Current Events > Game sequels where you revisit areas from previous games.

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Cool or just the devs being lazy?
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Cool
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it was cool seeing Shadow Moses in MGS4 and Anor Londo in Dark Souls 3
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Always cool. I can't think of a time when it wasn't.
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More open world games should reuse the map tbh. Then the developers can focus on improving with new content
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It worked for Saints Row 2, and 4.
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Cool when it's something like Act 4 in MGS4. That is one of the most magical moments in gaming.

Depends on the extent.

Tristram in Diablo II = cool.

What I don't really mind is the reuse of assets, if something unique is created (Majora's Mask), but completely reusing an entire setting is usually eh for me.

luigi13579 posted...

Rapture in BioShock 2 = not cool.

Does that really count? Sure it takes place in Rapture but you don't go to any of the places from the first game.
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luigi13579 posted...

Rapture in BioShock 2 = not cool.

Agreed with this. They did a better job at recreating Rapture in Burial At Sea.

CarlGrimes posted...

Does that really count? Sure it takes place in Rapture but you don't go to any of the places from the first game.

Ah, probably not then.

It depends really.

On paper it's cool but if they're just reusing assests for the hell of it then that sucks. Doesn't even have to be the same place, some game sequels just reuse areas and claim they are somewhere else.

I mean look at FFX-2. They reuse like 97% of FFX because they are fucking lazy.

And then 2.8% of the "New" locations are just caves/ruins or pits that are generic as hell.

The remaining 0.2% is Kilika.
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CarlGrimes posted...

luigi13579 posted...

Rapture in BioShock 2 = not cool.

Does that really count? Sure it takes place in Rapture but you don't go to any of the places from the first game.

The whole game feels identical to the first one. It's more of a bloated expansion.

SpiralDrift posted...

Always cool. I can't think of a time when it wasn't.

I remember people complained when Dead Space 2 did it
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MakoReizei posted...

SpiralDrift posted...

Always cool. I can't think of a time when it wasn't.

I remember people complained when Dead Space 2 did it

I dont get that. Thought it was the perfect use of going to a previous games area. Up there with mgs 4
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Yeah, if done right (Sonic Mania and SFV come to mind)
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Grand Theft Auto IV and V.
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Revisiting Fyrestone in Borderlands 2 was a pretty nice moment for me.
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Cool if it's not overused.

When I finally played Fire Emblem Binding Blade and found that some of the maps were ones I also played in Blazing Blade but with different enemies, that was pretty neat. Though in this case, I was playing the original game after having played a later game that was considered its prequel, not exactly playing a sequel after the original game.
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Korriban in KOTOR2.
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I think it depends on context. Anor Londo was really cool becase it was shown through each game's perspective lens. I hated Bloodborne's Hunter DLC though because it was literally just the same level with the same enemies again.

Always thought Kingdom Hearts 2 reusing almost every world was lazy af
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d1m3r posted...

Grand Theft Auto IV and V.

You mean San Andreas and V? IV is set in Liberty City.

Shadow-Moses posted...

d1m3r posted...

Grand Theft Auto IV and V.

You mean San Andreas and V? IV is set in Liberty City.

I think he meant that both of them revisited areas from earlier games.

Going back to Liberty City in GTA SA was the coolest shit ever. Even if it was only St. Mark's Bistro.
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yakuza 0-6
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Suikoden 2.

You can visit Gregminster, the capital of the Scarlet Moon Empire, from Suikoden 1.
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Resident evil 0 had the most baffling use of a previous game level ever.
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SpaceBear_ posted...

Always thought Kingdom Hearts 2 reusing almost every world was lazy af

Every reused world in that game was completely different from the their KH1 counterparts. I think it wouldve been fine if each world had the same attention to detail and motivation to explore like the first one
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The two mentioned in post #3 are two of my all-time favorite gaming moments.
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One of the Ratchet and Clank games had you go back to Ratchet's home planet from the first game and it was cool.

I think it was Up Your Arsenal.
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Awesker002 posted...

Resident evil 0 had the most baffling use of a previous game level ever.

You know it was a different mansion right?
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Crepes posted...

Awesker002 posted...

Resident evil 0 had the most baffling use of a previous game level ever.

You know it was a different mansion right?

I'm not talking about the mansion.
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Cool when it time changes it
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was cool in Borderlands 2 and MGS4 (even if the game was mostly a total shitshow)
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SpaceBear_ posted...

Always thought Kingdom Hearts 2 reusing almost every world was lazy af

Yep
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I like it. Like the mission in GTA SA when you fly to liberty city and see that one restaurant in GTA III
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Pokemon Gold and Silver. You go back to Kanto, the region from Red and Blue. It made for a pretty cool post game. You still have Pokmon fans begging for something like this to be done again.
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lazy

Resident Evil 3 comes to mind

Banjo-Tooie kinda did it. I always wanted to explore Grunty's Lair again in that game and was curious how much was behind the rocks until I watched Boundary Break.
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Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider
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Tales of Symphonia 2, i have mixed feelings. It was a little lazy, but they looked prettier and the OST covers were cool
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SpaceBear_ posted...

Always thought Kingdom Hearts 2 reusing almost every world was lazy af

What? KH2 had plenty of new worlds, and the ones that returned were mostly completely redesigned. I mean, for new stuff you had

Twilight Town (technically from CoM but basically new)
The Land of Dragons
Beast's Castle
The Underworld (technically Olympus but it's basically a completely new world)
Disney Castle/Timeless River
Port Royal
The Pride Lands
Space Paranoids
The World That Never Was

And for returning worlds you had

Hollow Bastion (takes place in the town now rather than the castle, so basically new)
Agrabah (though completely redesigned)
Halloween Town (though with more of an emphasis on Christmas Town, a new area)
Atlantica (just a mini game collection, not a full world)
Hundred Acre Wood (see Atlantica)

I wouldn't call any of that lazy. KH2 had way more new stuff than old
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider

I didn't get far into Death of the Outsider but the one area I actually did play through was all new I thought. Same city but different level
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Yeah, does it count if they technically go back but its completely redesigned? To the point you wouldnt recognize it had it not had the name?

Are the liberty cities throughout the GTAs all laid out the same? I havent played most of them
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First time I remember seeing this was in Dragon Warrior (Quest) 2 on the NES.

Was awesome going back to the first games area as just a small part of that games world.
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Super Metroid, obviously the same planet but going through the ruins of Mother Brain's previous base was a cool touch imo
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Hey! Do you know what you just did?

You've taken your first step into KANTO.
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