The most disappointing game sequels
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People bashing RE4, DA2, WoW, Final Fantasy, Oblivion and even Fallout 3?
Can't change anyone's opinion but I just have to ask, where are your bloody standards?
RE4 is probably one of the best 3rd-person shooters ever made, DA2 wasn't up to the standards of the first one but heck, it's still a great game. WoW raping the storyline of WC3? There is no doubt that WoW is probably one of the best storyline's ever written, considering the massive amount of text that is the entire world of Azeroth. Final Fantasy 8 and 13 was, agreeably, huge disappointments but most of them are really good (FFX is one of my favorite games of all time, X-2 is quite high as well). Bashing Oblivion for not being as good as Morrowind is quite stupid, the same for DA2, since no artist can create the same masterpiece twice (example: Mona Lisa) and I'm not even gonna go into why Fallout 3 shouldn't be anywhere near this list, that's common sense and logic.
OT: As someone said, any Heroes after 3 was just... bad. Megaman X7 was also really bad and the same goes for almost any modern Nintendo-sequel, where did the awesome platforming and unforgiving difficulties go? :'(
PS. Sorry for feeding the trolls, couldn't keep my fingers off the keyboard.. DS.
Can't change anyone's opinion but I just have to ask, where are your bloody standards?
RE4 is probably one of the best 3rd-person shooters ever made, DA2 wasn't up to the standards of the first one but heck, it's still a great game. WoW raping the storyline of WC3? There is no doubt that WoW is probably one of the best storyline's ever written, considering the massive amount of text that is the entire world of Azeroth. Final Fantasy 8 and 13 was, agreeably, huge disappointments but most of them are really good (FFX is one of my favorite games of all time, X-2 is quite high as well). Bashing Oblivion for not being as good as Morrowind is quite stupid, the same for DA2, since no artist can create the same masterpiece twice (example: Mona Lisa) and I'm not even gonna go into why Fallout 3 shouldn't be anywhere near this list, that's common sense and logic.
OT: As someone said, any Heroes after 3 was just... bad. Megaman X7 was also really bad and the same goes for almost any modern Nintendo-sequel, where did the awesome platforming and unforgiving difficulties go? :'(
PS. Sorry for feeding the trolls, couldn't keep my fingers off the keyboard.. DS.
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It was cleverly disguised spam, but the mods have edited out the link now.Arontala said:
OT: For me it was Red Steel 2, while it was superior in many ways to the first game, in graphics and combat, just felt like it had something missing. Oh right, the story. While the first game wasn't going to win any awards for it's clichéd storyline (save your kidnapped girlfriend), at-least it was interesting and a good motivator. Number 2 moved down the rung to simply "the bad guys have taken over your clan's city, take it back." with no explanation of who you or anyone was.
GTA IV - Simply put, it wasn't fun. Part of that may have been the set-up. Instead of trying to build a crime empire, my focus was simply a revenge killing on one guy. Just not as fun a concept. Additionally, if I want to take a friend out for drinks/bowling/strip club, I'll turn off the game and do so. That it was almost mandatory to keep this huge stable of friends and girlfriend happy was a massive headache. Near the end, I would take turns, one day, I do missions, the next run around keeping everyone happy. Felt like it was thrown in just to pad the game's hours.
Civ V - I don't hate it, but I don't love it the way I love IV. Too much seemed dumbed down, but I generally don't want my games dumbed down at all.
Civ V - I don't hate it, but I don't love it the way I love IV. Too much seemed dumbed down, but I generally don't want my games dumbed down at all.
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[/quote]
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.[/quote]
Yeah, its a good point, ive played the tabletop game for like a decade now and still love it today, but fielding large scale battles or say over 2,000 points could take ages, the older dow games i felt helped do larger scale stuff, and while unrelated to the game, were just as fun to me but without having to spend possibly a whole day playing the tabletop game.
(Also, its a lot lot cheaper considering the recent price hikes...)
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[/quote]
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.[/quote]
Yeah, its a good point, ive played the tabletop game for like a decade now and still love it today, but fielding large scale battles or say over 2,000 points could take ages, the older dow games i felt helped do larger scale stuff, and while unrelated to the game, were just as fun to me but without having to spend possibly a whole day playing the tabletop game.
(Also, its a lot lot cheaper considering the recent price hikes...)
I don't see anything wrong with it, but I'm assuming something like "Resident Evil 5" was a link to a site to buy the game, right? I've seen them before, but it should be damn obvious to anyone who reads the post.JoJoDeathunter said:
OT: Tales of Symphonia 2, hands down. I'm still bitter about that game. Completely butchered it...
Yeah. It really took a turn for the worse after the terrible camera angle, impossible to control and completely unscary game that was the previous iterations.Cridhe said:
OT: I just bought Star Wars Battlefront 2 on steam, and while I am not going to say it's worse than it's predecessor, I vaguely remember the maps in the original Battlefront maps being much more well designed.
Bioshock 2 is the worst sequel I've played this gen. In fact, it's one of the worst games I've played in the past decade and I've played the Gears/MW and Bayonetta singleplayer campaigns, so it's definitely saying something. Seriously, nearly everything it could do wrong, it did wrong.
- Boring environment, since we've already been there before. Think DA2 is bad for re-using environments? Bioshock 2 is basically doing the same, only the entire world is re-used.
- Atrocious story, the only thing done well is how they handled the one character you're trying to save. Although the rest of the game being so shitty also has an effect on this.
- The game is even more broken than Bioshock 1, as in it only takes you a very small amount of time before you can just breeze through the game.
- One of the worst and most retarded antagonist ever. EVER! Think of a really shitty bad guy and it's probably a hundred times better than the shit you'll find in this game.
- The algorithm the first game used in order to pick the ending was pretty bad, but what eventually happened didn't have a lot of impact. This game actually does it worse.
- The devs are seriously just fucking with you with the end. Seriously. Fuck you 2K. Fuck you.
- Boring environment, since we've already been there before. Think DA2 is bad for re-using environments? Bioshock 2 is basically doing the same, only the entire world is re-used.
- Atrocious story, the only thing done well is how they handled the one character you're trying to save. Although the rest of the game being so shitty also has an effect on this.
- The game is even more broken than Bioshock 1, as in it only takes you a very small amount of time before you can just breeze through the game.
- One of the worst and most retarded antagonist ever. EVER! Think of a really shitty bad guy and it's probably a hundred times better than the shit you'll find in this game.
- The algorithm the first game used in order to pick the ending was pretty bad, but what eventually happened didn't have a lot of impact. This game actually does it worse.
- The devs are seriously just fucking with you with the end. Seriously. Fuck you 2K. Fuck you.
It might not be my favorite game of all time, but I definitely like the game and it's story, characters and the choices you have to make are definitely superior to the first (except for HK-47)putowtin said:
I selected Fallout 3 as my all-time worst because of the awful dialogue, the weak story, the (at times, not all) rediculous quests (Arefu, Wasteland Survival Guide) and the lack of verisimilitude (Blowing up Megaton's nuke only destroys the city, for instance).Zajber said:
Worst of all, the developer just didn't get Fallout: The first installment was about coming to terms with a life after a nuclear holocaust, the second about rebuilding civilisation and Vegas was about civlisation repeating the mistakes of the past. What was 3 about? A water purifier (and one built at the wrong end of a river, by the way)? Knights vs. Mutants?
The only good thing I can say about Fallout 3 is that it made New Vegas possible; otherwise the series could have better been left in its grave.
Also, having an opinion is not the same as trolling.
I hate to say Bioshock 2 because it had to live up to the first but it just wasn't as good, they should've just gone straight onto Infinite.
Other than that.. every sequel made after the original Tenchu game. Same with the Driver games (although I haven't played the latest one yet) and Soul Calibur 4.
Other than that.. every sequel made after the original Tenchu game. Same with the Driver games (although I haven't played the latest one yet) and Soul Calibur 4.
Silent Hill 2...
Half-Life 2...
aaaanyway... Fable 2. Fable 1 was just so much better. I remember seeing that cardboard cutout with the half-light half-dark kid in gamestop about a year or two before Fable came out. I didn't follow video game new back then, there really wasn't much to follow back then anyway, but based solely on that cutout I was ecstatic to finally get Fable and when I got it... it... was.. incredible. I played through that game like 14 times (including the lost chapters).
...and then Fable 2 came out... eh...
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Half-Life 2...
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aaaanyway... Fable 2. Fable 1 was just so much better. I remember seeing that cardboard cutout with the half-light half-dark kid in gamestop about a year or two before Fable came out. I didn't follow video game new back then, there really wasn't much to follow back then anyway, but based solely on that cutout I was ecstatic to finally get Fable and when I got it... it... was.. incredible. I played through that game like 14 times (including the lost chapters).
...and then Fable 2 came out... eh...
I probably won't get many takers to agree with me, but I'm willing to say it and stand by it:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Playing it without a guide, it's an exercise in pain. Getting 90% through a dungeon only to run out of time and have to do half of it over again, the silly, convoluted guessing games involved in the "happy sticker" quests... and that stupid mailman's "exactly 10 seconds" minigame...
*twitch*
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
Playing it without a guide, it's an exercise in pain. Getting 90% through a dungeon only to run out of time and have to do half of it over again, the silly, convoluted guessing games involved in the "happy sticker" quests... and that stupid mailman's "exactly 10 seconds" minigame...
*twitch*