Haha, what?

I legitimately can't recall a series that doesn't have sub-par CG. While Pre-2005 series have the excuse of their technology, everything else is just them not trying. While some series' CG does improve (Kiva and Double's CG undergo a definite improvement as the series moves on), but for the most part, if meh CG will make or break a show, you might as well not watch Kamen Rider :lol

I'd like to reference Linkara's take on poor CG. If the story is good, then we can let a few bad effects slide.

Bad CGI doesn't break it for me at least not as much as it does in Blockbuster films, I recognise that they have don't have heaps of cash to chuck at this.

But I do wish they'd use less of it.

I'd rather have meh CGI if it means we have awesome fights. I just figure they don't have enough budget for good CG because it all went to great martial arts.

Besides, every now and then it'll suprise you. I remember thinking the bird/bug/tank/spider thing from W/Decade looked a hell of a lot better than, say, the garbage T-rex from the first episode.

Also Den-O's henshin never looked all that bad to me. Sometimes the visors were pretty glaring but they did a good job of making it not look totally out of place, even if it wasn't "convincing." Though I agree they could use less. Especially when you have scenes like in the early Den-O and W eps where the enemies turn into giant monsters and they have REALLy weird CG fights. Glad that concept didn't stick around in either, especially W. (then again we had the odd time of Accel turning into Bike mode and focusing on every polygon before his little weird tank guy showed up, but what can you do?) Wizard, from what I can tell, also loves big CGI things onc ein a while.

I do remember that Den-O used a lot of bad CG fights to sell the new train car toys for the Den-Liner. That was pretty terrible (Especially when you realize they only had like, 3 giant monster models)

Outside of the T-Rex dopant (And the Quetzacoatl Dopant, like, 20 episodes later), I really don't recall any giant monster fights in Double.

Tricia?

This is part of the reason I couldn't get into W, they basically used CGI at every single moment they could and everything just looked like shit.

I know you should be able to appreciate the story blahblah but it's also a visual medium and when over half of your episode looks like it was rendered on a playstation I can't get invested in anything because I'm too distracted by how poorly put together it is.

Watched Episode 4 of Blade, and damn this show just keeps you entertained. Things picked up and I am really enjoying the characters.

Man, if you think it's good now, wait until the show kicks into high gear around episode fifteen.