What franchises are surprisingly popular for how poorly received or ignored their games have been?

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Really makes me think

Why do people keep pushing this stupid shit?
The original 3 crash bandicoot games sold almost 5 million copies each

But the games after them (and that kart racer) were meh or worse.

Persona. I will never understand what made that series so popular outside of Japan other than thirsty NEETs gulping down the waifu-bait. I mean it. The games are shit, the stories are shit, the localizations are shit, nothing about those games are even remotely desirable. I gave up trying to understand the virgin mind a long time ago.

Theres also no NEW porn

Um Jammer Lammy especially lately it seems.

Is she holding a chainsaw by the blade?

It's like holding a shotgun you know

She does it in the game too. I think there is a reason the song after that one was her going to Hell.

It came at the right time.

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How do they do in Japan though?

What's so special about it? It's just generic furshit and the porn is generic furshit.

CTR was superior to the Mario Kart games of the same era. Unless you meant Crash Nitro Kart then it's sits just a bit above meh.

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The Senran series has always been in a very strange place, being neither good enough to talk much about nor bad enough to mock, either. The only reason I can think of that anyone outside of Japan even knows it exists is the years of free advertising from salty SJWs. Same with Dragon's Crown. Mr. "Large Breasts Are A Lolicon Fantasy" probably sold a ton of copies of the game.

Good thing the remakes ignored the later games and brought back the ones people like.

And CTR is the best racing game of its generation.

Senran is blandly competent, but sells purely based on sex appeal. It's merely a Dynasty Warriors where the entire cast is female with huge tits after all. I'm surprised there isn't more competition since that kind of sex appeal prints money.

Kemono Friends

They're already making S2. i'm waiting for the game that's bound to come out.

There was already a mobile game (which the show was meant to promote) but the game was so bad that it ended up getting shutdown before the show even began airing.

They are making a real game for it now, not just mobileshit.

It's FOTM garbage like shipsluts and granblue before it, but without the good art or designs of either.

That gay history enthusiast Skallagrim once did a small playthrough to mock it as a joke. So yeah that's where you'll see most of it's publicity.

Both of those are still around and have been popular for years though, there's a general for one of those right now on this very board.

You know it doesn't have to last exactly a month. They are fads either way, though not dead yet, and it doesn't make any of them any less trash.

Fad by definition means for the short term you retard.

I've gotten more enjoyment out of Granblue than I have most other modern vidya.

And no one will remember them once all the porn and memes are gone. They have no staying power.


Sorry to hear about that shit taste of yours.

You have brain damage then. Condolences.

I once tried to explain the success of Kemono Friends anime by assuming that the animators had thought process something like this
IIRC when I first shared this I was contested. It's possible that people initially shared the anime with "look how bad it is" and when people checked it out they actually felt it was charming for some reason.

I'm really out of the loop on it in terms of real accuracy, but I've gotten the impression that nearly every call of duty game after Black Ops 1 has had pretty negative community reaction. Though I guess it doesn't matter either way because those lemmings will buy the game every year regardless for some reason.

Yeah, it's just like Touhou and Fate. Flash in the pan, no one cares about that stuff anymore. Having a dedicated porn/meme fanbase can't keep a series alive for a decade+.


The animation company pretty much does exactly that. They run on a shoestring budget, but they also don't have any restrictions to movement or angles since everything is already modeled. Once it's built up to a decent enough point it's then just flapping limbs about onscreen to fill up the dialogue. Their first work was heavily adlibbed because they didn't need to redraw anything to match it.

Crash still counts.

Hey retard, both of those have had both official and fan games made since then, and fate has a shit ton of movies and anime series. They are not being sustained on porn and memes alone faggot.