Gaming series that haven't let you down

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Originally Posted by VeloZer0

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Persona has become this, yes most fans can't stomach the first entries and prefer the high school sim entries,

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Orly? I tried playing P4 and found the high school sim elements made it unplayable. Maybe I should give P1 & 2 a look.

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That's why I said fans and you've said before you prefer your games to be serious in terms of story as well as gameplay :p

Personally I like P3 more than P4 cause P4 has balancing issues in terms of the high school sim vs. dungeon crawling. P3 was far more flexible and generous with resources so you could play with the fusion system more unlike P4 where you'll be maxing out the part time jobs first and grinding for money cause the game is frugal about giving the player anything.

P1 is old school RPG and has a rather complicated elemental weakness system. When I say old school I need to specify, it may be a PS1 game but its design is more akin to first person dungeon crawlers (with a more PS1 battle RPG battle system) and its plot is downright ridiculous, though the alternate Snow Queen quest is a bit more serious and horror genre like.

P2 has a much better battle system that's pretty similar to Breath of Fire IV's combo attack system. Skills can be combined to make new or bigger attacks and its all based on the order the skills are cast in. The cool part is that you can actually change the parties order to accommodate for slow characters but what this does is make the party unable to move until this slow character gets his natural turn. Meaning you have to be really careful on how you set-up your party and sometimes have to factor in the risk of letting bosses get the first strike in a battle in exchange for pulling off a super powerful Quintet Combo attack over using smaller combos to keep your healer free to heal. it also has P1's complicated elemental weakness system, throw in it has one of the more serious stories in the series once you get to P2: Eternal Punishment.

Now that Case Zero has made it a series, I can safely include Dead Rising here.

Mass Effect, but they've only had two games so far. I wanna say Splinter Cell series, but the last installment left something to be desired. I can't see how it took them that long to make a short game even with co-op.

Team Ico games (not exactly a series but oh well:p)

Resident Evil

Gran Turismo

Uncharted (too early to consider it a series but so far both games are amazing)

Many other game series that i love or used to love,have at least one flawed game in their history.

I'd like to add Ace Combat. Every installment is just solid.

And I agree on MGS. Even though MGS2 seems a bit sketchy to me, I do get a certain vibe from it when I think about it, and that's a good thing.

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

Halo.

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The (numbered - in other words, RTS) Warcraft series.
The Civilization series.
The Uncharted series (all two games!).

Here you go:

Dragon Quest
Gothic (although this is about to end, when Gothic 4 is released by a different developer)

Yeah, that's pretty much it for "series" with more than two games, unless you want to talk about old series that died long ago.

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Originally Posted by Dreddz

I'd love to say Final Fantasy but after XIII I just dunno. I thought Square has a near flawless track record up until then.

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Same. Final Fantasy is the closest series to attain a perfect record for me, regardless of how horrendously bad XIII was.

I'm trying to think of a series I play often but each has had their flaws. Tekken was great throughout apart from 4. Syphon Filter was awesome on the PS1 but when it moved to the PS2 platform it blew.

I guess you could say Kingdom Hearts? I liked 1 & 2.

Sonic the Hedgehog.
(SPOILER) Got you all there, didn't I?

Golden Sun. Pretty much the only one.

I haven't played Chrono Cross, so I can't add that series to the list.

Mass Effect is a close runner up, but ME2 did definitely have a couple disappointments, even if it was overall awesomeness incarnated.

Metroid would have been on this list, but Other M took it out of the running.

And Zelda got knocked out by Phantom Hourglass.

I guess Mario for me. I haven't played enough of other series to have an opinion on those. Oh wait I have played every iteration of Tekken and I liked all of them, but I am getting tired of the series, so I don't know.

Kingdom Hearts. Funny thing, I was saying to my wife earlier this night, Kingdom Hearts series is, to me a damn near perfect gaming experience. I can never get tired of playing them.
The MGS series is pretty solid, Final Fantasy is good except for them calling XI and XIV part of the numbered series, instead of just online.
The tactics series has sold me. Advanced and A2 were trying to get into, but once I did, I really enjoyed playing them.
And ofcourse there is the Legend of Zelda series, which in my opinion hasn't had a bad game.

Duke Nukem.

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Originally Posted by black orb

>>> Im surprised how many people mentioned FF.. Im a die hard fan and I still love the series but some people have to admit that FF13 is the truly disappointment of the whole series..:luca:

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It's not a disappointment if it's everything you've wanted in a Final Fantasy game. To me it's the best yet! Some people like blueberries and hate raspberries and some vice versa. It never let me down, but seeing as there are many elements to it that just aren't very popular it's only natural that some are going to be disappointed.