Oh no, I played all of the AC games and don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they were bad games. I'm just saying that the FIRST one wasn't anything special.
So you can let a few things go in the first one but in the... Next one? Y'know, kinda like the sequel? That one has to be perfect or it's automatically mediocre and nothing more?
And can I ask why you keep going back to the Jason X thing? I was just picking out a few sequels and that was one that I threw out off the top of my head. I could have gone with Freddy vs. Jason or Jason Goes to Manhattan or Jason Goes to Hell. I mean there are still plenty of examples.