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Although Steam and its ilk coax me into buying new games regularly, it's uncommon for me to beat them and it's even rarer that I take them for a second spin -- especially once I've abandoned them. However, for whatever reason, a handful of games still manage to hold my interest after five or more playthroughs.
I fire up Splinter Cell and Hitman several times a year and I've played through Chaos Theory half a dozen times since 2006ish. Collectively, I've beaten titles in those franchises more than 20 times. Similarly, on the multiplayer side, I've repeatedly revisited StarCraft (and now StarCraft II) for a month or so every year since 2002.
It seems I'm not alone here. Most gamers I've spoken with replay certain titles or series semi-regularly, whether for nostalgia or simply because they can't have the same experience elsewhere -- I believe the latter applies to my fondness of Splinter Cell and Hitman. Have you revisited any games several times, and if so, why?
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Defense Grid: The Awakening - prolly about 50 replays.
Now replaying the Legend of Grimrock at a higher difficulty level. Hella fun dungeon crawler.
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Frogger on PSX was good as a kid. For me its Warcraft 3 TFT & Unreal Tournament 99. I still turn them on here and there.
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The original Resident Evil was one of my all time favorite games and I have played through it three times. Duke. Nukem 3D was great I bought it again on Xbox Live and played through two more times. I am about to play the God of War series again which are also some of the greatest games. Basically if their putting out crap I have a library of my favorite games to entertain me.
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Deus Ex would be my all time favorite, I've replayed it so many times!
I was a big fan of Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed too, got many hours in that aswell
But also older titles like Duke Nukem 3D (Not very recently though)
Settlers II in dosbox have been played to death by me aswell, so many hours in that game, still have the original gamebox & cd, love the soundtracks
A little more recent games would be the original Far Cry & Crysis, those have really been played to death aswell.
Just like Julio I've spent allot of time with WoW but I don't see myself going back (Atleast I hope I can promise myself that, because the game just sucks me in too much!)
In recent years I have not played many games though.
I have Deus Ex 2 barley started, Diablo III only installed never started, Battlefield 3 barley started, Duke Nukem Forever I have forced myself to play quite a bit but got kind of stuck / bored at the Octobrain boss...
But right now I'm gonna fire up Black Mesa Source because it was a long time since I played through Half-Life and I think I'm really gonna enjoy this!
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Homeworld 2, Half-Life 2, Red Faction: Guerilla off the top of my head.
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Where can you buy "Guerilla off the top of my head"?, I'd like to try that.
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mailpup said:
Homeworld (original), Counter Strike: Source (vs bots only) and Crysis Warhead. These are some of my favorites and I can recall all the keystrokes and controls without looking them up.
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I have replayed the entire Mass Effect Series at least 3 times, The original Crysis got at least 6 play throughs (Crysis 2 had only one play through though, because it was crap). Team Fortress 2 I keep coming back to (400+ now). Battlefield 3 Is now over 115 hours worth of play.
The only series to ever draw a tear from my eye though, the Half-Life Series.
I've only ever gone through the series twice, Once each as they got released, but last summer I sat back down and started Saturday Morning, I did not stop from Half-Life 2 all the way to Episode 2, I still got emotional as I did the first time round
Company of Heros, I always go back to that, I went back to WoW a few times, Left 4 Dead 2 I always replay after a few months, Unreal Tournament 2004 I keep going back to, it just doesn't get old!
In fact my list is huge!
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RajeGera said:
Mario..Its always refreshing...
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Gta san andreas, mass effect 2 and that is pretty much it :3
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Far Cry 2
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I always play the Metal Gear saga through every year or so in the correct order (starting with MGS3) because they're just amazing games.
I also like to play the old Final Fantasy games through now and then as a reminder of the old childhood.
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Ahmed90 said:
World in conflict!!..
Portal 1,2
GTA:SA
GTA IV
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The Witcher 2 and all The Legend Of Zelda Games!!!
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ETF Soldier said:
I've often replayed the Super Mario games. A game I've never lost my passion for is the Dawn of War series, it's absolutely stunning, the Warhammer 40,000 Universe is massive, as anyone would know if they read the books or collected the models. I've only replayed the Call of Duty's about once or twice, and I've owned every one since Modern Warfare, so if it weren't for the multiplayer then it would have been a big waste of money (Infact Modern Warfare 3 was a waste of monay). I enjoy Bioshock and Left For Dead also, but replaying Left for Dead does get tiresome, hence the other modes.
But I have to say, that the game I always have the urge to play is Dynasty Warriors. It's just a well made, all rounded game!
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1 person liked this |ETF Soldier said:GBA:
fire emblem
harvest moon: friends of mineral town
pokemon firered
pokemon emerald
final fantasy tactics advanced
ps1:
nba live 98
boom bots
nba in the zone 2
final fantasy tactics
nds:
pokemon platinum
pokemon heartgold
naruto ninja destiny
jump ultimate stars
mario hoops 3 on 3
ps3:
pixeljunk sidescroller
split/second
assassin's creed
bomberman ultra
smackdown vs raw 2010
psp:
brave story
final fantasy tactics war of the lions
pc:
nba live 06
gta san andreas
gc:
super smash bros melee
soul calibur 2
kirby air ride
f-zero gx
sonic riders
battle stadium d.o.n.
ps2:
genji dawn of the samurai
neo geo pocket:
the king of fighters r-1
the king of fighters r-2
snk vs capcom match of the millineum
n64:
super smash bros 64
pokemon stadium 2
wii:
goldeneye reloaded
been playing handheld games more recently. feel kinda like I've missed out a little bit
You have an extremely privilaged life to own all of those.
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The Last Remnant
Now that I have SSD, change to Battle Mode only take 10 seconds (when I HDD WDC Black, it take 52 seconds)
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My top replayed games
SP: Chaos theory- 5x
Doom 3 -6x
Doom3 resurrection evil- 2x
Portal-3x
Portal 2- 3 or 4x
Mafia 2- 2x
Borderlands- 2x
NFS: Underground 2- 5x
NFS: Most wanted 3x
Mirrors edge- 3x
Max payne 2 - 4x
Dead space -4x
Dead space 2- 2x
Batman Arkham asylum- 2x
Resident Evil 4- 3x
Resident Evil 5- 4x
Bioshock- 3x
Bioshock 2- 2x
Star wars the force unleashed- 2x
F.E.A.R 2- 2x
COD 4- 2x
Driver- 3x through emulator
Driv3er 3- 2x
Driver 4 parallel lines- 2x
Riddick escape from butcher bay- 3x
Hitman blood money- 3x
Metro 2033- 4x
Alice madness returns- 2x
Crysis2- 2x
Alone in the dark 5 -2x
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Incomplete and in random order:
Deus Ex and Deus Ex IW (probably will play Deus Ex HR again)
Ultima 9
Mass Effect
System Shock 1 & 2
Thief 3
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Half Life Opposing Force
Half Life 2
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
Why, well in case of Kotor, it was the light side / dark side thing. In other cases, just the fact I liked them so much.
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Master of Orion (MOO)
StarCraft
WarCraft
HALO
L4D2
Currently playing D3, trying to find a "good" Legendary item.
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Halo 1 & 2
Half-Life, the entire series
FEAR (only the original)
Metro 2033
Portal 1
Crysis
Mass Effect
Oblivion
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There are a number of games that I like to go back to. Although most of them I only replay the first few hours. Those would be any of the Zelda, Final Fantasy, Super Mario series. I even like to go back to some of the old Intellivision games. All in all it's just nostalgia that brings me back to those games. I just don't have the time to dedicate to that much game play anymore.
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The #1 series of games I've replayed the most is Ratchet and Clank. I'm pretty sure I beat the ps2 games like 10 times each or more excluding deadlocked. The PS3 iterations not as much but several still. I replay the Final Fantasy games 2-3 times each over time. FFXIII I've replayed about 5 times including an NCU(well I haven't finished that one yet but its hella fun). Jak and daxter games have had several replays as well. I'd replay uncharted at some point but I just recently played all 3 to platinum(Which requires 2 play throughs but since it was for the platinum I sorta don't count it.)
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KbloodyK said:
Borderlands (my favourite game ever) Saints row 2, GTA San Andreas, Saints Row the Third, Forza Four, and last but not least, I have played The force unleashed more then once.
All good games!
-The KbloodyK
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Xclusiveitalian said:
Hitman: Blood money...that was an amazing game!
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