Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24530269-20190824135911

Yup, another one of these. Boomerang's not the only one here.

You'll probably catch the core of this message pretty dang fast: Just what has Angry Birds become?!

I'll do a quick tl;dr of why I think Rovio screwed this series up pretty badly.


 * 1) First of all: Why is the movie theme literally everywhere now? Ever since the movie dropped, we seriously haven't had a single goddang Angry Birds game that doesn't have the movie theme. The series got flooded with terrible one-shots like Action, Evolution, Holiday, Football, Dice etc. We additionally get way too many boring match-3 games that no one likes.


 * 1) Second: Rovio ruins the pre-movie games that were the shine of the franchise. Initially, when normal Angry Birds and Seasons dropped, it was simple. You beat the pigs, won the level, moved to the next. Job done. Nowadays however, Rovio replaced that with a dumb star system where access to the next levels must be bought with stars received from previous levels, which is just terribly dumb.


 * 1) Third: When Rovio doesn't outright ruin these games, they just abandon them and leave them to rot. (Angry Birds Space and Bad Piggies)


 * 1) Fourth: The TV series. Where's Angry Birds Toons? We haven't seen a thing of it since 2016. Angry Birds Stella, pretty much the same. Instead we got other stuff like Angry Birds Blue and Angry Birds MakerSpace - Hooray, more movie theme! And let's change Piggy Tales from its traditional animation style to have the movie theme as well! Or how about a live-action plush series? ...Also, what even is Angry Birds Zero Gravity? Just what is it?


 * 1) Fifth: Least major of all, but the most recent non-movie slinghot game Rovio made, Angry Birds 2 (Or Angry Birds Under Pigstruction) only features randomly-generated levels whenever you play them. Also, remember how I said this is the most recent traditional slingshot Angry Birds game? Well, it dates back from 2015, mind you.

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I got nothing against the movies by the way, I just hate how Rovio treats their series like the movie theme is literally the only continuity right now. While I'm thankful Angry Birds Island doesn't have that theme just for once, it still has that boring match gameplay. Ughhh...

We seriously gotta return to the Angry Birds roots. Rovio, what's up to you is all the following; (My personal opinion)


 * 1) Restore the original Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons. Please.
 * 2) Revive Angry Birds Space and Bad Piggies.
 * 3) Discontinue the games that are pretty much "done" and have had their time; think of Angry Birds Rio, both Angry Birds Star Wars games, Angry Birds GO! and Angry Birds Transformers. Don't shut them down completely or remove them from the app store; just stop updating them.
 * 4) Why did Angry Birds Fight! and Angry Birds Star Wars Facebook have to go? They were both amazing, and I'd love to see them restored. And okay, granted, Fight too, was a match-3 game - but at least it had far more than just that, unlike the later ones. It was actually some sort of tactical puzzle RPG. Check the Gameplay section on its article for full details.
 * 5) Revive Angry Birds Toons and the Angry Birds Stella series, and restore the original format of Piggy Tales.
 * 6) Just discontinue and end that endless, repetitive flow of movie media spinoffs: games, comics AND series. They've just gotten wayyy too boring and repetitive by now; it's time to move on.
 * 7) And best of all, create a new "Angry Birds 3" that returns to the style and gameplay of the original games. Please.

(I'm aware Rovio won't ever see this, but you get the idea; this is just me expressing my opinions)

- I dunno if anyone's gonna reply to this, but hey, at least I managed to spread my personal pissiness with the recent outlook of the series somewhere. Feel free to share your thoughts if you want to, if not then don't lol. 