Mine always is, completely forgetting what I was doing and where I was going after not touching a save file for a long time. This is happening to me right now with Stardew Valley.
I’m in Year 4, married Maru, have a decent farm going, I have yet to build the movie theater I just found out so that’s something I can do. And I know up until that point, I called it a conclusion of a game, but yet I forgot completely about there being some minor goals or things I wanted to do. Completely out of my head. It was a year ago since I last touched that save.
This happens a lot with old saves, because sometimes I have had something in mind as to how I was going to play the game or where I was going with a character.
With games like Elder Scrolls, they have the quest log that usually keeps track of things you have done.
But I have seen a couple games, not a lot, that have a thing very much like a “Last time on…” with dialogue/cutscenes telling you what the story is thus far that you either can optionally select from a menu OR, that just play as the loading screen whenever you load the game up instead of just a spinning widget and a static image/screen.
It definitely should be used more. I probably would not start an entire new game just because I stopped half-way through and didn’t remember jack shit when I go to play again.