10 Flagging Video Game Franchise That Need To Change NOW
Time's a-wasting.
If there's one thing people can't get enough of, it's underdog stories. Hearing a person with a disadvantage manage to save the day or achieve something special always tugs a special spot in our heartstrings, and gives us a little extra hope.
This isn't different when it comes to video games, especially when covering the matter of franchises that are currently flagging. Though it's easy to disparage them and write them off, most of us want these series to turn around and become better than what they currently are - because at the end of the day, more good games is never a bad thing for anything except our bank accounts.
This goes double for franchises that, for whatever reason, seem to have slowed down or ceased entirely. Although nobody wants to just play reboots for the rest of their lives, it's a unique kind of shame to see a series that could have made a choice next instalment fall flat in its face and seemingly go to sleep.
So it's time to root for a whole bunch of underdogs, in the hopes that their future endeavours are better than their current ones.
10. Clock Tower
This one might feel a little out of the blue, but Clock Tower is a title that still had a lot of potential, even if the most recent game was released in 2002 to largely middling reviews.
But this was arguably because the series went too far away from its roots, and closer to an almost Silent Hill sort of feeling, giving you increasing ability to fight back against the creeps and ghouls you face throughout your adventure.
While this is cool conceptually, it take away a lot of the fear factor the series relies on in a lot of sense, because if something scares you, there's a pretty good chance you can just stun it or kill it anyways.
Although it runs the risk of being called "the Dark Souls of horror", a game that has all the potential deaths and pitfalls of the first while have the terrifying graphics of a new generation would be sublime.