(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.

  • hedders@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    I think this is a tie between Bloodborne and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Absolute masterpieces, both. I replay both of them at least once a year, but it would be wonderful to go back in fresh.

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

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

    • theragu40@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • all-knight-party@kbin.run
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        9 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.

  • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Misconduct@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      9 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 😎

  • 404@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.