Can you replay your old games?

[SonOfMethuselah]

I can replay just about anything, at any time. For example, I just got Persona 3 Portable on my PSV over the summer, and played through it four times before deleting it off the system (took up too much memory. Only have a four gig card). I've played through Dragon Age: Origins (not including Awakening) three or four times since its release.

I also do this weird thing where I start RPGs and play through them for a while, then scrap my progress and start over. Generally, it happens with Elder Scrolls games (I must have made almost a dozen different characters in Oblivion, but only made it through the story once; for Skyrim, I'm up to four or five, and still haven't finished the main questline). It just depends on how much I enjoy the game world, the characters, how well everything clicks, etc.

It's usually only RPGs (I'm including Ocarina of Time in there, for the sake of simplicity) that I play through multiple times, though. Not counting GTA (and Saints Row, I suppose) games, I can't think of any games that don't fall under 'RPG' that I've finished multiple times.

 

[Starik20X6]

Yeah I can, though I've usually got a backlog to work through so I hardly ever have time to be re-playing old games.

 

[YicklePigeon]

It depends - most of the time it's a no. The exceptions are adventure games that have a very good story (akin to a well written novel) that is the equivalent sensation of settling into a nice warm bubble bath - with that said well written novel.

Examples would be The Dig, Full Throttle, Broken Sword 1-3 (but not the fourth instalment - ugh...just ugh), of which I just started replaying The Sleeping Dragon two days ago and finished last night and it still holds up. Conversely, the Telltale adventures I tend to have played only once - their selling point is also their folly: there just isn't enough content for me to warrant replaying them (although I did, because I was on a Back To The Future kick, replay the BTTF adventures).

Then there are the replayable games: Diablo 2 (and in turn, LoD) has been present on all my PC builds - and even my laptop from September 2010 - since their original release. Once I get bored of that (usually either Act 2 Normal or Act 3 Nightmare depending on the character and build), there's Jagged Alliance 2 for something a bit more intelligent.

OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe for those not knowing...shame on you if you didn't! ) is also enjoyed, though I haven't replayed that since early 2012.

Other than that, I play a game once to completion (or until I get to a point where I'm *really* not enjoying it) and if its a really really really good game then I may replay it to see if I missed anything the first time around.

 

[vasiD]

I do it all the time, honestly I spend more time on my old favorites than new games.

That said, I know how you feel with Pokemon. A friend was REALLY into those games recently (he's 23 I think, I'm 25) and I tried to join him as I consider him one of my best friends and I had played up until the 3D one on Gamecube (I was so stoked for that game, and it really didn't disappoint)... However I just could not get into it recently. It didn't hurt that Fallout New Vegas had just come out... but also those games are just hard to sit through. The story doesn't spurn you on because it's fucking retarded, and if you've played it a ton as a kid you've really seen all there is to see. I was really only playing to duel my friend, and after beating him in both our matches I just didn't feel the need to go on (plus I felt sort of weird that my friend who was way more into the game couldn't match my age old strategies... Like I felt bad, rather than the pride I feel when I work over that same friend in Street Fighter).

Some games it's hard to go back to, but true classics, I think, will always ring true.

That said I'd still call Pokemon a true classic, it's just aimed at such a young audience that it's harder for an adult to get in to, more so if you've already done it (usually more than once).

 

[remnant_phoenix]

It depends.

Some games I've played and then replayed multiple times because they're just that enjoyable.

Games like Chrono Trigger and some of the Final Fantasy games have great stories and characters that, like re-watching a movie, or re-reading a book, I want to experience them again. Or games like Mega Man X, which is so well-polished and so fun to play that the linearity of the experience doesn't take away from the fun factor. Or games like Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, and Bioshock, where the atmosphere is so rich and engrossing that the feel of just BEING in the worlds of those games is worth a second, third, or more trips back.

Some games have variations on subsequent playthroughs that practically demand multiple playthroughs if you want to experience everything that the game has to offer: Dragon Age Origins, inFamous, and a lot of different RPGs offer this.

Some games have such emergent gameplay that you're never going to get quite the same experience each time: games like Civilization, especially when you change difficulty levels, offer drastically different experiences on each playthough that if you enjoy it, it feels natural to play it again and again.

But there are some games that I enjoy for the time and then never really want to touch again. I recently sold my copies of the Uncharted games because I never saw myself playing them again. I certainly enjoyed them as a I played them, and I'm glad that I did, but I couldn't see myself going through them again, it was more of a one-time experience sort of thing.

 

[CarolusRex]

Yeah, I replay quite a few of my games.

Pokemon Red, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask, The PS1 Spyros and Crash Bandicoots.

I love my old games and for that fact, I love to replay them since they were a major part of my growing up.

 

[Mordekaien]

I currently ditched Torchlight 2 so I can have a go at Baldur's Gate 1, and I'm not even removing Daggerfall from my laptop anymore (same goes with Morrowind and Diablo 2).

So yeah, I think I can replay old games.

 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Hey, I still have my old Game Boy Color that hasn't died yet with some Pokemon and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe on hand. I don't see why not giving it a go from time to time.

 

[Valis7]

I tried playing FFVII a few months back but I just couldn't stand it, the game looks like a bunch of jagged rocks covered in crayon vomit. Even SNES games look better by todays standards. I know graphics don't make the game but even I have my limits.