Games That Ruined Their Series

[Mass Distraction]

I don't think I really have a game that would have ruined a franchise for me, I tend to like all the games I buy.

I guess the two closest ones I have played would be King of Fighters XII and Ninja Gaiden 3. Yet, with KoFXII the gameplay itself was amazing and the art looked gorgeous, what went wrong with it were the super laggy online and boring time trial arcade modes but everything was fixed in XIII so no problems there. Ninja Gaiden 3 on the other hand was by far one of the worst games I have ever played but I hear they fixed almost everything in Razor's Edge and Yaiba brought my hopes for the series back up a bit. Still weary of NG4, though.

EDIT: Oh, oh! I have a better one! Dino Crisis 3. Didn't that game end up killing the whole series?

Resident Evil 6: Just an overall worse version of RE5 (which I liked).

Version? I was so much different from RE5 that the only thing they had in common was Chris as a playable character.

Castlevania, it's pretty clear the latter of those two games only has a success when it repeats the boring jump and whip controls of the first game.

Not exactly true. The Lords of Shadow games sold really well.