Board 8 > Anyone else have this problem when replaying games?

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I get close to the end and just...stop playing. I don't know how many times I got to the final dungeon in OoT and MM and just never touched the game again.

This is usually only a problem for me on replays, but I just realized that I'm close to the very end of Bayonetta (1st play) and haven't played in over a year.
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i've seen a lot of posts to this effect on this very board before! can only think of one for myself - suikoden 1
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you make it farther than i do!

i tend to find myself losing interest somewhat early. usually at the first long, tedious, or filler dungeon/world/planet.

there are simply parts of games that are carried by anticipation of what new thing you're going to discover. if you've already beaten the game, that feeling is gone

in a second playthrough i don't think i've made it past the water temple in OoT, Taris (almost posted Tarsonis) in KotoR, or Noveria in Mass Effect. Didn't get far in the Witcher 3, either

i think these might be the only games i've tried to replay and failed
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I do this with first plays!
Runs die out for me usually 1/2 - 3/4ths though
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I think what it ends up being for me is that my enthusiasm for replaying an adventure game is like, I'm really invested for the first 25%, I have momentum keeping me through the next 50%, but by the time I'm to the last 25% that momentum has run out and I lose interest, even if the last part of the game is very good.

LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

I do this with first plays!
Runs die out for me usually 1/2 - 3/4ths though

This is true for me as well. And because of my backlog, I rarely ever replay games. I prefer moving on to new ones.
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

I do this with first plays!
Runs die out for me usually 1/2 - 3/4ths though

This happens to me more often than I'd like to admit. Sometimes I'll even make it to the final boss, lose, and call it good enough...
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I guess because the games I usually love to replay can beaten around 2-3 hours I never run into this.
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Nope replays are usually much easier for me to finish
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Same, actually.

Though I usually end up picking it up again later and finishing.
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i quit games all the time but not really at the end. only time i can think of was in Skyward Sword hero mode, i was trying to do the dragon's boss rush thing and it was too hard and i gave up (and never bothered finishing that playthrough).
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I used to do this a lot on first playthroughs when I was a kid. There were so many games I started over from the beginning years later only to realize I was basically at the end
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EndOfDiscOne posted...

I don't know how many times I got to the final dungeon in OoT and MM and just never touched the game again.

Should be once I'm guessing?
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I usually don't have a problem finishing games I re-play.

My problem is that I usually have 6-10 games going at once so it takes me months to re-complete a game. I have so many favorites that I usually play whatever I'm in the mood for.

I actually haven't been able to stick to one game at a time till completion for about 10 years or so now.
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Only happened with Twilight Princess (4 times!!!) And GTA III
Final mission is so cheap
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

I do this with first plays!
Runs die out for me usually 1/2 - 3/4ths though

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For some reason I couldn't get into Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 and Twilight Princess when I tried replaying them a few years back. Probably played them too much when I was younger.
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I have a slightly different problem. Once I've beaten the game, I never load my saves.

On replays, I come back for one play session, and then...I typically don't follow-up. And then when I finally return to the game, I just start new because I don't like trying to figure out where I left off or I want to try something new. Civilization is especially bad for this, but the number of Bethesda game files I have is pretty atrocious, too.

The funny part is that I know I do this, and I still save whenever I quit. Just in case.
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I think I've only ever done this for shadow hearts
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I do this a lot even on games I havn't finished.

Like I restarted dragon age like 3 times before I actually beat it.
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that happened to me with ffxii on my first playthrough. Ironically on the second playthrough I completed the game.
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