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The first game is the original. The second game is the weird one. The third does the first again, but better this time.
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Sure, but if we're counting SMB2 as a Mario game, we can count Snake's Revenge as a Metal Gear!
That and the fact that Snake's Revenge being what it is, is what convinced Kojima to make MG2 in the first place.
Debatable. Doki doki panic was at least designed by miyamoto, whereas Snake's Revenge was made without the original team's involvement.
It did serve as the inspiration for a proper sequel, so I guess it has that going for it.
But then that horrible NES version of metal gear 1 could also claim to be the second game in the series, considering the differences between the original.
Personally, I think the NES games should just be forgotten. The msx games are far better and are available on recent-ish systems.
You kid but this could very well be the case in terms of combat depth and amount of content. Bayo 2 was a huge step down from the ridiculous quality of the first game in favor of better production values and pacing.
If the third game can bridge the two it will be a sight to behold.
The Arkham Trilogy definitely doesn't follow this.
Arkham City is the best. Asylum probably ends up being the 'weirdest' if only because it's not open-world. And Knight doesn't do very much better, if anything.
Arkham City is the best. Asylum probably ends up being the 'weirdest' if only because it's not open-world. And Knight doesn't do very much better, if anything.
The Ogre Battle series
Ogre Battle
RTS game where you move your groups around on a battlefield, liberating towns and fighting.
Fights were party based like an JRPG with limited controls, you could only tell the group simple orders like to attack the strongest, the leader, etc.
Tactics Ogre
Strategy RPG
Tactical rpg made by the same people as Final Fantasy Tactics.
Had better story presentation that the original
Ogre Battle 64
Pretty much the same as the original except the maps were in 3d and the story was presented more like Tactics Ogre instead of brief dialogues like in the original.
The only issue with this is that each of those games are amazing in their own right. I really wish Square would give it another go and allow Matsuno to make the final chapter.
Metroid Prime Trilogy. 1 and 3 are more traditional ones while 2 was different with its light and dark world, the dark world damaging your suit unless your in beams of light, and ammunition for two cannon types.
Darksiders trilogy - 1 and 3 are Zelda clones. 2 tried to do that while being Diablo.
Super Mario Bros on NES. Self explanatory.
Darksiders trilogy - 1 and 3 are Zelda clones. 2 tried to do that while being Diablo.
Super Mario Bros on NES. Self explanatory.
Yep.
Oceans 12 is easily the weirdest of the three and it's my favourite. I believe it's Steven Soderbergh's favourite too
Final Fantasy, at least as far as your character development mechanics are concerned.
FF1: Straight levelling
FF3: Straight levelling, with a new separate job system in place with its own levelling system
FF2: Do stuff to get stronger at that stuff. With the classic example of "hit your teammates to boost their HP".
If you want to do the Chrono games, you should go:
Chrono Trigger
Radical Dreamers
Chrono Cross
Radical Dreamers is the weird one in the Chrono series because it's a visual novel.
wrong ff trilogy. an earlier post said the nes ones and they're more correct.
junctioning is weird, but follows the materia system in making the party members defined more by their limits than by any class specific function.
Sonic Advance, I would argue, does something like this. Advance 2 is kinda weird but Advance 3 goes back to ideas in 1 that worked while taking some of the ideas from Advance 2. (I guess in terms of Sonic games it's still pretty weird but it feels more like the older games than 2 does mainly because it's a bit slower and more technical at times)
