Mortal Kombat. Every single one of them were bad, until Mortal Kombat 9 came along in 2011.

Did you play RE1-3 when they released or many years later?

Today, I agree with you. So much happened in gameplay and controls going from PS1 to PS2. It was sex playing RE1 in 1996 though.

I'd have to disagree with GTA and Resident Evil. I can certainly see the argument that they improved in the following generations, but no way the first few games are mediocre - bad.

The first two GTA games were panned by critics and certainly weren't sales blockbusters. They were okay at best. 

I remember Resident Evil 1-2 being a huge deal back in the day, so yeah, I'd agree with you. 

I played them later, in the 6th gen. Still, I've never liked those kind of fixed camera angles in any game, I just find them so awkward. 

RE in the 5th gen to me always felt like a great idea where the execution, and to an extent the technology, just wasn't there yet.

uncharted 1 was by no mean garbage but it was short and has no replayability multiplayer shiz,

then uncharted 2 came out and blew everybody's expectation

Average score (according to wiki at least) for the first two games were both around high 60 - low 70%, which is hardly a critical panning, although I gather these scores were likely only based on a handful of reviews. Regardless, I wouldn't personally use sales or review scores to judge whether I thought a game was good or not, but we're probably approaching this from a different perspective.

I came here to say this.

Guess I have to pick something else.

Maybe I will go with Warcraft. Warcraft was meh, and then Warcraft II was better, and then Warcraft III a fantastic game, and lastly World of Warcraft. A game too good for its own good.

I don't think I've ever seen such a huge step up in quality than God Of War. Hated 1-A.

You can count Killzone I guess but I find the series very overated. The first one was terrible, second one OK. I liked the 3rd one the most.