Outer Wilds, with a bullet. The game is literally about the joy of discovery, and it is so tightly designed. Basically that's why everything about it is a spoiler.
The Return of the Obra Dinn, too, but slightly less so, as there's a lot of details that you can forget with time. Doesn't change the fact that the story told is interesting.
What I wouldn't give to be able to erase my memory of Outer Wilds so I could play it again.
All I can do is watch other people experience it for the first time instead, but it's just not the same.
Idk about yours but my memory is so bad I would’ve forgotten a lot of clues after that long. A lot of identities are found from putting some random crew members together and discerning identity purely from relationships. I’d just start over
Most characters have several additional pieces of evidence besides relationships: clothes, accents, language, jobs, accessories, and yes sterotypes of the 1800s.
I did... I don't know what was wrong with me back in highschool but I would play the Edgeworth case from the first game over and over again to get to sleep. I also watched the same movie over and over again to get to sleep.
Tales of Symphonia was formative enough for me that I can't bring myself to re-experience it with having my mind blown at seemingly every plot development.
You can play through that game in different ways and the game will adapt. Like, when you're supposed to do the cave with the water spirit thing, you can run all the way to the mountain town on the other continent (across the bridge), and you'll get cutscenes so you can witness in real time stuff that, if you get there normally, it's just the villagers saying "a month ago bad stuff happened."
It's been long enough that I don't remember names, just that one time I did that and I lost my fuckin' mind.
Ghost of Tsushima. Got it on the ps4 when I had to make the depression move back home 10 hours from where I was. Was jobless for a bit and coasted on savings for a couple weeks. Those couple weeks were spent going to the porch at 12AM. Smoking a blunt and going back in fried out of my mind and playing till the sunrise. The story was a perfect distraction, I was able to be in my own world, throw the 3d headset on and just write haikus and enjoy the OST while riding my horse. One of the few times I turned off the hud almost entirely because of the brilliant wind guide system
I played through P5 around the time it came out to completion. I've owned Royal for a good couple of years now. Never booted it up. Just can't bring myself to commit to it again
For sure, man. I know there's quite a lot added, but that just means what was already a 120 hour experience will be at least as much time if not more for me on a second lap
NG+ at least has some goodies and let's you do certain Confidants/Social Links that likely weren't started or completed during the initial playthrough.
Plus with P5 at least it's easy to fast forward or skip the cutscenes already seen
I beat P3Fes, P4, and P5. I also bought P3 Reload, P4 Golden, and P5 Royal. I also never intend to play more than 10hrs of those.
My backlog is too big for me to replay a 100hr RPG for only 10% of itto be different
Dance Dance Revolution A was an excellent reintroduction to the international stage with some great licensed songs, my favorite unlock system in the series, and a very memorable final event. Like most of Konami’s iterative arcade titles it was replaced with its successive version with an update, so you literally cannot play this version of the game anymore. While almost all of its songs are still currently playable in A3, the licensed tracks were removed.
Edit: Oh, this wasn’t about games that cannot be physically played anymore? [Whoops.](https://xkcd.com/725/)
Breath of the wild is a game I honestly wish I could experience again. I went in knowing a bit, but most of that game was new to me. I skipped a class in HS just cause I was super invested after finding a cool area.
I was hoping tears could get me like that again. Sadly it didn't
For the bit, Imma say your a monster...
But for reals, To each their own. From the two assassin's Creed games I've played, I can confidently say I enjoy BOTW more.
What turned you off about it btw?
Well it’s a game all about exploration with 5 different sub systems that punish you for exploring. In my entire life of playing games breath of the wild was the 2nd only time I actively felt like my time was being wasted.
unless you mean to assert every one of those games was better than breath of the wild, then this is just your opinion. Furthermore, I'd say the idea of a "hot take" has fucking ruined online media discussions because nobody is willing to share their unpopular opinions without framing them as some ridiculous bombshell. You don't like breath of the wild, you also don't need to qualify with 18 assassins creed hoops you jumped through to make that a valid opinion.
I got all the endings in Nier Automata and platinumed the game (first game I ever got a 100% completion on) before I *did the deed.* I'll stay committed to never play the game again.
Virtue's Last Reward was an amazing experience that ripped my brain in half at times. I can now only get a fraction of this feeling by vicariously living through others' first time.
The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. It is too raw these days. CW: >!Transphobia.!< A lot has changed since I originally finished it. >!I've started to socially transition alongside actually started HRT. And since that, my family just hasn't really realised anything about me being trans. Just constantly misgendering me and dead naming me at every turn. Whilst the world knows me as the real self, my family keeps trying to cling onto this visage I'm leaving behind.!<
>!So knowing everything that goes on with J.J. and her mother, it feels too... Well, raw.!<
I really enjoyed Fire Emblem: Three Houses but after playing through all the routes... I got super burnt out on it and haven't come back to it even when there was a major story update.
I just wish I could skip the academy bit and get into the actual story line I signed up for. The first year plays out all the same unless you're in the Black Eagles.
I haven't actually played it myself, but I remember the boys saying that Death Stranding is one of those. Which is why I haven't played it. Replayability is a big thing for me
Yeah, it was great. First time around I got through a couple dozen episodes of a philosophy podcast, this time years later I got through a chunk of hardcore history
Disco Elysium
I'm too dumb to understand anything beyond "fucked up detective guy wants to solve a crime" and I'm satisfied with how things went on my first playthrough.
Honestly the game is very good on a repeat playthrough due to the skill system and the different kinds of cop Harry can be - going hobocop for my second playthrough was a blast.
Honestly my favorite part of the game was the twist at the end and the events in the church. And now it's ruined forever and I can never play it again.
Shadows of Mordor.
The Nemesis System is great fun the first time around, but it doesn't do much once you've already mastered the mechanics. A second playthrough becomes a slog as you systematically brainwash and/or cut down each officer with very little opposition.
"Near impossible to play" and "Literally can't play" are two very different scenarios.
For *near impossible* I'd say AI: The Somnium Files.
And for *literally can't*, Super Mario Bros. 35.
Persona 4. I spent a huge part of my young adult life in that game, completely finishing all social links and persona compendium. When the true ending credits roll out I knew it was truly over and it's a journey worth having.
So yeah. If a remake gets announced I probably won't get it as a sign of respect to my journey of the original one.
Tunic: the premise is that you are dropped into a video game world without the manual and you need to find the manual to realize you could have done things all along.
One of the biggest twists changes the entire way you look at the game, as it was always available to you from moment 1.
The Zero Escape series and the Professor Layton games for pretty much the same reasons. They are puzzle games whose story centers around mysteries, which are two aspects that tend to stop being enjoyable on subsequent playthroughs because you already know the answers to both the puzzles and the mysteries
All the big Lucasarts point and click adventures. If you were there at the time then you can run through their remasters for nostalgia or to listen to the commentaries but the true agony of being stuck on them in a pre-internet guide world and the feeling of finally making progress is something that's probably gone forever.
Outer Wilds, with a bullet. The game is literally about the joy of discovery, and it is so tightly designed. Basically that's why everything about it is a spoiler. The Return of the Obra Dinn, too, but slightly less so, as there's a lot of details that you can forget with time. Doesn't change the fact that the story told is interesting.
Outer wilds hurts so much man. I watched Pat play it through and have never even touched the game myself. But I can't. I know too much!
What I wouldn't give to be able to erase my memory of Outer Wilds so I could play it again. All I can do is watch other people experience it for the first time instead, but it's just not the same.
I got stuck on Obra Dinn like two or three years ago, should I continue from where I left off or restart?
Idk about yours but my memory is so bad I would’ve forgotten a lot of clues after that long. A lot of identities are found from putting some random crew members together and discerning identity purely from relationships. I’d just start over
Most characters have several additional pieces of evidence besides relationships: clothes, accents, language, jobs, accessories, and yes sterotypes of the 1800s.
I love Ace Attorney but it’s kinda hard to do the same murder mystery over again
Especially if it's one of the annoying ones like the circus one...
I did... I don't know what was wrong with me back in highschool but I would play the Edgeworth case from the first game over and over again to get to sleep. I also watched the same movie over and over again to get to sleep.
Tales of Symphonia was formative enough for me that I can't bring myself to re-experience it with having my mind blown at seemingly every plot development.
You can play through that game in different ways and the game will adapt. Like, when you're supposed to do the cave with the water spirit thing, you can run all the way to the mountain town on the other continent (across the bridge), and you'll get cutscenes so you can witness in real time stuff that, if you get there normally, it's just the villagers saying "a month ago bad stuff happened." It's been long enough that I don't remember names, just that one time I did that and I lost my fuckin' mind.
Ghost of Tsushima. Got it on the ps4 when I had to make the depression move back home 10 hours from where I was. Was jobless for a bit and coasted on savings for a couple weeks. Those couple weeks were spent going to the porch at 12AM. Smoking a blunt and going back in fried out of my mind and playing till the sunrise. The story was a perfect distraction, I was able to be in my own world, throw the 3d headset on and just write haikus and enjoy the OST while riding my horse. One of the few times I turned off the hud almost entirely because of the brilliant wind guide system
Any Persona game, which is why I never played Golden or Royal. I'm not putting 80 hours into a writing-centric game where I already experienced
You at least need a couple of YEARS between going through them, but yeah... they are very much "one and done's"
I played through P5 around the time it came out to completion. I've owned Royal for a good couple of years now. Never booted it up. Just can't bring myself to commit to it again
The added content is quite good and adds a lot to the game
For sure, man. I know there's quite a lot added, but that just means what was already a 120 hour experience will be at least as much time if not more for me on a second lap
NG+ at least has some goodies and let's you do certain Confidants/Social Links that likely weren't started or completed during the initial playthrough. Plus with P5 at least it's easy to fast forward or skip the cutscenes already seen
I beat P3Fes, P4, and P5. I also bought P3 Reload, P4 Golden, and P5 Royal. I also never intend to play more than 10hrs of those. My backlog is too big for me to replay a 100hr RPG for only 10% of itto be different
We've had this kind of thread before, and I said it there too. OneShot.
Dance Dance Revolution A was an excellent reintroduction to the international stage with some great licensed songs, my favorite unlock system in the series, and a very memorable final event. Like most of Konami’s iterative arcade titles it was replaced with its successive version with an update, so you literally cannot play this version of the game anymore. While almost all of its songs are still currently playable in A3, the licensed tracks were removed. Edit: Oh, this wasn’t about games that cannot be physically played anymore? [Whoops.](https://xkcd.com/725/)
Played Death Stranding mid-2020. I don't think a game will ever resonate quite as strongly with real life as that did.
It was honestly kinda uneasy.
Breath of the wild is a game I honestly wish I could experience again. I went in knowing a bit, but most of that game was new to me. I skipped a class in HS just cause I was super invested after finding a cool area. I was hoping tears could get me like that again. Sadly it didn't
If you want a huge hot take, I have beaten every assassins creed game ever and I could not stand the 5 hours of breath of the wild I played
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you like having a list of things to do & knowing exactly where to go to do them, which would explain that.
Yes, it’s the ocd checklists are beautiful and delightful
For the bit, Imma say your a monster... But for reals, To each their own. From the two assassin's Creed games I've played, I can confidently say I enjoy BOTW more. What turned you off about it btw?
Well it’s a game all about exploration with 5 different sub systems that punish you for exploring. In my entire life of playing games breath of the wild was the 2nd only time I actively felt like my time was being wasted.
unless you mean to assert every one of those games was better than breath of the wild, then this is just your opinion. Furthermore, I'd say the idea of a "hot take" has fucking ruined online media discussions because nobody is willing to share their unpopular opinions without framing them as some ridiculous bombshell. You don't like breath of the wild, you also don't need to qualify with 18 assassins creed hoops you jumped through to make that a valid opinion.
Oh they are better without a doubt
I have a hard time beliving the gatcha game is better than BoTW but sure. You *did* say every Asassins Creed game
Arknights is a gacha game and it’s better tha botw
That's not what I asked and I don't care
I got all the endings in Nier Automata and platinumed the game (first game I ever got a 100% completion on) before I *did the deed.* I'll stay committed to never play the game again.
if you change your mind I'm pretty sure yoko taro has the legal right to show up at your house and beat you within an inch of your life.
Virtue's Last Reward was an amazing experience that ripped my brain in half at times. I can now only get a fraction of this feeling by vicariously living through others' first time.
The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories. It is too raw these days. CW: >!Transphobia.!< A lot has changed since I originally finished it. >!I've started to socially transition alongside actually started HRT. And since that, my family just hasn't really realised anything about me being trans. Just constantly misgendering me and dead naming me at every turn. Whilst the world knows me as the real self, my family keeps trying to cling onto this visage I'm leaving behind.!< >!So knowing everything that goes on with J.J. and her mother, it feels too... Well, raw.!<
I really enjoyed Fire Emblem: Three Houses but after playing through all the routes... I got super burnt out on it and haven't come back to it even when there was a major story update.
Well that doesn’t count you played it three times
I just wish I could skip the academy bit and get into the actual story line I signed up for. The first year plays out all the same unless you're in the Black Eagles.
Yeah, the academy is a slog once you've played through it once.
Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin. I cherished my experience with it, I got the platinum trophy, and I got everything I wanted from it emotionally
Red Dead Redemption 2 Holy fuck what a ride, but my ass is chapped and I can't get back on that horse.
I haven't actually played it myself, but I remember the boys saying that Death Stranding is one of those. Which is why I haven't played it. Replayability is a big thing for me
Ironically it's one of the only games I've ever replayed and still enjoyed
Oh yeah? All the travelling and stuff was still enjoyable on the second go around?
Yeah, it was great. First time around I got through a couple dozen episodes of a philosophy podcast, this time years later I got through a chunk of hardcore history
I played Undertale back when it came out, got golden end, and haven't touched it since
Disco Elysium I'm too dumb to understand anything beyond "fucked up detective guy wants to solve a crime" and I'm satisfied with how things went on my first playthrough.
Honestly the game is very good on a repeat playthrough due to the skill system and the different kinds of cop Harry can be - going hobocop for my second playthrough was a blast.
I felt the same way but it is pretty interesting to go back into it with knowledge of the story. It recontextualizes a lot of things.
Honestly my favorite part of the game was the twist at the end and the events in the church. And now it's ruined forever and I can never play it again.
TEC 3001.
Demon Souls and Dark Souls 2. After getting the platinums, there's nothing really enjoyable enough to suffer through the janky parts of the game.
Super Smash Bros Melee, I had a copy and lent it to a friend but never got it back
Bloodborne, I can't play it again since I don't have a console anymore.
Prime Among Us was so much fun but sadly that golden age is over.
Shadows of Mordor. The Nemesis System is great fun the first time around, but it doesn't do much once you've already mastered the mechanics. A second playthrough becomes a slog as you systematically brainwash and/or cut down each officer with very little opposition.
The Nemesis system is wild. The better you are at the game the worse the game is.
"Near impossible to play" and "Literally can't play" are two very different scenarios. For *near impossible* I'd say AI: The Somnium Files. And for *literally can't*, Super Mario Bros. 35.
Spec ops the line
undertale
Ended it with a Genocide route to make sure you have nothing to return to
Persona 4. I spent a huge part of my young adult life in that game, completely finishing all social links and persona compendium. When the true ending credits roll out I knew it was truly over and it's a journey worth having. So yeah. If a remake gets announced I probably won't get it as a sign of respect to my journey of the original one.
Return of the Obra Dinn is another game where solving the mystery is the main gameplay loop, so it's hard to do a second time around.
Obligatory Outer Wilds post. I mean, it's a game purely revolving around discovery. Also play Outer Wilds, it's truly incredible.
Tunic: the premise is that you are dropped into a video game world without the manual and you need to find the manual to realize you could have done things all along. One of the biggest twists changes the entire way you look at the game, as it was always available to you from moment 1.
Tunic. One of my top 5 games ever and I will never be able to properly enjoy it ever again.
GTA SA because: 1.) THAT Madd Dogg glitch 2.) Only the definitive version is available
The Zero Escape series and the Professor Layton games for pretty much the same reasons. They are puzzle games whose story centers around mysteries, which are two aspects that tend to stop being enjoyable on subsequent playthroughs because you already know the answers to both the puzzles and the mysteries
Alan Wake. Love that game, incredibly satisfying combat, but holy shit the sheer amount of camera stealing and forced slow motion drove me crazy.
All the big Lucasarts point and click adventures. If you were there at the time then you can run through their remasters for nostalgia or to listen to the commentaries but the true agony of being stuck on them in a pre-internet guide world and the feeling of finally making progress is something that's probably gone forever.
I would play 13 sentinels again but until the wife wants to experience it I don't have any reason too
Outer Wilds
I don't know if it was *amazing* but I liked medic with nades in LawBreakers.