Current Events > Why do people replay games directly after they've already beaten them?

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Sometimes I will for alternate endings, if I'm not burnt out by the end of the game or have something else I want to move on to. I still need to replay Digimon Survive to get the NG+ ending.

Immediately replayed Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered for the new game+ trophies. It was actually pretty fun cause I got to ignore all the side content and skip entire boss phases with Quad Damage and checkpoint abuse.

Depends on the game. Games like Until Dawn and The Quarry have multiple endings that occur depending on whether or not the characters are still alive.

If I'm replaying a game (whether it's the same mode or New Game+ if the game has it), I try to do things a bit different than I did before. For instance, for my regular playthrough on Batman Arkham Knight, I would do the side missions when they became available. On New Game+, I finished the main story, then did the side missions as since the main story ends with Gotham finding out that Bruce Wayne is Batman, some of the dialogue would be different.

because sadly, there's usually nothing like it

Because when I love a game, I want to enjoy it more by repeating it.

Same reason why I would listen to music I love again, or watch a movie I love multiple times.

STEROLIZER posted...

So for those who do replay games immediately after defeating themwhy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_JVMUj-VY

STEROLIZER posted...

Why not play a new game?

That (usually) requires time investment into learning new mechanics, new characters, new stories, that I may not want to bother with. Either due to laziness, disinterest, or life events that might make me hesitant to get involved into something new.

Part of my reason for replaying Crisis Core is cause I made the game too easy by completing all the missions as they became available in the story on my first go so I was insanely overpowered before even the mid-point of the story.

So now I've gotten the Platinum, replayed explicitly for story, and did a couple runs just to see what a challenge would feel like from the game. Which actually worked and has allowed me to become better at the game overall, with a pretty full understanding of enemies and bosses. Actually having to think about how to approach a battle, actually having to take advantage of Materia/Magic that was useless on a run where I was even moderately overleveled. For example, why would I need to Dispel an enemies' Regen or Barrier/Magic Barrier when I can just beat them to death in 3 hits. When you can't do that, you see value in things that otherwise had no value.

I'm not saying you can do this with every game, but it has certainly given me a respect for the combat that I didn't have at first.

Depends on the game. A Link To The Past, I've played hundreds of times. Mario Bros 3, too. Some games, I'll play once and then never again.

There's a bit of a barrier with starting a new game. Modern gaming has like an hour or two of intriduction/in game tutorials before you actually get to do anything. Instead, I will often want to just jump into something immediately and wail on some baddies.

Jiek_Fafn posted...

There's a bit of a barrier with starting a new game. Modern gaming has like an hour or two of intriduction/in game tutorials before you actually get to do anything. Instead, I will often want to just jump into something immediately and wail on some baddies.

So why not do something else with ones time? Where does the joy out of replaying something you just defeated come from? Gameplay mechanics being fun? New story modes? New character mechanics?

Because I want to.

It's really that simple.

Murphiroth posted...

Because I want to.

It's really that simple.

But why? Why do you want to replay it?

STEROLIZER posted...

But why? Why do you want to replay it?

If I replay a game immediately, it's because I want to. Why do you care?

You've been given several answers already in this topic. Sometimes it's because I like the gameplay and want to play it on a higher difficulty, sometimes it's for completionist purposes.

Again - why does it matter and why do you care?

Depends on the game...

There are some games that give you different endings depending on decisions you make within the game (like GTAV and RDR2).

Other times it's a matter of trophy/achievement collecting. For example, Marvels Spiderman 2. I just got a PS5 for Christmas and this was bundled in. I just recently beat it, but there's a few trophies I missed in my initial play though (such as "Stealth takedown 25 enemies in stealth from the Web Line").

So I'm playing it again via NG+ to tie those things up.

Murphiroth posted...

If I replay a game immediately, it's because I want to. Why do you care?

Its a discussion topic. I created a topic to general a conversation based on a subject I dont understand, and wished to get different points-of-views on so I could greater expand my narrow understanding of the subject matter.

You've been given several answers already in this topic. Sometimes it's because I like the gameplay and want to play it on a higher difficulty, sometimes it's for completionist purposes.

Again - why does it matter and why do you care?

Why would you choose to participate if you dont actually want to answer the question?

When I was younger, like during the NES and Genesis/SNES days, replaying games multiple times was an almost requirement, becasue the "brag" wasn't that you beat the game, but how fast you could be the game, or how many times you "died" before beating the game.

With so many NES games having roots int he arcades, there was a lot of "if you die, you have to start from square 1" so once the game was beat, the challenge then became how "easily" you could beat it.

Being the first kid on my class to beat Contra without having to use the Konami Code is something I jokingly brag about to my friends today.

With there being no real was to "lose" a game nowadays, it has become a lost art to most people other than speed runners.

FF7 Re* is one of the few. Ill generally play first blind then look up some cool builds and play again. Plus NG+ has a load of content unlocked. Rebirth in particular because I have a load of side content Ive not done yet.

STEROLIZER posted...

Its a discussion topic. I created a topic to generate a conversation based on a subject I dont understand, and wished to get different points-of-views on so I could greater expand my narrow understanding of the subject matter.

Because I dont understand it, and I like to try to understand things thatwellthat I dont understand

Well, hopefully you understand now.

LOL those edits tho

Some games are made to be replayed immediately, like RE2 Remake. I usually dont, though.

Yeah I really never understood how people can do this. To me it is like being like "Man that lasagna was delicious. Welp, time to eat another lasagna."

MEGAsoldier posted...

Yeah I really never understood how people can do this. To me it is like being like "Man that lasagna was delicious. Welp, time to eat another lasagna."

Yo, if I find some bomb ass food, I want more of that bomb ass food <_<

Like I loved KFC's Double Down. to the point that if they were serving it today, I'd eat it every day, if not multiple times a day, until my heart exploded with the force of a nuclear bomb

Depending on the game.

I've beaten Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 on PS2/PS5 over 50 times combined.

RDR - 12.

Uncharted 2 - 9.

LANoire - 3.

LeadPipeCinche posted...

Depending on the game.

I've beaten Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1

One of the few I replayed pretty quickly myself.

I dunno, everyone stops at different places. The credits are just a cutscene. Some people go for the post game, some don't. Some people go for NG+, some don't. Some people boot it up again and just run around goofing off, some don't. Some people start another playthrough, some don't.

I guess the real question here is why do you choose the point where you stop, and I think it's as valid a question for TC as for anyone else.

STEROLIZER posted...

Why not play a new game?

Because most games don't appeal to me.

garan posted...

Because most games don't appeal to me.

So dont prefer the game be a live service game?

What is New Game+ ?

STEROLIZER posted...

What is New Game+ ?

Some games like the Batman Arkham series really take that to the extreme. On Arkham Origins, for example, dying on the "I Am The Night" setting sends you all the way back to the beginning of the game. No save points.

I like the game and I want to play more

I replay games I liked, but usually its months/years before I do. Rarely right after. On those rare occasions, its something like the Borderlands series where it takes multiple playthroughs to unlock everything.

TyVulpine posted...

Some games like the Batman Arkham series really take that to the extreme. On Arkham Origins, for example, dying on the "I Am The Night" setting sends you all the way back to the beginning of the game. No save points.

I mean, what does the term
itse mean. Im still confused.

only time i ever did tht was with og re4 on professional

STEROLIZER posted...

I mean, what does the term
itse mean. Im still confused.

Generally lets you start a new file with all the XP, skills, and items you had at the end of your first playthrough. One of the first games I remember doing it was Chrono Trigger.

jumi posted...

Generally lets you start a new file with all the XP, skills, and items you had at the end of your first playthrough. One of the first games I remember doing it was Chrono Trigger.

Aww. Got it.

If I played a game loved it don't want it o be over I might. I played tales of vesperia 3 times in a row. I've done OoT 3 times in a row. And I'm about to play ghost of tsushima for a second time in a row. (Third over all play though)

But normally no unless it's like a nes game that's short. Like I lost count how many times I played through castlevania 1 in a row.

I do for all the various reasons already listed in this topic.

First time I can recall doing it was with Final Fantasy 8 as an 11 year old. I had spend so much time in this world and with those characters I just didn't want to leave yet. Felt like saying goodbye to close friends at that point which is something I also used to experience when reading a really good book.
I don't get that feeling anymore likely due to mass media consumption, but almost every ending used to be bittersweet for me as a child. It felt great accomplishing my set goal, but at the same time it meant that now it was all over and that made me sad.

I think the only time I did this myself was the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance because of all the unique voice interactions. But Im also playing with 30 different characters.

Other than that, Ive never played through a single player game directly after beating it. But I did go back and defeat Urban Reign a few years after defeating it the first time.

STEROLIZER posted...

I think the only time I did this myself was the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance because of all the unique voice interactions. But Im also playing with 30 different characters.

Beat that game on hard as soon as the credits rolled after my initial playthrough. Funnily enough, that game has a New Game+ mode which I guess you're not aware of.

TyVulpine posted...

Some games like the Batman Arkham series really take that to the extreme. On Arkham Origins, for example, dying on the "I Am The Night" setting sends you all the way back to the beginning of the game. No save points.

There technically was save points. They would just get deleted if you die.

There was a way to cheese it though. Sit close enough to your console to hit the power button if you where about to die.

TheSavageDragon posted...

Beat that game on hard as soon as the credits rolled after my initial playthrough. Funnily enough, that game has a New Game+ mode which I guess you're not aware of.

I know that its possible to carry over stats to a new game. The concept isnt new to me, I just didnt know the terminology.

STEROLIZER posted...

I know that its possible to carry over stats to a new game. The concept isnt new to me, I just didnt know the terminology.

Oh ok. Not just stats though, you get to keep all the unlocked costumes as well which was the main reason why I went through it again. Put all that effort into unlocking and upgrading every character's alternate costumes and then the game just ends having barely used a bunch of characters and costumes.

TheSavageDragon posted...

Oh ok. Not just stats though, you get to keep all the unlocked costumes as well which was the main reason why I went through it again. Put all that effort into unlocking and upgrading every character's alternate costumes and then the game just ends having barely used a bunch of characters and costumes.

Ultimaye Alliance is a perfect example of a franchise that downgraded with each new entry.

The 2nd game placed emphasis on story cut scenes more so than gameplay. The roster was a significant downgrade. There were less costumes, less villains, and in general less shit to do.

The 3rd was absent of unique dialogue which made replaying the thing a chore. Also they didnt put nearly enough villains or enemy types in the game.

The first one had a near perfect roster, repeatability, and really tossed you into the comicbook world the worlds were in point, and you learned about the lore of the different characters as you progressed.

I will for NG+, trophies, special items/weapons, and a few other reasons. But not all games have that stuff. So not all games get an instant replay

LinkPizza posted...

I will for NG+, trophies, special items/weapons, and a few other reasons. But not all games have that stuff. So not all games get an instant replay

Yeah I think OoT is the only one with no new game+ I've done it with. It was the most epic game I played at that point in my life then later as an adult I did 3 plays back to back. First was normally second I did it in one sitting and third I did a no shield run

The last one was fun as hell to me. Basically I'd get a shield if absolutely necessary like one particular boss but then if immediately go get my hylian shield ate asap after. It made so the back flip and side hops actually where needed for some combat like lifalzos

"Why do people enjoy things I don't!?" lol this might be the most STEROLZIER topic ever, jesus christ.

Sufferedphoenix posted...

There technically was save points. They would just get deleted if you die.

There was a way to cheese it though. Sit close enough to your console to hit the power button if you where about to die.

There was a scene in Batman TAS where Batman explains that he's not invincible like people think he is and every night he goes out he knows he could die. "It could be the Riddler, or Two-Face, or just some punk who gets lucky."

I was absurdly good at those games, so my I am the Night playthrough on Hard, I only cheesed the Copperhead fight in this way, with "restart from checkpoint" when I would get low.

But then, almost at the end of the game, I'm talking the bridge dungeon, I screwed up and completely didn't see the guy with the shotgun.

That Batman quote had never felt so real.

jumi posted...

Generally lets you start a new file with all the XP, skills, and items you had at the end of your first playthrough. One of the first games I remember doing it was Chrono Trigger.

Adventure of Link for me.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

There was a scene in Batman TAS where Batman explains that he's not invincible like people think he is and every night he goes out he knows he could die. "It could be the Riddler, or Two-Face, or just some punk who gets lucky."

I was absurdly good at those games, so my I am the Night playthrough on Hard, I only cheesed the Copperhead fight in this way, with "restart from checkpoint" when I would get low.

But then, almost at the end of the game, I'm talking the bridge dungeon, I screwed up and completely didn't see the guy with the shotgun.

That Batman quote had never felt so real.

Think i did it with firefly qte section. Had to be quick to cheese that one though. Like you could technically die you just had to be quick enough to hit the power button before it could autosave your death

I've recently done this with two older games: Dragon Age Origins and Jade Empire. They were so good I had to go right back in and try different options.

I actually like the replays often more than the initial experience. In the initial experience, your run often is a bit discombobulated and poorly executed, whereas on replay you are like Seal Team 6, a well oiled machine: you know what exactly to do and feel like a rockstar. Although, I suppose it is a bit of personality thing: the experiencer vs. the perfecter.