What game franchise story turned to shit?

[Daedalos]

Like you say, all franchise stories turn to shit given enough instalments, so the question is redundant. It'd either be none or a list of "franchises" with very few instalments.
Really the question should be something like: "Which gaming franchise has had the biggest drop in writing quality?"
Of course that brings a whole bunch of new issues with it. Is it from one specific game to the next in the franchise? Is it overall from the first to the latest? What about stuff like Silent Hill or Legacy of Kain that has peaks and valleys? And so on.

Also, regardless of what the question is, do spin-offs count?

The idea of the poll is actually to pinpoint the worst offenders and examples of how story/writing turned to shit in a frahnchise. I'm sorry if the title is badly worded. (That's why you only get 6 votes)

Also, spin-offs count within the franchise

 

[Somberlain]

Why does Fallout have so many votes? Did the series have a good story at any point?

 

[Athelas]

Why does Fallout have so many votes? Did the series have a good story at any point?

What did you think about the story in Fallout 1?

 

[abnaxus]

No "OP is a faggot" option.

 

[Somberlain]

What did you think about the story in Fallout 1?

It's okay but I don't think it was particularly great. It's the gameplay where Fallout series experienced the most decline.

 

[kris]

I only voted for the ones i am familiar with. As far as I got into the warcraft story it held the same "quality", but the others that I put votes on was almost painful. In particular Starcraft and Fallout.
i considered final fantasy, but have admittedly only played three of them and only 7 to the end...

 

[shihonage]

 

[PlanHex]

Why does Fallout have so many votes? Did the series have a good story at any point?

Regardless of your opinion of the first two, I think the existence of FOBOS makes it a clear frontrunner.

Plus FO4 just came out and all the kool kodex kids are shitting on it.
Also, this thing:

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I voted Bioshock, Ultima and Aliens vs Predator because of all the polling options, those are the only ones I know 100% that the story started out at an...acceptable level and then fell into utter shit.

I didn't vote other notable examples (Fallout) because I'm not up to speed on the latest travesties in the lore.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Please add Star Control-series.
This is the one context where 3rd one is worth remembering.

 

[DeepOcean]

Why does Fallout have so many votes? Did the series have a good story at any point?

Good story as being defined as an engaging literary level plot, no, but good story defined as an interesting original setting with somewhat consistent rules, interesting themes and plenty of RPG opportunities turned on absolute retarded circus crap by Bethesda, that really happened.

 

[warpig]

Mass Defect, from a somewhat cool pulp space opera to complete dumbfuckery and cringe-fest.

 

[an Administrator]

Hitman never had a good story. Its all about gameplay

 

[pippin]

Hitman never had a good story. Its all about gameplay

And that's why Absolution sucked. 3/4 of the levels were there to explain the "story", and the rest were pretty cool levels which had barely anything to do with it.

 

[an Administrator]

And that's why Absolution sucked. 3/4 of the levels were there to explain the "story", and the rest were pretty cool levels which had barely anything to do with it.

And many levels were just "Move from A to B" . I hope this new Hitman will be a better game

 

[rado907]

Don't know why Hitman is up there. The stories in those games were always 'meh'. Tbh a lot of these I don't consider to have had great stories to begin with.

Hitman is a good example of a game that doesn't even need a story. You are 47, an elite assassin without a past. You go to exotic places and kill nasty people. That's all. No need for clones, no need for betrayals, no need for bullshit.