What game franchise has left you disappointed?

Dungeon Siege, the 3rd was fucked, fuck microsoft
Edit: also fuck obsidian and wargaming

A lot.

But the worst was definitely Mass Effect 3, then Andromeda

BGE2 will be released one day, and it will probably be very bad, so I empathize with you on that point

BGAE being a Ubisoft title they would have ruined the franchise with the sequel anyway so we get a small disappointment instead of huge one.

Unreal Tournament

I was a UT99 junkie back in the day and poured countless hours into capture-the-flag instagib, and was eagerly awaiting their modern "remake" (which was even going to be free)... but Epic dropped the project to devote more resources to Fortnight. From a business perspective, I completely understand, but it left me a bit heartbroken nonetheless.

Half Life, I don't think I'm ever going to see Episode 3 or Half Life 3 in my lifetime.

Need for Speed

Used to be an awesome experience in my younger days. Now they just add one disappointment after another.

Watch_Dogs and The Crew, i liked the tone and the story, but suddendly the sequels were like "youhou watch my followers !!" From that, didn't buy legion and motorfest.
Soulcalibur, i expected an animated story mode for each character, instead we got visual novels for the 6th.
The Sims didn't turn really well either, but couldn't point what went wrong, the 2nd opus was especially amazing

Played a great game but the ending disappointed you?

We the revolution : 2/3 amazing about history, and then last 1/3 turns into a full family drama
still a great game but could have been so much better !

Overlord Fellowship of Evil. Overlord 1 and 2 are amazing games and what did they do with overlord 3? a boring action rpg. mostly negativ on steam.
also alice madness returns. ea doesn´t like to make money with singleplayer games

Forza Horizon. All along, I thought it was the best car racing game one could find, but after playing it for a few hours, I realized that people overlook everything that's wrong with the game.

Life is Strange. The original and Before the Storm were amazing. 2 and True Colors were mediocre, and Double Exposure was just straight up terrible.

Heroes of Might & Magic. I got very disappointed by 6 and 7. I feel like upcoming game from the series is bound to be bad.

Lands of Lore. In my opinion, their decision to switch to a first-person view in the second and third installments came at a time when too many concessions had to be made. It was too ambitious for the time, to the detriment of playability and immersion. Personally, I would have enjoyed them more if they had just stuck with the concept of the first one.

Ubisoft :-D

It would be, much, shorter to list the franchises that don't disappoint nowadays.

Yves Guillemot have blood on his hand for many thing but BG&E2 is one of them. Michel Ancel the original creator of the first game quit ubisoft in 2020 so yay, even if the game do come one day, it will probably be shit sadly :(

For me what comes in mind is deadrising, especially the second one, love the concept, some brainless fun gold here, but all the time limit just ruin it for me. I don't understand why they didn't just make it optional, so everyone can enjoy the game the way they prefer. I just wanted to create stupid weapon and slash some zombies man :(

Also the fumito ueda trilogy is a big no for me, Ico and shadow of the colossus have a huge reputation, a lot of people loved them but I just couldn't. The games have great ambience, are beautiful their own way but it's sooo boring. And I'm not the typical fps obsess people, I love indie game and slow pace stuff, but ico and SOTC are just not fun to me. I played it and find it pointless, empty and boring.

Finally on a smallest level, I was a bit disappoint on the choice made narratively in Final fantasy 16, even if the game is really good, I thought the 5 years ellipsis was implausible. It made me question a lot of thing in the game, especially about relationship between some character and really hurt my suspension of disbelief

I had a weird reverse experience with Deus Ex games: absolutely loved the modern dilogy, both gameplay and story. But then I tried the original old game everybody seems to adore. Well, obviously gameplay and visuals were heavily dated, but I was prepared for that and didn't mind; what I didn't expect was abysmal, incoherent writing.

All the official Turrican games after the marvels that were Turrican 1 and 2.
Some of these sequels were good but compared to 1 and 2 they were disappointing. Turrican 3 (2004, C64) was great but was an inofficial non-commercial effort.

Prince of Persia: Two Thrones was bad and an anti-climax to Sands of Time & Warrior Within. WW was best. Two Thrones end fight boss was a massive clunky lottery. Its save system was bad specially in big fights you needed restart fully.
Serious Sam 3: BFE was a letdown with half the game in dark closed tombs. Not more than 2 levels would have been good but not half the game. Replacing classic weapons enemies made it look a military campaign. Serious Sam 4 missed out on good enemy placing and fun secrets. Allowing enemy multiplier for mindlerss shooting seemed a shortcut. Too much clunky parakor secrets ruiend the fun. Unreal Tournament 2004 was again a mess to UT 99.

Ubisoft for me 😔

I'm dissapointed in every unreal engine 5 game with price more than 20$

Mount and Blade. Incredible concept, some fun ideas but they've been going at it nearly 20 years and yet still feels like we're playing an alpha build with half the game missing..

I would say Mass Effect and other Bioware games.

I remember reading about the Mass Effect 3 ending and thought people online were just being annoying.
I played it with the patched updated ending and it was even worse than I could have imagined and it made me never want to play Mass Effect every again.

I guess I don't understand society and what Bioware has been thinking with their games now. I guess I am officially an old timer who talks about the good old days.

I loved The Messenger, but hated Sea of Stars. And they never followed up the Picnic Panic DLC's cliffhanger ending!

Thief: The Dark Project is the best game I'm likely to ever play, with the sequel, The Metal Age, coming in well behind but still worthy. It happened at a time when the technology perfectly overlapped the story that Looking Glass and Warren Spector were ready to tell. Other games in the series were all right, but not a patch on the first. I still haven't played the Dishonored games, which I know I'll enjoy some day. But the first Thief, with Garrett voiced so brilliantly by Stephen Russell, probably did itself a slight disservice by being so good that nothing could really follow the show.

I don't know if it counts as being disappointed with the series but I am definitely disappointed in franchises that make the pc experience worse. Like how a lot of old Xbox game series (Halo, Gears of War) were released on Microsoft Store only and not Steam, then they act like people on PC aren't interested bc they did a shit job of porting (bugs galore from what I heard), cut features like local co-op, and only offer it via shitty MS store. Or how when MCC got released, the PC version had local/split-screen co-op gutted while console could still do it (and pc version also had buggy af network code for online co-op last time I tried it).

My biggest disappointment is that Portal 3 doesn't exist and it's unlikely to in my lifetime.

But if you mean more story/gameplay disappoints in sequels, I don't think I ever got over elder scrolls taking away ability to attack while underwater (you could in mw/ob but not in sk)... I hear there's finally a mod for that these days tho ^_^

And later borderlands don't seem as fun as original to me (gets a bit samey after awhile - currently on presequel whenever I get back to it in my backlog so I'm only comparing BL2 to BL1 and TPS to both of those).

Can't really think of any others. I tend to not play many sequels and when I do it's usually many years after release so I can look at reviews ahead of time.

Resistance. Anybody here ever play any of them?

Disappointed because the games were pretty great, then they just let it die with the worst game in the series (Burning Skies). Guess the same could be said about Killzone.