Games that excelled too much and ruined genres for you and why?

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I don't know if there are games that totally ruin 100% of a genre, but they do ruin like 95% of a genre (or game aspect), because now my standards are so much higher.

Super Mario Bros 3 ruined most platformers for me.  I loved Pitfall back on the Atari 2600, but now it's unplayable.  I spent countless hours on Mario 1, but it seemed kind of bland after Mario 3.  Almost every 3D platformer feels like total crap to me.  Mario 3 is just too good.  

Final Fantasy 4 (along with FF 6, 7, 9, and 10) have ruined two types of games to me: turn based RPGs and story based games.  I used to love grinding for XP in an RPG.  I can still enjoy some games like this, but they have to be exceptionally good because of Final Fantasy 4 and similar games in the series.  However, I think these games have ruined story based video games for me even more.  I really think 95% of story based video games are boring and I want to skip through the story.  The Final Fantasy games I mentioned have such interesting story and characters, that I have very high standards of what I'll accept from other games.

Final Fantasy 11 has ruined me on most open world games.  To me Bethesda style games feel like a casual MMO.  My favorite MMO that I've tried is FF11, and on top of having a huge world to explore, like a Bethesda game, it also has tons of other players, a robust economy, interesting NPCs and an engaging story.  It blows away single player open world games.  The only other game I like about as well is Final Fantasy 14.  It's hard to say which I like better, because FF14 feels like a casual game that fixed all of the problems with FF11.  So it's kind of better and worse at the same time.  But almost all other open world games feel really shallow and watered down compared to FF11.