Why exactly were the sequels to this masterpiece so underwhelming?

[Knight]

I know the psp has technology limits and all so you end up needing to go through various small structures because the psp can't hold much info in its ram, so why werent they more polished, but similar game released again on ps3 and not the psp?

Having said that, I did enjoy the sequel to some extent and felt it added alot of cool stuff, just felt the warzones were so much smaller and lacked the same polish relative to the original.

[Shippoyasha]

They were pretty amazing games for what they were. VC2 had a pretty unique military school + human experimentation theme and VC3 had a black-ops theme to them. VC2 made grinding for new classes a chore, but it became a lot easier in VC3. In both games, you can't abuse scouts to rush through the stages anymore.

VC2 also had some of the best music in the series in my opinion.

[Kain]

Because first game sells like ♥♥♥♥ =(

[Replicant]

Originalmente postado por Kain:

Because first game sells like ♥♥♥♥ =(

Yup! Game wasn't an overnight hit. Slowly over time as more people finally played it. It picked up a following for it. It's definitely a real gem. It's nice to see it get a PC release so those who didn't/don't have a ps3 get a chance to play this. It's an amazing game.

[Stoibs]

I wouldn't know, they stupidly decided to move the series to handheld for whatever reason and prevented half the damn established PS3 fanbase from continuing the story.. =(

Heard the sequels weren't as good though anyway. In any case I'll be happy to replay this gem atleast.

[VolOpt]

I would counter that the game actually made quite a nice "on the go" title. VC2 has a home on my Vita right next to Disgaea3 and Disgaea4. Tho it was a nightmare to get onto my Vita and I wouldn't even own it if not for that week when Sony "accidentally" authorized and quickly "corrected" most if not all digital PSP games for download directly to the Vita.

FYI SEGA in case you are reading this (not that I really think you are or will) that is the only reason I was able to purchase/play VC2 (since my PSPs WiFi died) and playing VC2 is the only reason I considered throwing down for VC1 before it hit a hand full of price drops and sales now that it has hit PC. Just saying...

VC2 only really has the three flaws. Two of which are splitting up the levels and reusing levels as much as it does but both are direcly due to hardware constraints. As the PSP probably couldn't draw enough polys at once to not split up the levels and the UMD probably didn't sport enough room to add in as many unique levels. The third flaw is the one that sorta grates on me and that is the grind for classes primarily because of how random the game is when it comes to assigning battle loot. So not only do you have to make sure the soldier you want to upgrade is one of the top three in your mission but you also need to pray to the RNG gods that they actually get the ONE thing you need to push their upgrade. As a result I'm ~40hrs into the game and very few of my soldiers are actually upgraded past the second tier.

So for a portable game it is fairly competent and I have heard virtually nothing but good things about VC3 which continually vexes me as SEGA doesn't seem to have any interest in localizing it even tho I would have purchased it the second it hit the PSN as long as it was something I could load directly to my Vita.

/wall-of-text :P