How often do you replay an adventure game?

SHODANFreeman

I am just wondering what the replay value is like in an adventure game for a typical adventure gamer.

Friar

It depends on the game. Curse of monkey Island i average about once a year these days, however in my youth, it was closer to 2-3. Other games, i only play once or twice. (like Sam&Max Season 1, i just can't seem to enjoy it a second time)

Scrawffler

Very difficult to say, as it's different for each game. Probably on average I'd say more than once a year, so I voted once every few months. But there are some adventure games I've hardly touched since I finished them, and others I will quite happily play more often than that.

ShaggE

As much as I love adventure games, replay value is nil for me. Exceptions being Sam & Max and The Neverhood. Most others I rarely play more than twice.

zmally

Who completes the same game once a week?! and what game is it?! lmfao!!

Irishmile

I can usually play an adventure game one every couple of years.... if the game is good.. I also sometimes read books more then once and its kind of the same thing if you think about it.

Secret Fawful

I play Monkey Island 2 about once every few weeks if not more. It's just so good that I can't get enough of it. I play Broken Sword 1 and 2 about three times a year, and other LA games about the same. Shadow of the Comet I play about once a year, but if it was point and click, I would play it as much as Lechuck's Revenge.

JedExodus

I seem to play Broken Sword once a year, besides that it's usually just when I get the urge

Marty

I've played some classic adventure games over and over. To me it's like watching a great movie again, but interactive. Also brings back that nostalgia feeling with some of the older games.

Hassat Hunter

I usually wait a year or 2/3 to replay them, so I forgotten most of the stuff. For example replayed both S&M seasons just now.
And although I remembered enough never to get stuck, it was almost never immediately that I remembered the correct answer, with the exception of those puzzles that made me look up a walkthrough in the past...

Next up; CMI.

Chyron8472

It does depend on the game, and also my mood.

I voted "once per year," but when it comes down to it, I'm not really sure. I mean, I have quite a number of games from various genres, and I also have a PS2 and a GCN still plugged into my TV, for which I also have a number of games.

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...I suppose the reason why it's hard to say is because of the wane in adventure game production until recently. The truth is, TTG has sparked a renewed interest in adventure games for me, so having played ToMI through twice, and various episodes of both Sam & Max seasons through twice, and having bought and played SBCG4AP...

I've been replaying my older adventure games also ever since I heard about ToMI being released, and though I love the stories told through Sierra's King's Quest series, I find I much prefer replaying LucasArts and TTG games in which I know you can't die or get permanently stuck.

I suppose what it comes down to is that I will replay other old games after a new one comes out, though not necessarily confined to the same series. At present, the TTG Sam & Max games and ToMI are still fresh enough in my gaming life, that I keep considering playing them all again. Even if I don't I still think about it.

StarEye

Obviously it depends on the game. Monkey Island 1-3 (and now quite possibly ToMI) I play at least once a year. Some times more. But there are games I never replay at all. Like Dark Seed - I played it quite often before I decided to use a walkthrough to finally get through it (that game was too hard for its own good, mainly because of the "realtime" clock"). Now I never play it at all. And then there are games that I play a bit of quite often, but never complete it after the first time.

To be honest, to me, adventure games' replay-value are equal to that of any other game. Atmosphere and music means a lot to me, so that alone is enough to drive me to complete a game. Even if the game itself isn't superb. This rule applies to every genre.

taumel

Wow this is seldom, i'm with the majority here.

Anyway only in rare cases i replay adventures due to that adventures in almost all cases aren't designed for a high replayability. I think you could design an adventure so that it really makes sense replaying it, because things are ambiguous and you start seeing things in a different light once you played through or you offer different ways of solving a game (different puzzles, different characters, ...) or unlocking additional content.

But as adventures aren't built in such a way, you only replay those you love the most, like for instance, wh owould have guessed it, The DIG. :O)

plrichard

I put once every few months. However, that is more indicative of my answer before I discovered Telltale Games. Because at that point, whenever I wanted to play an adventure game I would usually play ones that I'd already beaten. Now I have to catch up with all of Telltale's releases.

Rather Dashing

Wits, fists, team?

pwblaine

ha! i've played sam and max six times and i've only had it for six months

OzzieMonkey

Marty wrote: »

I've played some classic adventure games over and over. To me it's like watching a great movie again, but interactive. Also brings back that nostalgia feeling with some of the older games.

This. Also, I chose every few weeks, but that's only recently, just to fill up the gap until MI2SE comes out.

Little Writer

Every few years is the safest choice. I don't have that big a budget, so I rarely acquire new games, do I DO acquire them sometimes making my collection bigger, so I've gone from a time when I could replay all my games in a year's time (which I usually did) to replaying them when I get around to them. The games I have had the longest, it's not exaggeration to say I've played them at least ten times already. To me it's like reading a book or watching a movie; it doesn't matter that I already know how everything goes, it's the journey that counts.