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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.
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 ;DSubnautica
An updated version of Clive Barkers Undying
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.
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
For Sim Copter, my favorite was making a city in Sim City, then there was a way to place a military jet that would become a military chopper (usable missiles and all) in Sim Copter. I think either the first or last tile placed of this would become a military chopper.
I also remember practicing landing a helicopter if the fuel ever ran out (pitch forward, then pitch back at the right time to force the rotors to spin up and slow your descent just right to be able to land softly).
Then there was always driving around your own city and just destroying everything in Streets of Sim City.
I didn’t, I did hear about them. I didn’t have much access. I think the next one I ended up playing was sim city.
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.
RPG with an eclectic, humourous storyline.
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
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.
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.
Any decision-driven game needs to be replayed at least once exploring other choices. After doing a playthrough as Harry, I had to do one as Raphael.
Depends on your needs, really.
I guess needs don’t really factor into my video game consumption. But I do like exploring the range of content available, and you can’t really do that if you ignore the unexplored decision branches.
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.
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.
RuneScape, but it also needs to be 2005.
Im doing this now. Playing on vidyascape and going through all the quests :)
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.
Game jam mods add new content
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)
Firewatch.
I replayed it recently after first playing it around 2019 and found it just as enjoyable as the first playthrough.
Tap for spoiler
Since you now know the big mystery has a pretty mundane explanation, you’ll pay more attention to all the small details the devs put in. There was a lot of minor things I don’t remember noticing the first time around.
