Whats your personal biggest sequel disappointment this generation?

Gears 2 and DMC4 left very very bad tastes in my mouth

Conviction. The first three titles in the series were brilliant (and even DA had it's moments), plus the original Bourne-esque, hobo-Sam version of Conviction sounded fantastic. Instead we got a glorified cover shooter with an insta-win button.

I go with FF13, but only because I didn't expect much from Sonic and Golden Axe this gen, so they couldn't disappoint me

gears 2. I was sooooo looking forward to this game and it turn out to be awful.

Resident Evil 5

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

gears 2. I was sooooo looking forward to this game and it turn out to be awful.

Harisemo

Alone in the Dark

Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts. I had 3 hundred bucks saved up all going towards an xbox 360 just for that game, then they released gameplay footage. I seriously wished every worker at rare lost their jobs and had to go look for work for what they did. That game isnt even BK its just a crappy new ip that they were too insecure to try and sell on its own so they slapped on BK. I was so pissed, I remember when I saw it like my whole month was just ruined.

Modern Warfare 2. I just couldn't become as addicted to it like I did the first Modern Warfare.

Surprised no one mentioned Far Cry 2

FFXIII, Crysis 2, and DA2

Dragon Age 2. I can't for the life of me figure out what they were thinking. If you take a bowl of punch and urinate in it, it ruins the whole thing. I'm sure there still is plenty of unaffected punch in there, but you can't expect me to enjoy it because you just urinated in the bowl. That's how I feel with Dragon Age 2; small things were changed that never needed to be changed, and subsequently ruined the game for me.

dragon age 2!

MGS4. It killed the story and turned the game intoan FPS

Resistance 2 and Resident Evil 5, for many of the same reasons. They both got mainstreamed, R2 got CoD-ified and RE5 had none of the tension of RE4. Both enjoyable games, but just so disappointing.

Killzone 3

Halo Reach

MW2

Halo Reach(ok technically not a "sequel"). Bungie took everything fun and competetive about Halo and SH** on it

Lesson: never give devs bigger budgets for sequels, because they'll piss it all away on flash and spectacle while the tight gameplay they originally had falls by the wayside.

Gears of war 2, talk about a step back.lbjkurono23

Oh, and DA2. How could I have forgotten? Game was so disappointing I couldn't even finish it. BioWare just straight up murdered the franchise with one game. That's pretty impressive.

Lesson: never give devs bigger budgets for sequels, because they'll piss it all away on flash and spectacle while the tight gameplay they originally had falls by the wayside.

Cherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]Lesson: never give devs bigger budgets for sequels, because they'll piss it all away on flash and spectacle while the tight gameplay they originally had falls by the wayside.

DarkLink77

FFXIII, Resistance 2, Gears 2, Dragon Age II

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[QUOTE="Cherokee_Jack"]Lesson: never give devs bigger budgets for sequels, because they'll piss it all away on flash and spectacle while the tight gameplay they originally had falls by the wayside.

Cherokee_Jack

Metroid Prime 3 Corruption ruined the Prime series.

That's depressing. My roommate liked it a lot, but he never played the original.DarkLink77

Funny thing is I can't pin down why the gameplay wasn't fun. It was a combination of a lot of different factors. So I guess I can imagine someone liking it, but at the same time I have to look at some of the reviews and say "What game did you play?"

Real bummer. The franchise had a lot of potential.

Devil May Cry 4. The game was so darn stale that I was just in a constant state of apathy while playing it.

MGS4 was alot better than DMC4, but it was dissapointing how much they watered down the design of the game and how unfocused and undistinctive the story became. Also, the bosses were so much worse and the game hardly ever required steath, turning it into a TPS with a light stealth option.

Mass Effect 2. Went from most-promising sci-fi IP I've every encountered to bro-gamer, chest-high-walls trash. Reading those novels made me wonder if Karpyshyn was even involved with the script for the game. It was just a conglomeration of side-quests and lacked a daunting antagonist. The first game was extraordinary... and as a complete package, ignoring the sequel, it is still an amazing experience. My only gripe was the location of the final boss fight... but then again, I shouldn't complain given what they did to "make up for it" in the second game. I was expecting even greater freedom to explore and discover in the second game... but all I got was a serial melodrama pieced together with one if the worst plots I've ever encountered in a game.foxhound_fox

Mass Effect 2 is terrible. The game in your sig is terrible too.

Gears of War 2 is bad. SoulCalibur IV is bad.

Hell, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts made me cry softly. :P

Redemption is still possible. I mean, look at Gears 3. :PDarkLink77

Probably Dead Space 2, something about that game didn't click for me.

[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]Redemption is still possible. I mean, look at Gears 3. :PCherokee_Jack

[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]Mass Effect 2. Went from most-promising sci-fi IP I've every encountered to bro-gamer, chest-high-walls trash. Reading those novels made me wonder if Karpyshyn was even involved with the script for the game. It was just a conglomeration of side-quests and lacked a daunting antagonist. The first game was extraordinary... and as a complete package, ignoring the sequel, it is still an amazing experience. My only gripe was the location of the final boss fight... but then again, I shouldn't complain given what they did to "make up for it" in the second game. I was expecting even greater freedom to explore and discover in the second game... but all I got was a serial melodrama pieced together with one if the worst plots I've ever encountered in a game.DarkLink77

WHAT!? You didn't like the 20 hour build-up to a fifteen minute "suicide mission" that would serve as the basic tutorial of any other game? YOU CRAZY DAWG! YOU CRAZY! I bet you probably didn't even like Terminator Salvation. HMPH!