It's like I never left...

[Daystar Clarion]

In all my gaming life, I have traded in games, bought brand new games and bought games that are pretty old but new to me, i.e. KotOR. In all that time I have traded in 2 games and felt regret after a couple of years. The first was Kingdom Hearts, the second was Call of Duty 4. I bought CoD4 today, a little more than 2 years after I traded it in to help fund my purchase of Modern Warefare 2, and a week after I purchased Black Ops. For as good as Black Ops is (despite the horrible maps, spawning system and sniping), it reminded me of how much I enjoyed CoD4. I've had the lingering feeling for a long time, every time I played MW2 and BlOps I felt that CoD4 was better.

So, not 1 hour ago, I played the game for the first time in 2 years and it was bloody brilliant, it was like being reunited with an old friend, despite my abscence from the game, I picked up the control and was fragging people online like I'd never stopped playing, and the things that annoyed me at the time, i.e. juggernaut and martydom, those things felt trivial compared to how much fun I was having. The maps are brilliant, the killstreaks aren't broken as hell, no dual shotties and no quickscoping. One of the simplest of the modern CoD games is also the best.

So, fellow escapists, have you ever traded a game in and later re-bought it? Have you simply not bothered to play a game in a long time and then suddenly gone back to it? What did you feel?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Every single time that I pick up "Legend of Mana" again, I can't help but smile.

I like to play it every few years. That reminds me, it's been 2-3 years...

 

[Socius]

Oblivion.
After gaming it for something close to 666 hours I finally got sick of playing.
all the mods and expansions in the world couldn't save it from being old so it went into well... Oblivion.
Later I bougth it back and I admit I had some fun with it again, for a couple of weeks, untill I re-realised that I had done everything there was to do in the game, this re-realisation made me want to play a never ending game, something were I never would tire from lack of quests, spells and lore. One week later I bougth WoW, whilst waiting for a TES MMO, hopefully to arrive in the future.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

Well I traded in Fallout 3 a few months ago and so badly want it back...

Also I traded in Shadowrun about a year after I first got it, bought it back 3 months later... traded it in again now ):

 

[Daystar Clarion]

So, fellow escapists, have you ever traded a game in and later re-bought it? Have you simply not bothered to play a game in a long time and then suddenly gone back to it? What did you feel?

I traded in Fallout 3 twice and rebought it twice. Same with Fable II. I regretted it when I sold them a week later. I got em both now so it's all good!

I gotta say, I've never made the mistake of trading in a game I liked twice.

 

[The Cheezy One]

Red Alert
It is awesome
Rifle infantry are so sweet in their deadly little way, and the sides are balanced without being exactly the same

 

[Iron Mal]

I too went back to CoD4 after a long period of absence and...I was heartily let down, the good memories I had were clearly jaded by nostalgia.

It was after being in a match with quick scopers for the fourth time in a row that I realised that CoD4 wasn't any more balanced than later installments, it just had less options so everyone would pick simmilar stuff (so any imbalance was less visually apparant).

At the end of the day, there is no 'best CoD' game out there, you're just picking your favourite flavor of poison (so to speak).

Personally, I prefer playing against the bots in Black Ops (rarely will you encounter a quickscoper or a camper).

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Yeah, I had that feeling a few months ago. I read an article here on the Escapist (below) that reminded me of all the good times I'd had playing Master of Orion 2. One quick trip to GOG later and I was back playing one of my favourite games of all time, and it's been bloody brilliant. Even when I'm sat at work, I'll have a windowed game minimised for teabreaks or the odd ten minutes during the day when my desk is clear.

[link]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_263/7858-How-I-Gained-and-Lost-an-Empire[/link]

 

[Lusty]

Regularly go back through some of the old PC classics. Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Transport Tycoon, C&C Red Alert.

Also finally completed Secret of Mana on VC, could never beat the final boss first time around on the SNES.

 

[Irridium]

Digging out my old xbox and firing up Timesplitters Future Perfect.

*sniff*

It was beautiful...

Also all the other games, like Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Beyond Good and Evil, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Spartan: Total Warrior, Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes, and Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.

Ah, nostalgia...

 

[Kraj]

No. If I buy a game, I keep it in my library, even if I hate it, just in case some day I am hit by that nostalgia, that silver tinted memory, so that I can pop it in and see the truth, that it was nowhere near as awesome, or nowhere near as terrible. It seems to me that trading in the same game multiple times, feels as though I bought a 40-60 dollar chess set, and sold it back to buy a used chess set. >_>

I... I just don't understand. o_o

 

[Quaxar]

I never give games away I bought for good money! So no, but I once found Jedi Knight 2 again after losing it somewhere in my room and I loved it like before.

 

[Daveman]

Oblivion.
After gaming it for something close to 666 hours I finally got sick of playing.
all the mods and expansions in the world couldn't save it from being old so it went into well... Oblivion.
Later I bougth it back and I admit I had some fun with it again, for a couple of weeks, untill I re-realised that I had done everything there was to do in the game, this re-realisation made me want to play a never ending game, something were I never would tire from lack of quests, spells and lore. One week later I bougth WoW, whilst waiting for a TES MMO, hopefully to arrive in the future.

Yeah, it took a stupidly long time for me to get bored. I have since then picked up and started playing it again twice, each time reaching the same level of boredom as before. I keep coming back, but I couldn't continuously play it regularly... However...

Digging out my old xbox and firing up Timesplitters Future Perfect.

*sniff*

It was beautiful...

fuckyesfuckyesfuckyes... except on the PS2 which is clearly better.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Fallout 3 a total of THREE times (regular edition on 360, GOTY on 360, GOTY on PS3), and a few different Pokemon games.

Seriously? You think you would have learned after the 2nd time on the same game!

 

[Mr Fixit]

Super Mario Bros 3 on NES, damn I'm old........

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well I generally don't trade in games that I really liked. The games that I do trade in are usually the ones I was interested in a first, finished them, then didn't really feel like they had anything else for me. All the games I might come back to I keep, even if I don't play them that much. I keep them on that chance that I'll go "You know what I haven't played that in a while, I'll think I'll fire it up."

Although I have been thinking about trying to find Metal Arms: Glitch in the System for Xbox. I had it for the Gamecube, but I never managed to finish it as I lost the disk. But I loved that game so I thinking about getting it and finally getting past General Corrosive.

 

[Meggiepants]

Beyond Good & Evil. The second time I played it, I was thinking, "Maybe it wasn't as good as I remembered it," then, 20 hours later I'm hunting down reclusive wildlife with my camera again. Such a good game.

I've purchased Fallout 3 twice as well, but mostly because the DLC was taking too long on the PS3.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Star Wars: Battlefront 2

Me and friend broke out Battlefront 2 again a few months back. Played through the whole campaign and discovered that us thinking that game was good has nothing to do with nostalgia. It's fucking amazing, one of the most fun games I've ever played. They'd better make a third one.

 

[Falko]

Wow...just a couple of days ago I played COD4 again after a long absence. For a while, my hatred of MW2 made me hate every game in the COD franchise. However, after I played COD4 again, I realized that COD4 is still brilliant, and is (again) my fave in the series. Actually, I think it might have been improved by the later installments, as (For the time I've currently played) Ive come across no hackers, people abusing glitches or anything else that ruins it, as they've all moved on to MW2 and BO. I still occaisionally find a screechy 10 yr old, but theres always the mute button.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Wow...just a couple of days ago I played COD4 again after a long absence. For a while, my hatred of MW2 made me hate every game in the COD franchise. However, after I played COD4 again, I realized that COD4 is still brilliant, and is (again) my fave in the series. Actually, I think it might have been improved by the later installments, as (For the time I've currently played) Ive come across no hackers, people abusing glitches or anything else that ruins it, as they've all moved on to MW2 and BO. I still occaisionally find a screechy 10 yr old, but theres always the mute button.

I know what you mean. I still like MW2 and BlOps but there's just something pure about CoD4. It's so simple and only the people who truly like the game are still playing it so all the horrible XBL whiners are gone.