Debate: Are There Too Many Upcoming Game Sequals?

According to Gamespot the current Gaming Top 10 on the horrizon are:

1. Final Fantasy XIII
2. Tom Clancy's HAWX
3. Madworld
4. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
5. Skate 2
6. Killzone 2 
7. The Godfather II
8. The Sims 3 
9. The Godfather II
10. Tom Clancy's HAWX 

Over five of those games on the list are sequels. Is there something concerning about this?  What do you guys think?

Discuss!

Well, I don't think sequels are a bad thing; developers can implement the ideas they were forced to leave out in the first or previous games due to time contraint. Over the years, I played some really great sequels. However, bringing out sequels for a very good game is onviously a daunting task, i.e. it'll be very tough to make Sims 3 better than Sims 2.

Yeah, its a bit of interesting one.

On the positive side, there are some great games that get sequals which many play. This can be things like Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto 3, Super Mario Sunshine, etc.

However, there are also the less popular constant sequals such as the Madden/Fifa games which with online play available, seems little excuse to not just patch it every other season to allow more development time. Games also sometimes get over looked and so will never get a sequal, things like Tim Schafers games seem to suffer this even though they are top quality titles.

More sequels=Less Risk

Economy is pretty bad, so to avoid losses, gaming companies have to take the safer route and release sequels of the games we all loved. Also, they sell much faster then original games because of their familiarity.

Sequels are good, but they should create original games as well. Sadly, expect to see less original games this year if the economy is still going to be in recession.

I'm waiting for :

DEMIGOD
POSTAL 3

DIABLO
and of course STARCRAFT 2 but i don't now if it will come in 2009 ....

Yes, there are.

Is it inevitable? Yes.

Can it be stopped? ...No. :P

Well honestly if the sequel were not good then they wouldn't sell.

But I don't like how most of the sequels over shadow great games.

i just hope fifa, nba, nhl, and all those sports sequels can stop being a yearly thingy. Maybe they can make them update through the internet, by patching or something. And release a real improved game every 3 or 4 years.foreversai

EA and 2k would lose a lot of money by releasing these game every 3-4 years so that's not going to happen.

Possibly but then again the games drop in value very quickly, such as Fifa usually is half price around this time of year. I would prefer them to do updates as well and they could charge a nominal fee for it.Garfield360UK

Yea and by selling software updates instead of actually disc games would cut down on the used game make which Take-Two (2k Games) has been pretty upset about.

Risk is something to do with that. With sequals its a known quantity more often so people will say "I will pay 40 pounds/ 60 bucks on this game I know I will like and see later if this new game is good if my friend gets it" or "I will get this now and wait for the single player only title to drop in price".Garfield360UK

It the causal games on the market that really take the mick of sequals... to be honest it pushes the industry back alot

[QUOTE="Garfield360UK"]Risk is something to do with that. With sequals its a known quantity more often so people will say "I will pay 40 pounds/ 60 bucks on this game I know I will like and see later if this new game is good if my friend gets it" or "I will get this now and wait for the single player only title to drop in price".rikhan_z

It the causal games on the market that really take the mick of sequals... to be honest it pushes the industry back alot

Thank the success of The Sims for this disaster.