Games you ended up liking a lot more on your second playthrough. Or my thoughts on New Vegas.
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C&C 4:Tiberium twilig... pffff ahaha, sorry, couldn't keep a straight face.
Had same experience with New Vegas as posters before me. Also adding some mods really spiced it up.
I will add Minecraft here. With a playthorugh being the same as "knowing how to actually construct all those shiny things people do in Let's play!".
Had same experience with New Vegas as posters before me. Also adding some mods really spiced it up.
I will add Minecraft here. With a playthorugh being the same as "knowing how to actually construct all those shiny things people do in Let's play!".
Fallout 3 is not nearly as good as New Vegas. I am not sure about Oblvion though. It's story isn't the best,(though the Dark Brotherhood is awesome.) but it is still better than Dragon Ages 2's. I enjoyed Oblivion more for its freedom and New Vegas for it's story and I didn't like Faollout 3.WillieDaKid3 said:
Nier. So, so much Nier. But that's only because the game is different on your second playthrough, so this one might not count.
I'm going to say this every time I post mentioning Nier: If you've completed Nier once and didn't like it, play it again and wait for the credits to finish rolling, then when the game asks you if you want to play again, say yes. Please. Please. You will see why.
That game deserves so much recognition, even if the good part of the game was hidden away in a ridiculously bad way.
[sub][sub]And that soundtrack... just... what the hell was the composer on?[/sub][/sub]
I'm going to say this every time I post mentioning Nier: If you've completed Nier once and didn't like it, play it again and wait for the credits to finish rolling, then when the game asks you if you want to play again, say yes. Please. Please. You will see why.
That game deserves so much recognition, even if the good part of the game was hidden away in a ridiculously bad way.
[sub][sub]And that soundtrack... just... what the hell was the composer on?[/sub][/sub]
Mass Effect 1 and 2 (first playthrough)
I was late to the party with the Mass Effect series and was still on my first playthrough of ME1 when my hubby bought me the second one.
I was playing as Male Shep, default appearance, enjoyed the game, found the love interests abit boring so left them alone for a few months.
Returned and created my first Fem Shep, and fell inlove. The voice acting is superior and the option to shack up with Garrus still get's me giddy.
No prize for guessing who my first runthrough of ME3 was with!
I was late to the party with the Mass Effect series and was still on my first playthrough of ME1 when my hubby bought me the second one.
I was playing as Male Shep, default appearance, enjoyed the game, found the love interests abit boring so left them alone for a few months.
Returned and created my first Fem Shep, and fell inlove. The voice acting is superior and the option to shack up with Garrus still get's me giddy.
No prize for guessing who my first runthrough of ME3 was with!
Prince of Persia, Two Thrones and 2008 reboot with Elika.
Especially it is true about 2008 reboot because I figured out the combat by the time of the second playthrough and bosses weren't that frustratingly difficult as in the first time around.
Bastion. I loved it first time, and I extremely enjoyed it second time, with more of upgraded weapons and more drinks; currently I'm playing third time through on max level and higher difficulty. Still enjoy it even more.
Baldur's Gate I and II, where I could go around and do many things differently than the first time.
Especially it is true about 2008 reboot because I figured out the combat by the time of the second playthrough and bosses weren't that frustratingly difficult as in the first time around.
Bastion. I loved it first time, and I extremely enjoyed it second time, with more of upgraded weapons and more drinks; currently I'm playing third time through on max level and higher difficulty. Still enjoy it even more.
Baldur's Gate I and II, where I could go around and do many things differently than the first time.
the great thing about NV is everything you do feels somhow conected to your main goalsscorptatious said:
for me I was pretty "meh" about Mass Effect first time around
and I think before that I had only played dragon age
rigins and to me it just did everything ME did but better..plus ME had a whole bunch of technical issues I liked it by the time I finished I just wasnt enthralled exactly....it took ME2 and some previous playthrough before I become a MassEffect fan
I gotta say it's an old game. It's Monster Rancher 2. And the4 second playthrough is well, almost a decade in-between. With my age and tactics, I've learned such an old game for kids has a very complicated and intricate way on how you actually ace the game. To me it's one of the best examples of easy to play, hard to master. Or in this case it might be easy to not know what to do, hard to master.
I hated Metro 2033 on the first go - the shooting was fucking awful and my stealth attempts didn't exactly seem to go great. Fired it up again almost a year later and changed it to the Ranger difficulty and loved it. All it needed was the slight rebalance to make everything feel just right.
Dragon age and Fallout New Vegas for me definitely.
The best example for me however would be civilization. It's only after the first play through (which I lost by the way somehow), that I learned how to really play it. After mastery came enjoyment.
The best example for me however would be civilization. It's only after the first play through (which I lost by the way somehow), that I learned how to really play it. After mastery came enjoyment.
I know, right! I want Obsidian (I.E Black Isle, the bloaks behind Fo1 and Fo2)to develop Fallout 4, so badly. You know why? Because Bethesda, all happy with the "organic leveling" in Skyrim, are probably going to take away XP and skill point distribution - one of the greatest aspects of the series for Fo4. If true, that's the most depressing thing I've written all year.Vault101 said:
I mean, really, a system like that works in an Elder Scrolls game. But Fallout?
Please no.
Demon's Souls...
The game was hard as hell, went through it once and beat it...
Went through it again and liked it much better.
The game was hard as hell, went through it once and beat it...
Went through it again and liked it much better.
DA2- don't get me wrong, still prefer DA:O, but playing through as an archer was much more fun than dual wielding rouge or mage. Also the slightly easier setting helped as the battles were less grindy
Mass Effect 1. I couldn't even finish it on my first run because it was so boring. The story was dumb, the shooting was tedious and apart from Garrus not one of the characters were any likable to me.
After finishing Mass Effect 2 I felt compelled to play it again just for completion's sake and ended up liking it alot more. I mean I still wouldn't play it again but it does feel alot more organic and freeform than the sequels. Also I've come to appreciate the slower and more defensive combat AI, because again it feels more natural than in 2 and 3 were enemies would jsut pop out of cover for no reason to charge you head on.
After finishing Mass Effect 2 I felt compelled to play it again just for completion's sake and ended up liking it alot more. I mean I still wouldn't play it again but it does feel alot more organic and freeform than the sequels. Also I've come to appreciate the slower and more defensive combat AI, because again it feels more natural than in 2 and 3 were enemies would jsut pop out of cover for no reason to charge you head on.
After playing Fallout 3 more times than I could keep track of, I was looking forward to New Vegas. I didn't keep track of any of the trailers since I didn't want to give in to the hype...too much, this is Fallout we're talking about here.
Fast forward to release day, the cinematic intro excites me even further and I finally get around to playing the game. A few hours in, I was bored. I couldn't help but feel like a bought a gigantic expansion pack.
6 months down the line and I decide to start New Vegas again, considering I had some time to kill. I don't know what happened, but holy hell, it's like I stumbled across the modern Fallout goldmine! Everything was improved, combat, perks, the references, the lore, etc
I felt the Mohave was a bit empty, so I downloaded a mod to increase enemy spawns by 5 or 7 times the base amount. Plus another mod to decrease the experience I gained by 50% since I felt I grew overpowered too early even on Very Hard.
Turned out to be a great and memorable experience. It seems like I just needed to re-adjust to New Vegas's new atmosphere.
Fast forward to release day, the cinematic intro excites me even further and I finally get around to playing the game. A few hours in, I was bored. I couldn't help but feel like a bought a gigantic expansion pack.
6 months down the line and I decide to start New Vegas again, considering I had some time to kill. I don't know what happened, but holy hell, it's like I stumbled across the modern Fallout goldmine! Everything was improved, combat, perks, the references, the lore, etc
I felt the Mohave was a bit empty, so I downloaded a mod to increase enemy spawns by 5 or 7 times the base amount. Plus another mod to decrease the experience I gained by 50% since I felt I grew overpowered too early even on Very Hard.
Turned out to be a great and memorable experience. It seems like I just needed to re-adjust to New Vegas's new atmosphere.
I didn't get on with Borderlands the first time I played it, because I'm a solitary beast that refuses to play with others so I really struggled with a single player playthrough.
I can't remember why, but about a year later I decided to play it again with a different character, who has a little remote turret, and suddenly it was a lot more fun. It remains the only game that I've bought DLC for and it's sequel, which I am eagerly awaiting, is the first game I've pre-ordered in over ten years.
In the meantime, I'm currently on my fourth playthrough of the original.
I can't remember why, but about a year later I decided to play it again with a different character, who has a little remote turret, and suddenly it was a lot more fun. It remains the only game that I've bought DLC for and it's sequel, which I am eagerly awaiting, is the first game I've pre-ordered in over ten years.
In the meantime, I'm currently on my fourth playthrough of the original.