We are in the era of PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One console. This era has been long, with millions of console units and billions of video game copies sold. But this era is close to the end of itself, with Sony introducing then the next console for the PlayStation console series.
There have been many great game series being born in this era, but we also have to say goodbye to many great game series as well. Down here we have gathered the list of top 10 video game series we have seen dying in this era of PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One console.
Number 10: Mass Effect
The Mass Effect series by Bioware game developer takes our tenth slot in this list. This series was once loved so much by the gaming community, but it was brutally killed by the great failure of Mass Effect Andromeda. Before the game was launched, the facial expression and the animations of this title has already successfully turned off the hype of fans. After the game was released, every single player of the game shared one same question: who had the balls to create this title because Mass Effect Andromeda was a true slap to the whole series. And the situation even got worse when the next game of Bioware – Anthem – got even more criticism than Mass Effect Andromeda.
Number 9: Killzone
The ninth spot in our list belongs to Killzone series by Guerrilla Games developer, with Sony as the publisher of the game. To be fair, this series has lived longer than most gamers’ expectation. Killzone: Shadowfall was the last title of this game series, and it was released on the PS4 platform. It was okay, with great graphics feature, but that was it. The game was boring, and the result of this title partly pushed Sony toward the single player games with great plots and players’ experience like The Last of Us, Days Gone and God of War. So that was the end of Killzone game series.
Number 8: Crackdown
We probably do not have to explain a lot the reason why Crackdown (Sony as the publisher) series takes our eighth spot in our list. This game series had a great place in the gaming community, but then the time of open world games came. Crackdown 2 was good, but the delay of the release of Crackdown 3 killed the series. Released on 15 February 2019 but Crackdown 3 remains it out of date design, and the game does not offer much innovation, in comparison with two previous parts of the game series. Perhaps there is no place for Crackdown anymore.
Number 7: Mafia
The seventh spot of our list is for Mafia series by 2K Games. This game series witnessed quite the same problem as Crackdown series: a good second part, but a boring third part. Mafia 2 featured a greatly empty open world as the background for an incredible plot. But Mafia 3’s plot was just okay (not too bad, but just okay), and the open world in Mafia 3 was boring.
Number 6: Deus Ex
Listing Deus Ex in our sixth slot of this list is heartbreaking, but we have to. This game series has been killed by many reasons. First, Square-Enix set ridiculously high sale targets for the fourth part of this series - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and of course, the game could not make it. Second, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided suffered a lot of criticism for the micro-transactions, as this game is a single player game. Third, the pre-order of this title had some problems. Last, the team of this game series is currently working on the Avengers Project. Perhaps we will never see this series anymore.
Number 5: Dead Rising
The fifth spot in our list is a quite disappointing name - Dead Rising - if you look at the whole life cycle of this game series. It had two first great parts, but then the third and the fourth part were both exclusive for Xbox One, and they suffer poor sale result because Xbox One has a poor sale result too. And this series could not grow up as well. This zombie-based game series by Capcom began with Frank West killing zombies in a mall, and it finished with Frank West killing zombies in a mall.
Number 4: Infamous
In our fourth spot, we have a retired, not dead game series: Infamous by Suck Punch Productions. With the third part of the series - Infamous: Second Son – released in 2014 and the DLC First Light released a short time afterward, this game showed off the power of PlayStation 4 console. We all thought we would not hear about Suck Punch Productions anymore, but then this game developer announced Ghost Of Tsushima project. And perhaps that is it for Infamous series.
Number 3: Dead Space
You can say that the game series in our third place - Dead Space – has died in the era of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. I can agree with that, but then I believe the true death of this series was in 2017 when Visceral Games – the developer of Dead Space – was shut down. After the horrible Dead Space 3, EA tried to have Visceral Games made a Star Wars title, and the failure of that title put an end on Visceral Games and Dead Space game series.
Number 2: Metal Gear Solid
We had some difficulty with the second and the first slot, but then we decided to put Metal Gear Solid series in this second spot because its story was a little bit less painful than the game series in our number one spot. This game series was kill due to the breakup of Konami and Hideo Kojima. After the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, people discovered that Konami and Hideo Kojima did not have the same vision. Hideo Kojima wanted big games, but Konami only wanted cheap games. This breakup resulted in a painful death for this game series. There have been some more titles for the series Metal Gear Solid, but they just all proved that Hideo Kojima was right.
Number 1: Silent Hill
Yes, the story of the game series in this first spot of our list was really sad and painful, and it was also the results of the breakup we mentioned above. Before Hideo Kojima left Konami, we even had a fantastic demo gameplay - PT - for the title Silent Hills. This is surely one of the best gameplay demos in the history of video games. But then the breakup happened, and we will never ever see Silent Hills again, nor PT.