What are some examples of the first game in the series being the best one?

donkey kong country

Spyro.
>>715973108
contrarian

devil may cry
dark souls

Oddworld

>>715973125
>Spyro.
Came here to say this

Yakuza
Sonic
Kirby
Final Fantasy 7

Ratchet & Clank

>>715973037 (OP)
Mass Effect

>>715973037 (OP)
Demon's Souls
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Dragon Age: Origins

>>715973125
>>715973227
these
>first game is platforming/exploration kino
>second and third games are super linear and more focused on completing objectives and stupid fucking minigames because the devs were running out of ideas

>>715973037 (OP)
Fallout.

>>715973037 (OP)
>original Resident Evil 1 is the best game in the entire series
>Silent Hill 1 is the best game in the series
This genre is fucked.

>>715973869
So true on both counts.

>>715973037 (OP)
The only true answer is Bayonetta

You can argue Infamous 1 being the best

>>715973037 (OP)
Xenoblade.

Mass Effect

contrarian niggers: the thread

Anybody who says Banjo-Kazooie is wrong and also a fag.

>>715973037 (OP)
crazy taxi

Serious Sam if you treat TFE and TSE as being Sam 1.

>>715973037 (OP)
spyro
dark souls
banjo-kazooie

>>715974325
>>715974358

>>715973037 (OP)
Timesplitters

>>715974702
Timesplitters 2 was fun as fuck though

Baldur's gate. Okay I am being a little contrary here because bg2 owns but bg1 is so .. comfy? It just feels like a great beginning.

>>715973262
>Kirby
fuck no, Dreamland 1 is a 30 minute tech demo.

>>715973459
you did something retarded here but imma let you figure it out

>>715974358
>Anybody who likes Banjo-Kazooie is wrong and also a fag.
fixed

>>715974957
>30 minute
>he didn't play the hard mode
oh nonononono

>>715973037 (OP)
Resident Evil

Plants vs Zombies

>>715973108
2 and Tropical Freeze exist
>>715973125
correct
>>715973159
DMC3 is better
>>715973262
SA2 was the series peak
Kirby Robobot made everything else in Kirby look cheap by comparison
>>715974214
correct
>>715974251
Correct, XB2 was good as well but XB1 was an actual form of art, anything after wouldn't be able to surpass it no matter how they tried.
>>715974702
TS1 was a tech demo, both 3 and 2 blow it out of the water, over 100 characters, making your own maps, etc.

>>715975075
i did, having infinite flight and telegraphed bosses makes things incredibly easy

>>715975027
If you're seething about Kings Field then I feel sorry for you.

Crash

Lego Racers

Synthetik

>>715973037 (OP)
Chibi-Robo by a long shot.

>>715973037 (OP)
What does the fat loud mouth agitprop extraordinaire Alex Jones have to do with your question?

>>715973037 (OP)
Fable

>>715973037 (OP)
Star Fox

>>715973037 (OP)
Shin Megami Tensei

>>715973037 (OP)
>Spellforce (even though you may count the entire first trilogy)
>Fable/TLC
>Dragon Age
>Guild Wars
Can't recall any other games I'd care enough about to be upset about botched sequels or that are as easily differentialable. There are also titles, especially RTS, of which most entries are great up until the developer falls apart (e.g. C&C) or sells out.

>>715974325
>implying personal taste and enjoyment are decided by and dependant upon commitee, majority and consensus
Niggercattle.

Star Wars

Nobody said it yet but Dead Rising is easily the best game in the franchise

2 and even 3 aren't that bad or anything it's just they never quite captured the tone and what made the 1st game so memorable even with it's fucked up AI and difficulty curve

>>715973037 (OP)
What are some games on suppressed lists?

GTA 5
Witcher 3

>>715973037 (OP)
Isn't that every game series? The first game usually is the best because it's the vision, idea, and passion made manifest. The next game usually is just capitalizing off the hype.

>>715986540
There are definitely series where the first game is not the best one. Street Fighter 1 is meh compared to Street Fighter 2.

>>715973037 (OP)
I think the BG series peaked at 1, though 2&3 were still good.
Id also like go know what the fuck they were thinking with Advance Wars 2 and Subnautica 2.

Thief
Deus Ex

>>715974648
Banjo for sure. Good call.

>>715974325
Asking /v/ for "the most x" game is pointless, because most people will always be merely pretending for internet points (yous).

>>715988281
I have built up a large collection of (you)s

>>715973037 (OP)
Ace Attorney
Dark Souls
Danganronpa
Luigi's Mansion
Mario & Luigi
Metroid Prime
Mario Strikers
Pikmin
SM64 & OoT when considering 3D Mario & 3D Zelda as their own thing

>>715973037 (OP)
Dungeon Keeper

>>715973037 (OP)
halo
half life
imho blasphemous
blood

>>715990098
>Pikmin
Removing the time limit was a mistake

>>715973168
I respectfully disagree. Exoddus was a massive improvement on Oddysee. The quicksave system was great considering what a clusterfuck some sections were, Elum was annoying to use so they removed it, and there were more enemies.

dark souls 1

>>715986274
Underrated.
This game was incredible, it's a shame the remake shit all over it

>>715973037 (OP)
Runescape

>>715973037 (OP)
Mass Effect

>>715996106
This

>>715996106
Nah. RS2 is where it got good.

>>715973125
why is spyro 3 hated
by far the best and most enjoyable with good quality of life updates

The Last of Us even without the cultural clash

MAX PAYNE

Spyro 1

>>715973436
Ratchet 1 had a lot of elements that were perfect like running into randos on planets but I'll take gun leveling and more dynamic enemies over anything. Also the Metropolis example in UYA is a bad example because it was a multi-player map last minute turned into a level

>>715973037 (OP)
Super Mario Bros.


Wait...

>>715982925
>Internet high five.jpg

>>715973037 (OP)
Far Cry

>>715973439
2 isn't the first game, and it's clearly the best.

>>715987913
Fighters especially usually have later entries that far surpass the first.

>>715998540
Because all of the alternate characters are slow and boring to play compared to Spyro, and it has even more tedious minigames than 2.