What's a game you know that suffers from first game syndrome?

[Magnadeus]

For people who aren't aware, the term "first game syndrome" is a game that started off poorly, but got much better with future installments.

[Senator Armstrong]

Far Cry
Assassins Creed
Elder Scrolls
Fallout

[MEGA MAN]

starcitizen

[Electric Cupcake]

Megaman 2 and Street Fighter 2 are probably the best known examples.

[jeremywyx]

minecraft, i know its huge now but in teh indev phase no a lot of peopel played it. then it got better and betetr and the rest is hystory...

[vkobe]

no man sky

[76561198356019466]

The Settlers
Saints Row

[Birds]

Farcry 2, but it fell down again partway through Crysis.
Onimusha.
Mario.
Final Fantasy.

most games just get worse or don't spawn many sequels, usually both.

[Goldias]

Farcry
Shadow hearts
Persona
Judgment

[potato]

you mean a game that got post launch updates and made better? or games that had sequels better than the original game?

[Pierce Dalton]

TimeSplitters.

[Nightlight]

The first Mega Man game is definitely the worst of the classic Mega Man series. You can tell they were still working things out.

[xDDD]

Age of Empires 1
Warcraft 1
The Elder Scrolls Arena

[Magnadeus]

Originally posted by potato:

you mean a game that got post launch updates and made better? or games that had sequels better than the original game?

Sequels better than the original. But if it's a single game that had a very bad start that has no sequels, then it get better with updates, that counts too.

[mimizukari]

Mega Man Battle Network. BN1 was nothing more than a concept, a good concept but so clunky, none of the QOL from the future games would exist yet and you'd even need to waste a spot in your attack folder to escape from battles...

BN2 and onwards are goated games... and yet when I went back to the series recently BN1 might've been the only one I 100% completed xD

[凸(◣_◢)凸]

honestly no man's sky did bounce back a lot from super poor launch