Sequels you never knew existed

[S1500]

Many moons ago I was at a video game store, and was surprised to see "State of Emergency 2". I bought SoE 1 and was quite disappointed with the game. How the heck did a sequel get made?

 

Has anyone else found sequels, whether classic or new that seemed to be released to zero audience or hype?

[iswitt]

Many moons ago I was at a video game store, and was surprised to see "State of Emergency 2". I bought SoE 1 and was quite disappointed with the game. How the heck did a sequel get made?

 

Has anyone else found sequels, whether classic or new that seemed to be released to zero audience or hype?

 

Civil War: Secret Missions (Xbox 360)

 

The first one sucked balls. No one even knows that one existed, why make a sequel?

[moycon]

I think I was the only person who liked State of Emergency.

For the record, I think I recall the sequel was supposed to be an improvement over the first, but based on peoples opinion of the first, that wasn't saying much.

[Ryanw]

Kind of surprised when I found out Startropics had a sequel. I played the game in the early 90s and found out a few years ago from the Happy Video Game Nerd on Youtube that there was a sequel to it.

[shadow460]

Lots of them surprised me with sequels. Virtual On spawned two sequels, and to my knowledge all three game turned out popular. In Japan, they say Oratorio Tangram was almost a killer app.

I was surprised to see sequels to River Raid and Frogger. I didn't know until recently that these were so many Raiden games, either.

 

Seems to me there wasn't much hype before Red Alert 2's release, either. I found out about it when I walked into EB one day and there it sat on a cardboard display.

[moycon]

I was surprised to hear Shadow Man was getting a sequel back in the day.

I LOVED the first game, but didn't think it had a big following.

Anyways, I bought the second one the day it came out and paid full price for it.

I shouldn't have bothered. Didn't hold a candle to the first game. Too many changes I guess.

So sad.

[Shawn]

When I rented Super Mario 2j from the local video store with a famicom adaptor on it I was suprised as heck. Then when the Mario 2 we are all acustom to came out for sale I was like WTF?

[Austin]

I didn't know Icebreaker II existed on the 3DO until two nights ago. I need to check some videos out on the thing now. Apparently it was developed by the same guy that did the original and released by Oldergames, but they supposedly bit the dust a while back (something else I was also unaware of), so the game is nearly impossible to find now.

[Koopa64]

Majesty 2 on PC.

 

Majesty 1 is an old Mac OS 9 game my Mom loved. My second oldest Brother bought the sequel for her for Christmas.

[shadow460]

Oh, yeah, almost forgot that I didn't associate Emperor: Battle for Dune with Dune 2000 right away, either. I would never guess they were sequels if it weren't for the name and theme.

 

I guess you could say that Goldeneye spawned three Perfect Dark games as spiritual sequels. I've played TWINE and PD both on the N64, and PD feels more like the correct sequel.

[Crazy Climber]

Many moons ago I was at a video game store, and was surprised to see "State of Emergency 2". I bought SoE 1 and was quite disappointed with the game. How the heck did a sequel get made?

I am a little surprised everbody hates State of Emergecy, as an "arcade" guy myself I liked the timed repeatitive run and gun arcade action it had. It totally gave me that "just one more game" feeling and I was able to play it quickly without putting a lot of time/thought in to it, just mindless killing, the way many of my favorite classic games were. I always thought of it as arcade style mechanics with next gen graphics which is a concept that works for me. I also bought it for $5 so if this was originally a $50 I would have been a little let down but I would have paid $20 for it and been happy.

[Crazy Climber]

BTW - I also had no idea about State of Emergency 2 so I might have to look in to that

[Austin]

Many moons ago I was at a video game store, and was surprised to see "State of Emergency 2". I bought SoE 1 and was quite disappointed with the game. How the heck did a sequel get made?

I am a little surprised everbody hates State of Emergecy, as an "arcade" guy myself I liked the timed repeatitive run and gun arcade action it had. It totally gave me that "just one more game" feeling and I was able to play it quickly without putting a lot of time/thought in to it, just mindless killing, the way many of my favorite classic games were. I always thought of it as arcade style mechanics with next gen graphics which is a concept that works for me. I also bought it for $5 so if this was originally a $50 I would have been a little let down but I would have paid $20 for it and been happy.

 

Yeah, it wasn't a bad game if you enjoyed mindless action. The XBOX version was also a bit better, featuring custom soundtracks as well.

 

With the phenomenon that was Grand Theft Auto 3, the problem with SOE wasn't so much the game itself--it was the fact that everyone was expecting it to be just like GTA. Oops.

[S1500]

I remember trying to play one stinking mission in SOE(one of the early missions) which involves having to run somewhere to meet up some guy. No matter how many times I tried, I ran out of time & failed the mission. Not even the cheat code to "pass the mission" worked.

[rpgfaker]

I remember playing Metal Gear on the NES and Snake's Revenge but it wasn't until I picked up MGS 3:Subsistence that I found out that Metal Gear 2:Solid Snake was the true sequel.

[Christophero Sly]

Fade to Black. I wasn't aware that it was a sequel to Flashback until I started playing it and saying "this reminds me of Flashback".

[4Ks]

I din't know until just recently that Raiden had 3 sequels.

[JenniBee]

Fade to Black. I wasn't aware that it was a sequel to Flashback until I started playing it and saying "this reminds me of Flashback".

Speaking of games by Delphine Software, I didn't know there was a sequel to Out of this World until I heard about Heart of the Alien on Sega CD a few years ago.

[Austin]

I din't know until just recently that Raiden had 3 sequels.

 

Technically it was seven if you count Raiden DX and the Raiden Fighters series..

Edited January 7, 2010 by Austin

[liveinabin]

I only found out about Frenzy, the sequel to Berzerk, yesterday.

[Gabriel]

I never heard about Castlevania III until I came online. I know the Super Nintendo game was IV, but I had never seen the third installment. So I figured that IV had just skipped a number (which was something that seemed to happen at the time) or that III had been some forgotten GB game.

 

Similarly, I didn't know about Battle Arena Toshinden IV for the longest time. I had been a big fan of 1 and 2. I guess it's for the best that I never saw 4, though. Installments 3 and Toshinden Kids were wretched.

 

I didn't know there was a NES sequel to Dragonlance: Heroes of the Lance. I'm still not clear on if it's a real, commercially released cart or a prototype reconstruction.

[Albert]

I only found out about Frenzy, the sequel to Berzerk, yesterday.

Oh my.

 

I love Frenzy, and had the pleasure of playing it at the Houston Arcade Expo a few months ago.

 

..Al

[Tr3vor]

blaster master 2, in fact there are quite a bit of blaster masters. i thought it was just an NES game. isnt sunsoft gonna start making games again?

[nonner242]

I only found out about Frenzy, the sequel to Berzerk, yesterday.

 

What!

Are you livin in a cave?

Love FRENZY!

[CGQuarterly]

Star Control 2 is one of my all time favorite games, and I only recently discovered, by reading an old computer games magazine, that there is a Star Control 3. I haven't played it yet, but it uses FMV so I'm not too excited.

 

Chris