I am revisiting Medievil II for the PS1 and going through it, but I really recall not having liked the sequel. I was okay with the story, which did make comprehensible sense given the time going forward, someone ending up with the pages of Zarok’s spellbook and all. It’s just a rehash of the first game, just time going forward.
Some of the bosses you got to fight were okay, but a lot of them weren’t memorable. It was cool to fight Jack the Ripper in that game and they made him creepy as hell. The levels were annoying and were poorly planned. Winston the Ghost was like Navi to me in that game, but only more bearable because you can skip his ass a lot of the time.
The weapons aren’t that fun to use, only glad they kept the crossbows and a sword, I guess. The cane you get is arguably the worst of them. The characters introduced were forgettable. I mean, I’m finding more setbacks with the sequel than there is to like and I’m struggling.
The original game was more fun with its dark gothic fantasy setting, you went off to some area to get your upgrades and you met characters whose weapons they specialized in which was cool. The talking gargoyle heads had wit to them and I always talked to them wherever they were, loved the voice acting.
The first game was remade twice probably for good reason. Although I probably would have wished that the sequel would’ve been given a remake of its own, just to see what would be taken out and what it’d be replaced with. It probably would’ve been better in that exchange.
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Ohhh, this will probably be a controversial take, but I am going to frame if to “most disappointing” instead of least favourite.
Batman Arkham City.
Firstly, it is still a great game. I am not stupid enough to say it’s bad. And it is better than Origins and Knight.
But, Asylum is such a beautiful and intricate game with some of the best level design. It is an almost perfect Metroidvania. And then they jumped to the open world for the rest of the games.
That jump, doesn’t particularly add anything, and while Gotham looks great, it is mostly empty and skipped over as you glide and hook to the next indoor section. Outside of some challenges and riddler trophies, it actually is just terrible padding of low level mobs for the most part.
The reason I chose City over knight is precedent, that first jump to open world for me really reduced how much I was invested in the world/areas of the game.
I still love it, and the improvement to combat and gadgets are great, but Asylum will always be king of the Batman games(City is a close but disappointing 2nd)
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.)
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.
Halo 4. Never was big on Halo and hadn’t really played past Halo 1 until recently getting the MCC, and then I binged on all of them. The main series story was ok, despite feeling slightly more incoherent with each game. Even the spin-offs were ok games. Pushed through and finished Halo 3 and thought it was a fairly satisfying ending to the plot, only to find that they’re reviving the chief. Again. With Cortana. Again. And guess what, she’s going rogue. Again. I just couldn’t do it, stopped then and there.
Oh and Far Cry 6. That one can fuck right off.
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.
Dungeon Siege 3 sucks and could be one of the worst titles from Obsidian. It doesn’t even feel like Dungeon Siege.
Tales of Zestiria: No idea how did they managed to make the game so boring.
Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns: XIII was already a bad FF game but it was fine on its own. With LR they stripped down almost everything that makes FF FF.
Far Cry 6: It’s not worth even write a bad review.
Stronghold 3: There is no Stronghold 3.
Mafia 3: It’s not a Mafia game.
What a shame about Mafia 3 - it had amazing movie-quality cutscenes, I just wish the rest of the game had that level of quality…
Yeah, the shell of the game is well cooked and rest of the game is just raw.
Parasite Eve 3, or should I say 3rd Birthday.
The first 2 games were sequels to a sci fi horror novel. The title doesn’t actually have “parasite Eve” in it because the rumour is they lost the rights to the book and any references to ideas from the book. So they couldn’t mention the titular Eve or mitochondria.
Instead they made a story about time travel and mysterious unrelated monsters.
No idea why they bothered making it.
I’m gonna take a torrent of downvotes but…
Dungeon Keeper II.
Fucking love DK. The day i discovered DKFX was a glory. I was in on the ground floor crowfund for war for the overworld.
But dk2 is a big pile of shit
Probably a bit niche of a game series, but Dungeon Defenders. It’s an Action RPG / Tower Defense hybrid that I loved as a kid. And all the sequels kinda sucked for one reason or another. I’ve played all of them a little bit too much, so I’m going to go into way too much detail here lol.
The first game was one of my all-time favorites on the xbox 360 as a kid (which is kinda funny because it has like 100x the content on PC). The game was riddled with cheaters and hacked items, but damn did I have fun anyway. My friends were practically begging me to play anything else when they came over to hang out.
Then they made Dungeon Defenders II and charged $20 for it in early access. I bought the game in a heartbeat because I loved the first one so much. But it just turned into an always-online, live-service game without any actual story, that forces you to buy multiple microtransactions for necessary QoL features in order to play the game in the way it’s intended. Eventually the game went free-to-play and pushed that model even harder. Its a shame, because underneath all the bullshit it looks like a fun enough sequel.
Then Dungeon Defenders: Awakened came out. Half sequel, half remake of the original (time travel shenanigans), it had a lot of potential and it’s one of only two games I’ve ever backed on Kickstarter. The game is basically a modernized Dungeon Defenders, with some new content and a boat load of QoL additions. They even release all future content for free instead of as DLC like the original, so its a one-time purchase (and very strange coming from the same studio that runs DD2). Unfortunately, it was too damn similar to the original and didn’t do enough on its own. DD1 had a community dev team adding new maps and content for over 10 years, so why the hell would you buy the new game who’s original content amounts to like 6 new maps? The game did eventually get more content, and is honestly not a bad purchase at this point imo, but it could never catch up to the original.
Funny enough, the original DD1 started getting new DLC again a few years ago, so all three of these games are being developed simultaneously by different teams despite being sequels to the last.
Guilty Gear Strive.
Plus R is my favorite fighting game. Xrd I hated because they fucked with my character (Zato/Eddie) but I could tell it’s a fun game…
Strive just fucking sucks. The irony is I did vibe a little more with Zato in Strive than I did in Xrd, but WTF was everything else in this damn game… they just kinda ripped away anything that made characters unique in favor of standardized systemic depth and breadth.
Less unique moves, less unique combos, even animations feel too samey compared to Plus R or Xrd… I hate it. Everything just feels needlessly homogeneous.
Even the game’s ideas suck. Like, WTF is Zabubu…
Every time I give it a shot all I’m thinking is: why the fuck am I not playing Plus R instead?
I also hate Strive even tho it’s the only Guilty Gear game I’ve played. Idk why but the whole entire fighting system just makes no sense to me.
Maybe it’s because it is so different from Tekken that my brain is incompatible with the GG style.
And GGS is so friggin gorgeous I kinda feel like I’m missing out idk.
Max Payne 3. Remedy has a very distinct style, and without it Max Payne doesn’t work for me.
Thief 4 and Gothic 4.
This isn’t from personal experience because its reputation is so bad I avoided it entirely, but apparently Mass Effect 3. The fan backlash was so strong they apparently had to retcon the ending, LOL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_3_ending_controversy
(You know it’s bad when it’s infamous enough to warrant its own Wikipedia article.)
I remember not liking 3 when it came to the Xbox at the time, but I played over 150 hours of the Legendary Edition with some mods that improve 3 and actually incorporate a lot of the choices from the first 2 games and 3 that made the ending hit even more for me!
I might be wrong as I just quickly looked this up, but it might be this mod?
The ending was dumb but the game itself was p solid
That’s a shame. If you liked the first two or just want a really awesome SciFi rpg, you should give it a go. The reaction to the ending was really overblown imho. And it wasn’t retconned per se, it was expanded and more options were added.
I beat the game before any changes were made to the ending and I didn’t feel nearly at visceral as some people did. The changes they made also helped fill in any real qualms I had. Not to mention, even if it’s as bad as they say, the ending is like 1% of a trilogy spanning SciFi epic. It’s an incredible rpg series, one of the best ever.
At this point, I’d need to re-play Mass Effect 1 and 2 first. And also wait for it to go on a good sale.
Legendary Edition goes for under US$10 fairly often.
God of War III. Good gameplay, but what the hell was that story? Kratos kills everyone (including his own father) in an unneccessarily sadistic way, turns the whole world into chaos and ruin and then offs himself with his own sword.
That felt like reading a school shooter fanfiction.
Fun fact: He also pushes a helpless nude woman into a door mechanism that kills her. Just…why?
No wonder they made a prequel after that and then rebooted the series.
I definitely agree with you about the storyline. I actually laughed out loud when Kratos stabbed himself at the end. I feel that they were trying to make sure there wasn’t another sequel based on Greek myths.
Good gameplay
Massive understatement though. GoW3 is still the best western action game to this day.
Metal Gear Solid 5.
How can you just ditch your main character’s voice actor? As a Metal Gear completionist, how do I even play this traditionally linear game now that it’s open world and packed with repetitive side missions? Why am I building a strut base and hiring staff that I magically airlift to a chopper out on the battlefield? Overall a disappointment, not because of bad graphics or bad controls or bad gameplay, just a hodgepodge of content that was too much of a departure from the format of the first 4 linear games. I never finished it and probably never will. I know Konami threw multiple wrenches in Kojima’s gears during development but I feel the overall direction was still flawed from the onset. Open World was just so popular at that time and maybe they forced it on Kojima, who knows. I know he didn’t want to make a 5th game anyway so I’m gonna just pretend it never happened and be happy with the first 4 and the PSP titles.
Borderlands
- 1: Decent
- 2: Best in the series
- Pre-Sequel: Playable Clap-Trap is the only redeeming factor.
- 3: Solid gameplay, shit narrative
- 4 Shit.
pre sequel best in the series tbh
You forgot:
- Annoying, juvenile humor that immediately gets old if you’re not 15 years old
I liked the moon gravity stuff in pre sequel, and the shield lady’s abilities. But did not care at all for the story or humour in that one.
I’ve bought and played them all. Presequel and BL4 are wasted money in my eyes.
After 4, I’ll never buy one again. I am a huge BL3 fan and 4 was just a soulless cash grab.
