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Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "A while ago we counted down the very best video game sequels of all time and so we decided to flip the table and look at the very worst sequels ever made. Now we’re not specifically looking at bad sequels to bad games, that would be boring, instead we’re looking at sequels that took what was present in a good game and completely wrecked it. These 10 games started out by building up our hype to extreme levels only to shatter our dreams and break out hearts once we got our hands on them and so we’re calling these out as the worst sequels ever made."
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Dragon age 2 was not a bad game, just a terrible sequel if that makes any sense. Should have been it's own IP.
I loved Dragon Age II. I even got the platinum trophy for it. That was the very first medieval themed fantasy RPG that I enjoyed aside from an Ultima game I played in the early 90's at a cousins house.
Lord of Shadows 2 was one that left me scratching my head because I loved the first one! Red Faction Armageddon was another one that I still wonder why they didn't just give us something more like Guerrilla.
The recent trouble around Visceral's cancelled Star Wars game and Battlefront 2's poor solo outing are part of a trend.
October brought disconcerting news that Electronic Arts had shut down Visceral Games and “pivoted" the design of its unnamed Star Wars project from "a story-based, linear adventure game" to something different altogether. As a result, the games media and gamers alike started questioning whether there's a future for the ambitious, single player centric, story-driven games in the Star Wars canon. The thing is: such games have been a thing of the past for a few years already. Seven years to be exact.
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EA is the kiss of death to almost every franchise they own. I disagree vehemently that single player Star Wars games are a thing of the past. I completely lost all interest in Star Wars thanks to the prequel trilogy but a Star Wars game brought me back into the fandom. That game was Knights of the Old Republic. KotoR was so good that plotwise, I actually hold it above most of the films. KotoR made me a fan again in a big way.
I also adored the Rogue Squadron and Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games. Its obvious that EA is incapable of making a good Star Wars game. The licence should go to a great game developer. Can you imagine a Star Wars game by Bethesda, Bioware, Obsidian, CD Projekt Red, Naughty Dog, Insomniac, Arkane Studios, Rocksteady or Id software? What about a Star Wars fighting game from Netherrealm Studios? Or a open world RPG from Guerrilla games like Horizon? EA is toxic and should be avoided like the plague. It's such a damn shame that the great Star Wars licence is held hostage by those incompetent fools!
I'm going to have to strongly disagree here.
The article points out that out of the decades of Star Wars games only 12 managed to sell a million copies (or more), which says the brand is tired, spoiled even.
Now on a quick glance it seems that most of those titles are from Gens 5 and 6. So, given the time periods, it would be wise to say that single player titles work better.
Given the industry climate today where 1 million seems to mean nothing, this should mean that EA (and any other developer) needs to take a step back and stop shooting for an actual Star Wars movie's gross with huge budgets, but rather an actual video game that's fun. Focus on the basics: what makes it fun? Would I play this? Is there room for multiplayer?
As much as EA is to blame for the recent disaster of this IP, Disney is just as much to blame too. They're the ones that signed the license over with, as far as I can tell, no research or know how in the gaming industry. Just because the publisher or developer is one the biggest, doesn't mean they know what they're doing.
So, no, no one needs to give up on this single player dream. Certain people just need to focus on something else a little more earthly instead of having their heads in the heavens thinking about only money and not their reputation or the very IP's rep that should have been handled more carefully.
Absolutely agreed
what doesnt even make any sense is why on Earth would they dismiss all future Star Wars games based on past games made by different Developers?
In regards to Quality all of that is up to debate but at the end of the day Disney also handed that license over because they want to make money and like or hate Electronic Arts you cannot disagree that this company has just sold the best selling Star Wars game in history.
Disney had a great reason to hand that publisher that license.
Amy Hennig was working on this game. With what Uncharted 4 was gonna be if she had stayed on it, I am pretty sure that Visceral SW game would have turned out badly with her.
I actually think the game would have turned out perfectly fine the biggest problem here is Electronic Arts expectations of some of these games is absolutely unrealistic and astronomical.
Put it this way the Dead Space series clearly did not sell well enough to Warrant the continuation of its existence based on what Electronic Arts was expecting back from it.
But it is still a very high-quality Series so I don't really see any evidence that the Star Wars game that was being worked on was going to be bad for gamers in regards to fun, simply bad for Electronic Arts because it probably was not going to be moving 20 million units like they probably wanted.
There's a huge difference between what Gamers want and clearly what Electronic Arts wants in regards to sales.
Keep in mind it doesn't actually mean that either party are wrong.
