Series that has gone downhill for you?

[Galletea]

It would be easier to say which series hasn't gone downhill. The only one I can think of is MGS, oh, and Onimusha.

There are so many series now it would be futile to try and name them all, although most sequels have disappointed me at some point.

 

[Pappa_Smurf]

It would be easier to say which series hasn't gone downhill. The only one I can think of is MGS, oh, and Onimusha.

There are so many series now it would be futile to try and name them all, although most sequels have disappointed me at some point.

i agree another series that has not gone downhill is the jak and daxter games (excluding jak X and that one psp game of course)

 

[bigmike5400]

Final Fantasy after FF-X. 11 was the most stupid mmo i've played and in 12 the battle system they used messed up the entire game for me.

 

[zauxz]

Personnaly, I think Every game with a sequel gets worst with time.

I think saints row 2 is an exception, but yeah i kind of agree.

For me the biggest kick to the balls was Deus ex2: Invisible War. It was a whole different game. And it sucked.

Lets just pray that DX3 will be more like the first one.

 

[TJM8]

prob all of these have been listed already im just not willing to read haha
Sonic (after the one on dreamcast it all went to sh*t in my eyes)
ResEvil looks like its heading there
KotOR (though its not a series, I though the second one was the start of a downward trend)
Halo (Halo 2 was my fav)
Pokemon (not that ive played any of the new ones but it hurts thinking that there are more than 151)

 

[warlored]

BEONG GOOD AND EVIL THEY HAD A CLIFF HAGER AND THE NEVER MADE A SEQULE

 

[Chibz]

Personnaly, I think Every game with a sequel gets worst with time.

Be fair: Disgaea 3 is better than any in the (now trilogy) before it.

 

[Mackinator]

Correct. Except i would say that LoZ : MM was an awesome game maybe not as good as OOT but not a bad game either.

I agree, it was different and added something special to the Zelda games and I guess Wind Waker and Twilight Princess did as well. They were all good games but I feel they could learn something from OoT, thats all.

Yeah i liked the new system in WW and TP was good but some of the dungeons werent as good.

 

[Kajt]

Resistance.
The first one was great, but the second one was...
Not Resistance.

 

[milkkart]

whats with all the hate for GH? as far as im concerned as long as there's new songs to play im happy, all the rest is just fluff.

 

[elitecrewer]

There are just so many. Fallout, with Bethesda taking the reins, annoyed me a little, but Sonic surely has to be the king of the once-great game series (plural of series?).

 

[The DSM]

Pong, still waiting for a sequel that isnt a flash game coded in 5 minutes.

 

[Ossum]

Don't hang me, but the Metroid series... see, I can play Super Metroid with the same sort of glee, challenge, excitement, and sometimes fear, as I had so many years ago when I first got it. The Prime series is visually stunning, and very fun, but... once played through a single time, my interest in playing it again has been quite diminished by walking through that much territory, wasting the same PITA enemies that always respawn in tiny corridors, and by the constant feeling of always having to backtrack for one tiny upgrade to progress mere inches through a side tunnel. They're great the first time, but replayability has been absolutely murdered and simple advancement always feels like a slog.

To be honest, I think I have to agree with you. I recently got into the Prime series because I don't own a GCN myself, and got to borrow the system. Playing through Prime 1 so far, I see little to no replay value in it, unless you haven't touched the game in years. It's possibly because I started playing on hard mode, and enemies take that much longer to kill, and it becomes somewhat tedious, but if that's the case, then what replay value is there when killing most trash mob enemies are nothing more than being tedious?
And the fact that puzzle solving and exploration/collecting are my favorite parts of gameplay, once you do it and know where everything is, it's no longer fun as what it used to be.

Perhaps I'm just really sore about it at the moment because I really dislike the Phazon Mines.

The Phazon Mines are indeed annoying, and that's another thing; not a Prime game has been made without a horrendously annoying section. SM on the other hand, didn't really have annoying sections, at least not ones you had to traipse across 50 times. It had difficult but satisfying sections.

I'm also inclined to say SM had a better map than any of the Prime games, not because it has more size but because its intricacy created few "common" areas you'd find yourself crossing dozens of times. Those were, generally, the entrances to Brinstar and Norfair, and a select corridor in Crateria. Maridia was so huge, if you knew where to go you'd pass through a room maybe twice and only to double back from a dead end after collecting an item.

Compare this to Prime 1 with Phazon Mines, Prime 3 with the godawful Metroid area (you'll see) and Prime 2 pretty much everywhere on Dark Aether... +5000 for making the games, -4500 for hosing replayability.

 

[ingsoc]

Resident Evil. The first games on the PS1 were great. The remake of the first outing for the GameCube was the best game from that generation of hardware in my opionion but subsequent titles have broken down very quickly. RE Zero was a solid game worth playing but Four and Five are complete rubbish. They turned the seminal survival horror series into mainstream rubbish by replacing tension and pacing with meh. They simply replaced the word survival with action, and it didn't work well.

Call of Duty. The first was easily the best in the series and maybe the top dog of all WWII shooters. The second was a upgrade graphics wise but missed out on what made the third one great. I didn't play three but apparently it is nothing to write home about. COD 4 had a great start but ended just as it was getting interesting. Nothing gets me more than a developer that sells half a game for full price. They officially jumped the console shark with that installment and went further down the road of mediocrity with the fifth installment.

Halo. The first one was great. The second and third, not so much. Read the COD criticism, Halo is guilty of the same.

 

[DarkRyter]

Sonic.

To rise up so high, and crash so far down, so down the heights have been forgotten. So far down it sees the lost remnants of an ancient universe.

 

[slarlath]

Mortal Kombat
Deadly Alliance was the last really good one. The one after(i forget what it's called) was alright but it was the beginning of the end.

 

[timmytom1]

Guitar Hero. It's now a whored out crackhead that'll do anything for a quarter.

To be fair if critics are to be beleived then GH:Metallia marks a mini-revival but yeah looking at what follow up games they`re making i`ve lost all hope for the series beyond that although with rockband lego and rockband:clasic rock(all DLC made into a new RB1 , why?) coming out within the next few months you`ve got to worry for the rythm-action scene in general

 

[quack35]

WAIT.

How is Zelda getting worse?

Zelda will always be awesome.

 

[aww yea]

did sonic even need to be mentioned?

i feel like tenchu has lost its way personally

also i havent seen anything tenchnew for a while