Starfox Adventures was Rare's half assed attempt and most likely Nintendo's reason for selling them off. Make no mistake, the Starfox franchise hasn't recovered since but they've gotten somewhat mildly better.
Sonic has been downhill since it went 3D, blame Sega and every console they've ever released since the Genesis (Mega Drive).
Donkey Kong would have been nice to see, my only fear is that it would have become even more kiddy that what Rare turned it into for the N64. Still a great game though.
Crash Bandikoot, did anyone desperately not trying to placate to the PS1 actually like those games?
Spyro... you couldn't pay me to care about Spyro...
Conker... I never liked a single Conker game... Not even Conker's bad furday... it was just so stupid.
Banjo Kazooie, I think a new one is coming out for the 360, but honestly, who cares. Probably will just end up like the Conker games.
Pac-Man, jesus, its fucking Pac-Man what the hell can you do with it?
- Now for Franchizes which have really gone down hill -
Final Fantasy
- FF8, a fun game, neat mechanics, but dull characters, dull world, convoluted story, the first of the emo drama-whore final fantasies.
- FF9, a fun game, nice call back to the original styles, but ultimately too linear and nothing unique unto itself.
- FF10, a fun game, a little less emo than 8 I guess, convoluted story, too much drama whoring.
- FF10.2, what the fuck, barbie final fantasy?
- FF11, an MMORPG, what the fuck SQUARE?! Main characters were Tidus and Yuna clones.
- FF7 Spin-offs, I know, let's put half of them on cell phone and plan on releasing the rest sporatically throughout the next five years! Hey look at Dirge of Cerberus, I guess its possible to even turn FF7 into Emo shit too!
- FF12, a neat idea, but ultimately sterilized by steering clear of all the elements of the world that made FFTA unique. Characters were somewhat interesting but all looked relatively un-unique and undistinguishable from the world around them, an uninteresting and a half assed attempt at Emo drama whoring. The story is good but typical, the world is... ok... I don't think I've seen so few unique monster models in any FF game before. The main characters were, yet again, Tidus and Yuna clones and the game plays itself for you to save yourself the time of actually interacting with the AI.
