franchise fatigue

Guitar Hero Died For Your Sins Games are like horses: they start smelling when they have not been moving for a bit, and they both stop moving pretty quickly when they’re ridden too hard. My point is annual game franchises get old fast. Case in point, the whole Feel-Like-Van-Halen genre of games. And Adventure games. And linear shooters. And collectathons. And … you get the point, right? Well it has become particularly noticeable in the wake of Holiday 2015 blowout-that-wasn’t. Everything that AAAs brought out was genuinely uninspired and was panned widely because of it. Halo 5, CoD Blops III, Battlefront and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate were noticeable underperformers. Let’s discuss the finer points of their failure today. Ubisofting Is A Real Word Because I Say...