What games deserve a sequel?

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**Manchu**

BrookM wrote:I guess you are part of the teabag and frag generation then?

Bioshock is a great game, it is built around a solid story, something games should do more often instead of building the game around an engine or graphical gimmick.

Au contraire. You may want to read my post once more. It's not pretty pictures I'm after but innovative game play. That's something Bioshock lacked. Maybe Sea of Dreams will correct that with play as a Big Daddy but, as for the first go around, wielding a gun in one hand and magic powers in the other is nothing original. The story was, as you said, solid. But merely solid. It wasn't the sort of thing that I got swept up in at least. Maybe that's because I actually read Ayn Rand and saw her drivel for the sham that it was many years before. Sorry, mate: it wasn't that pretty, it wasn't that compelling, and it wasn't that fun.

Like I said: Give me a true (or at least complete) sequel to KotOR.

**BrookM**

Well, that's your opinion and I've got mine.

**Manchu**

Clearly so.

**Roze**

oh no! well i guess i'm lucky i only knew about toejam & earl 1

anyone know if there is a 2nd Jade cocoon?

**BrookM**

There is a PS2 sequel for Jade Cocoon.

**Roze**

woop Thanks! now can i play PS2 games on a PS3? if not then i'm pretty sure my ps2 is in the loft

**Manchu**

when did you get your PS3? is it a 60G or 80G? (there is a 40G, too, I think)

**Roze**

80G i got it about 3 month ago when my Brand new 52" TV blew up and fry'd the old PS3, so PC world in there wisdom replaced all of my cooked electrics

My poor Ipod docking station melted!

**BrookM**

Most PS3's lack backward compatibility.

**Manchu**

BrookM wrote:Most PS3's lack backward compatibility.

Trufax.

@Roze: Sorry but you will not be able to play PS2 games on your 80GB PS3. Unless Sony UK is doing things a lot differently.

**Anung Un Rama**

To add once more to the BioShock discussion:

I have to agree with Manchu at one point. It basically was just "guns and magic" powers. Freezing and elecricity attacks is nothing new and shooting a big daddy with lighting was just as effective (and easier to to) then shooting in a pool of water he's in but you're not.

The setting was brilliant though and I really enjoyed the story.

Spoiler:

However, I don't think this game should have a sequel. It works fantastic on it's own and I don't see what another adventure in rapture could really add to the concept.

**nintendoeats**

As someone who is very interested in video game storytelling, I have to say that I was fairly unimpressed with Bioshock. It had some interesting ideas, and the actual environment was compelling, but on the whole I felt that it didn't come together very well. It was too gamey to be a story experience, and to storyish for a gaming experience.

On the other hand, I get why many people like it.

**Anung Un Rama**

I think I prefer the few audio snippets you get in BioShock to the endless codec conversions of MGS.

**nintendoeats**

Those were a good idea, which Iv'e seen used effectively in a few games (sort of Doom 3, also freeware game Iji). However, it really only works as part of a greater framework. Bioshock relied solely on it, so I just felt like nothing was happening through the whole game. It needed more: I just saw that happen, so I should react like this" moments, like in HL2.

The codec conversations in MGs at least created drama and tension, since that was what they were designed to do. In Bioshock, they actually suffered from not controlling the player experience enough. Anyone who plays HL2 with commentary will know that you can guide players without them realising it, and 2K failed to do that. this made Bioshock an interesting experiment, but ultimately not one that I would play in sequel form.

**Golden Eyed Scout**

Mushroom Men the Spore Wars
BloodRayne
Urban Choas Riot Response

**iamthecougar**

I'd also like to throw jade empire on the list and back up the true sequel to KOTOR.

**halonachos**

They made a sequel to bloodrayne, I would personally enjoy a sequel to star wars battlefront 2 and then a prequel of the new sequel.

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There are 3 models of PS3 that play PS2 games, the 60GB, Old 80GB, 80GB w/ MGS4. The newer 40GB, 80GB, and 160GB don't play the games.

**nintendoeats**

On a quick and interesting sidenote, The PS2 "emulation" in the newer PS3s is actually still half hardware. The PS3 emulates the "emotion engine" processor, while the graphics synthesiser (which was shifted to the same chip as the processor for the slimline PS2s) is still firmly entrenched inside that PS3.

See, the PS3 is crazy powerful and all, but the Emotion Engine and PS2 Graphics chip are incredibly complicated, far moreso than your average processor. Even with six available processor cores, the PS3 just can't keep up with that much emulation.

So next time somebody tells you that they should update all PS3s with backwards compatibility, bitchslap them in the face with that information!

**Reaper.exe**

It's mentioned before (and thanks reminding me to it

) XIII.

and I would like to see a new S.W.A.T game, more AI and new graphics would realy make my day.

**rubiksnoob**

Assasin's Creed but it's already getting a sequel.

**garret**

too human. man that game was fun.
also in light of one i said earlier battlefront is getting a sequel.

**iamthecougar**

Didn't the company that was making the new battlefront game go under?

**garret**

i guess so but from what i can gather it may still be going on. thats atleast what the star wars wiki said.

**iamthecougar**

One of the recent game informers i think had an article about how all of their software is being dumped from the game and the cool new stuff they were doing couldn't be recreated so my hopes were dashed, but it seems like its still getting made, just by a different company and with much different gameplay.

**garret**

as long as it stays faitful to the normal battlefront gameplay im happy.

**Kanluwen**

I definitely want to see an updated, truly updated mind you, X-Wing versus TIE Fighter coming out multiplatform.

That game, was brilliant. Especially the Balance of Power expansion.
I still have memories of hiding out in an asteroid field in a B-Wing formation, ambushing the Executor.

**Mattlov**

After having just played it, I want another Ghostbusters game for the 360. It is GREAT! It is like I am playing a movie! Very funny dialog and descriptions of stuff in general. If you liked the first Ghostbusters movie, you will love this game.

**halonachos**

Superman 64.

**Anung Un Rama**

halonachos wrote:Superman 64.

**Wannabe Writer**

Mattlov wrote:After having just played it, I want another Ghostbusters game for the 360. It is GREAT! It is like I am playing a movie! Very funny dialog and descriptions of stuff in general. If you liked the first Ghostbusters movie, you will love this game.

I so want this game! However Sony has done a weird deal in the UK, meaning that it's out now for PS3, but us poor 360 owners have to wait until later in the year

. I heard it has multiplayer, what's it like?