The time you waste playing games again you're missing out on other great games.Jaysonguy
I really have to dispute this before I list my replay list. Be warned, here follows a lot of personal opinion on books. Yes, it's relevant.
Okay, first off, there are NOT that many great games released, IMO. I can count the games I like from this year on ONE hand. We seem to hear, "there are tons of great games coming out!" over and over, but it doesn't ring true to me. I can't enjoy a game which is simply "bug free" and available for the same reason I can't enjoy a book by Steven King; just because it's there doesn't make it good, much less enjoyable. (Though entertainingly enough I'm loving Alan wake; maybe it's the medium I hate King in, he does write entertaining movies after all).
Secondly this argument seems like saying, "I never read Paradise Lost because it'd take away time from reading all the new books coming out." You can't read all the books in the world, and you can't play all the games. Trying to do so seems futile to me; better to pick good books and games and seek to understand them fully. This is why I'm re-reading American Gods rather then waste time on Twilight.
To take the book analogy further; did everyone who read the, lets say, Lord of the Rings series get all the layers of metaphor and meaning on their first go-through? Don't like that, think about King again, or Anne Rice's books; few books have only ONE message to give you(I refer to Neil Gaiman and rest my case there). So why should any art at all have but one message? Reading is not simply about eyes glazing over words; it's about meditation on the words and thought by the reader. I don't feel that movies, music, or games are any different. Does one listen to a song but once?
So, one can gather, I believe in replay-value. Maybe not all games have it, but I feel most do. And from a totally SEPARATE direction; who hasn't gotten drunk and played Super Mario at 2am because it FELT GOOD? If you haven't, you should try it. Really.
Anyway, this makes me two categories of games I've replayed; games that are just fun forever(or a good long time) and games that need thought and therefore replay. In the first category is Mario, Packman, Tetris(which brings up a whole cell-phone-games discussion I won't poke at), Mega-Man, Zelda, and Portal. In the second category falls Bioshock, Alan Wake, Indigo Prophecy, and the entire Silent Hill series(none of which I've played less then twice).
This doesn't really cover the multi-player aspect; playing co-op L4D with friends is fun just because of the friends. And yelling at zombies.
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