Worst game sequel

[Mr.Amakir]

HL2 : Whatever happened to the fast paced interesting puzzle neat platforming-y-ness of the first game?

It was supposed to be something completely different from the first Half-Life and it did what it did really well.

 

[Exterminas]

Oblivion, if that counts as a sequel to the other Elder Scrolls titles.

 

[geezah91]

Black Ops. Oh sweet devine, I don't understand how such a terrible game could be the highest selling of all time, it really is mind-boggling.

 

[Axelhander]

Sonic CD. It's a game with almost laughably bad level design/flow, graphics that are less impressive than Sonic 1 (despite coming out between Sonic 2 and 3), ho-hum music (either soundtrack), and, for some reason, a stupidly insane amount of fanboy love. Puzzling and frustrating.

Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children. Not a game itself but definitely a sequel to a game. An overrated, but not wholly terrible game. But man oh man, Advent Children makes Michael Bay look like a genius, and I do die a little bit inside admitting that. AC is comprised of two things: ridiculous action scenes (both "good" and "bad" kinds of ridiculous) and the most horrendous dialogue ever concocted (in either language), even by Japanese storytelling standards. "Cloud is Cloud!" That's a TERRIBLE LINE, TIFA.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. Up until that point, 3D Sonic had been pretty good.

Lies. 3D Sonic games were never "pretty good." "Mediocre at best with some fun moments hampered by horrendous design choices" would be a more accurate descriptor.

Though Sonic '06 was terrible even by 3D Sonic game standards. Good lord.

 

[Jaebird]

Every Final Fantasy up until now! Seriously, none of my favorite characters from the first game are in them. And White Mage was such a well-rounded character, too.


All joking aside, I want to say Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was a bad sequel, but not a bad game (at least, not entirely). My one gripe about it is that it crammed three of Marvel's stories into a very short game. And the Mass Effect dialogue stuff was unnecessary, in my opinion. I know the first Ultimate Alliance game had dialogue stuff, too, but there was more meat on the bone, what with a ton of Marvel's history in the game.

 

[uttaku]

Why oh why has no one mentioned dues ex invisible war yet?
Also I have to agree with perfect dark zero (shudder) and fallout 3 (less for the gameplay more just for lossing a lot of what made the original so good).

and why not technically a sequal conkers live and reloaded, I wanted conkers other bad day DAMNIT!

 

[Decabo]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006. Up until that point, 3D Sonic had been pretty good.

Lies. 3D Sonic games were never "pretty good." "Mediocre at best with some fun moments hampered by horrendous design choices" would be a more accurate descriptor.

Though Sonic '06 was terrible even by 3D Sonic game standards. Good lord.

Lies. The first two Sonic Adventures were very well recieved, 86 and 89 on Metacritic respectively. I enjoyed them immensely.

 

[Colinmac93]

It has to be Devil May Cry 2.
Why did they dumb down Dante and introduce and incredibly angsty companion?
Thank god they remedied it in DMC3.

 

[Someone Depressing]

HL2 : Whatever happened to the fast paced interesting puzzle neat platforming-y-ness of the first game?

It was supposed to be something completely different from the first Half-Life and it did what it did really well.

Yes, it does, but I still found it really boring. You have to sit in a room for several hours whilst NPC's Yack on about "Political" issues and "Civil Protection." Say what you want, I found the game really boring.

 

[gigastar]

You do know that Capcom makes stories like a washing machine would bake cakes, right?

Anyway, ignore the horrible story and what you have is a damn good game to play.

Well, I don't care about Capcom's 'track record'. I genuinely liked the storyline in the first few RE games.

It was my favorite franchise, and I was keeping up with the storyline pretty closely. And RE4 completely changed the way I looked at the artificial universe that they created with RE1, 2, 3 etc. It made me see the characters, the world they live in completely differently, in a bad way.
It takes more than gameplay and graphics to make a game enjoyable for me. Of course, even the gameplay doesn't resemble anything close to what Survival Horror should be. You don't need to conserve ammo, or resources, because there's always plenty. And frankly, no part of it was scary. It's a nice "action shooter". And even if those are just nitpicks, the storyline is by far the biggest factor that made me give up on the series.

Well apparently youre in a rare breed of opinion for the series. Back in the early 2000's Capcom only really listened to its Japanese fanbase, and from what i can gather, close to no-one liked Resident Evil's[footnote]Its called Biohazard in Japan.[/footnote] story. So they changed it and it became the poster child for they saying;

'Even a shit series can be good, if only briefly[footnote]Added after RE5.[/footnote]'

I do understand what you mean about the survival horror bit though. I always thought that after RE4 it was mislabelled as survival horror where it should have been an over-the-shoulder TPS. With zombies.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

I could swear I replied to this question recently.

Anyway; Deus Ex Invisible War.

 

[ten.to.ten]

Sonic CD. It's a game with almost laughably bad level design/flow, graphics that are less impressive than Sonic 1 (despite coming out between Sonic 2 and 3), ho-hum music (either soundtrack), and, for some reason, a stupidly insane amount of fanboy love. Puzzling and frustrating.

I think you're the first person I've ever heard who's played Sonic CD say anything other than it was the best Sonic ever, really refreshing change. I don't think it's the worst Sonic game but I don't like it nearly as much as Sonic 1, 2, or 3+K.

I think it gets so much fanboy love just because it was so obscure, at least until the release of Sonic Gems Collection.

 

[Axelhander]

Lies. The first two Sonic Adventures were very well recieved, 86 and 89 on Metacritic respectively. I enjoyed them immensely.

Neither review scores nor your personal preference changes anything I just said.

 

[haddaway234]

Other M.

Metroid is dead.

It was pretty terrible, but I am going to have to go with Gran Turismo 5 or Killzone 3. Both absolute fails, which just did nothing but make the series worse.

 

[Grey_Focks]

Crackdown 2....it just did nothing right. NOTHING, and the original was fantastic, dammit!

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Well apparently youre in a rare breed of opinion for the series. Back in the early 2000's Capcom only really listened to its Japanese fanbase, and from what i can gather, close to no-one liked Resident Evil's[footnote]Its called Biohazard in Japan.[/footnote] story. So they changed it and it became the poster child for they saying;

'Even a shit series can be good, if only briefly[footnote]Added after RE5.[/footnote]'

I do understand what you mean about the survival horror bit though. I always thought that after RE4 it was mislabelled as survival horror where it should have been an over-the-shoulder TPS. With zombies.

Oh, I'm well aware that I'm a part of a vast, vast, vast minority of people. And believe me, I've had the anti-RE4 debate with far too many people far too many times.
But the bottom line is, I loved the storyline. Then RE4 came along, and I didn't like the story in any RE game since. Not RE5, and definitely not Umbrella Chronicles, which retconned and tried to ruin the games I actually liked. So I gave up on the series, entirely. Unless they actually reboot the whole thing from scratch, I won't ever bother with any Resident Evil game again.
In fact, that's what RE4 should've been. A complete canon reboot.

 

[Decabo]

Lies. The first two Sonic Adventures were very well recieved, 86 and 89 on Metacritic respectively. I enjoyed them immensely.

Neither review scores nor your personal preference changes anything I just said.

Yes, it does. You said the games were poorly designed. If the games were widely enjoyed and well recieved by critics, then the design did what it was trying to do. That's what's called good design.

 

[devildog1170]

Knights of the Old Republic 2

Three reasons I hated it

1. Holy shit, the beginning mission. I mean. Goddamn. It took like five hours to get off of a fucking space ship. Probably the most boring opening mission ever, but it was like my headache went away when I finally left.

2. What? The next part is even worse. From what I remember, it was some dark Corasaunt type planet, but it was boring. Jesus, by the third hour in the first one it had some serious steam. You had a lightsaber, and you could use the force. Incredible.

3. Re-using some of the original characters. They had the mercenary with white hair, and that little service droid. Come on. That's so unoriginal. Use your own characters.