How many times can you play a game before you get over it? 2 maybe 3 or is that number in the range of 8 - 10 times. I think I will never know what my number is. "How could you know that?" you ask. Will I just hope I never find out. Here is why I think I can say that statement.

I never play a game back to back play through. I give the first play through so much needed time depending on the game. Like Modern Warfare 2 I gave at least 3 months before I it the pit course again and went through the pain and sacrifice again. Some go longer then 6 months before I pick them up again. If its on an older system then it could be years. But I never trade in games or sell them. I just can't do it. I want my kids(when I start having kids) to play them.

Anyway, I just like to relive the story line or the action or the puzzles of the game. If the story is amazing I could go a long time and still remember it. If there is a great action sequence I will look for it in other media forms and compare the two. If the music sticks with me and I can find out some information on it then I get it on my iPod. I just love to relive the moments, its like watching a great film for the first time. You never forget it ever.

Some of the great moments that I could relive over and over are:

The Suicide Mission in Mass Effect 2: what a way to end a great middle story. Its a downer with a hint of hope at the end of a long, dark, horrifying tunnel. That you must face in Mass Effect 3.

The Floor attack video in Halo: Combat Evolved: It was a great moment to witness. It was like seeing a shot from Aliens from the helmet of one of the marines(hopefully not Bill Paxton). Still it was an incredible moment in a great story line.

The Shoot out with the Feds and John Marston in Red Dead Redemption: Very western, very epic and made reference to many classic western films(The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundace Kid, and more). Hard to go out there knowing that you could not live it. Trying all you could to get as many as you could before they got you. Still a moment that was worth it.

The Killing of Andrew Ryan in Bioshock: Would you kindly...? Holy hell that was a shock to find out in the game. I was taken back, because I didn't notice it being said in the game and i didn't make the connection. I loved how that game made you feel like you were making the choice on very thing you did and then you find out your being used. I felt like a complete tool for not seeing it, but I loved that I didn't get it and that I got to experience it being naive to the fact that Would you Kindly was being used so many times.

The second world in Zelda: Yea the NES game. I was like 5 when I finished the fight against Ganon. I was so proud that I killed him that when I was in the second world I though that I was just at the beginning of the game and the world was the same. Way to go Nintendo trick a poor little kid by taking all that pride for finishing a game by making them go through the world again and very thing moved to a different spot on the map.

So how many time could you relive a game before you get so bored of it you sell it or trade it in? Could you do it? Could you give it up or away just to have the feeling of I want to play that game again later on and not having the game. The price for keeping the game is nothing compared to the price of looking for the game again and paying for it.