The gold watch award is given to the franchise that needs to be put into retirement. This year saw another return of Sonic, the 12th Need for Speed title and five Guitar Hero games (across multiple platforms/devices). Enough! We're not saying cancel these franchises outright but taking a breather, sitting back and deciding where to go next could be a good idea. Or in the case of some games, maybe you should let us play through this one before you go ahead and throw us a new title (looking at you Activision) Here are the nominees for this year's Gold Watch Retirement Award.
In my (humble) opinion Destroy All Humans never should have been made, and for the sake of All Humans should be put in retirement... Right now.
I never got the "fun factor" for that game, and I seriously could not believe they made a sequel. The other series on that list could easily be turned around except for maybe the Sonic Franchise, which pretty much exploded into a thousand pieces of shrapnel when they made a TV show about the teenage Sonic.
Guitars should be retired, in general. Seriously, people, it's the 21st century already and you're pretending to be rockstars that your parents listened to when they were stoned in college. Have you no sense of decency? At long last...
I think there's great reasons for all these franchises to end tomorrow. They all are past their time.
In the end, I voted Need for Speed. So many iterations and its only getting worse. With Criterion doing the amazing that they have done with Burnout Paradise, it really can't compete anymore. It REALLY needs to be ended.
{ Dec 26th 2008 at 3:10PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Zac LaCombe @ Dec 26th 2008 3:28PM
Need For Speed. It just can't compete anymore. The Fast and The Furious days are over. With that, "underground street racing" games need to end also.
Gemini Ace @ Dec 26th 2008 3:29PM
GTA.
whocares @ Dec 26th 2008 3:41PM
yeah i voted need for speed too - anyone who votes for cabela's should rethink thier lives, it looks so bad its good
Highimpact1 @ Dec 26th 2008 4:04PM
In my (humble) opinion Destroy All Humans never should have been made, and for the sake of All Humans should be put in retirement... Right now.
I never got the "fun factor" for that game, and I seriously could not believe they made a sequel. The other series on that list could easily be turned around except for maybe the Sonic Franchise, which pretty much exploded into a thousand pieces of shrapnel when they made a TV show about the teenage Sonic.
myabsolution @ Dec 26th 2008 4:46PM
IMO, Guitar Hero.
Activision is going way too overboard on this series.
GH2, GH3, GH: World Tour, and now Metallica, Aerosmith, and whatever else....
All have been released within like the past 1-2 years??
Slow down there buddy.
And don't pump out one CoD every year either, it will become stale bread.
Etchasketchist @ Dec 26th 2008 7:42PM
Guitars should be retired, in general. Seriously, people, it's the 21st century already and you're pretending to be rockstars that your parents listened to when they were stoned in college. Have you no sense of decency? At long last...
shane86 @ Dec 26th 2008 8:21PM
Sonic needs to die, fast.
Deck @ Dec 27th 2008 2:17AM
I think there's great reasons for all these franchises to end tomorrow. They all are past their time.
In the end, I voted Need for Speed. So many iterations and its only getting worse. With Criterion doing the amazing that they have done with Burnout Paradise, it really can't compete anymore. It REALLY needs to be ended.
DjDATZ @ Dec 27th 2008 4:38PM
NFS. Please make it NORMAL EA. PLEASE.
refinedsugar @ Dec 27th 2008 4:59PM
Why did Cabela's make the list? It's not like anyone actually expects excellence from them in the first place.
NFS and the guitar fetish need to go, however.
Bluemanrule @ Dec 29th 2008 10:15AM
Sonic for the win!