darkangel-212559
Banned
I prefer Dead Space 1 precisely because it didn't have too much action. Dead Space 2 was good, def better than 3. But the empahsis on action did sour the experience for me.
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Whats your most disappointing sequel?
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Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Trine 3,
I really like the first 2,
I really like the first 2,
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Dark Souls 2...going from Bloodborne >3> 1 > 2....2 just felt absolutely terrible. Idk who. decided to take a step back in every aspect that made one unique.
cortadew
Member
I bought it and couldn't get into it, gameplay elements feel cheap and badly made in comparison with DS1 but I will give it another try, my opinion is actually in the minority because most of the fanbase like the game.
phil_t98
#SonyToo
but you buy it as a stand alone game
phil_t98
#SonyToo
It's not a sequel
My choices off the top of my head is....
Crackdown 3
Killzone SF
its the one that came out after it
Robbinhood
Banned
Halo infinite is pretty damn horrible in every way. Who asked for that open world slog. Although Halo 5s SP might be worse so I guess they thought there is nothing to lose.
Diablo 3 was also incredibly disappointing. I could tell right from the first few seconds its not as good as 2, reminds me of DMC2 where you can tell it felt cheap compared to the predecessor within seconds.
Diablo 3 was also incredibly disappointing. I could tell right from the first few seconds its not as good as 2, reminds me of DMC2 where you can tell it felt cheap compared to the predecessor within seconds.
bender
What time is it?
MGS2. I bought a PS2 in anticipation of a MGS sequel. I bought Zone of Enders for the brilliant MGS2 demo. And then came the full release. This isn't a knock on Raiden who I don't mind and keeping that switharoo under wraps is something that will never be replicated. The narrative is brilliant and shockingly prescient. The problem is Big Shell is fucking boring especially compared to the Tanker level which was an interesting and fun little sandbox. And the cherry on top of the monotonous level design in Big Shell is the majority of the boss encounters are lame, highlighted by a bomb planting fat man on roller blades and the brilliant idea of trying to one up the Rex fight in the original by having you fight an endless wave of Metal Gears. I appreciate the game now a lot more in retrospect mostly because of the narrative, but everything past the Tanker level is such a chore to play.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
That's like saying Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is Uncharted 5 when it's not.
darkangel-212559
Banned
phil_t98
#SonyToo
Is it a continuation to uncharted?
Spider-Man MM has Spider-Man in it and follows on from Spider-Man
Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
Horizon forbidden west, it didn't improve a number of issues the first one had.
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Gears 4. It took me way longer to get through that game than it should have.
S0ULZB0URNE
Member
It's a side story.
Both are side stories.
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Borderlands 3 was simply nowhere near as fun compared to BL2. I did multiple playthroughs of BL2, but never had a huge incentive to replay BL3. At all.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Weird. To me. HFW was a better game in every way. ZD offered very little rewards for exploration and mostly gave XP, while FW offered weapons. However, I was annoyed how they kept nerfing legendary weapons in FW.
kunonabi
Member
Final Fantasy VII - the game I initially bought a Playstation for and absolutely hated it. I loved 4 and 6 dearly so it caught me totally by surprise.
No More Heroes 2 - loved the first, second was scheduled to release on my birthday, and all the previews made it sound like everything was being improved. Of course, what really happened was they just ripped the stuff out that needed work and replaced it with nothing. Game was buggy and every element of the game was worse than it was in the first. Just a steaming pile of shit through and through and made me much more weary of games with Suda's name on it without him directing.
Silent Hill 4 - After 3 amazing entries I had so much faith in Konami that I went in totally blind for 4. The basic premise was enough for me and SH3 had actually been kind of spoilery in its marketing.
This was the last time I'd pre-order a game without doing research. It was an absolute clusterfuck of bad ideas and technical problems. It was an absolutely insulting experience from start to finish.
Xenosaga II - The absolute blueprint for tanking a franchise. It honestly feels like it was done on purpose with how it systematically screwed everything up as badly as possible.
No More Heroes 2 - loved the first, second was scheduled to release on my birthday, and all the previews made it sound like everything was being improved. Of course, what really happened was they just ripped the stuff out that needed work and replaced it with nothing. Game was buggy and every element of the game was worse than it was in the first. Just a steaming pile of shit through and through and made me much more weary of games with Suda's name on it without him directing.
Silent Hill 4 - After 3 amazing entries I had so much faith in Konami that I went in totally blind for 4. The basic premise was enough for me and SH3 had actually been kind of spoilery in its marketing.
This was the last time I'd pre-order a game without doing research. It was an absolute clusterfuck of bad ideas and technical problems. It was an absolutely insulting experience from start to finish.
Xenosaga II - The absolute blueprint for tanking a franchise. It honestly feels like it was done on purpose with how it systematically screwed everything up as badly as possible.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Yep, just like Lost Legacy, and nobody was trolling it with hUrR dUrR dLc talk when it had gotten larger than the 2-3 hour DLC adventure they planned and decided to make it a full game.
Both take around the same time to beat, and both were normal for games prior to making them bigger and longer. Which started with all the people complaining about game lengths and cost per hour. Those were some annoying times.
Personally, I really enjoyed Lost Legacy's length after all the long 15-20+ hour games. They are still full blown games, and the prices were reflective of not being the 15-20+ hour games.
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Games of Today
Member
Killzone Shadowfall was so cool but very disappointing. I need a franchise reboot with Sev and Rico or new characters in the Decima Engine or Unreal Engine 5. I can't even imagine how unbelievable that would look. Killzone 2 still looks and plays better than many current FPS if you can get over the below 30fps frame dips on PS3. You can play it in 60fps with PC emulation but there are a lot of texture glitches in cutscenes.
Roxkis_ii
Member
Nier: replicant while technically a prequel, it was my most disappointing purchase of last year.
Only so-so combat,
Hideous environments
Absolute coma inducing story (atleast how far I got)
Boring characters outside of one
Got to the forest of myths for a second time and just did not have the patience in me to do it for a second time. And I got all the main endings for Neir Automata!
92% of people on Google loved the game and I can't see how.
Only so-so combat,
Hideous environments
Absolute coma inducing story (atleast how far I got)
Boring characters outside of one
Got to the forest of myths for a second time and just did not have the patience in me to do it for a second time. And I got all the main endings for Neir Automata!
92% of people on Google loved the game and I can't see how.
West Texas CEO
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Final Fantasy X-2.
Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Burnout Paradise
Burnout 3 was amazing closed race tracks . Paradise was open world. Literally killed the series
Burnout 3 was amazing closed race tracks . Paradise was open world. Literally killed the series
GHG
Gold Member
It's a remake of a game that came out before Automata.
D-ray
Member
I had a mental crisis while trying to remember one. Usually the sequels of the franchises I played are miles away compared to their predecessors. Being way more polished, way more interesting or in general: BETTER.
And if the first game didn't get me, I would rarely bother playing the next ones.
However, Doom 3 is what probably stands out the most from my collection. Doom and Doom 2 were good, even in the time I played 'em.
Doom 3 just felt sluggish, and boring, totally different from the two. It had some good things like more bosses, cut scenes and stuff, but the whole "horror like" environment didn't work well with the shooter that the previous games were.
Also on PC was full of glitches and incompatibility errors, therefore rendering the game unbeatable (at least on the PC I had back then, maybe now it would work).
I would say I didn't like Doom 2016 either, but I can't label it as "bad sequel". It was just overrated.
For a mainstream console player was a bomb compared to the mediocre FPS released in the past years, but for me, who played tons of different shooter titles, it was just Doom 2 re-made and made super ignorant, without adding nothing specifically interesting (except Glory Kills, those were cool).
And if the first game didn't get me, I would rarely bother playing the next ones.
However, Doom 3 is what probably stands out the most from my collection. Doom and Doom 2 were good, even in the time I played 'em.
Doom 3 just felt sluggish, and boring, totally different from the two. It had some good things like more bosses, cut scenes and stuff, but the whole "horror like" environment didn't work well with the shooter that the previous games were.
Also on PC was full of glitches and incompatibility errors, therefore rendering the game unbeatable (at least on the PC I had back then, maybe now it would work).
I would say I didn't like Doom 2016 either, but I can't label it as "bad sequel". It was just overrated.
For a mainstream console player was a bomb compared to the mediocre FPS released in the past years, but for me, who played tons of different shooter titles, it was just Doom 2 re-made and made super ignorant, without adding nothing specifically interesting (except Glory Kills, those were cool).
ChorizoPicozo
Member
TLoU Part 2.
darth.shrimp
Member
Dawn of War 3, easily.
I'm pretty sure the only reason why it hasn't been mentioned yet is because we're all trying to pretend it never existed.
I'm pretty sure the only reason why it hasn't been mentioned yet is because we're all trying to pretend it never existed.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
So you are a hipster?
I completed watch dogs and went straight to watch dogs 2.
Couldnt stand that edgy hipster shit out and forced myself to give the game a chance. Uninstalled the trash and was thankful over gamepass saved me from paying Ubisoft for that garbage.
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
Mario Kart 64. Super Mario Kart was a fantastic racer with tight track design, plenty of obstacles and surprises, excellent items. MK64 has empty tracks you could drive trucks through, it introduces the dreaded blue shell that ruined the gameplay for the rest of the series, and most of all, it’s a terribly boring game.
Irobot82
Member
To be fair, there's never been a good prequel/sequel of any mainline FF game.... EVER.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Breath of the Wild because it decimated the puzzles and dungeons in favour of open world emptiness and succeeded with this, so probably killing classical Zelda in the process. Sonic 2006, as a huge Sonic fan, was of course an even worse experience, but the developers saw the issues and came back much stronger. Finally, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts was very disapointing for switching the genre and killing the IP in the process.
WalterSobchak
Member
I'd say Halo Wars 2 . I hold the original in very high regard. I just could not get into the 2nd one at all. I know it's reviews are decent.
Can anybody give it some love here ? I feel like I need to play a bit more before I drop it.
Can anybody give it some love here ? I feel like I need to play a bit more before I drop it.
Rac3r
Member
It was definitely a let down. I actually thought the stealth mechanics were amazing but were wasted on repetitive mission structure and a bland environment. The opening sequence in the hospital is one of the best intros I've ever played. I wish we got more of that instead of shitty desert outposts.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Doom II - Seemed like the same game as Doom
Golden Axe II on Genesis - Trash game. Amazing that at the time GA was a cool new arcade game, had a good home port and every game after it seemed shit
Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Worst AC combat game ever
NHL 15 - Basically the same as the 360 era games but had a new terrible and sloppy UI
Golden Axe II on Genesis - Trash game. Amazing that at the time GA was a cool new arcade game, had a good home port and every game after it seemed shit
Ace Combat Assault Horizon - Worst AC combat game ever
NHL 15 - Basically the same as the 360 era games but had a new terrible and sloppy UI
phil_t98
#SonyToo
And is it not ok to be disappointed either it after playing Spider-Man?
Chronicle
Member
The first thought I had of this game when I turned it on was how shit it looked on my ps3. Unacceptable.
Player Respawn
Neo Member
this to me is the craziest one so far lol
mine would have to be fallout 4 followed by the sims 4 (these ones were huge disappointments since I loved the previous games so much)