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Okay. If you could play any videogame again for the first time, what would it be?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Outer Wilds. A lot of games have a high level of replayability, but your first playthrough of Outer Wilds is something you never get back.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Really didn't think they could keep that same sense of mystery and wonder with the DLC, but they absolutely smashed it. And yes, this was also my immediate thought in answer to the question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That’s one of those that I really gotta finish. I just wish the mouse and keyboard controls were a little better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My buddy gifted me this game so he could experience my first playthrough as well.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the answer, and for anyone who hasn't played Outer Wilds it's still their answer and they just don't know it yet.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mass Effect 1.
The first encounter with the Reapers, with Sovereign, is such an incredible moment. These horrifying, unkillable deities that can't be reasoned with or stopped that just want to destroy was so intimidating on the first playthrough.
The reveal about the mass relays and how they guided tech advancement was incredible too.

You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. The story and presentation are so sublime. ME universe is was designed so comprehensively and coherently it left me awestruck on many times throughout the first playthrough.

And the sequel is just a cherry on top, drawing from the now-estabilished world, themes, interstellar politics, all to build one absolutely epic finale. No other game managed to engage me so much.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Im with you uo was magical

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh god I loved that game. As an MMO, it had to learn so many hard lessons since it was so new and different

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Portal.

I'll never forget the day I started playing this game. It was so cool and so different from anything else I had played that I couldn't stop playing, and finished the game in one session. Awesome night!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Mass Effect Trilogy, no hesitation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Best answer

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Half-Life, hands down.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Horizon Zero Down. My favorite game ever.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Definitely fallout New Vegas, just amazing game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to say 3: Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil and Subnautica.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

FFVII and Resident Evil! Nice picks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The Last of Us 1 & 2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Probably Deus Ex.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oblivion. As much shit as it gets, I think it's still the best Elder Scrolls game to date, with Morrowind as a close second.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Subnautica, easiest answer for me!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Easy, the game that started it all for me - Zork.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The first (and best) BioShock. I have no idea how I got away with so many years of not knowing the story or nothing being spoiled, but man, playing that for the first time was an absolute trip, especially that part.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

BioShock was such a wild experience above and beyond simply being a good game.

I went in absolutely blind, after seeing an ad and just liking the aesthetic and wanting to shoot stuff - not expecting any of the philosophical content or storytelling of that quality, and it was one of those games that I finished and then just like ... sat there ... for an hour to process the ride I'd been on.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Bioshock, more importantly, that scene

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Super Mario Bros. 3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chrono Trigger.

I get to run through all 13 endings again? Experience all those plot twists and storylines? Yes. Please.

That first playthrough on New Game + was magical.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bioshock and Silent Hill 2

Edit: also a very old and very obscure PC game called AMBER: Journeys Beyond. Basically, you had to go check on your collegue and do some ghost hunting and puzzle solving to save her

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

#BreathOfTheWild & #TearsOfTheKingdom

For #ToTK, I should not have even looked at the gameplay footage. I want to erase everything from my mind and rediscover everything!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Factorio. I had so much fun figuring out all the stuff it throws at you and making a mess of spaghetti beacuse you couldn't predict what was next to sort things out.

Would have loved to play some of the early 360 games online including Halo back in there prime. I just didn't have good enough internet for it to be playable back then.

Oblivion. Probably sunk 1000 hours sucking every last drop of dopamine out of that game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Celeste, because dang are those platforming controls so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Factorio. I had actually become aware of how fun building games could be through Prison Architect a couple years prior. But Factorio took it to a whole other level. Extraordinary freedom and near limitless things to do -- it's distilled, weaponized, dangerously addictive fun for people who have engineering brains

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I just mentioned this the other day to someone, so the first one which comes to mind is Zero Escape: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm stuck between three picks.

Morrowind, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, and Kingdom Hearts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Star Fox 64

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Red Dead Redemption. When the music starts picking up as you enter Mexico for the first time it was beautiful and something I had never experienced in a video game before.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Halo 3 back in its heyday without question. The hours and hours spent grinding ranks in playlists and playing custom games is some of the best times I’ve ever had in gaming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many, but I think I would take Morrowind, it was magical as a kid.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Witcher 3. Still love it after multiple playthroughs, but miss the feeling of exploratory wonder when I didn't have the map memorized.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Metal Gear Solid!

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Other than RDR for its story, probably Minecraft with mods. So many thousands of hours with my friend...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

RDR2. Still the only game I ever took a day off for on launch day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dark Soul 1, especially finding new shortcuts and new hidden things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Okami hands down. This is the only game that I've bought for multiple consoles. The art style and solid game play age beautifully and the game is still as much fun today as it was when it first came out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Knights of the Old Republic

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