28th March 2004, 10:38 PM
All things considering, I wouldn't try looking for PC games that aren't currently being sold. Used game stores are great for console games, but I have yet to find any used game stores that have anything beyond like 2 PC games in stock. It really sucks.
However, you don't need to play the first ones to have an idea of what's currently going on. Most game series are like that. The exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are Final Fantasy X-2, Shenmue, and the Xenosaga series (once the rest start coming out). Metal Gear also has a habit of needing to know what's going on, and yes it's annoying that the first two aren't here in America (the second one not at all and the first with a completely neutered story), but fortunatly they include the entire storylines of all the previous ones for you to read. Or, unfortunatly, as now the entire story of the previous games has been spoiled... Kinda sucks that I'll know every single twist of MG2 when it comes out...
However, you don't need to play the first ones to have an idea of what's currently going on. Most game series are like that. The exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are Final Fantasy X-2, Shenmue, and the Xenosaga series (once the rest start coming out). Metal Gear also has a habit of needing to know what's going on, and yes it's annoying that the first two aren't here in America (the second one not at all and the first with a completely neutered story), but fortunatly they include the entire storylines of all the previous ones for you to read. Or, unfortunatly, as now the entire story of the previous games has been spoiled... Kinda sucks that I'll know every single twist of MG2 when it comes out...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)