Quote Originally Posted by ToriJ View Post
Plenty of times. I was introduced to a lot of franchises through their second game: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Road Rash, Crash Bandicoot, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, X-Men 2 Clone Wars, so on and so forth. I also played Metal Gear Solid before the first two games, and Skyrim was my introduction into TES.
Oh yeah the SNES/Genesis generation was Big for series with tons of sequels, you could pretty much start anywhere. I know I played the second Sonic, Shining Force and Streets of Rage before the first entries.

More recently I played FEAR 2 and Killzone 2 before their first entries. The only positive of going back to try Killzone 1 was that it made me appreciate what an enormous leap the second game was. The first was an instance of a team's vision being absolutely crippled by the hardware.