Has a new game ever got you interested in an older game again?

[repeating integers]

Herein lies my explanation for the confusing thread title.

I have, for the time being, burned myself out in Halo: Reach. After 5 campaign playthroughs in a row (the last one on the incredibly frustrating Legendary) I caught myself with the urge to play through Halo 3 for the sixth time. Which I duly did, on Heroic. Though it was sadly short, taking me only 2 days to get through, it reminded me of why I'd loved the game in the first place - it's just damn fun, especially the first two levels on the Ark. Short, but sweet, would be my description.

I then got the urge to play through ODST again, which I am doing (again on Heroic, as it's "the way Halo's meant to be played" and all that). It's having the same effect. I am getting enthralled with New Mombasa's atmosphere all over again.

So, have any of you Escapists had a similar experience? Have you bought a game which then inspired you to play older games in the same series, or even completely unrelated games?

 

[Vipoid]

Well, some time ago I bought Dragon's Age Origins, but after playing it for a while I found that I had apparently been sold only part of a game, and that if I wanted to play all of it, I had to pay more money through downloadable content. That was the point when I got fed up and went back to playing Baldur's Gate II.

 

[Stormpigeon]

After playing Warcraft 3 I had an urge to play 1 and 2. Sadly 1 sucked, but 2 was great

 

[Edvinas1111]

after I played "Dawn of war 2" i got back to "Dawn of war:soulstorm" because the second part sucked

 

[Xaio30]

I played Riven alot as a kid, but only now as I got around to play it again I realized that Riven was a sequel to myst.

 

[Judgement101]

FFXIII got me interested in the Persona series, too bad Atlus' games are so damn rare.

 

[veloper]

Master of Orion 2 after playing Galciv 2.
MOO2 is still the best space4X ever made.

 

[VicunaBlue]

Oblivion made me look up Morrowind.

 

[asgardmothership]

Well, with Deus Ex Human Revolution around the corner and looking amazing, the Steam sale of Deus Ex GOTY and the sequel for £3, it didnt take much for me to click the "buy" button. I am busy as hell at the moment, but I'll be ploughing through those 2 games as soon as I can- gotta be clued up for the new one!

By the way if you haven't seen a trailer for it, though thats unlikely - here's a good one:

 

[Echo136]

Deus Ex Human Revolution. Made me wanna go back and play Deus Ex again.

 

[monkey_man]

yeah, I'm playing Bioshock 2 and godOwar3 now, and I really have to replay the previous ones again. just for ol' time's sake

 

[dogenzakaminion]

Playing any Call of Duty game makes me want to play the very first one (the best one) all over again. I've played through that entire campaign like 50 times and I still love it.

 

[The_Puppy_Prince]

Fallout 3 and NV got me to wanna play Tactics and 1 -Didnt like 2 much-

 

[Psychoid]

The first half hour or so of playing Gran Turismo 5 made me want to go back to Forza 3 - does that count?

(Actually, it's not that bad. I think I just prefer the 360 controller for driving games)

 

[RAMBO22]

Sure. Just about anytime I play a Bethesda game (or a Western RPG in general), it brings me back to the game that has been the sand-trap for all the hours of free time I've had in my life, TES Morrowind!

To think of all the books I could've...Nah! That's dangerous thinking, I'll just stick to Morrowind!

 

[Bobic]

I picked up supreme commander 2 in a steam sale a while back. Didn't like it much, it seems to have been scaled down a lot. Anyway this caused me to play the original again.

 

[Beryl77]

After I played mgs3 I just had to play all the older mgs games too. Unfortunately metal gear 1 and 2 were for the msx I think, So I just could read about them on the internet.
The same goes for dmc4, after playing that I bought dmc1-3 right away.

 

[pyrosaw]

Played GTA4 and wanted to play other sandbox games. I found Postal 2.XD

 

[Jfswift]

After I played mgs3 I just had to play all the older mgs games too. Unfortunately metal gear 1 and 2 were for the msx I think, So I just could read about them on the internet.
The same goes for dmc4, after playing that I bought dmc1-3 right away.

I agree with you there, whenever I play any of the newer metal gears I start thinking about playing the older ones again (they're all pretty well made really).

 

[Neverhoodian]

After hearing all my friends sing Fallout 3's praises, I decided to buy the Fallout Classics collection, which has Fallout 1, 2, and Tactics. I am now in the process of playing each game in order until I get to Fallout 3. I'm still getting through Fallout 1 right now. It's a hard game, but rewarding as well.