> The second time, you mostly know what you’re in for. There may be different paths to take, there may be new stuff unlocked by your first play through. This i

> The second time, you mostly know what you’re in for. There may be different paths to take, there may be new stuff unlocked by your first play through. This is what I mean by the systems are what matter, not content variation. You can play sim city repeatedly, despite there never being new content, because learning the game systems (inputs, and predicted outputs, and then achieving goals based on that) is what’s valuable, and there’s a lot there to unpack. Assassin’s creed on the other hand should only be played once, because the game systems are trivial — you’ve probably understood everything it has to offer long before you’ve completed the major storyline. So the only driver is content, and really only the shallow surface novelty of that content (story, aesthetics, etc). So once you’ve seen it… why see it again?