Sonic could be argued to be better than it’s sequels – maybe Sonic 2, 3 and Sonic & Knuckles were up to standard, but after that – once we started getting cross-franchise and 3D games it all went horribly wrong for my spiky blue haired hero.

Morrowind was the best Elder Scrolls game at the time, better than Arena or Daggerfall but it was a much better game than Oblivion, despite Oblivion being much larger and more impressive – the thing was Oblivion was mostly just space. Sure the add-ons were cool, but Bloodmoon was better than the Shivering Isles and Tribunal was more interesting than The Knights of the Nine.

I guess the moral is that with an increase in technology, video game sequels SHOULD improve on the original but only if the developers understand the mix that made the original game great and expand on that – better graphics with a crap story or a bigger world with more bells & whistles but lots of clipping and bugs are NOT improvements.

For example – Sonic should run, fast, left to right – end of story. TES games should be vast, but CHARACTERFUL.