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Majin-Tenshinhan on 17 May 2009
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--OkeyDokey-- said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
You don't need to have played previous game in the series to enjoy Ratchet and Clank. There's no real continuity in the story and they're all pretty much the same game with minor improvements over the years.

Again, I'll use Gametrailers to try to convince you :P

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/review-hd-ratchet/26714

Sorry, but I don't really care if I have to or not. It's just something I have to do to myself, pretty much. If I want to play a franchise I want to play it properly.

Your game collection says otherwise :P

Really? o.o What franchises? I'm sure there are a few that are like that, such as Final Fantasy, but that's because I played FF7 when I was about 7 years old, and it was simply the only FF available to me at the time, and I started up from there, so to speak. What other franchises?

Fire Emblem, Tekken, Fatal Frame, Dragon Quest, F-Zero. Grand Theft Auto, Paper Mario. There are too many for me to remember this late at night x_x

Then I'll try to explain my way out of these ones.

I've played all GTAs, just not owned them. F-Zero GX was an impulse buy, and I thought it would be unnecessary to play games prior to it (main reason I try to play franchises starting with the first game), I find said principle unnecessary with fighting games which is why Tekken, Soul Calibur and Street Fighter aren't full franchise entries.

Paper Mario is a franchise I'm planning on getting all of, but I got Super Paper Mario first because it was less RPG than the others. Fatal Frame I got because it looked scary and I wanted to try my hand at a horror game ... Really don't know why but oh well :P

Dragon Quest is not a series I'm going to get into, because I simply can't be bothered to replay lots of old RPGs when I often dislike RPGs. I played some DQ8 at a friend's house and liked it, so I got it.

Fire Emblem is somewhat the same thing as Dragon Quest, but mostly it was because I had no feasible way of getting Fire Emblem 1-6(I do know japanese, but prefer my games in english, and even though I could play them in japanese, the only one I'd be able to get ahold of and play was FE6), and when I found out that they have fully seperated stories, characters and even worlds I simply opted to get Fire Emblem for the GC, and I sure didn't regret it.

So while there are exceptions to said franchise rules, you'll also notice that while hyping up for DMC4, I got DMC1-3 and played them through in sequence, and after recommendations from a friend I purchased the Sands of Time trilogy and plowed my way through that. Pikmin 1-2 were in anticipation of the sequel that would undoubtedly show up on Wii or DS at some point.

So yeah, there you have it, I guess.