After watching the latest Zero Punctuation, it dawned on me that the second game in a trilogy is almost unanimously the best and the third game is when they start removing features that were present in the second game as well as it just being a weaker game in general.
Uncharted 2 was amazing and had a bunch of different tweaks and skins that you could run through the story with, which was good for a few laughs and added a lot of replay value. Uncharted 3 was a good-bordering-on-fine game and had none of that.
Not a trilogy, but from what I remember the first Tomb Raider game was good, Tomb Raider 2 was great, and 3/4 were pretty bad. Same with Need for Speed, the Spider-man games (Based off the newest movies), etc etc.
So! Can anyone think of more examples/trilogies that defy this/an explanation for it?
Uncharted 2 was amazing and had a bunch of different tweaks and skins that you could run through the story with, which was good for a few laughs and added a lot of replay value. Uncharted 3 was a good-bordering-on-fine game and had none of that.
Not a trilogy, but from what I remember the first Tomb Raider game was good, Tomb Raider 2 was great, and 3/4 were pretty bad. Same with Need for Speed, the Spider-man games (Based off the newest movies), etc etc.
So! Can anyone think of more examples/trilogies that defy this/an explanation for it?