• BigBananaDealer@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    me with skyrim, but ive only beaten the main quest twice, despite having like 12 different characters (10 nords that look like me, 1 khajiit, 1 high elf that looks like me, which is also my latest character)

      • BigBananaDealer@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        you should do it just once. make a new character and only do just the main quest quests 🫡 theres some gems

        pro tip: choose high elf and bring thalmor robes with you to the thalmor embassy when that quest comes up, instead of sneaking around guards you can just tell them elenwen needs them and theyll leave haha

      • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Ive seen so many people say this over the years. If you explore thoroughly it probably takes about 200 hours to do almost every quest in the game, main and side. Doing main quests nets you some key skills and unique weapons, primarily dragon shouts, one of which I use through most of the game. Last time I played I basically beelined it to High Hrothgar to get that started, and then alternated between main quests and getting the thieves guild stuff going for vendors to hock all the bullshit I pick up along the way. It is admittedly super easy to get distracted along the way, and you of course should choose whatever is fun to you, but there’s definitely good reason to do that main path for a little while.

  • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Do randomizers count? If so, I play though Link to the Past like 15 times a year

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Welp, I can’t allow a thread like this to exist without mentioning the original Deus Ex.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    7·
    3 months ago

    A mark of a great game is its replayability. I know for some that’s difficult because of the knowledge you have afterwards, but it can still be fun to relive things. On the flip side, a not so great game is the one where you never want to go through the struggle and grind again because it frankly wasn’t fun.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      It really depends on the game.

      Some games are challenges that many people feel as completed when they finish it. For me, that would be Portal. The storytelling through the setting was great, but the main focus was the puzzles which aren’t as fun the second time through. Portal 2 has a great story that makes it fun to replay, but that doesn’t mean Portal was a bad game because it didn’t have a story line worth replaying. Plus Portal 2 had the additional custom puzzles that made it worth playing outside of the story itself.

      Being an unfun challenge is definitely the sign of a bad game., or at least a bad match for the player. I’m sure there are plenty of people who think Dark Souls/Elden Rings are bad games because of the frustration factor, some only play it once to get the satisfaction of beating it, and there are people who play through it over and over again.

      • jellyfishhunter@derpzilla.netEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I see myself in that Elden Ring part. I went 100% to prove a point, but was very bored of it for most of my playthrough. I completely understand the appeal, but the gameplay loop doesn’t click with me. Every person is different and fun works just as differently for everyone. I see my addiction to TBS games and can replay them over and over again, no matter how repetitive and have my wife literally fall asleep while playing with me.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I strongly agree with this. There are so many games out there that if you asked someone if they were excited to replay it, they just be confused. Like, what’s the point of playing a game that’s mostly going from cutscene to cutscene?

  • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    I have been playing Sekiro with a randomiser recently, really helps breathe some new life into games you’ve beaten like 10 times already.

    • BigPotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I had Freelancer with me on a deployment one year. Running space convoys by night, getting ambushed for my diamonds and stuff, running real convoys by day, getting ambushed for geopolitics.

      Every time I pick up the disc, it takes me back.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    FTL. Just got an RX 6750 XT and here I am playing it instead of Alan Wake 2 or some other graphically demanding title.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Ahh, this is me with Toy Story 2 for PS1… I have yet to try the dream cast version!

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        I truly wonder if it has some QOL changes, or at least better visuals, anyway I have my nostalgia googles for the PS1 version… But it would be interesting… And I dare I’m curious for another game session.