Does anyone else constantly restart their favourite games from the beginning?

Right now I'm playing two vastly different games: Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy 10.
I always find myself restarting them and creating a new file, usually because I didn't play for long enough in one go.

When I play Dragon Warrior, I must finish the whole game without stopping (which actually is possible, because you can beat the game in 10 hours), or else I just restart it; in Final Fantasy 10 I must at least make it to Mi'ihen Highroad before I stop; otherwise, I restart that game too. :rolleyes2

You're strange.

I don't bother with getting to certain "checkpoints" before I stop playing. That's why there are a lot of save points after all. Also, I don't have the patience to watch ALLL THOSE SMURFING CUTSCENES 500 times.

Sometimes. Usually with Castlevania LoI, Megaman Zero and Megaman X games

Not constantly, it's understandable with games like Final Fantasy X-2 or Pokemon... So sometimes.

No I do not do so.

Dragon Warrior I? On the NES? Man, that game has some serious gold grinding. I usually get Erdrick's armor at lvl 13 and then go through the Dragonlord's castle as soon as I learn healmore.

No.

Well... Say I started an RPG and I left it for a week, then I probably would.

i restarted FFVII five times before completing it, every time i would get to the crator and stop, not play for a few months and restart the game, but it was usualy because i missed something earlier, or everything wasn't 100% the way i wanted it before the final fight... i restarted FFX 3 times before finishing it, and i can't count how many times i've restarted and replayed Resident Evil 1&2, pretty much all for the same reasons i did it on FFVII... now Chrono Trigger i never stopped before finishing, i think it's the only game i have done that with, finished in 1 playthrough, but that could have been due to the knowledge that "New Game +" was there when i finished, i guess the knowledge of a reward like that waiting at the end was a motivation...

All the time, if a game was sweet from start to end, why not, as the line goes, "play it again sam".

Of course I usually wait some months before doing so, just to bring back that sense of newness to the experience.

OMG YES!
I do that with like, EVERY Final Fantasy.
The three games I start the most are probably X, X-2, and Threads of Fate!
Threads of Fate you can beat one character's story in about four and a half hours if you know what you're doing and scroll through the cutscenes quickly. I got soooo addicted to it, I wouldn't play any other game for a few months, and I just played through both Mint and Rue's story daily!

EDIT: I was listening to ToF music when I typed this >.>

When I first played FFXII, i got well into it, then the plot lagged soo much about the Phon Coast...so I stopped for a week...then had to restart. I need to keep the action pumping! Any cutscenes longer than 2 minutes has me switching over to the telly until i reckon its over.

Phon Coast is when it starts getting good, unless the newbies drive you mad.

Not me, I'm a save point fanatic.

ive replayed ffVI, ffIV FFVII and FFT atleast 5 times each.

super metroid ive replayed atleast 30 times in the past 2 weeks but then again im working on a 100% speed run so far 1:13 100% just 18 minutes form the record.

I play FF games from the beginning many times.
Z.O.E: 2nd Runner I've played 'bout 60 times.
Ace Combats and Armored Cores I play through like 25 times before I get bored.

I hate having to restart. My sister deleted my first playthrough of KH which was like gold on a memory card, and i had to do it over.