Feel like I'm missing out.

[Virgo]

I can't honestly play the game until I feel ready to play or at least "watch" the two previous games and I haven't had the time for that either. Each day, week, month that goes by where I don't play the only Gacha that intrigued me and seems to respects it's players time and is generous with how much they give you if you put $$ into it, is pretty painful. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm missing out on half the story by not knowing previous events and decided to shelf the game.

What do you guys think? Should I just go in headfirst anyways or should I take the time and try to sit and watch a 4-5 hours long video on both the games stories?

[teamol]

I am 0 experience with their former works. I enjoy the story so far. The world and some background settings build on their old works yes, but the story they are telling is mainly about these 12 boys and girls. So far I find I don't need to play the old games to understand anything like Ishmael, one of the prisoners, have a big bottom.

I think you can go ahead and jump in.

[Virgo]

Originally posted by ティーモル:

I am 0 experience with their former works. I enjoy the story so far. The world and some background settings build on their old works yes, but the story they are telling is mainly about these 12 boys and girls. So far I find I don't need to play the old games to understand anything like Ishmael, one of the prisoners, have a big bottom.

I think you can go ahead and jump in.

When I last played, I remember them discussing the library of ruina and a bunch of concepts that come from that lore. It felt like I didn't really get what they were saying and I'm the type to care about that stuff. I could be overthinking it.

[Bishop]

You should play ruinia anyway if you like the genre. I don't really care much about pm or their universe but the game was genuinely enjoyable both gameplay and story wise.

Don't care much about lobotomy corp tbh, just watched 10 minutes summary and don't feel like I'm missing something overly important.

[GlitchMr]

As somebody that did play LC and LoR, Limbus Company has barely any direct connection to them. So while i would encourage checking them out, because they are pretty great games, I don't think you will miss much.

[solaariel]

Limbus is a spinoff, so you aren't missing out on any story by not playing the previous games, at worst you are only missing some world building. Also the protagonist has amnesia, so everything in the setting has to be explained to them anyway, don't Know what an E.G.O is, neither does Dante.

If you do enjoy the gameplay however, then I strongly recommend playing Ruina, it's basically the same thing but with way more depth.

[【Silver】]

So far anything they've touched upon relevant to the prior titles has been purely in regards to setting up the world setting & characters in Limbus Company, similar to someone new to an entirely different region or country being explained a new culture. There's the basic concepts of these things, but you are left to dig deeper into them on your own if you wish as the story's set up to explain anything it feels the need to to you as a player entering their world for the first time.

All 3 games are like that, each can be enjoyed individually without touching the others, you simply have more context for certain things having done so. Besides, far fewer people have actually beaten the first game themselves, and those that have do so dearly warn others of what they may be getting themselves into if they consider playing Lobotomy Corporation.

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

This is a really easy game in comparison to their previous Titles. Not sure what "Painful" means nowadays tbh. This is a Self-Contained Story for the most Part with World/Lore references here and there.

[Yerc2]

I suggest watching playthroughs of the other games, and playing those yourself if they appeal to you.

I am of the opinion that the previous games were very enjoyable.
I'd generalise by saying this game is a relatively stingy gacha in terms of free pulls and pulls per dollar, and it isn't as good as the other games, so the main reason why I'm playing it is due to the lore tie-overs and world building started in the previous games.

Although Lobotomy Corporations and Library of Ruina aren't required to understand and appreciate the story in Limbus Company, having prior knowledge about the worldbuilding and the dev's work has deterred me from dropping this game despite how I think it's relatively mediocre.

[Reptiloid]

Considering the lackluster amount of content currently, I'd suggest you go play the other games while they build new chapter(s). Lor will make you stick around for month, if you like difficulty tho.

[Reptiloid]

Originally posted by 【Silver】:

and those that have do so dearly warn others of what they may be getting themselves into if they consider playing Lobotomy Corporation.

He can watch ArchAngela to get the idea about LC XD. It is 10% pain, 20% pain, 15% concentrated power of pain. 5 % pain, and 50% pain, and a 100% reason to remember the pain

[Zalgo]

Originally posted by Yerc2:

I suggest watching playthroughs of the other games, and playing those yourself if they appeal to you.

I am of the opinion that the previous games were very enjoyable.
I'd generalise by saying this game is a relatively stingy gacha in terms of free pulls and pulls per dollar, and it isn't as good as the other games, so the main reason why I'm playing it is due to the lore tie-overs and world building started in the previous games.

Although Lobotomy Corporations and Library of Ruina aren't required to understand and appreciate the story in Limbus Company, having prior knowledge about the worldbuilding and the dev's work has deterred me from dropping this game despite how I think it's relatively mediocre.

Bro how many times do we gotta tell you that this game is nowhere near as stingy as other gachas? Star Rail literally just came out and is the literal definition of stinginess in a gacha game. This one barely counts as one when they throw lunacy like no other along with the shard farming.

[Yerc2]

Originally posted by Zalgo:

Originally posted by Yerc2:

I suggest watching playthroughs of the other games, and playing those yourself if they appeal to you.

I am of the opinion that the previous games were very enjoyable.
I'd generalise by saying this game is a relatively stingy gacha in terms of free pulls and pulls per dollar, and it isn't as good as the other games, so the main reason why I'm playing it is due to the lore tie-overs and world building started in the previous games.

Although Lobotomy Corporations and Library of Ruina aren't required to understand and appreciate the story in Limbus Company, having prior knowledge about the worldbuilding and the dev's work has deterred me from dropping this game despite how I think it's relatively mediocre.

Bro how many times do we gotta tell you that this game is nowhere near as stingy as other gachas? Star Rail literally just came out and is the literal definition of stinginess in a gacha game. This one barely counts as one when they throw lunacy like no other along with the shard farming.

I dunno man. Outside of bug compensation-
Giving F2P players the ability to farm for 5 pulls a week is pretty stingy, especially when you consider how most other recent gacha games offer at least 3 pulls a day at similar or better rates, some upwards of 11 pulls a day.

The Genshin games and FGO are also similarly as bad as Limbus Company. But just because Limbus isn't the absolute worst, that doesn't mean it's not stingy and greedy.

[Zalgo]

Originally posted by Yerc2:

Originally posted by Zalgo:

Bro how many times do we gotta tell you that this game is nowhere near as stingy as other gachas? Star Rail literally just came out and is the literal definition of stinginess in a gacha game. This one barely counts as one when they throw lunacy like no other along with the shard farming.

I dunno man. Outside of bug compensation-
Giving F2P players the ability to farm for 5 pulls a week is pretty stingy, especially when you consider how most other recent gacha games offer at least 3 pulls a day at similar or better rates, some upwards of 11 pulls a day.

The Genshin games and FGO are also similarly as bad as Limbus Company. But just because Limbus isn't the absolute worst, that doesn't mean it's not stingy and greedy.

Games that offer pulls of that rate more than likely only exist because the game happens to rely way too often on a dupe system. Games like Nikke would offer a lot of pulls but immediately counteract it because said characters can often be gimped without the dupes needed to unlock certain abilities.

This is why Genshin and Star Rail is much more stingy in this case than Limbus. In Genshin's case they not only are they generally stingy with primogems, but some characters like Raiden Shogun end up relying on a specific dupe needed to start hitting numbers in the Spiral Abyss. This comes also with the obscene pity system of 90/180 and the rate of 0.6 compared to Limbus' 3% and it speaks for itself. Star Rail has it much worse because certain aspects of the combat itself is only made more complex and interesting because of certain dupes, meaning you have to dupe if you want the combat to be more in depth.

And FGO not only has a near atrocity of a pity system, it also has ridiculous rates of 0.5 and a really poor income level.

Limbus at the very least has the spark system where even F2Ps are given a pretty heavy dose of Crates through events, Weekly bonus, and general farming of MDs. Even an F2P is gonna be subjected to at least 39 crates a week along with the amounts that they will be making from the event itself (Hell's chicken giving 70 and the mini event giving out 45). Plus the Railway existing gives you way more pulls than anything the endgame content in FGO or Genshin can ever do.

[Xaelon]

Originally posted by Yerc2:

Giving F2P players the ability to farm for 5 pulls a week is pretty stingy, especially when you consider how most other recent gacha games offer at least 3 pulls a day at similar or better rates, some upwards of 11 pulls a day.

The Genshin games and FGO are also similarly as bad as Limbus Company. But just because Limbus isn't the absolute worst, that doesn't mean it's not stingy and greedy.

You can't measure how F2P friendly a game is just based on how many pulls you can earn.

• Limbus doesn't require specific dupes to max a unit.
  
• Dupes can be spent to uptie whatever unit you want OR saved to buy whatever specific unit you want when used with gold boxes.
  
• Gold boxes can be farmed once you reach the end of the season pass and are handed out regularly as event rewards.
  
• You can borrow any unit you want from other players and use them as if you owned them at no cost.
  
• New units are added to the pool and shop immediately and remain there for the entire season. Similarly all units you may have missed this season will return to the shop in season 3.

Limbus may not offer the highest amount of pulls per day but between how many shards you can earn per day and the rewards offered from events I'd say we're getting plenty of free pulls.

The attendance event gave out several ten pulls and a guaranteed 3* unit. The railway gave out 40 pulls and another guaranteed 3* unit and now the chicken event is giving out another 30 pulls or so.

I think it's unreasonable to expect Limbus to have better daily income when it's handing out that many pull tickets that never expire.

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

I would pick this over any Tencent Trash any Day. What a Nightmare those Gachas. And don't get me started on the "Korean Gear Roller" Gacha Hell ( Epic Whaler/CounterWhale ).