Here’s your reminder to come join us for some Elden Ring seamless co-op tomorrow! Here’s the link to the details: https://lemmy.zip/post/63498569
There’s lots of motivations to replay any game: the gameplay, the story, completionism, a feeling of home.
For me it’s usually gameplay first but closely followed by completionism, actually. I adore the gameplay of Sekiro, Bloodborne, Lies of P and Khazan, and that was usually the driving factor for me to replay the game. However, I am a bit of a completionist, so it’s also alluring to me to have a platinum trophy in my collection to be fully “done” with a game.
What about you?
All the reasons you listed, with an emphasis on the story. I need to do multiple playthroughs to get a sense of what the hell is going on. And I find confort in repetition, so when I like something it’s hard to move on sometimes, gotta extract all the dopamine I can from it. Heh
That’s interesting, because I’m probably almost the exact opposite! Now don’t get me wrong there are games I return to repeatedly, but for me I get an enormous rush of satisfaction of seeing the credits roll, leaning back in my chair and instantly hitting “uninstall”. It’s like the satisfaction of finishing a good book and putting it back in the shelf. It’s why I’ve moved from open-ended forever games like MMOs, Dota and Civilization over the past years into discrete narrative gaming experiences with a clear end.
Oh Lawd, that could never be me XD. My satisfaction comes from gitting gud and that’s a never ending endavour. But of course, nobody becomes a gaming connoisseur such as yourself replaying the same stuff over and over…
I commend your capacity to truly apreciate the medium, variety is the spice of life… ( or so they say)
I think it may be an ADHD thing too, bizarrely. I suck so much at finishing tasks and projects and general everyday things that I don’t get that satisfaction much elsewhere.
Also yeah, I do enjoy mixing it up with genres and games. It’s another thing where you know, I try to give myself some variety in experiences through gaming because I don’t get all that much variety in my day to day otherwise. Even though it would be easier to just succumb and play my comfort games all day. But I’ve already had that habit for years and years when I was younger and it just made days disappear even faster.
#relatable
Well, I’ll keep listening to your recs and trying to expand my gaming horizons ;) I’ll keep an eye out for your coments on ai limit. The anime girl style is one aesthetic that puts me off so much.
I’m not into it either, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about the level design and gameplay and what I am into is post-apocalyptic megastructures. And so far so good on that front! Plus it was pretty cheap.
Oh how the discounts beckon so sweetly. Tbh I’m a total aesthetic snob, if the art doesn’t sit right with me the game doesn’t get played. I’m curious if you manage to shift ny perspective on this one.
I am an art/aesthetic enjoyer, but not really a snob I don’t think. I’m not sure I can think of any game I’ve refused to play because of aesthetics. There have been many cases of games where the art was a driving factor in deciding to actually play them though, like GRIS, INMOST, most recently eying REPLACED…
^Side note: what’s with these artsy indie games using all caps for their titles? When did this become a thing?^
Oh! Those are some nice looking games!
Now that you mention it, perhaps some added Gravitas for the cover? :P some extra oomph?
I feel you about getting your value out of the game. But I also need to weigh my enjoyment of the game vs getting “the most” out of the experience. Like, I liked Khazan, a lot really, but the story was really dull and the level design left a lot to be desired, so I opted against finishing my second playthrough somewhere around the third boss or so even though the gameplay is stellar.
In comparison, I finished Sekiro like 5 or 6 times, similarly to Lies of P, just because the level design and story were also very good in addition to the gameplay being good.
Now that you’ve finished Sekiro, do you think you’d interested in Khazan? The gameplay can feel a little more intense in some aspects, but the heavy focus on parrying and perfect dodges makes it really fun to sink your teeth into it. Is the demo still around on PS5?
Yeah, I totally want to give khazan a shot. I have a lot of playthroughs on a limbo right now, so I want to at least finish ds3 and enotria before i jump into a new game. I don’t think the demo is available tho, but I’d have to check 'cause I could be wrong.
You also said you would give Withering Rooms a shot 👉👈
Oh yeah, I’ll get to ot soon…I’m mentioning soulslikes only.
This is me rn
Or this? XD
Oh I see. Am I the only delinquent who talks about non-soulslikes in this community? Maybe I am, hah.
Also very relatable. The backlog is an ever growing obelisk that is starting to blott out the sun for me. This is my constant state of being: