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<\/a>Dinosaurs! In space! With jetpacks!<\/p><\/div>\n
Jak X<\/h3>\n
Jak X was a shoddy sequel for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n
While it wasn’t a bad game, there’s something inherently wrong about basing an entire game around one of the most frustrating features from a massively diverse title.<\/p>\n
Jak X is a racing game based entirely on the driving mechanics from Jak 3 – and as such, carried over are the same physics, the same feel, and the same frustrations.<\/p>\n
On top of that, the game carried a tacked-on story that’s actually considered canon – serving as a prequel to the PSP-ported-to-PS2 Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier. In fact, add that to the list too.<\/p>\n
Why? Because loads of people loved Jak and Daxter all the way up to Jak 3, and couldn’t be stuffed to play a game that’s exclusively driving, or a game only available on an over-priced platform, to get the full story.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Pictured: The worst part of Jak and Daxter<\/p><\/div>\n
Tony Hawk Ride<\/h3>\n
Long before Activision were milking every franchise they could get their hands on with annual releases, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was ahead of it’s time, with 11 games coming out in as many years since 1999.<\/p>\n
While arguably we could list every Tony Hawk game since Pro Skater 3 as a bad sequel (as running about, stupid stories and Bam Margera are enough to make them entirely skippable) – it’s difficult to top the awfulness of Tony Hawk Ride.<\/p>\n
The reason for this is simple: that board peripheral.<\/p>\n
Released during the boom of peripheral gaming, led by that other year-after-year cash-cow, Guitar Hero, Activision somehow thought that what gamers really wanted to do with a skateboard game – was skateboard.<\/p>\n
Without the wheels. Or the fun.<\/p>\n
They should have just written it off as a bad job, but they even made a sequel, Tony Hawk Shred, that used the same peripheral and added snowboarding to the mix.<\/p>\n
Because when we think “Tony Hawk”, we think “Snowboarding”.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Yes, this is how you look when you play this game<\/p><\/div>\n
Devil May Cry 2<\/h3>\n
What was supposed to be Resident Evil 4 way back in the beginning, ended up being an entirely different game in the form of Devil May Cry. At the time of release, the game was unlike anything we’d seen before.<\/p>\n
It combined sword and gunplay with a charmingly cheesy protagonist who spurted out such classics like “Flock off feather face!”<\/p>\n
It was insane, button-mashing fun – with huge bosses that were a challenge and a half; legions of enemies; and swift, responsive controls.<\/p>\n
Then came Devil May Cry 2, which was none of these things.<\/p>\n
Dumbed down gameplay; awkward camera angles that made Dante look minute against the backdrops; and Dante himself lost his smash-talking nature, and was a sober, broody shadow of his former self.<\/p>\n
Take everything we love about a game, and do the opposite. That’s not how you win over fans.<\/p>\n