We’ve all been there, a new game is announced for our favourite franchise, the hype builds and builds until our minds our at meltdown point with excitement. You wait up at night to go to the midnight launch, sprint home to play it incessantly for days on end, the dream has come true. As you start playing however, things quickly take a turn for the worse, your dreams start to crumble, and it dawns upon you that the game that you have waited patiently all this time for, is merely a massive kick to the crotch.
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I dislike the switch from Solid Snake to pansy Raiden(b4 MGS4) but overall the game was great to me.
To me though, hands down the worst sequel I have ever played is Star Wars the force unleashed 2. Unless you were hyped for the game, you would not understand my anger
It wasn't as good as the good as the first, but it didn't disappoint me nearly as much as other abysmal sequels.
Soul Reaver 2 is my favorite in the series.
Blood Omen 2, on the other hand, was an abysmal piece of crap with awful voice acting (except for Kain of course), ugly graphics and tanky controls. Now that was a disappointing sequel imo. :(
And SR2 felt easier than SR, but I did think it was just as good.
My favorite in the series is Defiance. It's a shame we've went this whole gen with no Legacy of Kain game...
Though I still thought BO2 was a pretty lousy game in general. It was really disappointing for me after coming straight out of SR2's gorgeous world, graphics, characterizations and script. :(
And yesss!!! Words can't describe how much I want to see a new LoK game! Especially one written by Amy Hennig (though I know it's pretty unlikely now that she's with Naughty Dog. Oh well, no harm in dreaming...)
i agree, BO2 was the blacksheep of the series and least favorite for many reasons even though some did find it to be a good game, but mostly these who didn't play the past games or are less hardcore toward the series.
i for one, didn't like it at all.
that said, Legacy of Kain series is one of the most engrossing gaming experiences ever made in term of story and character design and development, it's enough that Amy Henning was behind it, the very same Amy Henning who is now with Naughty Dog. her unique story-telling talent lent success to the Uncharted trilogy.
if wishes come true i'd have 3 gaming wishes, one of them is a good sequel and conclusion to Legacy of Kain.
Diablo III, well it's a great game the first time through, still good the next couple of times, but by the time you have a character or two in Inferno, you realize that the real "end-game" is playing the auction house. Not my style.
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Silent Hill: Origins
Silent Hill Homecoming
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
Silent Hill: Downpour
The 3rd Birthday
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Diablo III
& more...
in a few words all my favorite franchise if we exclude MGS that did only 1 misstep and came back later on with MGS3 & 4 better than ever every other of my favorite game series like FF, RE, SH, PE, Diablo have turn to sh1t.. yep that's where gaming is going.
From the other hand the main reason all this game series have turn into a pile of poo is because the original creators didn't involve with the development of new entries.
FF have turn to sh1t because Sagakuchi left, RE 5,6 is heading completely in the wrong direction because Mikami left (but he prepare right now a new Surviving Horror game now with code name Zwei & I cant w8 to play it!), SH original director left & help to make the Siren game series, PE go downhill after the first because the director left, Diablo III was not made by Blizzard North the devs behind the legendary D1 & 2 and that's why it sucks.
As all of u see most of the times a game turn to sh1t when the original creator or the studio who make the original change and that's the result that's why I never follow fanatical franchises but only creators I am not FF fan I am Sagakuchi fan I am not RE fan I am Mikami fan I am not Diablo fan I am Blizzard North fan.
The creators is what makes the game so gr8 & I hope more & more ppl realize this in the future and stop buying every new game a company release from a famous franchise, because it have the same name of one of your favorite game in the past doesn't mean it's also good, did u ever think of it?
Games like Bioshock 2, Dragon Age 2 and Operation Raccoon City were all almost on this list. It was very nearly just a top 10. Oh and Final Fantasy XIII was not there for hits, it was because I loved FF games up until XIII, which was just appalling, thankfully, XIII-2 made up for it. :)
Like holy fricking crap, they got EVERY bloody thing wrong with that game; The client (based on torrents), the login system (a seperate window from the actual game), the billing system (a 3rd party was used), the menu system (clunky).... I could go on and on all day. The only thing they got right were the graphics, HOWEVER, they were all copy pasta and the engine was TERRIBLY optimized.
Worst 80 dollars I ever spent (goddamn CE sucked too) and it destroyed my faith in the franchise.
13 wasn't a squeal it is a separate game from previous installments. I hate how a lot people have this idea that each fantasy is a sequel.
Press X the whole entire game to win and endure long drawn out cut scenes every step of the way.
There is 30 hours of CGI cut scenes to only 10 hours of game play in one play through of the game without doing any side missions.
75% of the game is CGI cut scenes, complete insanity. What were the developers thinking? Games are supposed to be fun, not boring.
Playing FFXIII was like a visit to a theme park and seeing the sides show on rails. I did not feel like I was playing a game, I was watching 3 times more than playing the game.
I think I will pass on FFXIII-2.
Defending FXXIII/XIII-2 is literally defending the indefensible.
They added in a massive list of tameable creatures, all with unique stats and abilities, plus they added in side quests galore...Besides, any FF game where I can have a chocobo in my party is an almost instant win for me. :P
My personal one is Resistance 2 - I don't care what anyone says apart from maybe Halo R1 was the most fun I've had on a shooter on a console - That was game was so intense and rewarding online when it came out and for a few year afterwards, so underated. Then they turned around and made a completely different game with average gameplay and sub-par graphics with the pull being that there was 60 player games - 60 players in a shiite game dosn't make the game not shiite. The single player was medicore and to add to that they slapped you in face by killing off the main character for no apparent reason and in effect cutting off any connection that any of R1/R2 players might have with the abomination that is R3.- Prototype 2 anyone?
Maybe I've fallen out of love with consoles in general but the release PS3 days of Resistance, Moterstorm and Warhawk were far better than anything that followed. Well we shall see for that star Warhawk game. Where are the great online PS3 exclusives? No Uncharted is not anywhere near as good as the above online.
What? Motorstorm PR was better than the original, and Killzone 2 was better than any of the games you mentioned. Even if your tastes are a little different than mine, you have to concede that both of those titles are great exclusives with superlative online experiences.
I do agree though that things have been a little slow since then. Uncharted's online is fun, but it's not as deep as games that were built around online multiplayer first and single player second. And Killzone 3 sucked
FF XIII wasn't there to draw people in, in fact, I would have imagined people to care more about the fact MGS2 was in this list over FF XIII, but that's just me. I was disappointed hugely by FF XIII, so it got put in the list...simple.
(Edit: take note, the list is not about sequels! it is disappointing games from my favourite franchises. Please don't start telling me FF XIII isn't part of the franchise now... it was not a draw point, it was my opinion, in fact, I thought this was pretty much standard internet knowledge that this game was a massive let down for all FF fans, like it was to me. Christ, I hate to think what would've happened if I'd gone with my original list (in which it came 3rd).)