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So good the first time
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Outer Wilds.
But I can't. It's a game you can only really play once. I keep trying to get the wife to play, so I can live it again through someone else's eyes.
I'm thinking to wait 15 years and then replay it. Maybe I'll have forgotten enough by then.
(I didn't play echoes yet so I still have that going for me)
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Subnautica
Counterstrike with my friends at the cafe 20 years ago
Basically all those super long RPGs I don't have time for.
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Just replay: all the epic 80 hour RPGs I no longer have time for as an adult. I bought the Final Fantasy Pixel remaster collection, got a bit through FF 1, and decided I just didn't have time. Haven't actually played through them for the first time, but I got both Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate 3 and also only scratched the surface. I haven't even left the intro dungeon in BG3.
Play again for the first time: Any game where discovering the mechanics is the game. Minecraft was the first such experience for me, though the discovery aspect I believe is somewhat unintentional. Mojang just didn't bother including a proper guide or tutorials, so trial and error and/or wiki walking are the norm for new players. I bought the game when it was in beta, back when the player base was made of mostly adults with the means to give a random Swedish guy $20 via PayPal, and I miss the (very relatively) smaller community.
As for games where this self-discovery gameplay loop is intentional, definitely Tunic. I bought the game thinking it was a Zelda clone that could serve as a light-hearted palate cleanser after the bleakness of Hollow Knight and Eldin Ring. Oh, boy was I very, very wrong. I got so obsessed with trying to decipher the in-game writing system that it was effecting my sleep and I had to delete the game for a while. I ended up cheating to get all the manual pages and the good ending, but I replayed it earlier this year via Game Pass and tried to do it again without looking things up. It's not the same as going in blind even three years later but I did manage to get all the pages and solve the related puzzle without a guide, as well as crack the writing system.
There was this game by Maxis called Sim Town. It was my first experience with sim games as a kid.
Ever play Sim Tower or Sim Copter? Never really hear about them but I remember them being so fun
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https://archive.org/details/SimTown_1020
you can play it in your browser.
might also want to check out Sim Park as well. I enjoyed both.
Ah, the early SIM games were so comforting. Thanks friend.
Halo 3. Peak online console, it was all downhill from there.
Halo 3 multiplayer is why to me modern multiplayer always feels like shit.
I'm glad i experienced it but it hurts knowing I physically can't anymore. MCC is missing a lot of what made the online experience what it was sadly, even though it's very good for a lot of the other aspects. It just does not carry the same feeling at all, I don't even really get THAT much of a nostalgia hit from it either.
Wipe my memory and let me play Titanfall 2 for the first time again.
If my memory isn't getting wiped, then give me an opportunity to play Advance Wars 2 again. I know I can just emulate it, but it isn't the same without the no backlight, AA powered Gameboy Advance
Get yourself a no backlight AA powered Gameboy advance then
I think SOMA. The first time I played it, I had no clue it was a horror game. It has such great atmosphere. A balance between mystery, adventure and horror, all while keeping it calm and slow.
Morrowind! And I will.
An updated version of Clive Barkers Undying
If you mean go back and play it from scratch, guild wars 2. Fuck. I had so much fun playing it in the beginning.
Guild wars 2 was magical during the beta. It felt so different than anything else at the time
I reply the Starcraft campaigns at least once a year. Love those games
Still want to know why clicking the Terran Academy building plays and agonized scream
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Disco Elysium. I haven't played the Final Cut version, but I've kept consuming DE related media and fanart. I know why I've been postponing it - lack of free time, and hesitation to re-thread your trip toward something special, and maybe realize it's a bit more trivialized to you now, or just doesn't have the same impact, and you've wasted a good 30-40 hours for getting the same lessons and experiences you already had.
Yet, I'll gladly waste 30-40 hours thinking over it. I'm weird.
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A lot of RPGs that I just don't have the patience for anymore. Final Fantasy 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, Tactics. Vagrant Story. Breath of Fire. Legend of the Dragoon.
I'd like to replay satisfactory but that is like choosing to waste another 300 hours of life lol
Thst game is so incredibly well made
I'm on my 6th attempt to finish the game. I'm further than I've ever been, I just unlocked nuclear power and drones last night but went to bed before I started messing with either.
im only still on my first playthrough and at 300 hours and just finishing a massive 36x8 block of fuel generators running the nitro rocket fuel recipe. i chose this over nuclear because it seems that nuclear is massively inefficient by comparison albeit easier to set up but on the other hand i never have to touch my power again and i have 70kmw at my disposal.
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Simply replay, or "replay as if it were the first time again?"
The latter: Final Fantasy on NES
The former: I never stopped replaying FTL and Into The Breach, and I always end up back on them
yes, I've played ALL the overhaul mods for both ;D
Invisible War. The controversial sequel to Deus Ex. The PC port ran like shit on the best PCs, but I have Macs. Xbox might be the best way to play it but it’s still gonna suck. The game itself was good but the tech was complete trash. Literal downgrade in every way from the first one. And yet it was still a gem.
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To relive anew, Ico on the PS2. I could boot it up right now but it wouldn't be like that first playthrough, my first foray outside of PC and Nintendo.
Return of the Obra Dinn.
But I can't.
Because I already know the names and causes of death. 😭
I'm horrible with names, so I could probably play it through again like new, haha
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Saints Row 1.
Only one in the series that was strictly a console exclusive. It never left the 360. 😔
If you have an Xbox one or series whatever both sr1 and sr2 are backwards compatible. Locked to 30fps cause of how the emulator used deals with vsync though. Annoying, cause you could disable the vsync on 360 and have the game run at a unstable AF 30-50fps, but it is what it is.
Or run it on a PC via Xenia. Needed a bit of tinkering to get it running back when I tried it a few years ago, but even then the game ran pretty damn well, and didn't have any major issues running at 60fps.
Deus Ex
I know there’s a remaster, and I keep hearing that it’s ass. Can anyone confirm?
Diablo 2.
I know there is a remake out, I've seen it.
I might do it, but I've fully switched to Linux in the mean time and I don't want to put another 10 years of my life and tens of thousands of hours into it.
At least it would be good value for the money, I guess.
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NBA Street
NFL Street was my jam. Reminded me of playing football with a group of neighborhood kids.
EA Big was top notch
Trackmania, the improve grind never stops :D
Portal 2 Co-op with someone that never played it could be good. I played it with a lot of friends already, but it still felt like a different experience with each of them.
As of a game I'm currently replaying, Last Command B-Side on Nightmare difficulty. Cleared hardcore difficulty previously, but Nightmare mode doesn't let you play safe.
For a game I cannot replay, Overwatch 1. Overwatch 2 doesn't give the same vibes as OW1, everything feels more clunky to the point I quit it. I didn't really like OW1 that much to begin with, had like 200 hours tops on it; but really felt its absence after OW2.
Headbangers: Rhythm Royale was also another game I really enjoyed that didn't really took off after launch. I still play it at times, but it's entirely bot lobbies and they suck at the game. I miss needing to try hard to win a round on it.
You likely mean single player but I would love the cryptic mmos champions online and star trek online to be made in the offline/online playability you see now with things like no mans sky. So they can have events and be online but you don't have to worry about losing your game when the servers shutdown. Oh and it would just be great to have them updated in modern engines.
Boom Boom Rocket
The non botch version of Oni. The game looked so freaking good! But Microsoft buying out Bungie for Halo made them rush to finish the game.
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