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The Top 7... series run into the ground

They had it. They lost it. Here they are

Words: Christian Nutt, GamesRadar US
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Viewtiful Joe

From contender to corpse in two short years. In 2003, Viewtiful Joe was fresh. It brought together funky graphics, twisted classic gameplay and a sense of humor that didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Then the sequel came out a year later... and did it all again, exactly the same. But we still didn't care; it was fun.

No, the warning sign was 2005's Red Hot Rumble, a half-assed attempt at making a Smash Bros.-style party fighter. Suddenly, everyone remembered how Mega Man had gone down hard and braced for the worst... but it didn't quite come. Turns out that the solid Double Trouble for the DS is almost certainly the final Joe adventure. It worked, but it also served to remind us that the formula is just that: a formula.

Joe's got nowhere to go. And with his creators exiting Capcom stage left at the end of 2006, any attempts to revive the series are seriously worrying. The ground still looms.


 
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katwood92  - 1 year 1 month ago 
How come game makers even bother to make sequels if the suck? Do they think that gamers are drooling morons that will blindly buy anything that bears the name of a game that they enjoyed? If you're going to do something, do it right. It also doesn't make much business sense. Games only make money if people buy them and anyone who knows anything about games generally don't buy crap sequels. So why make something peopl aren't going to buy? It doesn't make any sort of sense at all.
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DirtyRainMan  - 11 months 12 days ago 
Yes...yes they do and no...no it doesn't.
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twstd757  - 10 months 4 days ago 
didn't dynasty warriors start off as a fighting game...i could have sworn
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IAmTheWii  - 7 months 5 days ago 
Wow.. This list is hideously out of date.
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noofer7  - 6 months 27 days ago 
IAmTheWii: Dude, it's a really old article. Look at the dates on the other comments.
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Cwf2008  - 4 months 11 days ago 
Hmm i think Bungie needs to take a look at this seeing as their whoring out the already horrible halo series
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NeoKef  - 3 months 22 days ago 
Months and years later, we get amazing Megaman 9, the Battle Network has died and been replaced by Starforce, Sonic still sucks, DW: Strikeforce is said to be the best DW and is being ported to 360 and PS3, Tomb Raider still sucks, and Viewtifull Joe is now in another vs. Capcom game.

If anything I disagree with Nutt on,I hate Power Up and ZX because they look too cartoonish while X series was great till 6 where everything went downhill very fast (5 wasn't great, but not as bad as 6) and 8 was shit.

Christian Nutt probably got a lot of hate mail and "I told you so!!!!!" emails because of this.
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Cyberninja  - 3 months 22 days ago 
@neokef i happen to love zx and its not cartoonish because most megaman games are 2d
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AuthorityFigure  - 3 months 21 days ago 
All those games are just a waste of space and gamers' time. Get your crap products off the shelves, you douchebag publishers.
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reyalejandro13  - 3 months 20 days ago 
Somebody should just take all the good original games, compile them on one disc(somehow), then watch the money roll in.
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ulmxn  - 3 months 17 days ago 
sonic heroes is the only half- recent decent one
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