your favorite game that got destroyed by crappy sequels?

[NeutralDrow]

Why on earth would I stop liking my favorite game because it got a crappy sequel?

I would think that only throws the quality of the first game into sharper relief.

 

[AzureZero]

Thank you. Everyone said when it became 3-d. I disagree. I fucking LOOVED Sonic adventure and Sonic adventure 2 battle. Those were fantastic games that were extremely enjoyable and memorable.

As for a game that sequels ruined for me... hmmm tough choice. I'm not extremely critical with games because I believe to many people are just because it seems like "the right thing to do". They go along with popular belief or would normally find the game fine to play, but instead analyze the hell out of it to come out with a "smart sounding" opinion about it so they don't look stupid when they say "but I thought this game was pretty ok!".

Your an average consumer. You might not want to admit it, but you are. Just try to play a game without being extremely critical and tons of them are playable start to finish without thinking you wasted your time. Easily. Now I'm not saying all games are decent, heavens no.

My biggest one is Twisted Metal. Twisted metal 1 was good and twisted metal 2 was friggin glorious. Twisted metal 3 disappointed and 4 just killed it. They did make it better with Twisted Metal black however.

Edit - This post was meant to quote someone earlier who said "after sonic adventure 2" but it didn't come out that way. o well. The sonic portion was directed at them.

 

[144_v1legacy]

Zelda was also destroyed by a string of incredibly mediocre games starting with Ocarina of Time.

I'm a little confused...so you liked Zelda, Zelda 2 and, Link to the Past and started disliking the series from OoT on or, was OoT the last good one? I always say OoT as being an upgraded version of Link to the Past but that's just me.

I was confused by this as well... I think it's the first thing you mentioned, based on his writing tone.

But then I realized that this is just the kind of person that likes to be anti-majority. He can't find a sense of individuality and therefore needs to fabricate one in this fashion. I mean, if someone honestly enjoyed LttP more than OoT while conscious that he's in the minuscule minority, he'd make some sort of disclaimer instead of just leaving a controversial post at the start of a thread like a turd in a urinal.

Besides, no matter how much justification he could possibly give towards his argument, it's not like he can change anyone's mind. We'll all just see the fruitless struggles of someone who's overly defensive for a battle he'll never win.

I imagine everyone is used to this sort of crapspout and just ignored it as a cry for attention.


AH! On topic, Final Fantasy. Depending on the sequel... I still enjoy tactics, for instance. I just feel that the ones with high numbers lack the exploration and customization offered by the first few. Not that it's bad, it simply changed into something I didn't associate with the title.

 

[Babitz]

Zelda was also destroyed by a string of incredibly mediocre games starting with Ocarina of Time.

I'm a little confused...so you liked Zelda, Zelda 2 and, Link to the Past and started disliking the series from OoT on or, was OoT the last good one? I always say OoT as being an upgraded version of Link to the Past but that's just me.

I was confused by this as well... I think it's the first thing you mentioned, based on his writing tone.

But then I realized that this is just the kind of person that likes to be anti-majority. He can't find a sense of individuality and therefore needs to fabricate one in this fashion. I mean, if someone honestly enjoyed LttP more than OoT while conscious that he's in the minuscule minority, he'd make some sort of disclaimer instead of just leaving a controversial post at the start of a thread like a turd in a urinal.

Besides, no matter how much justification he could possibly give towards his argument, it's not like he can change anyone's mind. We'll all just see the fruitless struggles of someone who's overly defensive for a battle he'll never win.

I imagine everyone is used to this sort of crapspout and just ignored it as a cry for attention.

Translated:
This guy doesn't have the same taste in Zelda as me so I will write stupid commentary about it and subtly call him a pathetic teenage rebel.

Grow up.

Fallout 1 and 2 were superior compared to Fallout 3 which I didn't really like. But I did enjoy Fallout New Vegas a lot as it was by the original developers and had lots of stuff that was supposed to be in the original Fallout 3 way back. It was also a much better game than Fallout 3. So I guess the series turned to better after all.

NV was by Obsidian, not Interplay. Just clarifying that.

The original developers were Black Isle; Interplay was the publisher. Former Black Isle employees founded Obsidian so yes, the game basically is made by the same developers.

 

[Matt Dellar]

After seeing people mention Rayman, I gotta agree. Rayman 2 wasn't my favorite for some reason, but Rayman 3 was just plain awesome and I loved it even though its PC port was just the PS2 version with reconfigured controls. They didn't even think to replace the buttons, and it was still saying stuff like "Press X to jump, press triangle to use," and all that.

Never played the first two Fallout games, but can safely say that the third was pretty cool. I love games with freedom. Fallout 3 definitely had that.

Silent Hill. I like most of the Silent Hill games, but with the proud announcement of Silent Hill 8 featuring bosses that were beaten through quick-time events, I abandoned any notion I had of getting it.

Also, Diablo. I don't care how good DIII is gonna be. If I can't play it for more than five minutes at a time, it's not worth my money.

 

[Tanfastic]

Fable. Loved one (That, ME, and LoZ:MM are all three tied for most playthroughs.) Fable 2 was okay but then Fable 3 just made me lose all hope.
Rayman. Stupid Rabids.
Spyro and Crash Bandicoot.

 

[DirgeNovak]

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro win this thread. All Crash and Spyro games released after their original developers dropped them were crap with the possible exception of Crash Twinsanity, which was merely mediocre.

Also God of War, but the sequels only fucked up the story. Gameplay was completely awesome. GoW2 and especially 3 make absolutely no sense story wise.

 

[Matrixbeast]

Mega Man...
I don't really know when though. I guess at the point where the Robot Masters started getting boring and the levels were getting repetitive. Maybe 4, I guess =\

 

[Capt. Crankypants]

Huh...I'm the first to mention Mechwarrior? 2 was good, cool story about the Refusal Wars between two of the most powerful clans. Mechwarrior 3 was, in my opinion, a masterpiece. A beautiful depiction of a really quite believable military operation. (when referring to science fiction space stuff). I loved everything about it.

Mechwarrior 4 was... yuck. Looked like you were playing with plastic toys, in some lame personal revenge vendetta. Never forgiving them for that.

 

[KingmanHighborn]

-Armored Core
It pretty much all went to shit from Armored Core: Nexus onward, where the focus of the game became gimmick after gimmick.
AC4 did redeem the series somewhat, but I don't own a PS3 or 360, so I didn't get into it.

All I know is I freakin' loved AC2 but my god the games after that got hard as hell. Grr....Last Raven....


But I'll throw into the bad game sequels Mortal Kombat. After 2 the series nosedived for me, and really didn't make me interested again until MKA came out. Another major victim was Colony Wars and though I almost pray every day SOMEONE will remake CW or Wing Commander 1-5 for the PS3 I doubt it will happen. But yeah CW was so such a great space flight game (why isn't there more games like this anyway? T-T ), it had this Star Wars like rebellion feel too it, Earth was evil, and it felt so grim and dark. Plus the fighters for both sides looked amazeing. The sequels were just so 'meh' though.

 

[Lhianon]

c&c 4 ruined what was left of c&c (no tib? a unit limit? what is this, DoW? if i wanna play DoW, i play DoW: Dark Crusade).

new starcraft made kerrigan into a "your princess is in another castle"-char and raynor into a generic bad ass ladies man, tychus was the only one that actually asked some relevant questions and he was the bad guy?

the warcraft-series from wotlk onwards; sunwell was good, well, ulduar 25 and icecrown citadel 25 in hard mode actually was fun, but i hated the way in wich phasing and the dungeon finder split the community, new naxx was so bad, cleared it 2 weeks after the expansion launched in t6 with one item that gave me enough hit to reach hitcap, sart 3 drakes the week after that, the whole t9-content was useless padding.

deus ex: invisible war was just bad, we are lucky the new deus ex actually is a good game.

 

[James Crook]

Ugh, like so many others: Rayman
I only played 2 and 3, but then I got a Wii (worst purchase I ever made) and the Rabbids came around... and they killed the fucking series.

 

[Distance_warrior]

DA:O DA2 just took a massive dump in the setting by making everyone you meet a 2d cut-out of a character and dumbing down all the moral dilemmas and interesting themes so they could fit it onto that damned wheel and a character with only 3 emotions possible.

 

[Wiiiiiiilliam]

Resident Evil. All of the numbered ones are pretty good. 4 is one of my favorite games of all time, but 5 was only okay, and a let down. And all the rest just suck.