How often do you replay an adventure game?

[SHODANFreeman]

I am just wondering what the replay value is like in an adventure game for a typical adventure gamer.

[Friar]

It depends on the game. Curse of monkey Island i average about once a year these days, however in my youth, it was closer to 2-3. Other games, i only play once or twice. (like Sam&Max Season 1, i just can't seem to enjoy it a second time)

[Scrawffler]

Very difficult to say, as it's different for each game. Probably on average I'd say more than once a year, so I voted once every few months. But there are some adventure games I've hardly touched since I finished them, and others I will quite happily play more often than that.

[ShaggE]

As much as I love adventure games, replay value is nil for me. Exceptions being Sam & Max and The Neverhood. Most others I rarely play more than twice.

[zmally]

Who completes the same game once a week?! and what game is it?! lmfao!!

[Irishmile]

I can usually play an adventure game one every couple of years.... if the game is good.. I also sometimes read books more then once and its kind of the same thing if you think about it.

[Secret Fawful]

I play Monkey Island 2 about once every few weeks if not more. It's just so good that I can't get enough of it. I play Broken Sword 1 and 2 about three times a year, and other LA games about the same. Shadow of the Comet I play about once a year, but if it was point and click, I would play it as much as Lechuck's Revenge.

[JedExodus]

I seem to play Broken Sword once a year, besides that it's usually just when I get the urge

[Marty]

I've played some classic adventure games over and over. To me it's like watching a great movie again, but interactive. Also brings back that nostalgia feeling with some of the older games.

[Hassat Hunter]

I usually wait a year or 2/3 to replay them, so I forgotten most of the stuff. For example replayed both S&M seasons just now.
And although I remembered enough never to get stuck, it was almost never immediately that I remembered the correct answer, with the exception of those puzzles that made me look up a walkthrough in the past...

Next up; CMI.

[Chyron8472]

It does depend on the game, and also my mood.

I voted "once per year," but when it comes down to it, I'm not really sure. I mean, I have quite a number of games from various genres, and I also have a PS2 and a GCN still plugged into my TV, for which I also have a number of games.

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...I suppose the reason why it's hard to say is because of the wane in adventure game production until recently. The truth is, TTG has sparked a renewed interest in adventure games for me, so having played ToMI through twice, and various episodes of both Sam & Max seasons through twice, and having bought and played SBCG4AP...

I've been replaying my older adventure games also ever since I heard about ToMI being released, and though I love the stories told through Sierra's King's Quest series, I find I much prefer replaying LucasArts and TTG games in which I know you can't die or get permanently stuck.

I suppose what it comes down to is that I will replay other old games after a new one comes out, though not necessarily confined to the same series. At present, the TTG Sam & Max games and ToMI are still fresh enough in my gaming life, that I keep considering playing them all again. Even if I don't I still think about it.

[StarEye]

Obviously it depends on the game. Monkey Island 1-3 (and now quite possibly ToMI) I play at least once a year. Some times more. But there are games I never replay at all. Like Dark Seed - I played it quite often before I decided to use a walkthrough to finally get through it (that game was too hard for its own good, mainly because of the "realtime" clock"). Now I never play it at all. And then there are games that I play a bit of quite often, but never complete it after the first time.

To be honest, to me, adventure games' replay-value are equal to that of any other game. Atmosphere and music means a lot to me, so that alone is enough to drive me to complete a game. Even if the game itself isn't superb. This rule applies to every genre.

[taumel]

Wow this is seldom, i'm with the majority here.

Anyway only in rare cases i replay adventures due to that adventures in almost all cases aren't designed for a high replayability. I think you could design an adventure so that it really makes sense replaying it, because things are ambiguous and you start seeing things in a different light once you played through or you offer different ways of solving a game (different puzzles, different characters, ...) or unlocking additional content.

But as adventures aren't built in such a way, you only replay those you love the most, like for instance, wh owould have guessed it, The DIG. :O)

[plrichard]

I put once every few months. However, that is more indicative of my answer before I discovered Telltale Games. Because at that point, whenever I wanted to play an adventure game I would usually play ones that I'd already beaten. Now I have to catch up with all of Telltale's releases.

[Rather Dashing]

Wits, fists, team?

[pwblaine]

ha! i've played sam and max six times and i've only had it for six months

[OzzieMonkey]

I've played some classic adventure games over and over. To me it's like watching a great movie again, but interactive. Also brings back that nostalgia feeling with some of the older games.

This. Also, I chose every few weeks, but that's only recently, just to fill up the gap until MI2SE comes out.

[Little Writer]

Every few years is the safest choice. I don't have that big a budget, so I rarely acquire new games, do I DO acquire them sometimes making my collection bigger, so I've gone from a time when I could replay all my games in a year's time (which I usually did) to replaying them when I get around to them. The games I have had the longest, it's not exaggeration to say I've played them at least ten times already. To me it's like reading a book or watching a movie; it doesn't matter that I already know how everything goes, it's the journey that counts.