What part of a game you enjoy replaying do you dislike replaying?

I love the original Hotline Miami but I’m not a big fan of the boss fights like the ones in Neighbors (Biker) and Deadline (Van Driver). I find it kind of slows down the game and limits the strategies you can take.

Another example would be Fallout 3. I find the tutorial section in Vault 101 can feel a bit long after a fifth run but maybe that’s because I was spoiled by Fallout New Vegas’ ability to run off in your own direction immediately after leaving Doc Mitchell’s house.

dewritoninja,

The intro of fo3 - fo4 - tes5 - tes4. I have saves just after the intro because it’s 30min - 1h just to start playing the damned game

CorrodedCranium,
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You ever try alternative start mods?

dubyakay,

Probably a console player.

CorrodedCranium,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Maybe but some people don’t use mods like that because they disable achievements but there’s mods to re-enable them.

Could also be that they don’t know about them. I feel like they aren’t super popular. A majority of the time they just dump you somewhere with some loot and you still need to backtrack a bit.

dewritoninja,

Nah, I try to stay away from mods cause I have 0 self control and end up fucking up my game

Son_of_dad,

I generally like playing the assassin’s Creed series, but since assassin’s Creed 3 or so, the future storyline is just lame and every time I get pulled out of the animus I groan audibly, because I now have to do some stupid quest outside of the main story.

The thing is originally I was hyped that eventually Desmond would become a master assassin and I would get to play a futuristic, open world, watch dogs style assassin’s Creed. It’s clear that they fucked that up, so now I just skip all the out of animus storylines when I can.

SlothMama,

I honestly believed this was going to be where things went as well, the fact that it didn’t and they chose an honestly bizarre way to handle it really took the joy out of the present day stuff.

gerryflap,
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After finding out that AC 3 was not the final one where I got to play as Desmond as an assassin in the future, I just gave up on the whole series. I have no interest in continuing a story that’s just gonna get milked forever. I do kinda get it though, the “assassin in historical civilization” thing could be kept fresh for way longer, but it just ruined the whole significance of the Desmond storyline.

c0mbatbag3l,
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I loved the modern sections of the first two games (Ezio trilogy is one game for this comment’s purpose) and never played three, so when I got black flag and found out retroactively that they killed off Desmond and didn’t intend for a modern day assassin’s creed to be the endgame I quit playing them.

Just in time too, cause they’d have clearly just kept milking the franchise to death in the past decade.

Son_of_dad,

I’ve been replaying the entire series this year, the biggest issue I have with the last couple (origins, Odyssey) is that they’re too damn big. It feels like a slog to play

Rozz,

Such a waste of an opportunity to not do a modern day assassin

Son_of_dad,

Even if they didn’t want to go all the way modern, we should have gotten a ww2 or cold war assassin’s Creed

TedZanzibar,

Aw man, yeah, the ending of AC1 where Desmond uses the eagle vision and discovers the code on the wall, it gave me chills at the time. I was so hyped for where they were going to go with the story and for a modern day assassin arc.

But I guess they realised they had near infinite points of history they could stretch the franchise out to, and keeping the Desmond story going was only going to limit their cash cow’s potential.

I checked out half way through the Ezio arc that seemed to go on forever and only went back because everyone was raving about Black Flag. By then the modern day story made zero sense to me and was just a slog.

Son_of_dad,

I found the same issue with Ezio, it’s like they liked the character so much they just got stuck on him and dragged out his story but at least he had the most complete arc

Son_of_dad,

I found the same issue with Ezio, it’s like they liked the character so much they just got stuck on him and dragged out his story but at least he had the most complete arc

hades,

Max Payne 1/2 dream sequences.

HubertManne,
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cyberpunk2077. running through the fuzzy bd like space to find johnny and then playing as him.

Delta_V,

and a lot of other parts where its just people talking at legnth - its only interesting the first time, but its almost half the game and really detracts from replayability

HubertManne,
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those you can at least fast forward a bit but it would be nice if it had more of a real skip.

c0mbatbag3l,
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I really enjoy the Arasaka tower nuking sequence, the rebel path blazing while you blow people in half with your .50 cal pistol can’t be beat.

HubertManne,
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im one of those people who are never happy when im forced to not play the character I made. I get how it could be fun.

CodexArcanum,

I’ve seen that damn cart ride in Skyrim so many times that Ralof and Hadvar are basically family. I consider the alternative start mod an absolute requirement now.

I love Thief and Thief 2 but there are a few levels in there (Thieve’s Guild, Trace the Courier) that are pretty dull and uninteresting to replay. They’re the songs you’re still tempted to skip on otherwise perfect albums.

LinkOpensChest_wav,
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I’m nostalgic for that cart ride, but I still use the alternate start mod because the cart ride is one of the buggiest parts of the game, and letting my mods load prior to viewing the cart ride avoids a lot of problems

Chobbes,

The start of Skyrim is sooooooo long and so boring. I didn’t even enjoy it the first time… by the time I got out o the caves I was burnt out and gave up on the game for like 12 years. I got into it recently, but I almost always bounced off of it because I didn’t enjoy the opening at all. Bethesda is probably the absolute worst company at game openings. Even Privateer’s Hold in Daggerfall is kind of notorious for grinding players into a bored paste. Possibly the only game that gives Bethesda a run for their money is the awful temple section in Fallout 2, but I assume that’s why they bought the franchise lol.

Sabata11792,
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Turret sections.

Berttheduck,

Ooof, you just gave me flashbacks to the original Deadspace turret section. One of my favourite games but damn if that section wasn’t an awful slog.

umbraroze,
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I love watching Let's Plays of Telltale games and similar games like Life is Strange. But usually, the first episode is hardest to watch through, because in these types of games, the first episode also serves as a very drawn out tutorial and has the most of the lore dumps.

ModernRisk,
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Personal 5 Royal - Okumaru boss & End boss (vanilla).

I love this game, truly do but that particular boss is so bullshit (Okumaru)

solitaire, (edited )
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KOTOR 2 - Has quite a few pain points for me, usually when they make you swap characters, but by far the longest stretch that makes me reconsider replaying is the surface of Telos. It’s just a bore until you reach Atris and feels like it takes forever.

I actually like Pergaus outside of the T3 part though, which I guess makes me a KOTOR 2 heretic. The atmosphere and mystery is just fantastically done.

CybertoothTiger,

KOTOR 1 for me. Manaan. All of it. Literally the first thing to pop in my head.

It just feels so slow. Mostly because there’s so much walking back and forth and the seafloor segments are even slower in the high pressure suit.

brian,

I loved peragus the first time through, but the more I replay it the more it’s just having to run around to all the terminals in the right order while being slowed down with the easy but tedious fights, esp with not a str or dex build and harder difficulty.

And that conversation with the hk is so annoying, like I know you’ll tell me the password, but it always takes me so much time to find the dialog path to get him to say it in the voice for some reason.

I really like the character swap sections though, especially the onderon ones. It adds more difficulty and makes party builds matter. Otherwise I feel like I just blow through everything with mc even solo

LongRedCoat,

Ghost of Tsushima is one of my comfort games, but I hate replaying the end of act 2 because of the emotional toll.

In Devil May Cry 3, the Nevan boss fight and backtracking through the rearranged tower after it's activated are just tedious.

Another user said the Fade section of Dragon Age: Origins, but I'll go with the Deep Roads. Everything you learn in that section is fascinating, but man, I just want to see the sky again and you're down there for a while.

Varyag,
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Ohh yeah going back through the tower again in DMC3 is annoying. It was already kinda hard to navigate before the scramble.

chahk,

I enjoy city builders like Cities: Skylines 1 and 2, or Foundation. I hate the initial crawl when you start a new city and have to micromanage everything because budget. I almost always play with unlimited money cheat enabled. It’s just more relaxing that way.

ZycroNeXuS,

The main thing that keeps me from reinstalling and trying to play Skyrim again is the thought of having to do Bleak Falls Barrow for the billionth time. Yeah, I could mod around it, but I just don’t care enough to figure out how for a game I pretty much always play through the first few hours of and then drop for another three years anyways.

Jakeroxs,

Wabbajack is your friend

CrazyEddie041,
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Blighttown.

Weirdfish,

I’ve only done it from the depths like twice. Master key or valley of the drakes all the way.

xilliah,

The new wolfenstein. My god so many cutscenes. Is it too much to ask to just have fun game mechanics/dynamics? I bought a game didn’t I?

ada,
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Unless we’re talking non narrative PvP or something, I’ve yet to find a game that I enjoy replaying!

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