Not Every Game is a Sequel

Earth Wind and Metal writes "In response to a recent article from the Guardian about the lack of original games, Siliconera selected ten brand new titles set for release in 2006 to keep your eyes on. Five of the games are new to the USA and the other five are making their world debut. The list includes the robot house sim Chibi Robo, sandbox mecha RPG Steambot Chronicles, Taito's DS cooking game Cooking Mama and of course Okami." I am *really* looking forward to Okami.

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Some games only look like sequels...

[smbarbour]

Such as the Final Fantasy series. With the exception of Final Fantasy X-2, each game is nearly unique except for some common elements (Like the theme song, chocobos, and the fundamental underpinnings of any RPG like hit points and experience). It would be like calling episodes of The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits sequels, the story is completely different, but the theme song is the same.

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[AuMatar]

If only that was true. The problem is, most video game sequels are the same thing with a new engine, or just additional levels for the same engine sold at the same price. The same thing repeatedly gets boring. So the sequels aren't as good, even if they still may be better than most movie sequels.

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[myster0n]

Grand Theft Auto 3 was a sequel, as was Dune 2.

I just have to correct a mistake here :
Dune 2 was NOT a sequel. Westwood never made a Dune game before that game. The original Dune game was made by Cryo Interactive. And it's a totally different game. No-one in their right mind would (after seeing both games) call Dune 2 a sequel.
I think that the only reason that it was called Dune 2 was that both games where published by Virgin, and they wanted to make sure people didn't think those two games were the same.

So they might have been named sequentially, but it's not a sequel.