Restarting Games Half Way Through After a Break

I do and I don't - Skyrim & Fallout 3 for instance I have picked up and dropped several times, but most other games I will start from fresh.
 
only if the save gets wiped... like bf3, bfbc2, HL2 (all of which I got fed up with the saves getting lost so they are all back to the start and prob never to be completed haha).
 
I have a habit of starting over sometimes. I restarted Xenoblade Chronicles about 50 odd hours in because I just couldn't remember what the hell was going on! :p
 
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All the time with Skyrim as I mod it. I come back and nothing works thanks to updates. SKSE being outdated etc. Next thing I know my saves are corrupted...
 
My days of restarting a game ended when I stopped playing games on a Spectrum or a NES.
There are games I haven't played for years, but a quick check on WTF I configged the controls to and I'm away. But then I also read several books at a time, so I can usually remember what the story was and where I'd gotten to.
 
oh god just remembered.....test drive unlimited 2...I dunno what the **** was so broken with that game but I started a fresh 3 times I think on that game... granted only putting in about 6-8 hours on each run... but incredibly frustrating as the sves would just become corrupt or delete themselves or some ****. my mates and I then started backing up our saves so if it did go arse over tit then at least we wouldn't have to do all the damn driving schools again.... soooooooo borinnnnnnnggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we just enjoyed the cruizin' cos we gangsta n shizzle..... :p
 
I don't generally do this and in the main play straight through however I'm on about my 5th attempt at playing through Skyrim in the hope that as I get further in it will get less boring.

9 hours in this time around and it's still bloody boring and I cant see me going much longer, its very pretty though :)
 
Generally if I've broken off I don't go back. Either I've had my fill or the game just wasn't that great.

A few games are good until a certain point then go downhill :p A couple I've restarted, got the same point I quit the last time, and quit again :p
 
depends on the game, if its a game or series I'm familiar with then no I won't restart, but if its something I'm not that fussed about or in to [eg the witcher 2] I'd be tempted to restart.

as for re-playing games if I had a penny for every skyrim save on just my pc....
 
If I stop playing a game and go back to it after a long break I'll load up my last save and give it a short time to grab me again or else it just gets uninstalled and forgotten about.

I very rarely restart a game, IMO life's too short and there's plenty more games out there.
 
agnes said:
Which of these should I start fresh on and not play anything else (bar MP games like BF4) until its complete?

Borderlands 2
Castlevania Lords of Shadow
Dark Souls
Dishonored
Dragon Age Origins
Hitman Absolution
Mass Effect (trilogy)
Skyrim
Splinter Cell Conviction
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Highly recommend Skyrim and Borderlands 2 - both brilliant.
 
Constantly.
This year I am making an effort it actually complete games I have and not be lured into Steam sales etc...

I tend to buy never-ending games like Civilization (skirmish maps), Football Manager etc.. but I appear to have several FPS too.

My Steam catagories will tonight be renamed to : Monday, Tuesday, Wedne.... you get the idea, it may be the only way I make any progress and won't forget storylines and controls.
 
Ten years is my record. Started playing Deus Ex when it came out, kept the save files all this time and finished it along with Invisible War before Human Revolution came out.
 
I have recently completed Bully after a restart as I had not played that for 7 years. But usually I can continue from where I left off.
 
*dons grammar nazi hat*

You capitalised everything in the thread title except for the a... What did it do to deserve such a fate?
 
umboma said:
Maybe for games if you've not played it for lets say a week it'll automatically do a "previously on GTA5" then a brief catch up lol..
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Can't remember what game it was but I've definitely seen something like that before... although it did it every time no matter how long since you last played. I've got a feeling it might have been Max Payne 3, or possibly one of the Driver series?
 
Slight tangent but what are the main reasons you guys take breaks from games in the first place? By which I mean you stop playing it, but then return to it later (rather than just stopping because it was rubbish and never returning to it).

For me, the majority of the time it is because I get stuck/frustrated with a particular section and either find it 'impossible' or lack the conviction to grind past it. Ironically, sometimes these sections seem easier when returning after a break (perhaps due to approaching the problem from scratch rather than continually repeating the same failing methods).

Usually, if I simply lose interest in a game or get distracted by something else to the extent that I don't play it for say a month, then the writing is on the wall I'm afraid - chances are, I won't return to it.
 
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