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[–] pepepepepe 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

The original Call of Duty. United Offensive was a fucking masterpiece. When the series stopped having the main games be PC exclusive it started to go downhill. After Modern Warfare people started copying the formula. By MW2 the bad design choicesa were cemented and the series was finished. Terrible ADS shooters have ruled the market ever since and FPS games as a whole never recovered.

There is a very small chance the new UT could bring back arena shooters but I highly doubt it.

a - No dedicated servers, auto-aim in multiplayer, focus on individual achievement and not teamwork, "first to aim is first to kill", tiny levels, questionable spawn system, forcing the pseudo-console war battles between Battlefield and Call of Duty fans, hitscan weapons with no bullet drop...

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[–] Broc_Lia 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

Lord of the Rings. Half of the fantasy novels out there want to be long rambling epics which are more about the world of the novel than advancing the plot.

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[–] middle_path 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not to mention the invention of elves, orcs, and dwarves as we know it.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Right, and their novelty was very cool (heck, he pretty much invented the fantasy book) but they've gone on to become every stereotype of the genre.

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[–] brother_tempus 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

Das Kapital

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[–] libby 4 points 7 points (+11|-4) ago 

The Torah.

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[–] Leon_FURIOUS 1 point 8 points (+9|-1) ago 

Dianetics.

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[–] Aaaron 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Have you read Dianetics? I would say that it's pretty awful on its own.

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[–] profanion [S] 1 point 13 points (+14|-1) ago 

Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows films. That started the "splicing up a work into several parts for $$$" thing.

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[–] fricknmaniac 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

And then AMC started doing it TV shows too. They already have it easy with a 14 episode season, but now they're splitting up the last season into 7 episode seasons over 2 years.

Really pissed me off when I got to season 7 of Mad Men on Netflix only to realize that they only had the "first half" of season 7.

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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The first I saw of that was Battlestar Galactica. They started that nonsense with Season 2, releasing it in two parts, both at full price.

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[–] didntsayeeeee 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Harry Potter in general. Every goddamn five-volume young adult series to come after it and get adapted into a movie series.