Vietcong 2. The original is one of my favourite games of all time, the second game missed the mark in almost all ways. It starts with a botched technical execution and worse graphical style but also simply has far worse combat, unnecessary tactical features (inspired by Brothers in Arms?), worse AI, a worse approach to the historical theme, a complete lack of likeable or memorable characters and far worse level design. It also lacked the original game's skirmish mode which I absolutely loved.

Actually, there are ways around that issue. For example:

Zelda: Ocarina of Time introduced a timeline split. As a result, Zelda: the Wind Waker could be made despite its plot contradicting those of earlier games.

A sequel to Chrono Trigger need not take into account Chrono Cross; it can just say Chrono Cross took place in another dimension. The additions to the DS version of Chrono Trigger do not contradict that; to see the connection, you need to go through a dungeon called the Dimensional Vortex, which can be interpreted as taking you to a different dimension.

One interesting case is in the Elder Scrolls. Daggerfall had multiple endings depending on who you give the artifact to. When its sequel came along, the developers, instead of making one ending canon, introduced a "Dragon Break"; all the endings occurred simultaneously.

Does DN Forever have any securom or crap on it?

It only seems to use Steam activation for copy protection.

Wait, what? can you explain, or give a link to something that explains this? From what I remember, all endings of Daggerfall couldn't possibly have occurred, as that would involve every faction in the game rising to empire-like power. I always assumed that the canon ending of Daggerfall was the the Emperor got the artifact of power, as the empire is still intact at the start of Morrowind.


My answer to the OP would have to be Ultima IX or Lands of Lore 3, both of which might as well have just never happened. Myth III: The Wolf Age was pretty iffy as well.

May I quote you on that? Oh, wait. I already did! =P
I thought it was a pretty fun game. Then again, I've never played Flashback, so there were no real expectations involved.

[url=http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_II:_Daggerfall#Continuity]http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_II:_Daggerfall#Continuity[/url]

"Therefore, all of the endings of Daggerfall occurred simultaneously: the Hero is slain by the Numidium, the Kingdoms of Betony, Sentinel and Wayrest are victorious, the "Bay Kings" and the Imperial forces are defeated by the Orcs, who then create their own kingdom of Orsinium, all of Tamriel is united under the Empire once again, the King of Worms becomes a god and another incarnation becomes the leader of the Order of the Black Worm, and the Underking is reunited with his heart. "

Well screw that. :P

Thanks anyway.

Yeah, that's the reason I never played it myself.

Here is a link to the text of a book from Oblivion that describes what happened:
[url=http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Warp_in_the_West]http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:The_Warp_in_the_West[/url]

Mass Effect 2 is actually a great game, but a truly terrible sequel, despite in many ways being better than the first game. So I guess that counts, even if it's not what you meant. It was as if someone decided to just completely rewrite everything - failing to take into account the fact that the original still exists.

I agree with Blood 2; both terrible as a sequel and as a game in its own right.

Carmageddon TDR2000... what the fuck happened there? Oh wait it was created by the people behind Barbie Dreamhouse Party that's what.

Earth 2160. Earth 2150 is one seriously underrated RTS. I don't know what Earth 2160 is but it's not good.

Deus Ex Invisible War: cramped environments. Just really dull. Deus Ex is one of my favourite games. This one hardly registers an acknowledgement of its existence until threads like this crop up.

Best to wait until I run for office-- for maximum effect.

:) Don't even think about it man, seriously. I bought DNF purely out of principle. What principle it was exactly I don't remember, but it was probably a very stupid one. It's one of the few games I was actively wishing to come to an end as I was playing it :P
If only I had taken the money and spent it on this instead. I only ever played the demo, and I remember that it was a lot of fun

Dragon Age 2.

Origins is one of my favourite cRPGs and, naturally, I was eagerly expecting to play #2. Well, I don't even want to talk about it anymore... :P

Age of Empires III

Not a bad game, but having played Age of Empires 2 for so long, I was expecting an AoE2++ version or something like that. Then I saw the screenshots, read some information about the game and.... and I just continued playing AoE2. :-)

Microsoft Flight

What a joke! I used to fly with FS2004 for some years, then Microsoft released X but couldn't get it to run nicely (too many requirements plus a mess of a code) and then that thing "Flight" came along... no comments!