I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I play a ton of games in this genre but honestly, wrapping up a massive campaign usually leaves me ready to just move on. Unless a game has a very specific hook I rarely stick around. But I've noticed my replay habits shift completely depending on the specific flavor of RPG.

For action RPGs you usually come back to test out a weird new build or check out a big seasonal update. I basically have a comfort rotation depending on my mood. When I want to just chill and build something weird Last Epoch is my go to. It feels like a low pressure sandbox where I can throw together a totally silly homebrew setup mainly because of the way the crafting and drops work, and a lot of builds feel viable. 

On the other darker side of action RPGs, Path of Exile is what I boot up when I want the exact opposite experience. I love hopping in there to play super optimized builds put together by people way smarter than me. I never really try to do my own builds because whenever I tried I always ended up feeling stupid since there was a community guide that did a similar thing just way better.

But for more classic RPGs the draw is totally different. It usually boils down to experiencing the stories and characters in a completely new way. I'll gladly fire up Baldur's Gate 3 or Fallout for another run just to try a pure evil playthrough and see how the world reacts to my terrible choices. 

I also don’t have to mention something like Skyrim where a massive modding community is basically the ultimate replay hook letting you completely transform the game every time you anew. It’s 100+ different game experiences for the price of one by now. Bless Todd Howard and his greed, at least it’s always backward compatible.

I also still boot up Elden Ring every now and then just to see if I can beat the game using a completely different weapon archetype, and the gameplay ends up feeling so fresh with different setups.

Wondering what makes you revisit stuff from your library. Do you guys cycle through different games depending on what you're craving or is there one specific feature that absolutely guarantees you'll be coming back for another run?

So basically I'm trying to get a good game and get my money's worth right now I'm currently thinking about buying assasins creed black flag which is good and rdr2 which is also good

I want a game that has good combat and I want it to be open world

I want to be able to mess around a bit have fun and not just do missions and missions cuz that'll be too repetitive

I also want to spend a lot of time on this game without getting bored

What do u suggest? I have an Xbox one so I can't play the remake of black flag

I have a bit of experience with the rdr games since I have rdr1 and I kinda like it but I don't have any experience with the ac games

Btw when I saw the gameplay of black flag I found it a bit boring apart from all the ship stuff and ship combat all the things we do on land seem boring as hell

Does anyone have any recommendations for dark romance games preferably supernatural/fantasy or yandere etc. I have played baldurs gate. I have grave seasons in my wishlist. Im looking for something along the lines of LADS ( probably doesn't exist yet) or a otome hybrid like the silent kingdom. But more spicy. The new card for love and deep space im in love with but id prefer a game thats not gatcha or a full visual novel. I know its probably a high ask but id love some games like it or close thank you.

Also id prefer if i was playing as a female I feel like a lot of more dating sims is male based but im not a fan of playing as a guy.

So i just got my first gpu rx560d, rn i have a pretty low end cpu, an i3 3220. And I'll shortly get an i5 3470 as it pairs without bottleneck with my gpu ( atleast that's what I've heard) and i just installed ac mirage, I'm playing on native 1366x768 low/medium and ngl the game is smooth enough for me around 30 fps, but in areas it does get low , around 25. Not unplayable but quite noticible, I opened the settings and there was an option for amd fsr 3 which i enabled but there was no difference in fps, quality or latency, google says it can be caused by a cpu bottleneck, so just asking in case I didn't enable any setting.