Becky (she/they/he)What is one or more pieces of media you've consumed that kept making more content but needed to just end?
TomMasz
IWW4TV shows that went on too long:
- House of cards
- The Walking Dead
- The X-Files
- Homeland
- Westworld
Movie franchises that went on too long:
- Jaws
- Alien
- The Terminator
- Predator
- The Amityville horror
- jurassic Park
- The Pirates of the Caribbean
- Rocky was on this list until creed came out and now creed has gone on too long
Book series that went on too long
- The wheel of Time
- The Earth’s children
spittingimageThe wheel of Time
Seriously. I gave up on that series at book 5 when the author hadn’t resolved a single major plot point yet.
muxikaSupernatural
I absolutely loved the show, it could’ve been wrapped up sooner. It could’ve ended before the leviathans and I would’ve been happy.
devfuuu
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ClipperDefianceMy sister was telling me about Poppy’s Playtime the other day and it sounds like it fits in this category. She basically said that the plot got more convoluted with each game and that there were absurd plot twists everywhere.
ZorsithWeeds. It should have ended after season 3.
Stargate SG1
Books: Everything written by Sanderson. Just make something happen. Please. Please?
Anime: One Piece
TV: everything that rely on a strong gimmick for one season but collapse at the second one (designated survivor, for example)
AntiOutsideAktionAnime: One Piece
Insane take. It’s a story that has a beginning, middle and end. It hasn’t ‘kept making more content’ when it needed to end. It hasn’t gotten to the ending.
Star Citizen will release before One Piece ends.
So you’re just a hater that doesn’t watch the show? It’s in the finale saga. Supposedly two arcs left.
You really need to go touch grass if you can’t accept that someone thinks 30 years is too long for an anime/manga. Sorry, but the only wild take here is yours.
We’re not talking about whether you like the pacing. The question you answered was about media that ‘kept making more content but needed to end.’ It doesn’t matter if you think someone should make a story that takes 30 years to tell. That’s what it is. So it hasn’t ‘kept making more’ after a point it should have ended.
That’s, like, your opinion, man.
SonotsugipaaI beg to differ, I may concede on its multiplayer (because I played it for a few hours when it released, then got bored) but the campaign is a nothingburger filled with clichés.
The best thing people say about it is that “it went back to its roots”: except for a few references here and there and the Mark VI armor, nahhhhhhhh.
The best thing people say about it is that “it went back to its roots”: except for a few references here and there and the Mark VI armor, nahhhhhhhh.
I may concede on its multiplayer I’ll agree the multiplayer was bad, I feel like campaign games adapted into competitive multiplayer games just don’t work that well.
Ok I realise I am writing this with very little experience in campaign shooters but it is the most interesting one I have played, I played it 2 and a half times and never been bored. While I have played doom (2016) which is relatively repetitive and uninteresting. Gears 5 is so bad I was revealed after my friend who I was playing the campaign with accidently deleted the files, I’m still not sure weather he did it on purpose or not.
Dang I guess that’s were my campaign shooter experience ends.
Sakurai
ThisSeriesIsFalseStellaris. Don’t get me wrong, I love the game, and I love seeing it get updated, but for anyone else, all they see is 300 DLC that they need to buy, otherwise it’s a completely different game than the one I’m playing. And not all of that DLC is created equally.
marcie (she/her)laughing in creamapi
Agreed, CreamAPI or Koalageddon are basically required to play the game at this point.
What’s this do? I don’t have the dlcs
It’s a DLC spoofer. Basically, if you can find the files for the DLC (having a friend with them helps, or check the piracy megathread), you can put them where they would normally be in the game files, then use CreamAPI to make the game think they’re legitimate. There are a couple programs to do the latter half of this process automatically, I find CreamInstaller works quite well.
DFX4509BFamily Guy easily.
Pokemon doesn’t count because they recently retired Ash and brought on a new lead character, and GameFreak/The Pokemon Co are actually trying to branch out more lately with spinoffs such as Pokemon Concierge.
Family guy is still releasing new episodes???
I watched every episode of supernatural right to the very end. I was actually surprised how godd the episodes kept on being but it was well, well passed its heyday.
Başak/Virgo (he/human "-💙💻")I see somehow no one mented Five Nights at Freddy’s
Winnie the pooh: blood and honey. The first one should never have existed and the second one didnt improve on anything.
Assassin’s Creed, Kingdom Hearts, The Last of Us
The Walking Dead
DigitSilent Hill should have ended with SH3.
SpongeBob
And not just because of the usual ‘it’s gone on too long’ gripe either, but also because Nick is basically pissing on its creator’s grave keeping it going long after his death, as I pointed out in an edit on my post, Nick should’ve just ended the series after Hillenberg died out of respect for the guy.
No, seriously! If Nickelodeon wasn’t gonna grant Hillenberg’s wish to have SpongeBob end after the 2004 movie (and really, they didn’t care about that, they’re Nickelodeon), they should have ended it when he passed.
They could have done one last big hurrah special in memorium of him, but then that’s it.
And besides, Tim Kenny, I love the guy, but he is even saying it’s getting harder for him to voice SpongeBob.
PolandIsAStateOfMindSpinoffs and alternative universes are mostly a sign it is going too far. Oh and having more prequels than the main story is immediate signal of extreme milking.
As a south park fan, I’m not excited for new episodes
I was until recently. It’s not south park time. You cant really take the piss out of the happenings in USA without looking like a political cartoon in a newspaper, and you cant just ignore it and focus on other stuff or you look complicit.
I love south park and want more, but now is not the time.
The last batch of 10 episodes, I only rewatched 2 of them after all 10 came out. Barely remember the rest.
finallymadeanaccountMarble Hornets.
The Vikings TV show went on wayyyyyy too long. It should have ended when
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The Belgarion novels by David Eddings. It would have done well as a trilogy, but the initial five-book series was OK as well. But then came The Malloreon, or The Quest for More Money. I finished it because I’ve got a bit of a completionist streak, but not because it was good.
And then I found out what kind of person Eddings was.
I’ll say… Star Wars, The Simpsons, the Xanth novels, superhero movies, Pokémon and Naruto.
Magic:the Gathering. The 2018ish takeover by FIRE Design destroyed my favorite TCG. Its all power creep and external franchises that have nothing to do with fantasy.