PC game franchises that are improving and deteriorating

August 13th, 2012

Some sequels are awesome. Others aren't worth the code they're written in. 

To gauge which franchises are on the up and which are on the decline, PC Gamer put the issue to a survey. After more than 22,000 votes, the results were as follows:

Most improved PC games:

  1. Elder Scrolls
  2. Fallout
  3. Team Fortress
  4. Total War
  5. Civilization

In a downward spiral:

  1. Call of Duty/Modern Warfare
  2. Dragon Age
  3. Diablo
  4. World of Warcraft
  5. Mass Effect

The most popular games (receiving the highest number of votes one way or another):

  1. Elder Scrolls
  2. Call of Duty/Modern Warfare
  3. Battlefield
  4. Diablo
  5. Mass Effect

What do you think? Anything surprise you?

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no surprise here :p

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I agree 100% with this article. COD has been a huge let down ever since world at war. Dragon age 2 made me cry because the first one was so good but the second one killed me on the inside. Warcraft is starting to loose people because its old. Everyone knows how to play it and Diablo was just a huge flop. On the other hand the games there are getting better have improved an insane amount and have made the game super fun.

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Yeah I want MW to crash and burn.

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Well i have to admit i have some hope for BO2 they have improved the engine here and there. And like Treyarch said they would like to improve the game but they aren't alowd to let CoD go under 60fps on consoles.

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imooneri said: Dragon age 2 made me cry because the first one was so good but the second one killed me on the inside.



Reason I dropped the game. It was not there. Dragon Age 1 was the best game I ever played, DA 2 just killed the mood.

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ok this is a good survey,but man is it me or whenever something about cod is said on this site everyone goes nuts and starts dissing it or saying how bad it is,its a good game,the engine is a good one that does not need meany fixes,every game they introduced something that other fps didnt have like in blackops were you could make your own icon and put it on your guns,really treyarch is trying to improve but if you change the engine on cod it might be better but it probable is going to get worse,just like if you keep saying that the frostbite engine is bad and if they change that its not bf3 anymore.

p.s skyrim is not a game,its a way of life.

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No surprises here, especially the downward spiral ones.

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Well with 2 games i would hardly say dragon age is in a downward spiral and considering Mass Effect just ended it would be hard for it not to be.

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how did battlefield get most votes but not be on either of the other 2 categories

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I love civilizations

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call of duty is not a game, it is one game rebranded with retextured weapons that is all

I don't try to be awesome, It's natural! So are potatoes, potatoes are natural :l

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No surprises here

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sad how cod beats bf3 when bf3 is better in almost every way possible

stupid fanboys who agree to bad games their fav game ppl make

also points at wow subs

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Yeah this isn't really surprising. I really hate to see Diablo on the downward but that's just how it goes, I really do hope to see some of these games get back to their original status.

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All of these changes were inevitable; not a surprise whatsoever. TF2 deserves the spot too.

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I seem to agree with what the survey said, even with Diablo being on the downslide after having only been released a few months ago =P I've never played Civilization or TF2 but they look like games I might try in the future anyways....

~Brooksy~

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Glad that Call of Duty is going down the drain, just like Dannyboy said it is all just retextured crap.

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no doubt no surprise..

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Eh mass effect 3 was a good game and the multiplayer is great, just possibly the worst ending ever, well dark souls was bad too :)

KAMI

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i agree with this mostly but, skyrim lost some of the many things i enjoyed in oblivion and morrowind. otherwise it was a fantastic game in it's own right.

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Nope no suprise...

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Yeah i figured call of duty was on the down hill. Not sure how i feel about fallout though.

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Well well well... Bethesta seems to be doing something right :P Cant say that about Blizzard.

League Of Legends

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I hope call of duty dies soon :)

my time has come.

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Woo Fallout!

New forums... Soon™

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