A thread for ranting about crap sequels

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Does exaclty what it says on the tin. Rant all you want about sequels that didn't live up to the original, no flaming (unless someone mentions HL2, in which case napalm grade flaming is autherised)

Deus Ex: Invisible War.
This has to be the most dumbed down thing in history, so many things that made the original great were removed. The location damage was very cool and made you use your medkits statigecy. The invintory has been turned into a stupid rocket launcher=combat knife piece of crap. The weapons are crap with the cool upgrades changed to ones that barely afect the guns and secondary fires that are rubbish. The sniper rifles scope ups the damage, WTF is that about?????? There are 'special guns' lieing around for no reason OMG a pistol with a red flashlight, whats the f**king point?. THE UNIVERSAL AMMO CLIP THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING IN THE GAME, FOR GOD'S SAKE, WHAT S**THEAD CAME UP WITH THAT F**KING IDEA!!!!! The graphics are ok but animations are terrible at some times. The skills system was scraped and the biomods were incredibly dumbed down. The storyline is a disgrace and should be thrown out of the Deus Ex history books. The lockpicks and multitools (which looked like something a hacker might actualy use) where combined into Harry Potter's magic wand. The enemies are annoyingly strong wich give out much less ammo than it takes to kill them and the the hardest ones to kill don't even give off any ammo. The ending was terribly disapointing, I killed the legendary JC with a few spider-bots while I hid around the corner (I was so sick of the game by then I was using every cheap trick in the book just to see the endings).The enemies sometimes had super vision and could see you through walls. At one stage when the enemies stop attacking you and you walk around at all (even in front of them) they start shouting "what was that". The characters have the worst clothes ever (espectally the femal Alex).

Halo 2
Terrible plot, terrible levels, terrible enemies
The brutes aren't Covanant, their gorilas crossed with retards, they don't have the Covanant fell to them at all. They have grenade launchers, WTF! Covanant don't have grenade launchers, they have plasma weapons! Some even have shotguns near the end WTF?! They are badly designed and stupid. They are simply enemies with alot of health and big guns, a cheap trick. you just have to keep pounding them until they go down. The drones, again no Covanant, they are ugly little insects who are annoying to fight. The Covanant sniper was a bad excuse to include snipers to fight (when they could just have you fighting humans when you were an Elite). The new Covanant weapons are crap except for the fuel rod gun and sword. the brute rifle was just a red plasma rifle and the grenade launcher wasn't Covanant at all. The level layout was crab and none seemed like my favourite level from the original (assault the control room). The only new things that I liked overall were the vehicles (exept the Covanant warthog (whatever its name was)). I loved the highjacking and throwing a grenade into tanks etc. and also the way your allies could drive. One stupid point though, it said in the manual (in Halo 1) that the scorpion is only able to be driven by a cyborg or marine with neural implants. but in Halo 2 1 got one of my Elites (while playing as a Covanant) to drive it.
 
hitman contracts.
prince of persia:ww- just for its change of style, still like it though.
pro evolution soccer 2.

em thats all for now.
 
Hitman Contracts was great. Now Blood 2...that's an awful sequel.
 
Simcity 4 didn't cut it for me, Simcity 2000 was best.
 
devel may cry 2 supposedly blew ass too.

FINAL FANTASY X-2
did too i hear also.

doom3 maybe?
 
Monkey Island 4
Well.. how do I start, I dont think there was a single thing in MI4 had deserved to be called a Monkey Island game. First off lets start with how it looks, the graphics where good for there time, but I just didnt think they fit the style of game.. what was wrong with the MI3 style of 3d? Talk about drawing in the graphics whores. This leads to anouther thing, the controll, not using MI3s hold the drag system with the mouse, but using the crappyest one they could think of, the keyboard. The jokes where mostly crap, like the britney spears one (Anyone who played it knows what Im talking about).
 
Ritz said:
Monkey Island 4
Well.. how do I start, I dont think there was a single thing in MI4 had deserved to be called a Monkey Island game. First off lets start with how it looks, the graphics where good for there time, but I just didnt think they fit the style of game.. what was wrong with the MI3 style of 3d? Talk about drawing in the graphics whores. This leads to anouther thing, the controll, not using MI3s hold the drag system with the mouse, but using the crappyest one they could think of, the keyboard. The jokes where mostly crap, like the britney spears one (Anyone who played it knows what Im talking about).
ZOMG Off topic but wheres your sig from? original?
 
Ritz said:
Monkey Island 4
Well.. how do I start, I dont think there was a single thing in MI4 had deserved to be called a Monkey Island game. First off lets start with how it looks, the graphics where good for there time, but I just didnt think they fit the style of game.. what was wrong with the MI3 style of 3d? Talk about drawing in the graphics whores. This leads to anouther thing, the controll, not using MI3s hold the drag system with the mouse, but using the crappyest one they could think of, the keyboard. The jokes where mostly crap, like the britney spears one (Anyone who played it knows what Im talking about).

I agree. Although for some reason I preferred MI1/2 graphics to the MI3 style :cool: But I still enjoyed MI3 and the graphics.
 
I've played it but can't remember the Britney joke, could someone enlighten me?
 
Half-Life 2...
God was that a flop...

...-runs-
 
The brutes were the only good thing about halo 2 imo, other than that I agree. And in my mind Invisible war was pretty good, just not a worthy sequel.

Bad sequels:

Driv3r - Awful. Third person controls were terrible, the mission design was horrendous and the animations and models were - I can't describe how bad they were. Movie make was fun though, until the game thought it would make it's own movie :|
 
Generals, a brilliant game but not Command and Conquer (notice me leaving out the Command and Conquer)

Edit:
We can thank EA for that.
 
Samon said:
The brutes were the only good thing about halo 2 imo, other than that I agree. And in my mind Invisible war was pretty good, just not a worthy sequel.

Bad sequels:

Driv3r - Awful. Third person controls were terrible, the mission design was horrendous and the animations and models were - I can't describe how bad they were. Movie make was fun though, until the game thought it would make it's own movie :|
omg driver 3(thats what i call it anyway) absolutely, such a bad game, i remember when i was in GAME a week before release i got a tonne of promotion for it so it would shift some copies, they were pretty desperate, pretty muched ruined the series even though it still sold well.
 
While DX:IW unfortunately was dumbed down for the console it is still a good game. I really enjoyed playing through it, especially with the high definition-pack released by someone in the community.

.bog.
 
jimbo118 said:
ZOMG Off topic but wheres your sig from? original?


They are the words of Lynard Skynard - Free Bird. One of my favorate songs... good choice Ritz :D

Also MI:4 wasn't a terrible game as such... but it was nothing compaired to the rest of the series... I would love to see another one... done right but I doubt we will ever see ol' guybrush again...

Oh ritz did you ever play Grim Fandango? That game was fantastic... though it uses the MI:4 control scheme... Such class in that game... they dont make em like that anymore. Same goes for Monkey Island.
 
qckbeam said:
Hitman Contracts was great. Now Blood 2...that's an awful sequel.


Okay, I'm just going to have to change my sig not to include Blood 2 then
 
DEATH eVADER said:
Okay, I'm just going to have to change my sig not to include Blood 2 then
Woah woah, your sig is huge! And whats with the TWO spaces after the quote?

The maximum length for sigs here is 4 lines.

Bad Sequels: (Besides ones already mentioned)

Worms 3D
Warcraft 3
Battlefield Vietnam
Call of Duty 2 (Looks like it's going to suck)
Halo 2 (It just deserves a second mention, it's that dissapointing)
 
Knights Of The Old Republic II

Not necessarily "crap" per se, but I wish I had never played it. Everything was going so well until Obsidian completely dropped the ball with the last hour of the game. It was enough to ruin everything else that took place beforehand.
 
Suikoden III is a horrid, horrid game. Avoid it at all costs.

Suikoden II is amazing, as is Suikoden I, but III is just crap.
 
Tomb raider, angel of darkness. gave up after a few levels.. they take out the grid system, and leave in dissapearing bodies?! oh dear ;(
 
burnzie said:
They are the words of Lynard Skynard - Free Bird. One of my favorate songs... good choice Ritz :D

Also MI:4 wasn't a terrible game as such... but it was nothing compaired to the rest of the series... I would love to see another one... done right but I doubt we will ever see ol' guybrush again...

Oh ritz did you ever play Grim Fandango? That game was fantastic... though it uses the MI:4 control scheme... Such class in that game... they dont make em like that anymore. Same goes for Monkey Island.
What about S&M?!!? :( :( :(
 
Devil May Cry 2, there was a collective gasp from the Devil May Cry community, "What happend!?".
 
Halo 2
Stronghold 2
(not played DE:IW because of the bad reviews)
Silent Hunter 2
 
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2...Can't say about 3, never played it.
 
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