Video Games Are Better The Second Time You Play Them

Multiplayer games are because you get better at them. I love me a good 16 player coop game.
 
Armenius said:
So did Mass Effect, but the game wasn't any "better" or "worse" for me after the twentieth time I played through it.
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Mass Effect (rather, versions two and three) got better over time with different paths, and most especially at the higher two difficulty levels where you had to actually play strategically.
 
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I give Half~Life a run through every couple years just for fun and the dungeon crawl games are fun with a dif class.
 
It all depends on the game. Bioshock 1 was amazing the first time through, because it was telling a story, and i wanted to find out what happened. Plus i explored a LOT and found most of the additional audio logs and other stuff that wasn't necessary to finish the game, but made the world come alive. Second and third time through, just didn't capture that same magic.

Other games, even story based ones, can be played multiple times with close to the same enjoyment. Metro last light was a game i play at least once a year, and enjoy it every time. Not as much as the first playthrough, but enough to WANT to play through it again.

Like others have said, everyone is different. Some people enjoy a retelling of a good story, and some do not.
 
The Author of that piece was a game reviewer and he rushes through games on first play to get the review out, so he enjoys taking his time on second play through at his leisure.

I don't review games. I like RPGs and I take my time, the first time. So the first time is best for me. The unfolding story is what keeps me hooked.

Often if I try to replay, I find many parts to be drudgery on a second time through. I have to give it a LONG time before I try a replay (many years).
 
I'd say "False".

I only play games once and most I never finish. Even the games that have that hard part where you keep dying and return you to a checkpoint, I just want to fly to the point where I got killed, get through it, and keep going. After so many times of getting killed, I skip that coin in the corner, jump over that enemy instead of killing it, and say screw that trophy I've got to jump through hoops to get. I just want to get to the end of a level; I don't care about points, trophies, or achievements.
 
I'd like to say this, but we have a serious exception.
No Man's sky does not improve the second time you play it.

I hope the industry doesn't follow Sean Murray's footsteps.
 
First play through is the best aside from certain circumstances (bugs, newer PC, whatnot). If it is story based, even if there are multiple outcomes you know the general flow of the story. You will also memorize certain areas with makes it less surprising and often tedious. Sometimes you learn new things that you did not see the first time but that is outweighed by the former.

When I play a game I play through all the secondary missions/quests/important things. Often games will have main story missions, secondaries, and then cut & paste activities. I always do the first and second, and if it is too long skip the cut & paste activities. Any other meaningful things (useful weapon upgrades, good diolgue, interesting things to see) I will do in the first play through as well. I have zero interest in achievements and was thrilled to learn that the latest version of Origin gives you an option to disable them. I hope Steam copies that.
 
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im thiking pretty much any strategy game because every run through you learn something new to tweak and optimize
 
SvenBent said:
master of orion
civilizion II

im thiking pretty much any strategy game because every run through you learn something new to tweak and optimize
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I'm curious. How did you wind up replying to this news story 2.5 years later? :p
 
IdiotInCharge said:
Mass Effect (rather, versions two and three) got better over time with different paths, and most especially at the higher two difficulty levels where you had to actually play strategically.
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Well said. I found the game play much more rewarding on higher difficulty settings where I had to give considerable thought to my loadout and squadmate setup. I'd also find more entertainment value with certain choices as I'd try different options each time I played the game.
 
I find that sometimes it gets better. Depending on my mood. Sometimes, a game garners no interest, but then a season later it hits the sweet spot, and I'm amazed how awesome it is.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I'm curious. How did you wind up replying to this news story 2.5 years later? :p
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It is a very sad story actually. He actually started typing his reply back on September 26th 2016. However a gaze of hungry raccoons noticed the light shining through his window from this screen as he was online and broke into his house in their attempt to find food. Before he hit submit he turned around to see what was going on, however in his sudden jerking around caused his chair to tip backwards and he hit is head on the floor very hard. When his family found him he was in a deep comma, with his skull cracked open. They left his stuff just as it was all the years he spent in the ICU in a comma before he finally woke up 3 months ago. After relearning everything all over again (how to talk, walk, etcs) he finally got to return home this morning. The first thing he realized when he sat back down at the computer he hasn't seen in years is that he needed to hit post on the reply he started typing up years ago.
 
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