Continuity Lock Out: Difference between revisions

** According to [[BioWare]], ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' will subvert this, being "the best jumping-on point" for the series.

* Anyone playing [[Endless Frontier|Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED]] would be left confused if they did not first play [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden]], as two characters in the playable cast who were supposedly [[Killed Off for Real]] in the [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|main series]] winds up in the [[Endless Frontier|spin-off series]]. In fact, the developers make it a point you ''have to play the previous games'' occuring in the main continuity to know what's remotely going on if you decide to start somewhere in the middle.

* ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' is frequently accused of this. While most of the references make sense to a casual fan, the use of this trope pretty much single-handedly turned the Ridley scene into one of the most despised scenes in the series history.

** To give you an idea, this plot point came from an obscure manga that was never released outside of Japan, where Samus has already feared Ridley since he [[You Killed My Father|killed her mother]] and lead a massacre of [[Doomed Hometown|her home planet K2L.]] About the only indication people get is a [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|nonsensical shot of Samus turning into her child self]], rather than actually showing the ravaging of K2L for context.

* Arguable with the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', since it now consists of over a hundred stories, most of them novel or novella length. Every major protagonist has a backstory, and girls of Team Kimba all have [[Backstory]] ''novels''. Diving in with current stories means you may not get the in-jokes, or the references to prior stories, or what's going on with recurring characters, or some of the ongoing plotlines, like Ayla's blackmailer or Jade's quest, or the people who may be after Toni. Not to mention that it's assumed that you already know what the main characters' powers are.

* Also arguable, [[That Guy With The Glasses]], especially with how many multi-video [[Running Gag|running gags]], crossovers, story arcs, and [[Call Back|callbacks]] to past videos they use. Most hardcore fans of the site were lucky to find the [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s stuff on [[YouTube]] before it grew into an entire critic community, so they have a leg up on knowing each [[Running Gag]]. Watching individual reviews on the site, it seems fairly accessible, but understanding something like ''[[Kickassia]]'' is impossible unless you have a good understanding of the group's dynamic, not to mention the use of past characters.

** ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' was specifically written to avoid this, however. You'll definitely get more out of it if you're a fan of the site (especially regarding the use of Ma-Ti) but the story is perfectly comprehensible to someone coming in cold.

* Ostensibly, one of the reasons Rooster Teeth ended ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' at Episode 100 was to prevent Continuity Lock Out. While they succeeded, the series from that point forth became [[Cerebus Syndrome|much more plot based]], and a good number of the [[Call Back]]s still require familiarity with all the older episodes (as opposed to just episodes from the most recent trilogy, ''Recollection'').