| Sullla said: I'm a bit surprised by some of the games listed here; they may be very well made, but "replayability" is a different subject. I mean, I love the Final Fantasy games, but they don't have much replay value (at least, the highly linear recent ones don't). The story is still the same each time, after all... |
Lemme see, most replayable games... baseball, football, bowling.... Wait, you're talking video games? Well that's a horse of a whole new color.
I'll have to agree with the quoted sentiment. How many times am I really going to play a staunchly linear 50 hour RPG?
As far as my most replayed games... There's a difference between most time spent playing and most times playing a certain game. Certain classic arcade games (Galaga, Pac-Man, Asteroids, et al... I pretty much consider Tetris to be in this category) I could likely play every day for a few minutes. Games I've spent the most time playing, I maybe played them once (certain RPGs break the hundred hour mark), but I'll never return to them again.
As far as games played all the way through or much of the way through multiple times, which is how I've come to define replayability, on my list we have the early Final Fantasies (I-V). I've bought and played every reversion of FFI & FFII. Convenient considering I'm usually jonesing for another play through of FFI every couple years and this is when about the remakes come. Also, the early Mario games and early Castlevania games come to mind when I'm confronted with this question.
