A slightly perverse question...

[Gigantor]

...perhaps, for a gaming forum. Are there any games out there that people love but, for whatever reasons, would never want to play again? For instance, I love Morrowind, and have many a happy memory of it: but would I ever play all the way through it again? Hell, no. Took me about 250 hours to get that bloody dark elf up to level 72, ain't no way in heck I'm sitting through all the shit that I put up with the first time through all over again.

Anyone else feel this way, or is it just me being a freak? Do I really 'love' a game if I never want to play it again, or do I only love the memories? What say you?

 

[[HD]Rob Inglis]

How is this a perverse question? And you seem like in the middle. When you play through a game the first time, the whole experience is original, making it usually fun. If you then spend a lot of time doing something tedious the first time round, it may not be so bad. The second time is just dread cause you know how much time it's going to take to get to that point again.

 

[Lightbulb]

...perhaps, for a gaming forum. Are there any games out there that people love but, for whatever reasons, would never want to play again? For instance, I love Morrowind, and have many a happy memory of it: but would I ever play all the way through it again? Hell, no. Took me about 250 hours to get that bloody dark elf up to level 72, ain't no way in heck I'm sitting through all the shit that I put up with the first time through all over again.

Anyone else feel this way, or is it just me being a freak? Do I really 'love' a game if I never want to play it again, or do I only love the memories? What say you?

Most games to be honest.

I have only replayed a handful of games.

Some notable ones:

Baldurs Gate, Half-Life, Civ2

 

[propertyofcobra]

Most RPGs. Especially JRPGs where if you played it once, you played it all possible infinite ways you ever can. (Games like Fallout and KotOR are different, because of the plethora of choices avaliable to you.)

 

[Break]

Pokemon. It's a great RPG and all, but I really can't be arsed to go through it all again.

When I lost my Crackdown save, I tried to start again, but you're so horribly weak in the beginning. I just got bored.

KOTOR 2, as well. I hate the beginning of that game. Like you say, I loved playing it, and there were some really memorable scenes, but I just do not want to go back through it again.

 

[The Bandit]

Dead Rising. Oh my Jesus, I don't want to go through that crap again. An insanely fun game, but it barely manages to get through one playthrough without being repetitive.

 

[brimstone1392]

Here's one some of you are probably too young to remember - Battletoads

I loved playing this game on the old NES. It was so much fun, but so UNGODLY difficult to beat that I've never even wanted to play it again after the first and only time I actually did beat it.

I get frustrated just thinking about it.

 

[portuga-man]

if the story is the strong point of the game, and does nothing else to innovate --> you play it once, you won't need to play it again, unless you somehow forget the history

if you have to go through a LOT to complete the game --> only if you really really liked the game. Personally, I don't want to go through all the work rpg's demand us to just to replay the game, and sigh with satisfaction as the credits roll.

If the game set a new standard in it's genre by the time it was released --> you play it again, some years later, and figure it's no better than a regular game from that genre. you lose interest.

For me, a game to have replay value has to stand the test of time, and be instantly fun. You don't want to play a game thinking "ohh after this part the fun starts". A game's story may also get in the way of the fun. If a game needs you to be too immerse in the story to know what the heck is going on, that counts as minus points for me. Take as an example some of the old games, like Contra, Mario and Mortal Kombat. you don't need to know that the koopas wage a 3-thousand year-old war with the mushroom kingdom. You know a big turtle kidnaped the princess and you, a plumber, need to rescue her. These kind of games are easy to pick up, since they're easy to understand and are fun from the beggining 'till the end.

oh crap. another wall of text. sry :S

 

[broadband]

i dont think this is a perverse question, right now i cant remember some games but i remember some games that i never finished

 

[Mairsil the Pretender]

I honestly cant think of a game that i wouldnt want to play through again. But, I'm a PC gamer with a Shitty PC and short funds, so my gaming history isnt very long. So I've learned to milk every game I own for every iota of enjoyment I can manage.

I'd play through morrowind again, but I probably wouldnt try for the main quest: just join a House or Guild and play through until I run the joint. already did that, actually. My badass Breton Conjuror/Fighter can sit where he is in Vivec, while my cute Imerial Unarmored Longsword-weilding rogue can kick back in her manor near balmora, and My argonian Shaman is sitting pretty as high archmage, first among equals, yadah, yadah, of the mage's guild.

the whole HL series is worth playing through again and again, especialy with the developer commentary and the encounter depth. plus, I simply cant articulate the joy I experienced when I discovered that a gravity-gunned manhack can be used like a chainsaw on my third play-through. launched to kill something yes, I knew that, but not that it could be a chainsaw.

 

[WingedFortress]

Hmmm, a difficult question, considering most games I wont play, I inevitably hate. But I think super mario rpg might fit the bill perfectly. I have nothing but fond memories of that game, but a few lost game files, and a lack of patience for turn based rpg's has put that game away forever.
I never did beat the final smithy battle though. That bugs me.

 

[shakeslol]

...perhaps, for a gaming forum. Are there any games out there that people love but, for whatever reasons, would never want to play again? For instance, I love Morrowind, and have many a happy memory of it: but would I ever play all the way through it again? Hell, no. Took me about 250 hours to get that bloody dark elf up to level 72, ain't no way in heck I'm sitting through all the shit that I put up with the first time through all over again.

Anyone else feel this way, or is it just me being a freak? Do I really 'love' a game if I never want to play it again, or do I only love the memories? What say you?

i share your sentiments for that game wholly, i do find myself re-installing it from time to time but i cant put the time in again and prefer the glow of memories haha

 

[GenHellspawn]

007: Everything or Nothing.

A fine game, I just don't feel like replaying it.

 

[Chaosthief]

The Zelda games. Once you've played through them, that's virtually all there is to it.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I loved Sly 3.
I never want to play it again.
As is with Legend of Zelda: the Minish Cap. Additionally, I never want to play a LoZ game ever again.

 

[mikeymatrix]

I love Final Fantasy XII, but I will probably never play through it again. However, I've yet to finish it...I enjoy the heck out of it, but I have no time to play an engrossing rpg at the moment. I think that pretty much goes for any RPG in my case...

I decided to finish beating Titan Quest (for the first time) and I might actually play that again simply because I've forgotten what the first half of the game was about. lol. If I had not forgotten, I probably will never replay it.

I probably won't play Resident Evil 4 again. Not the complete story mode at least...the bonus game...sure.

I guess the only games I actually play over and over are sports games or mindless (like Mortal Kombat) fighting or RTS's like Medieval 2 and Dawn of War.

 

[Iceman23]

Dead Rising (for the True Ending anyway), the game is fun at first, but it gets incredibly repetitive, go to from point A to point B, slaughter all Zombies in my path, while getting constant calls from Otis that I can't read because they didn't make the in game text legible on a normal TV.

And there is no reason to go back to enjoy the storyline, because Capcom shot themselves in the foot after it was revealed that the zombies were the biproduct of some experiment to produce more meat for the US to eat.

Meat that was produced by getting a genetically modified wasp to sting a cow, because you know, getting a wasp to sting a cow is a MUCH more effective method of producing meat than just creating clones of the cow.

Although one game I will probably never replay again that I TRULY liked, would be Metroid Prime, I loved exploring every nook and cranny of Tallon IV, but recollecting all of those items a second time isn't as fun as finding them all the first time.

 

[PurpleRain]

Dead Rising (for the True Ending anyway), the game is fun at first, but it gets incredibly repetitive, go to from point A to point B, slaughter all Zombies in my path, while getting constant calls from Otis that I can't read because they didn't make the in game text legible on a normal TV.

And there is no reason to go back to enjoy the storyline, because Capcom shot themselves in the foot after it was revealed that the zombies were the biproduct of some experiment to produce more meat for the US to eat.

Meat that was produced by getting a genetically modified wasp to sting a cow, because you know, getting a wasp to sting a cow is a MUCH more effective method of producing more meat than just creating clones of the cow.

The story was screwed big time. I didn't get it until the second time I played because the first time I heard it I thought I worked it out wrong or something, second time round I found out I was right. But that game stopped being fun. It did get a bit repedative but I could always go back to it.

 

[p1ne]

Prince of Persia - Sands of Time. Great game, no replay value whatsoever.

 

[stevesan]

interesting question...

as ppl have said, most RPGs. fallout, final fantasy's..just too much of a time commitment.