The desire to replay games but they’re massive open world ones and I don’t want the fatigue 😮‍💨

April 05, 2026 - 09:51 UTC

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very relatable
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On the other hand, big open world game means many weeks of not having to spend time trying to decide what to play in one's limited free time :p.
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I've wanted to replay Tales of Symphonia and Witcher 3 for years. But I know full well that either of those will take at least six months - and in the meantime there are so many new games being released.
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There are games other than massive open world ones?
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Probably explains why I’ve been playing more Resident Evil recently
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I now feel bad replaying anything knowing how much new stuff I want to play, and any replay wastes time and grows the backlog 😭
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That's why we always come back to Tomb Raider
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Knowing Catalyst will be open-world is a big reason I’m hesitant to play several others before it comes out tbh
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I know the feeling and my backlog has grown a lot, the steam has run out! 😴
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It calls to me 🫠
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I've been replaying FF7 OG (never beat Sepharoth due to my neglect of grinding half my team 🙈), and just find myself enjoying it more playing in chunks with no pressure to finish ASAP. Just made it to the Golden Saucer. After all that's done, I'll replay Remake and finally play Rebirth
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I know the feeling. But at the same time, I did need to take a four-month break from it cos I played too much in the month or so after release and burnt out. (When I returned I’d mostly focused on the main plot instead of doing side quests as well)
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I felt this but ended up running out of steam around Corel
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Me and Witcher 3 be like...
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You should give the Yakuza series a try. I'm replaying Like a Dragon currently and it's a lot of fun. VERY Japanese mind 🤣😅
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My backlog looks at me in shame every time I fall to the calling of replaying a massive open world RPG
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I recently replayed the Dishonored series and loved them both (Dishonored 1 is still number seven in my top ten favourite games), but I’m playing Prey for the first time and it’s not really grabbing me. It’s very hard even on Easy, and I feel the plot gets kinda lost in the open world.
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And yeah the semi open world just means having to run back and forth all the time and that makes the game ten times less fun.
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I'm right there with ya, I love games like Deus Ex and Dishonored but I tried to get into Prey twice but even after about 5 hours I just can't continue playing it. I also found it too hard, and I beat Deus Ex HR on hard!
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