
JP LaFrance defends his obsession of playing through franchises from the start by highlighting a few upcoming trilogy finales.

The official creator of the Super Mario Bros. manga, Kazuki Motoyama, has passed away at the age of 69.
Fixed the headline for you...
Kazuki Motoyama, Super Mario _MANGA_ Creator, Dies at 69

One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.

These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
Nice article, a good read and I completely agree. I myself can't really ever see myself getting into a series with a detailed story, such as that of Assassins Creed or Mass Effect, on a second or third game and just try and ignore the rest or catch up on it online. If it's a case where I'd have to do it (such as if I was a PS3 user who couldn't play Mass Effect on X360 or PC) to get into a series then I'd probably stick it out, but chances are I might end up just leaving it, I adore being sucked into a game series' story and going along with it the whole way while everyone tries to figure out what's going to happen next. Missing out on one game and some of it's events or choices can really put you in a mix at times and for me it's really hard to get into a series if I'm left with a large blank section from a game I missed where I have only half an idea of what happened here and what happened there.