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SeahorseCpt89 posted...

I tried twice to get into the Paper Mario games; Sticker Star (sucked) and the original (twas ok, but I got bored and never finished it). Needles to say they didnt do it for me.

Generally speaking, the first two (64 and Thousand Year Door) are the only ones people are thinking of when they say Paper Mario is a good series. Super Paper Mario is also good in its own right, but it's very different and not quite on the same level. Sticker Star and onward took the series in a new direction that most fans generally haven't liked very much (though at this point, TTYD was 16 years and four games ago, so perhaps it's more reasonable to consider the first two to be outliers now).

That said, if you didn't really enjoy the original, you don't really need to try TTYD as well to claim you've given the series a good try. It polishes and improves on the original in a number of ways, but the core gameplay and writing style are basically the same, so not liking 64 can reasonably predict not liking TTYD.