Long-requested sequels that are monumentally disappointing
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DoDonGouki
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Ninja Gaiden 3
DimmuBurgerKing
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Oh, man. Golden Axe: Beast Rider was an absolute TRAVESTY. First game I thought of when I read the topic.
Demon Lizardman
Banned
Resident Evil 6, you know it's gonna happen guys.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Metal Gear Solid 4. The most soul crushing game I've played. Waited so long for the sequel to MGS2 and this is what we get...
When people say SMG, do they mean SMG2, or just SMG itself as the next 3D Mario after Sunshine? It wasn't really a sequel to anything. I could see it if they named it Super Mario 64 2 or Sunshine 2, but I thought it stood on its own and was absolutely fantastic. SMG2 was even better. Not sure what's going on in here.
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Though only because I was a RT player in WC3 which is completely awful in SC2. Also the campaign sucked. If you're a 1v1 player I'm sure it's great.
Coppertracks
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NiGHTS for sure. Get rid of the owl, platforming child levels and expand/add more NiGHTS levels (Y'know the actual reason we bought the game) then you'd get a pretty awesome game. It didn't help the standard level was 'chase the bird'.
Golden Axe: Beast Rider was pretty terrible.
Sonic 4.
Need to move away from Sega...
Golden Sun: DD. It looked gorgeous on the DS but the story was a bit... lacking. Not a disappointment but definitely needed refinement.
Golden Axe: Beast Rider was pretty terrible.
Sonic 4.
Need to move away from Sega...
Golden Sun: DD. It looked gorgeous on the DS but the story was a bit... lacking. Not a disappointment but definitely needed refinement.
Except for 3rd Birthday, how are these games "Long requested?"
MrPing1000
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Sammy Samusu
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It's gonna be an awesome action-game? Yes, we know and we can't wait.
As long as they keep putting more Revelations kind of game in the market, I'm not worried about Resident Evil 6, 7, 8, etc.
Are you by any chance a babby? Did you play SMS when it came out? It has a miserable number of worlds, 90% of them look the same and 50% fucking blow. As the followup to one of the best games of all time I have a hard time believing anyone who doesn't call it disappointing.
KittenMaster
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This. I'm pretty sure people weren't spending years requesting Resident Evil 6 and wondering why there's no sequel coming out.
C'mon guys, we all know that Duke Nukem Forever takes this by a lo-
... *Sobs uncontrollably*
There can only be one answer:
Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday.
... *Sobs uncontrollably*
Mega Man 9
Mega Man 10
D:
10 came out like 2 years after 9. Not a long-requested sequel.
10 isn't even remotely a bad game at all.
i both agree and STRONGLY disagree with you.[
Nights Into Dreams, and its sequel Nights: Journey of Dreams.
Journey of Dreams actually has some amazing levels, and there's really good content in there... but oh, the voice acting, and... THE OWL! SHUT UP AND DIE OWL! If ever there were a game that needed all its story and interface ripping out, it's this one. I sometimes think that this could get a director's cut and be re-released in a fixed form...
Journey of Dreams is the right answer, but that game is a total piece of turd.
Save for the NiGHTS redesign, the bosses and the CG cutscenes, there isn't a single aspect i'd save out of it: when it came out i felt so disappointed, it was probably my biggest gaming-related delusion ever.
Note that the original NiGHTS is my favorite game ever, and i dreamt about a sequel for soooo loooong.
Lesson learned, thanks to Sega: be careful what you wish for. ;__;
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
MW3.
The most amazing thing is how much effort they put into making the game bad, It's like they made a OK follow up to the first with the the looping tracks and small novelty sections, but then went in and added forced tutorials, a hub stage, cutscenes, forced on foot missions.
The amount of man hours used to bog down such a beautifully simple concept is staggering.
NBA Jam.
While I'm not a fan of sports games in general, arcade-like sports such as NBA Jam were simple and crazy enough to love back in the day. Problem is, when the franchise was revived in 2010, my nostalgia for it blinded me to how utterly repetitive the gameplay was. I was bored within 5 minutes. It didn't help that the new gameplay modes were even less entertaining than than campaign mode. It's one of those games I wouldn't want to play even if I were given a free copy.
Boom shakalaka right into the trash can. I'm just thankful my friend bought the game and not me.
While I'm not a fan of sports games in general, arcade-like sports such as NBA Jam were simple and crazy enough to love back in the day. Problem is, when the franchise was revived in 2010, my nostalgia for it blinded me to how utterly repetitive the gameplay was. I was bored within 5 minutes. It didn't help that the new gameplay modes were even less entertaining than than campaign mode. It's one of those games I wouldn't want to play even if I were given a free copy.
Boom shakalaka right into the trash can. I'm just thankful my friend bought the game and not me.
Frankenstrat
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SSX taught me to stop hoping for the best in this industry. So that, I guess.
Has someone named Super Smash Bros. Brawl yet?
(Note: I really like SSBB, and I find most of the hate directed at it to be outright baffling. And yet, after a seven year wait, Brawl was not what I was expecting, and as far as gameplay and mechanics were concerned, felt like a bit of a downgrade from Melee.
Still incredibly fun, though).
(Note: I really like SSBB, and I find most of the hate directed at it to be outright baffling. And yet, after a seven year wait, Brawl was not what I was expecting, and as far as gameplay and mechanics were concerned, felt like a bit of a downgrade from Melee.
Still incredibly fun, though).
My personal longest awaited and most disappointing. Honestly surprised the first at least wasn't mentioned.
Bionic Commando (XB360/PS3)
One of the longest requested sequels in game history, and definitely monumentally disappointing. WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN GOOD? WHY????? It was so bad it'll probably be two more decades before we get another sequel.
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (PS2)
The next gen sequel to one of my favorite PSX series, it added online mode and a character creator. Honestly, it wasn't bad but the additions weren't very good.
No competitive online mode, only co-op, and only then you just did the offline levels in a group. Especially annoying since some story parts (the best ending, special missions) could only be unlocked by completing certain objectives in multiplayer. Kind of frustrating since, then as now, most people online are idiots and you would never get them done in a pug since most were pretty hard.
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Star Wars: The old Republic
A lot of people had been crying out for a Bioware sequel the Kotor 1 for years, then we find out there's going to be 1, but its an MMO, and a fairly generic (If well polished) one too. Not the dragon age/Mass effect epic a lot of people had been hoping for.
Bionic Commando (XB360/PS3)
One of the longest requested sequels in game history, and definitely monumentally disappointing. WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN GOOD? WHY????? It was so bad it'll probably be two more decades before we get another sequel.
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (PS2)
The next gen sequel to one of my favorite PSX series, it added online mode and a character creator. Honestly, it wasn't bad but the additions weren't very good.
No competitive online mode, only co-op, and only then you just did the offline levels in a group. Especially annoying since some story parts (the best ending, special missions) could only be unlocked by completing certain objectives in multiplayer. Kind of frustrating since, then as now, most people online are idiots and you would never get them done in a pug since most were pretty hard.
Edit: Wanted to add one more
Star Wars: The old Republic
A lot of people had been crying out for a Bioware sequel the Kotor 1 for years, then we find out there's going to be 1, but its an MMO, and a fairly generic (If well polished) one too. Not the dragon age/Mass effect epic a lot of people had been hoping for.
One of my favorite things about sunshine was that you weren't jumping on platforms that existed purely for the purpose of being jumped on; you were jumping around a place where people actually live and work, trying to get their lives back to normal. It felt like an actual adventure, whereas I think most of the other Mario games are just about getting to the finish for the hell of it. In Sunshine, everything you did had relevance to the plot. Nearly everything, anyway. It sure wasn't a disappointment in my eyes at all.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd also like them to try voice acting again. I like it when Mario characters talk. I just don't want the voices to sound ridiculous like in Sunshine.
SoulUnison
Banned
Sonic 4 - Episode 1.
Sonic Team decides to finally continue the original Genesis series by...recycling levels from the first two games and removing everything remotely fun about them.
Some of the music, the boss tracks especially, is like someone angrily banging at a synth keyboard.
Sonic Team decides to finally continue the original Genesis series by...recycling levels from the first two games and removing everything remotely fun about them.
Some of the music, the boss tracks especially, is like someone angrily banging at a synth keyboard.
Criminal Upper
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Super Mario Sunshine
Bionic Commando
Duke Nukem Forever
Golden Axe Beast Rider
Perfect Dark Zero
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
Bionic Commando
Duke Nukem Forever
Golden Axe Beast Rider
Perfect Dark Zero
Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts
How has Clive Barker's Jericho not been mentioned yet? When they announced a new Clive Barker FPS I squealed in excitement as Undying was one of the more criminally underrated and unique FPS titles of last gen. What we got was an uninspired, bland squad based corridor shooter with some of the worst AI I've had to deal with in a shooter this gen.
What a fucking shame, man....
What a fucking shame, man....
Rahxephon91
Banned
People were long requesting a MGS sequel to 2, even more so after MGS3 went back in time. Maybe it wasn't exactly MGS4, but since MGS4 is the requested MGS2 story sequel it counts.
EmCeeGramr
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your favorite sequel
you, the person reading this post. your favorite sequel? it was terrible and awful.
it doesn't matter if it was long requested or monumentally disappointing, but it was bad.
you, the person reading this post. your favorite sequel? it was terrible and awful.
it doesn't matter if it was long requested or monumentally disappointing, but it was bad.
superpickleman
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A new Metroid game that Yoshio Sakamoto is heavily involved in?
Follows the events of Super FUCKING Metroid?
Classic Metroid style exploration (for the most part)?
MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!
I'm one of the few people that really enjoyed the game (sans storyline), I'm mostly disappointed with it's replay value compared to Super Metoid/Fusion
Coppertracks
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Another one: Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal.
An Azure Dreams sequel? On the DS? After 10 years of waiting? YEEEES!
What a pile of crap that was. It barely holds a candle to the watered down GBC version, never mind the fantastical Playstation original.
An Azure Dreams sequel? On the DS? After 10 years of waiting? YEEEES!
What a pile of crap that was. It barely holds a candle to the watered down GBC version, never mind the fantastical Playstation original.
Winner winner chicken dinner. As a game, Super Mario Sunshine was okay. It wasn't a bad game. However, we'd been waiting 6 years for this thing, and the most recent game was Super Mario 64, which blew everyone's minds. As a followup to that game? Yikes. Letdown, big time. Super Mario Sunshine was supposed to take the sheer awesomeness of SM64 and apply a coat of next-gen graphics to it thanks to the Gamecube's power, but instead it was gimmicky and - as the thread title says - monumentally disappointing. Luckily, they made up for it with Super Mario Galaxy.
Rahxephon91
Banned
Hey You.
You reading this thread, this is the post where I point out(in attempt to seem above everyone else) that this thread is just another hate thread. I'm so clever and witty for pointing this out, that this thread went in that direction even if that wasn't it's original purpose.
You reading this thread, this is the post where I point out(in attempt to seem above everyone else) that this thread is just another hate thread. I'm so clever and witty for pointing this out, that this thread went in that direction even if that wasn't it's original purpose.
Zoramon089
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what a crock
You're doing it wrong
The EmCeeGramr of the problem
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
With this 100%. Portal 2 was pretty average.
Other than that, I guess...eeehhhhh I have no idea.