I would really like to hope Mass Effect clinches this title. I mean if they keep down the path of vastly improving every imaginable flaw in each game's predecessor then I think they will have achieved it no problem.
The Halo series was great but it got to a point where it became too much of a franchise, where you really didn't know exactly what was going on unless you done some outside research. Mass Effect has all the info in the game, which really isn't needed to understand the story anyway, but at least it's there. On top of that I was very disappointed in the ending of Halo 3, I was expecting a Lord of the Rings style epic battle where the Chief would sacrifice himself to save all of mankind. No, we get a lame bossfight and a rehash of the worst part of the first game.
God of War, in my personal opinion, is the most over-rated series of all time. Seriously there isn't much depth to the story, it's filled with despicable and totally unlikable characters, and the gameplay is just a little more deep than what is available in Dynasty Warriors. It was fun to play through, but I have no attachment to the series what so ever.
Super Mario is a classic series and it is well made, for what it is. There just isn't any sort of story linking them together, I feel like calling those games a trilogy is silly. It'd be like calling any three games in any franchise a trilogy, are Madden 06-08 a trilogy? They are just as linked together as those Mario games were. I'm not bashing the games, they're fantastic(I even liked 2 for what it was) but this is by no means a trilogy.
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