10 Thoroughly Mistreated Video Game Franchises

Not too many games are dependent on any one man, but Hideo Kojima wasn't just any man.

Kojima helmed the Metal Gear Solid series, and knocked it out of the park with every entry. With political intrigue and storylines about the horrors of war, predicting the state of the world with eerie accuracy, Metal Gear Solid is rightfully considered one of the best game franchises ever.

However, Kojima and Konami started to clash during the production of Metal Gear Solid 5, and that led to a very ugly and very public divorce of the two before the game was released. While 5 had its issues due to this, it was still critically acclaimed due to its open-world and freeform gameplay.

And then the series immediately tanked so much that it might be dead.

The first game without Kojima behind it, Metal Gear Survive came out, most likely as a way to test the waters with the franchise after the breakup. It was a spin-off game, not having anything to do with any version of Snake, and having the player get transported into a zombie dimension.

The gameplay was tedious, the story completely lacking, the world bleak and boring, and everything just being so terrible that most of the fanbase have written off the franchise entirely. You're more likely to see a pachinko machine for Metal Gear than a new game anytime soon.