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Why is Postal Dude balding on the cover?

>>14145880

That’s why he’s so pissed off

The atmosphere in Postal 1 was schizophrenic. Half of it was the intro screen art and music which gave off the crazy, disturbing atmosphere and half of it was actually playing the game and killing ostriches and hearing people talk about their lost ears with the the terrible voice acting. Listening to the RWS podcasts I think the disturbing atmosphere was put in mostly by one guy who did the intro art. The change isn't really as jarring as you think since the seeds were already there.

>>14145924

Jak II is definitely still a platformer. The core gameplay is still platforming, but the levels are more linear than Jak 1and you have to use the guns to not get killed by the enemies.

>>14145946

I disagree. While you still do have the original movement options from Jak & Daxter, they're not really used that much. Shooting takes up a big part of the focus, but more than that, driving around the open world city becomes the biggest part of the game. Platforming, which was almost 100% of the first game, is now 1/3 at best. I'd argue it's less than 1/4, with at least half of the game being navigating the city, which has no platforming at all, and what's left still focuses more on shooting than platforming.

And that's to say nothing of the atmospheric change. The first one is cartoony fantasy like you'd expect in Crash or Spyro, the second then goes more grimdark than Shadow the Hedgehog. The first has an excuse plot, the second has so much focus on its plot that you can watch the cutscenes on their own and they take like two hours to watch. I mean that pic isn't wrong. Jak II evokes sci-fi dystopias like Planet of the Apes much more than it evokes Jak I.

>>14145755

I remember I first played Postal 2 and liked it so I wanted to give the first game a try, but I was really confused because there wasn't a lot of info online about it back then and the game I started playing was so different that I had no idea if I was playing the right one.

Zelda and Zelda II.

>>14146310

Yeah, postal 1 definitely goes from bad to ok with mouse aiming. It shows how much good mouse aiming improves things

>>14146376

I guess I don’t? I just meant postal 1 is dark and gritty and Postal 2 is just dumb and silly

Postal 2 and Postal 3

Probably Toejam & Earl.

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Every single digimon world game ever made.

I assume you mean direct sequels that were one after the other, because there are many, many games with sequels that completely changed everything.

>>14145755

>Dynasty Warriors 1 - Crap 2D fighter with crap 3D models

>Dynasty Warriors 2 - The founding father of musous

>>14145991

>I remember I first played Postal 2 and liked it so I wanted to give the first game a try

Same here. When I first heard the first game's main menu music, it freaked me the fuck out.

>>14151223

10 is actually a solid ff game.

>>14145924

I'M GONNA KILL PRAXIS

Paper Mario 2-4 is a wild ride, basically changing the entire gameplay and atmosphere each iteration

>>14156225

I liked the progression. I like PE2 over PE1 or even Resident Evil, and Third Birthday is a competent action game, and the story can get emotional even when it is one of the most convoluted and retarded things I had to go through twice I replayed it recently.

But the series is true to the thread, that shit can't keep consistency for a second.

>>14156334

I just finished PE1 a few days ago for the first time since it came out. Tried starting up PE2 for the first time ever and I cannot get over the controls. I keep hearing you just need to stick with it but I'm not convinced yet.

I was only playing them in hopes of having a mildly clear idea of what was going on in The 3rd Birthday.

I just bought them all three on my vita over the holidays.

They're definitely an incredibly jarring series of sequels either way.

>>14156804

I'm interested to know how Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein differed jarringly

>>14156804

Duke Nukem 2 was a massive improvement, but it didn't change the tone much.

Touhou 1 -> Touhou 2

Breakout clone -> Curtain fire shmup

Rance 1 -> Rance 2:

Murder mystery -> Dungeon crawler

Doom 2 -> Doom 3:

Fast shooter -> Slow survival horror

>>14146310

There's really not a massive difference. The only difference was that levels in serious sam 2 had a lot more internal theming whereas Serious Sam TSE and TFE were pretty much just themed based on the level of vegetation.

>>14145755

mass effect

>>14156879

I suppose he meant the difference between Castle Wolfenstein series and FPS Wolfenstein, but nevertheless, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein added non-violent way of passing the guards using pass check and bribing. This really changed the gameplay from a stealth shooter into a full blown stealth where you can truly complete the game without shooting anyone.

>>14157346

>Doom 3

>survival horror

No, because it lacked inventory management and other survival mechanics. It was a shooter, just a really lame one at that.

absolution and hitman(2016)