Wow, two topics in one day? I'm on a roll.
Anywaysum, I purchased a big pack of Eidos games over Christmas because I wanted to play Arkham Asylum (awesome game incidentally, was telling people left and right I was Batman), and as part of the pack I got a whole bunch of other Eidos-related titles. One of these was Deus Ex 2.
Now I freakin' love the original Deus Ex. It's easily one of my favourite games of all time. The story, the gameplay, the environments, everything about it is sweet. And then there's Deus Ex 2, which is a pile of pap.
I really tried to give it a chance. I played it before years ago briefly after borrowing a copy from a friend, and hated it almost immediately. Still, I thought maybe with time the game might seem better once I went back to it. It isn't. Everything about this game is just horrid; the gameplay has been simplified to the point of idiocy; where you once had an involved skill system and augmentation choices, everything's now base and boring. Combat is confusing and you can't see a damn thing wherever you go. Your light biomod is a necessity throughout the game just to see what's going on. The interface is also atrocious; it's this really awful close-headed circular trash that causes me to suffer from motion sickness. I'm sat here now after playing it and I can still feel the migraine it induced sat burning away in my forehead. The dialogue is also crap; how so? Well for one thing, all of the player models look decidedly wide-eyed and inhuman, somehow looking worse than in the game that proceeded them. Also unlike most other games, in order to see the entirety of the dialogue in subtitle form (I prefer to just read dialogue rather than sitting through the voice-acting), instead of the whole lot coming up everytime you click, it "jumps" a few characters a time each time you click. It can take several clicks to get the entirety of the dialogue on-screen. Not only that but if you happen to time it so that when you click the dialogue has just finished printed the last character on the screen, you'll end up skipping past the dialogue entirely, creating several "What the hell did he just say?" moments.
Probably the absolute worst sequel to a game, especially considering how brilliant the previous game was. But anyway, what sequels to games have you found insufferable?