Good games with NO replay value

[Shameless]

this might shock a few, the Mario Galaxy Games and most of Zelda games

 

[LWS666]

i was gonna say oblivion or FO3 but then i remembered i'd spent around 1000 hours on those games combined.

so ima say arkham asylum, even though it's been said 50 times and has lost all origonality as a post.

Oblivion and Fallout 3. As good as they are I cannot bring myself to play them again. They just absorb so much time that I can't justify losing again, and the crashing every 30mins when trying to explore the world/wasteland is just demoralizing. I must have spent the same amount of time reloading the game as my playtime, damn Bethesda!

also, Vet2501, on PC there's a mod that patches oblivion (not sure if there's one for FO3 but probably) and makes it crash less.

it's one of the best mods out there, it was crashing every few hours for me but then i put this on it's crashed something like twice in a year. but if you Alt+Tab there's still 90% chance of a crash.

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22282

that's probably it.

 

[Epitome]

I am right in the middle of the exact same problem, I played a new char on hardcore first time round, and now I have imported my ME1 sheppard to play on insane but since I know know everything its like, Wow what an awesome story ... skip dialog skip dialog.... oh a new option .... skip dialog

OT: I would say Oblivion, loved it the first time, finished it out cant look at it anymore. Same goes for Fallout 3 and GTAIV

 

[Mockingjay]

From my own experience, I'd say Fable 2. After I beat it, I really had no motivation to play through it again.

I'd agree with this completely. Many achievements have been left unfulfilled because the game is so linear there seems little reason to play it ever again.

 

[Soxafloppin]

LOZ:TP, i had a great time beating it, then immediately traded it in.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Bioshock. Especially since it was soo easy.

Once you've beaten Bioshock on hard mode, you have no reason to go back at all, so I can't imagine how even more pointless it must seem on easy.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Mass Effect 2, I recently started a second through but lost steam somewhere in the middle. Dragon Age: Origins, now this may have been more of my fault. I completed one play through and went on to start another. I got bored on the second one so I created a third and so on. I think I was almost done too, all I had to do was get the ashes but now I can't even look at the disc.

 

[Miumaru]

I tend to stay away from games like this. For t he people who said Bioshock though I have to disagree. Only because you can play through the game differently each time depending on the weapon/pasmid combos that you use.

I wouldnt say Bioshock either...since Ive beaten it 3 times already, and gotten all 1000G twice over. (multiple profiles)

 

[Evil the White]

I'd have to say some of the smaller indie titles like Uplink. In this case, because of the grind inbetween 'levels'.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

GUN.

Remember that game? It was a sandbox third person cowboy game developed by the makers of Tony Hawk, and when it came out, it was actually pretty good. The shooting was good, the gameplay was tight, the lands were varied, and the only real problems with it were that the map was quite small and that the story moved far too fast for its own good. But all in all, it was good. The first time.

I recently tried to replay it, and it's almost impossible. Despite being a sandbox game, it's depressingly linear, and there really isn't as much to do as it seemed the first time.

Ah, the memories you just brought back. I even went out of my way and forked over the cash for the psp version with 'added missions'.
Yeah, right.
Now I know why they weren't placed into the original in the first place.

 

[2fish]

Mass effect two is really hard for me to play through again, this is sad as I played through the first so many times. this is probably because all classes now have very same feeling play styles.

 

[Pontus Hashis]

this might shock a few, the Mario Galaxy Games and most of Zelda games

As a great man once said: " There's only one zelda game."
Wait a minute, it wassn't a great man, it was Yatzee, on this website. =P

 

[sdmblack]

that is partially true, but i replay those like i'd reread a book. you have to give it time, forget all the little plot elements and go back wondering how exactly mr x did that thing.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

GUN.

Remember that game? It was a sandbox third person cowboy game developed by the makers of Tony Hawk, and when it came out, it was actually pretty good. The shooting was good, the gameplay was tight, the lands were varied, and the only real problems with it were that the map was quite small and that the story moved far too fast for its own good. But all in all, it was good. The first time.

I recently tried to replay it, and it's almost impossible. Despite being a sandbox game, it's depressingly linear, and there really isn't as much to do as it seemed the first time.

i remember this game!

it was very impressive gameplay wise, and the story/sandbox was fun...the first time.

then i was done with it and haven't looked back since.


OT: asassins creed 1 and 2 for me, love them both and did nearly everythig in the games..but after that. nothing.

 

[Overlordjack]

Chrono trigger for the snes

 

[Mehall]

Red Steel 2.

Like, seriously, I loved it? But NO replay.

 

[ZephrC]

Oddly, I find this happens for me with pretty much every open world sanboxy kind of game. GTA, Oblivion, whatever. If there's a great big area to explore, I explore it quite thoroughly, and then I'm done. There's usually nothing left worth doing, because everything else suffers for the sake of the huge world, and I've already explored that. It's no fun exploring it again. I already know where everything is.

 

[elcamino41383]

and soon I'm gonna get me Blazblue: Calamity Trigger. Does anybody else have this game? If so, what is it like?

BlazBlue is one of the best games I have played, guy. It always feels balanced, the characters all have so much personality and the game mechanics work very well too. The music is awesome and the story blew my mind. It's just plain fun. Especially offline with some friends. Continuum Shift comes out this month, very soon. So hopefully CT won't be that expensive for you.

The characters in that game are pretty awesome, but the sheer lack thereof characters really hurts it, in my opinion. 10 characters (or 12, or whatever it was) just isn't enough for a fighting game anymore. I suppose that's what makes the game so solid though because it doesn't spread itself too thin...

My "good games with NO replay value" are God of War (1-3,) Assassin's Creed 1+2. 1 had more replay value because you wouldn't get penalized for killing innocent's after you beat it...

 

[Lunar Templar]

Darksiders comes to mind. I had a lot of fun with that one, but once you've found all the treasures and beat the final boss you've exhausted everything the game has to offer.

I love it when games let you play with your most powerful toys right from the start on replays - that's probably why I played the hell out of Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.

true, and having the 'biggest gun' on the whole play through while situational added a bit of unexpected challenge ( boss fight with Arjet where you have destroy the AI an not the Orbital Frame, kind of a pain when you kill it 3 hits and you miss judge distance >.>;
where as in a game like Shadow Hearts, it just fun to whip out the biggest stick ( EI The Dark Seraphim/Seraphic Radiance/Tirawa) on the low level bosses and grind them to a fine powder. thank god you don't keep your levels on those new game+ or 'OP' would be a painfully gross understatement

but I'm gonna say The Legacy of Kain series. best story telling in a game I've seen, like ever, but no reason at all to play it a second time, no real collectibles to speak of and bosses have that 'Legend of Zelda' issue of been REALLY easy after more then one playing

 

[Del-Toro]

I actually really liked Fable 2. The first time around. On my second playthrough (where I was the un-named lesbian defender of the innocent, because I could) I didn't get very far because I stopped caring. Completely.