How often do you play old games?

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duwenbasden

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Serinanth said:
duwenbasden said:
Define "old".

I still play SimCity 2000 here and then:

Warcraft 3
SimCity 4
SimCity Classic
SimFarm
Top Racer 1
Bomberman 1-4
Been playing SC4 RushHour lately too. New New York needed some tending to. I kinda miss the flowing rivers and hydroelectric plants you could make in SC2000.
Would more accurately be called "New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York". I've been focusing on towns lately, with the big city feeding it.

Yes to waterfalls :D I call my hydroelectric-plants-on-a-mound "anthills", but that takes up too much room.
 

The Artificially Prolonged

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Fairly often, I've a few games that I like to playthrough again and again. Deus Ex, Hogs of War, Mercenaries, Timesplitters, Populous The Beginning, Final Fantasy VII and the MGS series are ones I do go back and play quite regularly when the mood takes me.

I also like to go back a beat games that either I missed when I was younger or was never able to beat at the time. To that effect I'm currently playing through Abe's Oddysee.
 

Evonisia

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Hmm, well since I don't have as long a gaming life as most I count "old" as the early years of the last generation backwards (so 2007 and behind). Seven years for most consoles would be a generation and a year or so, so it fits for me even with this anomalous result.

I do play them quite often and last year I got my first PS2. Today I started playing Rayman 1 and how I am reminded of how much I hate moving with the D-Pad (ugh). I also finally started playing Spiderman 2 The Movie The Game (yes) the other day despite owning it for months and I've got quite a few games I need to play through.
 

OrokuSaki

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Depends on what you call "Old". I just got finished replaying "Kingdom Hearts" because the HD collection came out. Since then I've been playing Final Fantasy IV the Complete Collection on my PSP. Reading a Star Wars novel has me itching to replay KotOR again, and I usually play Prince of Persia whenever I get really sad with new releases. Especially Warrior Within. In fact, it's hard to remember many games in the PS3 generation that I found genuinely more engaging than the PS2 era.
 

BehattedWanderer

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Pretty often, actually. Comes with having a decent backlog. That said, I make an annual point of playing Paper Mario and one of the Zelda games, and that occasionally devolves into playing three or four of them. I have constant restarting and replaying of Earthbound, Mother 3, Chrono Trigger, and Super Mario RPG on my phone. I just finished a Pokemon binge up to gen 3, collecting each 'mon (and caught my first shiny!).

I'm currently playing FFX and Secret of Mana for the first times, being in need of a really good RPG with a bit of grind to it that I could just sink into without having to spend twenty hours in a tutorial before spending five hours and finishing the game.

The last recent title I played was South Park: Stick of Truth, and that was over in such a short time I barely had enough time to say I was enjoying it before I'd consumed it, like a small cup of ice cream. Short of Dark Souls, I haven't found a game where I could spend sixty hours in recently, and I've been craving for that. And old games offer that in abundance.
 

Xdeser2

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All the damn time

I may be playing through Dark Souls 2 NG+, but I still make time for a Medieval 2: Total War campaign on the side, and whatever else sounds good at the time. Actually, Pharaoh/Cleopatra sounds pretty great right about now....
 

Padwolf

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It depends what you define as "old". When it comes to PS2, very very often. I always have a PS2 hooked up to my TV. I love it so much. Also I have about 4 copies of Silent Hill 2 (don't ask. It just kinda happened and I don't have the heart to sell any of them), it's my favourite game so I play it quite often. I always seem to think of something new about it, or see something I hadn't noticed before in it. As for older than that, yes I play PS1 games quite often, too. And I spend a lot of time on Pokemon Crystal and Yellow these days. I play old games very very often. In fact most of the time. The only really new game I've been playing lately is Final Fantasy 14.
 

DirgeNovak

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I plugged my PS2 back in a couple weeks ago. I played Silent Hill 2 and 3, Primal and Okami, and I bought old Crash Bandicoot and Lord of the Rings games for it as well. They should be getting here soon.
I'm also playing Final Fantasy IX on my Vita.