Here’s apost that went up last week over on United We Game. Though we unite are united as gamers, each of us has own own set of gaming idiosyncrasies that set us apart from the crowd. In this article, I cover one my biggest quirks that I embrace yet, in some ways, still struggling to overcome: starting a game series anywhere other than the beginning.

That is an interesting approach to playing sequels. I tend to skip around sequels based on what looks interesting. After Assassin’s Creed 1, for example, none of the sequels really appealed to me until Assassin’s Creed 3, and I’m not much interested in Black Flag. Sometimes I think I might be missing something, but there’s plenty of information readily available to fill in any story gaps.

Notable Examples: I used to only ever play one game at a time. Meaning if I started Ocarina of Time, I would play nothing else but that game until it was completed. That one died during my first year in college. I now only play after 8pm at night unless the day has been set aside for gaming (another college development) and I’ve always had a tendency to start with the first sequel in a franchise, then playing the first before the third. It’s not intentional, but I can count several series I’ve gotten into over the years where it’s happened. Weird.

After I got played Uncharted 2, I watched a little bit of people playing Uncharted 1 on YouTube – not enough to spoil it, but just enough to understand how the stories meshed. It was a good tactic and one I continue to use today. However, I am a bit more focused on trying to play games in order if I can.