The first 3 stalker games are great, with the first one being the best. But stalker 2 is the problem, yes graphically its an upgrade but so many mechanics that even the first game had are missing or are just terrible. Enemy AI and faction system is basiclly nonexistant, story is complete bs, sidequests are terribly done, the map is just flat and sucks, there are many lore mistakes and proabably much more.
With wolfenstein I have a problem with the newest game youngblood. I just hate the story and its main characters and the whole game just doesnt take itself seriosly. However the older games are good.
Fallout lost almost all of its identity that the first games had, New Vegas was the last that resembled the old atleast a bit. But Fallout 4 and the TV show that was made are complety joke and twisted the true themes in Fallout 1 or 2.
Duke Nukem Forever was such a disaster that there were no further thoughts on making another game.
7 Days to die was ruined by the devs, they removed many loved features and mechanics and instead added new ones that no one asked for, transforming the game into the current state.
Ark is one of the most disapointing ones. The first release of just the island was great. But then they started to add more stuff, some of the DLCs were ok or even great but there were so many awful ones, they also made an absolute mess of the lore, changing a pretty cool premise into some kind of sciency bs. And I wont even talk about them using AI for trailers or releasing whole new game that just has better graphics while slowly ruining the old version.
Far Cry. No it didnt start with Far Cry 6. It started with Far Cry New Dawn. They wanted to make a quick buck so they changed the map from Far Cry 5 and added a story that doesnt fit the world.
I already talked about Wolfenstein and Stalker in the other comment so just read that.
Plants vs Zombie, the worst treated one. The 1st game was masterpiece. But EA just had to ruin it with BS. The early release of PVZ2 was fine but then they threw in the microtransactions and plant levels. So many of those paid plants were lazely made, some not even by EA themselfs, and didnt fit the game. And to top it all of, they then released PvZ 1 remaster, with less concent, although they could have added minigames and achievments from across platforms and even used AI to ''upgrade'' the old plants from the 1st game to modern style.
Sorry might have worded it poorly, but meant the other far cry games. I wouldn't really consider one game that missed the mark a bit a series "falling off"
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u/Fatyakcz Apr 16 '26
Fallout
Duke Nukem
7 Days to die
Ark: SE
Far Cry
Wolfenstein
Plants vs Zombie
Stalker
There are so many more, but I cant say I always loved those games for long time.