your favorite game that got destroyed by crappy sequels?

[Phishfood]

Deus ex, although they have at least partially redeemed themselves.

Oh gods. Invisible War was an abomination upon man and nature...

What do you think, I say 2 more good sequels and we can forgive them.

 

[Syzygy23]

Deus ex, although they have at least partially redeemed themselves.

Oh gods. Invisible War was an abomination upon man and nature...

I keep hearing people say Invisible War was a turd sandwich, I played a bit of it years ago on a friends xbox and it seemed pretty neat. Why does everyone hate on it?

As for my favorite game ruined by a sequel, Destroy All Humans! 1 & 2. The first game was witty and fun as all get out, the second one improved on the first in every way, and then the third took a steaming dump all over everything the first two had established.

 

[Agow95]

Fable: The lost chapters, Fable II was okay, had less hype dissapointment, but shorter with an less epic story, and the third was shorter still, with more hype dissapointment that the first, and is miles apart from the original game, as many of my favourite things were traded in for a godawful relationship system, a ruined xp system, and spells are overpowered, so what if I can customise my own weapon? It's often worse than other weapons but your compelled not to use them because you have "unique" weapons of your own

 

[liquidsolid]

(In order that I started each franchise)

1. Spyro The Dragon: The original trilogy is childhood gold, but after that it fell into mediocrity
2. Spiderman: I used to play the PS1 games made by Nerversoft, but when the movie based one came out on PS2 I tuned out.
3. Kingdom Hearts: Where the fuck is Kingdom Hearts 3?? Whats all this prequel to the sequel non-sense!?
4. Age of Empires: After AOE III ended around the middle of the 19th century, I was exited to see a modern times AOE, instead a cartoony free to play MMO that goes back to ancient times.
5. Bioshock: Bioshock 2 was a load of poo that I especially hated because I bought the 'special edition' $99

 

[York_Beckett]

Kane and Lynch.

Essentially being the only person in the universe who really enjoyed the first game, the 2nd installment was just a plotless, criminally short pile of nothing. They could at least have ended it properly, instead of just... stopping it.

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Destroy All Humans! was great, Make War Not Love was just as good, then it got hit by two crappy games when it tried to move up to this console generation.

And then Pandemic was dissolved, so fat chance of another sequel.

 

[Thundero13]

The Spyro series, the first three were brilliant, the fourth was bad, the fifth was brilliant again, after that it's just been awful

 

[kommando367]

Destroy all Humans

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Spyro and Crash Bandicoot ... sniff could use a hug right now

 

[mrmooninnod]

Jak and Daxter.

Yes, I said it. I loved the first game, with its lush, green forests and its old-school platforming gameplay done so incredibly well. Not to mention the game world itself:

No levels. No loading times. Just ONE SINGLE LANDSCAPE, constructed in one single piece.

Yeah. Seriously. No levels. You didn't get to the final boss by making it through a series of variously-themed obstacle courses. You got to the final boss by TRAVERSING THE ENTIRE CONTINENT, from one end to the other! The whole game is a single, seamless journey - through forests, jungles and gloomy caves, up snowy mountains and across fields of boiling lava! That provides a uniquely epic feel that no other game can match.

And then, the sequel came. As most of you know, Jak and Daxter 2 is set in a grimy, futuristic city with heavy traffic, dense crowds, police everywhere - and guns. Yes, guns. After the primitive, down-to-Earth feel of the previous game, we suddenly get guns. J&D2 is basically a slightly more cartoony version of GTA. Jak was still very much a platform hero, Daxter was still funny, but I just couldn't get into the game. The gritty, urban feel was simply not what I wanted from a J&D game.

I missed the jungle.

AND there were loading screens.

I never bothered to finish the second game. And since the third game was a direct continuation of the story, I just gave up on the series right there.[/quote

Don't worry Japan felt the same way due to the sales figures of Jak 2 were so bad the 3rd game was never released for them

 

[Mausthemighty]

Dragon Age 2, Command and Conquer 4 and KotOR 2. Those three games killed their franchises. Although I hope Bioware listened to all the critics and that DA 3 and TOR will be much better.

 

[Bebus]

I am surprised nobody has said Dragon Age yet.

I enjoyed Dragon Age 2, but it was a totally different game to the first and did a lot of damage to the apparent resurgence of the old-school elements of RPGing.

 

[Ryhzuo]

Sonic, around the time it started snorting 3D up it's nose.

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

Sonic the hedgehog. Yeah 3-D just didnt go with it.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

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.

Dude, I think you stole my life, because that is EXACTLY what I was gonna say.

 

[beastly97]

i loved dragon age 1 replayed tons of times, and when dragon age 2 came out it just crushed my dreams of there ever being a good sequel to any game

 

[dando300]

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro... WHAT HAPPENED

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Grand Theft Auto IV.

After playing it for about 5 hours, It just tuned into Generic Cover Shooter 12 *Now with an okay story!*

 

[The_Echo]

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.

Sony didn't kick them out. Naughty Dog and Insomniac left Universal Interactive Studios (which was then bought by Vivendi, which is now merged into Activision Blizzard), where they had worked in the same building, and Universal kept the rights to both Crash and Spyro. Activision's subsidiary Sierra Entertainment (now absorbed into Activision Blizzard) holds the rights to both games, and is making shitty reboots and sequels with them.

I guess it can be deduced that my 'favorite game destroyed by crappy sequels' is Spyro. I also feel similarly about Crash, but I like Spyro about a hundred times more.

[small][Fun Fact! Out of Sony's "platformer trio," Insomniac is the only company still independent. But for how long, I wonder?][/small]

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Rayman.
I can't remember much about the 1st game other than that I played it and it was ok, Rayman 2 is essentially my childhood and I never got around to playing Rayman 3.

But Raving Rabbids? Why is Rayman suddenly captive to these annoying screaming fuckheads? Just blast the guards with your fists and take vengence on those A-holes! And then Raving Rabbids 2 came and Rayman barely appeared save for box art and cutscenes. And then Raving Rabbids TV Party and Rayman didn't even get the box art. And then Rayman disappeared altogether!
And now Rayman Origins is coming out and all seems to be well again.

Also: Spyro. I've only played Spyro: Year of The Dragon and Spyro: A Hero's Tail (which was ok, but nowhere near as good as YoTD). But now? WHAT THE FUCK HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU MAN!