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How to Return to an RPG Without Starting Over - The RPG Files at MMORPG.com
We’ve all done it: started an RPG only to find ourselves drawn away by the latest shiny game. With few big RPGs on the horizon, now is the perfect time to dive back into the games you might have left behind. RPGs are notoriously hard to get back into, especially if you’ve been away a while. Here are 8 tips to save you from losing all those hours of investment and starting over.
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I'd also suggest checking for mods to breathe new life into games. Some games even have mods that add new quests and updates to old ones basically making it feel like a different game. Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines has extra content mods as well as Dragon Age: Origins.
Reading a good guide can also be a great way to get back into an older game. I'm often surprised to discover that because I didn't go into a well hidden area or talk to a hard to find NPC, I missed out on some very engaging and never before experienced content even though I've replayed the game for years.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
All the games you've listed are awesome.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
You left the game some time ago. You had your reasons, probably pretty good ones. The game may have changed the underlying factors that affected your decision, or it may not. Be prepared to revisit those decisions you once made. If you didn't enjoy the grind in Area X, you may find that there aren't any alternatives to that grind in Area X to progress, despite all the new content.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Well, if you have to ask... haha
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
I grew up on isometric RPG's like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Fallout series, Icewind Dale, Ultima's etc but when i've played the modern versions like Wasteland 2, Divinity Original Sin or Pillars of Eternity i get half way through before i get bored and move on.
Maybe its because i've been spoiled playing proper 3D game with amazing virtual worlds like The Witcher 3 which i am currently playing.
Personally looking forward to the day when VR matures and playing RPG's in that environment should be a whole other level.
I can never seem to finish RPGs. If a game goes on long enough, I just burn out and completely lose interest. Is why I hate trying to play the new fad of open world games; there's just so much crap and the completionist in me wastes so much time trying to do everything instead of just finishing the game.
I usually never ever go back and finish them. Too many years pass, my memory fades and the game just becomes too old compared to newer ones I've played (plus lack modern hardware support, like my 21:9 monitor).
"Maybe one day" I keep telling myself.. I'm doubtful that "day" will ever come.
This isn't about MMORPGs..
Different tastes... I wasn't able to pass Witcher 3 first quests due to boredom, all the world seems extremely dull to me. Sure, the lightning effects are pretty.
Pillars of Eternity on the other side, I loved reading all the dialogues and even the lore books (something that I never do), couldn't put it down.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I have never done this, if you do here is my question. You know that the shiny, newer game only seems better because it is newer right? You are not playing a better game.
Gaming like this reminds me of being a child, not knowing what sweet to try next. I find it hard to get my head round why adult gamers behave this way. Presumably they also start of a tv series they really like, the series stays strong but they give up on it? And so on.
Once you are passed your teen years your attention span is supposed to no longer be an issue. All I can say in such peoples defence is that we have an entertainment industry that is geared to make you play and watch with the attention span of a gnat. Maybe that's why the OP's question is so relevant.
Oh get off your high horse. RPG's can go a hundred hours or more. Sometimes you ('scuse me oh high one) I mean we, just need a change of scenery. And yea, sometimes the newer game seems better because it is better, despite you thinking you know what everyone else's playlist is so therefore the new game is not as good.
How arrogant. Speak for yourself, but don't chime in for everyone else.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD. It's hell trying to finish anything. Games, books, movies, tv shows, projects, hobbies, etc.