You liked a game but weren't interested in the sequels?

[Kaamos_Llama]

Was just looking through my wish list when I came across God Of War: Ragnarok and realized that I have almost no desire to play it. It doesnt help that its 59.99 and probably not going on sale for a tenner soon sure, but even at 10 I'm not sure I'd bite.

Its strange because I genuinely liked the first game, finished it and even did some of the extras just because I liked the combat and the world. I can't explain why I'm not interested in Ragnarok when I liked the first game so much, I just dont want to play it. Sure, its probably not very different from the first game, but I strongly doubt The Last Of Us Part 2 is all that much different from TLOU Remastered and Im excited to play that someday. Ive played multiple series of games and still been excited to see a fourth or even more.

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Are there any games that you have loved but then found you have no desire to play any more of the series?

 

[Zloth]

Final Fantasy X. X:2 was even included for free with the HD remake, and I still had no desire to play it at all.

At the end of FFX,

Spoiler

we find out that Titus wasn't magically transported from the past - he died decades ago. When Yuna was sending all the ghosts left in the world off to the hereafter, she was sending her new boyfriend away, too. It was an excellent, bittersweet ending to the game. Then X:2 comes out and, of course, it's all about Yuna getting her boyfriend back. So much for dealing with death and moving on.

 

[Colif]

Obvious: Sacred 2 - mainly as rest of series bears no resemblance to the first two games.
Same applies to Torchlight 2, the remainder of series isn't the same.... although torchlight infinite does have a following now, its not the same type of game anymore...
Diablo 2 can also be added to list... it is the only one of the 3 that is still made by original company. That didn't save it.

Annoying that the games I play always seem to fail around part 3. There may be more games in series but they aren't as good. Tries to think of any part 3 he likes...

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Final Fantasy X. X:2 was even included for free with the HD remake, and I still had no desire to play it at all.

At the end of FFX,

Spoiler

we find out that Titus wasn't magically transported from the past - he died decades ago. When Yuna was sending all the ghosts left in the world off to the hereafter, she was sending her new boyfriend away, too. It was an excellent, bittersweet ending to the game. Then X:2 comes out and, of course, it's all about Yuna getting her boyfriend back. So much for dealing with death and moving on.

Final Fantasy in general is also one for me as well. I played 7, skipped 8 and 9 then played 10. Really liked both of the games I played but didnt really think about playing any of the others.

Obvious: Sacred 2 - mainly as rest of series bears no resemblance to the first two games.
Same applies to Torchlight 2, the remainder of series isn't the same.... although torchlight infinite does have a following now, its not the same type of game anymore...
Diablo 2 can also be added to list... it is the only one of the 3 that is still made by original company. That didn't save it.

I bet theres quite a few series that were taken over by different devs after a while and werent as well received.

Annoying that the games I play always seem to fail around part 3. There may be more games in series but they aren't as good. Tries to think of any part 3 he likes...

Theres a thread in that, only one I can think of is Witcher 3, even if I dont feel as fondly about it as the second game for some reason its better in just about every metric.

 

[Pifanjr]

I really enjoyed Batman: Arkham Asylum, but I never cared to play any of the sequels. The main problem is that I mostly enjoy the stealthy parts of the game and I don't want to have to deal with all of the other stuff.

Obvious: Sacred 2

I loved Sacred, but I couldn't get into Sacred 2 and never even tried with Sacred 3.

 

[mjs warlord]

Was just looking through my wish list when I came across God Of War: Ragnarok and realized that I have almost no desire to play it.

Its strange because I genuinely liked the first game, finished it and even did some of the extras just because I liked the combat and the world. I can't explain why I'm not interested in Ragnarok when I liked the first game so much, I just dont want to play it. Sure, its probably not very different from the first game, but I strongly doubt The Last Of Us Part 2 is all that much different from TLOU Remastered and Im excited to play that someday. Ive played multiple series of games and still been excited to see a fourth or even more.

It doesnt help that its 59.99 and probably not going on sale for a tenner soon sure, but even at 10 I'm not sure I'd bite.

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Are there any games that you have loved but then found you have no desire to play any more of the series?

The last of us is part 1 is 2 years old and i just seen it on steam for £49 and part 2 is £39 , i think games companies are getting greedy , i wonder what the oldest game is on steam that is still at full price.

 

[Colif]

I really enjoyed Batman: Arkham Asylum, but I never cared to play any of the sequels. The main problem is that I mostly enjoy the stealthy parts of the game and I don't want to have to deal with all of the other stuff.



I loved Sacred, but I couldn't get into Sacred 2 and never even tried with Sacred 3.

aka Pixelart version of Sacred 1

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

The last of us is part 1 is 2 years old and i just seen it on steam for £49 and part 2 is £39 , i think games companies are getting greedy , i wonder what the oldest game is on steam that is still at full price.

TLOU 2 will be on sale whenever the winter sale starts on Steam Im sure. Wont be really cheap but I wouldnt mind paying 30 for it at this point.

My post was confusing sorry, I meant I wouldnt buy Ragnarok for a tenner. Fixed it.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I really enjoyed Batman: Arkham Asylum, but I never cared to play any of the sequels. The main problem is that I mostly enjoy the stealthy parts of the game and I don't want to have to deal with all of the other stuff.

I only played Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. It was way better as a linear game, totally agree.

 

[Colif]

That Sacred 1 game will be free once its released...

 

[Pifanjr]

The last of us is part 1 is 2 years old and i just seen it on steam for £49 and part 2 is £39 , i think games companies are getting greedy , i wonder what the oldest game is on steam that is still at full price.

Factorio, released in 2020, has not only never been discounted since it was released on Steam, it has increased in price from €20 to €32.

Rimworld, released in 2018, had its base price increased from €28 to €32 and has never been discounted by more than 20%.

Both games have had significant free updates since release though, so it's more like the people who bought early got those updates for free and people who bought later had to pay for them.

There are also a bunch of games that seem to have been forgotten about, which used to get discounts but just haven't for years.

 

[dxchase]

Obvious: Sacred 2 - mainly as rest of series bears no resemblance to the first two games.

For me, the only one i was able to play then was Sacred 2, loved it and wished i had played the first one, but yea, 3 was just an absolute disappointing disaster. Sad to see it go that way. I wish the remaster had more tweaks and optimizations than it got.

Id say, in recent memory would be Monster Hunter. I bought Monster Hunter World on sale and i just wasnt a big fan of it, have never played any other Monster Hunters and probably wont going forward.

 

[Frindis]

Diablo 4. I tried to get into it, but I did not like the tedious instance layout having you to "pick up item, bring item to pedestal, put down item, and get another one to open door." Maybe it is better now, but now I have other more interesting ARPG's to play, like Path of Exile 2. I will give Diablo 4 this though: It got a very good transmog system, it looks great!

 

[Colif]

the inventory system was what stopped me playing Diablo 4. Shared inventory across all the classes just didn't work for me, not enough space. They may have fixed it, I would be curious to find out if they did.

The seasons emptying out the server the game was released on was another factor. If you don't play seasons it is really a single player game which is always online. Game not designed to play alone...

 

[Inspireless Llama]

Not a story game at all but for me it's Cities Skylines 2. But that's mostly because I love cities skylines and including mods it's pretty much everything I want in that game, so I don't really see the point of getting 2.

Hellbade 2 is another one. Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice was a very good game but I have no need or desire to play 2 at all so it's likely I never will.

 

[Johnway]

I only played Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. It was way better as a linear game, totally agree.

Although i played all the arkham games i must say arkham knight was extremely disappointing. The game world was small, the driving activities uninspired, limited and dull. The amount of time taken to make it from a dev that so far had done no wrong was a crushing disappointment. The trailers had a lot to blame as it made it feel like this was batman's greatest challenge with a dedicated villian (arkham knight) and his highly trained assembled army assembled that was specialized in hunting batman.

What we got was a mostly a limp experience. the threat was mostly weak, the world was bland, lacked any real detail or exicting activities and it felt like the devs knew it and had added extra bits and pieces and made it additional DLC as well.

I wish the city was larger we had more villians or things to do. It should have been like a league of villains taking over gotham and you had to go into each region and take them out. Similar to arkham city i suppose (which incidentally was my fav of the trilogy).

So unsurprisingly, everything after that like gotham knights and kill the justice league was ignored.

COD i gave up on after Black ops. I got fed up with the entire franchise and never looked back. The multiplayer never really did it for me and the SP was just dull. Didn't capture Modern warfare's one and paying a premium for a mediorce experience wasn't worth it.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Not a story game at all but for me it's Cities Skylines 2. But that's mostly because I love cities skylines and including mods it's pretty much everything I want in that game, so I don't really see the point of getting 2.

Hellbade 2 is another one. Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice was a very good game but I have no need or desire to play 2 at all so it's likely I never will.

Oh yea, those are two kind of for me as well. I liked Skylines but 2 wasnt really on my radar and especially once it came out to all the negativity I dont think I'll ever get it.

I really liked the premise of Hellblade more than the game in the end, so 2 didnt really move me once reviews came out.

Although i played all the arkham games i must say arkham knight was extremely disappointing. The game world was small, the driving activities uninspired, limited and dull. The amount of time taken to make it from a dev that so far had done no wrong was a crushing disappointment. The trailers had a lot to blame as it made it feel like this was batman's greatest challenge with a dedicated villian (arkham knight) and his highly trained assembled army assembled that was specialized in hunting batman.

What we got was a mostly a limp experience. the threat was mostly weak, the world was bland, lacked any real detail or exicting activities and it felt like the devs knew it and had added extra bits and pieces and made it additional DLC as well.

I wish the city was larger we had more villians or things to do. It should have been like a league of villains taking over gotham and you had to go into each region and take them out. Similar to arkham city i suppose (which incidentally was my fav of the trilogy).

So unsurprisingly, everything after that like gotham knights and kill the justice league was ignored.

COD i gave up on after Black ops. I got fed up with the entire franchise and never looked back. The multiplayer never really did it for me and the SP was just dull. Didn't capture Modern warfare's one and paying a premium for a mediorce experience wasn't worth it.

Arkham City release was the exact time I started thinking that everything being open world wasnt necessarily going to make things better, and Ive been suspicious of that ever since. It was a good game, but I enjoyed the first more. I should pick it up on PC, havent played it since PS3.

 

[mjs warlord]

Their is nothing in gaming law that says you must buy every release of a certain game but young children dont think like that take for example the Sid MEIRS games , their are 26 so far and i bet their is a young gamer somewhere who gets picked on by his pals just because he only has 25 of them.

Its a bit like the football shirt senario your not considered to be a proper fan of your favorite team unless you got all their different shirts.

Stupidest thing i seen in gaming was this .... one of my relatives son got a football manager game on pc then went out and got the same one on console just to see how different it was , when his dad found out he went without pocket money for a long time.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Their is nothing in gaming law that says you must buy every release of a certain game but young children dont think like that take for example the Sid MEIRS games , their are 26 so far and i bet their is a young gamer somewhere who gets picked on by his pals just because he only has 25 of them.

Its a bit like the football shirt senario your not considered to be a proper fan of your favorite team unless you got all their different shirts.

Stupidest thing i seen in gaming was this .... one of my relatives son got a football manager game on pc then went out and got the same one on console just to see how different it was , when his dad found out he went without pocket money for a long time.

Was more meaning in the OP that it seems sometimes I really love something but then it turns out I just dont really want any more of it. With series on a short schedule that are up to the nth game in 20 years I usually run out of patience quickly because I mostly crave novelty over familiarity.

I wish kids were playing Civ or Alpha Centauri! I think generally kids are playing Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite these days, not too many of them buying anything apart from in game currency.

 

[Colif]

Test Drive: I loved 2, and played to death, but the new one just isn't the same... mainly as new Devs. I never got past just watching videos of it. Maybe its me that has changed... rose coloured glasses?

New people taking an old series and making it their own is what ended most of the ones I listed already. Wearing old series as skin suits is a bad trend in games and TV.
Funny, it stopped being interesting at game 3... again.

 

[Zloth]

I think there's more games that I *did* like but weren't popular enough to get sequels. I got PLENTY of those!

 

[Pifanjr]

I think there's more games that I *did* like but weren't popular enough to get sequels. I got PLENTY of those!

There's a thread for that too:

What past game deserves a sequel that hasnt had one yet? (2024)

Just finished up Vanquish by Platinum Games and it was great. The combat fast and slick, bullet time slow motion from rocket knee slides into dodge rolls, with instantaneous weapon swaps in mid air. Its a cover shooter that doesnt want you to stay in cover for long. Good boss battles and enemy...

forums.pcgamer.com

 

[Zloth]

I was going to say Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, but you beat me to it by a couple of years!