Bad Games In A Good Series?

[Vash108]

The last Painkiller game, it was awful.
Any fighting game franchise that tried to be anything other then a fighting game.
Any Sonic game Recently. (maybe the one from Bioware might change my mind)

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Paper Mario and Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year door were great but than they went into platforming with Super Paper Mario and its lost its charm.

I have to agree with this. The third game just didn't live up to the first two.

 

[Librarian Mike]

Paper Mario and Paper Mario 2: The Thousand Year door were great but than they went into platforming with Super Paper Mario and its lost its charm.

I have to agree with this. The third game just didn't live up to the first two.

I agree as well. I give them credit for trying something different with Super Paper Mario, but to me it just felt unfinished.

 

[Vlane]

Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows

ruined 2 of my favorite franchises.

I thought that Onimusha: Dawn Of Dreams was great.

Final Fantasy X-2 and XII
GTA IV
Super Mario Sunshine (well actually every Mario game since Super Mario Bros. I hate that guy)
Soul Calibur 4

 

[h311str0m]

Neverwinter Nights 2. Not by any means an absolutely horrible game, but I think it lacked the fun of NWN1. I still can't get over the traveling system in NWN2, which is probably why I haven't gone back and finished it. Granted, I still haven't finished NWN1.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

*Sigh*
*Shakes fist at at CD-i Zeldas*
Need I say more?

 

[SeniorDingDong]

- every Mega Man game released after MM6 and before MM9
- Metroid Prime 2*
- Zelda : Wind Waker*
- Super Mario Sunshine*
- Eath 2160
- Age of Empires 3
- every Turok game after Turok 2

* compared to the overall quality in that series

 

[Benicus]

Jak II.

Jak and Daxter was amazing.

Jak 3 was great.

Jak X was pretty fun.

Ah come on now Jak 2 wasn't bad.

Yes, yes it was.

I thought Jak 2 was the best of the series. It took the biggest leaps in terms of changing things up. Jak 3 felt really easy and the story just felt like they didn't know what they were doing. Jak X just wanted to be Mario Kart excepted unbalanced and Jak 1 was...well, Jak 1.

Also, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Perfect Dark Zero, Final Fantasy X-2, Mercenaries 2, and Megaman X6.

The transition from Jak and Daxter to Jak 2 was like turning gold into lead.

Awful gun controls, terrible writing, abysmal vehicle sections, and a city that was too big for it's own good.

I completly disagree. I loved Jak and Daxter, but I think Jak 2 expanded upon the series in every way.

Yes gun controls were a bit dodgy and so was the driving at times, but I preferred the storyline.

And the city might not have been as imaginative and fun to explore as the environments in Jak and Daxter but it wasn't bad.

Also I liked Jak X, personally Jak 3 was the weakest link in the series.

 

[Souplex]

Final fantasy 7.

It was mind numbingly boring and the only good final fantasy game since its release has been 9.

Ocarina of time is pretty boring as well compared to the other Zeldas. Disregarding the CDI games, I can say that it is the worst of the series and will never come close to the oddly high ammount of praise it gets.

 

[Nazrel]

Xenosaga EP 2

 

[Benicus]

Final fantasy 7.

It was mind numbingly boring and the only good final fantasy game since its release has been 9.

Ocarina of time is pretty boring as well compared to the other Zeldas. Disregarding the CDI games, I can say that it is the worst of the series and will never come close to the oddly high ammount of praise it gets.

I disagree with both of those statements.

I mean I know FFVII gets too much praise, the best Final Fantasy is blates VI but it was a good game.

It was also much better than VIII, IX, X and X-2. I only like X out of those.

Also Ocarina of Time is overhyped too, but it is still better than Majora's Mask.

 

[friedmetroid]

Every Sonic game after Sonic Adventure, tarnishes the series once great name.

 

[fluffylandmine]

4...was a cutscene with linking gameplay elements.

I for a moment thought you meant MGS...

 

[Vlane]

FF VII was pretty boring. I played FF IX before I played VII so maybe i couldn't understand the hype and everything but a few months later I bought it and I haven't finished it because it was boring. I know the graphics and everything were good at the time but it was just boring. I still think that IX or VI is the best of the series.

 

[Killcushley]

Soul Calibur 4
I loved the other ones
The second being my favourite
but the 4th one was a great disappointment to me

 

[aRealGuitarHero707]

silent hill 2
no no im just kidding put the crucifix down

but seriously DMC2,FF8, and Halo 2 were all enormous letdowns for me due to their crappy storylines

 

[rakdosleader]

the first too human. Because they said its going to be a trilogy I will say that too human hurt my love for video games. I think it just gave me half a game. It felt like the spore creature creator, except instead of a type of skin or how many arms, it was how big do you want your chest piece, or do you want a big f'ing hammer or a big f'ing sword, oh and 1 hand or 2

 

[Spektre41]

Jak II.

Jak and Daxter was amazing.

Jak 3 was great.

Jak X was pretty fun.

Ah come on now Jak 2 wasn't bad.

Yes, yes it was.

I thought Jak 2 was the best of the series. It took the biggest leaps in terms of changing things up. Jak 3 felt really easy and the story just felt like they didn't know what they were doing. Jak X just wanted to be Mario Kart excepted unbalanced and Jak 1 was...well, Jak 1.

Also, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Perfect Dark Zero, Final Fantasy X-2, Mercenaries 2, and Megaman X6.

The transition from Jak and Daxter to Jak 2 was like turning gold into lead.

Awful gun controls, terrible writing, abysmal vehicle sections, and a city that was too big for it's own good.

I completly disagree. I loved Jak and Daxter, but I think Jak 2 expanded upon the series in every way.

Yes gun controls were a bit dodgy and so was the driving at times, but I preferred the storyline.

And the city might not have been as imaginative and fun to explore as the environments in Jak and Daxter but it wasn't bad.

Also I liked Jak X, personally Jak 3 was the weakest link in the series.

Where was there any good in the story? There's one good twist, and everything else is grizzled stereotypes spouting out crap lines.

 

[Aginor27]

Are we counting CD-I here? because then CD-I zeldas and Hotel Mario should be included.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Mercenaries 2 for PS2. Have I mentioned lately how angry I am about being ripped off 40 quid?

Mercenaries 2 for the 360/PS3 is fine...