Replaying Games you Love vs trying new ones

This is me exactly!
I buy lots of games and rarely finish them and end up back playing the same old games again.
But hey, after more than 50 goes through DragonAge Origins, I only found out today that Dwarven Nobles can have tattoos.
I just finished Planescape Torment, so I'm still trying to work out which old game to replay again.

See, I'm the opposite...I buy only a handful and - so far - always finish them.  However, I do play a smaller number a lot.  I won't name games, let's just say the series rhymes with Fragon Sage.

Other than that, there is Civilization, which I play a lot and Batman Arkham City/Knight.  So far, the only game I own that I haven't finished is MEA, and I've only just started on that.

There’s a Barcade down the street from me that has this system. Always good fun drinking beer and playing either this or the old Ninja Turtles game. 

With time, I've come to ever more just replaying my favourite games of old. Part of that is due to necessity as I'm going through times of low funds, part is because I'm getting old and find it increasingly difficult to learn new stuff, but part is also because I'm not a fan of modern mass-market games. Too cinematic, too many cutscenes, too many QTE's, etc. I'm not a fan of cinematic games, I just wanna play and have fun, except if the story is extremely good as in ME1.

Modern games tend to focus ever more on cinematic qualities than gameplay, and I don't like that. It feels like I'm playing a movie, but I want to play a game. I like Quake, not Call of Duty. Skyrim, not Witcher 3. Borderlands 2, not Tales of the Borderlands. And so on. If I want a good story, I read Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky or some shit like that.

One of the few newer games I really enjoyed was Doom (2016), and I guess that's telling, because it's at heart a retro game. No fucking around, just in-your-face heavy metal mayhem.

I do like some indie games that keep up the old spirit, but I miss the old times when "AAA" games with million-dollar budgets used to be like that.

being born in 1987, I used to think that Playable movies was the only way to game.

Well back then it was mostly a few shite games that did that. As for Wing Commander, at least those cinematics were restricted to between missions, they wouldn't interrupt you while you're in the cockpit. Action games were action games, not movies. Today every game must be cinematic, and they have a nasty tendency to do this cutscene - walk 30 metres - cutscene - kill 3 enemies - cutscene - fight boss until he's lost 1/3 health - cutscene... rubbish.

Most of my gaming time goes into favourites like EU4, TESV, DAI. DAO, DIII, CKII but I am doing something new now and that is FO4. I do have too many games in my backlog. Some good ones don't get played because they cannot hook quite like the ones above. MEA sure did though. I have more 400 hrs there so far and will get back in time but now it's the Boston wasteland on the menue.

It's been quite a while since I played FO4 but I too feel tug of Boston. Question is whether I should fork out the entire EUR 41.94 to get all DLC. Any judgements on DLC packs?

I don't fully understand the question but I find myself replaying (or even playing games I missed) from years past than actually playing new games.

The FO4 GOTY edition is 35,99 on Steam another hour and absolutely worth it. Full price for Vault tec, Contraptions and Wasteland workshop are still worth it for me since I enjoy the rebuilding part of the gameplay as well. But if you don't then I would only get them as part of the GOTY edition. It will always cost more to buy the story DLCs and base game separate than getting the GOTY edition anyway. So you might as well go for that and get them as a bonus. Sort of.