If you could experience one game for the first time again.

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

So, lets say a nice mad scientist generously offers to delete your memories of a game so you can experience it against for the first time. You could explore the land of Morrowind again, or Face off against the Covenant again with your trusty pistol in the original Halo.

So what game will you have the mad scientist icepick out of your brain and why? (Saying no to icepick lobotomy is not an option. The mad scientist is nice but not that nice)

 

[Zontar]

The first Jack and Daxter game. Game had a feeling to it that I haven't had since playing it the first time.

 

[OrijinalDreamin]

Easy: Mass Effect 3.

But why, Mr. Dream, would you subject yourself to that underwhelming garbage? Didn't that single game, with its years of hype and buildup, and consequently its massive let-down of an ending, single-handedly ruin the ME franchise, and Bioware as a company for you? Well, yes, my pleonastic, pretend pal, it did: however, I have a plan!

You see, I would replay the game when I would be old and senile and near the end of my life. Unable to finish the game, my dying wish, would be for my grandchildren to play it for me, and tell me how it ended, and if it concluded in the majestic way the devs had promised. With tears in their eyes, unable to bring themselves to lie to me, they would tell me the Galactic Space Opera had finished with the grandiosity promised since its inception. And I would die, not with regret for having played that bullshit that was ME3, but deluded happiness, and the sense that the world was alright in the end.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Easy: Mass Effect 3.

But why, Mr. Dream, would you subject yourself to that underwhelming garbage? Didn't that single game, with its years of hype and buildup, and consequently its massive let-down of an ending, single-handedly ruin the ME franchise, and Bioware as a company for you? Well, yes, my pleonastic, pretend pal, it did: however, I have a plan!

You see, I would replay the game when I would be old and senile and near the end of my life. Unable to finish the game, my dying wish, would be for my grandchildren to play it for me, and tell me how it ended, and if it concluded in the majestic way the devs had promised. With tears in their eyes, unable to bring themselves to lie to me, they would tell me the Galactic Space Opera had finished with the grandiosity promised since its inception. And I would die, not with regret for having played that bullshit that was ME3, but deluded happiness, and the sense that the world was alright in the end.

Maybe you could write yourself a note telling you to let Marauder Shields kill you. He was out to save us from the ending.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Sly Cooper.

I would love to be able to play that game again for the first time. I love that series, and playing it again for the first time would rock my socks. The characters were great, the platforming was fun, and I really enjoyed the world and the music.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I couldn't choose just one. Every game that you play is an experience that is used to judge every other game. So if I were to forget Mass Effect 2 it wouldn't mean anything because of all the games that came after it. I'd have to forget every game I played after ME2 as well. Otherwise it wouldn't be as great as I remember it being at the time.

 

[Silvanus]

Quite possibly Banjo Kazooie (or Tooie). The sheer colourful fun of those games.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I couldn't choose just one. Every game that you play is an experience that is used to judge every other game. So if I were to forget Mass Effect 2 it wouldn't mean anything because of all the games that came after it. I'd have to forget every game I played after ME2 as well. Otherwise it wouldn't be as great as I remember it being at the time.

I was thinking of specifying something about this issue, but I found my post getting off point and rambly so I didn't mention it. But yeah, If it helps just imagine playing it in the context of when ut came out.

 

[Diablo1099_v1legacy]

Sly Cooper.

I would love to be able to play that game again for the first time. I love that series, and playing it again for the first time would rock my socks. The characters were great, the platforming was fun, and I really enjoyed the world and the music.

Same, But some of the levels in the first game were total BS, like those Driving ones and the Ms. Ruby boss fight q-q

Still, that was one of my favorite series, I was going to get Thieves in Time but I heard about the plot and I kinda had some issues with it.
Namely how Bentley's GF got retcon'd to be evil -_-"

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Either Silent Hill 2 or Shadow of the Colossus or Okami.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Sly Cooper.

I would love to be able to play that game again for the first time. I love that series, and playing it again for the first time would rock my socks. The characters were great, the platforming was fun, and I really enjoyed the world and the music.

Same, But some of the levels in the first game were total BS, like those Driving ones and the Ms. Ruby boss fight q-q

Still, that was one of my favorite series, I was going to get Thieves in Time but I heard about the plot and I kinda had some issues with it.
Namely how Bentley's GF got retcon'd to be evil -_-"

I'd like to keep wearing my nostalgia goggles about how wonderful that game is and how nothing is wrong with it, thank you.

But yeah, there are some parts that are bullshit, but I'm willing to overlook some real shitty plot and gameplay elements to be able to experience the game again.

 

[FPLOON]

I was going to say the first Kingdom Hearts game, but instead, I'll say the first Metroid Prime game... It still wouldn't be my first first-person-based game, but it would probably end up as the more enjoyable to experience for the first time...

Other than that, if I did experience Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the GBA for the first time again, I probably would think the Re:Chain version's better... and I don't want that...

 

[EyeReaper]

Ehh, probably either Danganronpa, or maybe one of the Ace Attorney games (or, to be real cheatyface, I could say the Ace Attorney trilogy game)

Pretty much any genre has more replayability than the Mystery games. Nothing can really replicate that amazing Eureka moment putting all the evidence together to uncover the evil mastermind.

 

[Fox12]

Silent Hill 2 is a tempting choice, but that game made me shit myself on more then one occasion, and I feel like it gets better on replays.

FF7 would probably be my choice. I don't think I've ever played a game that made me feel that way before. Plus that moment would come as more of a surprise. My god, that game, there's nothing like it.

 

[RJ 17]

Snip.

Wow...

Snap.

Three years later and people still haven't moved on. The ending was fine. It wasn't god's gift to gaming, but it didn't give you cancer either. Isn't it about time to let go and find a new game to bear your ire? With all the utter crap that's come out since then, surely there must be a more recent game to burn in effigy? Look at it this way: you never have to play ME3 again if you don't want to...but you've still got untold amounts of disappointment to look forward to in the future. =D

OT: I'll go with Portal. Given that it's a puzzle game, there's really no point in playing it once you've already solved everything. So it'd be fun to get to play it again for the first time without knowing all the solutions.

 

[ctSasquatch]

I'd have to go with Telltale's The Walking Dead Season One. About this time last year, I played one episode per night over the course of a work-week, and I spent each day wondering where the story was heading while I went about my job. Five minutes after meeting Clem, I knew I would do anything to keep her safe. Anything. By the end, I was left speechless.

In games like TWDs1, The Last of Us, Bioshock 2, etc. in which the main character takes on a "papa wolf" protector role with a daughter-like figure, I get emotionally invested very easily.
Some parts of the game hit me right in the feels, for lack of a better phrase. Being able to play through again on a completely blank slate, with zero foreknowledge, would be a great time, I think.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Knights of the old republic. I want to experience the Darth Revan plot twist once again

 

[Fijiman]

I would probably go with either Oblivion or Fallout 3. Aside from multiplayer games these are two of the games I've sunk the most time into and have some of the most fond memories of. Hell, it's been years since the last time I played Fallout 3 and I'd probably still be able to find my way around fairly easliy.