The most disappointing game sequels

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herbortamus

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Also forgot to mention that another of my favorite game is...............Deus Ex:Invisible War.
I never played the first one so I don't have any reason to hate the second one. I'd like to find a copy of the first, because my logic is: If I loved Invisible War so much, and everyone thinks it's garbage compared to the first, then the original will probably blow my mind.
 

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dead.juice said:
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dow 2, mostly cause it was just an entirely different game (it is a personal bug bear of mine when a game changes genre and gameplay so it bares no likenss to the original yet claims its a sequel)
I thought dow 2 was good, but it irks me too when a game completely changes its shit for the "sequel". If your going to go in a different direction, make it a spin-off, not a sequel.
Or at least change the name perhaps?
And yeah dow 2 wasnt a bad game, but i was looking forwards to swarming the place with tyranid hordes like i did with orks and guard in the older ones, but then they cut the numbers and added this cover based stuff which kinda annoyed me.
The story and campaign were vastly imporved and interesting compared to the last ones, but i just didnt enjoy it as much, maybe cause it felt almost cut down, less races, less manpower you could deploy and while the campaign as good, it was still a lot smaller.
but then i do like rts games where i can build large armie so im probably biased there
 

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This may as well be called the Kane & Lynch 2 thread.

I was a big, BIG fan of the first game. The story was solid and the characterization was perfect. The sequel had a flimsy story and next to zero character development. I'm not sure they even mention Lynch's condition and medication, the thing that made him such a lovable psychopath the first time around.
 

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dickywebster said:
dead.juice said:
dickywebster said:
dow 2, mostly cause it was just an entirely different game (it is a personal bug bear of mine when a game changes genre and gameplay so it bares no likenss to the original yet claims its a sequel)
I thought dow 2 was good, but it irks me too when a game completely changes its shit for the "sequel". If your going to go in a different direction, make it a spin-off, not a sequel.
Or at least change the name perhaps?
Get rid of the number and add a subtitle at least. I think that'd do the job.
And yeah dow 2 wasnt a bad game, but i was looking forwards to swarming the place with tyranid hordes like i did with orks and guard in the older ones, but then they cut the numbers and added this cover based stuff which kinda annoyed me.
The story and campaign were vastly imporved and interesting compared to the last ones, but i just didnt enjoy it as much, maybe cause it felt almost cut down, less races, less manpower you could deploy and while the campaign as good, it was still a lot smaller.
but then i do like rts games where i can build large armie so im probably biased there
The original WH40k tabletop game was based on battle scenarios. When they made dow, they were taking a game more like dow 2 and making it an RTS. It's a great achievement to have successfully turned WH40k into a RTS, and I can see the disappointment in taking that series ideal, and stepping backwards with it.
 

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All the Final Fantasy Tactics sequels. By no means bad games but c'mon... How hard would it be to go back to the original Ivalice and have badass classes and a cool storyline again? I don't want my Summoner to have to some stupid bunny thing. Where's my samurai?

:( super disappointed.
 

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"Gangsters 2"

I was a HUGE fan of the first game, "Gangsters: Organised Crime" and became a big part of the game's forums, co-founding a clan (my handle? The_Godfather of course!) in preparation of the sequel that was clearly going to blow our minds. It didn't. It was abominable. In utter disappointment and with some shame I never returned to the forums.
 

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Don't laugh at me, but Fable 3 is one of my most disappointing sequels. I enjoyed Fable 2 (so sue me) and for a split second there I actually believed what Peter Molyneux was saying, I glimpsed what could have been a very good game, but that was dashed when I played it. Damn you Molyneux, you just made the list!
 

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Mass effect 2, oh mass effect 2. You just ruined everything EVERY SINGLE THING about a good series Oh my god i hate this game.
 

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Oblivion - Although I still like Oblivion for some things that it did right, it is clearly a lesser game when compared to the glory that is Morrowind.

Civilization 5 - Ridiculous business practices showing a lot of greed, there.

Ultima Pagan - God almighty, how I cursed this game when it was released. The series never managed to bounce back after this one.

Might and Magic 9 - Strange, strange title. Wasn't charmingly tacky as 6 , 7 and 8, wasn't truly a new experience... Lost in time and space.

All Final Fantasy titles after 7 (yes, even 10) - Sad decline of a fantastic franchise. One of the reasons I cannot stand JRPG anymore.
 

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Resident Evil 4 was bad enough to deserve mention, that's not fair to the equally craptastic 5.

*waits for obligatory DA2 comments, despite not being on the list and despite it being a fantastic game in and of itself*
By itself, Dragon Age 2 was a great game. But just in that. I don't personally feel DA2 is much is a sequel at all. Sure, it's set in the same universe and uses a few characters from within Origins, but it doesn't continue the story. It branches off to show you the life and rise of a refugee fleeing Lothering with his family. And this is just any person who could've been killed by the darkspawn horde, but survived long enough to reach Kirkwall. Now, don't get me wrong, I love the game, and as a game it's great. It's just...in my eyes, Dragon Age 2 is no sequel.

My sequel of choice is Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Did not like. It felt like it was made simply to appease the fanboys and fangirls demanding more. There were some elements placed in there that aren't at all in the first game, and we would have seen them if they were. And my biggest disappointment about it was the way they changed voice actors for a portion of the characters. Zelos was one of my favorites, and his new voice sucks. ._. And I personally don't really like the plot a whole lot. And before someone calls me out saying that what I listed does not fully explain my opinion: I am too lazy to list all of my problems with the game.
 

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Definitely Fallout 3. Other than that, Fable III, although the second installment already started the decline.
 

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World War II. Tried to pass itself off as a "darker grittier" version of the Great War, but in the end just gave us a lot off war crimes and the advent of nuclear terror. Some people thought the pacing was good, but try telling that to the guys on teh Eastern Front. Also, biggest design mistake ever: jet fighters were being developed by both sides but didn't show up till nearly the end. Where's the fun in that?

Don't even get me started on Korea...
 

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The Force Unleashed 2. It was the worst game I ever played, which is a shame because the original is one of my favorite Star Wars games outside of KOTOR.
 

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Age of Empires 3. Definitely DA 2, not because they changed combat mechanics and such, I actually liked that. Because of the cluster**** way it through enemies at you basically ignoring logical thinking or the positioning and strategic emphasis the first one had. In my opinion I always thought DA:O could use a bit more urgency when it came to combat. Maybe not the breakneck speed that DA2 brought.

I also couldn't stand GTA4, and by the extension RDR, because almost everything about the game was just boring; RDR even more so. Not even the online could distract me enough, and I find it ridiculous that I had more fun simply running around with friends on online than trying to do anything alone, even acting like a normal ped was more entertaining with friends than going on rampages in GTA4 and RDR; and usually the point of the GTA series was to be a giant sandbox where you can have fun.

MGS4, after playing and loving every second MGS2 and MGS3 (guess worth noting that I started on MGS2, so I didn't have a man crush on Snake, yet.) MGS4 just came off as a collaborative effort to do way too much fan-service. Not to say I didn't have fun, but in every other installment, even the when I played the remake of the first one, I watched all cutscenes. I skipping a majority of the ones in MGS4 because they took an overly dramatic long amount of time to explain twists and curves of a story that, I felt, kinda fell apart at the start. Even worse, I was almost moved to tears with Snake killing himself to save the world, it gave him a messiah feeling to me, only to find out that he didn't and Big Boss appeared out of nowhere to explain the stuff I didn't exactly care about. I would've much Snake been the hero the world needed, but would never know about; like The Boss.

MK9, not to say I played much of the old games. The reworking of the game is actually incredibly good, and for a while, I really enjoyed it. But the online community ruins the game, most of them can't play and spam the overpowered characters and moves, and I guess it stems from how MK9's combat is. The combat isn't as focused on combos as the first, and only, fighting series I'm used is. (Blazblue) and is more focused on simply using the specials at your disposal to counter your opponent, especially because the lightning fast X-Ray attacks (where as in Blazblue, I feel it's more balanced because the game freezes the frame for the attack start up, but it doesn't actually cause the game to move, so it can only be used to punish actual mistakes, not a human's ability to react.)

And I guess I just wrote an essay on sequels, and I'm probably not close to all the ones I can think of.
 

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I'm really not clear on why the TC was banned for this...

At any rate, the one game that really comes to mind for me is Mercenaries 2. I absolutely loved the first one (Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction) when I played it on Xbox but the sequel somehow managed to be very near greatness and a failure at the same time. The gameplay was still there but there were so many glitches (objectives dying when you hadn't discovered them yet, some achievements unlocking seemingly unrelated to their conditions) and other problems (excessive abundance of money and air strikes comes to mind) that it didn't really come close to the magic of the original.
 

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I didn't like Assassin's Creed 2 compared to AC1.

But other than that, Bioshock 2 was a disappointment. There wasn't a big twist like in Bioshock. The scene with the golf club is probably my one of me favorite cutscenes in a game.
 

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I don't understand why he got banned...it wasn't offensive at all unless he slipped something under my nose...

OT: ActRaiser 2 was shit compared to the original.