Which franchise is this image about, /v/?
TES obviously
But people will pretend to epic troll that this is Fallout
>>320872148
>TES
>Not GTA
>Not MGS
>Not Halo
>Not Pokemon
>>320871964
MGS
>>320872229
>implying emerald > Soul Silver
>>320871964
persona, first thought
halo, but whoever thought 3 was good would be wrong
>>320872370
>Soul Silver
>Not Heart Gold
>>320871964
The *Shock series.
>>320872410
>implying Ho-oh > Lugia
>>320872325
but mgs2 is better than mgs1
>>320872229
>>320872325
>literally nobody except tge hardcore fans have pplayed these two
are you guys legitimately retarded? Metal Gear Solid was one of the most popular Playstation One title.
>>320872229
But GTA 2 is widely played, 3 is shit and 5 > 4
>>320872436
How?
SS1 and SS2 were both played quite a bit. Where would Bs1 and Bs2 fit in? 3 and 4? I'm so confused man.
>>320871964
Every Franchise Ever
Your thread sucks OP, put the answer right in the image.
>>320872513
this
It is right about 3 being the peak and everything afterwards being downhill though
>>320872513
Game 1 and game 2 refer to Metal Gear and Metal gear 2. not metal gear solid
>>320871964
This is literally Pokemon.
>>320872229
>>320872398
>halo 1 and 2
>only played by the most hardcore of fansstill have yet to beat 2 on legendary though
>>320872641
>mgs2
>trying to be realistic
>>320871964
Halo
>>320871964
It would work for fallout, except 3 is objectively the worst in the series.
Half Life
>>320871964
Halo.
>>320872795
Switch NV with 3 and 3 with 4.
Then it's still accurate more or less
NV is best in franchise, 3 is shit.
>>320872750
I was speaking for the other anon. I don't agree with him but he was referring to MG1 and MG2
>>320872795
>he hasn't played 2 best fallouts
faggot with shit taste
Devil May Cry?
>>320872675
>gens 1 and 2 only played by the most hardcore fans
>gen 3 the best
>>320871964
Literally Metal Gear and Resident evil
>>320871964
so close to being persona
>>320871964
Can't think of a single one that fits this shitty image.
>>320872906
Agreed.
>>320872945
But i have played Fallout 1 and NV.
>>320871964
The general progression model fits Fire Emblem fairly well, though I wouldn't say that Fire Emblem was obscure before Awakening, just less popular than it is now.
>>320872951
Everyone hates DmC
>>320873026
Well that can't be right considering most genwunners are uber normies
Also gen 5 is objectively the best
>>320873026
Gen three is pretty shit (Especially the water routes), but I've seen a lot of fanboys say it's the best.
I want to say MMBN series, but there's no Game 6I'll just assume that it's looking back at what made Game 3 better and make it better
F.E.A.R fits 3-4-5, more or less.
>>320873068
>inb4 he thinks 4 was good
>>320871964
Project Gotham Racing except they never made it to 5.
This really doesn't apply to many franchises at all, let alone all of them.
>>320871964
Can't think of any game franchise that is like this. Not even MGS which was clearly meant by this post.
>>320873027
>Resident evil
>implying second game isn't one of the best ones
>Resident Evil 3 being the best one
>RE4 having bad art direction
>RE4 being hated by anyone except contrarians and even they agree it's a good game on its own, just doesn't fit in RE franchise
>RE5 returning to form, not just being a shit rehash of 4 with coop
>>320871964
Dragon Quest if each blurb was at least positive feeling.
Halo franchise fits it pretty well.
A few mistakes- Game 4 isn't better than the first two, and most people have played the first two as well.
Guys, it's fucking Ace Combat.
Of course it's Ace Combat.
>>320873630
why the fuck would someone make an image about ace combat? who gives a shit about ace combat.
This applies to pretty much any game where the 3rd game is the "breakthrough" game i.e. Elder Scrolls and GTA.
>>320873163
I only hold that gen 3 is the best because it the only pokemon I've ever played
>>320871964
Fire Emblem to some extent?
>>320871964
>what is gothic
works for TES tho
>>320871964
TES of course
>>320873918
Gothic 3 is the best one? Nobody likes it. Too shitty for fans and still too weird for generla audience.
Arcania really isn't Gothic. And it has no fifth game (yet). You can't count Risen.
retarded image
>>320872148
It would be Fallout if NV were Game 3 and 3 were Game 4.
saints row
>>320873630
Nah. Game 5 and 4 are ways off.And there's no game 0
>>320873740
Shut your whore mouth.
>>320874185
>saints row 3
>The best one
>>320872549
>gta 5
>better than 4
Fuck no
>>320872229
MGS doesn't fit that at all you fuck.
>>320874372
i missed the physics engine for people. GTA4 was hilarious with that desu.
>>320871964
Hitman
>>320872675
>>320873026
Posts like these make me realize just how underage this place really is
>>320871964
It sort of works for Monkey Island except that the first 2 aren't any more obscure that the later ones, and that there was no huge advertising for Tales
This loosely applies to the mainline Battlefield series.
>>320874638
But Hitman Bloody Money is considered the best one, with the third one being the lazy one that takes half the levels from 1 (still the second best though). Blood Money expanded on everything and made it all better.
SMT Persona. Elder Scrolls could fit as well.
>>320873413
moreso that everyone else thinks it was good, i much prefer 3.4 aint got the fuuka bazooka
>>320871964
Tekken
>>320871964
The cycle tends to start at game 3 now.
Mention a Nintendo game that actually falls in this.
> pro tip, you cunt.
>>320872675
how is Game 4 gen 4?
Mechanics actually became harder with physical special split. It definitely hasn't aged as badly as gen 3.
>>320871964
This is almost an absolutely perfect description of Legacy of Kain, for what it's worth.
>>320871964
Persona
It's Star Ocean, 'kay?
>>320875007
4 had teddy.
That's enough to make 3 better
>>320872148
How is Skyrim "an attempt at a return to form?"
Spoonfeed me; it's the only TES game I've played, but even I know it's casual as shit.
>>320877265
its better than oblivion
>>320878105
>better than oblivion
a stomach ulcer is better than oblivion
Huh.
Metroid kinda fits.
>>320878246
that doesn't refute my point that skyrim is better than oblivion
i'm actually a huge elder scrolls fan, i still love oblivion, but it's the worst of the most recent three elder scrolls games
>>320871964
5 isn't out yet but if it's as easy as 4 I'm just going to start playing 3 over and over like an autist
>>320872641
That would make Game 3 MGS which fits.
But MGS2 does fit Game 4, it didn't casualise itself and definetly didn't remove the TECHNOLOGY moments, it added them.
>>320871964
soon to be etrian odyssey when V finally arrives
>>320871964
Star Ocean.literally nobody but me thinks this
>>320878892
They've got two more games to strap a forced story onto.
>>320879308
I don't really mind the tacked on story so much as I FUCKING HATE GRIMOIRE STONES OH MY GOD
Super Mario Bros.
>>320879149
i remember last hope or whatever being so cringey and having such annoying characters that were more like concepts or tropes that i wanted to kill myself by the time i was done 100%ing it
>>320879560
Yeah, those things are fucking shit, in concept and execution.
>>320872229
Yeah,only the most hardcore fans played the 2 first games of these franchises, retard.
>>320871964
Nothing I've ever played. It's obvious the creator didn't think this through before they made it.
>>320879718
>he 100%ed it
I enjoyed the game sort of because the combat system was good, but god damn, given a choice between having to 100% that game and going directly to jail, I would take the buttpounding in a heartbeat, I played it like 400 hours and never even got close to a few of the more retarded trophies. I managed to beat second form EQ on Chaos and that's as far as I got in that, I can only imagine how fucked achieve hunters would have been if final form EQ on Chaos had been a requirement, especially considering a good amount of the time your game froze mid-Wandering Dungeon due to it being a glitchy pile of shit, so you wasted a good 15 hours just getting to each attempt at the boss then immediately got fucking destroyed every time. Even second form and to an extent first form were fucking ridiculous, that rage bar boost monsters got in Chaos was worse than the stat buff they got.
>>320872513
Most people here weren't born until the PS2 was at its peak.
>>320872148
But Morrowind isn't clearly the best in the series.
>>320880702
bait
>>320880062
Here, I did a deeper version. See if it's your franchise.
>>320881615
FF?
Persona
>>320872229
>>320872325
>>320872634
>>320874961
>>320879065
>nocturne and snake eater
>good
Plz fuck off to >>>/lgbt/ faggots
>>320881615
Ultima?
2hu?
>>320872398
Persona 3 is so much worse than 4. it's aged so poorly it's virtually unplayable.
>>320881615
The only franchise that this could possibly apply to is Final Fantasy.
What's another franchise with more than 12 games?
>>320881834
>snake eater
>not the best in the series
It's okay to have shit taste anon
>>320882174
0/10
>>320882179
Lots.
>>320871964
This doesn't apply to any JRPG series.
It applies to Civ without the retconning shit.
>>320879560
Eh, they're not so bad in Untold 2. At least they're tolerable there.
>>320871964
clearly elder scrolls
>>320875274
>implying gen 3 hasn't aged better than most video games period
nigger how wrong can you be
>>320882234
>snake eater
>best anything
The "MGS3 and Nocturne is good meme" are the worst things to happen to vidya, besides TBBT
>>320882458
>mfw mgs3 is the best mgs game and there's nothing you can do about it
>>320871964
That image has Street Fighter written all over it
>>320881320
It's true though
Daggerfall is much better
>People actually think this is Pokemon
>People actually think Gen 3 is good and Gen 4 is bad
>People think Gen 5 was a "return to form"
>>320881804
>>320882179
Did you not even read it?
>Game 7 recieved poorly
>>320874142
3 is game 4, tactics is game 3
which is wrong because tactics is ass
>>320882634
>muh boss isn't an OC plz donut steal character
Kek
Get some taste fag poster
>>320883127
Gen 3 is good, people do think Gen 4 is bad, Gen 5 was literally supposed to be Gen 1 3.0
>>320883306
Nice meme f.am
Enjoy your sht taste
>>320883760I like all the gens and I can't really say that any of them are bad.
>>320871964
Vanilla
TBC
WotLK
CataMop
WoD
>>320884334i like them all except 6, 5 was iffy though and i was especially disappointed with the music. the mon designs have always been good though, even some of the megas
>>320871964
None.
Best games number always are 1 and 2.
>>320881615
Zelda probably. Judging solely on Game 6 being an edgy Game 5.
Smash Bros if you remove Game 1.
>>320872436
This, except bioshock 2 vastly improved the game play mechanics, and when you actually think about it, infinite's story is very very similar to 2.
Infinite was graphically the best game and a had a very good aesthetic that matched rapture, but it's story was trash seeing as Levin had to change the story due to its 'conflicting' religious narrative. The e3 demo they showed off was absolutely incredible in like every way, and then the final product was reduced to a generic fps with plasmids.
>>320884776
Bait.
>>320872580
SS1+2 is game 1
BS1+2 is a mix of games 2, 3, and 4 mostly 2 and 3
Infinite is the dogshit of games 4 and 5
Infinite dlc is 5(trying to get fans of game 3/bioshock 1+2 back in)
and now its dead
>>320871964
Is that supposed to be Persona or something
Literally the only series I can think of that fits the model
And Far Cry
>>320884503
>5 was iffy though and i was especially disappointed with the music
But they were one of the best things about gen 5 aside from when bw2 became a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk4Xfqvph8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2GeWOMgxiE
>>320882395
>that horrendous RS font/perma CAPS LOCK
I think they fixed it in the later gen3 games but replaying it hurt
>>320881834
>thinking snake eater is the third in the series
>never played mg1 and mg2
>being this pleb
>>320872513
And the ps1 tittle is the third game in the metal gear series
>>320872812
>>320882264
>can't control characters
>annoying tired mechanics
>bunch of other bullshit
P4 is what P3 should have been.
>>320884179
>>320883306
>>320871964
RESIDENT EVIL 5
In a more generalistic sense it usually goes like this:
>Game 1
The basic skeleton of the franchise, often lacks cohesion and tries a lot of different things, independent of how well it does.
>Game 2
Experimental, has a different feel from the rest of the franchise and a lot of the things introduced in this game don't show up elsewhere in the franchise
>Game 3
What Game 1 should have been in the first place, realized with experience gained from the previous two games. The franchise starts taking up shape and actually feels like a proper franchise now. This is the true skeleton upon which the future games in the franchise are built.
>Game 4
A safer version of Game 3, often streamlined too much to the point of being dumbed down. If the franchise is ever going to become mainstream this is the point where it should explode to that audience. The timeline splits here...
>Game 5 & on (mainstream timeline)
The franchise is fucked, from now on it will keep underdelivering and every game will be overhyped casual garbage.
>Game 5 & on (niche timeline)
Good games, however the franchise will creatively stagnate, this is usually offset by some very creative spin-offs when they happen.
>Game 5 & on (bankruptcy timeline)
There's no Game 5 or any other for that matter, the franchise might be bought out by another company in the future and remade as it would be in the mainstream timeline. It's better off dead to be honest.
>>320871964
Probably every game ever seriously. Except maybe the Final Fantasies and DMC.
Games I can think of are,
Gothic
Ninja Gaiden
The Elder Scrolls
Mass Effect
Prince of Persia
Silent Hill
etc.
>>320882754
>only die hard fans play 1 & 2
Uwot
>3 is the best
Literally who the fuck plays Third Strike
>>320871964
That is so clearly made for Elder Scrolls.
>>320885547
I'd be mad if you weren't the most obvious troll in the thread
>>320871964
Burnout
>>320888901
>>320886817
Oblivion still had RPG elements. Skyrim is way more dumbed-down than Oblivion.
>>320886817
>Silent Hill 5
>return to form
kill yourself you flaming nigーskinned fagーgoblin
>>320874668
I was thinking this too. I'm surprised to find someone else who agrees that Curse was the best though. Most people prefer 2 and a number prefer 1 as well.
You might be able to count mainline SMT games? Notably for games 1-3 for sure; it gets alittle less accurate afterward.
It's obviously Wild Arms.
>>320888821
Literally no one has played Street Fighter (1). SF2 isn't played outside of the tourney scene and by tryhards who like to pretend that they're part of the tourney scene. It hasn't aged very well and a large number of SF fans have probably never played it (though, less still have played the Alpha games) but everyone knows the cast and talks shit about how imbalanced it was.
Thinking that Third Strike isn't WIDELY considered the best SF game is hilarious. It will last much longer than SF4.if you wanted to actually troll you'd have asked who plays New Generation
>>320871964
The Souls games.
Yes, DSII was the peak of the series. Bloodborne was a little disappointing and DSIII can fuck right off.
>>320871964
Undertale
>>320882754
No? SF2 was and still is the most successful and iconic game in the series. And SF3 was a total flop.
>>320889983
Nice bait
>>320889848
Me and my friend play SF2 all the time and we just play for fun
I play SF4 when I'm bored
Haven't touched any others
>>320871964
>nobody had played the first two games in an established series
I hate neo v more every day
>>320872398
>Persona first thought
That doesn't make any sense since the fourth game is the most popular and widely loved by the fans. No one except contrarians on /v/ believes that 4 was a bad game, especially since it improved on many concepts introduced in the third game.
>"but it was easier!"
Persona 3 was easy as fuck, especially FES.
>>320871964
Prolly Metal Gear
>>320871964
Gears of war
>>320889983
Not quite Dark Souls...A lot of people played Dark Souls 1 (unless you mean King's Field or something)
>>320872148
>3
>good
HAHAHAHAHA
>>320871964
GTA
Battlefield
CoDBo3 is good though
>All these retards mentioning Persona
I guess you are forgetting that P4 is the most popular and loved game in the series. I would rather say that the weakest game in the Persona series is 3, it deviated alot from 1 and 2 pissibg of fans of those, the systems it implemented were all undercooked and didn't feel entirely thought out. In contrast, 4 improved on these systems and made them better, not good, but better.
>>320889542
>mfw playing WA 4
I don't know if I'm a bad enough dude to finish it.
>Game 1
The classic. Great gameplay, good enough story and just enough fans to make its money back.
>Game 2
The peak, though some fans will tout Game 1 was better, but most feel that Game 2 is overall the best. Opens up a much wider audience.
>Game 3 begins the downslope, screwing up some of the great features or ideas in Game 2 in an effort to 'innovate' or due to time constraints after Game 2's popularity places too many demands on dev team. Series ends here of the trilogy curse comes into effect and the story is also garbage. May be seen later in a rebooted one-off to grab some nostalgia bux.
>Game 4
If Game 3's story managed to still be good enough to satisfy fans, Game 4 will be made, and this is where the series will divide. Games 4, 5 and 6 and so-on, will slowly remove and degrade the gameplay formula perfected in 2 while introducing similarities from other AAA games thought to be its competitors. This is generally where any sensible fan jumps ship and watches from afar as something special is made not. The other path will be the inevitable GOTY eds., "Anthologies" or "[dev team name] Collection" repacks of 1, 2 and 3 in a shameless attempt to grab some of those fans back with what the publisher knows they like.
>Mystery Black Hole Game ~If a game series is still alive after two trilogies, this is the point where the name itself its only marketable merit. Even the normies are tired of it. It is now a F2P RPG or shooter trying to con Russians and BR's out of their play money. If this was a series you loved, this moment is akin to the police asking you to verify the identity of a family member. For any further concerns, see the grief cycle.
>>320891410
Continue: Besides, theres nothing indicating that 5 would be the "return to form" and pander to the fans of 3. On the contrary, it seems more like it panders to the fans of 4, which makes sense since it's the most popular and loved game in the series, despite what contrarians and P3fags at /v/ says. 2 is the best one anyway.
Undertale desu
>>320872229
>hoenn
>the best
>>320886817
>Gothic 3
>Clearly best in the series
You must be joking.
