What drives you to revisit games?

[Zerohour2k12]

A lot factors in but mostly when either I remember how much fun I've had the first time I played or If 100% is worth it.

 

[Spyrone]

I'd say my drive is one third nostalgia, one third loathing of what modern gaming has become and another third of playing various games I never played before but always wanted to as a kid.

I can't really stand a lot of modern games, as not enough of them have settings, design or gameplay I like, are prohibitively expensive, uncompressed and unable to fit in my storage, entirely to focused on graphics often to the detriment of those graphics- I don't care how many shaders you cram on to each individual hair folicle for characters if those characters simply look like the same scifi scavengers or generic military dudes with no unique, interesting or truly eye-catching elements to their design and levels just look generic and boring as hell.

Not to mention often multiplayer driven with no single-player component. If I'm I have to pay upwards of $60 for something it had better be a full package instead of an exclusively MP thing with no single-player campaign for instance, otherwise I'm not gonna shell out the cash. Especially when that cash is padding the massive, echoing vault chambers the corrupt and megalomaniacal uber-rich like to swim around in Scrooge McDuck-style while the entire fucking planet burns down around them.

So, I'd rather go back to an era when I actually had hope for the future being anything other than a cyber/biopunk dystopia ran by pederasts. Thus, I play a lot of the games I enjoyed as a kid, as well as trying out the ones I always wanted to but never got the chance to or playing the same games nodded to be even better, like Halo Havoc, Super Mario SunBurn or RealRTCW.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

A lot of times for me revisiting old favorites gives me a certain feeling of comfort
be it nostalgia or otherwise. Though these days it's my ever-growing massive backlog of
partially played games that i want to get through.

 

[ThomatoSauce]

I don't really have a reason, personally. Sometimes I revisit my old games simply because I feel like it.

 

[b1tchcelcracra]

i think its really easy to get back into a game for the nostalgia and then quickly give it up bc you get bored and youve already seen all that shit before, so for me i sometimes want to get back into it to learn something new about it; such as sound design
even though ive already beaten it twice now, im opening up symphony of the night every once in a while just because i want to hear all the specific sound effects that go on; i realize its genuinely got its own style and its amazing

other times i revisit certain games because ive played other ones like it and i want to see if ive improved on it at all; i got a bunch of s ranks on resident evil the mercenaries 3d when i got my 3ds a while back, and i wanted to see how much better i fared in resident evil 4

 

[shadowcat]

If enjoy something I beat, I know I can't go wrong with picking it to replay.

Sometimes also to keep the story fresh in my mind. Some plot points fade from memory of you haven't played a game in 10+ years.

 

[vulonkaaz's iconvulonkaaz]

i cant afford new games

 

[Bakuma1997]

The same reason one rereads a book he loves or watch a show he likes, be binge watching or mere entertainment for lunchtime

 

[TheMinuMaster]

I always get the same food, the same ice cream flavor, and the same games because I never get tired of what I truly love.

 

[Isegrim]

A variety of reasons...Nostalgia usually...wanting to re-experience an enjoyable game.

Music is another strong reason. If I recall a game's amazing OST and if it's a tune that only sounds good if you're playing the game, then I might replay that game in full instead of looking for it's OST in youtube.

Or sometimes, it could be a line in a comic/novel/story or a scene in a movie that sets me off, say a fantasy movie of someone fighting a dragon and the fight scene was particularly exciting or compelling...that might cause me to march off, fire up a Monster Hunter game and fight the monster that resembled most the thing in that movie while I was still fired up. Zombie movie and they all died, play Dead Rising or Killing Floor (X). Martial arts movie...Street Fighter or KOF... And so forth...

 

[LaserMoose]

Character-action games like DMC3 have modes like Dante Must Die, which changes how enemies behave compared to other difficulties - that in itself can make a revisit of a game an interesting undertaking, with a change in game difficulty/balance.

Other games I've revisited are those that I didn't originally "click" with upon my first playthrough, and wanted to give the game another opportunity. Ghouls n' Ghosts is a big example of this for me, as my first playthrough relied on savestates to get past the trickier sections, especially for the boss gauntlet that is Stage 5. During my second playthrough I finished the game without savestates, and gained a greater appreciation of the game's level design.

As I was a big fan of Pokémon as a kid, I also must add that I've loved revisiting games in the past to play using a different team (in the case of Pokémon) or character build, which can make a revisit very fun, while also being a vastly different experience from a first playthrough.