Name a game that made you check out earlier games in the series it belonged too.
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Pretty much all of Nintendo. My first console was the N64, so the first Mario, Zelda etc. exposure I got was from that era. Through re-releases and Virtual Console, I've almost caught up on all the originals.
my bundled game with the PS3 was Uncharted 2 so i brought the first one
I had started the Metal Gear Universe with Metal Gear Solid 4 then i brought the HD Collection last year and was piss off that the first Metal gear solid wasn't in it.
I have just started playing Wasteland which was the inspiration for Fallout's
but most games i have attempted to play all the game in order with certain exceptions like Call of duty 3 which was console only
I had started the Metal Gear Universe with Metal Gear Solid 4 then i brought the HD Collection last year and was piss off that the first Metal gear solid wasn't in it.
I have just started playing Wasteland which was the inspiration for Fallout's
but most games i have attempted to play all the game in order with certain exceptions like Call of duty 3 which was console only
I think with the original MSG they would have had a much harder time upgrading it to HD, the other 2 are PS 2 games but MSG was way back on the PS1. Rather than just updating the textures they would have had to completely redo them altogether.Invictusblade said:
There is an Oblivion total conversion that recreates the entire world from Morrowind, but with Oblivion mechanics and combat. Its worth checking out,especially if you're a fan of the lore, the events at the core of Morrowind were pretty major.EcoEclipse said:
GTA Vice City, made me go back and check out GTA 3..... I liked vice city better, and then I enjoyed San Andreas the most, even more than GTA4. To me there just wasn't enough of an exploratory aspect to GTA 4 to make it fun....... I mean in SA you could fly from one state to another, and jump out of airplanes........ Oh Yeah, AND JET PACKS.......
Well, Metal Gear Solid and Morrowind introduced me to their respective series, but I don't think they count since I have very little interest in previous titles.
Only two games that made me check other games in the series are Crash Bandicoot 3 and Final Fantasy IX.
Only two games that made me check other games in the series are Crash Bandicoot 3 and Final Fantasy IX.
FF6 persuaded me to check out the older ones, to which I found out are a lot more confusing! I still have no idea how one would get through FF2 without a guide, there are beginner's traps everywhere, especially in the first town full of guards.
Yes it is.Jason Rayes said:
(I love how many escapists recognize my obscure childhood movie of choice.)
I'd actually almost completely forgotten it until I saw your pick. lolNoetherian said:Yes it is.Jason Rayes said:
(I love how many escapists recognize my obscure childhood movie of choice.)
Oddly, I haven't heard of Conspiracy.Chester Rabbit said:
I can't quite think of deliberate predecessor-hunting that I've done. What I will do instead is turn the OP's question on its side and address it that way.
I did play the original Deus Ex within the last two years. However, recently, when I finally sat down with Human Revolution, something bothered me about it. Oh, certainly there were a great many map and cosmetic similarities to DE (names, fate-of-mankind issues, fire escapes, tiny exterior maps, hand movements while running), and these hallmarks were well chosen. Yet it was the fundamental gameplay that bothered me. Why does Adam shift around uncomfortably when speaking? User selected dialogue responses... well, OK? And then when I climbed on a ladder for the first time, I realised what the problem was. I was playing Alpha Protocol: Human Revolution. And if anyone, anywhere, had told me that it was Alpha Protocol in JC Denton's clothing, I would have saved my money - for a slightly better Steam sale. Not that Alpha Protocol is a bad game; it's just that it does so many annoying things (like unnecessary, but obnoxiously difficult boss fights), and that those annoyances really wreck the replay value. [Sorry. I'm still annoyed, and the irritation has leaked out onto this page.]
Having played Bioshock, I'm keen to play its predecessor; System Shock. That game has always been a faint blip on my Radar.
Having first played Fallout 3, I went on to play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Morrowind is on the to-do list and already in my Steam library. (What? It is too a prequel/sequel!)
After purchasing the big iD bundle, I played through Wolfenstein 3-D again. Then I started to play Hexxen - and I just couldn't bring myself to complete even the first level.
Wait, now I remember. I played the demo for Amnesia:tDD. When I bought the full game, I made sure to play the Penumbra games first. It wasn't necessary, but very interesting.
And I bought/played Tropico 3 after playing Tropico 4 on a Steam weekend. Tropico 3 was a better deal, as T4 has interminable DLC and is a dressed-up T3 that is essentially the same game. However, I do appreciate some small improvements that were made in T4.
Additionally, I try to mention this when appropriate. There is a prequel to DOOM3 and Half-Life 2 called 'They Hunger'. OK, its not exactly a prequel, and it feels rough around the edges, but it introduces some game mechanics and scenarios that simply were not in Half-Life, or DOOM, or DOOM II, but are evident in the last iterations.
The only game i can think of is CoD3 after playing the fourth CoD:MW. With a franchise like CoD it doesn`t matter much anyway.
