A Trend?
 

In the last few days I've noticed a bit of an odd pattern in video game sequels being that the first two games in a series are developed by the same team, then, for whatever reason, a new team develops the third game which turns out to be awful. These are the game series that I've found to have this trend, can anybody name any others?

Carmageddon
Twisted Metal
Flatout

Elder Scrolls.
Call of Duty

Command & Conquer, SimCity...

I thought this was going to be about guys who look like girls.

Fallout.

Silent Hill. Not the third specifically, but same deal.

Age of Empires?

AOEIII wasn't as good as the first two, but it was made by the same people.

Crash Bandicoot - first three were genius until Naughty Dog decided to dump Crash on his ass to be made into dozens of shitty third-party games.

KOTOR - even though it was the second game made by a different developer.


I think he is talking about AOEO, which as made by a different company, though it employed many from Ensemble Studios.

But I like AoEO! Well, mostly.

Squeek's Oddysee.


What? I'm an optimist!

You can't be serious there,

Fallout 3 was great.

You can't be serious there,

Fallout 3 was crap.

and I liked Morrowind and Oblivion

Fallout 3 was good, the fuck are you on about?

Spyro the Dragon.

And wait what!? Fallout 3 was amazing.

Yeah Fallout 3 was great... even coming after two 2D top view games I don't think you can compare 3 to 1 and 2.

You're optimistic that Squeek's Oddysee will be awful?

I would say there's a trend in game series being passed onto different developers/different people working on them and therefore sucking - But it's not always after the third game.

For example:
And (you guys are going to hate me for this) it doesn't always have to be passed onto a different team of people either:

Munch's Oddysee

At least they made it up with Stranger though. :P

Ah, but Munch's Oddysee had a different publisher.

But the same developer.

But widely accepted the problems with it mostly lay with the publisher.

I would like to say that Fallout 3 was just not on the same grade as Fallout 1 and 2, they focused on telling a story with the aid of graphics not the other way around. Fallout 3 had an interesting main story line but that was about it. And New Vegas was worse, in fact one of the only things I liked about FNV was the continuity between F1 and F2. That being said, I'm an Interplayfag.

Fallout 3 and NV have a lot of backstory in them but a lot of it isn't part of the main quest. Some of it isn't part of a quest at all. For a game series that went from a 2D setting to a 3D setting, I think they pulled it off as some of the best out there.

I remember when Bethesda said, 'Skyrim will feature a brand new game engine'.

Said engine was an upgraded version from the one used in Fallout 3, so... it's... not actually new.

Past that, I've yet to play a sequel that has been made by another company.

Ah... good point. I was focusing on the 'new team ' part of the OP and, given that I haven't played any of the games mentioned until my post, I forgot the other bit.


sorry

I agree they did a good job, the games are still fantastic, especially Fallout 3, I just don't think they're on par with the first two is all. =P

my mother is a trend.

just throwing that out there.

#lastnightwithmasmom

i fucking knew you'd be the first to reply.

bastard.