The screenshot is from Morrowind (Running in OpenMW)
Portal. I played the whole thing on the first sit down as soon as it downloaded, but the audio had glitched so I missed the voice over. Missed a huge part of the experience.
the audio had glitched so I missed the voice over
This was not a triumph.
That was my vote! There’s little to no replay value, but damn what a ride. Spent 2 or 3 weeks imagining portals IRL. “I could snatch the TV remote without moving if…”
“Now you’re thinking in Portals!” was the most accurate tagline I’ve ever experienced.
The correct answer to this question is always Outer Wilds.
It’s a game that can be beaten in five minutes if you already know the solution. But the process of discovering that solution, and unearthing the incredible story around it, is one of the most unbelievable gaming experiences you will ever have.
It’s an absolute masterpiece and if you haven’t played it yet, you really, really need to.
Day of the Tentacle
‘Stanley examined the question carefully, he knew the answer he gave would be important’
Maybe the Stanley parable or the Beginners guide, but I’m not sure what undoing there effect on me would be.
OUTER WILDS! If you’ve played it, you know why. (If you haven’t, do not ask. Play it.)
I’ve tried to play this game twice. I get confused and have no idea what to do or where to go or what to do when I get there. Spent about 12 hours playing and just feel lost. And everytime I bring it up. People reccomend I just keep playing. And yet I’m still lost haha
That’s surprising that you feel so lost. Did you perhaps miss the journal / discovery board in the back of your ship? Basically just need to look at that and try to flesh out any of the plot threads you see on there. Whenever one isn’t progressing, take a break and try a totally different direction or just wander wherever you can for a cycle or two and you’ll have stumbled on to some new leads probably.
Its pretty intentional that most players hit a stall around the middle because you have to start challenging things you THINK you know but haven’t actually proven to be certain yet.
Discovery board?
Well. That makes things make a little more sense I had no idea about it. I just thought it was various ways to experience a death loop over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
I just looked it up and it’s actually called the Rumor Map apparently. It’s pretty important to organize all the things you find in a loop and check yourself to see if there is more to uncover on some plot point.
If you get in your ship it’s opposite the pilot seat. I’m sure it was pretty maddening to not have that tool and hear people say such high praise about the game lol.
If you haven’t been spoiled on it, you might find the game a lot more enjoyable giving it another shot some day!
It hasn’t been spoiled, no. Thank you!
I felt the same way. I had a hard time with it because you don’t really know what you’re supposed to be doing. I ended up getting frustrated with it and looked up how to finish it.
After I finished it, I regretted looking it up. It really is a masterpiece but it takes a certain type of person to be able to get through it. I couldn’t get through it myself, but my partner and I have fun playing these types of games together.
We’re currently enjoying working through the dlc now.
I guess I’ll say I get it if you want to quit or just look up the solution, but I promise it’s worth it if you make it through
It would be like the one upside of a TBI.
But really, due where I was in life when I played it and how much it helped me process things, I’m not sure I would give up the experience I already had.
Outer Wilds. I never beat it, but I played through a lot of it. I went in completely blind, not knowing what it was, and my mind was blown away.
I wish I could experience all of it brand new whenever I go back to finish it up.
Yeah. If there’s one answer to the question of what game can you only play for the first time once, is Outer Wilds.
Its comments like this that made me finally go and purchase The Outer Worlds a few months ago. Going in blind and within 10 minutes I’m thinking, what is this bullshit?!?! I have yet to try the right game yet but that always makes me laugh.
Outer Worlds is a good game too, but doesn’t hold a candle to Wilds
Red Dead 2
Inscryption. I thought it was a poor man’s Slay The Spire using janky escape-room mechanics as a cheap, nifty gimmick to lend it some value.
It appeared on Game Pass, and upon trying it I sneered a little at it, as Spire and Monster Train were my only experiences with deckbuilders and I had been spoiled. I had no idea how good it really was. Gameplay mechanics it can’t match up, but it contains a story thats shot straight into my top 10 of all time.
It shares an exclusive room in my memory alongside Bioshock, Deus Ex, KOTOR and the like.
Unfortunately it can’t take me by surprise twice. The shock, suspense and mystery have been depleted and I cant feel it again. Ive been told the dev has more games that are all gold like that, but I cant look them up. I went into Doki Doki knowing that something happens and youll just have to find out and its spoilers and iykyk etc, and when it did it it just felt kinda neat but thoroughly underwhelming. I just need to hope that I stumble onto one of the devs other projects like a beautiful landmine in the future.
What a fantastic game. I played it for 20 hours straight when I first got it. Absolutely magnificent.
Im almost not sure if I want that. Most of the games I would do that for are older games from like 25 years ago, and I honestly can’t see playing them today and ever having those fond moments like I did then. In my case, the time of playing them also mattered a lot.
Most of the games I would do that for are older games from like 25 years ago, and I honestly can’t see playing them today
I’ll take the opposite side of that
I bought an old Radio Shack Color Computer off EBay and had a total blast playing Dungeons of Daggorath with my kids. Plus, it’s educational: it teaches you to type “A L <enter>” really really fast
Same, of course the memory of the time you played is also important. I was more asking hypothetically since this is not possible, as a game you’d love to experience again, maybe at that time also. Like go back and play it back then.
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Either that, or Fallout: New Vegas
Project wingman. I was expecting a silly arcade flight sim with a passable plot. I did not expect the emotions. Soundtrack is peak. Also hella immersive in vr.
Edit: I realized the comm after I posted. In that case I’d probably go with fallout 3. Just wandering around uncovering secrets with no guides was great. Plus being able to experience liberty prime football tossing nukes while spouting jingoistic one liners as if it was the first time would be amazing.
Monkey island, Myst, Riven and Heavy rain.
SHAUN… SHAUN SHAUN… SHAUN
It took me about five nights to get through Heavy Rain, and every night I went to bed feeling like I’d been punched repeatedly in the gut.
Fantastic game that I consider one of my all-time favorites… and I’d NEVER want to go through that again.
You fight like a dairy farmer!
How fitting, you fight like a cow!
(Swords clang)
Every enemy I’ve met, I’ve annihilated!
Nier: Automata. God, if I could feel that pain again… what a fucking game.
Even just the goddamn soundtrack.
The entire game is flawless.
The soundtrack quickly became one of my favorites. It’s on rotation with Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenogears, Expedition 33, and Hades.
It's still my favorite game. The ending hit me so hard; had me messed up for a while. I just started Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 in hopes of having a game hit me as hard as Nier: Automata did. spoiler :::
My main gripe is that replaying the story as 9s can get pretty slow, and the combat isn’t nearly as enjoyable.
Disco Elysium for sure
Transformative narrative experience…
Shadow of the Colossus
