The question should be reversed. Most of the time the original is best. But not as much as movies, where the original is better 90 percent of the time.
The question should be reversed. Most of the time the original is best. But not as much as movies, where the original is better 90 percent of the time.
Not sure I agree with that, just thinking off the top of my head loads of movies have better sequels.Originally Posted by Zap!
Aliens, The Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, The Godfather Part II etc..
The last three I agree with. But you just named the only ones. Three movies in 100+ years of Hollywood certainly proves my point.
Honestly the problem with two out of those four sequels dude named is that they can't really be taken as stand-alone, so its really not possible to say they're "better." You might as well call Two Towers better than Fellowship of the Ring--it doesn't float, because you don't understand one unless you've seen the other.
With Aliens or Terminator 2 they're fairly stand-alone, but I personally always thought Terminator 2 was kind of overrated. The action isn't that great and I could never get over the whiny-ass anti-intellectual philosophy. Seriously seeing two kids playing cops and robbers leads to a lecture about how mankind is inherently self destructive, grow the f*** up James Cameron.
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Okay, back to video games.
Mega Man X > X2 or X3. This was kind of a hard call as they're all really good games, but back when I owned the whole trilogy I used to always come back to the first one the most. It just somehow feels special in a way the future installments don't. I wish I hadn't sold the latter two all the same, but oh well.
X4 tho is almost X1's equal, but then X5 and X6... suck. I never played X7 or X8.
Street Fighter II (and all its updates) > later Street Fighter games. This isn't objective on my part, just somehow I always found the later ones didn't "feel" right and had taken the characters and mythos in pretty uninteresting directions. I also personally think we didn't really need for Street Fighter and Final Fight to be in the same universe, even if it did make for one of the better episodes of the animated series. Besides, they really need to bring back Kevin Striker. (On a minor note I just personally don't care for the art stylings of the later games. Give me the SFII character sprites over the Alpha ones, or especially over the SF4 ones. Especially M.Bison. I never liked how he became so bulky, when originally he was kinda lean. I'm referring to the Dictator, not the boxer).
Oh and of course:
The SNES era Final Fantasy games > everything after, including FF7. The Playstation was the point where Square became pretentious and wanted to make movies instead of games. Yeah Final Fantasy VI had its silly or pretentious elements but it also had a sense of fun, and some seriously cool setpieces.
Also to the guy who hated Chrono Trigger--you're wrong, your friends are wrong, your f***ing pets are being wronged alive, game over, and I'm sure I mangled that quote. But no, seriously, it's coolJust as long as nobody tries to argue that Cross is better. I might have to go on a Jihad if I hear that.
I am too hard on Chrono Trigger, that's for sure. It's not a horrible game by any stretch, I just feel that it's similar to FF7 in that people overrate the hell out of it. Cross I don't remember much off. I enjoyed it enough to pick up the Japanese art book some many years ago when I found it for $10, but that could probably be chalked up to taking advantage of a good deal more than mild fanlove.Also to the guy who hated Chrono Trigger--you're wrong, your friends are wrong, your f***ing pets are being wronged alive, game over, and I'm sure I mangled that quote. But no, seriously, it's cool
I'm hard on Chrono Trigger too, it's just not that great. Visuals, audio, sure total RPG SNES blowouts but the plot gets tiresome only second to the gameplay. I've never been able to tolerate it any further than the mountains with the floating rock/chain boss pretty much. I'm not saying it's bad at all, it's just overrated, the most overrated RPG on the system.
Also sometimes that second movie isn't as good (Temple of Doom) but the threequel blows out the original (Last Crusade.) But there are other second of the line that aren't sequential stories like Star Trek Wrath of Khan even if it rolls end to start to end...etc through #3 and 4, it stands alone unbound to the original and very good against the others. Debatable but Back to the Future 2 gets solid nods as being the nicest of those as well not that any of them are a slouch. I see MMX (ugh) series brought up, but MM2 many still feel of the old 8bit games is the best of the lot and far nicer than the original.
I've gotten all the endings before on principle, but that was about it. Upon reviewing some of the content on Youtube, I can't recall what specifically put me off the game, but the OST just never clicked with me. I know it's not bad, I just don't care for it. Cross, on the other hand, has a few tracks that are rather nice, but nothing amazing.
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