Talk:Earth Defense Force 2025/@comment-95561-20120612204114

It could also be that they somehow consider it a side game outside the normal series progression. There was Global Defence Force Tactics, for instance, which came between EDF 2 and 2017. An external example would be the Grand Theft Auto series—There was GTA 1, GTA: London 1969 and London 1961 (both considered part of GTA1), GTA 2, GTA 3, and then a large number of games (Vice City, Advance, San Andreas, Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories), FINALLY GTA 4 (and two "expansions" called The Lost and The Damned & The Ballad of Gay Tony), Chinatown Wars (apparently a side game not technically considered an expansion) and next is GTA 5.