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What is your LEAST favorite of Nintendo's major franchises?
- Thread starter Phediuk
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Animal Crossing, I tried NH and I enjoyed it for a number of hours, but I have no urge to return to it.
I've never played a Pokemon or Fire Emblem game, and I doubt I'll ever try either one of them, but the art style of FE is an especially huge turn-off, so it gets my vote.
I haven't found a Pokemon enjoyable since the original. To say the novelty wore thin is an understatement.
Fire emblem. It's much worse than other games in its genre. Super boring as far as tactics/strategy games go. It surviving (and thriving) due to waifu culture while advance wars died off just adds insult to injury.
I am so tired of seeing Splatoon stuff. I wish Nintendo would give any other franchise a shot in the arm instead of focusing on a third game.
My least favorite thing is Metroid not being considered a major Nintendo franchise and I can't even argue against it :(
Never cared for Pokemon personally, so I guess that?
Imagine unironically believing this lmao
I love all of them, to be honest.
If every single one got a major new release at the same time, though, I'd probably play Splatoon the least, unless it was, like, some sort of single player thing. I could never get into Splatoon 2, after adoring the first one. No idea why.
If every single one got a major new release at the same time, though, I'd probably play Splatoon the least, unless it was, like, some sort of single player thing. I could never get into Splatoon 2, after adoring the first one. No idea why.
Splatoon and I still appreciate the franchise, it is just not for me. It's for a new generation of fans and I love the excitement in that community when the game got a Smash rep and sequels were announced
Way more positive than the bitter toxic fanbases of some of the other franchises
Way more positive than the bitter toxic fanbases of some of the other franchises
Fire emblem easily. Everytime they do something for it I'm like yeah I wish they'd do something else.
I would have said AC until I got hooked on ACNH for half a year or so. Clocked in 190+ hours in that one. Now it's Pokemon. Can't get into it. Never played it as a kid either. Maybe Pokemon Legends can get me into the series. Can't say they're bad games because they sell millions but I just never got a feeling for them.
One of these is not like the others. In what realm is Fire Emblem a major IP when its peak is less than 4 million units sold? The others all have at least one 10+ million seller. Luigi's Mansion would be more fitting as an option.
This isn't a mainline game tho? (Like no shit a gacha game is gonna have sexy characters.) Nor is it the game that made FE bigger. Like, Awakening had great production values, casual mode, marketing, etc. acting like wAiFuS is the sole reason - or even a major reason - it took off is fuckin dumb, and one of the worst narratives to come out of the modern Nintendo era, sorry. And the last two mainline games (Echoes and Three Houses) greatly toned down what Awakening/Fates especially were doing, and I expect that to continue with future entries.
Imagine pretending it's not a significant factor.
Besides, FE is really popular with women too, so blaming it's popularity on "waifu culture" doesn't even make sense even if if were popular solely because of sex appeal.
Just admit you're salty AW is dead and move on.
What you want me to ignore what's right in front of my eyes? I don't know how you expect to change my mind. Lol. It's a significant factor, and it sucks that it's thriving when another, super unique series in the genre is dead. Add to that it being some of the least interesting tactics/strategy gameplay out there and voila, you've got my pick for the poll. Sorry, I guess.
it's just a fighting game where instead of a health bar you get smacked farther
I'll break the news to you - it's this realm. Fire Emblem had a meteoric rise from nearly cancelled to guaranteed mainline games, remakes, a mobile game that's ended up being Nintendo's most profitable mobile game ever IIRC, merchandise selling all over the damn place...
What other Nintendo IP not listed possibly competes? I'd say Mario Kart, which OP has omitted (probably because it would never "win" the poll anyways?). Then what? Really though? Not even Kirby can come close to it. Metroid has been MIA for a decade. Xenoblade doesn't have the numbers. Yoshi and DK don't have the selling power or the number of games getting made as FE does.
If you think Fire Emblem isn't one of their major IPs at this point, you need to stop realm-hopping and do some catching up.
DKC is certainly a more popular series. Hell, Tropical Freeze Switch has sold around Three Houses after selling 2 million on the Wii U. The breakout juggernaut FE game.
it would have to be pokemon. i really liked lets go because of the nostalgia throw back, but have yet to bother with sword/shield because it's just too much of the same for me. it seems like they just get by with the same recipe and were'nt really take big risks at improving their game. Pokemon Legends Arceus is more of what i was looking for, but about 10 years ago. I dont have much faith in Game Freak delivering, but hope to be proven wrong.
Fire Emblem would have been the other choice, but after three houses, i was sold on the series and will day one buy the next mainline game in that franchise.
Fire Emblem would have been the other choice, but after three houses, i was sold on the series and will day one buy the next mainline game in that franchise.
Tropical Freeze is great and deserves its sales. Totally love that game. And DK has got a grand historical legacy. But in 2021, it doesn't have the same market power. No mobile game, basically no merch, and we don't know when we'll get the next DK game - years? A decade? No idea. We know we're getting Fire Emblem more often than Zelda at this point. Fire Emblem is the biggest mobile game Nintendo has. Fire Emblem has tons of merch that they sell constantly.
From a franchise -> money perspective, it's just no contest. Fire Emblem's separate revenue streams completely trounce DK.
It's like Pokemon. The games are only a portion of the pie. And the pie is very large.
