Playing games in chronological order

[brendanvb]

Are we talking about chronological order (i.e. Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes is the newest MGS game, but falls somewhere in the middle of the franchise's timeline) or order of the game's releases (i.e. MGS 1, 2, 3 - with 3 actually occurring before 1 and 2 in the story's timeframe)?

Anyhow, if I haven't played previous entries of a new game that looks good to me, I'll do some research and decide whether I feel it's necessary to play the previous ones. I don't like to be lost in the storyline. Otherwise I'll jump right into the new title. I sometimes find it difficult to go back and play older titles that I didn't manage to experience in the time of their release. Some of them age really badly and without the nostalgia of replaying games you loved, I usually hate them .

[ave]

If I have the games in my library then I will generally play it in chronological order, just because its usually difficult to go back to an older game, but if I don't have an older title I wont go out of my way to get it first. That said, I wouldn't lump all the total war games into one. I would see all of those as separate franchises and thus wouldn't have a problem playing them in any order. I also take into account how many of the older games I am likely to play. For example I have the entire c&c collection, but I doubt I will ever play the older titles, so there I would just play what I want to.

[Glordit]

Are we talking about chronological order (i.e. Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes is the newest MGS game, but falls somewhere in the middle of the franchise's timeline) or order of the game's releases (i.e. MGS 1, 2, 3 - with 3 actually occurring before 1 and 2 in the story's timeframe)?

Anyhow, if I haven't played previous entries of a new game that looks good to me, I'll do some research and decide whether I feel it's necessary to play the previous ones. I don't like to be lost in the storyline. Otherwise I'll jump right into the new title. I sometimes find it difficult to go back and play older titles that I didn't manage to experience in the time of their release. Some of them age really badly and without the nostalgia of replaying games you loved, I usually hate them .

Chronology is the science of setting events in their respective time or time line. So the former option you stated would answer the question.

Also a huge MGS fan + a little OCD, if you wanted to play MGS chronologically the path to follow would be:

1964 – Snake Eater
1970 – Portable Ops (Japan only AFAIK)
1974 – Peace Walker
1975 – Ground Zeroes
1984 – The Phantom Pain
1995 – Metal Gear
1999 – Solid Snake
2005 – Metal Gear Solid
2007/09 – Sons of Liberty
2014 – Guns of the Patriots
2018 – Metal Gear Rising

If you feeling the urge to play it like that I present: http://www.takealot.com/gaming/metal...n-ps3,29925064 Or you could get most of them on PSVita.

***EDIT
With regards to the topic at hand, I make attempts to play games in series but it does not always end up that way. I love Final Fantasy as most of the games have no correlation with the other, unless it has -2 next to it, or it's Lightning returns.

[VirtualForce]

To put things into perspective... I havent started Starcraft 2 yet... Because im still trying to get through the first one...

hehehe, thats dedication!

[benroveno]

In my country, it's actually really hard to find oldest games for console, like my Xbox classic. So i usually play the latest games around that day, like Splinter Cell Chaos Theory or Prince of Persia Two Thrones, and then followed by the older series of those games, like Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and PP Warrior Within. But that depends on the availability of the games i'm looking for.