I rarely replay games once I finish them, but a few left me an itch to replay them with this mode : Dishonored 2, and Styx: Shards of Darkness
Some games I replay a lot, but always on a fresh save. I think I’ve finished Dark Souls about 10 times without ever touching NG+.
Notable exceptions are:
- Nier Automata, although you kind of have to if you want the whole game and it still brought down the experience for me.
- Chrono Trigger, for the quick kill on Lavos. I did not play much of the NG+.
Chrono Trigger
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Nier Automata
- Fatal Frame 1-4 (On different platforms)
- Silent Hill 2-4
- Bioshock (First One)
- Yoshi’s Island
- Resident Evil 5 & 6 (My friend and I think they’re hilarious for whatever reason)
- Persona 5
- Ace Attorney (Not all of them, but a handful I’ve returned to)
- Ultra Despair Girls
- Until Dawn
Huh… Horizon Zero Dawn might actually be the only one I ever played a full NG+ file of. I’ve played some Souls NG+s but I don’t ever finish them.
darksouls2 might have been the weakest entry in the souls series, but its ng+ / ascendic mechanics are awesome.
i heard sekiro ng+ is also awesome because the powerup comes less from gear and mostly from how much you improved since beating the game.
so you breeze trough most of the game entirely on your skill.We’re on the same boat here, I’m a notorious “have to explore everything” player so often NG+ is boring but a few games still hooked. God of War from 2018 was a fun one. Also Witcher 3 and the best of all was Nier Automata but I have to admit, Nier Automata isn’t really a new game plus in this manner
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Ratchet & Clank, Rogue Legacy, inFamous 2, The Last of Us
Hey! Rogue Legacy is cheating. You have to play new game +5 at least to say you best the game.
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Sundered
- Ori and the Blind Forest
- Ori and the Will o the Wisp
- Prototype and Prototype 2
- Crackdown
I miss Crackdown. I wish 3 wasn’t stuck in development hell for a few years and then released with nothing that was originally advertised for it.
Chrono Trigger
Including the earliest possible opportunity to get to the end boss?
A lot of Ys games. Certain Metal Gear games in a way have NG+ with carryover stuff.
More games need a solid NG+ that feels fun and rewarding.
I don’t know if Ys Origin counts, but I really liked how each character had a unique twist on the same events.
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Elden ring. Got to NG+7 before it became miserable and I had to stop.
Dark Souls.
You need to play NG+ and a fair bit of NG++ to be able to get everything on one character.
Quite a few. I’ve never finished a Fromsoft game, but I did finish Hellpoint which is another soulslike. When I was a kid I replayed Jak 3 so many times I lost count. Recently I played through Spider-Man 2018 and Miles Morales and then immediately went and did NG+ on both of those because they’re so fun. I’m excited for Spider-Man 2 to come out on PC.
Is there a major difference between the newer Spiderman games, mechanically, or are they just longer stories/campaigns in some? (and by “newer” I mean since 2018, the last one I played was on the PS2 I think 😅)
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