your favorite game that got destroyed by crappy sequels?

[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.

 

[Gizmo1990]

My favourite game is Final Fantasy 6. Whenever I say I'm a fan of Final Fantasy, people always mention the games 11 and up and parade around about how lousy the series is. When I mention the games 9 and prior, they look at me with the stupidest expression. I hate the newer Final Fantasies. -.-

Good to know I am not alone in the world. I throught that Old FF fans had all been killed. Or killed themselves in depresson becaues FF 13 pushed them just over the edge. There is only so much dissapointment a human can take.

 

[ChupathingyX]

There's also the "Destroy All Humans!" Series, I loved the first two, especially the second one with all it improved and brought forward, Big Willy unleashed was pretty fun... Then came the third game. The graphics looked utterly terrible, I'm not sure if it's just the copy I got, but everything was pixly and ugly. Destroying buildings took a lot more work, mostly because they wanted to show off the new mechanics and how you can "Write your name on a building" (That's hard enough to do, can I just destroy it already?) For some reason you couldn't jump while possessing a person, which was a PAIN since that meant if they fall into a pit, or even in some cases, try to walk over the freaking street curb, they'd just run in place. I never even got past the first area I hated that game so much.

Neither Big Willy Unleashed or Path of the Furon were made by Pandemic Studios.

 

[The Cap]

I wouldnt say COD sequels after World at War (the pacific campaign saved that game as that front wasnt touched in any games previously, although the russian campaign was good there almost always has been russian elements before) although i feel that have definately stagnated, especially in MP

what game i would say is Empire Total War. it was awesome (napoleon is a glorified expansion)where as shogun 2 is no where near as good (campaign diplomacy and stability aside) as the battles differ from the technical tactics needed for empire to the boring all out samuri charge that shogun 2 has become

 

[Farther than stars]

I loved Gothic one and two, with their excellent level design, deep characters and astounding animation for their time. And then things were wrecked to hell when Gothic 3 came out and took all those things away. Since then the franchise has moved to America and I haven't even touched 4.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Jak and Daxter the Lost Frontier.

It wasn't so much a crappy game, hell I've never even played it.
But a dick move was pulled and it wasn't released on PS3.

 

[razor343]

Gothic. ArcaniA ruined it.

 

[DeltaEdge]

The Summon Night Sword Craft Story series. Started on the GBA with simple but effective and nice linear motion combat instance battle system. The first three were great but then the series immediately got destroyed when they made the change from the GBA NDS where they promptly swapped out the great Tales of series style real-time combat game play to crappy overused turn-based game play. Not saying that turn-based games are bad or inferior, but they way that they did it was bad. They also did point and click style combat like most generic fantasy mmorpgs which killed me. They had a perfectly great combat system but they just had to go and destroy it.

 

[sshakespeare]

Halo, went downhill for me when they started focusing on multiplayer rather than a campaign that lasted more than a couple of hours.

Mass Effect, apart from looking pretty there was nothing I liked about ME 2

 

[SaberXIII]

For me, (although they are sequels in themselves), Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts II. Nothing of the same franchise that succeeded either were any good. Prequels rocked, though.

 

[Velocity Eleven]

none, if "X game" is a really good game then how can "X game 2" effect how amazing "X game" is?

 

[Geeky Anomaly]

Call of Duty.

I used to play it all the time, with friends on LAN, online, spam the campaigns, the works. COD: World at War was the last COD I paid money for and played.

 

[b3nn3tt]

none, if "X game" is a really good game then how can "X game 2" effect how amazing "X game" is?

I second this motion. I don't understand how playing a 'bad' sequel can possibly change how much you may have enjoyed the original game.

Just don't play the sequel any more and go back to playing the first game again.

 

[hoboman29]

Crash Bandicoot. Hands down. The 1st one was the first game I owned, the second improved, and the third was a classic. Then Sony kicked out Naughty Dog and it all went to hell.

The first game sucked, though, but nostalgia.

Agreed man agreed I can still put in one of the ps1 games and have a lot of fun with it now the games are abominations to those great games

Naughty Dog should just regain the rights to the franchise so we can have a decent game
I know, they even fucked up his character design now. What the hell is he? A monster-bandicoot hybrid? Really. The first thing they should do is bring back his original character design and then make it a platformer. Stop with all this extra shit. Get back to the basics.