Entries you hate in franchises you love - The brown stains on your beloved series

[The Real Me]

Describe the one awful season, movie, game, etc that’s an eternal blemish on your favourite properties. Obviously, keep it to the medium that the series is known for (eg: if you happen to be a massive fan of the Gremlin’s franchise, don’t tell me about the Atari game) and try not to mention shit that everyone knows, like the Star Wars prequels.

I’ve recently been rewatching the films in Kevin Smith’s Viewaskewniverse (Ie: any film to contain Jay & Silent Bob) and personally, I can enjoy all of them - with the exception of one.

Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie is painfully boring, unfunny and just looks like ass. I didn’t finish it the first time that I watched it and never intend to watch it a second time. What makes it even more insulting is these characters had already been 2D a few times before and never before looked straight out of Go Animate.

Spoiler: Mallrats (1995)

Spoiler: Clerks. (The Comic Book) (1998)

Spoiler: Clerks: The Animated Series (2000)

Spoiler: The Worst Shit I’ve Ever Seen (2018)

It has been proven that these characters can be drawn to not look like shit, it has been proven that they can be animated in a comedy setting and not look like shit! Looking nice would not have saved this film from being bad but if they actually cared, I cannot comprehend why they would make the characters look like early Newgrounds rather than draw inspiration from the character designs from the animated series.

 

[FaramirG]

Community Season 4 (when Harmon was fired for being an abrasive cunt, among other things) was so horrible that it was referred to by characters in later seasons as "the gas leak year" to explain why everyone was acting like a moron/psychopath.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Paper Mario post third entry

 

[The Real Me]

Community Season 4 (when Harmon was fired for being an abrasive cunt, among other things) was so horrible that it was referred to by characters in later seasons as "the gas leak year" to explain why everyone was acting like a moron/psychopath.

I watched Community for the first time a few weeks back and I think it would've been best if they ended the whole show after Season 3, there was a climactic ending, the last two seasons never really felt complete without Pierce, Troy & (to a lesser extent) Shirley, the episodes in the final Season just felt too long and while there were some great episodes in 5 and 6, like the one where Mike Breaking Bad tries to reconnect with his son through D&D, the lamer episodes really felt like they tainted the whole experience.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

People point to DmC as the black stain on Devil May Cry, and it certainly isn't a good Devil May Cry game, but DMC2 is far and away a much worse experience. DmC at least has cool visuals and decent combat going for it. DMC2 meanwhile is ungodly dull; its combat is sluggish and lacks any sort of impact, your guns are ridiculously OP, the environments lack any visual flair, and the bosses are some of the worst enemies ever put into an action game.

DmC may have cringy writing and lacks the intricacies of DMC combat, but it doesn't have this.

To put it another way, current DMC games make little references to DmC with unlockable costumes and such, but to this day DMC2 is almost completely ignored.

 

[MrTroll]

Breath of the Wild is a bad Ubisoft open-world-game clone masquerading as a Zelda game.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Thief 2014. No jumping, awful story, dull everything, constant animations where they aren't needed, Found shiny in a place infested with guards? Good luck not getting caught.

I'd consider a lack of fan missions a bad thing if this game wasn't already so bad. I'd sooner play Daikatana for the mods than I would this.

 

[CharlesFosterOffdensen]

Halo 5 is my obvious answer.


I'd also say that the first half of Season 6 of the Sopranos was an absolute chore to get through. The shit with AJ and his BBQ girlfriend was lame as shit, as were all of the other subplots regarding the mob. It's a shame considering the other seasons were all practically flawless.

 

[User names must be unique]

Sharpe's gold, both the book and the TV "adaptation" The books not as bad but writing the main character as being the man who intentionally destroyed the fortress at Almeida (killing 600+ allies and getting 4000+ captured) left a bad taste.

The TV adaptation probably wanting to avoid portraying the hero killing hundreds of his own men in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever, opted for a bizarre story about cursed Aztec gold and hallucinogenic drugs.

 

[starborn427614]

Paper Mario post third entry

Origami King was surprisingly good. Not TTYD tier, but I'd put it as third best PM game even above Super. Super beats it in terms of story though.

 

[Dialtone]

Dark Souls II was the worst entry, I absolutely hated the weapon degradation, and it seemed to have the worst bullshit traps out of the entire series. It felt like they went with the whole "Dark Souls is hard" meme and took it to the logical extreme with the game and level design, and the bosses were just guys in armor. There weren't nearly as many horrifying flesh beasts or weird creatures from beyond, then again it's hard to not just want to play Bloodborne instead. The only enjoyment I got out of Dark Souls II was dueling Brazilians with dual poison katanas who had sub-McDonald's tier internet and the lag battle that ensued followed by the death threats then "huehuehue" was pretty entertaining.

 

[Peanut Butter in Peril]

This dead horse: Metroid: Other M

The usual beating points

• The story is a God awful neutered fanfiction rewrite of Fusion.
• Samus is portrayed as this overly emotional and purposeless woman and oddly obsesses over the baby Metroid she saved at the end of Metroid 2.
• Adam Malkovich, a surrogate father figure, former commanding officer, and an inspiration to Samus, is written to be the exact opposite as he's been described in Fusion. Is also a complete asshole to the galactic heroine for more or less unknown reasons.
• Poor game design choices such using only the Wii remote held horizontally as a controller, no nunchuk involved. (Though I have read this was to try and innovate design, like how the limitations of the NES influenced the design of the original)

 

[Nu-13]

Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates AKA waifu/husbando emblem games lmao.

 

[Product Placement]

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 the Dream Child, all the other ones in the original series I get some enjoyment from but this one, just felt too nonsensical, I always end up skipping it.

Planet of the Apes remake, have enjoyed the reboot and like the first four of the original, the 5th one I don't care for but don't hate. Bit Tim Burtons remake just lacks what made the series work and really has nothing to say.

Rocky 5, honestly can't remember anything but the ending to that movie now

Robocop 3, the first is above the rest of them and it's not even close, but still found second one to be a fun dumb action movie and remake had some neat ideas if overall it still wasn't a great movie. Robocop 3 on the other hand feels like a toy ad and nothing more.

 

[Mender Bug]

I dont even need to explain why this is awful. Just fucking look at it. Yes total drama babies is a real fucking thing. Why they would think this is a good idea baffles me. Why it would be renewed for 3 FUCKING SEASONS also baffles me

 

[The Real Me]

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I dont even need to explain why this is awful. Just fucking look at it. Yes total drama babies is a real fucking thing. Why they would think this is a good idea baffles me. Why it would be renewed for 3 FUCKING SEASONS also baffles me

I was going to respond to this with that very uncomfortable clip where the goblin sniffs up the kids' farts but this was the first search result and who the fuck are the 10k people that watched this?

Spoiler: Pain in the form of a YouTube thumbnail.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Resident Evil 7. Can't say I hate it, I actually beat it unlike RE6, but I can't stand the villain and replaying again after enjoying RE8, I just keep finding it boring. It's funny I watched some journo video bitch that RE8 apparently lacked enemy diversity when RE7 is nothing but moldy men and the Bakers (unless they're upset by the lack of aboriginal black werewolves in Romania or some shit, maybe thats what they meant by diversity lol).

Dad God of War. Yup. All the insecure gamers who really want their precious medium to be taken seriously as an artform can get bent. Making GoW into some serious medatative dad a thon thing made by people who take themselves even more seriously is like taking a gangbang orgy porno series and then on the 8th installment you decided you're artist and all the money shots are filmed in an experimental slow mo style with beautiful choir music put over it. Think I got past some elves or something? Dunno, only GoW I didn't beat.

Post Silent Hill 4 Silent Hills. Not a single entry is worthy of the title, don't even try to justify any of them. Played most of them multiple times and they're so alien and detached from the original games (even The Room) that it really all reads as your typical westerner fan fiction, with Downpour and not Diablo on PSVita being the only two I skipped. On the nose and Dumb with a capital D. Only thing Dumber than the post Konami games are the CONSOOOOOOMEr fan base from Somethingawful lead by Voidburger who is desperate to suck Tom Hulette's cock with her "Grate debate" series of videos. "I rather have more silent hills than no silent hills!" - Voidburger, regardless of any merit or quality control the games will have.

Breath of the Wild is a bad Ubisoft open-world-game clone masquerading as a Zelda game.

I think it has some neat ideas but the execution pissed me off more than anything and it's up there with Earthbound in games that I've grown to dislike not because of it but the god damn fans are insufferable who I think will excuse even bad ideas as innovations.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Archer: Danger Island

The first "main" seasons were solid. Dreamland was very different, but it had its good points. Then after Danger Island, 1999 brought the show back to form even if it was a different setting. The most recent season brought us back to the main story and the show seems to be finding its feet again.

But Danger Island. God... Danger Island. Incredibly lazy, unfunny, and with even less plot than usual. Absolutely nothing in it that normally makes Archer good.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Whichever Rocky has the 'Tommy' character. 4 or 5? That's the one I've only seen once and will never rewatch. The others I either really like or just can watch.

 

[Pee Wee Herman]

All Kevin Smith films are shit.

People point to DmC as the black stain on Devil May Cry, and it certainly isn't a good Devil May Cry game, but DMC2 is far and away a much worse experience. DmC at least has cool visuals and decent combat going for it. DMC2 meanwhile is ungodly dull; its combat is sluggish and lacks any sort of impact, your guns are ridiculously OP, the environments lack any visual flair, and the bosses are some of the worst enemies ever put into an action game.

DmC may have cringy writing and lacks the intricacies of DMC combat, but it doesn't have this.

To put it another way, current DMC games make little references to DmC with unlockable costumes and such, but to this day DMC2 is almost completely ignored.

Came to post this but you beat me to it.