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00:07welcome to mojo plays and today we're looking at recent releases that were so bad you're shocked
00:12they have a three four or five at the end of their title these are 10 video game franchises
00:17that got worse as they went on please take this with a grain of salt long time series will always
00:22have diehard fans so we're taking the opinions of forums and reviews to look at where the most
00:27hate is headed let's do it before we continue we publish content all week long so be sure to
00:33subscribe and ring the bell to get notified of our latest videos halo series
00:42four years halo wasn't just xbox's biggest franchise it practically was xbox bungie turned
00:48the original trilogy into a gaming powerhouse thanks to its incredible sandbox combat memorable
00:53multiplayer and a sci-fi story that somehow made giant alien rings feel weirdly believable
00:58the series didn't collapse overnight though once 343 industries took over the franchise started losing
01:03the identity that made it special in the first place halo 4 pushed harder towards cinematic action
01:08and multiplayer systems that fell suspiciously close to call of duty which immediately made fans raise an
01:14eyebrow then the master chief collection launched in a disastrous state despite sounding like the
01:19easiest win imaginable halo 5 somehow sidelined master chief in his own series and not in a fun
01:24luigi's mansion kind of way and while halo infinite improved things somewhat the lack of content and
01:30shaky live service support made it feel like another game that couldn't recapture the magic
01:39paper mario series
01:44when the original paper mario released a lot of people expected it to just be nintendo trying to
01:48recreate the success of super mario rpg with a gimmicky art style slapped on top instead it ended
01:54up becoming one of mario's most beloved spin-off series thanks to its clever writing charming world
01:59and surprisingly deep turn-based combat then paper mario the thousand year door somehow improved almost
02:05everything between the creative battle mechanics weirdly lovable characters and hilarious dialogue
02:10many players still consider it one of the best mario games ever made unfortunately the series slowly
02:15drifted away from what people loved about it games like sticker star and color splash weren't terrible
02:21but they leaned harder into gimmicks while stripping away a lot of the rpg depth even paper jam failed to
02:26excite longtime fans mostly because it felt repetitive and weirdly safe the origami king looked like a
02:33comeback at first but its awkward combat and lack of leveling left many players frustrated they've lost
02:38whatever they had and i don't know if they're going to get it back
02:46tony hawk's series
02:52you kids might not believe me but there was a time when tony hawk's pro skater
02:56completely dominated skateboarding games with basically no competition the original playstation
03:02titles were everywhere thanks to their smooth controls addictive gameplay loop and soundtracks that
03:07permanently rewired an entire generation's music taste pro skater 4 single-handedly turned me into
03:13a punk for a while the series genuinely could not miss but after the first few games things started
03:19getting messy some experiments worked especially tony hawk's underground but a lot of later entries like
03:25american wasteland proving ground and downhill jam slowly chipped away at the franchise's reputation
03:30don't even get me started on tony hawk ride and shred and stop saying tony hawk's pro skater hd was
03:37good it launched missing huge amounts of classic content you melon heads pro skater 5 you
03:46crackdown series
03:55way to go
03:57the original crackdown felt like somebody took a superhero simulator and mixed it with mountain
04:02and do i know that sounds like an insult but it's not one of the coolest parts was how your
04:06abilities
04:07improved naturally through the gameplay want stronger punches start throwing enemies into traffic want
04:12better agility spend hours leaping across rooftops like a caffeinated kangaroo watching your agent slowly
04:18evolve into an unstoppable monster made the entire game ridiculously satisfying unfortunately the sequels
04:24never really understood why the first game worked so well crackdown 2 reused the same city with only minor
04:29changes and then crackdown 3 arrived after years of hype promising insane destruction physics and
04:34starring terry cruz and somehow i was the only person at school to say that sounds like it's gonna be
04:39rather than evolving the formula the series just kept recycling it until people eventually stopped
04:45caring so five point at a time
04:52assassin's creed
04:57the original assassin's creed games felt genuinely special when they first released they kicked off a
05:03new console generation and it was an insane jump sneaking across rooftops silently taking out targets and
05:10parkouring through massive historical cities made the series stand out immediately then assassin's creed
05:152 arrived and somehow improved almost everything for a while ubisoft absolutely dominated the open
05:21world genre the problem was that the franchise never slowed down new entries started releasing so
05:26frequently that the series slowly became more bloated and repetitive with each installment by the time
05:32the games like unity and syndicate rolled around players were clearly feeling exhausted by the formula
05:37ubisoft then pivoted towards giant rpg style worlds with games like origins odyssey and valhalla while those
05:43titles had fans they also drifted further away from what made the series special
05:52the earth will come for us now call of duty series
06:01there was a period where every new call of duty release felt like a genuine event the early
06:07games especially call of duty 4 modern warfare and modern warfare 2 completely changed online
06:11shooters with fast-paced multiplayer cinematic campaigns and lobbies that taught me about 73 new
06:17swears and slurs eventually the formula started wearing thin annual releases meant innovation became
06:22harder and harder so newer entries often relied on louder explosions increasingly ridiculous movement
06:29systems and endless monetization instead of meaningful evolution jet packs wall running and overloaded
06:35micro transactions pushed long-time fans away especially when the game started feeling more like digital
06:40storefronts than military shooters we now have call of duty 7 need i say more
06:52borderlands series
06:57every single entry on this list i want to start with this is going to make some people mad
07:03anyways this is going to make some people mad when the first borderlands released it felt like
07:07somebody had thrown together a first-person shooter a loot addiction simulator and a comedy
07:12show fueled entirely by caffeine the cel-shaded art style instantly stood out the co-op gameplay was
07:17ridiculously fun and finding absurdly overpowered weapons became weirdly impossible to stop doing then
07:23borderlands 2 came along and perfected the formula after that the series started leaning way too heavily into
07:29its own sense of humor instead of letting the comedy happen naturally later games often felt like
07:33they were desperately trying to remind players how random and quirky they were every 30 seconds even
07:39though borderlands 3 improved the actual shooting mechanics many players struggled to connect with
07:43the story or villains at all
07:50dead rising series
07:57when dead rising was first announced the concept sounded almost impossible to mess up you're trapped
08:02inside a giant shopping mall surrounded by thousands of zombies armed with whatever ridiculous junk you can
08:08get off the nearest shelf it's basically every dumb zombie fantasy rolled into one game the game understood
08:14how silly its premise was and that self-awareness gave it charm the sequels slowly lost that magic though
08:20dead rising 2 still had some fans but by the time dead rising 3 and 4 rolled around the series
08:25felt
08:25more interested in becoming a generic serious zombie franchise in trying to mature the formula it accidentally
08:32stripped away the childish fun and it wasn't what it was
08:40alone in the dark series
08:48the original alone in the dark from 1992 deserves a ton of credit for basically helping shape the
08:55survival horror genre before most developers even knew what survival horror was the atmosphere was
09:00genuinely creepy the camera angles felt unsettling and for the time the game was incredibly ambitious
09:06i played it two years ago for the first time and i was shocked at how much i enjoyed the
09:11challenge
09:11the problem is the rest of the franchise never came close to recapturing that magic watching the
09:17series decline over the years honestly feels like seeing somebody trip down an entire staircase in
09:22slow motion it'd be like watching the resident evil series but re7 never came to revive it
09:27alone in the dark's modern entries arrived and somehow made things even worse instead of reviving
09:32the franchise they mostly reminded people why it disappeared in the first place hello over here hurry
09:38it will you be careful you're tearing the cables off the walls medal of honor series
09:47a lot of younger players probably assume call of duty invented the cinematic world war 2 shooter
09:53but before that series took over the planet medal of honor was the big name everyone talked about
09:58the original 1999 game was a huge deal at the time especially since it was connected to steven
10:04spielberg who helped shape its more cinematic approach to war stories the franchise quickly
10:09exploded with sequels like medal of honor underground and frontline and while those games were still
10:13solid they never quite captured that same impact the original had as the years went on the series
10:19slowly lost relevance while call of duty evolved into a cultural phenomenon eventually medal of
10:24honor started feeling outdated compared to its competition ea attempted a gritty reboot in 2010
10:30and while it wasn't terrible warfighter in 2012 ended up being such a mess that it basically buried
10:35the franchise for good medal of honor defined a genre so it was more of an honorable discharge
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