(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)
If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don’t think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.
For me, it’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.
Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark… it was a generational leap above anything I’d played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I’d love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.
I agree with lots of what’s already been said and haven’t got much to add to those extant conversations, so let me try to add in some that I’ve not seen:
RuneScape is a candidate. I started way back with RS Classic (the sprite-based one!).
Oh, and Dwarf Fortress too. That began in 2009.
Achaea and/or Lusternia are way up there but I don’t imagine anyone but me can share the experience.
Oh, as well, Mount & Blade: Warband. Quite the adventure(s).
I don’t really game anymore. But this thread did dredge up some memories, old and new.
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celeste every day, that game got right to my heart
Outer Wilds. It’s the best game I have played, and it can’t really be played a second time.
I played Outer Wilds immediately after I played Disco Elysium. Both would be incredible to experience fresh again.
Oh yes, Disco Elysium is up there as well.
Super Mario Galaxy
Final Fantasy 6
Super Mario 64
Super Mario World
Resident Evil
VVVVVV
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Nier Automata. Every thing about the game is amazing, but would love to experience the endings and heart wrenching moments again for the first time.
Easily Metal Gear Solid 3 for me.
Same as OP!!!
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Earthbound. It’s been my favorite game since I first rented it from blockbuster
Minecraft, botw
Minecraft for sure. Every other game I can still play and feel more or less the same.
Even though I was older when I first played Minecraft, I never felt the same feeling as the first 2 or 3 times.
Roller Coaster Tycoon, 2 preferably. Like, if OpenRCT2 could magically time travel back and exist on 12 year old me’s computer, it would be bliss.
World of Warcraft. 2005 was a hell of a time for that game.
I agree with lots of what’s already been said and haven’t got much to add to those extant conversations, so let me try to add in some that I’ve not seen:
RuneScape is a candidate. I started way back with RS Classic (the sprite-based one!).
Oh, and Dwarf Fortress too. That began in 2009.
Achaea and/or Lusternia are way up there but I don’t imagine anyone but me can share the experience.
Oh, as well, Mount & Blade: Warband. Quite the adventure(s).
I don’t really game anymore. But this thread did dredge up some memories, old and new.
Thank you.
Dwarf Fortress is one of those games that I love to read about, but I don’t think I would actually enjoy playing. Like Eve Online.
I always like the idea of Eve Online. Then I start it up again and hate myself.
Ultima Online. It was my first MMO. I could own a friggin house that other people could visit! I’ve been chasing that high for 20+ years now.
Portal 2 and Undertale the true pacifist run