Games better than their more popular sequels.
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>>12024223the ultimate contrarian takeaoe2 improved on everything
>>12024230Aoe1 is better in every way except gameplaybut that doesn't matter to me because I don't like aoe2, what really makes me prefer 1 is admittedly nostalgia from how much fun I had with it as a kid and just how awesome the game felt when I played it for the first week or soMy favorite AoE is actually Mythology, and I like AoE3 too
>>12024230I agree with OP but I didn't know AOE2 was more popular. I don't participate in any community for the games, if there is one still, so I've no idea on their general perception in the public eye.>>12024226Agree with this, too.>>12024223I honestly think every addition to the Zelda franchise just makes me appreciate the original more. I especially dislike the GB and GBA entries.
>>12024237>MythologyI tried it and couldn't get into it. What do you like about it? >AoE3See? Exactly what I was getting at in >>12024240. I'm so disconnected from the community that I didn't even know there was an AOE3.
>>12024237>My favorite AoE is actually Mythologyyou're forgiven, I won't argue with a fellow AoM enjoyer.
>>12024240>I didn't know AOE2 was more popular.It's way more popular and has a very active multiplayer scene. It just lacks atmosphere and sacrifices a lot of fun for the sake of balance and being multiplayer friendly.
>>12024240AoE II is one of those games that will never die.
>>12024254neither are good desu but no heroshit is a plus
>>12024246AoE3 didn't quite hit with AoE fans because it departed from the classic formula in both gameplay and setting (colonizer/settler era instead of medieval) so it was never really talked about much
2 is amazing, but 1 does not get enough praise.
2D Zelda became way too easy after this one
>>12024257It used to be quite a trend, wasn't it?> AoE1/2 -> 3> Rise of Nations -> Rise of Legends> Cossacks 1 - > 2A lot of these games would be better off under new names.
>>12024259I played SH 1 and 2 for the first time last year and while the story was better in 2, the combat was surprisingly better in the first game.
>>120242752 suffers in this regard by having the plank that can stunlock almost anything if you position yourself correctly and just bonk. Once you discover that, it trivializes most encounters.
>>12024275Only slow enemy in 2
>>12024237>Aoe1 is better in every way except the main one that actually matters when you sit down to actually play the thingThe OP said "games better than...", having nostalgia for a game doesn't make it better.
>>12024259Reddit Hill 2 is garbage but i agree 1 blows 2 it in every category
>>12024226i love Persona 2 but the mediocre gameplay and shitty dungeons sucked assPersona 3 Portable and Persona 5 Royal are the peak of the series
>>12024367I love not having control of my party members and playing guess where is the ball to get fusion material instead of actually negotiating with demons
>>120242591 is the masterpiece, 2 did many things right but they took a big bet on a focused psychological thriller narrative and got lucky, everything thereafter is just masturbation (even though 3 is good in a campy way)
>>12024237>Aoe1 is better in every way except gameplayI think I see the problem now.
>>120244384 mogs them allBest story, best villain, actually scary
>>12024223Oh, you don't even know how weird I find it, that people prefer 2, or worse, 3
>>12024620Same.Crash Bandicoot felt like a pure 2D platformer, with an extra dimensions, but it felt like a Mega Drive or SNES title, with similar design philosophies, a few fun gimmick levels here and there, but mostly you just run, jump and spin. It's got the better atmosphere of them, with the island map and the dark mood some levels have, and Crash has a bimbo GF too.
>>12024223Controversial opinion
>>12024223What's the last time you've played? AoE is genuinely a shitty game, it just has a better setting. AoE2 is an overrated game, but it objectively improves the gameplay in every way
>>12024237>Aoe1 is better in every way except gameplay
>>12024748>>12024757Nah
>>12024757Last time I was part of the fandom, it was very commonly held that Fallout 1 was superior. Guess that changed.
>>12024223Street Fighter
>>12024941It's pretty simple: if I don't like the gameplay of neither 1 and 2, 1 is better because of the presentation, music, the ancient time period etc
>>120247573 is better
>>12024223Somehow I never understood why people prefer the third one, it just doesn't have the same vibe.
>>12024226Should be Persona 1.
>>12024223>AoE1 has wololo priests>2 doesnt have anymore and its now a chat command or something idk
>>12024223I still prefer PS1 Resident Evil games to their successors and remakes. It's not that they are worse, I just find early works more consistent and therefore having much clear direction.
>>12027242AoE2 does have wololo priests, at least last time I played the definitive edishthey even do the chanting when healing units
>>12024223obvious one
>>12024535Interesting, I'll have to try that out.
>>12027510what's up with this guy
>>12024748While I disagree, I think Arena is severely underrated.
>>12024620really? you don't understand why people might prefer the games with the expanded series standard moveset? not to say it's correct but you can't even conceive of it?
>>12026824If you have downs syndrome maybe.
>>12024692Yeah and 3d platforming is more fun than 2d platforming. Moreover platforming at speed is more fun than doing it slowly.
>>12024620i fucking suck at the level that you get to after beating the papu papu guy so i skipped to crash bandicoot 2
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>>12024237>>12024246Mythology is just well done. It never starts to feel like a drag, as some of the missions in the others do if you play long enough. AoE 3 is underrated, it got subsumed by all the interest in blizzard and other rts games at the time, plus WoW was just beginning to steal gamers’ lives when 3 came out.
>>12027939I understand that people like this aspect more, but the level design is just so much worse, that the expanded moveset can't make up for it. Besides, aren't the moves in crash 3 way too op anyway?
>>12027953Based
