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competition is healthy but some games
just can’t take the heat welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re looking at
the top 10 video game franchises that
killed their competitors for this list
we’re looking at games and franchises
that were successful or had promised but
we’re then rendered irrelevant by the
success of a rival we’re not necessarily
saying that these franchises are dead
and gone but they just couldn’t hold up
against their competitors that was too
close you were almost a Jill sandwich
you’re right
number 10 Tekken killed Virtua Fighter
[Music]
primitive and blocky as it appears now
Sega’s Virtua Fighter was revolutionary
for being the first fighting game to
feature 3d graphics but the year after
it was released
fellow Japanese publisher Namco released
their answer to it with Tekken
[Music]
you win directed by Virtua Fighter
designer CG Ichi and featuring an
innovative control scheme the first
Tekken was designed as a competitor to
Sega’s Virtua Fighter 2 thus kicking off
a rivalry between the two series this
continued through the next decade with
each franchise trying to one-up the
other in terms of graphics and
characters but since the release of the
fifth game in 2007 it seems like Virtua
Fighter has fallen by the wayside
while Tekken continues to thrive with
several main games and spin-offs still
in the pipeline
you win number 9 half-life killed sin
screen improvident in the fall of 1998 a
first-person shooter was released for
the PC which featured an in-depth sci-fi
story detailed graphics and was set to
revolutionize the FPS genre that game
was sin and been valve released
half-life just a couple weeks later and
made sin immediately irrelevant
[Applause]
yeah sins greatest em sin might have
just been the curse of bad timing but it
also didn’t help that half life became
one of the most important FPS is of all
time with its pioneering of scripted
sequences and realistic graphics sin
managed to spawn an expansion back in
1999 and an episodic sequel in 2006 but
at that point half-life had completely
changed the FPS landscape with its 2004
sequel and subsequent episodic
installments number 8 candy crush saga
killed bejeweled during a shoot you’d be
hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn’t
wasted an embarrassing amount of time
playing bejeweled on their computers our
funk pop caps browser-based puzzler was
an instant success and was followed by a
multitude of sequels and spin-offs and
of course eventually it found its way to
mobile phones when the technology
allowed it but a challenger to the
match-three throne first appeared in
2012 in the form of candy crush saga not
only did it feature over 2000 unique
levels but it also was based around a
pay-to-play model which addicted players
basically ate right up candy crush soon
held all the power in the mobile game
market spawning companion games like
soda and jelly saga while bejeweled
remains a fun yet increasingly
irrelevant distraction
[Music]
number seven Grand Theft Auto killed
driver mess sorry papa
in 1999 GT interactive released driver
for the ps1 which was like a 3d version
of the early GTA games in which you
could drive cars and do anything in a
fully rendered environment driver and
its sequel became big successes
only until GTA made the jump to the
third dimension in 2001 in short Grand
Theft Auto 3 revolutionized not only its
genre but the entire gaming industry
with its sandbox gameplay driver just
couldn’t keep up with rockstars
blockbuster franchise with its next two
installments flopping critically and
commercially the wheelman was last seen
in 2011’s moderately successful driver
san francisco but he can never hope to
attain the accolades that GTA still
receives
number six
resident evil killed alone in the dark
as the first 3d survival horror game
bellowing the dark was incredibly
influential the mysteries and scares
provided by it and its sequels
frightened gamers for years but in 1996
Capcom released their answer – alone in
the dark with the horror classic
Resident Evil what a mansion captain
Wesker where’s Chris the two games were
surprisingly similar both sporting
so-called tank controls and both being
set in a mansion but as the breakout
title on the still young PlayStation
Resident Evil became a blockbuster
success soon dwarfing its rival in
popularity and levels of innovation it’s
a monster let me take care of this
[Music]
resident evil’ continued to frighten and
innovate in tons of installments in the
next 20 years while alone in the dark
took a break and then came back in 2008
with a reboot ended a yeah it didn’t go
well who the hell am I
[Music]
number five Skylanders guild Disney
infinity fish if skylines an ancient
world of wonder and mystery after it was
clear that the spiral franchise wasn’t
going to survive as a regular platformer
Activision decided to take it in a
completely different direction namely it
became Park video game part collectible
toy line against all odds
Skylanders became an instant success
becoming the top-selling game of 2012
Disney then decided that they wanted a
piece of the toy to life action and set
out to do it with their already
established and huge stable of
characters they have from themselves
Marvel and Star Wars
unfortunately Skylanders had already
captured too much of the market and
despite its updates and new character
additions infinity was never really able
to catch on the series was discontinued
in May 2016
and Disney laid off most of the
development staff soon after and in case
you foolish human fools haven’t figured
it out yet I’m the bad guy number four
overwatch killed battleborn talk about a
quick and brutal death battleborn came
from the FPS maestro’s at gearbox
software a unique attempt at being an
arena-style shooter and a MOBA hybrid it
received ok reviews and was a decent
commercial success but what really sunk
it though it was released a mere three
weeks before blizzards overwatch which
basically did everything that battleborn
did but added more memorable characters
and a gameplay style that’s easy to
learn but hard to master
overwatch received massive critical
acclaim and commercial success rendering
battleborn pretty much do a with the
player count dropping below a thousand
by July 2016
number three Call of Duty killed Medal
of Honor advised hostile Kelter UAV is
online hostile UAV spotted by 2002 EA’s
Medal of Honor series and arguably
reached its peak with the PC exclusive
allied assault and several successful
console games however a few developers
from allied assault left to found
Infinity Ward and released the world war
two shooter Call of Duty in 2003
ironically Call of Duty was codenamed
Medal of Honor killer during its
development but Infinity Ward wouldn’t
fulfill the promise of the codename
until 2007 when the game changer modern
warfare was released ea kinda realized
they had to jump on the modern times if
they had a chance of staying alive but
an Afghanistan set reboot in 2010 and
its sequel in 2012 proved that there was
just no place for Medal of Honor in a
post Call of Duty world
number two Madden killed all the other
football games
[Music]
franchise rivalry is one of the most
important parts of sports right well
nobody told back to a while there Madden
football franchise remained one of the
top selling franchises period
it still coexisted alongside other NFL
based series like blitz and NFL 2k that
was until 2004 Falls and complete after
Sega’s ESPN NFL 2k5 was hailed as one of
the best sports games of all time EA
faced a true threat to its dynasty the
publisher then pulled the rug out from
its competitors and signed an
exclusivity deal with the NFL that made
it the only true football game on the
block NFL 2k was promptly discontinued
while Midway’s over-the-top NFL Blitz
series released two installments without
the license before going downloadable in
2012 before we reveal our top pick here
a few honorable mentions
swing-and-a-miss on the fence though
that time
Oh
just 104 to get this game started and
there’s a reason that’s good on the
assist by Hartman number one world of
warcraft killed every other MMO
yes yes yes we know that this is
basically an exaggeration there are
still a ton of MMO still running with
decent sized subscriber bases like Star
Wars The Old Republic and Final Fantasy
14 but be honest when you think of a
massive multiplayer online RPG the only
thing you really think of is blizzards
World of Warcraft
up until its release in 2004 the biggest
an MMO ever gone was around 500,000
subscribers at its very peak World of
Warcraft represented 58% of the
subscription MMORPG market with 12
million subscribers it received six
expansion packs and spawned a player
culture that still thrives until this
day other MMOs might still try their
best but they have no chance of to
throning the king of the genre do you
agree with our list
what other franchises do you think were
responsible for killing the others
that’s not gonna hold the mom for more
top 10s posted every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
yes I’ll sign for you huh good thing you
found us
[Music]
you
competition is healthy but some games
just can’t take the heat welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re looking at
the top 10 video game franchises that
killed their competitors for this list
we’re looking at games and franchises
that were successful or had promised but
we’re then rendered irrelevant by the
success of a rival we’re not necessarily
saying that these franchises are dead
and gone but they just couldn’t hold up
against their competitors that was too
close you were almost a Jill sandwich
you’re right
number 10 Tekken killed Virtua Fighter
[Music]
primitive and blocky as it appears now
Sega’s Virtua Fighter was revolutionary
for being the first fighting game to
feature 3d graphics but the year after
it was released
fellow Japanese publisher Namco released
their answer to it with Tekken
[Music]
you win directed by Virtua Fighter
designer CG Ichi and featuring an
innovative control scheme the first
Tekken was designed as a competitor to
Sega’s Virtua Fighter 2 thus kicking off
a rivalry between the two series this
continued through the next decade with
each franchise trying to one-up the
other in terms of graphics and
characters but since the release of the
fifth game in 2007 it seems like Virtua
Fighter has fallen by the wayside
while Tekken continues to thrive with
several main games and spin-offs still
in the pipeline
you win number 9 half-life killed sin
screen improvident in the fall of 1998 a
first-person shooter was released for
the PC which featured an in-depth sci-fi
story detailed graphics and was set to
revolutionize the FPS genre that game
was sin and been valve released
half-life just a couple weeks later and
made sin immediately irrelevant
[Applause]
yeah sins greatest em sin might have
just been the curse of bad timing but it
also didn’t help that half life became
one of the most important FPS is of all
time with its pioneering of scripted
sequences and realistic graphics sin
managed to spawn an expansion back in
1999 and an episodic sequel in 2006 but
at that point half-life had completely
changed the FPS landscape with its 2004
sequel and subsequent episodic
installments number 8 candy crush saga
killed bejeweled during a shoot you’d be
hard-pressed to find anyone who hasn’t
wasted an embarrassing amount of time
playing bejeweled on their computers our
funk pop caps browser-based puzzler was
an instant success and was followed by a
multitude of sequels and spin-offs and
of course eventually it found its way to
mobile phones when the technology
allowed it but a challenger to the
match-three throne first appeared in
2012 in the form of candy crush saga not
only did it feature over 2000 unique
levels but it also was based around a
pay-to-play model which addicted players
basically ate right up candy crush soon
held all the power in the mobile game
market spawning companion games like
soda and jelly saga while bejeweled
remains a fun yet increasingly
irrelevant distraction
[Music]
number seven Grand Theft Auto killed
driver mess sorry papa
in 1999 GT interactive released driver
for the ps1 which was like a 3d version
of the early GTA games in which you
could drive cars and do anything in a
fully rendered environment driver and
its sequel became big successes
only until GTA made the jump to the
third dimension in 2001 in short Grand
Theft Auto 3 revolutionized not only its
genre but the entire gaming industry
with its sandbox gameplay driver just
couldn’t keep up with rockstars
blockbuster franchise with its next two
installments flopping critically and
commercially the wheelman was last seen
in 2011’s moderately successful driver
san francisco but he can never hope to
attain the accolades that GTA still
receives
number six
resident evil killed alone in the dark
as the first 3d survival horror game
bellowing the dark was incredibly
influential the mysteries and scares
provided by it and its sequels
frightened gamers for years but in 1996
Capcom released their answer – alone in
the dark with the horror classic
Resident Evil what a mansion captain
Wesker where’s Chris the two games were
surprisingly similar both sporting
so-called tank controls and both being
set in a mansion but as the breakout
title on the still young PlayStation
Resident Evil became a blockbuster
success soon dwarfing its rival in
popularity and levels of innovation it’s
a monster let me take care of this
[Music]
resident evil’ continued to frighten and
innovate in tons of installments in the
next 20 years while alone in the dark
took a break and then came back in 2008
with a reboot ended a yeah it didn’t go
well who the hell am I
[Music]
number five Skylanders guild Disney
infinity fish if skylines an ancient
world of wonder and mystery after it was
clear that the spiral franchise wasn’t
going to survive as a regular platformer
Activision decided to take it in a
completely different direction namely it
became Park video game part collectible
toy line against all odds
Skylanders became an instant success
becoming the top-selling game of 2012
Disney then decided that they wanted a
piece of the toy to life action and set
out to do it with their already
established and huge stable of
characters they have from themselves
Marvel and Star Wars
unfortunately Skylanders had already
captured too much of the market and
despite its updates and new character
additions infinity was never really able
to catch on the series was discontinued
in May 2016
and Disney laid off most of the
development staff soon after and in case
you foolish human fools haven’t figured
it out yet I’m the bad guy number four
overwatch killed battleborn talk about a
quick and brutal death battleborn came
from the FPS maestro’s at gearbox
software a unique attempt at being an
arena-style shooter and a MOBA hybrid it
received ok reviews and was a decent
commercial success but what really sunk
it though it was released a mere three
weeks before blizzards overwatch which
basically did everything that battleborn
did but added more memorable characters
and a gameplay style that’s easy to
learn but hard to master
overwatch received massive critical
acclaim and commercial success rendering
battleborn pretty much do a with the
player count dropping below a thousand
by July 2016
number three Call of Duty killed Medal
of Honor advised hostile Kelter UAV is
online hostile UAV spotted by 2002 EA’s
Medal of Honor series and arguably
reached its peak with the PC exclusive
allied assault and several successful
console games however a few developers
from allied assault left to found
Infinity Ward and released the world war
two shooter Call of Duty in 2003
ironically Call of Duty was codenamed
Medal of Honor killer during its
development but Infinity Ward wouldn’t
fulfill the promise of the codename
until 2007 when the game changer modern
warfare was released ea kinda realized
they had to jump on the modern times if
they had a chance of staying alive but
an Afghanistan set reboot in 2010 and
its sequel in 2012 proved that there was
just no place for Medal of Honor in a
post Call of Duty world
number two Madden killed all the other
football games
[Music]
franchise rivalry is one of the most
important parts of sports right well
nobody told back to a while there Madden
football franchise remained one of the
top selling franchises period
it still coexisted alongside other NFL
based series like blitz and NFL 2k that
was until 2004 Falls and complete after
Sega’s ESPN NFL 2k5 was hailed as one of
the best sports games of all time EA
faced a true threat to its dynasty the
publisher then pulled the rug out from
its competitors and signed an
exclusivity deal with the NFL that made
it the only true football game on the
block NFL 2k was promptly discontinued
while Midway’s over-the-top NFL Blitz
series released two installments without
the license before going downloadable in
2012 before we reveal our top pick here
a few honorable mentions
swing-and-a-miss on the fence though
that time
Oh
just 104 to get this game started and
there’s a reason that’s good on the
assist by Hartman number one world of
warcraft killed every other MMO
yes yes yes we know that this is
basically an exaggeration there are
still a ton of MMO still running with
decent sized subscriber bases like Star
Wars The Old Republic and Final Fantasy
14 but be honest when you think of a
massive multiplayer online RPG the only
thing you really think of is blizzards
World of Warcraft
up until its release in 2004 the biggest
an MMO ever gone was around 500,000
subscribers at its very peak World of
Warcraft represented 58% of the
subscription MMORPG market with 12
million subscribers it received six
expansion packs and spawned a player
culture that still thrives until this
day other MMOs might still try their
best but they have no chance of to
throning the king of the genre do you
agree with our list
what other franchises do you think were
responsible for killing the others
that’s not gonna hold the mom for more
top 10s posted every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
yes I’ll sign for you huh good thing you
found us
[Music]
you
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