mjk45 said:
It's one of the reasons I love the replayability of many 8-16 bit and arcade games, sure there were longer less replayable games as well. but games like for example Turrican, Ridge Racer, Silkworm and way too many more to mention spread across all platforms, I would like to hear from all of you about other past games that had great replayability. |
I must've replayed Starfox SNES and N64 hundreds of times each, perhaps over a thousand times each. Spent hundreds of hours replaying levels in the Donkey Kong Country Trilogy, heck even as recently as the Wii era I'd spent months just replaying games I'd already beaten over and over. My favourite games, Resident Evil 4, I've played all the way through 11 times.
Metallox said:
It's definitely something like that. As you get older, the magic that playing games bring slowly wanes, your imagination and receptiveness aren't the same anymore, and it gets to a point where only the new stuff can sufficiently stimulate your senses. As a child I could play old games in different ways than intended. For example, I used to play Age of Empires II as a city builder, and I frequently did "mini-documentaries" with Pikmin 2, exploring wildlife, and I also experimented with the idea that the Pikmin "built empires". Some people manage to keep that spark alive and create works, like game developers, but as a consumer it's not so easy to maintain that childlike vision. |
Yeah that's a good way of explaining it. Nowadays I so easily get bored replaying games I've already beaten, because there's no longer any surprise or feeling of discovery. It's like eating the same dish every night for a week, it loses its appeal. Fresh content on the other hand feels exciting because of the mystery of seeing how it'll play out, of not knowing what will happen next.