Most disappointed sequel?

[Angelous Wang]

This can be answered in two words. Fable 3.

Agreed.

Fable had great game mechanics and the best story.

Fable 2 had an bit of disappointing story but managed to improve the already great game mechanics.

Fable 3 came along and simplified the game mechanics for Kinect basically destroying them, and the story was just just as disappointing if not more so than 2.

 

[Richard Cassan]

Master of Orion 3!

MOO2 was a masterpiece that is still unsurpassed in its genre, and then on launch day when I bought MOO3 I received a broken game that was severely un-fun.

 

[gorfias]

Turn the way back machine on:

Witchaven II.

Witchaven I, for some reason, got meh reviews. I thought it scary and terrific. For the time, the graphics and animations were top notch! It was a fantasy FPS using swords and bows and arrows and magic, about 18 years before Skyrim!

Witchaven 2 came out. I expected polished graphics and similar gameplay. What I got was broken. You pressed the up arrow to walk a step forward and found yourself far away from your intended destination. You'd swing your sword at a bad guy and miss by a mile for no discernible reason.

In the mid 1990s, I spent $15 on this, a lot for me at the time. Major bummer.


This is Witchaven I. I'm still stunned by how good it looks given when it came out. I'll have to look up what happened to the guys that made it (and Witchaven 2).

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I loved Mass Effect 2, and the Mass Effect 3 ending was well enough for me not to have a heart attack over. For me the most disappointed sequel happens to be every Pokemon game past Sapphire and Ruby, other than the appearance of new pokemon nothing really changed.

 

[Sneezeguard]

My most disappointing sequel? the Xbox One.

I'm surprised no one has said this yet.

 

[Folksoul]

Nuts and Bolts. It was just disgusting. What it was, was a neat vehicle based creativity toy. It was in no way, shape, or form a Banjo platformer like it was marketed.

 

[Robeltu]

Dragon Age II

Oh my god!!!! Way to get our hopes up to take a giant crap on them, Bioware!

I completely agree with you on this one, I adored Dragon Age Origins, and then I bought Dragon age 2 ... yeah most disappointing sequel ever

 

[Glongpre]

My most disappointing sequel? the Xbox One.

I'm surprised no one has said this yet.

If were gonna do other things and not games then...

Mortal Kombat Annihilation the movie.

It just was awful. The first movie was surprisingly awesome, I still love it, but the second just has no redeeming qualities. They killed Johnny Cage within the first 5 mins for god sakes.

I mean the first had the best fitting actors it just blows my mind. Whoever played Shang should have gotten an oscar.

Eww I just remembered Sonya, she was an awful actress, haha.

 

[Brown Cap]

Resistance 3

After Resistance 2, I swore at the television for a full half-hour for the gnarly cliff hanger it gave me.
I pre-ordered #3 the second I had the chance. I was excited out of my mind when I got it. I played it clean through to the end in less than a weekend. I hated it. Some of the game was genuinely exciting, but it failed to answer a plethora of questions, while raising a many others. It was horrible. I regret buying it now.

 

[Signa]

I gotta echo supcom 2. I actually teared up when I found how bad it was.

 

[GonzoGamer]

The Xbone, obviously. XD

Just what I was going to say.

Seriously? Probably GTA4. It was a good game, just a very disappointing GTA game.

 

[RicoADF]

You know, Renegade2 might work, if developers makes gameplay somewhat similar to Battlezone...
[pops in remaining bottle of pills]
... after they pull Renegade2 out of the limbo that is :/

Actually Tiberium looked more interesting than any C&C EA has made, so ofcourse because it looked good they cancelled it *sigh..... grabs a bottle of those pills of yours*

 

[Rickin10]

Hard to look beyond Modern Warfare 2. The first sign that COD had turned into an insipid money-printing franchise.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

F3AR, or FThreear. I loved the atmosphere and gameplay of the first game, the second improved the gameplay and sacrificed a little of the tone, but overall I still liked it, and even the Reborn expansion. F3AR I buy brand new at full price, my first game to pay that much in awhile, and while it was a decent FPS, I was emotionally destroyed at how it was atmospherically. I enjoyed how the story tried to be more in depth, and I enjoyed the cutscenes, but part of the appeal of the original game was witnessing the events and listening to them on the answering machines.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

OP.........why did you have to remind me of Perfect Dark Zero?

Other than that, Metal Gear Solid 4, I can go on for hours on how that game failed to deliver.

KotOR II- The Sith Lords. I'm not saying it was a bad game- but I did feel very disappointed by it. You hit a certain point, and how much was left out becomes... painfully obvious. It had great potential, and I loved the first game, but the second one felt as rushed as it was- especially after I was starting to be drawn in, only to have all immersion in the world and stories pretty broken.

I can agree with this. I still have fond memories of it, but man that game was rushed to hell and back, it was the first time I saw how bad publishers can screw things up.

 

[Miss G.]

Considering FFX-2 was the game that got me into the series and I liked it (I didn't know any better) even though everyone said it sucked, FFXIII (and it's sequels by association) is what disappointed me. I lasted a whole seven hours and then I forgot why I even wanted it for Christmas. Extra saddened because it was my present to me.

 

[Toxic Sniper]

Metroid: Other M has been mentioned, but I must mention it again. It's a trainwreck from start to finish. Take everything that made Super Metroid or Metroid Prime a wonderful experience and reverse it, and you've got Other M. All the subtle environmental storytelling becomes mawkish melodrama. All the mysterious exploration becomes glorified janitorial work in a hallway. All the memorable area tunes become mediocre ambience. All the smooth gameplay is replaced with awkward workarounds and solutions. All the silent and powerful mystique of Samus Aran is washed away and filled in with an obnoxious double. All respect for the player is just gone. I have never seen a game with less respect for me than Other M. When Adam Malkovich won't even allow me to visit the final area of the game, I feel Sakamoto thinks I'm as weak and helpless as his version of Samus.

 

[Nexxis]

Endless Ocean 2
I loved Endless Ocean for its exploration and relaxation. It was a game that have stuff for you to do and few limits. Heck, you tended to have so much air in your tank that you could explore an area 10 times over before getting half way through it. I use to turn on some of game's music and just listen to it because I loved it. Everything was done at your own pace and you never really felt pressured to do anything. Not to mention, I love the educational stuff about the marine life.
Endless Ocean 2 changed all that. Some things that were optional in the first game became mandatory in the second one. Exploration felt more linear and they added an element where animals could attack you and you had to taser them to calm them down. Since the calming time was short, you spent most of the time trying to "avoid the baddies" rather than explore and discover things. They also put limits on your air. As you played through, you unlocked larger tanks, but even the maxed tank couldn't compare to the air tank in the first one. On it's own, the game is ok and plays like one would expect from a game like that, but it removed the laid back elements of the first one that I liked. Some of the environments were nice, but my air tank tended to be too small for me to explore it like I wanted. I can't remember if I played until the end or not. I did continuously pop back into the first one to play in the aquarium, explore the abyss (which is my favorite) and listen to the music.

 

[Dark Prophet]

There are quite few sequels which disappointed me a bit although I generally knew that they were not going to be that good, but the one that totally crushed me was C&C 4, I had such hopes for it but it just did not have any redeeming features.

Wait since when there is C&C4? EA just released RA3.
[takes half a bottle of happy denial pills]
I'm pretty sure C&C4 haven't been even announced yet.

Amen to that mate, taking a beloved franchise for base building and tank spamming, then remove bases and give a ridiculously low build cap. They could have only made it worse by making it a FPS :-/ Utter idiots.

Anyone else noticing the high number of EA games in here? Says something doesn't it.

You know, Renegade2 might work, if developers makes gameplay somewhat similar to Battlezone...
[pops in remaining bottle of pills]
... after they pull Renegade2 out of the limbo that is :/

There was a Renegade 2 on the works by Westwood it was in Red universe and set post Red 2 in some big US city, there were even some levels done, but EA killed it. Also there was Tiberium which if I'm not mistaken was supposed to be after Tib wars, which EA also killed.