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Re:Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame by AstralStorm on Thursday October 10, 2019 @01:01PM (#21216802)
So instead we get remakes and sequels to sequels.

At least sometimes a reasonably new game happens by accident and it's successful.

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Re:Ripper: Story of the Egregiously Bad Videogame by JohnBooty on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:04PM (#21242582)
Wow, I think history (and public, and critical opinion) disagree with you.

I don't think sequels are a bad thing in the gaming world, since games are software and software is iterative!

A lot of times the 2nd and 3rd iterations surpass the originals... the first title in a series is where all the design and technical challenges are worked out, and then the sequel is where they're able to finetune and really hone things.

Check out the top-rated (both by users and critics) games of all time. Nearly all sequels.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/...

(Note that one of the top-rated games, SoulCalibur, is indeed a sequel as well... Perfect Dark is also, while not a sequel, certainly a "follow up" to Goldeneye in a technical sense)

Any thoughts?

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