The Sequel That Let You Down

[Patapolis]

F.E.A.R (First Encounter Assault Recon) would also qualify. The first one was a great game, 2 and 3? Not so much.

 

[moonbits]

F.E.A.R (First Encounter Assault Recon) would also qualify. The first one was a great game, 2 and 3? Not so much.

2 was horrible. 3 looked even worse somehow, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 ft pole.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Keio Flying Squadron 2. I booted this up like "OH BOY A SATURN SHOOT EM UP!"
...what the fuck, this is a platformer

 

[Meekoos]

Despite me being an unabashed Ivalice fanboy FFXII's DS sequel, my disappointment stems from having to scale back to a handheld after it's grand debut on PS2 as one the last and good looking tiles and having to lock down the characters into jobs I didn't have them assigned in the previous title. Gameplay was a mixed bag but still finished it.

Though probably Unlimited SaGa is the biggest low point in the series and while SaGa has bounced back with it's newer titles and a remaster of Minstrel Song this game will live on in infamy with some people as their first SaGa or even more infamy if their first was Frontier 1 and 2. I guess it doesn't count since this came before Minstrel Song but I played them out of order so I count it as my "sequel". Not enough online guides when I first played it and now I still don't want to try even with video guides at my side, that leveling system is just bonkers to me.

 

[Zarathusta]

Dragons dogma 2 made me despise capcom and the re: engine

And i started hating from software as well when they turned armored core in to a soulslike.

armored core 6 isn't a souls like at all.

 

[kamille]

armored core 6 isn't a souls like at all.

It has too much of a focus on bosses and less focus on intresting missions. It disgusts me

 

[ShibbyDealer]

That new Spider-Man 2 game. I can't play it cuz I don't have a PS5 but I don't really want too either.

 

[WolfOfPersia]

this

 

[regnor]

God of War 2. The first game was a good mix of fighting, action platforming and some puzzles. Then the second one decreased the enemy counts and added too many puzzles which ruined the pacing.

 

[MasterEn]

Tears of the Kingdom. It's a more complex game than Breath of the Wild, but Breath of the Wild is better designed in my opinion. And there's also some weird choices regarding the story and lore that made me not like the game as much.

yeah, botw is definitely designed much better than totk. i fond the shrine that teaches you parrying or something in kakariko village, about 15 hours or so in. i was perplexed why a tutorial shrines was way the fuck over here and not closer to lookout landing. the story is very, very bad as well. it has some moments, but it's one of the best arguments against open world games. botw's story is only slightly better.
there's many things about these two games that make me rank these as tied for the 5th worst zelda games ever.

 

[NobodyHere]

I’d say “Galerians: Ash” because the game play is very different in a bad way, and the camera makes me sick but I can’t be mad at it due to it-
Dressing Rion like this

Then having him get confessed to by the oblivious love interest only to leave to go suck face with the enemy.

And what ever this is

I don’t know what else to say

 

[ZombieFish]

Silent Hill 4. I’ll give it credit for experimenting, but every experiment failed.
Unreal 2… Damn.
As previously mentioned, DMC2. I cannot for the life of me fathom how we got from the best 3D Castlevania to press-square-at-a-dirty-helicopter simulator. 3 is good though.

 

[dilsworth]

Nights of Azure 2

The first was great, the sequel however was okay-ish...and padded by a moon phase limit at first playthrough was jarring. By the time you start at 2nd playthrough you'll be burnt out just to 100% everything.