Half-Life, Max Payne, Longest Journey, Baldur's Gate, Starcraft
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That's unnecessarily kind. The only thing missing from the new Max Payne was a Mary Sue or a flashback Max/Vlad scene for it to qualify as poorly written fan-fiction.
The first two, though, yes, play them back-to-back if you can.
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The gameplay was good, the story was crap compared to Max Payne 1 & 2.
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I didn't really like 1 or 2 but thought 3 was excellent
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No, no, I can see how it could be considered excellent. Y'know, in a Uwe Boll kind of way.
Boll also made a bid to direct the upcoming World of Warcraft movie, but was turned away by the owners of the Warcraft franchise, Blizzard Entertainment who said: "We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it."
(source: Wikipedia)
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Bahahahaha that's fantastic. Thanks for that info :)
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Max payne 3 took too long and it was way too hard even on the lowest difficulty. AFter beating it, i deleted it right away because i hated it.
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No, I never used a console until I got PS3 like a year ago.
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Decay is also a ported mod for halflife one, but I couldn't get past a specific game breaking bug.
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Yeah, it is unofficially ported into PC. Which bug do you refer? The expansion is designed for co op, therefore you need a partner to proceed. Was that your problem?
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The dorms level, got to the very end and the doc in a wheelchair wouldn't recognize the guard. I only tried in won though, it prob works on steam.
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Well, I recently played with Steam version on GNU/Linux and Windows. It worked without an issue. I strongly recommend it. B-)
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Personally I have been struggling with Bioshock 2 because the story/characters aren't that interesting. The atmosphere is great but the game as a whole gets really repetitive. I hope Infinite is better.
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I thought the same. The original and Infinite are amazing, and the second was fun but not the same level of ingenuity and gripping story.
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I think my main problem is that it's much like the first one, and too long. Thus it gets repetitive. In general games are too long for me :(
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Absolutely: 1 & 3 are the one ones worth playing. 2 was just a money-milking clone of 1.
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I agree. Still fucking worth it.
you are gonna love infinite tho.
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Legacy of Kain. There's really no point in even bothering otherwise.
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I came here to post this. Delighted to see someone already did. :) LoK has some of the most impressive writing of any game series, and - probably due to its theme - remains sadly underappreciated.
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Not only it has great writing, the attention paid to the details is astonishing, too. And the voice acting is wonderful.
Actually, I love nearly everything about the series x)
People need to play the games more.
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You can probably skip the very first one. It links to the rest of the series, sure (and it's a good game in its own right), but it's not needed in order to understand the later parts.
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Lol, nope. Blood Omen 1 tells a lot about why things happened or who and how did it. Its the game that "justifies" most of the later events. Without it you are just discovering scraps of story.
I agree it may looks not so "storytelling" because of graphical appearance but everywhere you go, everyone you kill, in which order (etc.) is bound to the later games. You may even find some "time and presence" paradoxes which were later explained in LoK:SR2 and LoK:Defiance.
If you have to skip, just skip the second Blood Omen. It's placed in other reality and contains only a little of story that is used in main series.
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I've not played Blood Omen 2, so I can't comment on how well Blood Omen 1 ties in with it (probably more than Soul Reaver), but I never felt that my knowledge from Blood Omen 1 was "needed" to get what was going on in Soul Reaver.
I still would recommend that anyone interested in the series start with Blood Omen 1 if they can find it (getting it to run on a modern OS is not that hard).
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Actually the second BO is the one we can skip. This game actually contains at most 3 topics from first game while SR, SR2 and Defiance uses at least over a dozen which are linked in between of these games.
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Probably my favourite game series and I don't think I've yet found a series I've loved as much as this.
Played out of order though :(
I think I played SR2, SR1, either BO1 then Defiance (or other way around) and finally BO2. The only disappointment I had in playing out of order though was really with SR1 & 2, eg Kane's generals, but SR1, SR2, and Defiance have each had multiple playthroughs. Would love it if they managed to continue this same series on.
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I love these games. I still replay it from time to time. But I always skip BO2 and I really don't think of that crap as part of the series.
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Oh yeah. Best series evah.
And the finale is superb. Agree that the second one is the most superfluous one, but it's a decent game.
Blood Omen 1 is needed to understand the background of the story of later games.
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The books too if you really wanna get the full experience
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i just cant play the first one.. i really want to get into the withcer but the first one just bores me
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That's okay, it's vastly different from 2 and 3. Not for everyone. But I still think maybe it's not better than 3, but definitely better than 2.
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all the games that are cut in several parts and called "episodic"
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And every story-driven game that's part of a series.
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While you're technically correct, I'd generally say a "season" or the complete set of episodes are the full game. "Episodes" are just parts, say chapters, released continuously. But that may be more of an opinion than a fact.
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monkey island, simon the sorcerer, maniac mansion + day of the tentacle o.o
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well the 3rd monkey island is not THAT bad, simon the sorcerer 3d its bad bad (didnt finish it xD)
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I specifically meant Simon the Sorcerer 3D. I have finished it and I have no idea why I did it; I can unironically say this was the worst adventure game I have ever played, and one of the worst games in general that I played.
As for Monkey Island, I didn't mind the installments that were considered a step down by most fans. I think Curse of the Monkey Island is cool, and Escape from the Monkey Island is not as bad as people say and still pretty decent. (I'd still get rid of Monkey Kombat minigame though)
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the 4th monkey island was the 3D one. 3rd one was high-res comic graphics.
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I love the Monkey Island series, keep wondering when Curse and Escape will get on Gog and Steam. Also, similarly, the Myst series is missing a few titles on both sites.
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I feel like I could...
Like I could...
TAKE ON THE WORLD!!
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+1 for DoT! (see profile pic) You can actually play Maniac Mansion on a computer terminal as a character within DoT. ScummVM FTW
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there is so much :P just started bioshock, still need to do crysis.. but there are so much more...
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Mass Effect. I completely agree.
Halo for me, it's pretty much my favorite game, it made me buy an xbox instead of a gamecube back in the day.
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halo is beautiful, too bad 5 is not gonna appear on x360
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Yeah... multiplayer looks awesome! But after watching the E3 singleplayer gameplay I felt kind of relieved I wasn't going to endure such a boring campaign; I've completed on Legendary every other campaign, solo and co-op with some of my best friends and man, that gameplay WASN'T anything I love about Halo. No gorgeous levels, intelligent AI, great weapon and enemy variety, engaging story... it looked pretty bland tbh
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I always wanted to steer Pelican and sadly no part gives you that pleasure.
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You do pilot a Pelican in Halo 4 man! A lot of people bashed that game but I think it was better than Halo 3.
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I had to forget :P I know you pilot something similiar to Pelican but it's smaller. I remember well glitch in Halo 3 where you could use Hornet to get into Phantom. Your friend had to pilot it, and you had to sit on it's side. When you were close enough you just jumped into this :P
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actually it is a full size pelican armed with a spartan laser and, I think a gatling gun too. I haven't heard of that H3 glitch tho! Interesting
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That glitch was possible only on one mission and there were two Phantoms without pilots. You couldn't pilot them, but you could be inside :P
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That definitely. But I'd play the Megaman X series before that, to get even more invested into Zero, one of my favorite characters of all time. You don't get the same feeling when you listen to Megaman Zero's first stage's music otherwise, for example.
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+1 for Mega Man X
I'd also say Mega Man Battle Network 1-6, and Mega Man Star Force 1-3
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The Longest Journey / Dreamfall: The Longest Journey / Dreamfall: Chapters.
Chapters needs more Enu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiM1FCxx7P8
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I have 3 of the 4 Penny Arcade games. A shame thought that the one missing is the second game.
So I played just the first one yet.
I like to play games in it's sequence too. Altought it didn't stoped me from playing Team Fortress 2. XD
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Broken Sword, Devil May Cry, Bionic Commando, Max Payne
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Broken Sword is just loosely connected. I don't think there's any particular need to play them in order. It might add a bit, but each is a separate story.
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Same with bioshock, crysis and lots of titles, different stories, but in every title you need to play first part to meet the characters, their storylines and so on
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You don't have to play the first part. It adds a little if you do, but it's far from necessary, unlike stories that actually continue (plotwise) from one game to the next.
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Kingdom Hearts because god knows you wont understand its story just by playing the sequels, prequels and spinoffs.
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Hitman, if you want any idea of what's going on besides just murdering people.
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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic/The Old Republic's main storylines.
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the Blackwell series, you just lose so much references if you don't play earlier games... I have finished the first three games and I'm happy I didn't start with the fifth game, the last one in the series and the first one I got because of humble bundle.
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+1 GREAT series, i played them all in order, when epiphany came out i buy it as soon as i got the money, and i made the badges for every single game (i think) i really love this series
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yeah, loved it too! Just finished epiphany today and I already miss the characters
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Quest for Glory (lets you import character from previous game), Kyrandia
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Bioshock. It's such a journey in every way I think. Metro is one of my new favorites as well, and now that 2033 got a major overhaul, inclusing graphics in the redux, it's just pay and play some amazing games. If you're into point and click, try deponia. It's a trilogy, so you need to play them all.
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+a million. NEVER play Portal 2 before Portal. it'll ruin the story and my dreams ;~; It should be enjoyed as a whole.
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I'd recommend it a million times if I could. It's one of my favorite games. I've beaten them both twice. Might do it again soon (even though I just finished the 2nd on a second time not even a month ago).
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I recently played both, it took me 16 hours but I finished, and they are AWESOME! And in order to fully understand the history of Portal 2 you MUST play Portal 1. =)
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I played Portal 2 before Portal ... and it's not nice :/
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LIVING PROOF! I am very disappointed in you >.> What made you think that was a good idea?! xD
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a guy gave me Portal 2 in a trade... so I played haha... I thought it was just some random puzzles
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xD Nope! Definitely should be played in order :p I'd love a third one, though. But sadly, it most likely won't happen.
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Doing a chronological review/replay right now. Finished MGS3 Existence movie version for time's sake yesterday, and started in again on Portable Ops today.
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Portable Ops is extremely boring, unless you really, really want to play the game, jut watch it on YouTube and skip ahead to Peace Walker, that one is amazing.
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It sure is.
My old save file from last time I played only has 4 hours on it, I couldn't force my self to finish. I'll play a bit more, and maybe just end up at Youtube like you said.
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solo boss fights on a psp makes peace walker a much worse game play experience imo.
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I'm a big MGS fan, and agree with this 100%. Peace Walker and Portable Ops have almost the exact same plot-lines, and Portable Ops has terrible controls. It's the weakest game of the whole series. Gene was kind of a cool villain though.
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I'm soooo hyped for MGS5. Due to not having the relevant consoles I watched Peace Walker and MGS4 on Youtube. I'm ready now :D
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Played them all minus twin snakes and portable of ops
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The thing about MGS is that whle you need to play them in order, there are alot of different orders possible and still get a good grip of it, which I think is quite nice.
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True but even if you watch all the cutscenes and play every game it's an confusing but awesome story
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I have actually only watched the cutscenes and not played the game, and I found them fairly straight forward, actually. Some odd parts, sure, but unless I missed something big, I don't really see what all the fuss about it being so complicated is about.
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Believe me there is so many stuff especially in MGS2 , I personally don't know it and I have watched all the cutscenes of the games I played , but I have a friend that well .... it's a total mgs fanboy and he tell's me so many stuff that I get confused xd
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I bought Mass Effect + Mass Effect 2 during the Summer Sale as I had a feeling I needed to play from the beginning.
Part of the reason also was that I wanted to play Mass Effect 3 straight but didn't want to do anything with Origin. So I thought that I might as well check the prequels if it's really worth getting.
I'm glad I did as I really enjoy not only the story but also the gameplay so far.
That said, what do you think is a series that needs to be played from it's first game to its latest?
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