For many, though, the first instalment isn’t the most successful.
It can take a few games to build up some popularity.
They weren’t here from the start, but these characters still made an impact.
Those sorts of instalments are the most interesting because they can turn a middling series into a household name.
On that topic, here are some games that were far more famous than what came before.
That game is Red Dead Revolver.
It is also a Western game, but features different characters and a different story.
For many, it seemed just to be its own thing.
However, there have actually been several Spec Ops games.
The rest were released between the years of 1998 and 2002.
None of them got particularly famous, though.
They think of the open-world 3D, third-person titles, which began with Grand Theft Auto 3.
What good is freedom if there aren’t any rules to break along the way?
5Metal Gear Solid
Before Metal Gear Solid, there were the Metal Gear games.
These were 2D stealth titles that helped popularize the genre.
They weren’t bad for their time and were successful.
This allowed it to be much more cinematic than the early games and other titles around that time.
Part of the reason for this was the release of The Witcher 3 in 2015.
You meet plenty of characters throughout The Witcher 3, and many of them are villainous.
These are the best of them.
In fact, it is one ofthe most highly-regarded RPGs of its generation.
Before this game, The Witcher game series wasn’t very well-known.
Yet, it didn’t earn this reputation from the first two games.
Both were fine, but they weren’t incredibly popular.
That popularity didn’t come until Burnout 3: Takedown.
This focus on destruction made the game highly successful and significantly increased the series' profile.
For instance, the game includes a big open world, vehicles, and a parachute.
These things weren’t enough to carry the game to great reviews, though.
For Just Cause 2, the developers upped the outrageousness.
In fact, they helped influence a bunch of other RPGs.
So, both of them were notable titles.
That said, neither of them reached the dizzying heights of Baldur’s Gate 3.
As such, many people who had never even heard of Baldur’s Gate gave it a try.
This is why the game sold far better than the first two entries.
Sometimes, it takes multiple games to tell a great story.
