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Do you ever revisit old games for a half hour?
Legba
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I've got friends who, once they finish a game, will ship it off to the shop and trade it in for least some of their money back. That way they can buy more games, and don't have the hassle of a game collection they'll never revisit.
But I can't do that. Because every now and then, I'll dip back into an old game and dick around in it for half an hour - sometimes even a full evening. As recently as yesterday, I stuck Assassin's Creed back in the Xbox and (after starting a new game - damn lack of save games) spent an hour or two just assassinating guards until I got the achievement. It was fun, light, and while I have no intention of replaying the whole thing or doing all the flag-gathering achievements (which I'm also missing), I enjoyed just running around and stabbing people.
Same thing with Rainbow Six: Vegas. Every now and then I might put it back on and do a bit of terrorist hunt. Or Dead Rising - it's fun to just kill zombies for a bit. And both New Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart DS still visit my DS from time to time.
I'm not talking about replaying the whole game. Just dicking around, killing some stuff, enjoying the gameplay. Doing maybe a level or two that you particularly enjoyed and then putting the game away again for another few weeks or months.
Does that ever happen to you guys? And if so, what games get the most random love?
But I can't do that. Because every now and then, I'll dip back into an old game and dick around in it for half an hour - sometimes even a full evening. As recently as yesterday, I stuck Assassin's Creed back in the Xbox and (after starting a new game - damn lack of save games) spent an hour or two just assassinating guards until I got the achievement. It was fun, light, and while I have no intention of replaying the whole thing or doing all the flag-gathering achievements (which I'm also missing), I enjoyed just running around and stabbing people.
Same thing with Rainbow Six: Vegas. Every now and then I might put it back on and do a bit of terrorist hunt. Or Dead Rising - it's fun to just kill zombies for a bit. And both New Super Mario Brothers and Mario Kart DS still visit my DS from time to time.
I'm not talking about replaying the whole game. Just dicking around, killing some stuff, enjoying the gameplay. Doing maybe a level or two that you particularly enjoyed and then putting the game away again for another few weeks or months.
Does that ever happen to you guys? And if so, what games get the most random love?
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Resident Evil 4 too when I feel that I can handle Proffesional.
I can't
But I don't know if that even counts. It's like saying "yeah, I revisit Minesweeper all the time."
Man, that game didn't hold up well.
"Uh, I have never said that you are not good at what you do. It's just that what you do is not worth doing." -S.C.
Yep. My PS2 games I'll often play in trilogies, for some reaosn. Like R&C from 1-3. Games I'll play for a bit (or do full playthroughs of):
-Ratchet & Clank PS2 series
-Prince of Persia : SoT Trilogy
-Metal Gear Solid 1-3
-Hitman Trilogy
-Devil May Cry 1 or 3
-Sly Cooper series
-Odin Sphere
-Tenchu: Fatal Shadows
-Enter the Matrix (fuck you, I like the pretty combat)
Games I seem to replay more than average:
-God of War 1 and 2
-Shadow of the Colossus
-GUN
-Okami
-Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
Current-gen my most-replayed seems to be GTA IV by a country mile, followed by Siren: New Translation. On PC the most-replayed is easily Theif: The Dark Project.
That's a high-quality list. I'm a lucky guy.
Just one of the reasons it's my favorite game.
But there are plenty of games I have contemplated turning in but haven't, because I feel like I might want to replay them sometime.
And of course there are games I'd never consider trading in.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
But yeah, gametap is pretty awesome
If by BI you mean Battle Isle then I'm afraid you are suffering a severe case of awesome.
Heh. I'm afraid I only got my first console (a DS) three years ago, a PC that could play video games 2 years ago and my Wii and 360 almost a year ago, each new console following an improvement in my financial situation. It's not that I didn't play games before then, but apart from first a PS1 and then a PS2 which I shared with my brothers (and no longer have), it was always when I was visiting friends, and I simply didn't have much occasion to replay old favourites.
Actually, as far as older games go, I got a nice fuzzy feeling from loading up Quake on my DS. It still gets let out of it's cage for a twirl every now and then, and I'm happy to say that that's a game that has aged pretty well.
-Chrono Trigger
-Earthbound
-Secret of Evermore
-Zone of the Enders 2
-Metal Gear Solid 3
-Earthworm Jim
-Starfox DS
-Super Mario Bros 3
And only two ever made it to that list, namely Twisted Metal: Black and Ninja Gaiden 2. Both were good games, but they didn't click with me so I decided to sell them. That said, the other games, which is a lot, never get touched in the end ever again.
So I don't know, maybe I'm just sentimental.
And I'll say in this thread what I said in that. I trade in games to Gamestop when they are having some kind of deal. Ya know, get an extra 30% if you get this certain game. Get an extra $10-$25 if you trade in X number of next-gen games.
Usually I don't miss those games, because I have shiny new ones to play with. But the OP mentions Assassin's Creed, I traded that game in a while back, and I miss that game. The graphics were great and I just loved throwing beggar women into merchant stalls!
I also miss GTAV, though I didn't like the games realism shift (the story was great, though) but nothing compares to driving around and hitting people in that game. They made it so much fun.
Other old games I boot up now and then?
-The Punisher
-Castlevania, any really but love to run through Simon's Quest now and again.
-SSX Tricky, love Brodi, "No fear, be hear!"
-and pretty much anything on the SNES
Battle Isle and Advance Wars are pretty much indistinguishable, though, bar the squares/hexes thing.
For example, I'm looking at a list of 114 PS2 games that I own. I'd guess that I'll only ever try to play 4 or 5 of them ever again.
My Backloggery
Yeah, Assassin's Creed is pretty great for that. Just run around, brutally murder some beggar woman and then run away laughing. I'll probably play it on and off for quite some time without ever actually beating it, because it's a great game for just fooling around, doing nothing.
I'd say I'm running at a 50/50 keep to sell ratio.
Thing is, a game has to really impress me to stay. I don't have the time to run out of new games I want to play so competing for my attention a second time is tough business!
I've re-bought Fallout, Fallout 2 and then a Fallout Collector's box.
I've re-bought Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle, and then also a Lucasarts Collector's box with them in.
I've bought the GBC, GBA, PSX and Wiiware versions of International Karate.
I've re-bought dozens of Playstation games (some for over $100 on Ebay) and am looking for more.
And yes, about once a year or so, I do revisit them and play them.
I guess I'm damaged in some way...
I'm not sure why, it's completely linear.
Just that awesome.
EDIT: Of course, it's not exactly old. But y'know.
I usually hook up my SNES one a month to revisit some old classics, and I play my PS2 much more often than my 360 or my Wii. And if I'm playing my Wii, I'm playing old games that I downloaded off of the VC.
I was going to wait to get a PS3, but now that you can't buy a new PS3 that's backwards compatible I dont guess I'll ever be getting one. Unless I can find one of the Metal Gear bundles, that was the last version that could play PS2 games.
It just seems that there aren't really any good games anymore so I find myself going back and playing older ones. Most of the new releases I'm excited about nowadays are just ports or remakes of older games. I think Fable II is the first game that I've been genuinely interested in since Ninja Gaiden II (which turned out to be a letdown)
The first Splinter Cell, for instance. Hadn't played it since I finished it a second time, shortly before Pandora Tomorrow. Last year I got a sudden urge to play those opening levels, though, so I popped it in, breezed through them, and scratched that itch.
Once a year I'll throw Crazy Taxi into the Dreamcast and spin aroun town for a short while. I never play for more than 10 or 15 minutes, but I enjoy that brief jump back to the game.
Sonic the Hedgehog. I play that Green Hill Zone five or six times a year, just because.
Once in a blue moon I'll replay the first two levels or so of Unreal.
And so on and so forth.
Getting rid of older games = tough for me to do.
I often will put Mega Man 2 in, redoing the same pattern I always do and blow through it in an hour or so.
For some reason, it never gets old, even if I don't try new challenges like beating all the robots masters with the normal shot. It's just fun.
Oh yeah! Or killing a guard on the edge of a roof, having him fall off the roof, and hearing the crowd below scream in terror as a dead body drops from the sky!
Then having other guards run over and shout, "Who is responsible for this!"
Damn that game was great. Why the hell did I trade it in?
And even then all I've done is play a single skirmish on each just to remember the old units (and thank the stars for the UI improvemnts we've been given since 94.)
Virgil dies so fast to dual jump canceled Beowulf kicks.
Also I like to revisit old broken fighters.
Infinites and High damaging combos on XMvsSF, Spectral vs Generation, Hokuto no Ken, Big Bang Beat, Arcana Heart, Guilty Gear AC+, MvC2 are very fun to do.
I also have a problem with games where I never finish them so on days when I'm sick or at home I tend to pick up older games that I didn't get all the way through. The game ADD that I have is stupid.
That's funny, because that's exactly what happened to me on BioShock. I started playing it over, fully intending to do a full second playthrough (this time without killing any little sisters) and about half an hour/hour later, I put away the controller. I did manage a second playthrough of Mass Effect, however, because going full-on Renegrade was a lot of fun. (And oh boy, the full-on Renegrade ending took me and my flatmate (who was watching) completely by surprise.
Getting it to work in in Vista is a chore, but a rewarding one. I just played through a game yesterday, as a matter of fact. It's the only game (for me) where the harder difficulty levels truley inspire nightmares.
It kicked ass.