What Order Should I play the X Games in?

[Hunter]

What is the order the X games come in following the story? I want to play them for the free weekend, but I don't know what order to play the games. Here are the games listed: X Rebirth, X-Tension, X: Beyond the Frontier, X2: The Threat, X3: Reunion, X3: Terran Conflict, X3: Albion Prelude.

[Lupo]

There is not really any order, the story doesn't follow over the games. Try X Rebirth first in free play, avoid the campaign, you do not have time for that. If you do not like it, try X3 Terran conflict, that is a very deep game with lots of things to do and stuff to learn.

[Hunter]

Originally posted by Lupo:

There is not really any order, the story doesn't follow over the games. Try X Rebirth first in free play, avoid the campaign, you do not have time for that. If you do not like it, try X3 Terran conflict, that is a very deep game with lots of things to do and stuff to learn.

Thanks! :)

[Zloth]

It's one weekend, there's no hope in finishing any X game in a weekend. These are games that take HUNDREDS of hours to complete... depending on what you decide 'complete' means.

Skipping the campaign is a BAD idea, IMHO. That's where the tutorial is - not to mention the story.

You could also start with X3:TC. That game is a lot more mature than this one with many-a-mod and tons of online help.

Never mind about the others.

[Hunter]

Originally posted by Zloth:

It's one weekend, there's no hope in finishing any X game in a weekend. These are games that take HUNDREDS of hours to complete... depending on what you decide 'complete' means.

Skipping the campaign is a BAD idea, IMHO. That's where the tutorial is - not to mention the story.

You could also start with X3:TC. That game is a lot more mature than this one with many-a-mod and tons of online help.

Never mind about the others.

That long? haha Kind of annoying that they would put so many games that are so long there's no hope of finishing them over the weekend.

[Silvus Sol]

Originally posted by 322 Cloaked Gem:

That long? haha Kind of annoying that they would put so many games that are so long there's no hope of finishing them over the weekend.

Well it's a free trial. So you can find out if you like it. It's not intended for people to beat and be done with the games completely for free. Plus the series has been around for awhile, so there is a lot of them.

[OuchThatHurt]

X2 then X3 then X3 TC then X3 AP best one is X3 with the Xtended mod.... half the stuff from that mod was used to make X3TC and the guys working on the mod actually worked on X3TC. the story from the first 4 games follows on from each other.

Ie the First 4 games X beyond the frontie through to X3 are linked and have reocurring people in them x3TC follows the events of X3 and you guesses it X3 AP follows on from the event of X3TC. But the best place to start now days would be X2 IMHO.

I spent 100's pf hours in X2 then X3 i spent 1000's of hours before it was even on steam X3TC was IMHO not as good as X2 or X3 but was a bigger game without mods. X3AP kind of felt a bit slow to me and i never really got into it.

[Aro]

Yeah not likely to get too far. X3TC/AP is pretty much the summation of the series.

If you want to try:
X:BTF -> X:Tension (can skip?) -> X2:TT -> X3:Reunion -> X3:TC -> X3:AP (is an expansion, new elements built upon TC)

I've never played Tension and Rebirth. Think a bit of time will go in to trying out Tension ^.^

[Daddy Shark]

No no no.

Start with this one. It's the only one you need. If you start with x3 then you'll be expecting Rebirth to be X4 and you'll sound like the rest of the crybabies around here.

[Hunter]

Originally posted by Roland of Gilead:

No no no.

Start with this one. It's the only one you need. If you start with x3 then you'll be expecting Rebirth to be X4 and you'll sound like the rest of the crybabies around here.

What is "this one"?