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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: The Last Belmont on March 24, 2008, 12:30:47 AM
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what's everyone's most hated video game serie sequel(s)?
I hated Windwaker alot when it came out and still can't play it cuz of all the boring sailing, the other zelda titles take place on land so your constantly fighting enemies to keep it fresh, WW was insanely boring when it came to going from island to island. Mario 64 also ranks up there as another giant disappointment. I was expecting to be going after king Koopa again and possibly his kids in all new decked out crazy 3d levels, and all it was was one big star hunt with only temp. new powers and non of the old ones going through each level 8 or 9 times to finally get enough stars to move on with a bowser fight every once in a blue moon that was nothing more than throw him off a cliff and was unlike anything before or after it mariogame wise. The most disappointing sequel I've ever played would have to be Double Dragon 3 on the nes. You only have one health bar to beat the entire game with NO continues! What a giant slap in the face and a cruel move on the programmers part. You have to be the most patient gamer alive to finish it. (or cheat like I did ;D) You get to play as other characters but it's overshadowed by the fact that if anybody dies that's it, they're gone for good and you have to start the whole game over again if everybody dies.
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sequel to Megaman Zeros, The DX thing, the game might play good, I wouldn't know, but from the sounds and looks of it, it looks like its aimed towards audiences who likes to watch digimon and pokemon after its welcome are outlasted.
Probably not the worst, but ..... it annoys me a great deal. MMX 7 and up also, Axel is just an annoying existence and I wish it were remedied. 5 adn 6 weren't the best either but its not too bad.
Sequels to Sonic Adventure 2 >.>and all I can say to that is.... nuff said.
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Any Megaman X game after 4.
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Halo 2 and 3.
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Devil May Cry 2, Nightshade/Kunoichi (Shinobi 2)...
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Ummmm....SNAKE'S REVENGE?!?! A less-than-decent, platitude-laden non-sneaking shooter game sequel to Metal Gear, a game centered on sneaking...
At least Mario 64 and Wind Waker weren't abysmal...they are often placed on favorite games lists across the internet, and are typically seen as Quality Games.
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I'll probably remember worse ones later but Heroes of Might and Magic 4 comes to mind.
They say it isn't that much different from the 3rd (which rules) one, but the chaotic appearance and unpleasant combat made me stop playing it pretty much immediately.
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I was disappointed with the game of Spider-Man 3.
Spider-Man 2 was total awesomeness, and the third game just took away all the previous game's greatness.
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As much as it hurts me to say this i would have to say the .hack//GU series. (I would count it as a sequel video game wise) The story could have been good but the dialogue was kinda bad...so was the idea for having a tournament type thing in every volume. The game just didn't have the mystery or seriousness that the first set of games had.
Also, game play wise, while the combat was great, the battles were tedious. I ever had this bored feeling the the first seres...that's because i always felt threatened. i was always afraid what might come out of the magic portal. On top of that i didn't like the fact i could communicate with my party members. i mean what kinda leader are you if you can shout out commands.
Another thing i disliked was the cut scenes. it was a damn shame to see that this game had Xenosaga 3 syndrome. i really didn't like how everyone just stood there in their character models and talked....i could understand some of the briefing scenes but that all...every thing else should a have been an awesome movie scene.
So yeah....i didn't like it at all but i still love the series.
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Alundra 2
Worst sequel I've ever had the misfortune of buying. I still love the first game though and pretend that Alundra 2 never happened.
Final Fantasy 7
After FF6, my expectations were ridiculously high. I bought the original Playstation only to play this game (and Resident Evil. Didn't like that one either.). I'm not trying to be provocative, I just truly cannot get into FF7.
Klonoa Beach Volleyball
Not really a sequel, but I still bought it cause Klonoa was fantastic. This spin off is just disgusting and I obviously should've known better.
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Final Fantasy 7
After FF6, my expectations were ridiculously high. I bought the original Playstation only to play this game (and Resident Evil. Didn't like that one either.). I'm not trying to be provocative, I just truly cannot get into FF7.
I don't really consider RPG's with the same name sequels unless they are actually related to the game the came before it. It may have the same name but it's not at all related. Now, if it were FFX and FFX-2 thats different.
Anywho, I like FF6 and 7 equally, but I guess you make some sense
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I liked alundra 2... sorta... It was alright but it had major issues that made the game unpleasurable.
But that reminds me, I never played Brave Fencer Musashi's ps2 game. But my friend was so utterly disappointed that I just have to follow suit.
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I liked alundra 2... sorta... It was alright but it had major issues that made the game unpleasurable.
Same goes for me and also it didn't have relation with the first Alundra except from the name!
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This one is easy, Deusex: invisible war, is the worst sequel EVER.
Deusex was pure awensome ness, story and gameplay wise. It still outmatches some of the newer games today. Dx:IW was sucked ass gameplay wise, all the things that made DX great were removed and universal ammo...Imagine using it with a flamethrower. The story was so,so but still far inferior than the plot from the first one.
If I had the funds, I'd issue a remake of the sequel and completly alter it's story and reimplement the great gameplay from the first game.
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I don't really consider RPG's with the same name sequels unless they are actually related to the game the came before it. It may have the same name but it's not at all related. Now, if it were FFX and FFX-2 thats different.
Anywho, I like FF6 and 7 equally, but I guess you make some sense
Yeah I agree, I thought 7 was even better personally. The materia aspect was awesome. (Main boss was WAY too easy though after going through all that hell to get to him)
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Ummmm....SNAKE'S REVENGE?!?! A less-than-decent, platitude-laden non-sneaking shooter game sequel to Metal Gear, a game centered on sneaking...
At least Mario 64 and Wind Waker weren't abysmal...they are often placed on favorite games lists across the internet, and are typically seen as Quality Games.
Oh I agree, it's probably my age and the fact that they were so different from the previous titles. I don't consider them abysmal by any means, I just don't find that they carry on the same feel and draw me in like the other titles in their respective serie did and still do. They are like totally diff. games that stand really well on their own, but taken as part of the mario and zelda series they come across to me as black sheep (like many people see Zelda II). Mario 64 especially seemed like to me as a way for nintendo to just present the N64's capabilities and seems like they didn't put as much care into the gameplay aspect as the previous and future titles (so far) and keeping the gamer enthralled with the game. My best friend loves Mario 64 but even he admits that he can only play it for a few hours at a time before it becomes repetetive and he has to do something else or pop in a diff game. I remember spending the entire summer of 1990 playing Mario 3 and all of my winter break playing mario world in 1992.
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I remember accidentally deleting a 92 exit completed game of my brothers for SMW. needless to say he wasnt very happy
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Sequels I just can't get into:
Wind Waker
Super Paper Mario
Zelda: Minish cap
too many dead ends and vague clues.
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Halo 2 and 3.
Lol...wow! You hate Halo 2 & 3? Since when??
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And I'd have to say Metroid Prime 2.
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Zelda: Minish cap
OMG dude, minish cap is one of the best zelda titles ever. I recommend going to Gamefaqs and looking up how to get past the area that has you stuck cuz I feel bad that your missing out on this awesome experience. The difficulty is crazy and took me 5 games to beat it. (mind you I've pretty much mastered the zelda bird's eye view aspect of play). I'm sure it probably took others who hadn't spent countless hours playing the original and ALTTP a lot longer. Some of those bosses were insane. The main boss had 3 forms and took around 200 hits to kill total!
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In Reply To #18
I bought the Wind Waker just to get the Ocarina of Time + Master's Quest disk. I thought it would be stupid as hell but I thought it turned out amazing. I got a sea chart on the wall next to me.
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In Reply To #18
I bought the Wind Waker just to get the Ocarina of Time + Master's Quest disk. I thought it would be stupid as hell but I thought it turned out amazing. I got a sea chart on the wall next to me.
Yeah the master quest was mega fun and I loved how the dungeons were more challenging and some of the bosses were tougher to kill. I just wish they would have made Ganon harder he's a freakin' pussy. Ganondorf took more skill to kill than the power of the triforce of power. :P
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Didn't they make the Water Temple a lot easier in the Master Quest version?
I remember breezing through it with no trouble at all.
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Didn't they make the Water Temple a lot easier in the Master Quest version?
I remember breezing through it with no trouble at all.
I don't think it was easier though I beat it pretty quick cuz I knew where everything was. I think if I were playing it for the first time it would probably be about the same as the regular OOT one.
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The thing about the water temple in master quest, is that I ended up with an extra key. It was weird as hell so I went through every room 3 more times but I couldn't find another door to unlock. I talked to someone else and they had an extra key too. odd.
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^ that is weird, I don't think I had an extra key though I may have as I haven't played the game in 3 years.
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It's not a bad game (I think) but as a sequel to the original Final Fantasy tactics FFT Advance fell short of the mark for me.
I did spend a lot of hours with it though.
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It's not a bad game (I think) but as a sequel to the original Final Fantasy tactics FFT Advance fell short of the mark for me.
I did spend a lot of hours with it though.
I second that. The gameplay was good...i actually like the law system. however, i had played through a majority of FFT the story in advanced looked like garbage. I had to put the game down because it was not intriguing enough.
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Wait... Did someone on the first page seriously knock Mega Man ZX? AND WITHOUT EVEN PLAYING IT????
That game seriously rocks somethin' fierce.
Oh, and Banjo-Tooie is a downright terrible and messy sequel to what I consider to be one of the absolute best 3D platformers ever made.
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Wait... Did someone on the first page seriously knock Mega Man ZX? AND WITHOUT EVEN PLAYING IT????
What!? Megaman ZX kicks ass. Sure the graphics are strange but the gameplay is phenomenal.
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In Reply To #29
I thought Banjo Tooie was an okay sequel, if we can quietly forget about the framerate for a moment.
Rare went a little overboard with the item collecting and the saterday morning cartoon vibe, but I had fun with Banjo Tooie.
Especially compared to that bland gba sequel prequel alternate storyline thingy "Grunty's Revenge" or whatever it was called.
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That's the thing though. B-T is too big, and it gets kind of stale. I was having a bit of fun until I got to this dock level or whatever. It's mostly an underwater stage. I really don't like underwater stages for one thing (unless it's something like the Donkey Kong Country games, where you don't have an air/breath meter), and this one just seemed really obnoxious.
And MMZX, to me, basically looks like the MM Zero games. I never played through all of those, but I thought the style and graphics were very similar, so I don't understand the person who mentioned ZX and said they hate the look of it, and yet apparently love the Zero games.
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Oddworld: Abe's Exodus.
As if the original wasn't bad enough, they made a sequel. The whole Oddworld series is just... LSD-inspired ODD. Some people may like it, but possessing my own farts to recon an area just isn't my cup of tea.
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In Reply To #20
Uhhh... Minish Cap was a sequel? To what? And on the topic of both bad sequels and Zelda I must say: LoZ: Majora's Mask. Wierd, it didn't directly have Zelda or Ganon and was way too short.
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What!? Megaman ZX kicks ass. Sure the graphics are strange but the gameplay is phenomenal.
I'll wait til I actually play it to judge, but the story seemed to be aimed towards kids. Thats rather disappointing, I mean the X series weren't extremely adultish or anything but it wasn't childish. Zero definitely wasn't childish. But ZX seems that way.
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ZX's story seems to be aimed at kids.
Uh.. what were you expecting? All Megaman games are aimed for kids.
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I don't know why I didn't think of it before but Streets of Rage 3 (Bare Knuckle 3) was the weakest in the series in all departments. Streets of Rage 2 rules though.
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In Reply To #20
Uhhh... Minish Cap was a sequel? To what? And on the topic of both bad sequels and Zelda I must say: LoZ: Majora's Mask. Wierd, it didn't directly have Zelda or Ganon and was way too short.
I never said MC was sequel, it's a prequel to OOT and the four swords games.
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In Reply To #38
In theory, it is. Still, a logical theory.
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Samurai Legend Musashi, that game was a complete rip off
compared to Brave Fencer Musashi!!
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... Halo 3?