Once were great, now not so great series's

What video game series's were once big successes, personally to you or in general, have fallen in quality and/or popularity and have turned from most anticipated to more mainstream rubbish?

Animal Crossing. Great it in it's original days, but now just more of the same.

Crash definitely and I would add Spyro as well.

I'm with you on your Tomb Raider comment, I loved the first three on PSX and it went bad from there, although Angel Of Darkness wasn't as bad as some people made it out to be. I'm going to pick up Underworld seeing as I haven't played a TR game since AoD.

Dude easy question, Sonic.

I think everyone could agree with that one.

Doom. :(

Spyro, Crash, and Tony Hawk. Those three game series on the PS1 were my entrance into gaming, and they've all been utterly torn to shreds by terrible games made for cheap.

I loved Spyro 1, never played the rest. Lots of people would love Insomaniac to pick up the rights to the Spyro IP again, but personally I'd rather have a new RaC game, I don't think I would like a Spyro game on a next gen console, just let the series die already.

Crash and Spyro definitely.  Soul Calibur and Tekken as well.  Not so much Tekken, but Soul Calibur just went really stupid after II. 

Crash and Spyro yeah.

"Doom. :("

I'll say Need for Speed.

Soul Caliber for me.

"Bellum said:

"Doom. :("

No.

And for my pic:  Tony Hawk.

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Star Fox hasn't been the same since the N64 version....

For me it's Mario & Zelda games.

Doom 3 was bad compared to the original games but it's kind of hard to call that a real series.

"Colin Mcrae Rally series - The only racing game that I had an addiction for, but it's turned from Rally sim to arcade racer, it's just not the same."

Most of nintendos IPs. Exspecailly Mario Party.

Doom 3 is bad when compared to crunching on jawbreakers.

Unreal Tournament. Epic decided its new cash cow is Gears of War on the 360 and blames the poor sales of their PC products on piracy (Unreal Tournament III was released in a late beta state, and the dedicated server package wasn't even up to par with stuff like file redirects until the third or fourth revision). Fuck that, I bought the game on release day and was thoroughly disgusted at the product in the end.

"Doom 3 is bad when compared crunching on jawbreakers."

I think that is the first dissenting opinion I've ever heard against Doom 3. 

And to that, I can only shake my head.  Doom 3 was brilliant, I thought.
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"Dude easy question, Sonic.

I think everyone could agree with that one."

 "Tony Hawk."

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Tony Hawk, tomb raider, NFS, zelda, unreal tournament, 

Tony Hawk. I haven't played one since American Wasteland and that wasn't so good either.

"Star Fox hasn't been the same since the N64 version...."

"Death_Burnout said:

"Dude easy question, Sonic.

I think everyone could agree with that one."

This

jakob187 said:

 "Tony Hawk."

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And this

Sonic has fallen so far from grace that there is no way he's ever going to be the sonic we all knew and loved. They went right in pulling it from a 2d to a 3d plat former with sonic adventures on Dreamcast but it was like once they did that they ran out of ideas and just kept making the same game over and over again till the world got sick of him.

Same thing with Tony Hawk, his games started out brilliant then slowly became a joke, I personally blame Bam Margera for that. Once they added him to the fore front the whole thing went to shit. THUG was good, it brought the ability ot get off your board, spray paintin and other tweaks to the system. Then THUG2 came and there was no innovation just bullshit. Same with THAW and Project 8."

Colin Mcrae Rally series - The only racing game that I had an addiction for, but it's turned from Rally sim to arcade racer, it's just not the same.

"Dude easy question, Sonic.

I think everyone could agree with that one."

Easy, Tony Hawk. It went down the toilet after PS4.

Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic, NHL

"Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic, NHL"

far Cry 2 , Alone in the dark , Silent hill homecoming (even though it is a terrific game , past Silent hills specially Silent hill 2 were better )

"coakroach said:

"Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic, NHL"

none of those games were ever good"

Final Fantasy.

The SE merge started sucking the fun out of it.