Do You Prefer Playing Games In Chronological Order?

[Guinea]

There are three types of gamers: ones who prefer the series be played in chronological order, ones who play on order of release, and ones who just don't care and play whatever. I prefer chronological, like I will play Metal Gear Solid 3 before I play the other ones, but some series with a crazy amount of games (like Ace Combat and Armored Core) I will skip the chronology and just jump into the latest release after watching a lore dump of the games on Youtube.

How do you prefer to tackle games?

 

[SliperyHippo]

I think it totally depends on the games! I played Devil May Cry in chronological order and had a blast! Sure I probably wasn't as good at three as I should've been, but I had enough fun behind and ahead of me that when I got to two it wasn't as big of a deal as the angriest nerds on the internet tried to make me think it would be.

 

[moonbits]

Release order, I much rather experience the game's mechanical/graphical evolution than care about the story chronological order; don't give a shit.

 

[Lod 10]

Existem três tipos de jogadores: os que preferem jogar a série em ordem cronológica, os que jogam na ordem de lançamento e os que simplesmente não se importam e jogam o que estiver disponível. Eu prefiro a ordem cronológica, por exemplo, jogo Metal Gear Solid 3 antes dos outros, mas em algumas séries com uma quantidade enorme de jogos (como Ace Combat e Armored Core), eu pulo a cronologia e começo direto pelo lançamento mais recente depois de assistir a um vídeo explicativo sobre a história dos jogos no YouTube.

Como você prefere abordar os jogos?

PrimeiroFirstly, I don't know how the game order works; I don't understand anything about games with Roman numerals, and I have the memory of a betta fish. But secondly, I love any kind of game...

 

[Zerohour2k12]

Depends, yes to better follow the story. By release order if your prefer gameplay.

 

[χKai]

Yes, my OCD rarely allows me to play them non-sequentially, even if the story has nothing to do with the original game.

I got lucky with a few, like Fallout 3, and Morrowind, Persona 4.

 

[Lod 10]

Sim, meu TOC raramente me permite jogá-los fora de ordem, mesmo que a história não tenha nada a ver com o jogo original.

Tive sorte com alguns, como Fallout 3, Morrowind e Persona 4.

EHey my friend, how are you doing? I have my concentration and stress problems, so I can't play games if I don't understand how they work.

 

[Cu-Neo]

I like to do it when I replay franchises (Metal Gear for example) but when is the first time I always play in release order, mostly because of the mecanics that later appears in other entries.

 

[thumbsdown]

Release order, I much rather experience the game's mechanical/graphical evolution than care about the story chronological order; don't give a shit.

This. Games were never meant to be movies.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin TruxtonTatsujin]

release order always. Story progression is not nearly as important as gameplay progression. These games where released in this order for a reason. Jumping in on a random entry is fine, sometimes it just works out that way, but ideally you'd want to play in order.

 

[Jeff]

I go by chronologically order and were released by year. But it all depends on gameplay.

 

[Ephemera1_]

I like to play games by order of release. For some series i can see chronological order not being so bad. Like say for instance you wanted to play the Batman Arkham games. Most of the games were released in the exact same generation with knight being just the generation right after.

But say you want to play Castlevania, you would start off playing Lament of Innocence on ps2, then either Legends on the original GB (if thats considered canon again, im not sure) Or Castlevania 3: Draculas Curse on NES. I just find that jarring personally.

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

If the second game doesn't continue where the first game left off then I don't mind playing the games in the wrong order.

 

[Alucard648]

I usually play the games in release order. I like to see how a videogames series start and evolve with the pass of the years in mechanics, music, and history, between other things, like in Castlevania or The Legend of Zelda.

 

[Omnikron]

If I don't play games in order it chrono triggers me.

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If I don't play games in order it chrono triggers me.

I'm happy someone got that!

 

[Beellucizarus]

Normally, i am play out of order, apart from obvious exceptions.
I simply caught the game that seems most interesting to me.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Dunno how to phrase this but, only when the first released games get remade to be more on par with the released sequels

 

[reila]

Yes, which is WHY I haven't played Xenoblade X yet. My ass needs to start w/ Xenogears/Xenosaga first lmao (also because I've always felt cooler starting from the beginning of a series, although I wonder if I should just play the game anyway)

 

[Dyne]

Release order, for the most part.
Unless you really don't want to play them all and just want to play one game I guess.

This. Games were never meant to be movies.

Movies should ALWAYS be watched in release order!
Even moreso than video games! (imo of course)

 

[thumbsdown]

Release order, for the most part.
Unless you really don't want to play them all and just want to play one game I guess.

Movies should ALWAYS be watched in release order!
Even moreso than video games! (imo of course)

of course, but I meant to say that it makes more sense, at least for me, to have the kinda freedom of going through media conceived to drive stories in chronological order if one wants to... it's not like movies are always telling stories and not that games can't tell em. but in my head, games are defined firstly and foremost by their design/set of rules (that is, technically defined), and at least for me it's more significant to be able to follow their evolution it those terms... but ultimately anyone does/appreciates whatever they want to with/in regards to both media, it's not up to me to judge

 

[firefoxuser1999]

It kinda bothers me not going in release order. Then when I find a game I wanna play that has 30 million releases that came before it I just get overwhelmed TwT.
Occasionally I skip the really early ones for my own sanity (did not grow up on NES and quite frankly do not have the time to git gud at it).

 

[Anoobis]

It depends on the series. In some cases, I arbitrarily feel like starting at the beginning, in others I just jump in wherever. It's not really based on anything.