8 Video Game Trilogies That Went From Bad To GREAT
6. Street Fighter
It's easy to assume that the original Street Fighter is a great game because, given the series' legacy as one of the most iconic fighting game franchises of all time, why wouldn't it be?
But the game that started it all is and always has been bad.
For starters, Ryu and Ken are the only two playable characters. Beyond that, the controls feel like wading through treacle, and the enemy difficulty is woefully unbalanced, resulting in regular frustration.
It's a horrible game to play beyond the inherent curiosity factor, honestly, and so it's easy to see why Street Fighter II was the game which propelled the series to stratospheric success.
It felt so much better to play, it looked so much better, and touted one of the most instantly iconic rosters in the genre's history - a perfect storm of design decisions that made it a pop-culture behemoth overnight.
And though Street Fighter III didn't become quite the same mainstream mainstay, it is a brilliant successor in its own right, especially once it received the superb 3rd Strike re-release.
That such genre mastery was achieved by Capcom after such a shaky - if undeniably history-making - debut remains shocking to this very day.