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N0x0n, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Probably unpopular opinion but Prey is clearly on that list ! Not because the new game was bad, but they just took everything that was interesting and original in the first game, throw it away and just made it another doom-like game :/…

The original Prey wasn’t a GOTY or whatever, it just felt different and something new and original… Something I liked and they just made a total reboot with nothing in common on what made prey original/interesting !

evujumenuk,

What aspects of the newer Prey make it more like Doom than the older Prey? To me, that’s kinda like saying, “System Shock was just Wolfenstein 3D 🎶 in space 🎶”

N0x0n,

I know the atmospheric design is doom like (aliens, weapons, paltforms…etc.) but gameplay mechanics were totally inovative and original (wall walking, portals, spirit walk) and chracter focus was also cool (native american).

I’m not saying Prey 2016 is a Bad game, I just found it sad that they totally changed the franchise spirit 😄

evujumenuk,

I don’t deny that Old Prey was an innovative game. But stating that everything that wasn’t Doom was stripped out while implying that nothing else was added in feels a bit disingenuous.

moody,

I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.

Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.

The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.

EntropyPure,

It never was planned as a sequel/reboot of Prey by the studio. The publisher insisted on the name in hopes of more revenue from „long time fans“.

bjoern_tantau,
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And in the end that totally backfired. I never touched it because of that even though it is supposed to be a great game.

0li0li,

Best ImmSim in my book. Not a Prey sequel tho.

gonzo-rand19, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?
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I'm going to say The Last of Us 2. I loved the first one so much, and then 2 was not what I wanted or was expecting, which completely killed any love I had for it and any desire for a larger franchise.

I was hoping for an anthology series where each game focused on a different group of people in the same universe. I loved Joel and Ellie, but I wanted their story to be over and to get a look at how other people had dealt with things.

desmosthenes, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

path of exile - no one comes close either - free too

desmosthenes,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

14+ years running

skribe, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?
@skribe@aussie.zone avatar

KSP2.

Novamdomum,
@Novamdomum@fedia.io avatar

Surprised this didn't come up sooner to be honest.

Duamerthrax, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Not necessarily beloved, but I hated the tone and genre shift between Jak and Daxter and Jak 2. I hated the driving sections so much, that that’s where I put the game down. Looking back, I guess they wanted to make a different game, but had to make a sequel?

Zahille7,

I played the series in reverse order so I love Jak 2 and 3. TPL is okay, but I do actually like the action-y gameplay of the sequels.

ProfessorOwl_PhD, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?
@ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net avatar

Technically Far Cry: Blood Dragon was a standalone expansion rather than DLC for 3, but it blew every other far cry game out of the water.

Rai, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

I just played this game last night! You can get it DRM free from their web site. My partner and I both loved it! Great atmosphere, great story.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Beloved is a REALLY strong word.

But, Mortal Kombat 11. I had always enjoyed the MK games (it helped that my sister owned the N64 so I only played maybe a grand total of two hours of the wannabe Tekken ones…). And the timeloop reboot had reinvigorated the series and I was a much more accomplished fighting game player and actually understood how to push through projectile spam.

Then they randomly recast Sonya Blade with (sandy hook truther and terf) rhonda rousey and it was just… ugh. Even ignoring she is a hateful and evil shitbag… she is just a REALLY bad actress. Could never bring myself to grab 11 and by the time “1” came out I had also realized that I actively disliked the x-ray attacks and finishers since they were just boringly gorey time sinks.


And honorable mention to Splinter Cell Double Agent. But apparently the OG xbox/wii u (?) version of that was actually good and it was just 360/PC that was a steaming pile of shit. And Conviction was a very different game but also I still think about the aftermath of the EMP every so often.

raptir, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

Torchlight 3 and Infinite. I was a fan of Torchlight before there was Torchlight. I played Fate to death in college. I played Mythos during the beta. I probably put more hours into Torchlight and Torchlight 2 than I did into Diablo and Diablo 2 (and I put a lot of time into Diablo).

I actually had hope for Torchlight Frontiers. I thought it seemed like it could be what Mythos was trying to be - finally an online Torchlight game.

But then they forgot about all of that and essentially released “Torchlight 2 Mobile” but on PC.

NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w So are GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.

I like GoG but… GoG very much has a history of “performative” bullshit.

Some of us still remember The French Monk Incident where they pretended the site was shutting down and let everyone hammer the download servers so they would panic and “learn” why “DRM Free” games were better. The backlash was so bad that it actually led to the addition of a new quest (that totally wasn’t ready to go…) in The Witcher 2 that, if you won a game of dice poker (Gwent before we had Gwent) you would get a Witcher 1 code at GoG.

Also… their definition of “DRM Free” is what us olds would have called “that Stardock GOO shit”

They’ve also had a LOT of “we are going to lose the rights to sell this game so buy it now” FOMO sales. I want to say the Atari games have been through at least four?

And so forth throughout the years. It was more or less guaranteed GoG would do a smut games sale once Steam delisted games. The freebies is a surprise but stuff like House Party is a massive DLC sink and the Postals get given away five with every soda.

So e’rybody saying “Now is the time to let GoG know they were being inconsistent and they will fix everything”: Hey, I got a really great deal on this bridge. And I’ll give you a discount if you pay in whatever “untraceable” crypto kids like this week. Err, but through this site that just gives me fiat currency. No reason.

EvilEdgelord, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?
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  • FooBarrington,

    I sadly have to disagree regarding Elden Ring. I love the DLC, but there’s pretty much 0 integration with the rest of the game. Nothing you do in the base game will change interactions in the DLC, and vice versa.

    If a couple voice lines changed (e.g. for Melina, Midra regarding the Frenzied Flame, Miquella regarding Malenia) I’d agree completely, but as it is it’s very slapped on.

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  • FooBarrington,

    Not sure my comment deserves a downvote when I clearly formulated my criticism after specifying that I very much like it, but you do you.

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  • DebatableRaccoon,

    Name checks out. Are you also forgetting the DLC is awkwardly levelled too? That it’s not accessible until quite far into the game but if you try go into it with a complete save you’ll be dramatically over-levelled.

    mohab, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

    It was not rubbish, but what Xrd did to my main character, Zato, irreparably damaged my relationship with any future Guilty Gear game, and Strive just finished off whatever hope I had left.

    And to be clear: I'm not talking about power level here—fuck that. I'm only talking about how much fun I had with the character, and still do in Guilty Gear Plus R.

    HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, do games w Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?
    @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

    I’ve done a few competitions of various sorts, yeah Most of them have been tournaments. I lost all of them.

    MyDarkestTimeline01, do games w What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?

    Dragon Age 2 ruined Dragon Age for me.

    Mass Effect 3’s ending soured me to anything EA until Titanfall 2 was less than $20.

    I’m sure I’m forgetting a few more ones but those two stand out the most.

    Senseless,

    The asset recycling in DA2 was absolute madness. I really tried to like DA:I and finished it once but it was painful at times. Has nothing on common with Dragon Age but its name.

    fckreddit, do gaming w A game you think does DLC incredibly well?

    Pretty cliche, but The Witcher 3.

    Berttheduck,

    Both of them are excellent, blood and wine especially as it really nicely ends Geralt’s story. Also Tuson (sp?) is just beautiful.

    DebatableRaccoon,

    Toussaint. They weren’t being subtle about the frenchness

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