Good/Great games in bad franchises?

[midrange]

Megaoverlord12 said:

midrange said:
call of duty: black ops series (a lot of content with tons of diversity)
paper mario TTYD (the rest of the series went bad)
kid icarus uprising (not so much because the series is bad, but because I wasn't a huge fan of rail shooters)

The original Paper Mario is good. I can grant that Super's divisive as hell and I despise Sticker Star.

Original was great, TTYD was fantastic, then the series declined greatly