Am I the only one who usually only plays through a game once?

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Ghirahim
I just never have the time to do second runs. Which sucks since I always do the "normal" modes first in games, so I never really get to try anything much after that.

I mean, most of the time I start second playthroughs and never finish them (or never get back to them in forever)
 
The Great Tongue said:
if I don't like i'll only play through it once
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pretty much this, assuming of course i dont finish it in the first place.
 
I do it sometimes. Right now I'm on my second play through of Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, because that was a freaking awesome game in my childhood that I have gone way too long without playing.
 
I usually only do one full playthrough of a game, but in my case it's for no particular reason. I just never want to start another file and play through the game again...

I do have a few second files for some Mario games, but not for a second full playthrough rather just to beat the game the short way. I'm also not counting Luigi in Super Mario Galaxy because you can't beat the game as either bro until you do the Luigi run.
 
Depends on the game

Multiplayer games are meant to be played more than once

While terribad games like Super Mario Galaxy 2 deserve to be played through only once
 
Baby Luigi said:
While terribad games like Super Mario Galaxy 2 deserve to be played through only once
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heh
i've played galaxy 2 through 100% three times (also 100%'d galaxy 1 three times, started a fourth but i can't remember whether i finished it or not)
clearly we have different tastes in games
 
I played through Galaxy 2 entirely once: my opinion is perfectly valid. I still hate the game to this day.

But I have nothing against people who liked Galaxy 2: I just think it doesn't deserve all of its bells and whistles
 
Well I dunno, I guess I was expecting someone to say "you played through only the first level of Galaxy 2 baaawww" and someone to refute my sorta unpopular opinion of why I said Galaxy 2 was terribad
 
It depends on how fun the game is to replay. For example, a game like Metal Gear Solid 3 is suited to replays because of the ammount of secrets the game's engine holds and the ways in which you can take out multiple bosses, while another like Uncharted doesn't since the main draw of it are it's cinematic setpieces, so in subsequent plays you're stuck with the medrocre gameplay.
 
depends on the replay value, usually. for example, i've only played through metroid prime once. after that, i didn't really feel like i would gain any more enjoyment out of playing it again since i already know where everything is, how to beat everything, etc. games like that, i'll only go through again if it's been a long time since i played it (for example i went through metroid fusion again recently and it was pretty fun because i had forgotten how to beat all the bosses).

games like fire emblem and pokemon are practically designed for playing multiple times, because each time you can train different characters/pokemon in your army/team to play the game a completely different way. i think i've gone through awakening three, four times? about the same number of times in sacred stones too.