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If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be? (i.ytimg.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Ahhhh UO. Sitting on my llama in my prized neon sandles in front of the bank. Buying a white wyrm from someone and having it rampage because I couldn't control it. Riding around in a boat with a polar bear trying to level up animal handling or whatever because you stopped getting xp if you were stationary too long... Good times lol. I used to have a whole bag of runes to glitch spots in the game 😎

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Earthbound. It’s been my favorite game since I first rented it from blockbuster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Probably Planescape: Torment

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Final Fantasy 7 or 9, Earthbound, Secret of Mana, Phantasy Star Online

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

OUTER WILDS.

It's a fantastic exploration game if you go in blind and I wish I could forget it all and explore it all again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm shocked that this isn't everyone's answer tbh lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Those are the people that haven't played it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What's sad is that I know I will forget the lore and the journey on how I figured out how I got to the end. But I don't think I'll forget the specifics for the ending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it really was amazing to play blind. We especially enjoyed the DLC... when we first realised what it was all about, it nearly blew our minds!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I've never wtf'd so hard in a game as when I entered the thing and left the other thing in the DLC.

That game was so well done and thought through.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Earthbound. Even on my subsequent yearly-ish playthroughs, it's so easy to get immersed into the beautiful quirkiness of the world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say this one. It's been ~30 years and there still isn't another game that quite hits in the same way. The perfect combination of jrpg, weirdness, emotion, humor, horror/dread, and lightheartedness. Earthbound has it all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

I'm reading the book about Satoru Iwata and in it he talks about Earthbound and says (hardcore paraphrasing) that Earthbound on the surface has a lot of regular RPG conventions, but through a combination of its non gameplay aspects it becomes something incredibly unique that even today has very few comparisons.