Name a game that was so good you beat more then once.

[talonhawk]

I know with our busy schedules its hard to play games on our free time. So for us to have a second run with a game must say something about the game itself. Name a game you have played and beaten but thought it was so good you just had to play again. Would like to know what people think.


Me personally.

Killzone 2
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy Crisis Core
Duke Nukem
Half Life
Doom
Gears of War 2
Halo 1.2.3


Thats all I can think about right now..

[macattackk]

ocarina of time

[Kot_Leopold]

Back in the day...:

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Red Alert 2
Resident Evil 3
Unreal Tournament
MDK
Carmageddon
Crash Bandicoot, Warped
Fallout 3, New Vegas
Twisted Metal 2
Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2
Tomb Raider
LittleBigPlanet
Grand Theft Auto 3, Vice City
Call of Duty: World at War
Half-Life 1, Blue Shift, Opposing Force
Half-Life 2
Doom
Quake
Duke Nukem 3D
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter

[alfalfasprossen]

Gothic
Gothic 2 (without and with addon)

[Tommy Scott]

Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10-2, Tactics Advance (some of 'em I've beaten 3+ times)
Xenosaga: Episode I
Sonic 2
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Xenogears
Chrono Trigger
Super Mario 64
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night AND Circle of the Moon
Halo, Halo 2
Super Mario World
Resident Evil: 2 AND Director's Cut
Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Prime, Metroid: Zero Mission
Pokemon Blue
Metal Gear Solid 3
Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast Edition)
Mortal Kombat I, II, III, IV, (don't know if fighting or racing games count though, because I can think of more)

I'm sure the list could go a little further, but I can't think of anything right now.

[Elmo]

resident evil1 and 2
marvel vs capcom
mortal kombat 1

[LowRez]

Well I'll start with Games that dont really have a story. That I'll play a campaign every now and then but not always finish them too "completion" I think I've won and don't want to mop up, or get bored of the current scenario and start a new game. And Im going to include games Ive sunk 100+ hours into this catagory for Multiplayer

The Total War series - (what I currently work on) 100+ hours per game
Civilisation Series (including the colonisation games)- 100+ hours per game sank into them too.
Football Manager
Team Fortress 2
Counter strike (including Source)
Battlefield 1942 and BF 2


And Now games with clearer start and end points...

Fallout 1 and 2 the isometric one's... amazing replayability.
Baldurs Gate 1 and 2
Diablo 1 and 2
Final Fantasy 7
Res Evil 2
Advanced Wars Series (the campaign side I usually play through 3-4 times each)
Assassins Creed 2
Company of heroes (SP campaigns)
Saints Row 2
Portal
Left 4 Dead 1 and 2



I'll split the N64 into it's own catagory

Mario 64
Goldeneye
Jet Force Gemeni
Perfect Dark
Zelda Ocarina of time
Zelda Majoras Mask
Rogue Squadron
WWE No Mercy (Story Tree)
Banjo and Kazooie
Diddy Kong Racing (Story)
Turok
Blast Corps


Im sure theres more... and I'll edit some in.

[Daelus]

The list is a lot longer, but here are the ones off the top of my head.

Deus Ex
Kotor 1 & 2
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
Portal
Half life 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Call of Duty 1 + 3
Bioshock
Jedi Knight 2
Braid
Hitman (only the first one)
Diablo
Planescape: Torment
Pokemon Red (my friend had blue of course)

I know I'm missing a lot of em, and I'm sure it'll all come back in like 5 minutes.

[Beelzeboss]

Good question that it is really tough to remember some of the older ones but here are some off the top of my head

legend of zelda A link to the past
Super mario world
sonic 1 & 2
Medal of honor allied assault
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 4 Modern warfare
Syphon Filter
Splinter cell Chaos Theory
Splinter cell conviction
Unreal tournament
Full spectrum warrior
Ghost recon advanced warfighter
Rainbow six vegas
Bioshock
Gears of war 1 & 2
Resident evil 1 & 4
Uncharted
Tony Hawks 3
Prototype
Bulletstorm
Jedi Knight 2

[Shadownami92]

Zelda: Majora's Mask
Pokemon Red & Silver
Jet Force Gemini
Zone of the Enders: 2nd Runner
Sonic 1,2,3, & Knuckles
TMNT 2: Arcade Edition
Banjo Kazooie & Banjo Tooie
Portal 1&2
Star Fox 64
Bomberman 64
Phantasy Star Online Ep. 1&2
Mario Kart 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Donkey Kong 64
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Star Wars Rouge Squadron (N64 version and Rouge Leader)
Tekken 3
Megaman 6
Harvest Moon 64
Extreme G
Kirby 64
Megaman Legends
Yoshi's Story

Almost forgot- Dragon Warrior 1,2,3,8,and 9 loved those games.

the list goes on but I just can't think of the others at the moment.

[Stry]

a few that were mentioned here I won't repeat, such as morrowind oblivion metroid etc. One game in particular hasn't been mentioned and I think I've beaten it 3 times, is Digimon World 1 for the PSX...the replay value was intense, because you would always get a different monster each time, depending on if you had the strategy guide or not ...there are STILL things that are a mystery about that game to this day!

[sinz]

PC:
Fury 3
Slipstream
Hive
Hi Octane
MDK I+II
Doom
Wolfenstien
Duke Nukem 3D
Quake I,III (Endless multi-player fun.)
Portal I+II
StarCraft I+II

SNes+Nes:
Metroid
Mario Brothers (All)
Blaster Master
Battle toads
Street Fighter (ALL)
StarFox
MarioKart (ALL of them)

PSX+PS2:
Metal Gear Solid
Mortal Kombat
Vandal hearts
Final Fantasy VII
Kingdom Hearts <3
XenoGears

SEGA GEN:
Sonic (all)

GameCube:
Mario Party (was fun when I was younger)
Mario Sunshine


Think It ends their, sadly & at first I didn't know what to put in here l.o.l.
Edit the list if any more pop into my head.

[Polygoblin]

I don't have any that haven't already been mentioned but jeez, this thread is basically the best games ever made. So many winners!

Actually, I think I do have one that wasn't listed: Max Payne (1 & 2)

[cookepuss]

I've finished a LOT of games more than once. Lemme separate them by platform. Don't know how many I'll remember off the top of my head, but we'll see.

Arcade & C64
(Some of these games, the best you can do each time is max the score. No real endings.)
- Pac-Man & Ms. Pac-Man
- Pitfall
- Zaxxon
- Defender
- Centipede
- Chimera
- X-Men Madness in Murderworld
- Gauntlet
- Dragon's Lair
- Aztec Challenge

PC
- Doom 1 & 2 (Hated 3)
- Quake 1-3
- Unreal 1 & 2
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Day of the Tentacle
- Sam & Max Hit the Road
- Deus Ex 1 & 2 (1 was better though)
- Freedom Force
- Anachronox
- Tomb Raider 1 & 2
- Hype (a dumbed down, but fun Lego-style Zelda clone)
- Sorcerer's Appliance 1-3 (Sort of like Leisure Suite Larry)

NES
- Metroid
- Batman
- Super Mario Bros
- Maniac Mansion (with a few exceptions, better than the PC version)
- Uncanny X-Men (One of the worst games ever, but I was a kid and didn't care.)
- Final Fantasy 1
- Baseball Simulator 1.000
- Mike Tyson's Punchout
- Metal Gear
- Elevator Action

SNES
- Super Metroid
- Super Mario World 1 & 2
- Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
- Final Fantasy 5 & 6
- Super Star Wars
- Chrono Trigger
- Super Bowling
- Super Street Fighter 2 CE
- NBA Jam
- Spider-Man/X-Men
- Mega Man X
- Donkey Kong Country

N64
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Super Mario 64
- Castlevania 64

GameCube
- Metroid Prime
- Animal Crossing (not exactly a game you can beat, but I played every day for maybe 2 years.)
- The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Luigi's Mansion
- X-Men Legends I & II (More fun, imo than Ultimate Alliance)
- SSX Tricky
- Aggressive Inline
- Skies of Arcadia

Wii
- Wii Sports Bowling (Multiple perfects in each variation)
- Wii Sports Bowling (Multiple perfects in each variation)
- Guitar Hero III
- Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2

Gameboy
- Amazing Spider-Man
- Robocop
- Final Fantasy Legend 1-3 (Actually SaGa 1-3 in Japan. Great games btw)
- Final Fantasy Adventure (Actually the first Mana game in Japan)
- Tetris (Not sure you can "beat" it, but I did pass 500 or 600 lines. Hardest console version of Tetris btw.)
- Super Mario Land 1 & 2 (1 was great, but 2 was MUCH better.)
- Metroid 2
- Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Gradius
- Operation C
- Battletoads
- TMNT 1 & 2
- Mega Man 2
- Sword of Hope
- Tiny Toon Adventures
- Metal Gear Solid

Gameboy Advance
- Metroid Fusion

Nintendo DS
- Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Lego Star Wars

Nintendo 3DS
- Super Street Fighter 4

Playstation
- Final Fantasy 8-9
- Parasite Eve
- Tekken 2 & 3

Playstation 2
- God of War I & II

Playstation 3
- Call of Duty 3 & 4
- Ghostbusters

Sony PSP
- God of War Chains of Olympus
- God of War Ghost of Sparta
- Rachet & Clank
- Daxter

[cookepuss]

I still buy newer games, but I think that a lot of them aren't worth multiple plays.

Dang. Forget to include some of the Lynx, Jaguar, & GameGear games I've played through a bazillion times. Stuff like Shinobi, Sonic, California Games, AvP, Cybermorph, and so on.

[Jax]

I've finished so many games multiple times, but I must have beaten Sonic 3 and Knuckles probably hundreds of times, if not way more than that. I mean I have that damn game on pretty much every console I own, but I can't help it. It doesn't take very long to beat and its my fave game. I usually start with a run through of it as Knuckles and sometimes play as Sonic afterwards, but most of them are with Knuckles.

So. Yeah, thats my most notable one anyway because of the sheer number of times I've beaten it.

[Beartastic]

There is a difference I think between old games that were meant to be finished basically every sitting and the longer ones like modern games and old games with save slots that would take several days to a week to finish each time. Replaying those longer ones means a serious commitment. There are a few that I played all the way through more than once back in the 16 bit days, but these are ones that I finished like a bajillion times:

Sonic 2
Wonderboy
Wonderboy in Monsterland
Golden Axe!!
Psycho Fox
Midnight Resistance
Ghouls & Ghosts
Thunder Force IV

For longer games and modern games I think I've only played these more than once all the way through:

Demon's Souls
Ico
Resident Evil 4
Phantasy Star
Ultima IV and VI

[Tommy Scott]

cooke, you're my kina guy! By the way, the fact that you went through the oringal Final Fantasy on NES more than once BLOWS me away. That truly takes patience.

[cookepuss]

There is a difference I think between old games that were meant to be finished basically every sitting and the longer ones like modern games and old games with save slots that would take several days to a week to finish each time.

Sort of. That may have been true of old school arcade-style games that relied on scores. However, other genres of games generally took much longer than a single setting. PC games have just about always had save capability. C64 games too. Solid state memory costing what it did, console games would use complicated password save systems instead.

I think that many modern games tend to be less replayable only because there's less value added content. There's less reason to play a game again. DLC and multiplayer both add to replay value, but the replayable single player experience isn't always what it should be with modern games. Increased difficulty helps, but not always. To make matters worse, as the emphasis has been put on visuals, the typical single player experience has also gotten much shorter.

Nowadays, you're lucky to get 8 hours out of a game. In many older games, if a game was shorter than 30 hours, you'd consider yourself shortchanged. Granted, this varies from genre to genre, but newer games do tend to be shorter when compared to their old school equivalents. This is a charge that has been levied time and time again.

Even when a modern game is long, there's rarely ever any reason to revisit it. I think that anybody who has played "Skies of Arcadia", "Final Fantasy VI", or "Maniac Mansion" knows exactly how good the single player experience can be. Skies easily offered 75-100 hours of gameplay, not including time required to beat every bonus mission. FF6 could be finished in a more reasonable time, but you could easily replay it again to find hidden storylines, characters, and other such bonuses. The joy of MM wasn't how quirky and bizarre the story was, but how certain combinations of characters could lead to totally different play experiences and multiple endings.

Some games, because they're so costly to produce, simply don't provide the expansive experience that older, "uglier" games did. I can never imagine myself replaying Final Fantasy 13 the same way I did Final Fantasy 6. Newer games tend to prioritize looks over gameplay. Not all, but many. I'll take an ugly, highly replayable game any day of the week.

[cookepuss]

cooke, you're my kina guy! By the way, the fact that you went through the oringal Final Fantasy on NES more than once BLOWS me away. That truly takes patience.

The first time is the hardest. Plus since FF was a totally new franchise, it did some stuff we've never seen before as gamers. You just didn't know what tactics worked best. On the second go around, you realized which spells best countered what enemies, what dangers hid where, and the importance of level grinding.