The most disappointing game sequels

[Dfskelleton]

Blood II (which I'm playing now) isn't dissapointing in the voice acting, story or atmosphere categories (Caleb is as funny and awesome as ever), but the gameplay... AAAAUGH, THE GAMEPLAY. It goes beyond the fun challenge of Blood and into pure cheapness. I noticed that if you play with God mode on, it becomes much easier to admire the games true strong areas. Normally, I would feel shameful for using cheats to finish a game, but anyone who has played it would probably agree that finishing the game without cheats is like trying to play Bach's Brandenburg concertero no.3 with one foot.
Seriously, enemies can stand direct hits from napalm cannons, and are so accurate with their attacks that they could hit you inbetween the eyes with a thrown pencil from 60 yards away.

 

[RedDeadFred]

*Puts of flame shield* Mass Effect 2.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Actually I suppose I can't criticize you (even thought that is one of my favorite games ever) because the game I picked is also quite widely loved.
OT: Starcraft 2. Sorry, I just don't see what sets this apart from any other RTS and the story was really disappointing for me. And don't say it's more balanced. They are constantly updating the game by buffing and nerfing units.

 

[Rawne1980]

Far Cry 2 I agree with completely. It had so much going for it, it should have been great. Far more mediocre than I would have expected from something that looked so good in the build up.

And MW2. I'm not a fan of the CoD series as it is, and only it's fans seem to see it. They all look, play and feel exactly the same to me. I've tried them all to date and haven't managed to like a single one it just feels like if you've played one CoD game then you've played them all.

 

[Dfskelleton]

F.E.A.R 2, how could something so good have a sequel so bad....

Alright, screw what I said a few posts ago.
Replacing the scariest part of a good game is bad enough, but replacing it with a few shots of full frontal nudity and still expecting you to be scared is just sad.
It's like if you were playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent with all the monsters replaced with porn stars.

 

[Andaxay]

Fable III. *sigh* Given a set character to run around the villages delivering flowers and hooking people up. Sorely disappointing, I loved II to bits.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

BioShock 2. It went from amazing (BioShock) to painfully average (BS2).

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Devil May Cry 2 was the worst sequel ever made, fact of life.
After playing the first game everyone was prepped and buzzed. The coverage in GamesMaster made the game look amazing, bosses especially.
Then you play the game and just... just weep. Frantically.

Also, DA2. Woo.

 

[Spawny0908]

Bioshock 2, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Jak 2...

 

[DrunkPickle]

I agree with Andaxay, Fable III was a big let down. However, Fable II wasn't that great either. I liked the first one the most; progressively, the sequel is getting worse with every release. I starting to think Peter secretly wants to turn the Fable franchise into a Sims game...

 

[Aircross]

Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded
technically it isnt even a "sequel" because nothing in the main plot of that game has anything to do with the overrall story of the other games, its completely irrelevant until the last 10 minutes of cutscenes

That's why I call it Kingdom Hearts Re:Hashed

-Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Character supersaturation did not allow the developer of others. Terrible cliff-hanger.

-Dragon Age II
Dumbed down and the plot and characters were not well developed.

-Mass Effect 2
Streamlined some aspects that needed to streamlined, but removed a lot of the role-playing elements.

-Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk
Bad story, bad characters, I didn't like the tacked on pokemon system.

 

[DrunkPickle]

Well, it's not like all the the Eastern game industry didn't have its disappointing sequels...

 

[Aircross]

Well, it's not like all the the Eastern game industry didn't have its disappointing sequels...

Fire Emblem Sacred Stones and Radiant Dawn weren't good.

I gave up on Final Fantasy after Final Fantasy VI (meaning that I liked VI).

 

[MrRetroSpectacles]

Force Unleashed 2

Anyone who says KOTOR 2 will be force choked from where I am.

Force Unleashed 2 was another example of how Lucas himself has turned to the dark side, it was nothing more than theft without the basic decency to put more than 4 missions in it, thats lazy theft, and it really put me off buying any SW or watching it ever again. Lucas has proven the original trilogy was an accident, and he cares more for his own wallet than the people that made him what he is.

Star Wars Battlefront 3 is the only thing I'll contemplate buying if they make it, but i'd wait for a review and price drop first. I hope someone picks up that sell out prick and throws him into a deep pit, hopefully he'll land on a poster of American graffiti and remember who he used to be. Rant over

 

[Antonio Barrientes]

Soul Calibur 4- they had some good gameplay mechanics and new weapon style ideas in 2 and 3, a nice custom character option, fun game types, and it took more than a couple of days to unlock everything.

Then they sent it down the crapper- no more team battles (even though with the new tag system it would have been awesome), no alternative game types, a more colorful yet less-robust character creation mode which attached stats to costume pieces (many of which were completely arbitrary), and cut-and-paste "story mode" matches. I honestly felt like I was playing the same matches over and over again. You'd have thought they'd make better cutscenes instead of one ending cutscene for each character- it makes it so that the plot itself is essentially incoherent.

So yeah. That's my pick.

 

[Lieutenant Larceny]

Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Shut up, Animal Crossing is the shit.

 

[IKSA]

WOW no Deus Ex invisible war yet? thats strange. Then there would be mass effect 2 and Jak 3

 

[Raggedstar]

Suprised Okamiden wasn't mentioned. Let's get some things straight about that game.

-It was on a handheld. A handheld game that is a sequel to one of the greatest games on the PS2 library. Being on the DS is responsible for sacrificing many of the things that made Okami great (the visuals, music, level size, 30+ hour length, etc). The DS combat wasn't as good as PS2/Wii either.

-Everything dark or mature about the original is stripped away and it's turned into something really "safe" for a DS game. Everything is made cute and light. The original was cute too, but it seemed a lot more effective than this. Where is pervy Issun that makes me grin? Where's Mr Orange's drunken shuffle?

-Plot that made little sense and all connections to the original seemed forced.

-The main character that we spent 30+ hours loving was pretty much 100% ABSENT (among other lovable characters like Waka) and we're given a character that has less personality and makes even the side-characters more interesting. Seemed like the game was more about the kids than the "son"

-I know Okami was based on the older Zelda titles, but Okamiden REALLY looks like the DS Zeldas. Not really a HUGE bad thing, but Okami did a good job by freshening up the Zelda formula. Okamiden not as much. I know it was most likely coincidental, but it gives me a huge Spirit Tracks vibe (minus the trains).

And here's the kicker and I'm surprised not many people comment on it, and even more so many fans are taking this as fact to the canon.

-Okamiden completely RAPES the canon plot, and it can't even stay conistant. How did Shiranui get trapped in ice? Where did Kuni come from? Where is Ammy in all this? Where did this pup come from? Why is there a penguin and whale brush god when all the brush gods are supposed to be based on the zodiac? Why are gods suddenly multiplying into mini-me's? If Ammy IS Chibi's mother, who is the father? Why is this cutscene here when the original game established Shiranui died a different way? Who is this baddie? Wait, did they just call Shiranui grandfather? Wait, did they just say Ammy and Shiranui are different characters? Wait...DID THEY JUST SAY SHIRANUI (AND AMMY BECAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME CHARACTER) WERE MALES? I know the male thing is purely a translation error, but saying Shiranui and Ammy are different characters is INEXCUSABLE.

You can tell not only was it not made by Clover (RIP), but it's obvious Capcom really didn't care about it too much.

Though I must say the last boss is quite epic.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Well,

Modern Warfare 2 had nothing of what made the first great.
Bioshock 2 was just a horrible cash in.
Jak 3's story was total ass, whereas Jak II's is one of my all time favorites.

Jak 3 I thought was the better of the two games. It really balanced out the gameplay a lot so it wasn't painfully hard, it added the awesome Wasteland vehicles, and it was a nice ending to the series. It might not have been as good a story as 2, but it was a nice way to cap off the trilogy.

The Lost Frontier however, fuck that game.

 

[Frankster]

Off the top of my head....

Xcom terror from the deep: I know it's ballsy to criticize one of the first xcom games on the net but despite monster design, music and feel being spot on creepy and weird, the gameplay just wasn't fun due to retardly huge levels. I mean cmon! The tanker/cruiseliners missions, surely you lot must agree with me on this D:
So yeah didn't enjoy that one like vanilla xcom at all and despite persisting with it over the years i've never bothered finishing tftd. Oh and the last alien hiding is BS on those aforementioned massive multi level maps, would take me 30 mins to find the fucker, and would usually kill some of my men during the search too ><

Dragon age 2: I honestly think less of people that try to big it up as some masterpiece most of us "didnt get". Nay it's those defending them that allowed themselves to fall under the spell of biowares shoddiest golden cage ever built, the bioware golden cage effect being when a game appears far deeper and more interesting and responsive to your actions then it actually is. Only this was the worst example due to how little whatever you do matters in the actual plot.
Don't even get me started on the horribly structured plot or the game structure overall. not forgetting a horrid ending that serves as trailer for the next game, and this is ignoring the most common complaints such as teleporting enemies in combat, recycled dungeons and a limited inventory. Think most would agree the talent trees are better though!

Final fantasy 12:I can understand people liking this game, it just wasn't for me and has the honor of being the game that knocked me off the final fantasy fandom, I have never cared for the series again up to now, even if I still think fondly of the older games.