Depends on the game and how much has changed since my last save. Ofthen when savegames are broken critical changes have been done and its worth to explore the then modified game again
Yeah, that's really awful when you played all content over the game and you have to play it again for new content. I'm just dropping these games until there is huge amount of content in past updates or until they are finished
Nah, mistakes happen and the skip button works, one way or another I'm getting back to the place I left off.
I restart games I haven't played in a while regularly anyway
I treat it like I treat MMO beta testing. The game is in development. I am not playing a fully complete and released game, I am playing a test version. Sometimes test versions have changes that require starting over.
If old game saves don't transfer to new updates I'll keep playing if the gameplay isn't too complicated, if it's a VN then most of the time I'll just skip through the dialogue by pressing the alt button and stop once I get to new content, but if the game requires me to grind and play mini games then I'm gonna lose interest pretty quick.
SpaceCorpsXXX is notorious for this it became practically every single update and with how awkward the branching paths are skipping ahead can lead to a game over screen so i stopped bothering i will play it if it ever gets finished
I have never done that, as I play mostly AVNs and with the correct settings you can usually rush through them rather quickly. However, if it happens with a relatively small update, I may decide to wait for a substantial extension before I get back into it.
It all depends on how much I like the game and want to play the update. I've been known to use the skip button to catch back up on a game that didn't take my old save.
Depends on a few factors. I have dropped some games in the past that had quite a lot of time/content to get to the save point I was at. Just seems like work trying to go back through to get to my save point again.
I usually just start from scratch then.
The only exceptions are games with a lot of grinding or a sandbox setting with a lot of content, where you have to navigate through a dozen of locations to progress.
In short, as long as the last save point is reachable in a reasonable time and effort, I restart.
If not, it's out for me forever, or at least for a very long time.