When going back and replaying games, I........

I see good games like i see good books/films,always worth a revisit down the road.

Depends on what it is. Games like Streets of Rage, Sonic, Mega Man, NiGHTS, and whatever else is on my permanent rotation, I enjoy the hell out of, if not more so now than compared to when I first played them.

Then there's stuff like Super Star Wars, where I'm like "WTF, how did they think selling this shit was acceptable?" lol.

When I replay my favorite games from every generation, I still enjoy over 90% of them, especially the 2D ones.

A good game would still be a good game. Quality design is timeless.

i have changed quite a bit the past few years. i have a hard time enjoying games i used to like a lot. i usualyl zone out after a few minutes and delete the game to go do something else more interesting. i used to be a game obsessed zombie. im glad i changed...

Depends

Tomb Raider II is like controlling a tank and the AI is absolutely brain-dead. Many people will play 10 minutes, decide it's shit and never touch it today. But, it had huge intricate and well thought out levels with a looming sense of danger it's reboot, for all it's production values totally lacks. One deeply flawed but engaging, the other competent but ultimately boring. This seems to be a reoccurring motif when it comes to comparing old games against new ones.

Some like RTCW you see flaws you didn't remember, the enemies abit bullet spongy, not reacting to shots and (2) piss-poor boss fights. But by and large still a great game, just not as perfect as I remember.

MDK which I finished again recently, was actually better than I remembered though, when you contrast how imaginative it is against modern third person shooters, and take into account how competently it plays given it's from the age when 3D was in it's very rudimentary infancy (20+ years old) , the respect bar heightens, it makes you yearn for more of this, and less of Nathan Drake. Who''s a cock.

I only replay games that I really enjoy so it's a great kick even the 3rd 4th time around. Good games age like fine wine.

Depends on the game, though I only replay games I like

If I enjoyed a game I enjoy it, period most often.

Depends the game

Depends on the game. Games that are actually good, stand the test of time. Games that I go back to and think "wow this is sloppy", actually, probably always was sloppy. But the consumerbase was ignorant of that because

A: They were kids
B: Gaming critics have been shit for decades, them getting bad taste and poor analytical skills isn't new.

Super Metroid, Mario World, Thief 2, Fallout 2, XCom, still good fucking games. yeah they have some jank in some of these old games, and of course a lot of even exceptional PC games have awful fucking UI, but I don't subscribe to this whole "games age" routine, when it comes to design and gameplay. Crash Bandicoot to me didn't suddenly start to suck, I thought it sucked when I was a kid, and I was way less critical of games then. Even stacked up against its contemporaries it is so wildly outclassed as a platformer, even on the PS1. Spyro was more engaging, Ape Escape was more imaginative, and Rayman 2 is a certified classic.

I'd pick the second option in that case personally.

Most old games are bad

Depends on the game. But that's why backward compatibility is an awesome option since I get to play my fave gems on current consoles and even discover gems no matter how old they are.

More often then not I'll enjoy a game generally as much as the first time however that's not to say that nostalgia isn't actually a thing.

Where is the vote for "found it more fun the second time through?" A big game that comes to mind for me is the original Assassin's Creed... I just couldn't get into it, but after a few months of not playing it, I went back and thoroughly enjoyed it. For any other game, if I didn't enjoy it all that much to begin with (and I finished it) there is little to no chance I will go back and play it again. For games that I enjoyed a lot, I find that I enjoy them nearly as equal or even more when playing through multiple times.

Although, I do remember going back and trying to play Goldeneye 007 on the N64 and I almost got sick.. lmao... just wasn't the same game I spent thousands of hours on in it's prime.

I usually have little problem replaying old games that I played when they were new; I can transition to that nostalgia feeling pretty easy and overlook how dated the visuals are. It's the gameplay that matters most, and if the gameplay is good, it's good 90% of the time forever (there are exceptions, of course).

The problem is with games I missed and did not play, and give a spin a few years down the road. My biggest regret is not trying Morrowind when it came out, because Oblivion was my first Elder Scrolls experience but apparently Morrowind was the better RPG and I just could not get into that game after playing Oblivion. I enjoyed Oblivion, though, so no worries.

On the flip side, Deus Ex is my favorite game of all time, and it's close to 20 years old at this point. I love it, I still play it at least twice a year. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone simply because standards have changed, the visuals are fugly, and the gameplay is a bit slow and dated by today's standards.

How is this SW worthy? there's no Xbox is trash, PS is shit, Nintendo suck or PC is crap posts.

There's only a few games I feel that way about- stuff I had on SNES, N64, GC, and Gameboy iterations. It's mostly the licensed games stuff. Luckily, Nintendo has been pretty solid at making good games that still hold up today, so I don't have that issue.

These days I find myself being underwhelmed fairly often when I replay games. Even games which I've beaten and enjoyed a bunch of times aren't immune sadly.

Yeah of course it depends.

At this point I've done a pretty decent job of checking my nostalgia with a lot of the games I loved in my youth. And yeah, a lot of them were trash. Stuff that carried weight with me because of stuff like story, presentation, music, or just things that wowed me as a kid for whatever reason.

Now I've filtered out the shit and I have a pretty good grasp on what games I actually like purely for how they play dating back to gen 3. So it's incredibly rare for me to stumble across a replay that I don't enjoy these days.

There are some games that I'll still dick around with just for pure nostalgias sake. Stuff like Battle of Olympus, Simons Quest, the classic Sonic games, etc. Completely rose tinted shades on games like those.

But usually I'll only replay solid games, games that still stack up very well in their core design, games that I'd enjoy regardless of nostalgic feelings. Like Super Turbo, I've been playing that game for the past week and it's one of those games I appreciate more and more every time I revisit it.

Depends. Games that were actually good to begin with, are still fun to play even to this day. Jazz Jackrabbit, Wario Land 4, StarCraft, Total Annihilation, Age of Empires 2, Alpha Centauri, X-Com, Street Figther 2, ect. They were fun back then, and even fun to go back to today.

Some games I remember enjoying dont hold up to nostalgia when I come back, but I only liked them back then because I didnt know any better (see: Baldur's Gate 1).

Good games stand the test of time. Bad games don't. Those bad games were always bad to begin with.

some games are just as fun as I remember them, sometimes I forgot just how fun they are and get excited playing them all over again, or sometimes the game are just too dated for me to get back into, it really just depends on the game

I see nothing wrong with remembering games for their importance in their time, but can also understand they don't have the same value today

I love revisiting games, as I almost always find them as fun today. If there's a game I know I thought was fun when I was little, I know if it will be fun for me today. I've had some fun with some stinkers that I still rememeber and know I wouldn't like today, so I don't revisit those.

I only replay game that I like. I still play some Mega Man here and there, same with old Final Fantasy, old Super Mario, old Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter.

Otherwise in the past 2 gen, I only replayed games that I really enjoyed and they are very few and far that are worth a second playthrough even though I liked it a lot.

@ConanTheStoner: Fair enough. I didn't put a "depends on the game" option, as that's a given.

I was more interested to see how many people often go back to replay a game they liked, and were shocked to find out they hated it the second time through.

idk tbh I'm not much of a replay person. There are very few games that I still play after I beat them no matter how much shit it's still left to do. I just don't know how I'll feel about them. That's why I'm a little scared to play FFVII or FFVIII in 2017. It might change my outlook lol

I replay the games I like and find them as enjoyable as the first time, Galaga, Pacman, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Q*bert, MOH Undeground are some of the games I never get bored of replaying.

when i go back to my old games still loving to play because i spend time with my toons to built and some old friends are still there too playing and reunited.. just like when i played ro1, me and my friends moved to ragna journey :)

Lack of checkpoints annoys me.

As a kid, that stuff was okay with me, but these days, no. Hell, the Souls games are nothing compared to old games as far as having to do stuff over again.

You just run past everything in the Souls games.

Well both options are true it just depends on the game. I replayed Half Life 2 a dozen times and had fun every time the same as Torchlight 2, Skyrim, Oblivion, Fallout 4, Crysis, Bioshock... But most singleplayer games I don't replay.

Graphics aside a great game never gets old and the vast majority that I've replayed I have enjoyed as much as I did the first time.

Well I do like replaying games because I feel like you understand more than you did when you were younger. But then again everything is already spoiled for you, so I think I'm going to go for the first option.

Just depends on the game, really.

Games that focus on gameplay and design are timeless. Those are the games I always enjoy going back to. Story driven games that focus on presentation or open world games date pretty heavily over time.