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Posted June 28, 2017
I didn't like Fallout 3 very much, despite it literally taking place in my backyard. I still feel that New Vegas is a more authentic sequel to the isometric games I grew up playing.
Posted June 28, 2017
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galneon: I loved the engine too much not to enjoy Might and Magic VIII when it came out, but it's the only game from the latter trilogy I haven't replayed at some point. Just too easy. Last I checked no hard mod existed for it. :/
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Ghorpm: Try to beat it with your main character only, it will be much harder this way :)
Then loot is only 1/5 as much fun and you can't allocate as many skill points, stuff I get off on in MM games. :(
Posted June 29, 2017
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LeRenardRoux: I didn't like Fallout 3 very much, despite it literally taking place in my backyard. I still feel that New Vegas is a more authentic sequel to the isometric games I grew up playing.
yet it plays, looks and sounds exactly like FO3 just with more... sand.

My choice is Fallout New Vegas. A good game... if it worked. Buggy since day one. So buggy i couldn't launch it and very little has changed. The bugs in that came are that bad that it makes Bethesda look like a godsend by comparison.
Posted June 29, 2017
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Impaler26: Mass Effect 2 - I like the first ME but the second one is just annoying.
I agree. It went from awesome (as usual) Bioware RPG, to a corridor shooter it seemed.

It was pretty good shooting with force powers and stuff, but still.
Posted June 29, 2017
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Impaler26: Mass Effect 2 - I like the first ME but the second one is just annoying.
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bad_fur_day1: I agree. It went from awesome (as usual) Bioware RPG, to a corridor shooter it seemed.
Agree with this. ME felt like this action based space opera RPG. ME 2 felt like a cover shooter with levels poorly hiding behind the notion of "open world." Not that there's anything wrong with that (I loved the "XCOM" game "The Bureau") but it wasn't the same magic as the first.

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codefenix: Every Final Fantasy after IX.
Ooooh I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to play FF XII.

This one still stands as one of my favorite games - I LOVE the 1) scale 2) cinematics and 3) gambit system. This game made grinding pure joy.
Posted June 29, 2017
:P FF12 felt like the design leftovers of FF11 Online, not trying to diminish your fondness for 12 was good, but 11 was beyond amazing.
Posted June 29, 2017
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Cifer84: Thief (2014). The idiots who did this managed to make it worse than Thief Deadly Shadows and couldn't achieve a fraction of what the geniuses behind the original Thief in 1998 did. Not everything is bad there, but it's just ridiculous that it was better done 16 years before. For me Thief Gold and Thief 2 are the best games ever (here on GOG, by the way).
Agreed, to much trying to ride the coat tails of Assassin's Creed series (and failing), not enough trying to be like the Thief games.
Post edited June 29, 2017 by Loswaith
Posted June 29, 2017
Fallout 3. No need to explain

Dragon Age 2. No need to explain too.

Mass Effect 3. Origin required. Haven't even try to launch the game.

Total War: Shogun 2. Steam required. Had to download 6 Go of data with Steam after installed on the first week after release?! Wtf.

It was how I stopped caring about AAA gaming.
Posted June 29, 2017
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Ixamyakxim: Ooooh I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to play FF XII.
Nah.. I do still have it, and did finish it once. Felt like a slog. Don't care much for the characters or plot, and generally don't care for the Ivalice setting. The entire plot just felt like a minor political struggle in a single region in a giant world, and I found it pretty boring.
Posted June 29, 2017
My picks for disappointing sequels:

Blood 2 - Not much needs to be said here
Descent 3 - The wide open areas but slow moving weapon projectiles made playing this game a chore
Deus Ex: IW - Mentioned a lot in this thread already and for good reason
Diablo 2 - On release, I didn't like it, but subsequent patches improved the game a lot
Farcry 2 - They did so much right and so much wrong at the same time, it had the potential to be so much better and it kills me to put the game on this list
Gothic 3 - Still enjoyed this game a lot but some things were still off
Half Life 2 - Just over hyped I think
KKND 2 - I never finished this game, the bugs killed it for me. Loved the original though
M.A.X 2 - Absolute garbage compared to M.A.X 1
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Pure trash. never finished it and sold it off
Monkey Island, Escape from - Still enjoyed this one even though it lacked the charm of the previous game
Painkiller: Overdose - There was something missing here the original Painkiller had
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky - The broken faction war system annoyed me. Gonna give this game another try
Starcraft 2: WOL - Pure disappointment and no desire to play it again, never bothered with anything after WOL
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind - To me this game was a huge step down from Daggerfall, I'm gonna to give this game a second chance as it looks like mods will fix some of the gripes I have with the vanilla game
Turok: Evolution - Just a meh game, didn't know pterodactyls exploded if they turned to sharply either
Unreal 2 - Still enjoyed this for what it was though

Looks like I'll be adding Commandos 3 to this list when I get round to it
Post edited June 29, 2017 by IwubCheeze
Posted June 29, 2017
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Cifer84: Thief (2014). The idiots who did this managed to make it worse than Thief Deadly Shadows and couldn't achieve a fraction of what the geniuses behind the original Thief in 1998 did. Not everything is bad there, but it's just ridiculous that it was better done 16 years before. For me Thief Gold and Thief 2 are the best games ever (here on GOG, by the way).
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Loswaith: Agreed, to much trying to ride the coat tails of Assassin's Creed series (and failing), not enough trying to be like the Thief games.
Yeah, the cities in Assassin's Creed and the old Thief games are alive, the city in Thief (2014) is just dead and then the horrible loading times. Maybe worst the stupid story. It pains me to say, but better no Thief games anymore than something like that.
Post edited June 29, 2017 by Cifer84
Posted June 29, 2017
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IwubCheeze: My picks for disappointing sequels:

Blood 2 - Not much needs to be said here
Descent 3 - The wide open areas but slow moving weapon projectiles made playing this game a chore
Deus Ex: IW - Mentioned a lot in this thread already and for good reason
Diablo 2 - On release, I didn't like it, but subsequent patches improved the game a lot
Farcry 2 - They did so much right and so much wrong at the same time, it had the potential to be so much better and it kills me to put the game on this list
Gothic 3 - Still enjoyed this game a lot but some things were still off
Half Life 2 - Just over hyped I think
KKND 2 - I never finished this game, the bugs killed it for me. Loved the original though
M.A.X 2 - Absolute garbage compared to M.A.X 1
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault Pure trash. never finished it and sold it off
Monkey Island, Escape from - Still enjoyed this one even though it lacked the charm of the previous game
Painkiller: Overdose - There was something missing here the original Painkiller had
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky - The broken faction war system annoyed me. Gonna give this game another try
Starcraft 2: WOL - Pure disappointment and no desire to play it again, never bothered with anything after WOL
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind - To me this game was a huge step down from Daggerfall, I'm gonna to give this game a second chance as it looks like mods will fix some of the gripes I have with the vanilla game
Turok: Evolution - Just a meh game, didn't know pterodactyls exploded if they turned to sharply either
Unreal 2 - Still enjoyed this for what it was though

Looks like I'll be adding Commandos 3 to this list when I get round to it
Yes to almost everything. Except Diablo 2 (although you limit your disappointment to the release version) and KKND 2. Both were great LAN games.

Half Life 2 is one of my biggest disappointments. We played huge amounts of Half Life via Sven Coop. I've avoided the second part for a long time because of the stupid Steam client and when I finally got it in the bargain basement everything was wrong. It sounds, looks and feels wrong.

Unreal 2 was OK.
Posted June 29, 2017
Fallout 3, FFXIII, then FFXV...

Controversially, RE4, and in some tangental way DA:O if you can regard it as a spiritual sequel to BG, though that's kind of forcing it a bit, perhaps. I'm also on the fence about Torment ToN. It has pretty much none of the magic of the original at all, yet it does do some pretty cool things that the original didn't and is rewarding from a RPing perspective in terms of its reactivity... It just all feels so bland and hollow.
Posted June 29, 2017
Dreamfall chapters was a disappointment .
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