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Banjo: Nuts and Bolts was not really a Banjo Kazooie game and hence a slap on the face for those of us waiting for so long. The fanbase completely rejected it and it was a sales disaster. Not much more needs to be said. Watch the video, the GT guy explains it.
 
yeah, pretty lame list. The top two of bomberman and tony hawk had no impact considering how large those series are. No one was anticipating either of those games and neither of those series were killed off because of those games.

something like Invisible War was much, much worse. And even though Banjo Nuts and Bolts is an amazing game, that too is a 'worse sequel' just by fact that it is radically different from the first two games.
 
AAK said:
I disagree 100%. Regardless that is different from what you posted above. Saying DC1 > DC2 is different from
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I'm saying both.

Regardless, I don't think a lot of the games on the list are fair additions because they're bad, but they're not following something good. Another shitty Sonic game is hardly a fair inclusion, the Sonic game before it was shit too.

Deus Ex 2 is a terrible sequel, I think MGS:PW is a terrible sequel, DMC2 certainly is, RE5 too.
 
The Faceless Master said:
#10 and #9 baffle me. especially when there are games missed that actually deserve to be on the list. no Metroid Prime?
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WTF? One of the highest rated and best selling metroid games. Also Banjo deserved to be on that list.
 
StuBurns said:
DC1 is much better than DC2.
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That's your opinion but DC2 is generally seen as being better. DC1 was nothing more than Resident Evil with dinos. Dino Crisis 2 took it in another direction by making it an action game and it worked out really well.

StuBurns said:
And the list is worst sequels, not most disappointing.
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I think AoD would be the game that most fans would pick as the worst game in the TR series. The fact that it had a second playable character that most fans despise and it's also the game that was the least like what TR is supposed to be certainly goes a long way in the dislike that some fans have for it.
 
Solid list of shitty games, outside of Banjo which is pretty fantastic.

Replace Banjo with your post-Sonic Adventure Sonic title of choice and it's a perfect list.
 
The Faceless Master said:
#10 and #9 baffle me. especially when there are games missed that actually deserve to be on the list. no Metroid Prime?
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You serious?
 
The Faceless Master said:
no Metroid Prime?
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Because 3 was marginally less masterful?

SolidSnakex said:
I think AoD would be the game that most fans would pick as the worst game in the TR series. The fact that it had a second playable character that most fans despise and it's also the game that was the least like what TR is supposed to be certainly goes a long way in the dislike that some fans have for it.
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It is the worst, but that's not the point, it's not a sequel to a good game.

From TR4 to TR5 is a much bigger drop in quality than TR5 to TR6, even though TR6 is weaker.
 
Count me in as another vote for Deus Ex: Invisible War. I just played through Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition and Deus Ex Invisible War back-to-back, what an epic step backwards for the series Invisible War was.

They removed all of the rpg elements; there's no more experience points, no more skills, no real character development to speak of, fewer augments overall, you can equip and use fewer augments, there's no real inventory system to speak of, you can equip and use fewer items. The scope of the environments and the choices you can make are both greatly decreased and the story was simply terrible.
 
StuBurns said:
If you count Forgotten Sands as the sequel to '08, I'd put that up there.
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I haven't played Forgotten Sands yet... but I was looking forward to it because PoP08 was one of the worst sequels I ever played. Perhaps our being complete opposites bodes well for me!
 
apana said:
Banjo: Nuts and Bolts was not really a Banjo Kazooie game and hence a slap on the face for those of us waiting for so long. The fanbase completely rejected it and it was a sales disaster. Not much more needs to be said. Watch the video, the GT guy explains it.
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"It does not have platforming, so clearly it is for babies."

Real talk here, but Banjo was never about the platforming. Like, ever. It was just a means of solving environment navigation. Nuts and Bolts takes that concept to another level.
 
revolverjgw said:
I haven't played Forgotten Sands yet... but I was looking forward to it because PoP08 was one of the worst sequels I ever played. Perhaps our being complete opposites bodes well for me!
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Certainly, give it a try, it's basically just the fourth of the last-gen series, nothing like '08.
 
I enjoyed Nuts & Bolts but as a sequel to Banjo Kazooie yeah, it should be there.

The video seemed to really be about bad franchise games over bad sequels though.
 
I've heard only bad things about Double Dragon 3 (haven't played it myself), and Double Dragon 2 was one of my childhood favorites, so perhaps that warrants a mention?
 
I read impressions of FF14 that seemed to imply it was designed around a gamepad, and that it seems like it's a console game. If that's the case, they're basically charged people do a rough version on PC before the consoles get the real one. Also allowed PC gamers to contribute to the funding of the console version.

Still, bad form.
 
apana said:
Banjo: Nuts and Bolts was not really a Banjo Kazooie game and hence a slap on the face for those of us waiting for so long. The fanbase completely rejected it and it was a sales disaster. Not much more needs to be said. Watch the video, the GT guy explains it.
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This explains it really, it fails more as a sequel than as a game, people had been waiting since at least the Xbox days for a true BK3, and while Nuts and Bolts is good, it really is completely detached from BK 1 and 2.

EDIT: And PD Zero has gone from those overrated reviews to being a bit underrated IMO. It has that dated N64 Goldeneye/PD trial and error level design but I thought some of the levels were pretty fun, and the multiplayer at the time was pretty cool.
 
DarkUSS said:
Seriously? Underrated maybe (though it had some game-breaking bugs) but GOTY material no.
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I liked it a lot as well. You can exploit the save feature to mitigate many of the games issues.

The first playthrough apart from having to save before every jump things went swimmingly and I loved the game. Then on subsiquent playthroughs I encountered all the dumb stuff(Like who you give the box too makes absolutely no difference, how you go through the dialogue trees makes no difference
except for one scene where you can die for no reason whatsoever
, having to backtrack through an entire level to find that block you forgot to push so you're strong enough to shimmy across a ledge etc).

I still have no idea how you're supposed to know which underwater statues to pull to get into the vault. I managed to do it through trial and error no problem but I have no idea how you're supposed to figure it out via the clues and whatnot.
 
Dance In My Blood said:
"It does not have platforming, so clearly it is for babies."

Real talk here, but Banjo was never about the platforming. Like, ever. It was just a means of solving environment navigation. Nuts and Bolts takes that concept to another level.
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If it was a Lego game it would have been on GOTY lists. Banjo fans just couldn't see the appeal through their rose tinted glasses.
 
That is not the Sonic game that was the biggest leap in quality to the franchise, in fact it was practically identical to Adventure 1/2. Also the inclusion of Nuts & Bolts and the lack of Deus Ex 2 is madness.
 
Pretty bad list considering that most people had little expectations for half these games before release not to mention many people already knew months in advance these were going to be crap.

Decent games that had high expectations are far worse than a shitty sequel with half the hype of its previous installments.
 
Good list for once. I would have put Resident Evil 5 for the principal of RE4 being just so damn good. It was too good for the series own good.
 
Even if you count Banjo as a "bad sequel" because it's not a "real sequel" even if it's a good game, you'd still be hard-pressed to make it fit on a list where every other game is bad even when expectations were not very high.

Spirit of Jazz said:
That is not the Sonic game that was the biggest leap in quality to the franchise, in fact it was practically identical to Adventure 1/2.
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http://www.viddler.com/explore/PoptartsNinja/videos/1/
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http://www.viddler.com/explore/PoptartsNinja/videos/5/
http://www.viddler.com/explore/PoptartsNinja/videos/6/
 
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