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[Winnie the Pimp]

I can't imagine replaying games these days with so many unplayed/fresh experiences waiting for me in the backlog...

Yet i still play sports games/MP games sometimes but those are different i guess.

 

[captainnapalm]

I just don't have the time to replay games, nor do I really feel the need to. I try and get everything out of my first playthrough.

The only game I replayed in the last few years was Arkham Asylum, and I'll also replay Arkham City some day. I love those games. I also replayed Dragon Age Origins, but didn't finish it.

 

[Neff]

I often see people talk about playing X game Y times because they love it so much. I very rarely ever feel that way about a single player game. Any time I do replay a game, I often end up not recompleting it. I only end up replaying it if it has been a VERY long time. This gen of games seems to make the problem even worse. I love Uncharted 2 and 3, but I'm not playing those games again. Same with Infamous 2 and The Witcher 2. I loved all of those games, but I have no compulsion to play them again. I feel like I've already experienced what those games had to offer, and I see no value in replaying them. I'm not sure if this is because the current gen of games rely more on big action set-pieces or if I'm just getting older to the point that I don't rely on a singular game to keep my interested for months.


And people talking about replaying games like Skyrim just baffles me. After spending 150+ hours doing everything in Skyrim, there's no way in hell I'm going to want to do it again with a different race/build.

You're in it for the experience, not the gameplay. You have no interest in getting 'better' at the game, or you're not playing games where it's possible to get better. Your penchant for Uncharted illustrates this point.

 

[IHaveCandy]

Well I got those games because I like the gameplay. I may replay it if a harder difficulty changes the gameplay outside of just increasing enemy hit points. I play multiplayer a lot because the gameplay changes. Single player often feels the same each time.

 

[Celegus]

I can only replay a game either directly after if I'm going for trophies or something (which is rare), or several years later by the time I've forgotten everything about it (terrible memory, so it's practically new to me). I just finished Metroid Prime again and loved it, before that was Yoshi's Island... kind of thinking Baten Kaitos Origins next. I love old games, that's why I never get rid of them.

 

[Soul_Pie]

I replay the following:

-My absolute favs: super metroid, Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Bros, Resident Evil 4
-Short, memorable experiences; Journey, Flower, Portal
-Games with multiple endings and different paths, or different missions on higher levels. ie perfect dark

Anything over about 30 hours long I just can't stomach at all in terms of replaying. If I had all the time in the world maybe I would but I just can't. Mind you I don't get much time these days for gaming at all let alone replaying those games.

 

[Relix]

I've only replayed Wind Waker and OoT (This one over 15 times probably). I hate, loathe, replaying games. Only one time for me. May be because of limited time.

 

[MEGATECHBODY.Co.LTD]

I pretty much feel the same way, although there are some special games that I love playing again and again. The Metal Gear Solid Series, Silent Hill 2&3, Demon's/Dark Souls, Majora's Mask, RE4. But yeah, some of this generations longer games are a struggle for me to complete once. Skyrim is a big example for me

 

[lightchris]

I must say I'm truly surprised seeing that so many people don't replay their games. I did not expect this at all.
Guess I projected my character onto others too much. Would be interesting if there might be local differences between countries too (different mentalities).

 

[Durante]

I generally don't like replaying games that I finished (where "finished", for shmups, means doing a 1CC, so I replay those a lot).

Even if I did like it, I have no idea where I would find the time. Short of doing something stupid like not spendign far too much time on GAF anymore

 

[Luminous_Reaver]

There are exceptional cases though. Like if you have only played something like SMB once I'm not really sure you qualify as a gamer

For a moment I thought you said NSMB and I was going to respond that I've played every other Mario game so many times that the fun is wearing thin. My only classic Mario gameplay related fun comes from watching the Kaizo SMW hacks. :U

 

[blainethemono]

I generally have a hard time even maintaining enough interest in games to even beat them once, but when I really love a game strictly for its gameplay and if it's short enough, I tend to play them to death.

Arkham Asylum - 5 times so far, still get urges to play it
Uncharted 1 and 2 - UC1 2 or 3 times, UC2 5 times
Bayonetta - cleared all 3 difficulties within a few days of owning the game, went on to play it another 6 times. Would probably still be playing through this regularly if my xbox still worked.


On the other hand I played skyrim for about 10 hours when it came out and haven't gone back since. I just find it really hard to stick with the longer games nowadays

 

[Black_Stride]

Multiple endings have never motivated me much. Id rather not unravel the endings because getting them all generally makes it rather shallow.

You need to replay The Witcher 2

The choice you make essentially changes a huge huge chunk of the narrative in the game.....if you never replayed the Wticher 2 you have for lack of a better term only played half the game.

Im baffled people dont play The Witcher 2 atleast twice, its not some silly alternate ending thing the game does.....it feels completely new and fresh when you change the choices.

Granted I only replayed The Witcher 2 months down the line, it felt like a completely new experience.

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For me it depends on the game really.

The weight of longevity is extremely high in my books, I rarely buy games without a high replay value or that are really long.

Games like Bayonetta are impossible for me to NOT play a million times....not when i be getting stone for the first half of the game.

 

[revolverjgw]

I rarely replay games because I have a compulsion to play everything. Time spent playing a game I've already played feels better spent on something new. But when I do replay my all-time favorites, usually years after the fact, I enjoy the shit out of them.

 

[Dark Octave]

I'll replay the hell out of a Starfox, Contra, Raiden, Sky Gunner and any other game that takes around 45 minutes or less to beat. There are areas and missions in longer games that I like to go back to and revisit when I have that craving for that game, but I'm not going to spen another 8 to 150 hours playing something that I already played when I could be spending that time playing something new. Especially in this day and age of cheap games and huge backlogs.

Gotta keep it moving.

 

[Cyrillus]

For the most part I agree, I don't really replay games at all.

One exception is NSMB for the DS. I remember I used to play that in bed before going to sleep, no idea how many times I replayed through that game...it was a lot. Just never found a platformer that could compete on the DS, or any handheld for that matter.

 

[SturokBGD]

King of the false starts here. I know a thing or two about replaying the same part of a game. ^_^

I find that a second play offers a different perspective on a game than a fresh play; you see things differently before, or see things you didn't notice before, even if the game is linear and you don't do anything different.

 

[Berto]

Usually i dont replay games simply because i have a huge backlog and little to no time, but I beat Half-Life once every year.

 

[Cloudy]

I've never actually replayed a game yet I don't trade in games I like because I'd like to replay them someday lol

I will definitely replay FF7 and FFX someday

 

[Luminous_Reaver]

I want to say that game design has changed to kind of push infinite replayability (IE: Prestige mode, NG+, 'Replay On Difficulty X Achievements') and that this has been done in such a way that the novelty and sense of gratification of replaying has been diminished, but I haven't put a whole lot of thought into the idea.