As the whole Pandemic deal has left most of us stuck at home I decided to make the best of it and replay some of my old favorites and pick up some play throughs I didn’t get to finish.
I have played some Wizardry 8 (rolled a new party and did the Monastery) Grimoire (continued an old play through checking out the 3.0 update) and continued Might and Magic 6 (which I dropped when switching jobs and didn’t pick up )
But caught up in a bit of Nostalgia started a whole new playthough of Gothic (currently in chapter 4) and Morrowind (fairly advanced in the mage guild storyline and going to meet the Ashlanders in MQ)
Honestly of all I have enjoyed Morrowind the most and it mainly has to do that even though I have played it before (at release 2002 and then 2010) I have found out I had forgotten quite a lot of the game world itself and since I never did the Mage Guild storyline a lot is very new to me.
Gothic on the other hand I replayed a couple of years ago so I had some more meta knowledge to carry me through like the “hidden” area at the start, not killing anything until getting the hunting and skinning skills, going straight for a very nice cache near road to the new camp etc
While both experiences have been quite enjoyable and having such a fresh experience of Gothic I could have very efficient character development I have found myself enjoying much more “rediscovering” Morrowind... even going as far as using mostly vanilla resources and trying to go as originally intended (with unofficial patches and ease of life mods)
Both are fantastic games, easily in my top 10 favorite RPGs of all time and experiencing them this way has been very rewarding but for very different reasons
So what do you guys prefer, replaying a game with all this meta knowledge to know what to do and enjoy that kind of experience, where the fun is from being so familiar with the game
or going for a game you haven’t played in years or are simply trying a very different path so even though you “know” the game you somehow have to “relearn” it again?
Since I replay the Stalker games almost every year (albeit with different mods and overhauls) and Dark Souls I kind of thought I was the kind of gamer who enjoyed the meta knowledge but this experience with Morrowind has been so rewarding I might try replaying games like Arx Fatalis, System Shock 2, Half Life 2 or some old favorites I haven’t tried in years
I have played some Wizardry 8 (rolled a new party and did the Monastery) Grimoire (continued an old play through checking out the 3.0 update) and continued Might and Magic 6 (which I dropped when switching jobs and didn’t pick up )
But caught up in a bit of Nostalgia started a whole new playthough of Gothic (currently in chapter 4) and Morrowind (fairly advanced in the mage guild storyline and going to meet the Ashlanders in MQ)
Honestly of all I have enjoyed Morrowind the most and it mainly has to do that even though I have played it before (at release 2002 and then 2010) I have found out I had forgotten quite a lot of the game world itself and since I never did the Mage Guild storyline a lot is very new to me.
Gothic on the other hand I replayed a couple of years ago so I had some more meta knowledge to carry me through like the “hidden” area at the start, not killing anything until getting the hunting and skinning skills, going straight for a very nice cache near road to the new camp etc
While both experiences have been quite enjoyable and having such a fresh experience of Gothic I could have very efficient character development I have found myself enjoying much more “rediscovering” Morrowind... even going as far as using mostly vanilla resources and trying to go as originally intended (with unofficial patches and ease of life mods)
Both are fantastic games, easily in my top 10 favorite RPGs of all time and experiencing them this way has been very rewarding but for very different reasons
So what do you guys prefer, replaying a game with all this meta knowledge to know what to do and enjoy that kind of experience, where the fun is from being so familiar with the game
or going for a game you haven’t played in years or are simply trying a very different path so even though you “know” the game you somehow have to “relearn” it again?
Since I replay the Stalker games almost every year (albeit with different mods and overhauls) and Dark Souls I kind of thought I was the kind of gamer who enjoyed the meta knowledge but this experience with Morrowind has been so rewarding I might try replaying games like Arx Fatalis, System Shock 2, Half Life 2 or some old favorites I haven’t tried in years