Two answers from me.

First there's Smackdown. While Smackdown 2 is the only game in the series that has the casket match, removed from future games, each game in the series was better than the last. It wasn't until they changed the series to Smackdown vs Raw and tried some new things out that the series started to suck. They took all of the games features away so it was pretty bare bones, and the mechanics were worse. They wanted it to be realistic, but they didn't make a good realistic wrestling game until WWE 11 or 12.

If you don't count Yakuza Dead Souls which is a spinoff and isn't like any of the rest of the games, and if you take Yakuza Black Panther as it's own series(never played it,) then there's also the Yakuza series. Every game, atleast every one I've played 1-4, is better than the last.

Lol after Sticker Star I'm ready for the series to either die or they go back to their roots.  

Kawaiix33 said: brendude13 said: Persona, Grand Theft Auto, Fallout, Elder Scrolls. ...Resident Evil. lol how the heck resident evil improved ?  not babysitting your ai partner like in re 5 or the huge ton of qte xD

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I could forgive Nintendo making Smash Bros too slow and floaty, but making Paper Mario into a watered down platformer? The Thousand Year Door is probably my favorite Gamecube game ever and Super Paper Mario was just a horrible disappointment.

I´m with you!

I agree Thousand Year Door is by far my favorite GC game, I was surprised NIntendo changed the series so much after Thousand Year Door sold better than the original.  Sure the Wii platformer one sold more too, but you have to consider the install base on the Wii.  Then Sticker Star is plain garbage, at least the Wii one retained the humor of the series, but Sticker Star has like nothing from the original.  

Not one. Not a single, damn, one.

That said, I've never played MGS, so that may be an exception.

Thanks! Glad to know that at least someone agrees with me! Also I don't understand why but Skyward Sword was a little underrated to me, it was a really outstanding game .

I would have agreed with MGS if 4 wasn't such an utter disappointment. Coming off 3, which is one of my favorite games of all time, 4 was almost soul crushingly bad to me. Like, I can see why some people would like it, because the whole thing is complete and total fan service all the way through, but that's really all it is. Almost no gameplay (I kept track, my second playthrough took me less than 4 hours due to skipping cutscenes), there were no really fresh elements, they took out the survival elements that I loved, the story was mostly a mesh up of things that they had already used in the other games......and the worst part, you barely even feel like a participant in any of it. It really was like watching an overly stretched out movie. I mean I LOVE MGS, and Phantom Pain looks like exactly what the doctor ordered, but MGS 4 wasn't a good game. It was great fan service, but a terrible game.

Wow....that was off topic huh?

I'll agree with GTA (overlooking the fact that 4 in that franchise ALSO sucked. Must be thing with the number 4).
NBA 2K is always getting better. If not always in large steps, but that's to be expected.
Halo for me as well (though again...4 moved things up with story and visuals, but multiplayer and customisation through forge took a hit. Seriously....what is it with the number 4? Somebody tell Valve to forget worrying about 3, as long as they skip Half Life 4 everything's gonna be ok)
Forza and Gran Tourismo always improve

That's all I got atm

Do people not like Brawl? I thought it was well liked.

I concede that Melee is, mechanically, more balanced. But I take a holistic approach to Brawl. It's packed with content, from the "vault," to the multiplayer modes, to the single-player campaign, which surpasses anything seen in Melee or the N64 original.