The most disappointing video game sequels?

[lestatdark]

oniyide said:

lestatdark said:

oniyide said:

lestatdark said:

TruckOSaurus said:

hatmoza said:
Death to the person who says Chrono Cross!


My pick is Uncharted 3.

Thanks for reminding me!!!

Chrono Cross. It was an okay RPG but with many issues, it's not worthy of the Chrono name. When you're expected the follow-up the Chrono Trigger you can't help but feel terribly disappointed.

Indeed. It would have been a good RPG if it was a stand alone IP, but coming off CT and it's impact, it was a massive disappointment. The fact that they put the entire plot of CT and Radical Dreamers as a "Oh it happened on a Parallel Dimension, so we can mess up with this as much as we want" was not a good move.

Well to be fair, isnt that essentially just like all FFs? Just a parallel dimension after the next?? Hell i think even BOF went that route with number 4

 

Not exactly, there is no connection between FFs (numbered FFs) basically because each one is a standalone game and universe.

FFs aren't sequels from one or the other, while Chrono Cross was made with the purpose of being a sequel to Chrono Trigger and ended up botching that entirely. Not only that, Chrono Cross was an immense departure from Trigger in the gameplay department as well, for the worse; while CT was a fast, fluid and well constructed RPG with some good and inovative mechanics for the time, Cross was basically a very slow turn based RPG which had no unique characteristic to it.

 

I honestly do not remember, Square saying it was a sequel, I had just assumed that it was its own standalone game just like the FFs, so I was personally not let down in that department, you're right about the combat

It wasn't a direct sequel, even both Kato and Tanaka said they didn't want to make a Chrono Trigger 2. The problem was that they still utilized lore elements from Trigger to put some heavy emphasis on the plot of Cross as well, so it became a mix-up of some sorts (like the vision that Serge has with Chrono, Marle and Lucca and a whole lot of fuck ups with Lavos and the Time Devourer).

I believe they fell somewhere in between of making a sequel and making a standalone game and didn't quite knew where to go with it.