Worst game sequel

[Axelhander]

Final Fantasy [ everything 7 and up, excluding 10 and Tactics ]

Fixed.

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.

This just in:
- World of Warcraft is the best game in the world.
- The Wii is the best gaming system in the world.
- McDonald's is the world's best restaurant.

All three are true because they're widely popular, well-received by critics, and therefore, by virtue of those things and only those things, good.

You have convinced me beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt that good game design is proven by critical acclaim and widespread enjoyment.

 

[Decabo]

Final Fantasy [ everything 7 and up, excluding 10 and Tactics ]

Fixed.

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.

This just in:
- World of Warcraft is the best game in the world.
- The Wii is the best gaming system in the world.
- McDonald's is the world's best restaurant.

All three are true because they're widely popular, well-received by critics, and therefore, by virtue of those things and only those things, good.

You have convinced me beyond a shadow of a reasonable doubt that good game design is proven by critical acclaim and widespread enjoyment.

Well then I'd love to know what you consider to be the justification for what's a good game. You obviously don't think it's personal opinion considering when I stated mine, you called my opinion a lie. Also, I don't recall saying they were good because most people played them, but if the game is well liked by a majority of those who play it, that probably means the designers accomplished their goal. Actually, none of your pathetically stupid metaphors are the most popular or best recieved of their type, so I'm guessing you thought those metaphors as well as this entire argument.

 

[The Floating Nose]

Resident Evil 5 was a pretty damn good step BACK in the series. It took the horror aspect of the Resident Evil series and took a big DUMP all over it. Gone was the inventory, gone was the puzzles, gone was the scary aspect. Resident Evil 5 is just a Clichéfest of every single game cliché of the last 3 years (a sidekick, girl with big tits, the hero is handsome and has taken some steroids, the girls have some sexy clothes ans many others...)it's like if Resident Evil 5 was made by a team of american developpers.

I actually liked Kane & Lynch 2 i thought that the game was fun, the story was interesting even if the story is dumb and the Arcade Mode is really fun.

 

[Golem_the_Golem]

Resident Evil 5 was a pretty damn good step BACK in the series. It took the horror aspect of the Resident Evil series and took a big DUMP all over it. Gone was the inventory, gone was the puzzles, gone was the scary aspect Resident Evil 5 is just a Clichéfest of every single game cliché of the last 3 years (a sidekick, girl with big tits, the hero is handsome and has taken some steroids, the girls have some sexy clothes ans many others...)it's like if Resident Evil 5 was made by a team of american developpers.

The only way i can agree with that statement more is to directly quote it.

 

[Tdc2182]

Fable 3.
An ok game on it's own merits, but unfortunately like any sequels, I must compare it to the previous.

I agree with this.

It just took about 30 steps in the wrong direction and was so damn over simplified that it was nearly unplayable.

Can't even finish the story because I get almost impossibly bored with it.

 

[angrykirby]

from russia with love, (everything or nothing was so full of fast paced action and different things to do, frwl was so dull and repetative)

bioshock2- i dont want to escort little sisters all day, why dont the machines talk, why cant i use my goddamn drill for more then 3 seconds god fuck it, it was like replaying the first game with a big load of shitty game play on top

guitar hero 4- I liked using the regular controller to play, i don't want to use a guitar series ruined

tony hawk 4 - besides being a boring entry it was part of an ongoing thing where too many different types of moves were added, if i can rank up a million points linking ground tricks why even skate

ssx3- a downhill hub world doesn't work, why fade the music out when im doing badly it makes it suck more, the courses lacked as many shortcuts as ssx the characters were more bland sometimes when youd knock opponents down they'd spawn far in front of you, ugh

perfect dark zero - holy fuck was it awful

spiderman-shattered dimensions, ultimate and 3

modern warfare 2 multi player - everyone was overpowered

deus ex 2 boo

 

[Kuroneko97]

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts N' Bolts, considered Banjo-Threeie by Rare but considered by most fans of Banjo-Kazooie as a piece of shit. Let me just say I think it disappointed me as a part of the Banjo-Kazooie franchise, BUT! I though it was a good game on its own. But I will agree that it should be considered more of a side-story than the true sequel to Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie.

 

[Axelhander]

it's like if Resident Evil 5 was made by a team of american developpers.

Yeah let's not pin "uses handsome men and well-endowed females while simultaneously forgetting about atmosphere" on the "American dev exclusive trope" board, please and thanks. Plenty of devs the world over, including a rather large number of Japanese devs, do the same thing.

 

[floppylobster]

Command & Conquer 4 pretty much tops my list. And while I urge you all not to play it, I defy any one who has to think of a more deserving winner of the title. There are some other bad C&C titles but this one done broke the gameplay so what's left?

 

[Brian Hendershot]

Fable II and III

Fable (and fable tlc) is a brilliant game and then they took the foundations of what could have been a fantastic gaming series and fucked it right royally up!

I dislike how lightening doesn't knock off people's heads any more. (Among other things). Seriously, its like Fable II and III are not even like Fable. It's just so different. Kinda like someone switched your tasty chocolate pie with another pie that is two parts ass and one part chocolate. It's different and nasty, even if it is a bit tasty on the surface.

Now Black And White 2. That was a proper sequel.

 

[Jesse Billingsley]

Gears of War 2, to be honest, it was ok first time through, but after awhile it got old quick and became one of those ordinary shooters where you fight bosses after every level and ride in tanks or fly through the air on predetermined paths, its like being on an airliner with no movie, half the time i was waiting for things to shoot at me.

 

[Brian Hendershot]

Resident Evil 5 was a pretty damn good step BACK in the series. It took the horror aspect of the Resident Evil series and took a big DUMP all over it. Gone was the inventory, gone was the puzzles, gone was the scary aspect Resident Evil 5 is just a Clichéfest of every single game cliché of the last 3 years (a sidekick, girl with big tits, the hero is handsome and has taken some steroids, the girls have some sexy clothes ans many others...)it's like if Resident Evil 5 was made by a team of american developpers.

The only way i can agree with that statement more is to directly quote it.

There is nothing handsome about a guy who is smuggling watermelons in his arms.

 

[Verrenxnon]

I second RE5 to RE4.

I also thought Banjo-Kazooie was a helluva great title, but Banjo-Tooie's design and (at times) over-complexity infuriates me. Add to that masturbatory fourth wall-breaking.

And is Nuts and Bolts a sequel or a cash-in? Either way, it didn't do me many favors.

 

[Louzerman102]

Other M.

Metroid is dead.

No, no, no! Christ, what is with these comments. It takes more than one flawed game to ruin a fantastic series. I really wish this melodrama would stop.
I get it, it sucked, I know. But one game does not ruin the series that brought us Super Metroid and Metroid Prime, classics. No offence by the by, I understand your rage, I just dislike people taking it so far.

You believe that Nintendo will not get spooked by the quote "disappointing" sales figures and take the time to figure out what went wrong?
Major example: RE4 good, RE5 bad. Nintendo's answer: series reboot time.

 

[joe the janitor]

Kane & Lynch 2 automatically springs to mind with horrible sequels.

This pretty much. I quite liked Dead Men, and was exited for Dog Days; ohhhh the disappointment!

 

[Kiju]

Half Life 2. They continued an already horrible game.

/troll

Anywho, on to more serious answers. Worst game sequel I think would be Rainbow Six: Vegas II. They took the idea of 'Vegas' and made you go through old-town, without the casinos, lights, and whatnot that made the first one good. Just find it ironic that they took out the one thing that made Rainbow Six: Vegas take place in Vegas.

 

[icyneesan]

DMC2 obviously. You really can't get any worse, but if I have to pick something else I'd say World of Warcraft is a crappy sequel if you can consider it the sequel to Warcraft 3: TFT.

 

[Leemaster777]

THIS:

This game makes me want to shoot pure liquid hate out of every pore in my body. This isn't a BAD sequel, it's an OFFENSIVELY bad sequel.

If I ever meet Tetsuya Nomura, I'll shake his hand, thank him for making Final Fantasy 10, The World Ends With You, and the Kingdom Hearts series, then slap him across the face several times because he made this.

I could go into a full-on nerd rant about how painfully awful this game is, but I'll save that for now.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to clean the liquid hate off of my keyboard.