The Worst Raped Game Franchise of All Time (Poll)

[A horse of course]

People do not seem to appreciate how horribly fallout was abused.
For starters, bethesda took a series that was about rampant capitalistic greed mixed in with fascist government control with the leadup to another great war, and then put a 50s sheen on the whole thing. The game by its nature was a critique of american consumerism and the 50s overlayed by the 50s aesthetic and a worsening world conditions. Bethesda took this type of series and then made fallout a posterboy for its store, a mainline attraction, with bobbleheads, posters, fake power armored helmets, fake pip-boys, etc. The exact thing that the original fallouts had stood against. Bethesda is using fallout as the type of marketing gimmick that fallout appeared to be against. Now, if that wasn't enough, they also glorified the american patriotism, whereas in the originals america was not something to be proud of. They had long ago become despotic, going so far as to annex canada, and enforce totalitarian rule on its peoples. And in most bethesda iterations of fallout there are pro-capitalist messages like with liberty prime, or the protagonist in fallout 4. They've also reduced the opening monologue in fallout about war never changing into a meme.

Additionally, fallout was about exploring the ethics of a post nuclear world and the types of peoples and situations this would create, and bethesda decides to make vampires(?), a completely nonsensical enclave led by a retarded robot, dumber than prim slimm himself, and a town of children that have existed for centuries? Then they proceed to reduce the amount of people and situations exploring this concept to the point of fallout 76, where it is nonexistant and you simply fight bat-dragons with your friends at 12 fps, cause apparently bethesda can't optimize the engine they've been using for like 30 fucking years.

Then there's the absolute lore-rape. Not only is jet in vaults before it was ever created by myron, but it's also states away. And logged in computers terminals, so it wasn't an accidental feature of randomized loot, but a thought out decision. There's the decision in fallout 76 to put the brotherhood of steel on the other side of the continent barely after the bombs fell, despite still making their trek westward to safety, completely destroying canon. There's super mutants in almost every state now with apparently every secret organization creating the fev, not just the master. There's super mutants apparently even before the time of the master in fallout 76, someway, somehow. And if destroying the lore of the previous fallouts so thoroughly wasn't enough, they even break the lore of their own games as well. Like how you spend an entire plot and game needing a geck to fix the water purifier, despite it being the easiest thing to do in fallout 4, with two paperclips, some toilet paper, and a pencil.

The only saving grace of bethesda being the one doing the raping is they seem to be so inept at doing absolutely anything nowadays, from making an rpg, to fulfilling customer obligations, to fucking managing their own website and not leaking peoples credit card information, that they are also inept at abusing fallout. But, like a drunken, raping, idiot piece of trash, determined to get into fallouts panties, over time they've managed to do significant amounts of damage due to sheer greed, malice, and stupidity.

 

[DayofBlow]

Silent Hill. The last game was a fucking diablo. Then they had a chance at making a good game and they cancelled it.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

People do not seem to appreciate how horribly fallout was abused.
For starters, bethesda took a series that was about rampant capitalistic greed mixed in with fascist government control with the leadup to another great war, and then put a 50s sheen on the whole thing. The game by its nature was a critique of american consumerism and the 50s overlayed by the 50s aesthetic and a worsening world conditions. Bethesda took this type of series and then made fallout a posterboy for its store, a mainline attraction, with bobbleheads, posters, fake power armored helmets, fake pip-boys, etc. The exact thing that the original fallouts had stood against. Bethesda is using fallout as the type of marketing gimmick that fallout appeared to be against. Now, if that wasn't enough, they also glorified the american patriotism, whereas in the originals america was not something to be proud of. They had long ago become despotic, going so far as to annex canada, and enforce totalitarian rule on its peoples. And in most bethesda iterations of fallout there are pro-capitalist messages like with liberty prime, or the protagonist in fallout 4. They've also reduced the opening monologue in fallout about war never changing into a meme.

Additionally, fallout was about exploring the ethics of a post nuclear world and the types of peoples and situations this would create, and bethesda decides to make vampires(?), a completely nonsensical enclave led by a retarded robot, dumber than prim slimm himself, and a town of children that have existed for centuries? Then they proceed to reduce the amount of people and situations exploring this concept to the point of fallout 76, where it is nonexistant and you simply fight bat-dragons with your friends at 12 fps, cause apparently bethesda can't optimize the engine they've been using for like 30 fucking years.

Then there's the absolute lore-rape. Not only is jet in vaults before it was ever created by myron, but it's also states away. And logged in computers terminals, so it wasn't an accidental feature of randomized loot, but a thought out decision. There's the decision in fallout 76 to put the brotherhood of steel on the other side of the continent barely after the bombs fell, despite still making their trek westward to safety, completely destroying canon. There's super mutants in almost every state now with apparently every secret organization creating the fev, not just the master. There's super mutants apparently even before the time of the master in fallout 76, someway, somehow. And if destroying the lore of the previous fallouts so thoroughly wasn't enough, they even break the lore of their own games as well. Like how you spend an entire plot and game needing a geck to fix the water purifier, despite it being the easiest thing to do in fallout 4, with two paperclips, some toilet paper, and a pencil.

The only saving grace of bethesda being the one doing the raping is they seem to be so inept at doing absolutely anything nowadays, from making an rpg, to fulfilling customer obligations, to fucking managing their own website and not leaking peoples credit card information, that they are also inept at abusing fallout. But, like a drunken, raping, idiot piece of trash, determined to get into fallouts panties, over time they've managed to do significant amounts of damage due to sheer greed, malice, and stupidity.

critique of capitalism fails commercially, gets bought out by a more successful company and turned into how great capitalism is

communist faggots absolutely btfo

 

[Bruma Hobo]

Ultima got raped by Garriott when trying to turn the series into immersive action games (having no experience nor real talent in that area) while doing a mess with the lore and plots, then by EA trying to milk the old cow with Ultima Forever, Lords of Ultima and the UO expansions, and today the rape continues with SotA and UA, two scams claiming to be the real Ultima successors.

Fallout didn't get that badly raped, I really doubt Fallout 3 or 4 are even close to what Ultima IX did, and fans at least got New Vegas out of the deal with Bethesda.

 

[Feargus Jewhart]

Sonic The Hedgehog

No other franchise ever has been raped so hard by not only the developers and publishers, but also the fans.

Honorable mention:

The SimCity franchise. Raped and murdered and thrown into a ditch by EA.

 

[vota DC]

Dungeon Keeper mobile was a great rape: you have to wait hours to dig each block or pay to play like farmville!

Jagged Alliance had most rapes since 1.13 is better than official sequels, at least other raped games don't have an amateur installation that is better than official product.

I'm surprised no one voted Command and Conquer. Terrible crimes have been inflicted upon that particular franchise, with C&C Rivals being a far greater defilement of something venerable and well-regarded than Fallout 76 could ever aspire to be. Bethesda is clueless, but C&C Rivals is a work of evil.

I think that after C&C 4 that was a pathetic excuse for a game nobody even listen EA when they talk about C&C....they destroyed their reputation for RTS (they had reputation because while inferior to Westwood they still did Generals and Battle for Middle Earth) I didn't even notice that C&C Rivals!

 

[Jigawatt]

at least got New Vegas

In saying this you exemplify just how bad Fallout got raped

 

[ColonelTeacup]

People do not seem to appreciate how horribly fallout was abused.
For starters, bethesda took a series that was about rampant capitalistic greed mixed in with fascist government control with the leadup to another great war, and then put a 50s sheen on the whole thing. The game by its nature was a critique of american consumerism and the 50s overlayed by the 50s aesthetic and a worsening world conditions. Bethesda took this type of series and then made fallout a posterboy for its store, a mainline attraction, with bobbleheads, posters, fake power armored helmets, fake pip-boys, etc. The exact thing that the original fallouts had stood against. Bethesda is using fallout as the type of marketing gimmick that fallout appeared to be against. Now, if that wasn't enough, they also glorified the american patriotism, whereas in the originals america was not something to be proud of. They had long ago become despotic, going so far as to annex canada, and enforce totalitarian rule on its peoples. And in most bethesda iterations of fallout there are pro-capitalist messages like with liberty prime, or the protagonist in fallout 4. They've also reduced the opening monologue in fallout about war never changing into a meme.

Additionally, fallout was about exploring the ethics of a post nuclear world and the types of peoples and situations this would create, and bethesda decides to make vampires(?), a completely nonsensical enclave led by a retarded robot, dumber than prim slimm himself, and a town of children that have existed for centuries? Then they proceed to reduce the amount of people and situations exploring this concept to the point of fallout 76, where it is nonexistant and you simply fight bat-dragons with your friends at 12 fps, cause apparently bethesda can't optimize the engine they've been using for like 30 fucking years.

Then there's the absolute lore-rape. Not only is jet in vaults before it was ever created by myron, but it's also states away. And logged in computers terminals, so it wasn't an accidental feature of randomized loot, but a thought out decision. There's the decision in fallout 76 to put the brotherhood of steel on the other side of the continent barely after the bombs fell, despite still making their trek westward to safety, completely destroying canon. There's super mutants in almost every state now with apparently every secret organization creating the fev, not just the master. There's super mutants apparently even before the time of the master in fallout 76, someway, somehow. And if destroying the lore of the previous fallouts so thoroughly wasn't enough, they even break the lore of their own games as well. Like how you spend an entire plot and game needing a geck to fix the water purifier, despite it being the easiest thing to do in fallout 4, with two paperclips, some toilet paper, and a pencil.

The only saving grace of bethesda being the one doing the raping is they seem to be so inept at doing absolutely anything nowadays, from making an rpg, to fulfilling customer obligations, to fucking managing their own website and not leaking peoples credit card information, that they are also inept at abusing fallout. But, like a drunken, raping, idiot piece of trash, determined to get into fallouts panties, over time they've managed to do significant amounts of damage due to sheer greed, malice, and stupidity.

critique of capitalism fails commercially, gets bought out by a more successful company and turned into how great capitalism is

communist faggots absolutely btfo

I'd like to think fallout was more than just a critique on capitalism. More of a what happens when capitalism goes too far, and the government becomes totalitarian along the way. Though considering the nature of totalitarian rule running contrary to free market capitalism, I don't know how strong the anti-capitalist message should be taken, instead of simply an anti-fascist message which the game espouses. I'd probably need to replay the first two again to have a good enough grasp to speak with any semblance of authority on the subject at this point due to how longs its been since I played them and things being fuzzy.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If anything, it's a message against so-called 'crony capitalism' where the government and the business essentially become one and the same.

 

[Shaewaroz]

If anything, Fallout takes a progressive stance against Ableism. The hero doesn't always need to know how to make up clever responses to impress people - what matters is his heart is in the right place.



I'm surprised SJWs aren't hailing Fallout as an exemplary masterpiece of progressive game design.

 

[Turtle-Zone 3000]

Lets remind ourselves how hardcore the triad of Tom Clancy games [Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell] were till Ubisoft decided to water them down so much.

 

[Norfleet]

XCom, no contest..
And that from me who actually LIKED X-Com Interceptor, and played X-Com Enforcer ALL the way through..
It was.. really bad.. but somewhat funny..

I'd say those were more "badly done spinoffs" than "rape".

NuXcom is an insult that wears its skin, poorly, and spits in my face every chance it gets, invented the cancerous "2 AP system" and retarded camera that only turns in 90 degree because console controller shit.. and worst of all, the bloody casuals think they're SO GREAT for playing it. They don't know real challenge, or the pain of looking for the last friggin' alien hiding in a closet somewhere on a 3 story cruise liner....

Certainly this was not the core franchise's best moment, and certainly grants X-Com a place in the running, but it's still only one datapoint and not atrocious, merely awful by the standards of the original.

Warhammer

Warhammer wasn't raped, Warhammer became a whore that got pimped out. To imply that it was a franchise that got raped would be misleading, since the core product remains, GW just decided to start pimping it out piecemeal to everyone who would pay for a license.

Jagged Alliance had most rapes since 1.13 is better than official sequels, at least other raped games don't have an amateur installation that is better than official product.

I dunno. A set of disappointing, underwhelming sequels that fails to stack up with a heavily modded predecessor isn't quite a "rape". Sure, the deliveries have been shit and decline, but they ultimately adhere to the general flavor and purpose of the franchise.

So I'm going to have to hand the winner to Fallout, with the SimX franchise getting a (dis)honorabru mention.

 

[Mark.L.Joy]

I'll mention that mass effect 3 was so bad it makes people not want to replay the first two games anymore.

 

[Nas92]

Fallout wins this by a landslide. From what I hear Fallout 76 easily makes FOBoS look good in comparison. Complete disgrace, even by Bethesda standards.

 

[Cael]

It is funny that people shat all over Fallout Tactics when it is objectively not a bad tactical non-RPG game. There are a few AI exploits, and the limitations of the engine shows through, but the game itself isn't bad.

Compare that to the gaping gut wound oozing EA semen Ultima suffered at around that time (FOT - 2001, Ascension - 1999).

Fallout Tactics was brilliantly glorious in comparison...

 

[Alex]

Warhammer

I think most of the 40K games have been pretty good. DoW II was fucking awesome.

Maybe, but the setting is still a whole lot different from the one in the first Rogue Trader.

 

[Viata]

I'm surprised SJWs aren't hailing Fallout as an exemplary masterpiece of progressive game design.

That would require them to be able to play this game.

 

[zapotec]

Simon the Sorcerer for me

Spoiler

Reminds me of the that famous Robocop scene

 

[Santander02]

Why is there 2 options for Sonic in the poll?

 

[Reinhardt]

since the core product remains

Nah, it's raped too. Both FB and 40k.
So if

Warhammer wasn't raped, Warhammer became a whore that got pimped out.

pimps are Warhammer methhead parents who rape it at home and then sell it to anyone to fund their addiction.

 

[oldbonebrown]

Fallout got it the hardest

The one that hurts personally is Dead Rising. It only got one good game, and it was too good for this world, the decline started immediately with DR2.

 

[Werdna's Revenge]

Hard to pick. The rape of Ultima was swift and brutal, but I have the go with Sonic just for how long and drawn out the gang rape of that franchise has been. Most series have a few bad entries and fade away, or the go dormant and have a shit sequel well after the glory days, but Sonic did something I don't think any other franchise did. They just kept releasing worse and worse games, driving away any sane fans until only deviant howling monkeys were left. The few perverts still into Sonic then started contributing to the rape themselves, to the point I think Sonic is more famous these days for it's bloated raped corpse than the days that it was good.

 

[Alex]

I thought Sonic Mania came out pretty good, though.

 

[Darth Canoli]

With chimera live, a half-cooked gear tactics and Phoenix point looking like a drowned chicken, we can now all agree that X-COM is at least in the top 3 of the most raped franchise, probably on the first spot even.

Because before this, there is an infinite amount of half baked X-COM wannabes and RTWP monstrosities, not to mention the nuXCOM retardation.

Of course, the Fallout franchise gang bang is the one that brought the most butt-hurt but just look at the Japanese "wizardry" retardation.

Obviously, the first spots fall to X-COM and Wizardry.

 

[DraQ]

TES only got massive, unexpected, intestine rupturing cock in Oblivion.
Diablo already got it in D2.

Misses Unreal and Homeworld.
Misses Deus Ex (IW).

And when was Wizardry ever raped anyway?