SEQUELS THAT WERE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINALS

[Dr. Win]

Anyway, as for another answer... Majora's Mask was leagues better than Ocarina of Time.

TRU DIS

Other than that,
AC2 > AC1
Just Cause 2 > Just Cause 1
Dead Rising 2 > Dead Rising 1
Resident Evil 4 > Every other RE
Silent Hill 2 > Silent Hill 1

 

[ChupathingyX]

Fallout new vegas. Shit I went tere.
*awaits fallout(1,2,3, tactics and BoS)fans with pitchforks*
Its kinda similar so I am going to say 3 was better than the originals too, sure the writing sucked, but gameplay is much better.
*sees people making a cross*

What do you mean? Hardcore Fallout fans hated Fallout 3 and loved New Vegas. New Vegas was direct sequel to Fallout 2. Some of the original developers who worked on the original Fallouts were involved in New Vegas and unlike Fallout 3 there were no stupid continuity issues or lore screwups.

 

[luckshotpro]

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Mass Effect 2
Red Steel 2
Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness
Terminator 2
Call of Duty: Black ops (as a sequel to World at War)
Fallout: New Vegas

 

[thethingthatlurks]

GTA 2 was better than the first, GTA3 was better than the second, GTA:VC was better than the third, GTA:SA was even better than VC, and GTA 4 was...actually pretty shitty. Well, at least there was some marked improvement.

 

[Dana22]

Terminator 2 i guess, I also liked Aliens more.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Fallout new vegas. Shit I went tere.
*awaits fallout(1,2,3, tactics and BoS)fans with pitchforks*
Its kinda similar so I am going to say 3 was better than the originals too, sure the writing sucked, but gameplay is much better.
*sees people making a cross*

New Vegas I didn't really care for much. It was ok, but compared to 3 the only real improvement was modding the weapons. Even then, I didn't care much for mostly all the weapons, story was ok, the area of "New Vegas" was a joke compared to DC is 3, and the ending was pretty boring. Guess that is just my opinion

OT:
Skate 3
STALKER Call of Pripyat
And some of BioShock 2 (hacking was better, researching was better, having plasmid and gun out at the same time was better than switching back and forth, and how the plasmids actually upgraded), but the first was still better.

As for movies, Blade II.

 

[VanillaBean]

Terminater 2 and X-men 2 are the first that come to mind.

 

[WaReloaded]

Army of Darkness.
The Empire Strikes Back.
I loved Terminator Salvation, but I don't know if I'd call it superior to Terminator 2 though :/

 

[ChupathingyX]

Fallout new vegas. Shit I went tere.
*awaits fallout(1,2,3, tactics and BoS)fans with pitchforks*
Its kinda similar so I am going to say 3 was better than the originals too, sure the writing sucked, but gameplay is much better.
*sees people making a cross*

What do you mean? Hardcore Fallout fans hated Fallout 3 and loved New Vegas. New Vegas was direct sequel to Fallout 2. Some of the original developers who worked on the original Fallouts were involved in New Vegas and unlike Fallout 3 there were no stupid continuity issues or lore screwups.

Yeah and I find it pathetic.
The game is pretty much the same as fallout 3, but better writing.
Yet everything about 3 is wrong and everything about NV is right.
Fanboyism at its finest.

Fallout 3 screwed up a lot of lore from the previous Fallouts. Bethesda took factions and creatures from the originals and placed them on the other side of America and did whatever they wanted to with them. The almost completely re created the BoS and made up a very stupid story for them, not to ention the main quest for Fallout 3 was stupid anyway. Plus in Fallout 3 they got rid of traits, reputation and changed a lot of things for the worse, like making all the Super Mutants stupid and having the same voice even though Super Mutants can clearly retain their original voice. A lot of lore that was created in Fallout 3 is generally forgotten by most fallout fans, one of the most heinous of these is how they stuck Harold in the ground and made it impossible for him to appear in any future Fallout titles.

Also not everything about Fallout 3 was bad. Lockpicking was good, some sidequests were good.

 

[TitanAtlas]

I say Kingdom Hearts 2 is better then the first one.

i say that you dear sir, have no taste....

KH2 was way too easy, and had really stupid mini-games..... say what you want but KH2 will never fill the boots from KH1....

Alsoon a sidenote, i think Halo reach was better than everything they did before....

 

[clipse15]

Nolan's Dark Knight to Nolan's Batman Begins!

Nah, the first was much better.

For starters it actually seemed to, you know, be set in Gotham.

I am not sure why seeming to be set in Gotham makes a movie any better or worse.

Anyway I have a few that haven't been said yet;

Aliens
Terminator 2
Toy Story 2 and 3 (both better than the first; which is still a good film).

also:

Oldboy (if you consider it a sequel to Sympathy for Mr Vengence)


A couple of superhero films like Xmen 2 and Spiderman 2 are also good examples.


(I am talking about films here; a lot of games tend to have superior sequels so it isn't really worth posting imo).

I agree with most of this, except for Oldboy. I think Sympathy for Mr. Vengence is much more superior, but that's just me.

 

[Tipsythegza]

Counter strike source > 1.6 (had to be said sorry)

 

[oden636]

Blade 2, Timesplitters:future perfect, Sims 2, diablo 2, gta 3.

 

[spartandude]

 

[Flying Dagger]

Backdoor bandits 13 was an improvement from 12, a lot of questions were answered, for example, we found out that the fridge did, in fact, get fixed.

 

[pigsnoutman]

New testiment.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Back To the Future 2 better the the first movie? Good God, what's happening to this world.

I never really understood the Aliens > Alien arguements either: Because there's action in it and they turned the Aliens into bees? For me Alien will always be better simply because there isn't an annoying little kid in it that should've died on numeral occasions.