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Subject: Sequels that Didn't Have to be Made!

Meepzoid

What sequels do you think were not necessary/wanted. Or a sequel that failed simply because it tried to ride off the success from it's prequel?


My list:

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II: Simple, the ending to the first one tied the ending very tight, there was no way anyone thought there was going to be a sequel. Worst of all, it's short, it stagnates and the ending to FUII was wide open and left on a stupid cliff hanger.

Halo 4: I personally, think Halo 4 is a great game. However was it needed? No. I liked the ending of Halo 3, it ends how it begins and the ending led the player to interpret the Master Chief's destiny.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2: Once again, a solid and good game. However, problem is, it is almost similar to the first one. The added like 2 or 3 new improvements but honestly, the games existence as a $60 standalone game was not necessary. They should have made it DLC. Hell it has the same location/setting. Fracking Mexico. . . again.

Kane & Lynch 2: The first one bombed, the second one? NUKED. Honestly this sequel didn't deserve to exist because it's predecessor also, doesn't deserve to live.

Duke Nukem Forever: When a game takes 13 years to make, that is not a good sign that it will be good or worth the wait. Because of the constant change of video game technology, Gearbox should have just made a completely new Duke game using current tech with a completely different premise than Forever's. Honestly what makes DNF bad is how outdated it is. It was a sequel that didn't need to be made, just forgotten.

You guys have any thoughts?

  • 12.23.2012 11:44 AM PDT

If I ever get AIDS, I'm going to sleep with another AIDS person so my AIDS cancel each other out, or I'm going to make the AIDS I already have worse.

Halo 4

  • 12.23.2012 11:45 AM PDT

Posted by: Billygoat456
I'll bring the tritium laser cutters if you bring the beer!

Funny story.

Front Mission Evolved: It sucked.

  • 12.23.2012 11:46 AM PDT

"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."


Posted by: tha man
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Wow, I thought of that the second I saw the title. Nice choice!

  • 12.23.2012 11:46 AM PDT
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Half life 2 episode 3

owait

  • 12.23.2012 11:46 AM PDT
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"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me"

- Batman

I agree with every single one of your list.

  • 12.23.2012 11:46 AM PDT

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Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
Posted by: colbyrules8
Posted by: Duardo
Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.

What's your next thread going to be? "wuts da best halo game?"

Pathetic.

  • 12.23.2012 11:48 AM PDT

"Moooooooo"
-Ghost cow

SSX

  • 12.23.2012 11:49 AM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Let's see:

Halo 4, Black Ops II (the way it was made), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the Assassin's Creed filler games, Iron Man 2 and every Marvel sequel that's going to be coming in the next few years, Teen Wolf Too...

  • 12.23.2012 11:54 AM PDT

Dating Age

For those looking to vent, get proper advice, or give it to those in need.

Bioshock 2.

  • 12.23.2012 11:57 AM PDT

Currently studying Computer Science & Software engineering. Hope to work on mobile devices of the future! When a certain game's credits roll, look out for my name! ;)

You will -blam!- bricks when you see what game it is! =)

Borderlands 2.

Elder scrolls 2, 3, 4, and on and on and on...

  • 12.23.2012 11:59 AM PDT

Posted by: iamironman4611
"Hello, I am Ring Moniter 666 John Cena".

Chrono Cross.

  • 12.23.2012 12:01 PM PDT

"What are we holding on to, Sam?"
"That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."

Huh. Well, I came in here to say Halo 4, Duke Nukem Forever, and Force Unleashed 2, but it looks like you've got those covered. Reach didn't really need to happen either.

  • 12.23.2012 12:03 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

People saying Halo 4... -_-

It was Halo 3 that made Halo 4 inevitable by giving absolutely no closure at all and compounding plot points in the final mission telling us that we were about to see the bigger picture.

Note: * refers to plot points introduced in Halo 3

1) 6 of the 7 Halo rings are still primed and ready to fire - a shadow that will forever loom over the Halo universe as long as it's unresolved.

*2) The Gravemind tells us that defeat at Installation 04B only delays his return at the end of Halo 3.

*3) Medicant Bias virtually screams to the player that the Chief's story is not done, informing us that:

*4) The Forerunners are not dead...

*5) ...and that the path to the Forerunners is "frought with peril," suggesting a new threat.

*6) No explanation whatsoever was given to these mysterious new beings referenced by the Didact called the Precursors. Later forming the basis of Greg Bear's 'cosmic game' in the Forerunner Saga, and which we now know is feeding directly into Halo 4.

*7) Nor was any explanation given as to what "following in their footsteps" means when the Didact started talking about the Great Journey he will go on after he fires the Halos.

*7.1) Therefore, The Great Journey does in fact exist, but has been misinterpretted by the Prophets. What is the Journey, and what is the signifigance?

8) Mankind has yet to uphold their destiny as the guardians of the universe (as mankind's destiny is the entire thematic point of the series, not continuing the story would mean voiding the relevance of the franchise as a story). This forms the thematic basis for the Reclaimer Trilogy, as the name itself implies.

9) We do not know if humanity can survive the inevitable tensions between the Covenant client races, the Elites, and themselves.

*10) We did not know (at the time, until Cryptum) what made humanity so special and worth saving in the eyes of Librarian. She said that we held the answer to many Forerunner secrets.

*11) Cortana, who holds the largest wealth of Forerunner knowledge in the universe aside from the Forerunners themselves, is slowly drifting into insanity. How can anyone claim that Halo 3 provided any kind of satisfying closure when we spend the whole game building up to her rescue only for her to be discarded and left to rot into insanity half an hour later?

*12) And finally, Master Chief, the selected messenger of Medicant Bias, is drifting near an unknown Forerunner world at the very end of Halo 3.

Halo 4 covered many of these in detail and has made them pivotal to the central theme of the Reclaimer Trilogy. Halo 4 was certainly needed because Halo 3's faux conclusion was just poor, playing the nostalgia card as so many people point out that "it ends how it started". So what? Almost nothing was resolved at all.

  • 12.23.2012 12:04 PM PDT
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Every sequel ever.

  • 12.23.2012 12:04 PM PDT

inb4MW2+

  • 12.23.2012 12:04 PM PDT

Meepzoid


Posted by: colbyrules8
What's your next thread going to be? "wuts da best halo game?"

Pathetic.


Actually yes, yes it was.

/sarcasm

  • 12.23.2012 12:07 PM PDT

Pretty much any Disney sequel.

  • 12.23.2012 12:08 PM PDT
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Bambi 2
Cinderella 2
Aladdin 2
The Little Mermaid 2
The Lion King 2

  • 12.23.2012 12:09 PM PDT

He threw down a glove you made the mistake
Of picking it up now you're gone
The choosing of guns or fighting with swords
The choice of weapons is done
He'll tear you apart as soon as you start
You know you don't have a chance.

CoD3 and beyond.
Dragon Age 2.
Mass Effect 3.

  • 12.23.2012 12:10 PM PDT


Posted by: Aang the Avatar
Bambi 2
Cinderella 2
Aladdin 2
The Little Mermaid 2
The Lion King 2

  • 12.23.2012 12:11 PM PDT


Posted by: FatherlyNick
Borderlands 2.

Elder scrolls 2, 3, 4, and on and on and on...

considering that morrowind and oblivion are my favourite elder scrolls games, I disagree, also Arena wasn't that good, it was too big, which ment that enviroments weren't really different, it was just snow, green and dessert. Daggerfall however, was only set in Highrock and hammerfell, so there were more unique areas.

  • 12.23.2012 12:21 PM PDT


Posted by: theslatcher
CoD3 and beyond.
Dragon Age 2.
Mass Effect 3.

mass effect was designed from the start to be a trilogy, of course Mass effect 3 had to be made.

  • 12.23.2012 12:22 PM PDT

Meepzoid


Posted by: theslatcher
CoD3 and beyond.
Dragon Age 2.
Mass Effect 3.


Like I'm trying to emphasize, it's supposed to be sequels that weren't necessary.

WWII had a lot of material/battles so CoD could have endless games, not only spanning from WWII but almost anything.

Also ME3 was planned from the beginning to be a trilogy, It was going to be made.

This thread isn't about sequels that aren't worse than its predecessors but sequels no one wanted or expected.

  • 12.24.2012 10:13 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
People saying Halo 4... -_-

It was Halo 3 that made Halo 4 inevitable by giving absolutely no closure at all and compounding plot points in the final mission telling us that we were about to see the bigger picture.

Note: * refers to plot points introduced in Halo 3

1) 6 of the 7 Halo rings are still primed and ready to fire - a shadow that will forever loom over the Halo universe as long as it's unresolved.

*2) The Gravemind tells us that defeat at Installation 04B only delays his return at the end of Halo 3.

*3) Medicant Bias virtually screams to the player that the Chief's story is not done, informing us that:

*4) The Forerunners are not dead...

*5) ...and that the path to the Forerunners is "frought with peril," suggesting a new threat.

*6) No explanation whatsoever was given to these mysterious new beings referenced by the Didact called the Precursors. Later forming the basis of Greg Bear's 'cosmic game' in the Forerunner Saga, and which we now know is feeding directly into Halo 4.

*7) Nor was any explanation given as to what "following in their footsteps" means when the Didact started talking about the Great Journey he will go on after he fires the Halos.

*7.1) Therefore, The Great Journey does in fact exist, but has been misinterpretted by the Prophets. What is the Journey, and what is the signifigance?

8) Mankind has yet to uphold their destiny as the guardians of the universe (as mankind's destiny is the entire thematic point of the series, not continuing the story would mean voiding the relevance of the franchise as a story). This forms the thematic basis for the Reclaimer Trilogy, as the name itself implies.

9) We do not know if humanity can survive the inevitable tensions between the Covenant client races, the Elites, and themselves.

*10) We did not know (at the time, until Cryptum) what made humanity so special and worth saving in the eyes of Librarian. She said that we held the answer to many Forerunner secrets.

*11) Cortana, who holds the largest wealth of Forerunner knowledge in the universe aside from the Forerunners themselves, is slowly drifting into insanity. How can anyone claim that Halo 3 provided any kind of satisfying closure when we spend the whole game building up to her rescue only for her to be discarded and left to rot into insanity half an hour later?

*12) And finally, Master Chief, the selected messenger of Medicant Bias, is drifting near an unknown Forerunner world at the very end of Halo 3.

Halo 4 covered many of these in detail and has made them pivotal to the central theme of the Reclaimer Trilogy. Halo 4 was certainly needed because Halo 3's faux conclusion was just poor, playing the nostalgia card as so many people point out that "it ends how it started". So what? Almost nothing was resolved at all.


After reading this . . . I still say Halo 4.

  • 12.24.2012 10:14 AM PDT

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