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Quaidis

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The question of the thread: What sequels to games feel like a badly-written internet fan-fiction? Like it was written by the last game-maker's teenage daughter and her friends and pitched out into the market for extra cash. How so? Is this a good thing or a bad thing to you for this particular game?

A brief example: Say a game was made that was so-so. You enjoyed it and did not feel like your money had been a waste. Then this sequel comes out and, most certainly, you buy it. All the sequel contains are the female characters (or lookalikes thereof) from the first, but set up as their own rock band! So they go on an adventure in skimpy, unrealistic clothing and most of the game consists of running from place to place to fight one monster, then being forced to watch a cut scene where they play their badly sung music.

Or another example: Good game, sequel is fine with the exception that it was written by kids with no talent whatsoever. So every word coming from a character's mouth constantly breaks character or consists of inappropriate smiley text faces. Overall the sequel looks far too unprofessional to be an actual game.

A third example: The sequel to the Star Wars Trilogy.



Feel free to give spoilers, so long as you're spoiling a game that you're certain no one would enjoy buying.
 

Bowstring

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Haha, I was about to reply with "Star Wars Episodes I - III come to mind" before I finally finished reading your post. George Lucas is starting to smell like old meat.

Well, the transition from MGS1 to MGS2 made me pretty skeptical at first. The switch in main characters lost the awesome factor of the series for me. It didn't feel like the same game.
 

PedroSteckecilo

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um... Final Fantasy X-2 anyone? Feels like a bad Mary Sue Fic with a Happy Ending Epilogue fic tacked onto the end (I'll admit I liked the Happy Ending)
 

Aries_Split

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Wow...I feel incredibly guilty, as I write fan-fiction. Not for games of course, but the guilt is there all the same.

But honestly, NEVER go into the Metal gear solid section of fan-fiction.com.

EVER.
I can not see how ANYONE in their right mind would put OtaconxSnake...
*throws up*
 

_Serendipity_

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Off-topic:
One night my girlfriend and I were watching Ice Age (the animated kids film with grumpy mammoths and comically-retarded sloths) whilst discussing fan-fiction (... for some reason...). The two got sort of mingled, and we ended up wondering if there was any MannyxDiego fan-fiction.
Once the idea had got into our heads, we had to check, if just to see if Rule 34 [http://xkcd.com/305/] was right.
It is.

... and that's a weird insight into my personal life...

On-topic:

All resident evil games outside of the main titles (Dead Aim, then really shitty non-canon one on the Game Boy) seemed like badly, badly written fan-fiction.

Not technically a squeal, but Enter the Matrix.
 

The Wooster

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PedroSteckecilo said:
um... Final Fantasy X-2 anyone? Feels like a bad Mary Sue Fic with a Happy Ending Epilogue fic tacked onto the end (I'll admit I liked the Happy Ending)
Agreed. The whole concept was retarded.

Jak and Daxter 2 had a very bizarre shift in style which I didn't take to at all. It came off as a teenage version of the first game.