Holy cats, people aren't even skimming the OP, they're just running with their preconceptions and jumping down to the comment box.
On topic, it's hard to achieve greatness and even harder to replicate greatness. The problem with story-driven content that thrives on being epic is that you lose a lot of steam when it turns into a "further adventures of" series. The main character becomes a Mary Sue and the thrills become progressively less thrilling, even as the writers try harder to hit those epic notes once more. Everything becomes muddled and often contradictory.








