Dork Age/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* The ''[[Tony Hawks Pro Skater]]'' franchise fell into one hard with its final two games, ''RIDE'' and ''SHRED'', which attempted to revive the franchise by using a skateboard-shaped motion controller to simulate boarding movement. This failed to address any of the problems the series had been going through, and introduced several new ones. Both games failed as a result, and the ''Hawk'' franchise appears to be [[Franchise Killer|down for the count for good]].

** About to be revived by ''Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD.''

* There are ten years between Black Isle's ''[[Fallout 2]]'' and Bethesda Softworks' ''[[Fallout 3]]''. There are two ''Fallout'' games between them--Microforte's ''Fallout Tactics'' and Interplay's [[In Name Only]] ''Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.'' ''Tactics'' was a competent game that had severe issues with staying within the established continuity (in a world where World War III was brought on by a crippling energy crisis, many bases of have full drums of fuel just lying around more than a hundred years later, etc.); the same cannot be said of ''Brotherhood.'' Bethesda has proclaimed ''Tactics'' to [[Broad Strokes]] canon, while ''Brotherhood'' is full-on [[Canon Discontinuity]].

* The ''[[Need for Speed]]'' franchise had one. While [[Fan Dumb|some fans]] claim the entire ''Underground'' era to be [[Fanon Discontinuity]], most generally point to ''Carbon'' in 2006 as the beginning of the series' downward slide (especially coming on the heels of ''Most Wanted'', generally regarded as one of the series' high points), and ''ProStreet'' and ''Undercover'' in the ensuing years as the nadir of ''NFS''' dork age. In any event, it ended with the release of the very well-received ''Shift'' in 2009 and ''Hot Pursuit'' in 2010, which brought the series back to its focus on exotic cars and away from the burned-out "tuner" culture.