Hi Teresa.
The reason more complex games get talked about in terms of replayability is
because theoretically, the more complex the game is, the more random factors
can be intorduced when you play.
Take a trivia game for example. I have completed Jim kitchin's harry potter
trivia and enjoyed it, however now I have seen all the questions. I'm not
going to get a new challenge next time because I'll get the same questions
again. Of course, the more questions you include and the longer it'd take
you to get through a trivia game, the more replay there is (something like
Freerice has close to unlimited replay).
the same goes for fps games. In a game like Swamp, the zombies position is
randomised, as is that of the items. You don't know what your going to run
into from game to game, so you can always expect things to be a little
different, and that's not counting the extra maps etc. With an rpg game
likee King of Dragon pass, because there are so many more factors in the
game to randomise there is much more chance of giving the player a new
experience with something unexxpected.
Now I'm not personally one to knock playing games for atmosphere. I've
played through The Nightjar and will do so again, heck i've even played
through chillingham and Grizly gulch about three times each and Terraformers
twice, however the problem is with all of those games I now know where
everything is, everything is the same the first time as the last time, there
are no alternate routes, different enddings or things to change. If I replay
them it is just! in the same way I would watch a film or read a book again,
for atmosphere and experience and not for the explorationn and unexpected
challenge that I'd get from playing an actual game like Swamp.
That is the issue with replay and why it tends to be associated with more
complex games, ---- although i'd personally argue something like the
choiceofgames are replayable at least a few times simply by nature of being
choice based gamebooks and giving you different options, ----heck, the short
gamebook "a bad week for King MElchion the dispicable" over on Fighting
fantasy project, once I'd played it through once I then spent an additional
hour seeing all the different ways the story could go, ---- many of them
highly unique.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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