I’ve never played any of the games in this series, but I’ve heard nothing but good things. Thusly, I wish to try one.
My question is this: Would I be missing anything if I dove right into the latest game in the line? If so, what would be a good one to try first?
Well Guilty Gear Isuka is worse than Guilty Gear X2 from what I hear, I would suggest starting on X2.
EDIT: What he said, except that replace “worse than” with “not as good as”. X2 is the best in the series. And I can explain the plot, if needed. 
Yeah, I’m tired, so sue me for phrasing it poorly.
Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is just GGX2 that is much more balanced from what I have herd. However, the only the x-box version is out in the US.
“Guilty Gear X2 - sequel to the greatest fighting game EVER made. In fact, we don’t even know WHY we bothered to release it.”
Amuse yourself by the sheer amount of info on GG on this site. Roni and Ed are really way too much into this.
Munc thankies, everyone. And Yar, I might just take you up on that.
X2 is the best one in the series. Isuka was really bad, It was way too crazy, and the controls sucked.
Oh, and Johnny is the best.
Lmao. That was the FUNNIEST shit I’ve ever seen 
But! There is a ring of truth to this. GGX sucks. Don’t do it! Don’t do it!
And I was just bothered with the crashing bugs in the PC version of GGX. Anyway, story mode time!
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[li]Around 2020 or so: Humans discover a revolutionary form of energy that solves all our energy problems! This new form of energy is called “magic” and nobody knows why it’s called that with a straight face.
[/li][li]Around 2090 or so: The “Gear Project,” the brainchild of an individual known only as That Man and one Dr. Frederick, is formed with the intentions of creating biological/magical/technological living WMDs, basically, called Gears. Justice – the Command Gear, who controls all other Gears – decides that turning on his creators is a neat idea, and there’s a humans vs. Gears war called the Crusades that lasts almost a century.
[/li][li]2175: After a climactic battle against a bounty hunter with the unlikely name of Sol Badguy (voiced by Daisuke Ishiwatari, the creator of the games), Justice is sealed away, and all Gears cease to function – except one.
[/li][li]Between 2177 and 2178: A girl named Dizzy is found in a village, and taken in by an old couple with no kids of their own. Whuh-oh, that’s got destiny written all over it.
[/li][li]2180: Guilty Gear: The Missing Link. The second “Sacred Order of Holy Knights” tournament takes place (I’m still not clear on what happened with the first), with the winner getting some sort of wish granted. Sol Badguy is one of the contestants, and he’s the one who makes it to the end – only to discover that it’s actually being held by a Gear named Testament, who’s somehow managed not to cease to function, and who intends to free Justice from getting sealed away. He succeeds in this, only for Justice to get killed by Sol, but not before revealing that That Man is still alive, and Sol Badgu is, in fact, the title character (he’s Dr. Frederick, who became the prototype Gear, actually).
[/li][li]Less than a year later: Guilty Gear X (which is pronounced Guilty Gear Zex for some reason). Rumor alert! There’s rumors about a new Gear running around, who might be a Command Gear and start another Crusades!! It was this girl who went from infant to 16-20-ish in about three years and then grew wings and a tail! The government places a bounty of half a million World Dollars on its head, especially when they find that Testament’s guarding it. So the cast goes down to hunt it, each for different reasons, and eventually Sol’s the one who finds her. It turns out to be Dizzy, who’s just this innocent girl, y’know, except for being half-human and half-Gear. And don’t get me started on Necro. Uh, but anyway, Sol lets her live, the reward goes to a Chinese chef named Jam Kuradoberi for her restaurant, and Dizzy goes to live with the Jellyfish Pirates, a sort of aircraft-riding variant on Robin Hood, and vaguely disturbing in that it’s crewed mostly with girls and captained by a “smooth dude” named Johnny. Oh well, at least Dizzy looks old enough …
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(And Guilty Gear X2 is called Guilty Gear XX in Japan. “Guilty Gear XX #Reload” is pronounced “Guilty Gear Double-Zex Sharp Reload.” I have the PC version of #Reload, with a patch that translates its Story Mode. It also has an anime FMV that sort of pretends to be a trailer for Guilty Gear X, except that very little of it makes sense with respect to GGX’s story. :D)
Works for me. Much thankies, Mr. Kramer.
Also, having poked throughly through that one page with the character sprites, I have reached a conclusion: The first character I try is SOOO going to be Zappa.
Hey Yar,you wrote by mistake 2780 instead of 2180,people might get confused.
You saw nothing! Oh, and one significant thing I forgot to mention: during the Crusades, the Gears destroyed Japan, and thus everyone of Japanese descent is put in protective custody in this colony as “national treasures” and some of the characters are escapees. Just a really good example of the fact that when Japanese media isn’t overglorifying Japan, they’re destroying it. :3
Yar, I want that translation patch for XX #Reload.
Got it off eMule. It doesn’t translate the move names or the Arcade Mode victory quotes, though, and sometimes the Story Mode lines are cut off at the right.
I already found it.
Actually, that trailer was the intro to GGX+, the PS2 Japanese GGX. Yeah, the US market got screwed out of GGX+.
My comment about not making sense took GGX+ into account. :3
Just wanted to say that I now own X2 for the PS2. I must say, I’m enjoying it so far.
Also? Zappa is a fuggin’ looney.