OrangeRKN wrote:I replay plenty of games that I enjoy - and might I add that replaying a game is not the same experience as one has when first playing it. It's wrong to frame it as a choice between a new experience and repeating an old one. My appreciation of Ocarina of Time is very different when I play it now to when I first played it as a child, for example.
You’re right, it’s not the same - it’s a much worse experience. You know the twists, you know the moments. You know who Sheik is and you know you’ll have to go through the nonsense stealth section in the gardens. There are no surprises. All of that magic is old and dried up, and that’s before you get to how the game’s aged.
It is, regardless, a much more similar experience to playing a completely different game. Any differences in appreciation are minuscule in comparison to the relative similarities. It’s absolutely not wrong to frame it as such.
Apart from anything else, it’s not like I’ve never replayed games. Many of the Mario RPGs have been replayed by me to fill a gap in the schedule, and that has exactly been my experience of the... er, experience.
The mods point I do understand though.