How often do you (re)play old games? Which ones?

If old is more than a year then outside of the latest fps I play almost solely old games.

Recently played and finished, all for the first time

Dark souls
Deus ex
Bioshock 1
Mass effect about two years ago

Playing skyrim, dragons dogma, mass effect 2, gta 4 an hitman blood money. Just kind of rotating between those depending on my mood

I'm starting state of decay so that's about the only new game I will have played in forever.

New games are "new" for a month. The way I see it, even if its five years later, the game is new to me and I enjoy it as much as everyone else their first time playing.

Mass effect and bioshock were great even 6-7 years later

I go back and play the great retro games I havent played and the amazing ones I love.

I typically wait atleast a year before buying new games that come out because the price drops are so huge. unless i get a good sale or used

my only exception was bioshock infinite because of the hype

I play FF7 once a year.....

I only play old games.

Yeah, I don't really ascribe to the definition of "old" that I laid out. I was just trying to draw a distinction between people who only play the latest releases, and those who are willing (or forced) to play anything regardless of age.

I know of some people who only want to play a game if there is an active community for it and people are still talking about it. That's often the latest releases.

I'm usually 1 - 3 years behind on current generation games and that's for 2 main reasons: lack of time, and older games are way cheaper.

I return to a lot of random older games including:
Archon (Atari)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Monkey Island (PC)
Deus Ex (PC)
Half-Life 2 (PC)
Portal 1 & 2 (PC)
Braid (360)

...but I have a back log of lots of other games I bought and haven't played through yet.



Edit: (Oh, and it's really interesting to me to hear what games other people return to, like Looney Tunes BBall for example. That's one I've never tried but now I feel like I should.)

I only jump on new releases if I am really interested like I may do for watch dogs or last of us. Usually I just wait. This past year I have been playing arkham asylum, metro 2033, infamous, gta 4, crysis 1, ac:brotherhood all for the first time.

The oldest was probably Morrowind several years after it came out.

I don't replay many games. I guess I used to break out Age of Empires and Diablo II. I played a game similar to Age of Empires for years after it came out but the name eludes me.

I could see myself playing Fallout 3 one more time if they don't break out Fallout 4.

A LOT of Doom 2 and Final Doom.

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vice city

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bought that a couple of weeks ago and been playing it with some graphics mods. Ahhhh, how it takes me back to a simpler time.