[–] middle_path 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Bram Stoker's Dracula. It is amazing, but everyone wanted to copy it. Fun fact - Vampires prior to Bram did not have fangs, they used to have to make an incision with something else to let the blood flow.
[–] CttCJim 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
they also were more like ADD zombies. Bram Stoker's work and also Varney the Vampire are held as the origins of the "Victorian Vampire" archetype.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varney_the_Vampire
Varney actually predates Dracula, but didn't have as good of marketing.
[–] pepepepepe 0 points 6 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...
[–] mcwilshire 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Creed et al. probably wouldn't have existed without Nirvana.
[–] middle_path 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Not to mention the invention of elves, orcs, and dwarves as we know it.
[–] Grospoliner 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I think the supernatural teen rom/drams are worse.
[–] didntsayeeeee 0 points 3 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.
[–] fricknmaniac 0 points 2 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.
[–] SteelKidney 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anne Rice's Vampire books. Pretty sure Twilight wouldn't have happened if Meyers hadn't been influenced by Rice.