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lestatdark said:

Edit - I would like to point out that Alundra 2 was also a seriously bad sequel. The first one was actually a very good game, with some of the most inventive and hard puzzles i've ever played. The second was a generic RPG borefest with no actual story. 

I don't understand why people don't like Alundra 2 and Chrono Cross (i actually prefer them over the original )

I feel alone now that "hatmoza" is away

 

I know PE 2 was disappointing, but come on.... its wasn't that bad

 

@OP

That's an easy one DMC 2 or Persona 3



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F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, went from a scary hall shooter to a supernatural Modern Warfare.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl, I honestly don't know what happened except it became a sugar injected mess.

Mario Kart: Double Dash, I preferred Diddy Kong Racing much more.



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I started playing Parasite with the second one, well, I only played the second one so I really don't complain. I liked that game but I know it was very Resident Evil like. I wish the first one would be released in the PSN.

Alundra 2 was indeed crappy. The first Alundra was awesome. I'd play Alundra over Zelda any day.

I'll ride the bandwagon of hate and acknowledge Devil May Cry 2 as the worst sequel I have see.

You should give the first one a chance whenever you can, trust me, after playing it, the second one will seem like a below-average game.

Not only in terms of story, but because of the battle system itself. It masterfully balances ATB and free movement, meaning that you can dodge normally but still have to play it in a turn-based manner, albeit with tons of derivative strategy with the implemention of a different Parasite Energy system and a more complex weapon system. Plus, it had Eve, one of the best villains ever created (Original Eve still kicks her arse, but only those who have reached her know this xD).

I actually enjoyed Devil May Cry 2, but it was the worst of the bunch, that's true.


I almost bought it at eBay one day but it was too expensive. I have seen gameplay videos in YouTube and I liked what I saw. If the game is released in the PSN I am willing to buy it. :)

Is that Simmons in your avatar? XD

I bought PE day one xD I still remember it vividly, i've been saving up money for about 6 months, since I was 11 back then and I just had enough money for school food XD.

When I saw the first scans on a local gaming magazine on Venezuela, on 1997, I immediatly fell in love with the game. September 9, 1997 was one heck of a day for me :D

As it stands, Parasite Eve is my second favourite game of all time, just being outclassed by Lufia 2.

Yup, that's Simone, big Simone Simons and Epica fan here :D  


I reacall doing something similar with MGS1 and FFIX back in the day, even though I didn't have to save money for those like you did. XD

I recall watching some scenes of PE1 in the Playstation Magazine (wonder if it still exists), I think it was the walkthough for the game, and I always had that ich of a need to play that game.

Lufia 2 is awesome. :D

I knew it. That golden hair is just impossible to confuse with someone else's. XD

FFIX was funny, since I bought it when I went with a school trip to England for a week. Ended up buying the game and the guide with it, and I stayed broke for the rest of the trip :P 

Lufia 2 is amazing, basically the epitome of gaming for me :)

Hahaha, I have better pics of her, from the last concert here in Portugal. I'm just too lazy to upload them, but I will have too eventually since I want to get a new Avy with her XD. 


The thing with FFIX for me was kind of special, the game was released, if I remember correctly, in North America in November the 15th, that was very close to my birthday so I remember that I asked my father to buy the game for me so he went and brought it to me after work. That was awesome! Man, you bought the guide for this game? That guide must be one of the most blatant rip-off in gaming history. XD A friend of mine bought it for me and when I started reading and saw that there was nothing in it but links with a description that said: "if you want to know more, log on to this X website and find the info there". I was like: WTF! I didn't even have internet back then. lolz

Yeah man, that game was awesome. A person I knew over the Internet recommended me to play that game and so I gave it a try and was really impressed with it. I still hold the FFs closer to my heart though. :P

I liked Epica's first album a lot. I still like them but I liked them more when the classical compositions were a more prominent aspect of their music and their sound was more melodic. I prefer the guy from God Dethroned better behind the drum kit than the guy the had previously. Watching them live must be a blast. Simmon's voice is amongst the best female voices out there. Portugal, I thought you were from Venezuela or something? I was going to speak Spanish here and everything. lol

 

@jesus kung fu magic:

Man, you didn't like God of War II? You think it destroyed the franchise? Why do you think that? I mean. I guess it must be related to storyline, perhaps? Otherwise I'd say that the gameplay is very similar. I am clueless. XD

Yep, that guide had the PlayOnline implementation which really sucked, especially since most of the time their servers were down >_>

I had to print out everything right from the start, unless I would miss something xD.

I agree with you, their first albums were better than their most recent music style. From the new album, the only ones I really care about are Resign to Surrender, Martyr of The Free World and especially Tides of Time. I'm from Portugal, but I lived in Venezuela for over 10 years when I was a kid, so I can speak both Spanish and Portuguese fluently :P  



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lestatdark said:

Edit - I would like to point out that Alundra 2 was also a seriously bad sequel. The first one was actually a very good game, with some of the most inventive and hard puzzles i've ever played. The second was a generic RPG borefest with no actual story. 

I don't understand why people don't like Alundra 2 and Chrono Cross (i actually prefer them over the original )

I feel alone now that "hatmoza" is away

 

I know PE 2 was disappointing, but come on.... its wasn't that bad

 

@OP

That's an easy one DMC 2 or Persona 3

The problem with Alundra 2 is that the first one actually manages to be a good competitor to Zelda, and in some parts (the puzzles) it actually surpasses it. Alundra 2 is just a bit of a generic jRPG, it has no actual distinctive marks and has a somewhat weak story. They could have expanded the Dreamwalker story much more. Heck, it shouldn't even be called Alundra, since that's the name of the protagonist from the first one xD.

For what the first Parasite Eve accomplished, Parasite Eve 2 was a a major letdown for me when I played it the first time. Subsequential playthroughs made me realize that it was an actual good game, but the damage had been done. It stripped pretty much everything that made the first one an unique RPG and instead tried to do the whole Resident Evil terror game. It's not only when you reach the Ark that the game goes back to being Parasite Eve-like. 



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Devil May Cry 2, Resident Evil 5 and Final Fantasy XIII are one of the worst sequels I have ever played. Devil May Cry 2 was just plain awful, but Resident Evil 5 is a bad action game that hardly resembles Resident Evil series. Final Fantasy XIII as well as DMC2 and re5 had amazing prequels, yet somehow the developers managed to forget what was so great about the previous installment and came up with, well, what they came up with.

Still, I've got to go with Modern Warfare 2.
Modern Warfare 2 has worse campaign than the first, I would have been OK with that, but then they went and ruined the multiplayer, BIG TIME. What they did to PC-version's multiplayer is unforgivable. I can't believe people put up with stuff like that.



Reviewers and PC users ripped off were so furious with Deus Ex lobotomized sequel that I avoided it.
The worst ones I fell for are Myth III and Hexen II. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time could have been good, but its control scheme is good only for the gamepad, on PC with mouse+kb it was unplayable.



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Metal Gear Solid 2, Devil May Cry 2 and Rainbow Six Vegas 2



Alby_da_Wolf said:
Reviewers and PC users ripped off were so furious with Deus Ex lobotomized sequel that I avoided it.
The worst ones I fell for are Myth III and Hexen II. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time could have been good, but its control scheme is good only for the gamepad, on PC with mouse+kb it was unplayable.

I actually enjoyed Hexen II more than Hexen and Heretic, mainly because it was a good mix between both, plus the conclusion to the Serpent Rider trilogy was pretty awesome. Eidolon in the end was one of the toughest bosses i've fought in any FPS. 

Plus the classes were much more differentiated on Hexen II than they were on Hexen, and the implementation of a RPG-like level up system was also pretty good. My Assasin in the end kicked so much ass XD  



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lestatdark said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Reviewers and PC users ripped off were so furious with Deus Ex lobotomized sequel that I avoided it.
The worst ones I fell for are Myth III and Hexen II. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time could have been good, but its control scheme is good only for the gamepad, on PC with mouse+kb it was unplayable.

I actually enjoyed Hexen II more than Hexen and Heretic, mainly because it was a good mix between both, plus the conclusion to the Serpent Rider trilogy was pretty awesome. Eidolon in the end was one of the toughest bosses i've fought in any FPS. 

Plus the classes were much more differentiated on Hexen II than they were on Hexen, and the implementation of a RPG-like level up system was also pretty good. My Assasin in the end kicked so much ass XD  

There's no accounting for tastes. I mainly bash Hexen II because it wasn't as innovative as the first, that at its times was groundbreaking, and its atmosphere of desolation was superbly rendered despite the crude graphics. I agree that its gameplay was good and Eidolon tough, but the level design was pretty average. Also, Hexen II left me less satisfied because I played it after Heretic II, that surprised me as it was the only Third Person Action Adventure I really liked besides Tomb Raider, and it had an even better camera control, never giving problems during fights, and the level design was exceptional. To sum it up what turned me down of Hexen II were level design and atmosphere, I didn't like them, or to put it better, I didn't find them up to the series standard.



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