Bad Gaming Sequels

[Jonny The Kay]

Halo 2 (online multiplayer aside) felt like a step down to me.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Camera was a bag of ass, and the humor that shined in the first game fell flat on its face. Also, Suda 51 has a unhealthy obsession with breasts. I mean, you can ogle the French chick once or twice, but if you make it so every time she comes on screen the camera zooms on her clevage, I'm gonna get annoyed.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Apparently. the guys at Monolith thought that the best way to make great horror game better was to ruin it.

I liked Condemned 2. Until the end of course. But the first half of the game had some of the best first person gameplay I have ever seen. Completely immersive. You could see your feet, you could talk, you could see yourself in a mirror, the controller shook every time you hit some one (or maybe it didn't; my memory is a bit hazy). I got so sucked into it.

 

[wynnsora]

Any Kingdom Hearts sequel.

 

[Danielsmells]

Metroid 2.
Less that it was bad, just that it was so inferior to the first and average at best.

 

[The Real Sandman]

Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Apparently. the guys at Monolith thought that the best way to make great horror game better was to ruin it.

I liked Condemned 2. Until the end of course. But the first half of the game had some of the best first person gameplay I have ever seen. Completely immersive. You could see your feet, you could talk, you could see yourself in a mirror, the controller shook every time you hit some one (or maybe it didn't; my memory is a bit hazy). I got so sucked into it.

True, the gameplay was infact better than the first in practically every way. It's just that...the plot...

Spoiler: Oh God the plot...

Previously in the first game...
Ethan Thomas- Yeesh! Psycho bums! Good Golly! More psycho bums! What the kitty litter is going on here?!
THE END!

Meanwhile, in the sequal...
Ethan Thomas- MRAH! Shit...fuck motherin', everybody's stupid but me.
Narrative- HI BUDDY!
Ethan- It's Ethan. An' the 'fuck are you? 'Got any change or a bus ticket?
Narrative- Um, no.
Ethan- Well d'you want?
Narrative- I'm here to tell you that the bums are going nuts because someone nailed noisy thing-a-ma-bobs to the walls and it's making their brains all screwy!
Ethan- But that don't make no fothermuckin' sence. And why tell me that now? It's the first God dang level?!
Narrative- Oh don't be such a sour noggin. LOOK OUT! IT'S AN EXPLODING BABY DOLL!!!
Ethan- WHAT THE ANUS OF A MONKEY'S BURBON ELEPHANT?!!!?
Narrative- You have no vocal chords!
Ethan- But how am I...
Narrative- By the way, an evil cult is behind all this.
Ethan- Wait wha...?
Narrative- LIEK OMG!!1!! THAT CREEPY LOOKING GUY WHO'S A BIG MEANY TO EVERYONE IS ACTUALLY THE BAD GUY!!1!!!
Ethan- No shit...
Narrative- Your mommy and daddy were members of the cult, and they tried get you out of it and died for it.
Ethan- Who?
SKX- Hi Ethan!
Ethan- Didn't I/you blow your brains out?
Chief- UR TEH CHOZEN WON!1!!11!
Ethan- ...the fuck?
Stage Magician- I'm a stage magician.
Ethan-...the FUCK!?
Narrative-YOU HAVE SUPER POWERS!
Ethan-WHAT THE CAT FUCKIN' MOOSE HUMPIN' CASSEROLE IS FUCKIN' GOIN' ON!?(puts gun to head)
Narrative-Hold on Ethan, put down that gun, there's one last thing I gotta tell that I think you'll like!
Ethan-Ugh... okay, what.
Nsrrative- YOU INDIRECTLY KILLED THE PRESIDENT!
Ethan- (Pulls trigger)

CONDEMNED 2: BLOODSHOT

IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY GODDAMN SENCE

Then the game switched from gruesome, slightly hard to watch melee combat to shooting...then to that super yodel thing.

Also, Ethan in the first game, Criminal Origins, was easily one of the more realistic and relatable video game protagonists. But in the second, he's pretty much a hybrid of post First Blood Rambo and Snake Pliskin with alcoholism and several times the asshole mentality. Okay, I get that Ethan has lost some of his marbles since the first game, but Christ does he really have to be such a (potty mouthed) jerk all the time?

 

[octafish]

Far Cry 2 doesn't count as Crytek had nothing to do with it. I'd also say Condemned 2 except I refuse to acknowledge its existence.

 

[Sinclair Solutions]

Also, Ethan in the first game, Criminal Origins, was easily one of the more realistic and relatable video game protagonists. But in the second, he's pretty much a hybrid of post First Blood Rambo and Snake Pliskin with alcoholism and several times the asshole mentality. Okay, I get that Ethan has lost some of his marbles since the first game, but Christ does he really have to be such a (potty mouthed) jerk all the time?

See, I haven't played the first game, but I loved Ethan Thomas in this game. I rather like that sarcastic asshole mentality in characters (see Travis Touchdown). But it's a matter of personal taste, I guess.

 

[Iffat Nur]

Modern Warfare 2. Even people who weren't that interested in MW1 were disappointed by this.

This.

 

[dcdude171]

i was dissapointed in kane and lynch 2 , mainly because of the 4 hour campaign length which i completed in 3 . theres no excuse for a game that long

 

[Raijha]

I want to say neverwinter nights 2? But I think that one was another of those made by another company. Other then that most of the ones I can think of without google have already been said.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Modern Warfare 2, Bioshock 2, Deus Ex: Invisible War... Yeah, those are the obvious ones.

Modern Warfare 2 felt like the developers were saying "We can release anything we want and it will still sell because it has COD slapped onto the title". And thus we were cock-slapped.

 

[thirdsonsaburo]

Dirge of Cerberus. Ye gods.

 

[Rylot]

Red Faction 2. The first was a rather simple fps but I enjoyed it. The second was just so ugly, primary color palette ftl. I also absolutely hated the plot line with a passion.

Dirge of Cerberus. Ye gods.

I will now friend you for this.

 

[Flamezdudes]

A bad sequel? Mass Effect 2 was CRAP. The plot was good, but they turned a perfectly good RPG into a pretty 3rd-person shooter.

A bad sequel? Dragon Age 2 will be CRAP. The plot was good, but they turned a perfectly good RPG into a pretty 3rd-person hack'n'slash.

I went there.... I went there... baby.... oooooweeeeeeeeooooooooooo....

Ugh. I'm sick of this crap. Cut the crap, no one knows how DA2 is gonna be like. BioWare, to me have never made a bad game.

 

[WFox]

I was also disappointed in the "streamlining" they did to the RPG elements in Mass Effect 2. I liked being able to get new guns and armor, and I wasn't impressed with cutting down on the skill/talent tree. However, the inventory system in Mass Effect was terrible, so they definitely needed to do something about it. I just think they went too far. But overall, I thought Mass Effect 2 was a great game, and having recently replayed the original, I think ME2 plays way better.


Though I am a little worried about Dragon Age 2, and Bioware's decision to make it more like Mass Effect (character wise). But I've never played a Bioware game I haven't really enjoyed, so I'm optimistic that it will probably be a good game.

 

[suhlEap]

I have been trying to think, and I have yet to think of one video-game franchise that has a bad first sequel.

This does not include third or fourth or so on games in the series, it is just the second one.

Also, games made by a different company, aka KotOR 2 or Bioshock 2.

So, are there any?

i think bioshock 2 is as good as, if not more fun than bioshock 1.

as for bad sequels... devil may cry 2... it's balls compared to devil may cry 1.

 

[TPiddy]

A bad sequel? Mass Effect 2 was CRAP. The plot was good, but they turned a perfectly good RPG into a pretty 3rd-person shooter.

I know a lot of people who would debate that.

Absolutely. Mass Effect 2 was fantastic.... as good as 1? Perhaps not, but I'm hoping to see a hybrid of the first two games for the 3rd.

 

[Dr. Octogonopus]

Infamous 2 would have been terrible if SuckerPunch had kept the Nathan Drake clone design