[–] Leon_FURIOUS 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
Dianetics.
[–] 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...
[–] 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.
[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
I'd have to say The Walking Dead. As far as I remember, it spawned the zombie craze, and nothing good came from that.
[–] Grospoliner 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
28 Days Later probably did that, followed up with the remake of Dawn of the Dead. Walking Dead didn't get popular until it landed on AMC and TWD has been in publication since 2003.
[–] profanion [S] 1 point 13 points 14 points (+14|-1) ago
Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows films. That started the "splicing up a work into several parts for $$$" thing.
[–] 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.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 1 point 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.