RPGs you beat then immediately replayed

[rusty_shackleford]

Most recently I did this with Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion because it's an incredibly open-ended game with plenty of different ways to play thru it. Plus getting achievements gives you points to unlock new stuff at the character creator so after your first real playthru you have a ton of those to spend on cool stuff.

[logincrash]

Recently:
Alpha Protocol 5 times in a row.
KotOR 1 twice.
VtMB like 4 times, I think. Maybe 3.

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Overall:
Every Mass Effect and Dragon Age game at least twice. ME1-3 like 6 times each, DAO and DA2 about a dozen times. That was a crazy year. I just wasted like 50 hours a week playing from dawn till dusk.
Jade Empire 3-4 times.
KotOR 2 about 3-4 times.
Technomancer twice.
Bound by Flames twice.
Deus Ex Human Revolution 2-3 times.
Cyberpunk 2077 at least 4 times. Twice before the rework and twice after.
Shadowrun Dragonfall 3 times in a row.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2 each two times in a row when they came out. Really loved the combat and character building on the highest difficulty.

[Valter]

Definitely Dragon Age Origins

[J1M]

Mass Effect 2 to see the limits of the suicide mission scripting.

[aimlesshealer]

KOTOR 2 is the only one I immediately jumped back into because I didn't know that you could turn your companions into Jedi/Sith. I also wanted to hear Kreia call me an idiot for a different set of reasons.

[WhiteShark]

Not sure I've ever done it with a standard RPG, but if we include tactics RPGs:

Voidspire Tactics to play on the highest difficulty, which unlocks after beating it the first time (or maybe after beating it on Hard; I don't remember).
Triangle Strategy, twice, to try the different routes. The second run is really fun because you keep your character advancement from the first run, so you have a lot of abilities and options, but the level cap is still pretty far away.

Also Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, if that counts.

[Bhaalspawn Jr]

Skyrim
Baldur's Gate 3
Dark Souls
Dark Souls III
Bloodborne
Elden Ring

[Vaako]

I think the last one metaphor and RE4 but indie games not really I think. But my memory is very bad couldnt even tell you what I played the last 1-10 months at least not with the right month. But I almost replayed Chained Echoes that was nice, still need to play the dlc.

[Jordy]

None.

[CornCake]

Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. The combat was so satisfying to me, that I had to start up again to try a new build.

[Xenich]

None.

Yeah, unless it is an RTS/Strategy game, I never replayed. There have been some RPGs I have replayed, but usually only after 15-20+ years.

I guess it is why I dislike the whole "But we need to make the game have x, y, z... for replayablity!"

Would rather they put out an expansion of the same exact type of game, but with a new story.

[Jordy]

None.

Yeah, unless it is an RTS/Strategy game, I never replayed. There have been some RPGs I have replayed, but usually only after 15-20+ years.

I guess it is why I dislike the whole "But we need to make the game have x, y, z... for replayablity!"

Would rather they put out an expansion of the same exact type of game, but with a new story.

I've replayed RPGs and other games but I can't remember one I've replayed immediately.

[GhostCow]

I've only ever done this with one game and that was the original Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. The ending really made me want to go through again. Definitely the best ending to any JRPG.

[Old One]

Fallout.

[Classix]

Final Fantasy Tactics. Don't know how many times. Love testing all 'one class only' runs and handicapping certain restrictions, using family/friends as units. Always get lvl 99 too. I just want to walk in place...one more time.

[Tweed]

Baldur's Gate 2
Daggerfall
Darklands
Darkstone
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Diablo
Diablo 2
DoomRL
Dragon Age Origins
Fallout
Gothic
Gothic 2
Mass Effect
Morrowind
Mount and Blade: Warband
Nox
Skyrim
System Shock 2
Undertale (for the genocide path)

And probably some more that I'm not remembering at the moment.

[bladios]

Immediately? Only Knights of the Chalice 2 and King Arthur: A Knight's Tale, I think.

[rusty_shackleford]

And probably some more that I'm not remembering at the moment.

Baldur's Gate 3?

[Tweed]

And probably some more that I'm not remembering at the moment.

Baldur's Gate 3?

I don't play porn games.

[Cedric]

Immediately? Only Knights of the Chalice 2 and King Arthur: A Knight's Tale, I think.

I also beat KotC 2 as it released. Now, years later, as a lark, I reinstalled it to see what Pierre has been up to.

The game is completely ruined. He added horrible graphics and terrible voice acting. The music is ***. It looks so cheap now. Everything reeks of AI. I hate it now.

Oh and it went from what, 40 MB to 2.1 GB.

[Cedric]

I forgot to answer the actual question.

BG 1, 2
Arcanum
Fallout 1, 2, NV
ToEE (unpatched!)
Deus Ex
Morrowind
Undertale (not that I'd consider this an RPG but I didn't want to make Tweed look weird by himself)

[SpellSword]

Immediately? Only Knights of the Chalice 2 and King Arthur: A Knight's Tale, I think.

I also beat KotC 2 as it released. Now, years later, as a lark, I reinstalled it to see what Pierre has been up to.

The game is completely ruined. He added horrible graphics and terrible voice acting. The music is ***. It looks so cheap now. Everything reeks of AI. I hate it now.

Oh and it went from what, 40 MB to 2.1 GB.

I'd noticed the game was receiving updates, but as they weren't The Dark Arena expansion I'd been ignoring them. Looks like there have been many changes to the classes and even the enemy units in the Augury of Chaos itself.

► For example both party member and enemy barbarians appear to now have access to some kind of spell casting involving spirit animals?

Knights of the Chalice 2 Version 1.42
Hello everyone! KotC 2 version 1.42 is here, and it has the Barbarian class upgrade! Yay!

It also has a lot of code designed to accelerate gameplay. You should be able to see a difference both while playing and using the editor.

The new version may have new bugs, so if you find any, please drop me a line at [email protected] so that I can fix the game quickly. Thank you!!

Here's the list of changes in version 1.42:

• Upgraded the Barbarian class with the 12 Spirit Animals and several new feats: Extended Spirit Animals, Fast Spirit Animal Elephant, and Improved Spirit Animal Elephant. Barbarians with the Elephant spirit can also take the feat Breath Weapon Shaping (it will apply both to the Elephant spirit and the Drake's breath weapon). The Barbarian class now also gets the feat Die Hard for free at level 1, a bonus feat at level 2, two Rage uses per day from level 1 and more afterwards, and a higher Damage Reduction that increases to DR 10 by level 20. Please see the in-game character-class chart for details. Also, entering a Rage now does not take any time at all. Previously, it was processed as a free action. The change means that you can enter a Rage and then use a free-action Spirit Animal power, and you'll still have your move action and standard action available this turn.
• Improved the AI. Enemy Barbarians will be able to use their Spirit Animals correctly. Also, enemies will be able to take a swift combat manoeuvre, or a Death Knight Life Drain, immediately after a charge. Also, enemy Psychic Warriors will be able to use the Psionic Pounce power correctly. All the Barbarians in Augury of Chaos and the Tutorial Adventure have been upgraded, so they have spirit animals and the other benefits of the class. However, I haven't upgraded the pre-created characters in the Character Roster yet, because I don't want to overwrite the player's file. I'll look into that.
• Reworked a lot of the code to improve gameplay speed during combat and elsewhere.
• Fixed a bug with the effect of the Druid's Earth Sphere on the spell Magic Stone.
• Fixed a bug preventing you from unlocking Archmage mode Steam/GOG achievements when you have a Cloudtop or Guardian Half-Giant in the party. Please start a new game to obtain the achievements.
• Fixed several bugs concerning the Paladin's spell Holy Sword. Also, the spell Holy Sword will now grant a +2 bonus to all Damage Rolls, increasing to +4 from level 17.
• Fixed a bug with the Ratmen in the Low Sewers when you select the [Assassin] skill option. Also fixed a scrolling issue when you select that option.
• Fixed a bug with the Creature Wizard applying the effect of some Barbarian and Samurai feats two times when creating a character or monster.
• Fixed errors in the help entry for the Haste condition. Fixed errors in the spell descriptions for the Death Knight Life Drain and the spells associated with supernatural Cleric Domain Powers. Improved the help entry for Special Abilities with some details about supernatural and extraordinary abilities.
• Fixed a bug with the Damage Reduction ability of the Barbarian and Samurai, and the feats that increase the DR.
• Fixed a tooltip issue in the Level-Up screen.
• In Augury of Chaos, when leaving the inn, any blood stains on the floor of the first level of the inn resulting from your battles will be cleared. Also added a script command to do this for any map of any module.

Thank You So Much For Your Support, Legendary Heroes of the Realm! Enjoy! :-)

That is sad news indeed, the campaign I ran has now been lost to time. No one, including myself, will be able to experience the same challenges I encountered and then overcome them with the same tools.

On the positive side, it does look like Heroic Fantasy Games has been pretty busy squashing bugs since I last ran KotC 2.

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RPGs you beat then immediately replayed

For RPGs only Chrono Trigger comes to mind.