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• GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Since all the big ones have been covered - Total Annihilation Kingdoms. (yes I’m old.) It wasn’t made by the same team and took TA and dumbed it down, when it could have been made more complex. Thankfully Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation took the reigns. (although those never stuck with me as much as the original TA did.)

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  • BaroqBard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone’s probably tried bugging you with it, but I figure I ought to ask anyway: have you tried Beyond All Reason? Feels much more in line with what I’d hope for from a TA successor.

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• Nikko882@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I could probably come up with worse sequels if given more time, but two jump at me immediately.

  My mind is telling me Trine 3. The game sets up a whole story, and then just ends 1/3 into that story. It was hugely disappointing when I played it. However, I loved playing the game. Everything up until the (premature) ending was great, so that isn’t my pick.

  Instead my pick is Ori and the Will of the Wisps. The game is good, but it is just the first game again, almost beat for beat. At least that is how I remember it. I was so excited to play it, but the whole way through I felt like I had already played the game before. I managed to get to the end of the game, but I had almost given up on the game by then. It was “more Ori”, but that was not what I wanted, I wanted to see how they would evolve Ori. Afterwards, whenever someone would ask if I recommended the game I would say that I 100% recommend playing either game, they are both great, but once you have played one don’t bother with the other.

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  • popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Instead my pick is Ori and the Will of the Wisps.

    This is definitely the most unpopular opinion in this thread. Story-wise they’re very similar, yeah. Gameplay-wise, I played them back to back and they are extremely different. The second one has a much bigger focus on combat and combat upgrades, and a lot of new fun platforming mechanics like burrowing in the desert. I think it’s what a sequel should be, improving on the issues of the first while not deviating too much from what made it great.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I really enjoyed Horizon Zero Dawn, but Forbidden West felt like a less polished slog. I did eventually finish it, and it did have some rad moments, but where in the first game I did every quest and followed every line of dialogue, in the second game it felt like they purposely threw in far more dialogue than I could ever care to listen to. In order to not loath the experience, I found myself skipping a bunch of content that seemed like a huge waste of time.

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• creamfresh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Max Payne 3. Remedy has a very distinct style, and without it Max Payne doesn’t work for me.

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• Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The paper Mario where you had to play cards to attack

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Destiny 2.

  Don’t get me wrong, Destiny 1s story was really bad. It wasn’t originally like that, but thanks to Jason Jones thats how it ended up. Never forgiving him for doing that to Joe Statens work like that.

  But literally almost everything else In D1 is better than D2. Gunplay, armor and weapon designs, raids, environment design, art style, etc. The only things D2 has over D1 are graphical fidelity, more than 30 fps, and the original Red War story writing was more coherent (but its not even in the game anymore because lazy developers be lazy).

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• Nokk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Marvel Ultimate Alliance was a awesome game! But the second one felt souless

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  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not to be an old man yelling at clouds, but everything after Marvel vs Capcom 2 has been a disappointment.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dragon’s Dogma 1: Excellent.

  Dragon’s Dogma 2: Utter fucking shite.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Flipping 2 and 3 mean now 3 is the worst game in the franchise.

    I’m calling the police.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Summon your feeble blueberries. They are no match for my bad red man. 😤

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  • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    DD2 got a lot better once I modded in the conveniences from DDDA.

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• DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  To this day I think Luigi’s Mansion 3 might be the game I’ve finished that I enjoyed the least. I loved the first one (and liked the second one well enough, even though it was a bit watered down for the 3DS), just so we’re clear.

  The simplified ghost catching mechanics made most of the game’s fights pretty boring, the Gooigi puzzles almost always boiled down to “I need the strength of two vacuums” or “I wish I could fit through this grate”. Also, the last boss was godawful.

  Most egregiously, I think LM3 might be the most filler-stuffed game I’ve ever played. The number of times you get an elevator button only for the game to go “Haha, no” really started to piss me off. The second time fucking Poulterkitty showed up, I actually looked up a walkthrough to gauge whether I’d completed enough of the game to warrant finishing it - I wanted to stop right then and there. I think Nintendo took the criticism that LM1 was too short to heart. The thing is, without all the padding, LM3 would still have been a perfectly reasonable length.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

  Some Capcom exec saw that and thought “Wow, so people really don’t like it when we change up the protagonist! Let’s give up on forehead boy, and go back to the classic Phoenix Wright!” When, ironically, the biggest issue with that game was that Phoenix himself was frequently upstaging Apollo through xanatos gambits.

  Ace Attorney is a great formula, but it sort of needed to divorce itself from the name “Phoenix Wright” since it’s very character-based, and you can only tell so many stories with a single person. It managed to do that with the Edgeworth and Naruhodo games eventually.

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• bashibazouk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s probably be viewed as heresy, but GTA Vice City is by far my least favorite. Miami is just a flat boring city to drive in. You know it’s bad when the high points are bridges and parking garages. Vice City’s only redeeming feature was the flying car cheat. Got a few hours of enjoyment with police chases with that on…

  And yes, I’m mildly concerned about VI…

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Homeworld 3

  HW3 is by far the worst in the series. On paper you would think Deserts of Khatak would be the worst but that one is fun and actually feels like a HW game but HW3 is just abysmal.

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• Kaligalis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thief 4 and Gothic 4.

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• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Syndicate Series.

  Syndicate (1993) - Groundbreaking isometric real-time tactics

  Syndicate Wars (1996) - Award-winning 3D isometric real-time tactics

  Syndicate (2012) - some sort of shitty first-person shooter

  The “unofficial” “spiritual successor” Satellite Reign (2015) was also a pretty good 3D isometric real-time tactics game

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t play very many series-based games, but off the top of my head, I would have to say Subnautica Below Zero is my most hated series game. And if I had to choose the second one, battlefield 1, or whatever battlefield it was that added a bunch of smaller stories instead of having an overarching story.

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• W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I liked “Dark Quiet Death” but the sequels were just worse and worse cash grabs. It got worse after the original creator left and they made a child-friendly mascot for the game.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I loved Lords of the Realm 2 as a kid and then Lords of the Realm 3 came out and I bought it instantly but it turned out to be garbage.

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  • almost1337@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh man as a kid watched my dad play Lords of the Realm 2 so often. Great memories.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not really sequels except from my perspective of playing them. I played Ultima III on the C-64 first - incredible game. Have the cloth map framed. Later I went to play I and II to explore where the lore came from. While the lore itself was interesting, they were far more simplistic and boring compared to what they led to. I guess that's not fair, a sequel should try to raise the bar, and III did by a huge amount. But since I played them out of order, they felt like sequels to me that fell flat of what I had started off with.

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