Third Games in the Series That Were Good

[Vanbael]

Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Resistance 3 (Insomniac finished the series on a very high note)
Serious Sam 3
Mass Effect 3
Elder Scrolls 3
Devil May Cry 3
Jak 3
Sly 3
Fallout 3
Half-Life 3 Not yet

 

[King of Asgaard]

All my suggestions have been listed several times each in the posts above ans, probably, below this one. That being said:
Metal Gear Solid 3
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Sly Cooper 3: Honor Among Thieves
Fallout 3
Technically Kingdom Hearts 2 (release order)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution

 

[DugMachine]

Halo 3 (inb4 flame war about generic fps)
and uh... Jak 3 oh man how I love those games.

 

[Acton Hank]

I don't think "Godfather Syndrome" applies to video games as much as it does to movies.
I'm having trouble thinking of a third game in a series that I didn't like.
When it comes to the second game, I'm having less trouble, (Deus Ex and Devil May Cry, I'm looking at you.)

 

[waj9876]

Persona 3.

Disgaea 3.

The Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past.

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Final Fantasy III.

Super Mario Bros. 3.

Dragon Quest III.

The third generation of Pokemon.

Back to the Future III (You didn't specify that it had to be games.)

dotflow, a freeware Yume Nikki fangame many people believe to be the third best. Yume Nikki counting as the first.

Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations.

dothack//G.U. Volume 3.



Pretty much any game that isn't just the same exact thing three times really.

 

[nickyv917]

Back to the Future III (You didn't specify that it had to be games.)

I'll allow it.

 

[RJ 17]

To this day, Final Fantasy 3 is probably my all-time favorite FF game.....

Though I don't know if that counts since it's only technically FF3 when officially it's FF6

 

[MellowFellow]

Mass Effect 3, Fallout 3, Halo 3, COD3(I liked it a lot), and also SSX3 was great.

Someone else agrees with me on Call of Duty 3!
Great game, great story, and great characters!

Yes it was a great game, and I am also glad to see someone else really liked it. The multiplayer in COD3 was really fun too.

 

[Wintermoot]

Fallout 3
Saints row 3

 

[ABLb0y]

Silent Hill 3
Fallout 3
Assassin's creed: Brotherhood
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Yakuza 3
Gears of War 3 (Ok, I didn't personally enjoy it, but that doesn't make it bad)

 

[MaxiP62]

Sonic 3
Rayman 3
Rachet And Clank 3
Red Faction 3 (Do subtitles count?)
Forza 3
GTA 3
MGS 3
Super Mario Bros. 3
Zelda 3

And the list goes on...

 

[AbstractStream]

Persona 3
Metal Gear Solid 3
Mass Effect 3 (yes)
Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations.

 

[El Luck]

Warlords 3: Reign of Heroes/Darklords Rising was pretty good.
Uhhh Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater
Settlers 3 was enjoyable too
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (what? it counts.)
GTA 3 was pretty awesome too, despite my not thinking it would work that well...I was really glad to be proven wrong.
Warcraft 3 is one of my favourite games so that should answer that'n
Diablo 3 looks like it can go either way (I mean in terms of gameplay and such, not what Blizzard seems to be doing to alienate potential buyers)

 

[kyogen]

Metal Gear Solid 3
Thief 3 (I see where Yahtzee is coming from, but I don't quite agree)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Final Fantasy III
Nier (pushing the definition of "series," but still a great follow-up to Drakengard 1 and 2)

 

[TheDuckbunny]

Number 3's that were bad:
Monkey Island 3

Wait, wait! What? You didn't like Curse of Monkey Island?
Might I ask why you don't like it?

 

[Fishyash]

Super Mario Bros. 3 is the best mario game I have played, maybe even the best game I played in general, and to this day is still my favourite game.

 

[putowtin]

Uncharted 3
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (not ACIII but the third game to appear in the series)
Mass Effect 3 (yeah its endings shit but the other 99% is excellent!)