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The worst things someone can do with a sequel.
DevilMayCare
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Personally, it was seemed to me when a game doesn't comment or even nudge at the past characters in a series, it bothers me a small bit; mostly if it all occurs in the same world. The Final Fantasy series is a exception of course, but I would've liked it if the characters in Grandia had been at least talked about or something in Grandia 2, Legend of Legaia 2 has the same problem. But that's more of a pet peeve to me.
The other thing has more to do with a series in particular, when a game is cut into a parts instead of being put out in wholes. That pretty much ruined the whole .Hack experience for me, and Xenosaga comes very, very close to falling down that same chasm (even though I do like it). There's something arrogant about playing a game for 15-20 hours and be scantily rewarded with a marginal, or in .Hack's case, almost no sense of closure in every episode (except for the last of course).
The other thing has more to do with a series in particular, when a game is cut into a parts instead of being put out in wholes. That pretty much ruined the whole .Hack experience for me, and Xenosaga comes very, very close to falling down that same chasm (even though I do like it). There's something arrogant about playing a game for 15-20 hours and be scantily rewarded with a marginal, or in .Hack's case, almost no sense of closure in every episode (except for the last of course).
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Read: Going from Fallout 1/2, a pc rpg with a very distinctive flavor and smart gameplay, to Fallout:Brotherhood of steel, a console shooter, while dumbing down pretty much the entire game world.
Final Fantasy games, with the exception of X and X-2, never occur in the same world. That's the point Devil's trying to get at. If the series is going to occur in the same world from game to game, then it would make sense, or more simply put, it would be nice if the games had some sense of history. It would, in some senses, make the world of the game even richer. The Lunar series is a great example. It has a great sense of history, as the plotline of the second game relies heavily on the events of the first game.
hmmmmm....... to me is announce its release to February and then make me wait 'till (the end of times damn it!) December when it's finally released....... GRRRRR!
edit: I think the Fallout: BoS for PS2 is a disgrace to the Fallout name...... it's like some sort of bad replica, yuck
Wafer-thin, maybe, but if you stack 'em all up on each other, that's BIG freaking wafer!
Um, you can't make that comparison because Final Fantasy is a developed series, while Grandia/Legaia only have 2 parts to them...
Um, you can't make that comparison because Final Fantasy is a developed series, while Grandia/Legaia only have 2 parts to them...[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
In what ways exactly are Grandia and LeGaia undeveloped series?
(And besides, there are four Grandia games)
Wafer-thin, maybe, but if you stack 'em all up on each other, that's BIG freaking wafer!
Dang! Can't argue with that.
Oh God I'm blogging anime now?!?!?!?!/
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Well, they only made 2 parts of the main series, meaning they haven't experimented with all the possible elements that FF has with its 12+ installments.
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I meant from the main series, not the side-stories.
1. Didn't live up to Trigger.
2. Too many characters that had no purpose what so ever. (Square could have used about 12 characters and given them stories better than 44?)
3. Time travel? Please?
4. If you just call it cross take out the references to Trigger, lighten the character load it happens to be a very good game but a good sequel it is not.
Because it wasn't supposed to. It was meant to be unique!
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Suikoden, anyone?
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Um, I believe these was time travel, at least traveling between 2 alternate worlds.
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It did not say "Chrono Trigger 2" therefore there shouldn't have been much expectations.