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> While the game is a bit on the short side, there's enough depth to its mechanics to feel satisfying to master, and the realization that a game that gave you s

> While the game is a bit on the short side, there's enough depth to its mechanics to feel satisfying to master, and the realization that a game that gave you so much trouble at first has turned into a total cakewalk can't be matched. Yeah, if I recall, once you figure out all its mechanics you are able to hack anything in about a month of game time. This is marvelous once but obviously does hurt replayability. It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

iforgotpassword 3y ago
> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia. Maybe I suffer onset dementia or something, but I enjoyed that game back then, but absolutely remember shit about it. Like, absolutely nothing. Maybe it would all come back 5 minutes after firing it up again, but I doubt it.
- zoky 3y ago
  Once you figure out you can pretty easily hack top level bank accounts for effectively unlimited money, the game loses a lot of its replay value. I absolutely loved this game when it first came out and I played it on my Snow iBook G3. I subsequently re-bought it on Steam, and it’s had about five minutes of playtime since then. I want to replay it, but every time I start it back up again I’m just like, “Nahhh.”
- Xelbair 3y ago
  It will, as it was relatively simple.
pdpi 3y ago
> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia. That's the feeling I got out of Return of the Obra Dinn. Turns out that a carefully crafted whodunnits becomes a lot less interesting when you already know who's who what the "it" is that they've dun.
- wavemode 3y ago
  lol I guessed so much on my playthrough of Obra Dinn, that I imagine a second playthrough would not be particularly smooth either
- dymk 3y ago
  I absolutely adore Obra Dinn, but its got the replay ability of a really, really good crossword puzzle. But not all is lost - I get almost as much enjoyment out of watching other people play through it and uncover the mystery.
ozim 3y ago
For me it would be like 20 years ago last time I opened it. It would take me some time to get back but of course not as much as when I played it as a teenager. But I don’t think I remember it in such detail to just plow through.

iforgotpassword 3y ago

> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia. Maybe I suffer onset dementia or something, but I enjoyed that game back then, but absolutely remember shit about it. Like, absolutely nothing. Maybe it would all come back 5 minutes after firing it up again, but I doubt it.

zoky 3y ago
Once you figure out you can pretty easily hack top level bank accounts for effectively unlimited money, the game loses a lot of its replay value. I absolutely loved this game when it first came out and I played it on my Snow iBook G3. I subsequently re-bought it on Steam, and it’s had about five minutes of playtime since then. I want to replay it, but every time I start it back up again I’m just like, “Nahhh.”
Xelbair 3y ago
It will, as it was relatively simple.

pdpi 3y ago

> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia. That's the feeling I got out of Return of the Obra Dinn. Turns out that a carefully crafted whodunnits becomes a lot less interesting when you already know who's who what the "it" is that they've dun.

wavemode 3y ago
lol I guessed so much on my playthrough of Obra Dinn, that I imagine a second playthrough would not be particularly smooth either
dymk 3y ago
I absolutely adore Obra Dinn, but its got the replay ability of a really, really good crossword puzzle. But not all is lost - I get almost as much enjoyment out of watching other people play through it and uncover the mystery.

ozim 3y ago

For me it would be like 20 years ago last time I opened it. It would take me some time to get back but of course not as much as when I played it as a teenager. But I don’t think I remember it in such detail to just plow through.