Games you ended up liking a lot more on your second playthrough. Or my thoughts on New Vegas.

[scorptatious]

So two years after beating it the first time, I decided to dig out Fallout: New Vegas and am currently playing through it again. I remembered the first time I played it, I kinda liked it, but I found myself wanting the game to be over quickly towards the end and ended up rushing through it. So I guess that kinda cheapened the experience for me. So I thought I should give it another go, and take my time with it instead of rushing.

And I must say, I think I'm slowly falling in love with this game. I kinda like how the story is structured, in which you're trekking across a wasteland along a path given to you by people in the various towns you visit. Most people would call this railroading, and I guess it kinda is, but I really like it myself. It's kind of a hard feeling to describe really. There's just something about starting on one end of the map and trekking across a long and scenic path which leads all the way to New Vegas. I guess if I were to compare it to anything it would be like the Wizard of Oz, minus the colorful landscape and witches. Or hell, maybe a more recent example like Journey.

And the freedom is still there for me, there are towns and other places I can stop by in order to talk to the people and learn more about the world I live in. Which as a result, causes me to go and discover other places that are slightly off the beaten path in order to do some quests for people from said town. When all's said and done, I walk out of the place I was at and continue heading down towards New Vegas, looking back at it as I walk away.

Also, Veronica is awesome. Fucking punches out Golden Gecko Hunters like nobody's business.

OK, enough rambling. Time for the actual discussion:

Was there a game that you didn't really learn to like or appreciate until you decided to play through it again?

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[Daystar Clarion]

I didn't really like New Vegas all that much when I first started playing it either.

I can't quite put my finger on what it was either.

But now it's one of my favourite games.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Arkham City was far more enjoyable on my New Game + playthrough, mainly because that was when I figured out how to do riddler challenges, and by that time I had gotten a good enough grip on the controls that I felt like the mega badass that Batman is

 

[PrimitiveJudge]

Honestly I hated Borderlands with a passion at first time playing it. At that time though I was doing delta mode on Crysis, playing nazi zombies for the first time, and playing RE5. The whole comic book graphics and madmax style genre pissed me off. I gave the game a second chance after 3 months (only because I payed for it and I never return games) while playing Danzig and Korn and it went off from there. Even did the Playthrough 2 with everyone.

As for New Vegas, I might have a answer on why you liked it better with your second playthrough. Restrictions. Most games do not give you a world to explore, random dangers, side quests that MAKE you work to get to and silly shit. Just sometimes people needs the shackles released and play a free deadly world with a complete Super Metroid sound track playing in the backround.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Dark Souls.
Now don't get me wrong, I love Dark Souls.
But in my first playthrough, I didn't know what was what.
I had prior experience since I had won Demon's Souls at least fifteen times, but there was a lot of new stuff to throw me off.
So my first was just learning, and in the subsequent playthroughs, I could really appreciate the many amazing aspects of Dark Souls.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

Mirror's Edge.

The best thrills in that game come with momentum, when you can string together a succession of moves, your speed building up and up. In my first playthrough, too many times I found myself at a dead stop, looking around the pretty primary-colored city, not sure where I was supposed to go or how to get there. The flow stopped dead, I would get killed, and repeat. I still liked the game, but there was a definite frustration there.

On the second playthrough, I had at least a rough idea of where I was heading and what was in my way. The action flowed more smoothly, and I saw the real beauty and fun of the game.

 

[Legion]

Fallout 3 was one of the first games I experienced of it's kind. I played through the campaign fairly quickly (including unintentionally skipping ahead a part of the main quest) and did almost no side quests. By the end I was thinking "Is that it?"

I tried it again soon after, trying more exploration, and I didn't go straight for the main story and absolutely loved it.

New Vegas was ruined for me to start with due to so many bugs and crashes, it really killed my desire to play it. I gave it a chance (because I loved the type of game and the series) and I enjoy it even more than Fallout 3 now.

 

[Insanity72]

Dragon Age origin's

I borrowed it off of my friend once (on console), could not get into it at all, no idea why. I even tried it again about a month later, still couldn't get into it. However once when I was buying a game, I still had some cash left over and saw it with Awakening (on PC this time) and thought, why the hell not. I must have liked it a hell of a lot, because I can't even remember the other game that I went into buy XD

Also Mass Effect 2

I never played the 1st one, but got the 2nd one because it was for sale on steam, I liked it, but something never felt right about it, recently I borrowed the 1st game off of a friend.(coincidentally the same one as before) played through it, and now am playing through number 2 again and really enjoying the experience this time round. Actually being there in the 1st game and making those decisions that reflect events in the 2nd, made it a lot better and actually having a connection with the characters from the 1st.

 

[AlmostLikeLife]

For me, it would be the first Mass Effect.

I bought it well after it's launch date because I kept seeing people say how good it was. My first play-through I really didn't know much about it and, having little experience with action RPGs before hand aside from short spurts of playing TES: Oblivion, I really didn't know what I was doing.

I plowed through it and it went back on the shelf and off into obscurity. Then, I saw that ME2 was coming out soon, so I decided to play it again to see if it would make me want to buy the sequel. That 2nd time through it I loved it, every bit of it.

The Mass Effect series is now one of my favorites of all time. (Yeah, the endings were 'meh' but I can live with it.)

 

[waj9876]

Steambot Chronicles. My favorite game of all time.

I just didn't get that into it the first time around...And then I realized I sucked at the game. That was why I wasn't having much fun.

 

[WillieDaKid3]

Oblivion. Finished it, and thought it was kind of crap due to the combat, filler-travel, and voice-acting. However, like many people, Oblivion was one of my first experiences with an open world role-playing game and as such I had to "learn" to play it correctly. Fallout 3 was similar. However, by the time New Vegas came out, everything clicked and I understood how to play a deep game that didn't hold my hand; in essence I discovered the role-playing aspect of RPGs. I look back on my 80 hours with Oblivion now and have mostly good memories.

I'm dying to go back and play Tes: IV and Fo3 again, just so I can take what I've learned and apply it to games I know I'll now love. But Borderlands 2 and Torchlight 2 are about to come out, so that'll just have to wait.

Besides, I doubt Oblivion or Fallout 3 can ever top New Vegas.

That game is just bad-ass.

 

[TheDoctor455]

I loved New Vegas right from the beginning.

Trouble is, this PC can barely run it... which combined with the bugs (even after mods that fix many of them)... its a pain in the ass to play.

On topic though...

I didn't exactly hate Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver (the first one) when I tried to play through it... I simply reached a point about halfway that stumped me into frustration. Basically ended up not playing it for several years...
then, last year, everything about it just sort of... clicked. And I made it through. Great game. Would definitely recommend it.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I didn't really like New Vegas all that much when I first started playing it either.

I can't quite put my finger on what it was either.

But now it's one of my favourite games.

I think a big part of it was how difficult it was to speed-run to New Vegas. Running north gets you eaten by flies. Running north-east gets you eaten by Deathclaws (unless you know where that one narrow path is, in which case there's only one Deathclaw to eat you). Going the way the game wants you to go is time consuming.

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The first time I played Final Fantasy X I was still in my modern gaming kick (GEARS OF HALO THEFT AUTO!!). I didn't make it too far but can't remember where I left off. More recently I got back into the game and played it to completion (story completion, not 100% because fuck lightning jumping) and absolutely loved it.

 

[DionysusSnoopy]

New Vegas was def better after the first playthrough and i really enjoyed the DLC on how it kept building up to the last expansion the Lonesome Road.

Also quite excited for Obsidians new game the website number is at 1 and the current quote:
"This world wants to drag us down, it does. It made you a Watcher. No one asks for that. And the weight, that guilt they want to hang around my neck, you don't have to carry it one mor step. You think they won't let you rest, but it's not up to them. It never was."

Link to escapists news story
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/119528-Obsidian-Teases-a-New-RPG

 

[aguspal]

Dead rising 2.

Its really quite the different game when you are all level up and have gathered a lot of experience youself with the game, to the point where you know whats going to happen and be there before the game even has the chance to show you the way. Feels quite awesome, in its own weird way. Especially for a timed game.

 

[scorptatious]

I didn't really like New Vegas all that much when I first started playing it either.

I can't quite put my finger on what it was either.

But now it's one of my favourite games.

I think a big part of it was how difficult it was to speed-run to New Vegas. Running north gets you eaten by flies. Running north-east gets you eaten by Deathclaws (unless you know where that one narrow path is, in which case there's only one Deathclaw to eat you). Going the way the game wants you to go is time consuming.

I kinda agree. From what I remember, you can skip a very large chunk of the main quest in Fallout 3 by simply heading north from where you exit the Vault.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Mass Effect 2 I enjoyed it a lot more in my 2nd playthrough partially it's because I had all the dlc on my 2nd playthrough but mostly it's because then I knew that I did not have to scan every single fucking planet and mine them all. And by the way the mining minigame is still on of the worst things ever created ever. Did no one in Bioware really played it and thought yeah that's what gamer hell looks like.

Crysis 2 some of it maybe because I now have PC powerful enough to run it on max settings and some of it because now I noticed a lot of little things about the game, like the faint sound your suit does if engage cloak.

Now about Fallout NV, I still don't like it as much as I did Fallout 3, and it's not even the bugs although how NV can even now be more buggy than 3 was at launch is beyond me, it's more about how the game restricts you with invisible walls and with unkillable monsters, it's fucking aggrevating. I thought it was really fun how in Fallout 3 you literally chose your own path and you could speed run through it with mere hours.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I had a similar experience with Fallout 3 and i think the reason was the level cap. Once you hit max level on a game there isn't really much incentive to carry on (with the exception of story). I played through it and then shelved it for 3 months. When i played it the second time through though i decided to find all the named weapons and max all my stats that i could...then the game became a masterpiece to me.

As for New vegas though i found it a little less interesting and mostly because you can break the game by running to the strip and getting 35k cash from the gambling right at the start. They also put your house in a stupid place that takes lots of loads to get to which kinda broke my 'take everything' policy from 3.

 

[tofulove]

for me crusader kings 2. at first i was really disappointed by the character creation thing cause how its balance by the age of your character. and i was like screw this game bla bla bla. came back and i was like i love this game where you bin all my life <3