8 Times Listening To Fans Made Video Games WORSE
5. More Strategy - Valkyria Revolution
2017's Valkyria Revolution - a spin-off from the tactical RPG franchise Valkyria Chronicles - marked an attempt by Sega to broaden the series' player-base, and to say it spectacularly backfired is quite the understatement.
When a demo for the game was released, fans en masse lamented the greater emphasis on action over the series' expected strategy elements, feeling that a core facet of its identity has been watered down - "dumbed down," even - for cynical commercial reasons.
The blowback from die-hard fans was potent enough that Sega promised to retool the combat before launch to introduce more of the familiar strategy elements, and while they did, its messy implementation only made the game even worse.
Given that the strategy gameplay was only injected into the game in the final months of development, there clearly wasn't enough time to get it right, resulting in a clunky mish-mash of mechanics which satisfied neither the action nor strategy crowds.
Ultimately a lot of critics and fans felt that Sega would've been better off sticking to their guns and going all-out action, considering that this half-baked compromise pleased basically nobody.