games sell like hot cakes and win all the awards.

You think this shit won any awards?

 

[Melan]

Thief still stings... but it is Ultima all the way. As Morality Games wrote, Ultima was really a by-word for quality. Every Ultima game brought something new to the table, and every Ultima game was meticulously polished to perfection. I can even forgive them the lame RenFaire setting and self-inserts, because the games were so damn good. Ultima was the CRPG gold standard. And it was not a one-off - it was an epic series, game after game after game building on the same basic themes while trying new things and exploring new opportunities. Even the side games like Savage Empires were excellent. Their manuals were entertaining to red on their own. They had great boxed sets and cloth maps and supplemental materials, too.

Then the fuckers raped it, and raped it hard because it made money, but they thought it could make even more money. And when that didn't work out, they killed it and burned the corpse.

That was Ultima.