Yeah, if you stick to AAA and well-known studios you're going to have a bad time. A less bad time than looking through indie and other small developer games, but also a lot less to play. I haven't bought a AAA game since 2020, going by my steam library.
Do they actually play them on the regular after one playthrough? I doubt it.
I don't think most story-based RPGs have much replayability to them. It's like rereading a book immediately after finishing it. Maybe a good book might be fun to pick up on subtle hints the 2nd time, but we don't get RPGs with stories like that these days. Has there even been a good story-based RPG lately? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Honestly the HP game specifically sounds absolutely horrible to play a first time, let alone a second. Maybe if you really enjoy exploration a lot it might be fine, but it's just copy-paste tasks over and over and over again. I imagine even the most hardcore HP enjoyers are going to get bored.
I don't think I've bought a re-release game in over a decade. They've gotten so incredibly lazy about it. Definitely always look for the original these days, and leave the re-release as a last resort for if a game is significantly improved or is otherwise nigh impossible to find. But I don't think you ore I are the target audience here. I think normies are the driving force of these kinds of games. They don't want to play some old game with "bad" graphics or have to hunt down some hardware / emulate, so companies can make a quick fortune selling to them with AI upscaled graphics or something that runs on their phone.
I think the entire game market is going to have to crash before there's any hope of it getting better.
Yeah, if you stick to AAA and well-known studios you're going to have a bad time. A less bad time than looking through indie and other small developer games, but also a lot less to play. I haven't bought a AAA game since 2020, going by my steam library.
I don't think most story-based RPGs have much replayability to them. It's like rereading a book immediately after finishing it. Maybe a good book might be fun to pick up on subtle hints the 2nd time, but we don't get RPGs with stories like that these days. Has there even been a good story-based RPG lately? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Honestly the HP game specifically sounds absolutely horrible to play a first time, let alone a second. Maybe if you really enjoy exploration a lot it might be fine, but it's just copy-paste tasks over and over and over again. I imagine even the most hardcore HP enjoyers are going to get bored.
I don't think I've bought a re-release game in over a decade. They've gotten so incredibly lazy about it. Definitely always look for the original these days, and leave the re-release as a last resort for if a game is significantly improved or is otherwise nigh impossible to find. But I don't think you ore I are the target audience here. I think normies are the driving force of these kinds of games. They don't want to play some old game with "bad" graphics or have to hunt down some hardware / emulate, so companies can make a quick fortune selling to them with AI upscaled graphics or something that runs on their phone.
I think the entire game market is going to have to crash before there's any hope of it getting better.