THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: MMaRsu on September 23, 2019, 01:13:49 PM

Title: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: MMaRsu on September 23, 2019, 01:13:49 PM: Which one would it be?

If if can go back in time and replay Ocarina of Time for the first time, it would probably be my choice.

https://youtu.be/sk6c43tSsRo

Must I really go into detail how and why? I consider it one of the best games I have ever played, and even replaying it now on the 3DS for the first time it's just as good now as it was then ( and honestly even better with all the new graphics is why I posted this specific video ) . The formula really hasn't grown stale on me yet, and Oot just has such a great atmosphere especially in the towns and dungeons.

If I'm honest I'm trying to find out some games that I can play for the first time, that I haven't played yet so I thought this thread would be a cool idea :).
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: kingv on September 23, 2019, 01:48:05 PM: I remember my first encounter with Mario 64 at a demo kiosk in a toys r us.

That shit was almost magical to me. There was really nothing with that much fluidity and charm in 3D st the time.
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Post by: Tuckers Law on September 23, 2019, 02:32:54 PM: If we’re talking playing it for the first time in today’s modern gaming landscape, probably Earthbound. It’s the “Odyssey of videogames” for me, storywise, with graphics that are still charming in their simplicity, and gameplay that remains mostly mechanically sound (inventory space limits :-\).

If we’re talking about being able to return back to the time of and experiencing a game for the first time again in that day’s landscape, there’s just so many but I think I’d settle on Doom. It was just so much more graphically ahead of the console stuff I was playing at the time, and a hell of a lot more my style of pc game compared to the slow-paced likes of Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry that had been in my pc gaming rotation.
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Post by: Yeti on September 23, 2019, 02:47:34 PM: Mmarsu you should play the Master Quest version of OoT, it would give you a similar effect
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Post by: Nintex on September 23, 2019, 03:13:08 PM: Resident Evil 4 is the first game that comes to mind.

Other games like Super Mario Galaxy, Half Life 2, Metroid Prime etc. are great but the emotions felt when playing Resident Evil 4 for the first time :whew
With that said it would also have to take place in 2005 and not 2019.
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Post by: Himu on September 23, 2019, 03:13:39 PM: if you have not played master quest DO IT NOW
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Post by: MMaRsu on September 23, 2019, 03:15:51 PM: I might play Master Quest I guess, I had it for gamecube but it never really grabbed me back then.. :/
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Post by: Himu on September 23, 2019, 03:25:41 PM: It's on 3ds version if you're playing that. I got a used copy with a completed save so I could play MQ. You can also just pirate it.
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Post by: MMaRsu on September 23, 2019, 03:32:11 PM: Well shit is it on the 3ds one? I have the cart.. was it an option at the start? Must have missed it
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: Himu on September 23, 2019, 03:34:54 PM: No you have to beat it.

Stupid decision.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2019, 04:19:28 PM: Metroid Prime
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Post by: Occam on September 23, 2019, 04:38:29 PM: Maybe Symphony of the Night. Or Binding of Isaac.
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Post by: Svejk on September 23, 2019, 05:08:59 PM: Either MGS1, Tenchu:SA or Saints Row 3rd.
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Post by: Mr Gilhaney on September 23, 2019, 05:41:17 PM: silent hill 2 any day
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2019, 05:52:03 PM: Quote from: riotous on September 23, 2019, 05:48:23 PM
Skyrim

Hell yeah, brother

spoiler (click to show/hide)
But real talk, Morrowind. :whew
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Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: EchoRin on September 23, 2019, 06:18:23 PM: Resident Evil 4. Maybe I would be thrown off by "why can't I move and shoot" at first, but after getting acclimated to the combat and doing the village level, I would have been sold by the time Leon goes "where's everyone going? Bingo?". I find the village and the castle to be much better overall than the island part of the game, but even then the game is still damn fun.
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Post by: BisMarckie on September 23, 2019, 06:55:38 PM: Probably MGS 2, I was a Solid Snake fanboy and wasn’t able to appreciate the game for what it is back then.
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Post by: tiesto on September 23, 2019, 07:15:00 PM: Xenogears probably. Or another story-heavy title.
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Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2019, 07:33:25 PM: For some reason I think of this more as a plot or overall experience type thing rather than specific to gameplay. So many things become influenced by gameplay aspects that it's difficult to separate from it. Symphony of the Night is a decent example of where you're kind stepping backwards on the gameplay, but it's still so well constructed and the rest of it makes up for it where you don't care that it's been done "better" and the Metroid Prime games are like that too. 2 and 3 are just easy to think of as objectively superior based on simple stuff like how the scan visor operates or in the case of 3 the combat taking a whole 'nother level. But the original still has the superior story and mystery and progression and so on.

For my pick like always I was going to say Chrono Trigger, but actually I think when I played it was better than coming to it now. So I'm thinking of something like Super Mario RPG instead. Something that sorta creates these expectations in your mind of how it will play out, but then is actually quite different.

I don't mean this in a spoiler type way as I've never thought Chrono Trigger's plot relied on its answers to the mysteries being unexpected or revelations. The part I've always felt the lovefests overlook in why it's been such a game that's stood is that the plot does not resolve any of its threads, it's an openly selfish ending (or fifteen) for a game. I think that's why I was so drawn to another game I considered, God of War 2, in that the spectacle was the experience and the resolution was similarly purely selfish rather than attempting to resolve time travel paradoxes. But then I'm a sucker for when these kinds of plots throw so many balls in the air like CT and GoW2 but then are smart enough to play the central conceit straight and ignore the balls. Mario RPG, especially now, certainly isn't original in its main construction of teaming up with Bowser to fight a bigger villain, but all the stuff along the way is what's enjoyable about it and helps it be a unique experience. Really, most of its "sequels" are like that too, even something like Super Paper Mario works for me. Although I'd imagine Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga would be my second choice from that line before even the Paper Mario mainline.

There are lots of online games I wish I could play now with the players they once had. But time travel is havoc on pings too.
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Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2019, 07:35:06 PM: Also Batman: Arkham Asylum because it made me feel so much like Batman that I fake called in sick after playing it all night. :doge
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Post by: Human Snorenado on September 23, 2019, 07:48:49 PM: ICO. I want to experience that level of visceral hatred again.
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Post by: naff on September 23, 2019, 08:09:26 PM: re: 4 wii, super metroid or the metal gear games. entering shadow moses fresh again :preach
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: kingv on September 23, 2019, 09:50:51 PM: Quote from: Tuckers Law on September 23, 2019, 02:32:54 PM
If we’re talking playing it for the first time in today’s modern gaming landscape, probably Earthbound. It’s the “Odyssey of videogames” for me, storywise, with graphics that are still charming in their simplicity, and gameplay that remains mostly mechanically sound (inventory space limits :-\).

If we’re talking about being able to return back to the time of and experiencing a game for the first time again in that day’s landscape, there’s just so many but I think I’d settle on Doom. It was just so much more graphically ahead of the console stuff I was playing at the time, and a hell of a lot more my style of pc game compared to the slow-paced likes of Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry that had been in my pc gaming rotation.

Tie fighter was awesome as shit for its day too.

Really felt like I was flying Star Wars ships.

X-wing was close but I remember it having some bull shit missions that were almost like puzzles where you had to do things in a certain order to have a shot.
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: kingv on September 23, 2019, 09:53:29 PM: Quote from: Svejk on September 23, 2019, 05:08:59 PM
Either MGS1, Tenchu:SA or Saints Row 3rd.

I loved MGS1. Also didn’t own a PSX, so I beat it for the first time on a PC... playing with a keyboard only.

Also for those that said half life 2. Tuck. That game sucked in 2004 and continues to suck into 2019.
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2019, 10:07:23 PM: Quote from: kingv on September 23, 2019, 09:53:29 PM
Also for those that said half life 2. Tuck. That game sucked in 2004 and continues to suck into 2019.

shut up shut up shutupshupshutupshutupSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP
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Post by: EchoRin on September 23, 2019, 10:17:47 PM: People shitting on Half-Life 2 and ICO? Maybe I signed up for the wrong forum :stop
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: benjipwns on September 23, 2019, 10:35:56 PM: When I was younger I was mad on the internet once that Yurop got a translated and extended New Game+ for ICO. True story.
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Post by: nudemacusers on September 23, 2019, 10:38:09 PM: Quest for glory

Resident evil 4

Demon’s’ ‘soul’s’
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Post by: EightBitNate on September 23, 2019, 10:47:30 PM: Resident Evil 4 for sure

I look forward to RE4make more than the birth of my first child
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Post by: bluemax on September 24, 2019, 01:18:08 AM: Nier Automata
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Post by: BIONIC on September 24, 2019, 02:04:13 AM: ur mom
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Post by: shosta on September 24, 2019, 02:08:44 AM: Breath of the Wild.
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Post by: Raist on September 24, 2019, 02:28:16 AM: FFVII
Secret of Mana
Silent Hill 2
Demon's Souls
Bloodborne
MGS 2

Yeah that's right, that's more than one game. Bite me.
Title: Re: If you could forget one game and replay it
Post by: kingv on September 24, 2019, 08:02:03 AM: Quote from: bluemax on September 24, 2019, 01:18:08 AM
Nier Automata

That’s a good choice. I didn’t know a lot about that game going in and it was a wild ride.
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Post by: paprikastaude on September 25, 2019, 09:43:12 PM: Virtue's Last Reward.
You can do whaaat with videogame narratives?? :neo :crazy

I'd want to repeat those surprises.