I would expect it to work very well with Baten Kaitos. The gameplay significantly changes for the better in Origins, and both are great.
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aspro said:
I played Devil May Cry 2 immediately after DMC and did not enjoy it, but now a few months have passed and I picked up DMC2 and it is a perfectly fine game.
WHAT? 
Dvader said:aspro said:
I played Devil May Cry 2 immediately after DMC and did not enjoy it, but now a few months have passed and I picked up DMC2 and it is a perfectly fine game.
WHAT?
I know, I don't know what I was doing wrong, I was probably drunk. But yeah, I think you have to put some time in between when going back. Like I have no idea how you'll come away from the original Gears when you play it. At the time it was revelatory, but now -- it's still very good -- but you would have been exposed to all the games that have been influenced by it.
You have a lot to look forward to on the 360, it's going to be like your hidden generation of games you can fall back on.
Yodariquo said:The only time I can recall ever doing so would be Mega-Man 1 then 2 in the Mega-Man Anniversary Collection. I finished both (the only two I did), I liked both, but I do prefer the original.
I would expect it to work very well with Baten Kaitos. The gameplay significantly changes for the better in Origins, and both are great.
I should read your reviews of those games so I can see if they'd work out for me. They seem fairly complicated.
aspro said:
I should read your reviews of those games so I can see if they'd work out for me. They seem fairly complicated.
The problem with the first Baten Kaitos is actually that it's a little too simple. Cards have numbers in their corners between 1 and 8, and you get combos by choosing them in order, either ascending or descending. The only concern is not canceling out with different elements (e.g. water card + fire card), so it gets a bit repetitive in that it's the same strategy for each enemy (though still better than just choosing the same attack all the time).
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I'm doing this with the five Phoenix Wright/Ace attorney/prosecuter series.
I'm back up to Apollo Justice right now on the second case. I hit a wall in the last case of PW3 because of the stupid logic and channeling nonsense.
It's rough. Very enjoyable but a bit wearying sometimes going back over a series like this back to back.
I enjoy it for some series, some series not, other series only partly.
Some series I like playing back-to-back:
- MGS 1-4
- Resident Evil 1&2
- Silent Hill 1-3
- Condemned 1&2
- Doom 1&2
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SteelAttack said:I'm thinking of doing that with the GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas set of games.
good luck. i had trouble finishing even a single one of those games every time i tried.
i have never (as far as i remember) been able to play a whole series back-to-back when the games were all new to me. and i have only ever done it with relatively short games. some that i remember are:
1. Super Mario Bros 1 - 3 + World
2. Pikmin 1 + 2
and i think that's it
ps i just remembered the only series which i played back to back the first and only time i played it. Golden Sun + the Lost Age, but then again that's really just one game broken into two cartridges so i don't know if it counts
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I've never really been one to do that, though I suppose I am sort of doing it now. I finished Crisis Core last week, and this week I got a copy of FFVII on PSN ($6 for that game?? Why won't Nintendo follow this pricing model??).
This may not entirely count though since the two games ultimately play completely different and I'm only a few hours into FFVIII. Not sure if I'll be able to go all the way through it. It's fun to revisit the story, but WOW is this game ever rough on the eyes. Plus I've got Vice City Stories asking me to play it. . . and it's starting to make threats and use foul language.
gamingeek said:I'm doing this with the five Phoenix Wright/Ace attorney/prosecuter series.
I'm back up to Apollo Justice right now on the second case. I hit a wall in the last case of PW3 because of the stupid logic and channeling nonsense.
It's rough. Very enjoyable but a bit wearying sometimes going back over a series like this back to back.
This is for games you never played, playing them back to back. I can easily go back and play through a series I have played through, its fun, it brings back so many great memories and such.
aspro said:Dvader said:aspro said:
I played Devil May Cry 2 immediately after DMC and did not enjoy it, but now a few months have passed and I picked up DMC2 and it is a perfectly fine game.
WHAT?
I know, I don't know what I was doing wrong, I was probably drunk. But yeah, I think you have to put some time in between when going back.
No you said DMC2 is a perfectly fine game, WHAT? Its horrible, it should be nuked from this Earth.
Dvader said:This is for games you never played, playing them back to back. I can easily go back and play through a series I have played through, its fun, it brings back so many great memories and such.
Oh 
gamingeek said:Oh
No sad face. Be happy. 
Dvader said:No sad face. Be happy.
No, be angry. 
SteelAttack said:No, be angry.
No, be cry. 
I say no, unless you have played the ganmes before and you'll know you'll like them.
I played Devil May Cry 2 immediately after DMC and did not enjoy it, but now a few months have passed and I picked up DMC2 and it is a perfectly fine game. I think I may have taken some of the controls and limitations from the first game and assumed them for the second -- who knows, bottom line is I did not like it, but now I've had some time away from the franchise I'm digging it.
I did the same with Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 & 2 (and with both of these I'm talking, take one disc out, pop the second one in), and had the same result.
So can it ever work? I know that going backwards has never worked for me either (like picking up Jak II and then trying to play the first -- same with TimeSplitters 3 and going back).
Anyway, your thoughts on going back to back, or just going backwards in a franchise, and your experiences.