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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 - 2 months 3 days 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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