Sometimes, a bad game gets a follow-up. Other times, the original perfects the formula. Regardless of the reason, all of these games should have stopped at one.
The gaming industry craves sequels more than any other, perhaps to its detriment. Instead of highlighting new IPs, developers stick to tried-and-true franchises that already have a fanbase. For some series like Mario, Halo and Metal Gear, new titles manage to offer up innovations and improvements that trump previous hits. The following 21 games were sequelized for all the wrong reasons.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
I have to disagree with them on Turok and Devil May Cry. Turok 2 was uber awesome and way better than the first one. DMC2 was meh but DMC3 was really good and almost as superb as the original.
Turok 2 was great...DMC never really needed another sequel to be honest im not really looking forward to it that much...but most of the games on the list will probably never even have a sequel again..so blah
Quite a dull article really.
I hate how some games are not necessary to have sequels but developers insist on making sequels to get money.
If they greatly improve upon the gameplay of the original. Two examples that are right on that list are DMC and Metal Gear Ac!d. DMC3 was like the pinnacle of action gaming for me, my only gripe was the music. As far as MGA2 goes, I was a fan of the first one because well they tried something new and I'm a Metal Gear whore, snake's revenge doesn't count!! So for them to fix the problems in the first one and offer us more, I was certainly happy. Does it need a third now? I don't think so but 2 was very well welcome in my camp.
I really wish Capcom had taken Resident Evil outbreak to where I wanted it to go, hell maybe they can now that we have systems that come standard with hard drives. I'm talking real live persistent Racoon City and possibly more with some new elements and tweaks brought from the latest in the RE series.