If the sequel does the same thing as the first game but bigger and more, I usually won't buy it - even if I loved the original.
I don't have enough hours of gaming time to be paying for more of the same, even when more of the same is brilliant. An example would be Advance Wars... I absolutely loved that game, but skipped the sequels. To me, they looked like unnecessary elaborations on an already perfect design.
Same applies for Viewtiful Joe... a near-perfect game as it stands, so why would I need to buy another one? Unless the sequels offer something truly new, one game is almost always enough.
I will only make an exception for a "more of the same" sequel in the extremely rare case that the first game had potential which outlive its running time. (See: Pikmin)
And of course, this doesn't apply to series which are consistently inventive, like Zelda and so on. Or anything Half-Life related, because I am Valve's bitch.
I don't have enough hours of gaming time to be paying for more of the same, even when more of the same is brilliant. An example would be Advance Wars... I absolutely loved that game, but skipped the sequels. To me, they looked like unnecessary elaborations on an already perfect design.
Same applies for Viewtiful Joe... a near-perfect game as it stands, so why would I need to buy another one? Unless the sequels offer something truly new, one game is almost always enough.
I will only make an exception for a "more of the same" sequel in the extremely rare case that the first game had potential which outlive its running time. (See: Pikmin)
And of course, this doesn't apply to series which are consistently inventive, like Zelda and so on. Or anything Half-Life related, because I am Valve's bitch.
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