New to Guilty Gear

[10個、光]

Hi, I'm a beginner in fighting games who wants to get started with Guilty Gear, and to be honest I don't know which Guilty Gear should I start with. I'm not into competitive or online play that much, I'm mainly looking for a fighting game with a good story. I've played BlazBlue recently and I absolutely loved it, especially the story aspect. I heard that Guilty Gear also offers a well-written story, so I want to give it a try too. But as stated, I don't know which one should I start with, and what's the chronological order of the games.
P.S: If possible, I would like to get the versions which are still on Steam only, thanks in advance.

[SolNeko]

Don't buy fighting games for the story, most people dont play for the story and most of the stories in fighting games are useless released outside of game media like in comics or drama cd's you have to buy, a lot of the new fighting games are trying to make these cinematics stories which are neat but they still require knowledge of the previous much older games which may barely have any story at all.
The first few Guilty Gear games are not on Steam so thats gonna be a problem too.
Blazblue has a good story? loooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[10個、光]

Originally posted by JewishNeko:

Don't buy fighting games for the story, most people dont play for the story and most of the stories in fighting games are useless released outside of game media like in comics or drama cd's you have to buy, a lot of the new fighting games are trying to make these cinematics stories which are neat but they still require knowledge of the previous much older games which may barely have any story at all.
The first few Guilty Gear games are not on Steam so thats gonna be a problem too.
Blazblue has a good story? loooooooooooooooooooooooooool

I understand most people don't play fighting games for the story, but I think it's based on preference, too. A lot of people recommended Guilty Gear if you want a "good story", and yes, I know the first few ones aren't on Steam, and if I don't know much about the old ones, it'll be hard to follow up with the lore. But still, I still want to look into Guilty Gear's story, though it might be tricky. Thanks for your advice.
For me at least, BlazBlue's story was good.

[Redblaze27]

Originally posted by JewishNeko:

Don't buy fighting games for the story

speak for yourself.

When we talk about story, we arent talking high art, just something enjoyable.

Plus thats highly insulting to the developers, given the painstaking tome and effort they put into the story mode.

[Redblaze27]

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is where you might wish to start for plot, as its where the current plotline starts.

Xrd is a continuation of Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which is sort of like a soft-reboot of the series (and not a fighting game).

For gameplay, you can start here.

[Heavymetalmixer]

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is where you might wish to start for plot, as its where the current plotline starts.

Xrd is a continuation of Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which is sort of like a soft-reboot of the series (and not a fighting game).

For gameplay, you can start here.

Overture is not a reboot, it continues the XX2 story, taking some story elements from AC+.

[10個、光]

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is where you might wish to start for plot, as its where the current plotline starts.

Xrd is a continuation of Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which is sort of like a soft-reboot of the series (and not a fighting game).

For gameplay, you can start here.

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, you're saying I should start with Xrd -SIGN-, because of it's "where the current plotline starts." But I have a question, as of I know, there're:
- Guilty Gear
- Guilty Gear XX (and a bunch of "Updated versions"(?) Sorry if I'm wrong.)
- Guilty Gear 2: Overture (RTS)
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-
If I were to start with Xrd -SIGN-, is there any way for me to understand the story like from the start? (From the first Guilty Gear) (Like in BlazBlue there was "reconstruction" mode, which tells us the story of the older games) Aside from playing the older games (which I don't want to because the older titles aren't on Steam)
Also is -REVELATOR- sequel to -SIGN-?

[Redblaze27]

Originally posted by heavymetalmixer:

If I were to start with Xrd -SIGN-, is there any way for me to understand the story like from the start? (From the first Guilty Gear) (Like in BlazBlue there was "reconstruction" mode, which tells us the story of the older games) Aside from playing the older games (which I don't want to because the older titles aren't on Steam)
Also is -REVELATOR- sequel to -SIGN-?

There is a text-based event timeline of events leading up to Xrd, and a Guilty Gear terminology dictionary.

Revelator is a direct continuation of Sign, like how Continuum Shift is to Calamity Trigger.

[10個、光]

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

There is a text-based event timeline of events leading up to Xrd, and a Guilty Gear terminology dictionary.

Revelator is a direct continuation of Sign, like how Continuum Shift is to Calamity Trigger.

Thank you for your help, that pretty much answered everything I wanted to know. I'll get both Sign and Revelator in the future.

[SolNeko]

Starting from SIGN and REVELATOR only explains the setting about what gears are, crusades, justice etc. You will have no idea about characters and their relationships or the fact that a few of them were at each others necks in the previous games.
Watch playthroughs of the older games or check wikis if you really want to know story if you dont want to play them legally or not.
REVELATOR is a direct sequel to SIGN, it has a brief explanation at the start of the basic premise and some of the events of SIGN.
So yea without playing or knowing older games story you wouldnt know about faust being a murdering psychopath or millia betraying zato or how Sol and Ky's relationship has changed.

[10個、光]

Originally posted by JewishNeko:

Watch playthroughs of the older games or check wikis if you really want to know story if you dont want to play them legally or not.

Will do, thanks again for the advice.

[Kymedorf]

Originally posted by Kouri "Sins of Winter" Paradox V:

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is where you might wish to start for plot, as its where the current plotline starts.

Xrd is a continuation of Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which is sort of like a soft-reboot of the series (and not a fighting game).

For gameplay, you can start here.

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, you're saying I should start with Xrd -SIGN-, because of it's "where the current plotline starts." But I have a question, as of I know, there're:
- Guilty Gear
- Guilty Gear XX (and a bunch of "Updated versions"(?) Sorry if I'm wrong.)
- Guilty Gear 2: Overture (RTS)
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-
If I were to start with Xrd -SIGN-, is there any way for me to understand the story like from the start? (From the first Guilty Gear) (Like in BlazBlue there was "reconstruction" mode, which tells us the story of the older games) Aside from playing the older games (which I don't want to because the older titles aren't on Steam)
Also is -REVELATOR- sequel to -SIGN-?

Pre-XX almost nothing of importance happens, except:

There's a Crusade against Gears led by Justice, Sol kills Justice and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of gears.
Dizzy, the daughter of Justice, is allegedly trying to kill people. That's actually not true, Sol just beats her up and all is good in the Gearhood.

About later ones (before XRDs)

In XX Reload/AC so many things are non-canon by now, it's hard to say what happened besides the fact Slayer left just to return instantly and Eddie died to get revived as Zato, while I-No got punished by That Man for doing bad things he didn't want her to do.

In Overture, Valentine, a sorta-clone of Justice, died. And Sin forgave Ky, because at first he was mad at his dad for the abandonment.

As an example of what I've mean, XX to Reload's story is almost wholly non-canon as most of the stories contained a Robo-Ky prototype who mind-controlled lots of the people, did evil stuff and got destroyed in the end. In Revelator the Robo-Ky's prototype stil exists and is nothing like that. Accent Core Robo-Ky seems more canon, but still not quite.

Seriously, if you're interested in the story, just check the Story Mode of Revelator's second option, the dictionairy. It explains terms and characters. It says what has, canonically, happened to everyone. -SIGN-'s story mode is boring to watch (imho, though some disagree) so just read up on the previous characters, Revelator's is actually worth watching because this time they do not waste an hour to feed Ramlethal hamburgers, it's 60% action, 20% guys preparing to act and 20% story explanations which seems to be the good proportions. There's inconsistencies in the story, sure, but they're not worse than plotholes which are to be expected in any media, like someone with an ability to do X dying in a situation wherein that ability would have saved them for sure. It happens in every superhero blockbuster movie where someone dies, and most of the cast here is superhero-tier.

But basically, what's written in that place in Revelator is likely canon (unless they change it), though lots of that is in Engrish so you cannot be sure what they've actually meant.

[Red]

Originally posted by Kouri "Sins of Winter" Paradox V:

Originally posted by Redblaze27:

Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- is where you might wish to start for plot, as its where the current plotline starts.

Xrd is a continuation of Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which is sort of like a soft-reboot of the series (and not a fighting game).

For gameplay, you can start here.

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, you're saying I should start with Xrd -SIGN-, because of it's "where the current plotline starts." But I have a question, as of I know, there're:
- Guilty Gear
- Guilty Gear XX (and a bunch of "Updated versions"(?) Sorry if I'm wrong.)
- Guilty Gear 2: Overture (RTS)
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-
If I were to start with Xrd -SIGN-, is there any way for me to understand the story like from the start? (From the first Guilty Gear) (Like in BlazBlue there was "reconstruction" mode, which tells us the story of the older games) Aside from playing the older games (which I don't want to because the older titles aren't on Steam)
Also is -REVELATOR- sequel to -SIGN-?

Almost. I have only played the latest ones, but iirc the chronology is:
- Guilty Gear
- Guilty Gear X (Plus)
- Guilty Gear X2 (#Reload)
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Plus R)
- Guilty Gear 2: Overture
- Guilty Gear Vastedge (a pachi-slot game)
- Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-
- Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator-.

Still, as it's been said, you should be fine by starting with -SIGN- and its Library Mode (or however it's called).

[Redblaze27]

Originally posted by JewishNeko:

You will have no idea about characters and their relationships or the fact that a few of them were at each others necks in the previous games.

So yea without playing or knowing older games story you wouldnt know about faust being a murdering psychopath or millia betraying zato or how Sol and Ky's relationship has changed.

True, but it makes sense they dont want to make the old games completely pointless to play.

You forgot to mention that Faust commited himself to the path of redemption. His killings are only backstory important.

[Ace]

Originally posted by JewishNeko:

Don't buy fighting games for the story, most people dont play for the story and most of the stories in fighting games are useless released outside of game media like in comics or drama cd's you have to buy, a lot of the new fighting games are trying to make these cinematics stories which are neat but they still require knowledge of the previous much older games which may barely have any story at all.
The first few Guilty Gear games are not on Steam so thats gonna be a problem too.
Blazblue has a good story? loooooooooooooooooooooooooool

A-actually....That's kind of all a lie.

You can easily find the story in this game. EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED in every game prior is shown here in this game's main story mode. There's legit a story encyclopedia. As far as playing this game JUST for story elements, yeah, there's a lot here and GG has a fairly standard "Anime" storyline. (GASP, HE HAS "THAT" POWER! SHE'S THE ONE WHO KNOWS "HIM" [With zero explination of who is who, but that's the point in anime games, I guess.])

[SolNeko]

Originally posted by Pixel Zed:

You can easily find the story in this game. EVERYTHING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED in every game prior is shown here in this game's main story mode. There's legit a story encyclopedia. As far as playing this game JUST for story elements, yeah, there's a lot here and GG has a fairly standard "Anime" storyline. (GASP, HE HAS "THAT" POWER! SHE'S THE ONE WHO KNOWS "HIM" [With zero explination of who is who, but that's the point in anime games, I guess.])

Reading an insane massive infodump of whats happened in all the previous games is no fun way to get into a story though, better to just watch it with all the visuals from stuff like the character endings etc on youtube atleast.