Most disappointed sequel?

[NickBrahz]

Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, both threw story out the window for gameplay, which ME3 sucked at seeing as it was Cover Simulator 3.
All Call of Duties after 3, ruined one of my favourite WW2 shooters.
Newest 2 Medal of Honors, ruined one of my favourite WW2 shooters.
Halo 4.
Bioshock Infinite.

 

[Nazulu]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is my ultimate shit sandwich that tried to be covered with shiny gimmicks. I've mentioned it so many times before but that really is the game that taught me to be skeptical after being caught up into the hype for so long. How they managed to make so many bad design and game play decisions is beyond me. Maybe the spent more on the cinematics than anything else.

Now I'm worried about the new one that is coming out. It might possibly be what determines if I get a WiiU or not. Well, depending how good the other games are as well.

 

[ghostrider9876]

Overlord II.

Boring. Repetitive. You kill the final boss by holding X. WTF? And after I loved the first one so much. The only thing I liked better in II was the lair.

 

[Ryotknife]

Devil May Cry 2

Or the game that everyone tries to forget. Even fans of the series say the second game is balls. Thankfully the third is awesome.

Going to give another vote to FF10-2. Only thing enjoyable about that game was the final boss, which was actually done pretty well.

 

[Ratties]

Resident Evil 5. After enjoying 1, 2, 3, Code Veronica, even 4, this took the piss out of my sails. Man it sounds so great on paper. Put Chris Redfield in Africa to combat a new virus. After all, I was expecting it to be a loner experience with all sorts of crazy monsters and cool plot twists. Remember as soon as I saw Sheva following me and not leaving, I knew it was going to go down hill. Do remember just shaking my head at all the stupid things I was seeing as I was playing it. Of course I hated Ashley tagging along with Leon, at least she couldn't fire a gun. So instead of sneaking through a field, avoiding mutated Hyenas, I am battling a monster that looks like it was ripped right from resident Evil 4.
[http://photobucket.com/images/resident%20evil%205]

Fuck this game.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Dragon Age 2 by far for me, because it's predecessor was so great I had high expectations for the sequel.

I don't really blame Bioware as much as I blame EA for forcing them with a deadline to finish this sequel in under a year which resulted in this rather disappointing game.

The story was average enough and I really liked some of the characters in them, but the copy pasted dungeons just made it almost impossible for me to replay it for a while. It was pretty much similar to Mass Effect 3 after that experiencing that ending.

 

[franticfarken]

Probably Dragon Age II. I took no interest at all in the game, the plot characters and combat didn't at all immerse me or excite me.

All I wanted to do was by half way through the game was to explore the different cities, so when I finished the game at the time I thought. Finally the first town is over hopefully they improve this in the next town, yet all I got was credits.

 

[Aeshi]

I enjoyed both of those games immensely, which is why I was thunderstruck and irritated to find that Path of the Furon was on X-Box only.

No it's not, I own a copy of it for the PS3

As for my worst sequel? Probably Red Faction: Armageddon

 

[FalloutJack]

I enjoyed both of those games immensely, which is why I was thunderstruck and irritated to find that Path of the Furon was on X-Box only.

No it's not, I own a copy of it for the PS3

As for my worst sequel? Probably Red Faction: Armageddon

...my investigations turned up otherwise. Could you show me please?

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I am disturbed by the number of games I like in this thread.

OT: Broken Sword 3&4. WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS? 1&2 were beautiful, hand-drawn point'n'click adventure games. What's with the god awful 3D and platforming? What happened to the great puzzles and good writing? Where did the templars go? Why did take leave of what little realism the previous titles had? Why did you ruin it?!

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Alundra 2

The original was a superb action adventure with great character and enemy design, in an anime style word, and a Zelda style 'collect certain weapon to progress to next dungeon' device. Although it was better... it was more mature, and the puzzles were a lot better! The story was great, the characters worked, and the game was surprisingly long for the PS1.

The sequal had none of the above... hell, they didn't even keep the original style, instead swapping to a horribly executed 3D engine...

 

[spartandude]

This can be answered in two words. Fable 3.

one of the worst games ive ever played

Mass Effect 2

by no means a bad game in my opinion (in fact i thought it was really good) but dear god it showed the direction Bioware was about to take and it was not one i liked

Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3

Pretty much these two.

just aboved i said i that i though ME2 was good but headed in a bad direction.... well heres the fucking destination, while neither are as bad as Fable 3 they are just crap (in my opinion). Its like Bioware forgot how to write. atleast ME3 had somewhat good gameplay

 

[Raika]

As a lover of fighting games, Street Fighter IV is the pinnacle of heartbreak. Fighting games aren't for me anymore. They're for Xbox Live ten-year-olds and their mommies' money, and Street Fighter IV is responsible. What kind of fucking fighting game rewards you for losing. Honestly.

 

[Batou667]

Halo 4.

Not a *bad* game by most standards, but a crushingly disappointing one given the pedigree.

 

[Gizmo1990]

FFX-2 and FFXIII-2 . I liked both the originals , but their respected sequels were terrible . I managed to ( somehow) finish X-2 but XIII-2 was too much bad for my poor soul to handle.

While I agree that X-2 was mostly all bad, I have been able to forgive it in recent years. Due to the amount of games and books that have been released of the last few years that have bittersweet or just down right depressing endings it is nice to know that I can go back and watch the X-2 bonus ending.

OT:
I enjoyed the Force Unleashed (when I was ignoring all of the plot and story) and then TFU 2 came out. Lasted 6 hours, had more bugs than Australia and managed to have an even worse story that took all SW cannon and smashed it with a cricket bat.

 

[Bruce]

Diablo III. It just didn't work.

 

[ABLb0y]

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified.
The Black Ops series are two of the only three good Call of Duty games. So I was excited when I got to play Declassified on my friend's Vita.
Boy, was my excitement misplaced. Tiny maps, horrible AI and dreadful graphics, oh my!

 

[blackrave]

DeusEx: Invisible War
Not a bad game, no.
I even managed to enjoy it.
But so much wasted potential