Topic: Does anyone else get annoyed by all the sequels?

as of late, ive been getting annoyed at all the same stuff from nintendo games getting reproduced over and over. what im talking about is stuff like Metroid Prime. Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 3 (havent played 2) is the same game with different gimmicks thrown in the mix.

I want nintendo to start producing NEW series, ive played all the Zelda, Mario, and Samus i want. does anyone else get annoyed by this?

Maybe with Zelda. I hope they change things a bit for the next one.

I like the new gimmicks but yeah, they should start with some new series/one-off games.

Nintendo's weird like that. For some reason, we let them get away with making the same game OVER AND OVER again. However, I'm not complaining since the games are good.

I don't know what the newest one it, but Pikman is pretty new. Also, the excite and Punchout series haven't been seen in year.

The newest "series" seems to be the "wii" games... Wii Sports, Wii Music and so forth. At this time, Pikmin is actually quite old, and yes, ido wish Nintendo could come up with a completely new game. I never get tired of Super Mario sequels, but I´d like to see some courage in the software department too.

Rather see a new Metroid or Mario than another Guitar Hero, or Halo, or whatever. It's not just Nintendo that does it, to be fair.

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As long as they keep putting out good games, I don't care whether they're sequels or not really.

The thing is, when Nintendo make sequels they more often than not add something that completely changes the game. I wouldn't say that Super Mario Galaxy, for example, didn't have enough interesting new ideas to make a new game by itself. If you had a different character on the box nobody would have said "wait, this is just Super Mario Sunshine/Super Mario 64 with a different character on the box!". The same is, most of the time, true with Zelda.

With the way something like the core Halo series is handled on the other hand.....

Only if it's a crappy sequl to a crappy game. i.e. the Mario Party, Mario & Sonic in The Olympics, and Mario Kart Series. Other than that, I say they make as many sequels as they want, however they want.

Yeah, things would have been much better if Mario stoped at Super Mario Bros, and Zelda stopped at The Legend of Zelda.

And what a mistake they made by making Street Fighter II...

How many of the very best games ever are sequels? End of argument, me thinks.

It seems that sequels are coming fresher than ever lately. Ive actually been really looking forward to sequels this year as some of the best titles of the year that have been groudbreaking have been sequels. Some companies make money on the first games and then use that money to polish what they couldn't and expand on the ideas they had/gotten since the release of the first game. It seems the 2nd sequel to any new IP is always the best.
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Uncharted 2
Halo 2
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Yes, especially sports games where they make a new version every year and seem to specifically make it less than ideal so you'll buy the next version next year (only to be disappointed yet again).

My sentiments exactly, if it ain't broke don't fix it. It's a bit silly to say "I don't like all these sequels even though they are good games."

Isn't Endless Ocean a new IP? A new one is coming next year. Pikmin is pretty new, and there is one coming within the next two or three years. The Wii _______ IP is new, too. Play them then. I like Metroid and Zelda, I would be happy to have a sequel. Mario I agree with though.

I like sequels that feel like extensions of the previous game, in the sense that it is a whole new set of levels but the same basic game. No reason to think that because a game formula is fun that the levels created around it could not be improved. Plus, it gives the developer an excuse to ramp the difficulty since you can assume that most buyers played the original, like they claim to be doing with SMG2.

Slapshot, you might be onto something. I also think that after the first sequel there often isn't much to add to a series. SMB3 seems like the obvious exception, but despite having two SMB2's, one was not designed by Miyamoto, and one wasn't really SMB2, so one could argue (note: "one," not me) that it was in a sense the first sequel.

Of course, NSMB is hardly a distinct series to begin with, so it sort of flies against the face of this theory, but the Platformer is such a basic genre that I really think you could churn out sequels forever as long as you have a good level designer or two. Old school genres do lend themselves to sequelization more than newer games which rely too heavily on story for us to believe the same guy is saving the world yet again after two or three sequels.

I don't mind the sequels really, as long as they're good or decent.

The reason there are so many is because these game series are so successful.

Sequels aren't all bad, some that I look(ed) forward to are Golden Sun DS, Lunar Knights, Lufia, and Sonic Chronicles.