Series' you own several installments of that you've NEVER PLAYED?

[Emperor Megas]

What are some series' that you've amassed several installments and have yet to play ANY of them? I have a tendency to purchase each game in a series if I've fond of any single installment, but then there are some games that I've never actually gotten around to playing any of, but own, and based on the fact that the original I purchased seemed appealing, have purchased other installments in good faith.

The 'Where's the Disgaea 4 love' thread in Modern Gaming got me thinking about this. I own Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, and Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice, but I've never played any of them. I purchased them all for less than $20 each, so I'm not out much, but there's actually a chance that I may hate the series after investing somewhat heavily into it (relatively).

There are several popular series' that I've never even tried, but own quite a few (if not all) installments of. Especially last generation. Just a few others are:

• Ace Combat 3, AC04: Shattered Skies, AC5: The Unsung War
• Atelier Iris, AI2: The Azorth of Destiny, AI3: Grand Phantasm
• Colony Wars, Colony War: Vengence, CW III: Red Sun
• Tecmo's Deception, Kagero: Deception 2, Deception III, Trapt
• Dynasty Warriors 2, DW3, DW4, DW5: Empires
• God of War, GoW II, GoW: Chains of Olympus
• Grand Theft Auto, London, 2, III, Vice City, Liberty City Stories
• Hitman Trilogy
• Jak and Daxter, Jak 2, Jak 3
• Kessen, II, III
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, PoP: Warrior Within, Pop: The Two Thrones, PoP (360), PoP: The Forgotten Sands, PoP: The Fallen King
• Ratchet and Clank, Ratchet Deadlocked, R&C: Going Commando, R&C: Up Your Arsenal
• Road Rash, II, III
• SMT: Persona, SMT: FES Persona 3, SMT: Devil Summoner, SMT: Devil Summoner 2, SMT: Nocturne
• Sly Cooper and the Thievious Raccoonous, SC2: Band of Thieves, SC3: Honor Among Thieves
• Splinter Cell, SC: Chaos Theory, SC: Pandora Tomorrow, SC: Double Agent, SC: Essentials
• Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, Year of the Dragon
• Suikoden, III, IV, V, Tactics
• Tomb Raider, II, III, TR: Chronicles, TR: The Angel of Darkness, TR: Underworld
• Trauma Center: Under the Knife, TC: Second Opinion, Trauma Team

I won't bother listing any of the unplayed ones I have only 2 installments of (which isn't quite as bad, really). Anyone else here in the same position?

In truth, I've played less than an hour of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Grand Theft Auto III and Splinter Cell, but I barely think that counts. I own all of the Devil May Cry games as well, but I've played about half of the original, so I consider myself somewhat versed in that series.

[sfchakan]

You should feel ashamed for not having played Sly Cooper. Oh, and God of War isn't that bad.

Only series that applies for me is Onimusha. Just haven't sat down with any of them yet.

[Edmond Dantes]

I buy a lot of compilations, so I have a lot of franchise games I've never played:

Wizardry after part II
Might and Magic after part III
pretty much every AD&D game on the PC
Half the games on the Capcom Classics Collections. I have the entire Ghost n' Goblins trilogy but never played past level one in any of 'em.

About the only franchise I've actually been good about are R-Type, Mario, Sonic and Zelda--every game in those I have I've played a fair bit, if not extensively.

[Aussie2B]

Most series? Of the ones I've bought, at least. Star Ocean is probably the only series of a significant size (5 games, in its case) where I can say I've beaten every single one. Not surprisingly, it's my favorite series. Although even there I've yet to bother to play through the Director's Cut version of SO3 or the PSP version of SO2. I also haven't played SO3 or the remake of SO1 in English (played the imports before they were localized). So I even kind of fail with my own favorite series, haha.

[NYLatenite]

Dead Space / Dead Space 2
Killzone 2 / Killzone 3

[Emperor Megas]

You should feel ashamed for not having played Sly Cooper. Oh, and God of War isn't that bad.

Yeah, I don't know. Sly just never made it into the queue.

Only series that applies for me is Onimusha. Just haven't sat down with any of them yet.

I love Onimusha 1 and 2. 3 Demon Seige was disappointing, and I only played a few hours of Dawn of Dreams, but I didn't exactly love it. I didn't hate it either. I've ended Samurai's Destiny more than any game last generation (besides racers and shooters like Rez).

Dead Space / Dead Space 2

Man, Dead Space is fantastic; you need to fire that bitch up. The game scared the hell out of me. I didn't get desensitized until about 3/4 the way through.

[Griking]

I buy a lot of compilations, so I have a lot of franchise games I've never played:

Wizardry after part II
Might and Magic after part III
pretty much every AD&D game on the PC
Half the games on the Capcom Classics Collections. I have the entire Ghost n' Goblins trilogy but never played past level one in any of 'em.

You should try the later Might & Magic games. IMO Might & Magic really hit their stride with the Xeen games (IV-VI). III was a good game but the others are even better. Thge later ones after VI however were a step back.

[fairyland]

Xenosaga and .hack RPGs. Someday I'll get around to playing them. I tend to buy any JRPG I come across yet I've not actually played that many from the PS2 era to now.

Last month I could say the Legend of Heroes series, but I recently started in on Trails in the Sky.

[JSoup]

-Saga Frontier 1 & 2
-Most of Same & Max: Beyond Time & Space and The Devils Playhouse
-Phantasy Star 2 - 4
-Monkey Island 1 & 2

[incubus421]

You should try the later Might & Magic games. IMO Might & Magic really hit their stride with the Xeen games (IV-VI). III was a good game but the others are even better. Thge later ones after VI however were a step back.

I will second this...Might and Magic's III to VII were all special to me; great games!

As far as series I have but haven't played:
- Grandia - I own 2 & 3; but have only ever played like 2 hours of the second one.
- Dark Cloud - own both, never touched.


- Resident Evil (doesn't really count but I consider it a big deal) - I have played this series, beating 1, 4, 5, 0, and Veronica X. But I haven't touched 2 or 3 which I own.

that's really about it, my goal lately has been to collect games I know I will play as opposed to collecting games for them to sit for long periods of time. I have also eliminated this by thinning down my collection quite a bit (by over a third in the last couple months).

[Ackman]

Zelda, metroid and Final Fantasy games, just played some of them very briefly, lost interest and never played them again, the older ones I find really hard to play I think you had to be there at the time it came out to fully appreciate them, never finished any of the games, maybe 20% or 30% in a few of them, others turned on tried to like put it off too long, now I'll probably never play them. *shrugs*

[aryoshi]

One in particular actually is the Final Fantasy series, this doesn't apply much anymore now that I've played through and beaten most of them, but I decided a few years back to collect all but XI, XIII and never cared to get XIV. I finally sat down over time and beat I, II, IV, VI and VII.

The Jak & Daxter trilogy, I just only started the first one awhiel back but never got far and kinda drifted away, I want to get back into it.

Commander Keen. I basically own the whole set.. But yet.. I never played any but the first, shame on me..

Leisure Suit Larry. Beat the first, started the second, never really got far in it and didn't touch the later ones, I plan to change that. Eventually..

The Ultima series, man I own every Ultima up to VII, both parts of VII and I own some of the spinoff titles even, but of course I only sat through and beat the first one. Barely started the second and didn't get anywhere because I had other games I wanted to play, but never came back to it. I really should fix this.

[jonebone]

Metroid and Kirby. Own way too many versions of them across many systems and have never even played one.

[Greg2600]

I have many versions of Metal Gear Solid and Tomb Raider, barely played any of them.

[mr_nihilism]

Castlevania. I have almost every title, but have played roughly half. I've actually completed maybe half a dozen.

[fergojisan]

Zelda for me. I have the GC N64 comp, Wii Twilight Princess, Link's Awakening (regular and DX), Minish Cap, and one of the GBC games, none of which I have played. I beat the first game and LTTP, got to the end boss on Zelda 2, and have stalled in the middle of Phantom Hourglass (I had to look up the title, for God's sake).

[Icarus Moonsight]

None off the top of my head, which is troubling to say considering my backlog...

This is one of those topics where you half want to congratulate the OP for bringing it up and with the remainder curse that their fingers should fall off... Why?
Off to look at spreadsheets for about an hour.

[synbiosfan]

I have a few Zelda, Final Fantasy & Metal Gear games I've yet to play

[Sunnyvale]

I own the Tecmo's Deception Triliogy, and I don't even know if the discs work. Almost the same with FF, although I have beaten the NES FF several times. But never played any of the others. Basically, if it's an RPG or a fetch-quest, I may or may not own it, but I probably haven't played it. I did give RE1 and RE2 a 2nd/3rd/4th chance again recently. I'll take the Panzer Dragoon series, carpal tunnel and all, thank you

[Emperor Megas]

Castlevania. I have almost every title, but have played roughly half. I've actually completed maybe half a dozen.

Zelda for me. I have the GC N64 comp, Wii Twilight Princess, Link's Awakening (regular and DX), Minish Cap, and one of the GBC games, none of which I have played. I beat the first game and LTTP, got to the end boss on Zelda 2, and have stalled in the middle of Phantom Hourglass (I had to look up the title, for God's sake).

I worded the topic poorly; a lot of responses are examples of a typical backlog situation. I actually meant when you own several installments in a series and you've never played ANY of the games in the series at all.