How do you approach a game you revisit after a long break?

Like you got to a point and either got too frustrated to continue or quit for other reasons. Do you usually continue from that same spot or do you start over?


I rented The Last of Us on redbox last night after I guess a year from playing it last, and I was at the part where Joel falls down that elevator shaft and has to swim around in the lower areas of the hotel. Not only am I having issues remember how the controls work (why don't games automatically include a button layout in options?), but I have completely forgotten how to approach the different infected. Which ones go by sight/sound. I failed quite a few times after starting up a generator to get power to a door, and I sat there thinking "either I start over or just quit playing this game altogether".

I know some games are easy enough to pick up, but a lot of times it's not just the gameplay, it's the story. Knowing why you are where you are and why you're on that particular quest.

We found out in the "old games" thread that some of you have unlimited gaming time, but it's a daunting thought for me to start over a game like TLoU when I don't have that much time to game anymore anyways.