# Which games give you the most re-play value?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 15, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-games-give-you-the-most-re-play-value/625242 "2012-06-15T15:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-games-give-you-the-most-re-play-value/625242/41 "2012-06-17T05:37:31Z")

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Online multiplayer games. I tend to only play one or two at a time. I might get sidetracked for a bit by a single player game but not for long. In order, I’ve gone from Left 4 Dead 2, to Team Fortress 2, to Starcraft 2, to Dota 2. Lots of 2’s.

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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-games-give-you-the-most-re-play-value/625242/42 "2012-06-18T14:06:08Z")

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An odd mention, but I frequently find myself going back to Crazy Taxi; It’s a strange choice since it offers virtually none of the ‘new experience’ or ‘story’ that usually drives replays for me. I suppose it’s just the fact that the game is fun to play. Go figure.

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-games-give-you-the-most-re-play-value/625242/43 "2012-06-18T14:20:33Z")

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In “modern times”, Steam says I have 252 hours in Dragon Age: Origins (played through three times plus Awakenings and other DLC), closely followed by 250 hours in Team Fortress 2.

Older than that, I suspect Civ 2 and Medieval: Total War (the first) would dwarf either of them. But I also owned less games back then.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-games-give-you-the-most-re-play-value/625242/44 "2012-06-18T14:27:13Z")

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When I was younger, the games I used to replay most often were probably turn-based PC strategy games like Civilization (original) and Warlords (original), and later on Civilization 2, Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Warlords 3, and Heroes of Might & Magic (2 & 3).

The games that I replay the most nowadays are RPGs for the Xbox (or, more rarely, for the PC) where multiple run-throughs are required to experience all of the available character abilities or possible plotlines. Like Baldur’s Gate (original), SW: KOTOR, Fallout 3, Morrowind, Dragon Age (1 & 2) and Mass Effect (1 & 2). If a game is too frustrating, I’ll tend to give up too quickly (like Baldur’s Gate 2). Note that I probably start those types of games 3-5 times for each time I actually run through the whole thing!

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