"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

[Ipodman]

Halo for me. Halo 1 still has the best campaign of the series, Halo 2 has an awesome multiplayer and an evenly strong campaign. Halo 3 onwards to the recent Halo 17.5b seems like too much of a good concept with not much difference between each installment (IMO!). And tons of other shooters are on console now, so yeah...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I see this as a question of personal experiences as opposed to the quality of the product?

I am not burned out on Resident Evil. I just don't want to play bad games and the last one was bad.

I can understand being burned out on Halo, but are people really going to start arguing that the series standard has fallen? Halo 4 is probably the best game since Combat Evolved. Is it shiny and new? No, but I'd say it does what Halo 2, 3, ODST and even Reach did better. If Halo 4 is your first Halo, would be hard to be burned out on it because it is so good at what it does.

It reminds me of a review of Ocarina of Time. OoT holds its place as one of the two best Zelda's not because it is the best (though that is debatable), but because it was many people's jumping on point. Before the "burn out" set in. Hard to see playing it and Twilight Princess in reverse order and thinking OoT is superior.

 

[Electro UK]

It reminds me of a review of Ocarina of Time. OoT holds its place as one of the two best Zelda's not because it is the best (though that is debatable), but because it was many people's jumping on point. Before the "burn out" set in. Hard to see playing it and Twilight Princess in reverse order and thinking OoT is superior.

I sort of see what you mean, but I think it speaks oceans about the series that you're favorite entry is likely to be whichever one you play first.

 

[Destructus86]

Call of Duty/Modern Warefare, whatever it's called now. After the first couple games I just stopped playing after realizing I was paying for the same game each year only with a new number attached to it.

God of War...it's done, Sony, let it go.

Resident Evil...because one can only handle so much corny storytelling before you just need to put it away for good.

 

[Soapy]

I sort of see what you mean, but I think it speaks oceans about the series that you're favorite entry is likely to be whichever one you play first.

Do you think that's really true though?

 

[Havok83]

Do you think that's really true though?

Not always but I think it tends to more be the case when coming later into a long running franchise at least for me. FFX, COD4, Mega Man 3, Zelda: A Link to the Past, for example are all my favorite entries in their respective franchises. Obviously thats just an opinion and not going to hold true for everyone

 

[Electro UK]

Do you think that's really true though?

I dunno, I'm kinda mulling it over myself. I think that, essentially, the games that follow OoT have been near carbon copies of it, with Wind Waker being the only exception (and that's really only of a visual level).

I guess it's hard to tell because for so many, myself included, OoT was my first Zelda. But if I'd played Twilight first not knowing all the usual plot points and mechanics it was going to follow? I can totally see myself liking that game more if that was the case.