What went so horribly fucking wrong with this franchise?

What went so horribly fucking wrong with this franchise?

consoles

It was exactly that.
A franchise.
It should have been limited to just the first game.

Two words Perseus Mandate

Too many fucking devs doing their take on the series, Fear 2 and F3AR did not exist!

Consoles

Some newfag developer thought he was being clever by optimizing the AI planner but accidentally removed flanking (an unintended side effect of some bug the original programmer never got around to fixing).

Never should have gotten any sequels, a problem that can be said for most games

I always thought the pregnant Alma in 3 was hot

fear 2, while wasn't as good and fucked the story, at least had decent gameplay

The first expansion pack ending on a cliffhanger for the second game. That and the cancerous trend devs/publishers have of catering to consoles.