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| How many times do you typically play a CRPG you like? |
| Once |
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47% |
[ 10 ] |
| 2 - 3 |
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47% |
[ 10 ] |
| 4 - 6 |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| 7 or more |
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0% |
[ 0 ] |
| I seldom finish most games I like even once |
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4% |
[ 1 ] |
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Joey Nipps
Orcan High Command
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
Posts: 849
Location: Outer Space |
Please consider the CRPGs you play. If you like the game, how often do you tend to play that game before putting it aside?
Now consider why this is. I presume we all WANT to be able to play a CRPG many times and enjoy it each time - but do we and if we do what makes us able to replay it and enjoy it again and again.
I admit that (in general) I play a game once only - perhaps playing it part way through with different character types (rogue, mage, etc.) but seldom finish more than once. Generally speaking the only reason I tend to replay games I liked the first time through is because there isn't anything else to play (not a very good reason btw).
The reasons I do not replay most CRPGs through is lack of differentiation between the character types (they all play about the same), lack of different NPC reactions to different character types (they all say the same thing regardless of your character) and lack of any real differences in the storyline (main and/or subs or quests).
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Jaz
Late Night Spook
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 9708
Location: RPGDot |
I use to replay my beloved shooters and the rare CRPG I like at least once - it doesn't matter if they have a measurable 'replay value'. I played Doom like what, 15 times before I went on to other games like Strife which i replayed 4 times...
I played Gothic, for example, twice as an OC guard before I went on to try other affiliations/classes, I played Daggerfall with two characters who were - except for looks, race and gender - exactly the same etc. etc.
I'm not going to replay Morrowind though because I just don't have the time nowadays to play a game more than once.
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 3:53 pm |
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Rawis
Gorthaur
Joined: 01 Apr 2002
Posts: 1861
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Some games i don't even finish, but i play then for a long time, with different characters and such.  |
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 4:09 pm |
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Lintra
Elf Friend
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 9448
Location: Bermuda, the triangle place with SANDY BEACHES |
I am assuming that this question applies only to those games I like enough to even *try* to finish.
That said, most games I like have had hard choices I had to make that I know effect the way the game plays out. So I have to try the game again. I do not always finish the alternate start - especially if I find it too much like the original play through ... but I usually do.
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 5:11 pm |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
I finish almost every game I buy. I want my money's worth. 
Then, if I liked the game I usually replay it. If I loved the game it will be enshrined on my hard drive and only removed because I'm forced to uninstall it to make room for another game. 
Don't ask how many times I've replayed Fallout, Fallout 2, or PS:T.
Then there was Quest for Glory 1. I swear I had that game down to a science.
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XeroX
The MasterCopy
Joined: 13 Dec 2001
Posts: 7125
Location: The Netherlands |
1 time, i have enough games lined up already.
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 6:04 pm |
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ButtOfMalmsey
Village Idiot
Joined: 07 May 2002
Posts: 785
Location: Mississippi |
If I ever finish a game, I like to go back and replay it a couple of times. I haven't finished any CRPGs recently (not since Fallout, IIRC). But I've replayed that about ten times.
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stealth
Protector of the Realm
Joined: 23 Mar 2002
Posts: 261
Location: Valhalla |
Sadly I have to admit that I have got quite a lot of games that I haven’t finished (Gothic, Morrowind, NWN and so on) and they will always have a higher priority than to replay games I've been through once.
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 6:53 pm |
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MoonDragon
High Emperor
Joined: 25 May 2002
Posts: 1254
Location: Waterloo, Canada |
Having thought about it, I usually don't finish my games. Sometimes I do just to get it over with, but I guess I find the fun in actual playing. Not finishing. I think Fallout 2 was the only game I finished about 7 times. Prolly because I wanted to see those ending cutscenes. But many games I started playing over and over again. I guess I like developing my characters early on. I started BG2 about 4 times. Last incarnation was with a single character that was fighter/mage/thief, but when I realized I haven't leveled in about 4 levels worth of xp (due to xp cap), I got bored and stopped. Arcanum got started with about 6 different characters, of which 4 went some distance, of which 1 finished the game (I can't even remember what the game was about in the end--some dead elf trying to take over the world?).
Bottom line, if by replay you mean finish, then I don't replay my games. If you mean by how many times I restart the game, then many.
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The Hurricane
Tempered Warlord
Joined: 01 Jun 2002
Posts: 299
Location: The Sword Coast |
Well, I normally play my CRPGs through once, mostly because I hardly have the time to even finish them. I'm a big fan of CRPGs, I'm currently playing: Fallout, Fallout 2, Morrowind, NWN, and Icewind Dale. I just beat Gothic a few days ago as an OC .....I keep thinking, "I want to play through it again as a sect member or as a new camp member!" I doubt that'll ever happen cause Fallout 2 and NWN have captured my playing time at the moment, and even if I finish those, I still have three games left to beat. - and by that time I'll probably have bought three more. So even if a CRPG had a huge replay value, I doubt I'd play through it again. I'd keep playin if it had multiplayer though.
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 9:31 pm |
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TheRaven
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Joined: 21 Jun 2002
Posts: 94
Location: Germany |
the only games that it fully completed more than once were...
-diablo: 3 times (each character)
- realms of arkania 1: 3 times
2: 2 times
3: 2 times ...planning to play again with lvl 1 party *g
-might & magic 4&5 : 2 times ... once seperate and once world of xeen
- quest for glory 3: 3 times (each character) and some other adventure games.. (monkey island 1&2 for ex.)
I did those in the time when roleplay-games were rare - now there are so many that I can't even finish some of them once |
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Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:54 pm |
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dteowner
Shoegazer
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 7570
Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
I had a quick answer for this one, until I started really thinking about it. I wanted to go with a straight "one time", but when I really started looking thru my RPGs, I noticed that there's quite a few that I never did finish. There's a few (MM6, MM7, and Wiz8 in particular) that I've completed multiple times, but lots more that I never won. I did notice a trend, though. The ones I didn't finish were mostly D&D based games. I think the reason for that is that the aspect of RPGs that I enjoy most is character development. The D&D games often get pretty stagnant after a while, which makes finishing them a chore. Even ones I truly liked (Planescape) got stale on me. I've started those games countless times because I feel bad about not completing them, but I always seem to get bogged down after a while. BG1 had a cap of level 7 (IIRC). Not much chance to grow your character like that. If you think back, during the years after the gold box games went away and before our recent rebirth, a lot of RPGs were tied into the D&D system somehow, so you couldn't help but add those types of games to your library.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the p-n-p D&D experience as much as the next person, but I guess I look for different things when I fire up my PC. Kinda makes me feel like a loser to really examine how many games I've given up on over the years.
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Vorador
Noble Knight
Joined: 06 May 2002
Posts: 214
Location: Pit of the Damned |
When I play a real good CRPG, I usually like to play it one more time. Just to catch the stuff that I didn't get or secrets that I didn't find.
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Thu Jul 18, 2002 7:50 am |
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Windwalking
Fearless Paladin
Joined: 05 Jul 2002
Posts: 227
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I almost always complete an RPG that I buy, usually because I research it a bit beforehand and typically pick games that I would like. I'll go through again if
a) there's a significant part of the game I missed the first time around, such as other story branches, or choosing a different faction (camps in Gothic), or class.
b) I want to try something out that I didn't think of before
I remember going through BG a couple of times, just to try out different party combos. BG II, esp. with the different NPC interaction, the quasi-evil options, the class stronghold missions, etc. I played through BG II three times, twice completed with two different parties and classes, and the third time solo, just to see if I could... After a challenging beginning, my solo fighter/mage was virtually invincible in the mid-game (I took out the XP cap ), and I got bored with it, so I just stopped.
Some games are just too tedious to play through again, like many of the console games (eg Ultima I... shudder).
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