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Ur kinda the doom authority to me (the only way I interact with the doom fandom at all) and I will say that I personally get very little replay value after I've already finished the games (2016 eternal and dark ages), like once I've gotten everything I find it hard to go back and replay it. Kinda like botw and totk if you've played those, like the first completion is fun but then anything after that is just kinda boring?
Was wondering if you had any thoughts on replay value in videogaming and weather or not the replay value of any given game adds to or takes away from the overall experience.
Not to make this a whole novel but some games you can kinda play forever, like rougelikes or whatever genre rain world is in, and I always like a game that I can keep playing and collecting and progressing in even after the story is over, ykwim? Which is obviously not what doom (and games like it) are going for so maybe none of this matters!!
hey!! hi!! hello!! i do love getting asks and yelling about videogames, yes, i can't deny that :] n im honored you like my Doom stuff so much!
personally i do get a decent amount of replay value out of the Doom games (and i'd probably be replaying dark ages right now if a power surge didn't blow the power supply on my gaming pc a few days ago,) but yeah, i get what you mean. i don't usually tend to get a whole lot of replay value out of open world games. i play them to go exploring and find exciting things, and once i've done all that and i already know where everything is... yeah, it's not a whole lot of fun to go back to imo.
replay value doesn't contribute a whole lot to my opinions about a game overall tho i don't think. like, id still say subnautica and new vegas are great games and worth the price, even if ive only ever beaten either of them once and don't really plan to go back anytime soon. most of what decides whether or not i replay the game is the mechanics, with story as a close second. for example, obv despite how much of a mess it is, i like doom's story a lot, and i find the combat loop very satisfying in modern doom, especially eternal's, so i have like 600 hrs in it iirc, and despite having done literally everything and gotten every achievement in it already, i'll probably still go back for another playthrough sooner or later. versus subnautica, where i really like the story, but most of the gameplay is just collecting things, and i already know most of the map layout pretty well, so trying to replay it ends up being a little boring to me.
i think rain world is a metroidvania-adjacent? it's not quite a metroidvania bc it doesn't have any real sort of gear or ability progression, but otherwise it's very similar to metroidvanias. tho i admit i didn't get very far in rain world, somethin about the controls i just couldn't get down n lost interest before i figured it out lol. i have played a handful of metroidvanias and had a good time with em, most notably hollow knight and blasphemous of course. funnily enough i havent actually gotten around to trying any castlevania or metroid games yet tho. one day....
again, it kinda just comes down to how the mechanics feel, but i do like a few roguelikes too, yea! that is kinda the genre for replayability haha. top 2 roguelikes imo are jupiter hell and noita. jupiter hell is a turn based rpg by the same creator as DRL, if youre familiar with that. and noita is. man i dont even know. i think it's kind of in a category of its own. every pixel in the world is simulated and the magic wand building system is so in depth, and none of that is even taking into account the sheer volume of content and things u can do in a single run. i kind of really suck at noita but the size and depth of it is extremely fascinating to me and i highly recommend it if u like roguelikes
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