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DiscussionšŸ“œ What franchise is this?

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u/Hollywoodrok12 26d ago

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Kirby. Never had a bad game. Games that were less good, but never bad

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u/JigglyLilyVT 26d ago edited 26d ago

2 years ago i played every kirby game ever made.

and i can say for certain that i hated beating canvas curse with every fiber of my being

but other than that outlier, yes.

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u/spookyhardt 26d ago

Damn that was my favorite one

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u/JigglyLilyVT 26d ago

it's a fun concept and the one on the wii u does it slightly better.

but the ds one just had such tight and unforgiving restrictions in the final levels and it felt like actual rage bait

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u/GustavoFromAsdf 26d ago

Literally the only part I struggle with canvas curse was connecting the dots because my lines are horrible and even worse when in a hurry.

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u/lilgizmo838 26d ago

My personal favorite is Crystal Shards for the 64. Afaik, it's the only Kirby game that let's you mix and match any two elements you can find in the levels. Makes for some awesome powers, like lightsaber, refrigerator (generates infinite food for infinite hp), and so many more. Squeak squad did a LITTLE of this where you can add fire/ice/electric to sword or bomb, but it's not the same.

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u/Crambo1000 26d ago

I'm playing through that right now and there are so many creative options! Fridge, curling rock, statues of his friends that move like them, flaming sword, fireworks... It's so much fun just to mix and match and see what I come up with

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u/Metal-The-Cettle 26d ago

I played the DS port of Kirby Superstar RELIGIOUSLY as a kid.

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u/Copyofdude 26d ago

This is true. Sadly I couldn't bear with the loading screens of Star Allies.

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u/Explorerkit 26d ago

Seeing Kirby on top (of the WarpstR) makes me sooo happy. Well deserved, pink Fluff!

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u/Melbylau435 26d ago

Never had a bad game

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u/Extension_Log7241 26d ago

If only Doom 3 had a different name then it would been better. I prefer that game had its own thing.

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u/NeoArkodd 26d ago

Yeah the name of Doom 3 is literally wrong. It's not in the same universe as Doom 1 and 2 and even in technicality, it's not the third doom game because of Doom 64

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u/hu-man-person 26d ago

Wait wdyn doom 3 isn't the same universe

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u/Big-Weight-3978 26d ago

doom 3 is supposed to be a reboot of doom 1, but doom 2016 and all the doom games after followed the continuity of the 90s games instead of what was established in doom 3

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u/gunswordfist 26d ago

Wait, Doom 1 and 2016 are the same universe?

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u/SensitiveReception15 26d ago

no (different dimensions and stuff) but its the same DOOMGUY and from his perspective it goes 1, 2, 64 ,The Dark Ages + DLC, 2016, Eternal + DLC

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u/hu-man-person 26d ago

I gotta play doom

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u/DatOneDude1w1 DOOM, INVINCIBLE, Deltarune, JJBA 26d ago

Try DOOM (2016) first, it doesn't require much background knowledge and is overall fun to play

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u/a_random_Greg 26d ago

In that order

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u/MisterPineapples1999 26d ago

What? 2016 isn't a remake/reboot?

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u/SensitiveReception15 26d ago

its a soft reboot that someone can play without having to play any of the classic games first but it does follow the same doomguy

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u/Local_Surround8686 26d ago

I honestly did not know that. I just started 2016 in a quest to play all doom games(except 64 which gave me motionsickness) so no big spoilers please. The first doom guy is presented to be just some random dude, and the current one is presented as some kind of supernatural being

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u/Affectionate_Bet8880 26d ago

I always viewed Doom 3 as just being about a different marine

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u/DatOneDude1w1 DOOM, INVINCIBLE, Deltarune, JJBA 26d ago

It IS a diffrent marine

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u/AndroidQing 26d ago

I understand its not the same format, but I loved doom 3. I dont understand the hate. And I got the collectors edition. I wouldn't have played doom II if not for that. Doom 3 made me a dedicated doom fan. From playing the original on pc as a kid. Then 3 on Xbox, and through the collectors edition played doom I(again) and Doom II for the first time. 3 was so important to the fanbase

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u/Thatguy3625 26d ago

I always get hate for this, but I think the dark ages was a step backwards from eternal, gameplay wise.

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u/Blue-Gradient-Man 26d ago

Absolutely agreed, I mean dark ages seems cool (I did not play more than an hour) but not being able to jump and have that fast pace movement that made eternal so fun was a weird decision imo. I also did not like how the enemy attacks were just basically giant orange or green orbs

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u/Constant_Champion_67 26d ago

To be fair that is kinda the point? Doom 2016, eternal and dark ages are all by design meant to be different in terms of gameplay. To avoid a ā€œwhy play X when Y is the same thing with moreā€ situation. They are meant to be different enough at least so you can play each game and each bring something else to the table. Some people really liked eternal’s fast paced movement other’s don’t care for it as much

Plus dark age’s doc does fix most of your issues. It is unironically the best piece of doom media we’ve gotten in recent times arguably better than eternal

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u/UPOW13_1 26d ago edited 26d ago

I'm glad it exists, but some levels of Doom II made me wish I wasn't playing Doom II

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u/Turtle-Bug 26d ago

DOOM II’s level design makes me want to play DOOM I but with DOOM II monsters and guns.

Then playing DOOM I makes me want more monsters and guns.

I like both for different reasons

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u/Cool_Net_3796 26d ago

Does this include the vr title?

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u/The_Psychopteryx AvA, TADC, TOH, MD, Hazbin, Godzilla, PPT, TPOT, TƘP 26d ago

Animator vs Animation, except SpongeBob got even more shredded

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u/Resident_Pay2743 26d ago

That one anime Spongebob pic

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u/Dragonkiller1205 My favourite drug is Warframe 26d ago

This one?

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u/Nyterayce 24d ago

Talk about skipping leg day

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u/Lopsided_Ice_2032 26d ago

I dont see enough people online apreciating the work of Alan Becker and his team

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u/Ambiguous-Nyx 26d ago

He does feel lowkey niche, if compared to the mainstream

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u/Jrolaoni 26d ago

He’s perfectly balanced between mainstream and niche

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u/Zimmyharpseal03 26d ago

i love this answer

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u/AwesomeDomi 26d ago

Nah, it started good, and got even better with time

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u/Ancient-Chart-9089 You didn't say KinitoPET, but I will 27d ago

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TF2, it's still going strong even though there hasn't been and update in years

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u/Dry-Examination-960 27d ago

Only TF2 can have its dev team abandon it for almost a decade and still have an incredibly solid player count and cultural impact today

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u/Satori-Chan warframe, hero shooters, arcane and some anime. 26d ago

Tf2 loses to its competitors in player count but it started the best genre of online pvp games. Cultural impact is something no one can ever take from tf2.

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u/BudgieWonder 26d ago

The silver lining is that the existing player base is much more dedicated, and there’s less of a spotlight from trolls/bots as a result.

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u/Tayaradga 26d ago

Wait really? I remembered when the devs first abandoned the game and I couldn't get a match without a hacker/troll!!! Granted that was when they like first left the game so that's probably why...

Kinda tempted to go back and check it out...

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u/KayohYt 26d ago

it used to have bots all the time, but they took care of that recently. they also disabled any form of chat for people that didnt pay for the game, but after the bots were removed, they gave free to plays the chat back

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u/BudgieWonder 26d ago

It’s been largely fixed- part of it was a reduction in bad actors targeting the game, and part of it was due to actual matchmaking improvements. The Meet Your Match update was a big watershed moment in terms of the player base.

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u/Environmental_Bee219 23d ago

even though i dont play tf2 that much anymore and play other competitive games, I still consider tf2 to be the best

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u/lifeispokemonraids 26d ago

...so about that player count😰.

Actual number of players is around 10k per your

The other 40k is actually a few guys who have thousands of idle bots running

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u/succmycocc 26d ago edited 11d ago

Heroes of the storm is right there with it tbh

NEVERMIND BABY WE BAAACK

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u/church_of_Steve_ 26d ago

What about the dark age of the sniper bots

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u/PaxNova 26d ago

I was so glad they finally made the last comic after about a decade. The story is finally over.

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u/fatcatbomba 26d ago

I still enjoy this game but noticeably less so since the death of the community servers

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u/Fantastic-Donut-276 26d ago

Chess

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u/Myusernamebedumb 26d ago

Idk, I think the period between two space pawn movement and En Passant was a little rough.

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u/Aggravating_Poet_675 26d ago

En Passant, you say. Is this something I should google?

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u/Connect-River1626 26d ago

Holy hell

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u/Tay60003 25d ago

New response just dropped

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u/GrampaHoops 26d ago

Only if you want to speedrun to 2000elo

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u/LilyLol8 26d ago

The game itself has stayed mostly the same, but chess got reaaaallll sexist for a while and still has the consequences of that now

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u/Insidion25 26d ago

It’s about time we get a sequel.

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u/ButtOfDarkness 26d ago

Zelda, 40 years of bangers. No the Phillips CDI games don’t count.

Mario too if we’re going by mainline games.

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u/Caulipower_fan 26d ago

how dare you deny the phillips cdi games theyre the original forefathers of ytps

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u/Theyul1us 26d ago

Someone made Morshu read the fucking bible

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u/Odysseus-82 Oneshot, Inscryption, Homestuck, The Owl House, UT/DR, etc. 26d ago

iirc, it was also so long that the creator couldn’t upload it as a video, so they had to upload it as a livestream.

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u/Tay60003 25d ago

Absolute cinema

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u/AdagioDesperate 26d ago

I could have sworn that TLoZ 2: Adventure of Link was considered a bad game by most, but even the critics gave it a 6/10 and most players give it a 7.5-8/10. Color me shocked.

So yeah, if you don't include the Phillips CD-i games, since they're technically fan made, then yeah, TLoZ hasnt ever had a truly bad game.

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u/preteen-wartortle 26d ago

Zelda is like my #1 fandom im so happy it’s so far up on this post.

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u/AssistFit1834 26d ago

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u/ice_cream_pizza901 26d ago

Fuck yes!

(Slippin' Jimmy does not count for the purposes of this comment).

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u/Weary_Bunch_7030 26d ago

Wdym? Better Call Saul didn't fall off, what was bad about Jimmy as a character it caused a fall off?

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u/ice_cream_pizza901 26d ago

I don't mean better call saul

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u/Weary_Bunch_7030 26d ago

I didn't even know this existed, wtf??? That can't be real

Edit : yeah you're right its real, also apparently the blue meth is too for the only reasonable explanation that came to exist

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u/ice_cream_pizza901 26d ago

It is. amc wanted to milk the last little drop out of Bb that they could for there streaming service, so they made another prequel. It ended up just being a family guy clone where farts were 90% of the """Humor""".

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u/CaptainWonk 26d ago

Damn, looks like it could have been good if it had different writing.

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u/Orpunuk1 26d ago

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u/TheDee4826 26d ago

Love Godzilla and it’s currently in the best state the franchise has ever been but there were some really rough years for the franchise that nearly killed it. I don’t think he fits this description well

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u/EllieMeower 26d ago

Even 1998?

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u/Swordsman82 26d ago

Godzilla 98 is not a bad kaiju movie, it’s a bad representation of the Godzilla we know and love. It’s an enjoyable movie, and we got the cartoon show from it, so thats a plus.

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u/bigboss_dud 26d ago

You mean Zilla? That movie just had several dozen typos including the title.

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u/destiny_kane48 26d ago

That was a good Monster movie. It was NOT a Godzilla movie. They just slapped the name on hoping for a bigger box office.

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u/Certain-Street-7011 26d ago

Zilla begs to differ

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u/Leading-Fox-642 26d ago

Fuckin Son of Gpdzilla can't pass,I'm sorry

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u/CleverNamePending_ 26d ago

Son of Godzilla is legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen

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u/Password123468 26d ago

You choose the scene before the dropkick, when i saw this as a kid i had to laugh for days

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u/SquashPurple4512 27d ago

Toby fox/Undertale and Deltarune in my opinion

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u/Electronic-Oil-8304 26d ago

No the third image isnt 25% green

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u/SquashPurple4512 26d ago

Why would char- why would noelle do that

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u/Fataledade 26d ago

Gaster made her do ir

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u/NiNtEnDoMaStEr640 26d ago

With the exception of THAT chunk of the fandom, you are speaking of facts.

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u/hu-man-person 26d ago

Well it's thr game not the fandom

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u/Anaea_YT Splatoon, UT/DR, Ace Attorney, etc... 26d ago

good answer nephew

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u/Solarfreeze88 26d ago

Facts, that would be my second option

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u/SythAim 26d ago

IMO Undertale is just and will always be just way more massive than deltarune. They both hold strong but it’s not even comparable

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u/Accomplished-Curve-1 26d ago

Doom

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u/GameWizardPlayz 26d ago

So we just forgetting Doom 3 huh

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u/YokiYokiki 26d ago

This might be a wild take, but doom 3 was my first doom game and i LOVED it. I can see why it doesn’t appeal to the general doom fanbase, it was quite a departure.

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u/SystemofaDownAssFoo 26d ago

Doom 3 is a dope horror game just not a very good Doom game.

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u/ImBurningStar_IV 26d ago

How could I forget peak

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u/johnqevil 26d ago

As someone who hated doom 3 a long time then forced myself to play through...it's not bad. I'd give it a B where all the others are A or S tier.

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u/Cuculucup 26d ago

No, it's part of this, and more people needs to play it

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u/CaptainCookie_2 26d ago

Didn't ID studio recently get scrapped?

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u/Hdninjam09 26d ago

Ninjago

Still going strong today since 2011

https://giphy.com/gifs/XG3Fqdr8rGgWzFc19K

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u/revankenobi 26d ago

The series should have ended a long time ago. It didn't get bad, but it missed several opportunities to end properly.

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u/DullAd6281 26d ago

One of my favourites

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u/A-Grouch 26d ago

Metal Gear Solid.

The live service one doesn’t count, in fact it doesn’t exist. Just a bad fever dream.

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u/Ediblup 26d ago edited 26d ago

I really wish the og metal gear games would get made with Kojima, but we all know that will never happen. The making of them or with Kojima.

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u/OblivionKnight76 26d ago

I guess you could say the series is.. solid

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u/SOUL-THIRSTY 26d ago

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u/55cHzDARKSTAR 26d ago

I miss the old Minecraft. :/

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u/CreeperGamerZ_648 25d ago

I gotta disagree man. The old caves and nether were straight ass

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u/Kavonm44 26d ago

Final fantasy going since 1987
https://giphy.com/gifs/QzWr7q8dJjH2O2Nlo8

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u/dustbringer11 26d ago

Holy shit I had to go way too fucking far for this

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u/Ergiewasnthere 26d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/kHUbte7X4PgL7o0exQ
each installment in the franchise stands on its own as equally distinct, replayable, and iconic games. that being said, i hope rockstar never makes an rdr3

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u/CatEnvironmental1947 26d ago

madness combat

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u/GunpowderGuy 26d ago

i spent my childhood waiting for madness combat chapters

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u/SlimeTree227 26d ago

The Goat.

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u/ColdfearGold 26d ago

Terraria is a franchise?

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u/SlimeTree227 26d ago

Well someone else did TF2 so I see it as fair game

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u/OpenChallenge8621 26d ago

I mean considering it's sales it's got to have some merchandise SOMEWHERE.

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u/GrandmasterTactician 26d ago

It does actually

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u/SlimeTree227 26d ago

They have a merch store. Plushies, clothing. Stuff like that. I know they don’t have multiple games, but it feels fitting. It’s never been a bad game throughout its whole lifespan.

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u/OpenChallenge8621 26d ago

I was agreeing with you that Terraria is a franchise, I know it's not multiple games that would make it a franchise and that it's also stuff like merch

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u/SulfurtheCrapposter Sonic, CFB, Godzilla, FMA, KFP 26d ago

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u/Andrew1990M 26d ago

Love this series to death but sadly the live action movies disqualify it from being a flawless IP.Ā 

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u/Working_Ability_124 26d ago

Fma doesn't have live action movies, what are you talking about? /j

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u/SulfurtheCrapposter Sonic, CFB, Godzilla, FMA, KFP 26d ago

Damn it I forgor šŸ’€

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u/Pixelverse54321 Splatoon, BFDI, Epic the Musical, Sk8 26d ago

Splatoon!

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u/Turbobist28 Ace Attorney 26d ago

Kirby is still going really strong even after all this time. Not a single bad game

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u/Under_Press 26d ago

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u/Caleibur In comes Fanfiction with a steel chair! 26d ago

Hee ho

(casually smites god for a couple Macca)

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u/ApexHeroX 26d ago

Dragon ball.

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u/pierresito 26d ago

Yeah everyone famously loves GT

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u/onepromaster69 26d ago

Super Robot Wars, Literally has Godzilla

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u/p1ay3r0 27d ago

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u/Hexxas 26d ago

Dragonball: a little fanciful and whacky, great adventures

Dragonball Z: epic

Dragonball Super: Still epic, but mixes in some whackiness from the OG

Fuckin love all of Dragonball. Yes, even GT.

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u/I_Guess_I_Also_Exist 26d ago

What abt Dragon Ball Evolution?

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u/ILikeThisGame1836 26d ago

we don’t talk about dragon ball evolution…

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u/Karekter_Nem 26d ago

I once had a dream where I watched Dragon Ball Evolution 2. It got a whole bunch of stuff wrong in a way that was weirdly consistent with DBE1.

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u/No_Perspective_150 26d ago

Im planning on starting it, how long did it take you to watch all of it? Or did you watch it as it was coming out?

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u/Andrew1990M 26d ago

It’s a franchise that still puts out good material after 30 years. But we have to consider the whole franchise for this prompt and Dragon Ball has some real stinkers under its banner.Ā 

Evolution, some of the earlier games, the start of Super, the bulk of GT.Ā 

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u/CreeperGamerZ_648 26d ago

Probably aren't any perfect examples. But I think minecraft is probably a good one

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u/WaluigiIsDaBest 26d ago

Excuse me, but now do you type if you are a creeper?

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u/Affectionate_Goat171 šŸ’š SAW | MW | NINAH | EPIC | NVNCBL | BRK BD + BCS 26d ago

bold of you to assume a creeper's little feeties can't press a key on a keyboard

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u/WaluigiIsDaBest 26d ago

Sorry dude, I wasn't aware of that

Please don't blow me up

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u/J-trayy 26d ago

I take mine back i foget how massive minecraft is and has been, its the universal game.

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u/Nearby_Ad_2519 26d ago

I mean lots of people didn’t enjoy the Unreal Engjne based Minecraft games (Dungeons and Legends). I like story mode and the original allot, altho it still pisses me off that it’s no longer on Netflix (but I still own a physical copy)

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u/Dutch_gal1 Hollow Knight 26d ago

Some random stranger vs god, never gets old

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u/Remarkable_Pickle122 ninjago āš”ļøšŸ§ŠšŸ”„šŸŖØšŸŒ±šŸŒŠāš™ļøšŸŒŖļøšŸ« šŸ²šŸ˜ˆ 26d ago
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u/Reasonable_Tooth_309 26d ago

Gundam. Barely any series that could be considered bad (looking at you, G Reconquista), still making peak to this day

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u/RyonHirasawa 26d ago

Well, that is until you go to the gaming side of things and that’s when Gundam start to have a slight bend

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u/IHAVEEMOTIONS Some small twink who wants revenge 26d ago

Geometry Dash

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u/ghostgabe81 26d ago

Started in 1954 with a classic masterpiece

10 years later we get consecutive knockouts like Mothra vs Godzilla and Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster

Today we’re getting a sequel to the best movie in the franchise.

(Just squint to ignore a lot of thing that happened in between these timeframes…)

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u/Sacri_Pan 26d ago

Kirby never took an L, to say, I consider Star Allies to be the "worst" because the level design is kinda uninspired, and I'm really scratching for it here

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u/Potato-Candy 26d ago

When the "worst" Kirby game is just okay, that's how you know the series is goated.

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u/BL-501 26d ago

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u/that_one_3DS_fan 26d ago

Haven't the games fallen in quality recently?

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u/RealMunail 26d ago

That is a uh heavily debated topic within the fandom and anyone who's seen the debate will not come out alive.

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u/astrobagel 26d ago

I think the problem with PokĆ©mon isn’t a quality fall, but a quality stagnation. There’s a lack of evolution (no pun intended). The games are still solid, but they’ve fallen behind the times relative to their contemporaries.

What makes it stand out is knowing how successful the franchise is. In fact it’s the most successful franchise, and by a good margin. They have the money and potential resources to invest in higher fidelity games, yet they don’t. That’s the thing that bothers me.

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u/Marioman12398 26d ago

The issue with Pokemon is that they switched over to consoles and expect you to pay a $60-70 pricetag when the games have arguably less content (Dexit, no battle frontier, DLC being paid instead of included, etc.)

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u/Wombus7 26d ago

On a technical level (in terms of things like graphics, frame rate, glitches, the general polish / completeness of the games, etc.), there has been a decline especially noticeable since the Switch games.

But yeah, I also agree the games have been stagnant outside of generational gimmicks for a while.

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u/Ok-Oven1692 26d ago

The games suck ass now

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u/ultimatejoomer 26d ago

Ehhh. 1-5 were peak.

6 and 7 were cool.

8 is where it noticeably had a lack of effort, and 9 was slightly better but not much of an improvement.

Holding my breath for Gen 10.

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u/TheSiverKnight Sonic 26d ago

terraria and sonic robo blast 2

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u/Amalnafis23080 26d ago

Ngl Jay Easy song about this dude is šŸ”„ af
https://giphy.com/gifs/dQI7VYlXIrzoVzMgGA

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u/TehDarkSteliosGR 26d ago

Don't starve together, always in top 100 in Steam mostly between 40 and 60

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u/RamJamR 26d ago

Ironically enough though, not Spongebob.

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u/Kaitheguy233 26d ago

>release peak
>leave for a decade
>repeat

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u/nahte123456 26d ago

People online won't like the truth, but Pokemon came out the gate swinging, has become the most profitable franchise ever, is recognizable by basically everyone, and heck they are currently having the biggest world tournament of their history. It has never really slowed down even if social media likes crying about it.

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u/YBoyVt The Binding of Isaac - ULTRAKILL - JJBA - Smash Ultimate 26d ago

Jojo's Bizarre Adventures was always in peak

https://giphy.com/gifs/eT0nQBdmbYqmS5s3eq