>forced myself to play BoringAssGame 1™ to completion>now forcing myself to play BoringAssGame 2™>all because people say BoringAssGame 3™ is really really good and I want to play it with full contextAm I the only dumbass autistic enough to do this? I feel like I'm torturing myself but I can't stop.
The Witcher is what you're playing, I'm guessing.
>>739033128kek I thought the same thing. Just say it's the Witcher OP
>>739033128>>739033302It's not Witcher 3 but I can see why you would think that.More importantly am I the only person that does this? How do I find the willpower to stop putting myself through this?
I assumed it was Baldur’s Gate
>>739033058Xenosaga?
If you're not enjoying it, stop.Don't let other people convince you to play something you don't enjoy.You don't have to consume every piece of media.
>>739033128Witcher 1 has awful, heinous combat but all the games are interesting.
>>739033814That only applies to Xenosaga 2 thobeit
>>739033058Well don't leave us hanging OP what series?But it depends. If the general consensus is the earlier games are fine but the later ones have improvements sometimes I specifically play the earlier ones to appreciate how the series developed throughout like Etrian oddessey.If the earlier ones seem like absolute dogshit but the story is important I'll at least try it but sometimes bail and just watch a story breakdown to get caught up. I bailed on witcher 1. Pushed through 2 after multiple attempts read through 4 of the books and......all the groundwork I had to push through after multiple attempts even to finish 3 and I still haven't gone back to do DLC.
>decide to play botw>it's time to play Zelda II NESugh....................
>>739033696Probably plenty of people do it. Autism OCD FOMO all apply. Just give it a chance and if your not feeling it move on. It's always there to go back to if you really do end up enjoying the series.
>>739033058>everyone says GAME 1 is boring and to skip it and just watch videos of it instead>ignore them and play it anyway>end up liking GAME 1 a lot
>>739033058>try out Legend of Heroes: Cold Steel 1 because of /v/ memes>it's a genuinely fun game>go to Cold Steel 2>not as good as 1 but still liked it a lot>see on /v/ and reddit that playing through the Sky and Crossbell arcs are required reading to get the full context of the series>go back to play Sky FC>get bored by chapter 2>try skipping to Zero>also boring as shit>skip straight to Cold Steel 3>back to having a good time with Rean and co.That's when I decided to stop falling for the "play the whole series" meme
>>739033058I went thru the "PLAY ALL MEGAMANS" runThe MS-DOS ones did count
>>739033058Etrian Odyssey?
>>739033058I do the same thing though I often find myself preferring the older titles. Happened to me on shit like FE or Dark Souls
>>739035330Less boring, more clunky, but basically my experience with system shock. Honestly still torn on which I like more
>>739033058>play gta1>tfw that's the best one and you can stop there
>>739033058This is either The Witcher 3 or Baldur's Gate 3, and OP is too much of a coward faggot to just come out and say it.
>>739033058Rancefag be lik
>>739038748Could be Mass Effector Halo.
>>739033058>Am I the only dumbass autistic enough to do this?I also do this but usually it turns out BoringAssGame 1™(1995) is really good and by the time I get to BoringAssGame 3™(2024) I've burned out.baldur's gate, Doom Eternal, Armored Core.
>>739033058I did the same thing with Rance and it was very worth it. Although the first two were more annoying or frustrating than boring.
OP REALLY needs to know the Banjo Kazooie lore before he can make his cool cars.
>>739039043Nobody has ever said that ME3 is the only good one
>>739033058This is me trying to force myself through Dragon Quest HD 3, 1 and 2.
i did this with tes but backwards>play skyrim>its shit>'no dude oblivion was the real good one'>play oblivion>its shit>'nuh uh dude morrowind is the true best elder scrolls only zoomers cant appreciate'>play morrowind>its shitand yes i beat all 3biggest piece of shit franchise out there
>>739033058>start with BoringAssGame 1™ >"actually, there are changes and game balance updates in this port so you didn't beat the game">have to play BoringAssGame 1™ againevery time
>>739039503Now this is autistic.
>>739033058>>739033746>>739038748>>739039114If it is BG, OP has bad taste. 1 and 2 are miles better than 3.
>>739033058Me suffering through Chain of Memories to understand the story in Kingdom Hearts II
>>739042293Is Chain of Memories the card battle one? That's where I dropped KH
>>739033058if you're grumbling about a game that is boringass™ why are you even bothering? are you really that vapid?
>>739033058The secret is that the people who say "it gets better later" already liked the first parts. If you are forcing yourself to play something you clearly don't like in the hopes that it will suddenly become something you do like, you are a moron.
>>739033058No, I too am also trying to get the full Phantasy Star experience. The first game was good, but now I'm on the second game and I haven't launched it since defeating Neifirst. What the fuck were they thinking with these awful dungeon designs and sadistic random encounter rate?
>>739033932USAnian opinion.Witcher 2 was console horseshit.
>>739039401Daggerfall is where it's at :^)
>>739038531GTA 2 provides fantastic sci-fi contrast to 1.GTA 3 was revolutionary for its time and still has soul.I'd say they're all essential to the series (as well as RDR is).
>>739039114Doom 3 came out in 2004, tranny.
>>739035330HRtP and PC98 2hu in general.
>>739033058why would this be unusual? You want to read LOTR you don't start with Return of the King, do you?
>>739043371I saw inglorious bastards at my friend's house when it first came out on DVD and some one who had seen the movie before said "oh let me skip all the boring parts" and he just skipped around to the death scenes. So there are fucking faggots out there who skip around to only see parts of a story
>>739033058I've tried to tell people this. >Play newer, more approachable game>Really love it>In your yearning for more you will accept more clunky older games in the series out of necessitynot always the right choice but the reddit "YOU WILL MISS OUT ON 3 POINTLESS GAY REFERENCES NOOO U MUST START AT THE BEGINNING" mindset is dumb
>>739033128>>739033302>>739033932kys zoomersThe first game is the best in the series
>>739045385>"YOU WILL MISS OUT ON 3 POINTLESS GAY REFERENCES NOOO U MUST START AT THE BEGINNING">starts at Episode 4
>>739033058I'll do you one better: play BoringAssGame because you want to hear the music in context before you can listen to it on its own without guilt
>>739046860I simply won't listen to the OST of a BoringAssGame I refuse to play for that very reason
>>739043186Same but I'm on PSIII currently.>What the fuck were they thinking with these awful dungeon designs and sadistic random encounter rate?It gets much worse later, endgame dungeons are a pure shit if you're playing without maps, and even if you do they're still a boring slog.
>>739037189I liked EO and EO2. EO2 is one of my favorite actually.
it's metal gear solid
>>739033058I tried to do this with Space Marine 1/2 because I liked the multiplayer in the first one when it first came out. I got bored, skipped to 2 and lost interest when I realized its just a toy commercial for GW's gay ass new models. God damn I hate video games.
>>739033058As someone who tried playing Turok 1, I feel you on this.
>>739033058I put myself through the same thing, but I enjoy the torture, actually. Playing in order of release is always ideal because you get a full overview of how design ideas evolve.Also sometimes you'll learn a lot about game design even from playing really boring/shitty games, so I don't mind it.The upside is that when someone recommends those shitty games to someone else, I will be the first to write out a detailed analysis of why they are fucking wrong.
>>739039401>>'nuh uh dude morrowind is the true best elder scrolls only zoomers cant appreciate'this but unironically
>>739033058>Am I the only dumbass autistic enough to do this? I feel like I'm torturing myself but I can't stop.No, I am the same but I can't really think of any game that is like this. There are good and bad games but that doesn't make them boring. Only point and click adventures are boring to me and visual novels which I don't play.>>7390331281 is kino, 2 is shit.>>739033932>Witcher 1 has awful, heinous combatNo it was just mid.
>>739049082>really think of any game that is like this.Oh yeah now I remember. The first two metroid games are garbage but from the third one it's all very good 3 and zero mission are absolute kino.My autism is worse when it comes to books. I love esotericism but to read these books I have the need to read a normal history of the period, which is nice and all but I feel anxious about all the books I am delaying to later and that interest me even more.
>>739033058>>739033696My issue goes a step further: I'm too interested in the evolution of game design between the games that I feel compelled to do this with any game 'series' and its exhausting.Recently did it with Jet Set Radio so I cab build up to BRC
>Am I the only dumbass autistic enough to do this?No, but you definitely are a dumbass retard, because if you really cared about a thing, you would not just play the first installments, you would actively seek out what lead to the inspiration of said concept, and then look even further into the past to find the inspiration for the inspiration until you learned the entire history of thing.But the problem is, you are not an autist. You are a sperg. An utterly retarded, low IQ consoomer. You do not care about the history of thing. You only care about consooming product in the right order.People like you should kill themselves, without any irony. Do it.
>>739033128The funniest part is that all 3 witcher games are fucking terrible slop, it's just that there was a generation who grew up without CRPGs so they thought it was amazing.
>>739049596Thats kinda why I do the thing I just wrote, I want to know the inspiration, how it started, how it evolved. Ill only do it for games I think are worth it... which means I don't play a lot as I find reasons to avoid shit.Another issues is instead playing MP games like deadlock or Arc raiders
>>739045385>>Play newer, more approachable game>>Really love it>>In your yearning for more you will accept more clunky older games in the series out of necessityHoly retard. The third step never happens, babying people like this is exactly how you create Reddit secondaries and tourists. By recommending entries with baby difficulty and/or QoL up the ass, you counter-productively scare people away from playing the earlier entries at all.This is because you're implying they won't be able to handle it, otherwise why would you even say it?
>>739045385The only time I suggest people not play games in release order is for something like Ace Combat, when 1 and 2 are kind of boring, and 3 is so good that the rest of the series feels like a hollow disappointment in comparison to them so you should play it last.
>>739049592Only two and half years until Hyperfunk, probably.
