Ooohh, I forgot about Tomb Raider.

This raises a new question for me. Would you be forced in any way to play games in the series you don't want to play?

Cause if so, instead of basing my decision on the series with the most games I'd want to play, I'd base it on the series with the least number of games I don't want to play. i.e. TR wouldn't have a chance.

Neither would Mario, Metroid, RE, SH, or pretty much any long-running franchised series of games. And FFXIII alone annoys me so much I probably would have to pass on Final Fantasy as a series. I'm not joking, either. I seriously hate that game (I'm playing 13-2 now, and it's not nearly as bad).

Would shoot TES far up on my list of possibilities along with some smaller series like Mass Effect.