I have absolutely no patience for bugs and glitches in games. If my character gets stuck between walls or my weapons disappear for no reason, I can get so fed up that I'll be tempted to slam my console on the floor, or my little at the tv, which ever is more accessible.

But as for puzzles or missions, I have more patience than when unclogging the toilet. If I get stuck enough i'll consult a walkthrough. Tough games don't really bother me. Unless it's a tough game of a genre I don't like. Like TBRPGs. ugh.

I'm certainly not against games having sequels. Honestly, I love them. WIth sequels, developers are allowed improve on the game more, adding new features and fixing stuff that doesn't work, and of course, expand on the story. The best thing about sequels are stories that interconnect. When a character from the first game appears later in the next game, there is that whole feeling of familiarity and connects the players with the games more.

However, methinks that when series start to outsource their projects without any new innovations from the creator's side, it becomes damaging. One example will be Silent Hill 5. There are not much new and fresh about in Silent Hill 5 that hasnt been seen before, and yet the graphics are not better than its predecessors. That is milking, and I think it did damage the series.

That said, I don't know how many more final fantasy's square enix can milk out and still be popular as ever. Imo the new characters are just more clones of each other..

I'm shocked no one has said Resident Evil yet. I know a lot of newcomers to the series love RE4 and RE5, but a lot of the older fans who were playing since the original game hate the new games. I fall into the latter group. RE4 was good, but it signaled a bad turn for the series. I play RE to be scared and enjoy a campy zombie horror story, not to run around with enough guns to arm a small militia killing mind controlled not-zombies. I haven't even played RE5 yet, which is a first for the series since I usually pick the games up on day one. When the demo came out I knew after playing through it that I wouldn't be picking up RE5 until it hit $20. The game wasn't scary at all and the AI was just as bad as I thought it would be.

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I'm with you there. Resident Evil 4 was a pleasant surprise, but I was hoping the fifth game would go back to the old school style but of course it didn't. RE5 was a pretty good game as a standalone but it just doesn't feel like part of the Resident Evil universe anymore. And with the additon of Umbrella chronicles and the Darkside chronicles, it kinda just went weird.

Another one mentioned before was Silent Hill. The fifth game was a total trainwreck.

Other stuff like Mario and Mortal Kombat are getting worse but the love is still there.

I'm curious about something though, any fans of the Fallout series? I really liked Fallout 3 but had never played the previous games. I heard that it's a real big difference. Did it do anything to hurt the fandom?