What game franchises are you a latecomer to? · 1:03pm May 20th, 2016
Maybe you were too young / weren't born when it started. Maybe it wasn't your cup of tea. But then, one of the sequels came out that just took the entire industry by storm, and everyone and their mother is trying it for the first time. Simply put, what game franchises have flown under your radar until "2", "3", and so on?
StarFox 64
I believe it was my second or third game for the Nintendo 64. I did go back and play the considerably more difficult SNES original years later. But with the most recent release of Star Fox Zero, nothing has come close to the 1997 masterpiece that was StarFox 64.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
After this game released in early 2006, Game Informer accurately reported that "Oblivion has sold so many copies, people with lives must be playing it now." Indeed, I was among those, and while I may not have a life, this was my first fantasy RPG, and it sucked the hours away. Last I checked, at least 120 hours went into my adventure in Cyrodiil. At least 260+ hours have gone into Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as well, but luckily, each ES game is its own epic, as I have not gone back to try Elder Scrolls Arena, Daggerfall, or Morrowind.
Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
Another fantasy series I discovered because of the hordes of awards it was receiving. Granted, I probably wouldn't have given this a try if it didn't come free with my gaming rig I bought last summer. However, the cast of characters do hail from the previous two games, which I just picked up for less than $5. But at this point, I'm trying to beat the vanilla version of Witcher 3, unsure if I'll have time for the DLC, or Witcher 1 or 2 before No Man's Sky comes and whisks me away from every other game. So I'm wondering if it would serve me best just to read the book (first published in 1991), which was very recently translated to English, thanks to the popularity of the games.
I'm sure there are others, but those are the biggest three for me. What about you folks?
Elder scrolls IV: oblivion here too. I played the game at a friends house, got insanely addicted and bought it myself a few days later. I have over 700 hours on it. With Skyrim being a meager 200-300 hours.
The first Call of Duty I bought was World at War, so I guess you could say that I was a latercomer to that franchise too.
I started my journey in the ratchet and clank franchise with the third one, which I think is called 'up your arsenal', and that game is still insanely fun. I'm happy that I bought the ratchet and clank franchise for ps3.
For me it'd be Resident Evil. Although I knew about the series since it first came out, I didn't have any real experience with it until Resident Evil 4, which I bought in the waning days of the PS2 when RE5 was coming out. Since then I've acquired just about every main game in the series.
3958272 Heh, I guess I'll never get that kind of commitment. To me, anything single player over 150 hours is damned impressive.
I'm pretty certain that Skyrim has the record for me; anywhere from 260-300 hours across the 360 and PC versions. Witcher 3 is approaching 100 hours, but I'm almost certain that by the time I complete the base game, No Man's Sky will be within spitting distance, and the DLC and New Game+ will wait for quite some time.
I'm sure SWTOR is up there, possibly even beating Skyrim, but I haven't added up the time played for all my characters, and there are four Level 50 characters that I have since deleted.
3958305 I'd like to call a technicality. I first watched my older cousin play parts of Resident Evil 1 and 2 for the PS1, but by the time I turned 17 (oddly, Resident Evil was pretty much the ONLY M-rated franchise my mom made me wait to purchase), REmake for the GameCube had come out, which was my first game in the franchise.
Since that, I have played 2, 3, the first half of Code Veronica X, 4, 5, nearly all of Umbrella Chronicles, but I have skipped 6. Outlast has since dethroned REmake as the game that scares the ever loving shit out of you. I'm eagerly awaiting REmake 2, but will probably skip on Resident Evil 7, if it gets here first.
Halo, Pokemon, doom, fallout, really all of them because I didn't get a decent game console until later in my life.
Except Lego Star Wars. I'm pretty sure my dad got that very early in its initial release
World of Tanks for me. The game has been around for years, is unmerciful to new players, and is not for people with thin skin. Once you get used to certain play styles, the game can get addictive. Too bad the community there is toxic.
Grand Theft Auto 3, my brothers got it and a PlayStation steering wheel and I wanted to use it. Boy, was I in for a surprise when I realized it was more than a car game. I was 5-6 years old at the time.
Also, Halo 2 is what got me into the halo series when my friends brought me over to play it. I fell in love with the series, which prompted me to get an Xbox for halo 1-2 and a Xbox 360 for halo 3 when it came out.
Good times.
You can get Morrowind on Steam. However, I recommend modding it with the MGE.
It massively overhauls the graphics, adds a little selective tastes and fixes a wide variety of bugs, yet the storyline and the mini quests are all the same. Oh, and the journal has an index.
I've modded mine to the fullest extent, but not truly since I can only push 15 FPS: 1st Gen i3, 4GB RAM, G105m 500MB GPU.
You're system should easily be able to run it. It's like roughly a 6-9 GB Graphics Extender.
Umm, there's a direct link on PC Gamer, right in the article. Clickity
I flattered playing elder scrolls with oblivion, and started witcher with witcher 3. I think those were the only two franchises I was really late for though.
Wolfenstein, Fallout, Doom, Half-Life, Portal, GTA, just about every great videogame series. I didn't get into gaming until about 2008/09.
Zelda. I purchased Majora's Mask last summer as a gift to myself for graduating.
Battlefield. I've heard a lot of good things about some of the early ones, and I've been looking for copies for years.
I guess Fallout counts, since I wasn't around to play the first one. I have vague memories of laughing at my character in 2 running around in circles.
Game series i was late for:
Battlefront-NOT Dice remake
Call of Duty-up to WAW
Halo
Prince of Persia-the original, and shadow/flame
all NIntendo games from before Wii
Lego Starwars games
thats what i can remeber
Persona, Etrian Odyssey, the Tales series, Fire Emblem, and Valkyria Chronicles...five different types of RPGs, but all fun.
Due to my own cheapness and laziness, I haven't been on top of anything gaming for many years, so really I've been "late" to everything, PC and console. What specifically? Well…
Skyrim - I played Daggerfall shortly after it came out and I enjoyed it, but I utterly failed at it and my PC could barely run it, so I let it slip. College, working, and getting into anime/manga kept me from Morrowind (though I watched some friends play it) and Oblivion. Skyrim had been out for over a year before I got a copy… and longer still to get the expansions.
WoW - Didn't even try it until shortly after the Cataclysm expansion came out, when most people I know had been playing it for years. I like the game, but the way I played wasn't really conducive to how Blizzard seemed to want me to play -- I'm a mostly-solo player, not a raider, meaning I necessarily missed out on the majority of content. I stopped playing once it became clear my old computer could no longer handle the game.
Bioshock - Didn't really give the series a second thought until I watched an LP of Infinite, which was several months after it came out. It was only after that that I felt compelled to give the original a try.