If you could rid the world of one gaming franchise...

[Jason]

Which would it be? And I don't want any punches pulled here - be as creatively vicious as you like - it's all for entertainment value after all. :D

For me, it's the Sims. No doubt about it whatsoever. It's a 'life' sim. Perhaps I'm missing the point here somewhat, but if I'm going to waste my life hunched over my laptop on my own playing games, I'm damn well going to make sure that I'm doing things I COULDN'T do in real life if I just got off my fat arse and risked seeing sunlight! *snarl*
Seriously though - it appears the demographic for Sims fans is either the maniacally twisted who like to wall their Sims into a small room and watch them go insane and die amongst piles of their own faeces, or the 'sad and lonely' brigade who realise that this is the closest they're ever going to get to having a real life (ironically because they don't meet anyone because they spend all day playing The Sims), and therefore develop severe emotional attachments to their virtual friends and families to the point of actually referring to them by first name to other 'real' people who just assume they're talking about their cats again. (Yeah, for some reason Sims players strike me as people who own a lot of cats...)

How about you guys?

[MyNameDidntFit]

Halo.

I mean, I like Halo, it's a decent game and I've no real hate against it but... without Halo there would be no console war. There would be no constant, repetitive, dreary hating on it... there might even be no GFWL.

... all things demand sacrifice.

[Recaner]

This is tough. There are several I would like to see go.

Okay I got it.

Dynasty Warriors.

So effin repetitive....all of them...

[Jason]

without Halo there would be no console war.

I beg to differ, sir. Console wars have been going on since the Commodore 64 vs the Amiga. It just so happened that in the past few years, Sony have been kicking everyone's butts.
However, I suppose you're partially right - If you go back in time and destroy Halo, without Halo, the original Xbox doesn't sell anywhere NEAR as well (I know I certainly never buy one), Microsoft make a massive loss on the Xbox console and decide to pull out of the gaming market, thus the X360 is never created, meaning that a) millions of gamers save hundreds of dollars replacing sub-standard equipment shipped out by Microsoft, and b) millions of idiotic Halo fanboys, unable to fathom out exactly what's missing from their lives, form a large cult in Mississippi and all drink kool-aid from Master-Chief engraved mugs.

You know what? I quite like that vision of the future. :D