482

If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be? (i.ytimg.com)

submitted 1 year ago by davetansley@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

357 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)

If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don't think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.

For me, it's Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.

Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark... it was a generational leap above anything I'd played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I'd love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.

(page 5) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Quake 3 Arena. Or more specifically OpenArena + baseq3 and other mods like ratmod. Most fun I have had playing a game ever.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That one you can ask enjoy even today regardless though. It's not the story that made it, is the gameplay

[-] CornishCreamTea@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Silent Hill 2

I've replayed that game so many times but the first playthrough hits different

[-] FrostKing@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That'd have to be Metroid: Zero Mission and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Two of some of the only games I actually 100%.

[-] Kaavi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wings for Amiga, flying in WW1 and a cool story between missions. Everything I know about ww1 air battles, I know from that game :)

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Might and Magic 3

F-19

Wow

Half-life

Dishonored

load more comments (7 replies)

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

FF6, FF9 and Links Awakening

[-] Wodge@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm gonna say Skies of Arcadia, just love that game, and it saddens me to this day that Sega have abandoned it.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] Floey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

For retro games my answer is probably Yoshi's Island. If you include modern games I'd likely go with Hollow Knight. If VNs count then Echo.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

The Binding of Isaac.

This is the eternal game of ever. It is balanced, fair, excellent feedback (time to win), super I'm depth unlocks, one of the best meta games. Take the time to learn the basics and this game is infinite.

[-] simple@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It is balanced, fair

Mmmm Delirium would disagree

[-] a_mac_and_con@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The end of the game blew my mind out of the water in a way no other twist has ever quite captured. It might have been the mental space I was in at the time too. Whatever the case, I will always remember the first time I played it.

I also wish I had played the first Golden Sun before the second, so if I could put a duology and that caveat in there? Definitely those two.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Star Control 2

[-] Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom. BOTW was my first Zelda game and I honestly loved it. I would sit for hours in the living room zoned in to the game with checklist paper and notebooks next to me to keep track of what I was doing. If I could do it again I'd instead use an interactive map like I did with TOTK.

As for TOTK, the Rito dungeon was my favorite and if I could experience that adrenaline pumping battle for the first time again, I would. Tulin is a baby and I love him.