>main character gets a happy ending in the first game>second game rips it all away from him
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>>727703346Max Payne
not a game, but Kickboxer is this personified
>>727703396not really
>>727703267studios making subversive content like this should be barred from ever making games ever again without exception without chance for forgiveness.
98% of series with fixed protags.>did the protag just surpass unsurmountable odds to attain happiness? QUICK CREATE CONFLICT IN THE SEQUEL
>>727703346God of War
>>727703498Yeah really but let's hear your retarded typical 4chan contrarian reason why not
>>727703346[Prototype]
>>727703630sure, but it always has come off as an insult at best and in most cases an attack on the culture of the players.
>>727703498didn't play the game. Wikipedia or Youtube playthrough doesn't count.
>character has a job for a long time>gets fired for something in his past that was out of his control>becomes an alcoholic I thought the past didn’t matter, bros?
>>727703267Prototype and it isn’t even close.
>>727703751
>>727703346Final fantasy 13. 13 2 retroactively ruined 13
>>727703346American McGee's Alice/Alice Madness Returns
>>727703267>protagonist of the first game is a loser or a jobber in the sequel
>>727703937books were burned for a good reason
>protagonist gets a happy ending>he's a side character in the sequel living a simple life with his wife
>>727704103>first game’s protagonist rapes the second game’s protagonistName one game.
>>727704268Name negative one
>>727703346Chrono Trigger/Cross
>>727704302Suikoden
>>727704103Name 3
>>727703267It's this, but the main character losing all of his abilities for no explicit reason in the second game. Sometimes its the exact same ones he relearns in the sequel as if he didn't know how to do it already.
>>727704737WE GOT A JOEL IN ONE BOYS
>>727703346Hand of Fate, but he deserved it.
>>727703346>1st game ends with him getting the girl and saving the world>2nd game his world gets turned into a dystopian hellhole and he gets tortured for 2 years>3rd game he gets exiled to a barren wasteland desert
>>727705154need to sniff and lick those feet
>>727703346Dead Space 3MGS2MGSVMGRSilent Hill 3
>>727703267>main character gets a sad ending in the first game>second game makes it worse but at the same time better in a way
>>727703396The somewhat happy ending happens in the second game tho which is completely disregarded in the third
>>727705303Silent Hill 3 was based for doing and I want a remake of 1 and 3 just to see new stupider audiences get filtered
>main character gets a shitty ending>sequel makes it even worseKind of assuming here desu since I dont remember what the canon ending of 1 is or what his ultimate fate is in 2
>MC beats the ultimate evil in the first game>in the second game he becomes the ultimate evil
>>727706107>canon ending"yes". the dod universe is canonically branches all the way up and down now.
>Bad Ending>Everyone dies.>Good Ending>Only some people die.>True Ending that you have to do everything else in the game to unlock.>Everyone dies even harder than they did the in Bad Ending.
>>727703346Shadow hearts
>>7277059083's makes sense, the loneliness must've made him fall into that pit again
>>727703267>main character from previous game shows up in the sequel >you meet him>he ended up becoming the god the insanity
>>727708920Drakengard
>>727703910>>727703679
>>727703346Sly 3 and Sly 4
>>727703267>redditbob
>>727713723Sly only had 3 games.
>>727713192I personally didnt feel this way, as Max got a job at the NYPD again and it felt like that's all he needed. The shit with Mona and whatnot was retarded though, and looking back, I guess that did rip the "happy ending" away from him.
>>727703346Trials and Tribulations
>>727703346The Last of Us, the most egregious example.
>>727703346Breath of the wild
>>727703346Rock Paper Scissors double or nothing
>>727703267I'm not really that talented or inspired but I consider myself a creative and I genuinely can not imagine any reason to do this except you being a new writer and you're incredibly petty and egotistical, needing to twist the story into yours.
>>727703346Majora's Mask
>>727703346Prototype. Dead Space 2 if sequels count.
>>727703267>characters achieve happy ending for their trilogy>new trilogy comes out and completely erases anything they did and the new characters are stronger than everI hate this bull shit in any media. Anybody who joins a new story and says "I wanna kill off all the previous characters so mine can be built on their ashes" should be shot in the head.
>>727703346It's not the first game and second game, but KH2 pretty much had the perfect happy ending for the series and KH3 decided to shit all over the main character for its ending after over a decade of waiting.
>>727708920EHHHHHH?!
>>727703267super mario bros
>>727703346Dead Rising --> Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
>>727703267>happy ending in original game>game gets "remaster"/port with extra content a decade later>extra content ends with sequel teaser of mc getting fucked >sequel doesn't get madethank fuck nomura managed to shit out ntwewy and revert this shit
>>727703267>MC saves the world but gets royally fucked at the very end of the first game>Gets to live with his wife at the end of the sequelNever give up
>>727703346Death Stranding
