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There is a bit of headcanon for me that any Reaper tech has memetic properties to them, as a methodology to help 'stack the deck'. For those that cause indoctrination, it's basically something to cover the symptoms. For others, it's to help ensure that there is no real threat of resistance...

Fallout -before 3- had two spinoffs: Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. One was using the same engine as the first two games and severely divided the fandom, and everyone agrees that the latter was a shitty game.

Hm, let's see, off the top of my head there are all of Fallout's spinoffs (one getting clobbered rightly for how shitty it was and another because, well, it was one of the original dividing points of the fandom), the ARMA 2 RTS got screwed over, and that's off the top of my head at the moment.

That... isn't the case from what I can see. Halo Wars and Gears Tactics are exceptions that prove the rule. :(

Eh, from what I've watched of Left Alive, it's a simplified Metal Gear V mod. In addition, the IP owner has a tendency to screw games over like with what happened to Evolved... and Left Alive shares the same signs of having that problem. EDIT: it should also be noted that the gaming industry...

Yeah, I remember that clusterfuck... and Fallout 3 was my introduction to the franchise (and got me to buy Tactics).

While those are a factor, there is the fact that some fandoms are just simply that hateful of spinoffs, with Front Mission being one of them. From what I can tell, the older the franchise, the worse the 'no spinoffs' mentality is...

The sad thing is, from what I can gather (in general) gamers fucking hate spinoffs. Like with a fury of a few million suns levels here. Take one of my favorite gaming IPs Front Mission, for example, the fans would actually unperson any game that isn't a TRPG outside of one RTT. It also doesn't...