Good franchises that fell off a cliff in the succeeding generation

[Leynos]

Spindel said:
Megaman!

8-bit era: Awesomeness
16-bit era: Awesomness (well personally I actually preferred NES Megaman, but Megaman X wasn't bad and is probably considered better by most people)

Then CRAP after CRAP after CRAP (remember playing some Nintendo DS Megaman game that was so lack luster).

To be fair it found it's way again with with Megaman 9 and Megaman 10 (I can't judge 11 since I've not played it), but it has a lot to do with it going back to it's 8-bit glory.

Legends is awesome.