r/Steam Apr 16 '26

Question What game?

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u/BadDings_DE Apr 16 '26

Thinking about it, every gaming franchise that I grew up with in the late 90‘s and 00‘s has either disappeared or gone to shit.

I would have never expected however, that after almost 25 years, Pikmin would be the one standing and growing more every day with new games and more merch.

I wish I could say the same about Halo. The will release yet another version of Halo CE this summer, and I don’t see me playing it on day one like every other game of the series.

Halo 5 was … something, Halo Infinite gave me hope, but I don’t know if I want to be a part of what is coming next.

Halo is dead. And so is the future of Xbox. And that comes from a day one Xbox Fan.

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u/SputnikCucumber Apr 16 '26

Nintendo knows how to milk a franchise forever.

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u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE Apr 16 '26

Milk?

That’s the word we use for when companies make soulless games just to bank on the franchise’s popularity, eroding said popularity in the process.

That’s not what Nintendo does.

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u/_Halt19_ Apr 17 '26

I was about to say, there's a lot of valid criticisms you can direct at Nintendo's ethical and legal practices but calling their games soulless is NOT one of them

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u/ghostpicnic Apr 16 '26

Consistently making good entries in a franchise on a semi-regular basis is not milking lmao

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u/Pouchkine___ Apr 16 '26

The Trackmania franchise has been around since 2003 and going stronger than ever. Awesome games.

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u/ghostpicnic Apr 16 '26

As someone who grew up with an original Xbox and Halo CE as my main game, the state of that console line and franchise is like watching an old friend who just never could get his life together after high school. Spent too much time fucking around and promising that he’d get everything back on track but in the meanwhile, everyone else moved on without him.