How is the replay value?

[Crowley42]

Just finished the game, absolutely fantastic.

However, I am wondering about the replay value. How do I know just how much I "missed out on"? I feel like my first playthrough went down extremely well and I've successfully made a lot of interactions happen that are, truth be told, absurdly difficult.

I am wondering however, how different would a second playthrough be? So many of the dialogue choices were based on information gathered from previously exhausted conversations, I wonder if I'd fall asleep from re-listening to so much dialogue.


TLDR: is it fun to replay the game a second time or will I be bored out of my mind?

If I do replay the game, is the experience fundamentally different if I go with a brute-force approach? I went all in on intellect on my first playthrough and didn't do anything irresponsible, is it fun to do all those things? I feel I'd have a hard time enjoying roleplaying as anything but what seems rational to me.

[Данил Капканыч]

depends on the person, I go through the game as if I were Harry. I tried to play it off again, but the feeling that it wasn’t me didn’t leave me

[Azor]

if you wait 2 to 3 years you can replay it. Unless you have shorter memory. Because if you replay before forgetting stuff you'll see yourself skipping dialogue.

[Du-Vu]

I'd say yes. If you've ever played through a game like this to see what changes, I feel like this is one of the most reactive in terms of just how different it can feel. There'll be some repetition, sure, but given how much dialogue there is, there'll be a ton of new stuff, as well.

[Azor]

So I have to say, the only way you see anything different is if you play with the Sensitive preset. That's cause your PSY and PHYS abilities give you information that does not exist in the game, tells you stories beyond what is in the game normally and also gives you all sorts of advice and insights, and a lot of them are terrible, which is fun Also, it allows you to use drugs liberally and act irresponsibly because you have enough of health and morale to use up. And that is in character for the protagonist because he is a broken person.

but if you played first with the Sensitive preset, then you won't see much of anything new. That's cause MOT abilities gives you pretty boring and useless info while INT abilities tell you info that you can learn elsewhere, like ENCYCLOPEDIA, which mostly tells you stuff NPCs can already tell you.

Since you played as a Thinker and clean, boring cop first, then you must have something to gain from playing again but with the Sensitive preset. But I would still wait until I had forgotten most of the details if I were you.

[Insomniac Jack]

I beat the game last week for the first time and started a second playthrough a few days ago. There's definite replay value. Unless you were trying to max everything whilst playing with a guide, there's bound to be a number of quests and content you missed; but even if you did there are alternate routes you can take.

Once in a while, I find myself glancing past some of the repetitive dialogue (instead of listening to entire voiceovers), so that could be somewhat exhausting. Ultimately the story remains the same, as does your character, but your overall attitude and personality (focused skills, political alignment, cop type, disposition, choices) makes all the difference.

Since you tried being a perfectionist during your first run, I suggest embracing failure this time around. Given the abundant hilarity behind unsuccessful checks, as well as hidden goodies (from dialogue to quests), you'll come to find that being an absolute trainwreck has never been more rewarding.

[Crowley42]

Thanks for the replies

Originally posted by Insomniac Jack:

you'll come to find that being an absolute trainwreck has never been more rewarding.

I did start a second playthrough and since last time I went all-in on rhetoric and feels, the second time around I went all-in on Halflight. Hilarity is given.

You can tell the little girl in front of the bookstore that you will kill famous people, this perk is absolutely atrocious and only gives you aberrant advice about how you should brutalize everyone for whatever reason you fancy. Truly, this game is a masterpiece.

Also, being semi-retarded is handled like in the first and second fallout games, for example when the homosexual man tells you his name is Martin Martinaise, the detective immediately assumes that he is telling the truth. Automatic stat-check failures are funny as all hell.

In addition, Ambrosius Costeau is a hell of a name

[YeulEmeralda]

Replay value is overrated when you realise that most players never even finish. Don't believe me you can check steam achievements for your favourite games...

[Crowley42]

Originally posted by YeulEmeralda:

Replay value is overrated when you realise that most players never even finish. Don't believe me you can check steam achievements for your favourite games...

very insightful, I for one have completed the game however, thus my inquiry

[Du-Vu]

Originally posted by YeulEmeralda:

Replay value is overrated when you realise that most players never even finish. Don't believe me you can check steam achievements for your favourite games...

Eh. There are enough games out there that nobody finishes every game they try. Doesn't mean anything in particular other than shorter, more popular games have higher finish rates, regardless of overall reception.

Highly replayable games can have an extended shelf life compared to other games, though, and players who replay a game a lot provide good word of mouth. Being able to try new things or see different outcomes can keep people coming back, talking about it, and thus convincing other people to buy it and play it, year after year. Expensive and time-consuming to implement, though, so something of a gamble, admittedly. Doesn't always work out. But it worked for Disco, and for good reason.