10 Video Games That Had The World's Attention (And Lost It)

2. Mass Effect

How to Destroy your Franchise 101: Build years worth of hype and storylines across three games, and end it in a way that undoes the entire thing in 20 minutes.

Yes, the journeys we went on and the character relationships we forged will be remembered for the rest of time - but that's a rationale hardcore fans (myself included) use to reconcile how truly insulting the close of Mass Effect 3 really was.

Because for the rest of the world... that was it. The fair weather mainstream fans drastically outnumber those who know their Matriarch Benezias from their Rachni Wars, and to them, Mass Effect needed to go away for a long, long time, justifying any future sequel in a pitch-perfect way - if it ever came back at all.

Naturally, EA couldn't resist another crack of the whip with Mass Effect Andromeda, though we all remember how that went...