Have you been a fan of a franchise from the very start?

[Big G]

Super Smash Bros. is the only one I can think of where:
- I bought the first game of a new IP when it came out.
- There have been at least 3 total games in the series.
- I've remained a fan of that franchise ever since.

Most other series I've come to after they had already been established, and/or I played them out of order.

EDIT: I guess Bioshock also fits this for me, but I'm pretty sure that's it.

 

[Actual Simulation]

There's a few that stand out for me:

• Super Mario Kart
• Wipeout
• Gran Turismo
• Project Gotham Racing
• Burnout
• DIRT + Colin McRae
• Picross
• Super Mario
• Civilization

 

[Burning Justice]

Off the top of my head:

Banjo-Kazooie - Bought the original a week or two after it came out.
Pokemon - Bought Pokemon Red about 3 months after it came out. Wanted it before then.
Super Smash Bros. - Bought the original about 2 weeks after it came out.
Animal Crossing - Rented and played the GameCube original around release, but didn't buy it until 2 years later.
Fire Emblem (going by US releases) - Bought FE7 on GBA a few days after it came out.
Valkyria Chronicles - I wanted the original when it came out but didn't own a PS3 at the time. When I bought one a year later, I bought VC with it.
Splatoon - Bought the original day 1.

 

[LiK]

Demon's Souls (basically Souls in general), Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, God of War, Ace Attorney, Yakuza, 999 (Zero Escape trilogy), Mario Kart and many more.

Happy to see how they've grown and blew up

 

[maximumzero]

I received my NES as a gift in 1989, but the first game I played for it was Super Mario Bros., the pack-in title, so yes, sort of.

 

[Sumio Mondo]

Mass Effect
Fatal Frame/Project Zero
Silent Hill
Panzer Dragoon
Virtua Cop
Time Crisis
Metal Slug
House of the Dead
Shinobi
Streets of Rage
Sonic the Hedgehog
Deus Ex
Halo
Shenmue
Resident Evil
Yakuza
Demon's Souls/Dark Souls (was a fan of From Software before Demon's Souls too)
Metal Gear Solid
Max Payne
Red Dead Revolver (before it came back as Redemption)
Ace Attorney
Danganronpa
Zero Escape (999 on DS)
Koudelka/Shadow Hearts
Drakengard/NieR

Off the top of my head anyway, know there's more. was there from the start for all of these series, most of which I ended up loving, some of them I'm not big on anymore. I feel old...

 

[Adookah]

I didnt start playing games until the PS2 games so many big names were already established

But then theres Splatoon, I was a believer from the very first E3 showing

Click to shrink...

It is offtopic but your avatar is awful, hate that asshole who made that.

 

[Mass Effect]

Yep. I didn't start playing games until the the late 90s, but there are a few franchises out there I was there for.

Pokemon
Mass Effect
Gears of War
Assassin's Creed
Paper Mario (does this count?)
Pikmin
Super Smash Bros. (again, does this count?)

Those are the big ones for me. There are others, but I probably either fell out with them or wasn't a big fan really.

 

[Deleted member 11182]

Resident Evil. I remember being hooked to GamePro preview pics even before the first game was out.

 

[Ravelle]

Pokemon Red probably, I just wish I could stay as much as a fan as I was during the Gold and Silver days.

 

[Gunpei]

Donkey Kong Country
F-Zero (even though I bought X after GX)
Mario Kart
Pokémon
Smash Bros.
Golden Sun
WarioWare

 

[Psychonaut]

Pokemon - I got it about a year after Red/Blue released, but before Gold/Silver. Didn't have much choice, considering I was only two years old when it released. I'm counting it. This one is probably coming to an end soon.
Super Smash Bros. - Never bought the original, but I played a lot of it at a friend's house since around release and have bought every game since then.

Everything else falls into a few categories:

1. Not what I'd call a "franchise" (only two games). Add stuff like Mirror's Edge otherwise
2. I've missed entries and my fandom is thus limited. Uncharted and Arkham count here.
3. I came to it late. Ratchet & Clank, Persona, Animal Crossing, and lots of other stuff falls here.

 

[noomi]

Oh yeah!

- Grand theft auto (played since the first entry on PC)
- Red Dead Redemption
- Uncharted
- Battlefield Series
- Bioshock
- Half Life
- Super Mario Bros

too many to list!

 

[Budi]

Yeah there's plenty. XCOM (UFO: Enemy Unknown), Monkey Island, Deus Ex, Mario, Witcher, Fallout (not a fan anymore), Metal Gear (might not count since it was NES version), GTA etc. etc.

 

[nStruct]

Quite a few. I'll name some off the top of my head:

-Mortal Kombat
-God of War
-Super Mario Bros
-Doom
-Assassin's Creed
-Super Smash Bros
-Titanfall
-Quake

 

[Ahti]

- Prince of Persia
- Resident Evil
- Dishonored
- Bioshock
- Titanfall
- Gears of War
- Max Payne
- Half Life
- Batman Arkham
- Hitman

 

[Sabercrusader]

Gears of War
Uncharted
Jak and Daxter
The Last of Us (Does that count since a sequel is coming?)
Not a fan anymore, but I was into Assassin's Creed from it's beginning to about Unity.
I'm sure there's more, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

 

[Zoidn]

Not that many I think.

- X
- Unreal Tournament
- Battlefield
- Age of Empires
- The Sims
- Doom
- Command & Conquer
- Mount & Blade
- Grand Theft Auto

There might be more, maybe!

 

[ghibli99]

Most of them. I can name the ones that I wasn't an "all-in" fan of at the beginning and then became a fan later much easier, such as The Witcher, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Castlevania, Street Fighter, Metroid, Mega Man, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.

For those in particular, my love for them started with TW3, FF4, DQ5, SotN, SF2, Super Metroid, MM2, ALttP, and XY, even though I'd played earlier games prior.

 

[DeadMoonKing]

My criteria for considering myself there for the beginning is:
a) have played them since the first game came out
b) continue to follow the series till today/its demise

Suikoden
Wild Arms
Uncharted

 

[ghostcrew]

Showing my age but, yeah, loads. Zelda, Mario, Pokemon, etc. I've been gaming since the Commodore days so seen a lot of franchises start (and a lot die...)

 

[Urfe]

I'm sure tons, but Dragon Quest/Warrior and Final Fantasy always come to mind.

 

[mxbison]

Fan from the start and played every game:

Doom
God of War
Uncharted
GTA
Warcraft
Diablo
Unreal
Bioshock


Fan at the start but stopped at some point:

Deus Ex
Assassins Creed
Fallout
Half-Life

 

[reelbigeddy]

Tony Hawk's, it's been a rough ride though. I had to wait for the Dreamcast version which was about 8 months after the PlayStation release. Then when I got an Xbox I was beyond excited for 2X, which ended up never getting a PAL release.

 

[Matrix XII]

Mario, Halo and WoW are the only ones I've been a fan of from the very start and still am today.

 

[newmoneytrash]

Mass Effect definitely

Also Assassin's Creed, tho I did fall off around Syndicate but Odyssey is really bringing me back

 

[GamingRobioto]

Loads but the biggest by far is Resident Evil, it's still my favourite gaming series of all time.

And bar a few hiccups (*cough* Resident Evil 6) the series has been of an extremely high quality since the first game. With Resident Evil VII Biohazard and Resident Evil 2 Remake being extremely good games.

 

[Leo]

Pokémon. I was born in 1990.

 

[Dead Man Typing]

Too many to count.

Also a fan of a lot of failed franchises.

 

[Zephy]

Several, but most notably Mass Effect. Was hyped since the reveal trailer because it was literally my dream game (commandeering a space ship and exploring the galaxy with an alien crew, solving problems along the way). I bought an Xbox 360 because of this game. And I loved all three games and Andromeda.

 

[jroc74]

lots of em

I'm old

Click to shrink...

Yeah, same here.

Metal Gear, Mario, Zelda of the top of my head.

GTA, Uncharted, God of War

 

[TheMan]

mass effect. Fuck the haters, andromeda was fun.

 

[MaverickHunterAsh]

Oh, sure:

- Every Mega Man series other than Classic (which is almost there; I got into it, and MM as a whole, with Mega Man 3 as a kid before going back and playing 1 and 2)
- Chrono
- Super Mario Bros.
- The Legend of Zelda
- Star Fox
- Pokémon
- Katamari
- Uncharted
- Splatoon
- F-Zero
- Ace Attorney
- Silent Hill

The list goes on, but those are the big ones I can think of right now.

 

[Rajang]

Pokémon
Diablo
Metal Gear Solid
Age of Empires
Command & Conquer
Tekken
Gran Turismo
Half Life
Max Payne
Resident Evil
Wolfenstein
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Hitman
Splinter Cell
Doom
Demon's Souls
GTA
Unreal (Tournament)

 

[Camwi]

Demon's Souls became the start of my favorite series.

 

[verygooster]

As far as Nintendo franchises go I could say Mario, and Pokémon are the ones I've been into from the beginning. I came into Zelda with The Adventure of Link. I played Metroid and every mainline game (except Other M) but I dunno that I'd call myself a fan.

Castlevania and Yakuza also come to mind.

 

[Version 3.0]

I'm old, and have been an enthusiast since I was a kid. So the franchises I got in on the ground floor vastly outnumber the ones where I got in later.

In fact, trying to think of ones where I didn't start with the first game, all I came up with is Street Fighter II, Just Cause 2, and GTA3.

 

[StallionDan]

I've probably played vastly more series from the start than I haven't. But then I'm old.

 

[Distantmantra]

I started gaming with an Atari 2600, so basically every franchise.

Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior/Quest
Phantasy Star
Metal Gear
Castlevania
Contra
Mega Man
Zelda
Mario

You name it, I was there.

I was there for Pokemon, but I was in high school and it didn't interest me, so while I was there, I've never played it.

 

[Ryukori]

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja
Ni no Kuni
Pokemon
Uncharted
Watch Dogs

 

[Worldshaker]

This will give away my age, but:

Dragon Quest
Final Fantasy
Zelda
Metroid
Mega Man
Mana series
Mario RPG/Paper Mario series
Resident Evil

You get the picture. I've been playing every major franchise since the NES days.

 

[Hippopuncher12]

Mario
Zelda
Dragon Quest (Warrior)
Final Fantasy
Tales of
Suikoden :(
Metal Gear
Castlevania
Mega Man

Tons of others I'm sure.

 

[GlitchyDegree]

Bioshock.
Assassins Creed
Sly Cooper
Bayonetta
Jak & Daxter
Ratchet & Clank
Max Payne
Super Monkey Ball
Super Smash Bros.
No More Heroes
Dead Rising
Mass Effect
Dead Space
Lost Planet
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Skate

 

[Druffmaul]

I could name a few... for now I'll just say Mario. I fell in love the first time I saw Donkey Kong, when it was the hot new game in my favorite arcade. To this day the Super Mario games are among my favorites.

 

[Strike]

Uncharted
Metal Gear Solid
Max Payne
Red Dead
God of War
Grand Theft Auto
Dishonored
Killzone
Portal
Devil May Cry

 

[FusedAtoms]

Only major one (not counting stuff this gen)is Dark Souls , it's the first game I bought with my own money and completed. I was 12 and I think I saw some youtubers play it and I got obsessed. I didnt really get to into gaming until kind of late as a kid, I was just playing COD for awhile and pokemon when I was younger but ever since bumbling my way through souls 1 I'll play literally anything, and I've gone through a ton of classic game series

But if you count demons souls as the start of that franchise then I guess that doesnt count

 

[Dabi3]

Assassin's Creed is probably the most notable one. Was hooked when I saw it at X06.
Played through and completed each one since.

 

[Jimbojim]

Final Fantasy
Splinter Cell
Doom
Zelda
Metroid
...to name a few

 

[i'm not a rob0t]

GTA

 

[PSbigfan]

God Of War.
Assassin Creed.