10 Once Great Video Game Franchises That Should Disappear

1. Resident Evil Begrudgingly, I've left this one until last. Resident Evil was my hidden passion. Note the word "was". I fell in love with the game from the moment I played the first installment, in that eerie mansion. I was hooked. Then we got the second title and things were even better! This truly was a game that would not only genuinely scare you, but leave you coming back for more. But then something bizarre happened. Resident Evil 4 was released. Now, I know a lot of you will argue the toss with that statement, but this is where things started to go wrong with the Resident Evil series. This was, the beginning of the end. The over-the-shoulder camera angle was most probably the hardest thing to understand. I wanted a suspense horror, not Call of Duty. Albeit, Resident Evil 4 was actually a good game, but certainly did not feel the same, nor did it live up to it's predecessors. Then came 5 and 6 and this was where things started to get really bad. 5 was an absolute disaster, with the majority of the story set in daylight and in the desert? Yeah, real spooky Capcom. Plus with it's ridiculous arcade style, button bashing cut-scenes, this all felt a little too tacky for my liking. 6 was no better either, with the distinct stench of desperation from Capcom, as it tried to make the player feel genuinely scared as it did in the first installments, but to avail whatsoever. It is then, with great regret, that the Resident Evil series must lay to rest now before it continues to make more of an embarrassment of itself and accept that unless it wishes to remake classics, that it cannot incorporate a classic game, in to modern game play.