such a dope game. we need more imsims in the industry, but since theye so damn hard to show with trailers and whatnot, they havent yet to breakthrough to the greater industry 🤧
The game I will put 10/10 with how much effort and details went into this game, most games have minor details like "sand gets wet when water hits them" and "Spidey tendril changes color wow" instead Prey 2017 went ahead and beyond with it's gameplay option and details that it's deep and wide as an ocean.
I did a full playthrough of DOS2 with a friend and he betrayed me at the very end. It was the greatest gaming moment of my life. I was forced to watch an undead archer, that i carried the whole game, ascend to my godhood. My buddy still remarks on how he is a higher being than me, and deserves 2 action points when voting on restaurants.
Fallout 3 for me. The moment we walk out of the Vault for the first time is still - after so many years - one of my best memories in all games I've played.
YES!!! I’ve stood by this game for as long as I can remember. It got me into RPGs & I’ve told people it’s my favorite game of all time. Had the pinup doll & nuka-cola posters. I think it was the universe that really just pulled me in and got me invested on top of the gameplay that really did it for me.
So true! After the fallout tv show, i replayed f1 and 2 after 20 plus years and although i remembered many things, it felt like i played them for the first time.
I totally had this thought too… I turned 50 this year and when I replayed a game recently, I feel like I had similar to the first time I played the game type feelings. I guess there are benefits to longevity other than not being dead.
@@jweare333 67 here. And, yes, at a certain point in my life I manage forget all kinds of details almost instantly. Over the last few years I replayed the entire AC franchise and the ME (almost done). Nice to know I can recycle my memories.
@@bigego503 Ha ha! Just yesterday I finished the last of the 3 Ezio games. The last one (Revelations) I thought I had fond memories of.... Yeah, right. The only 2 things I remembered was the one tower in Galata and the fact that the Bosporus was between the 2 parts of the city. Everything else, even the girl, was new to me. Steam even told me I already played it for 40 hours, precisely as much as many as I did this time, so I must have completed it then too.
Storywise I agree. Nothing comes close to PS: T and Disco Elysium. There are many genre defining games that were great for their time, but wouldn't hold up today. Having a great story/world usually does. Can't say I know how well PS: T would hold up today though. It's been over 20 years...
Yeah, I think I ruined both those games as replay options. Back when I played PS:T, I played it with a guide to get everything in one playthrough, and I played DE with a ton of intuition or whatever it's called when the city speaks to you, so there's not a lot of stuff left to discover.
There's a kind of annoying backlash against Bioshock that I think was caused by Infinite being a little bit simpler than the original, but that first Bioshock is still incredible.
I'm dumbfounded by how Prey didn't go absolutely viral. The setting, premise, and theme is great, the level design is fantastic, story is great, combat is fun. But all of those despite being good pales in comparison to the immersion of it. It's like a RE2 mansion escape room type "base exploration" game on steroids. It also has a lot of replay value. I've finished Prey like ... 5-6 times I think. And it's still a game where - if I haven't played it in 6-12 months and I'm out of games - I can enjoy the hell out of rerunning it still. I just don't understand how Prey didn't sell more or become more popular with the mainstream. I've had gaming as a hobby for over 30 years and it's up there with FO2, FF7, Morrowind, BG2+3, Rimworld, Skyrim, and all sorts of other heavy hitters.
@@notvknI just didn’t care for it, I beat it twice because I thought I missed something I just didn’t find it fun, I didn’t like the alien design, or the powers. For me it’s like a worse version of bioshock
I think Arkane only really managed to dupe the mainstream into playing an im sim with Dishonored 1 and that audience never returned once they figured out that it didn't play like Bioshock or whatever they thought that game was going to be like,
I loved pretty everything about it - even though I love the option in immersive sim games when I can play the whole game without using guns and getting into fights which Prey doesn't allow - but the story and the writing was only ok IMO.. the story was mostly interesting at the start and got more and more "boring" the more I played and I really didn't cared about any character in the game which is a big problem for me.. even when BioShock 1 and 2 are immersive sim-lite games, they have many really unique and interesting characters.. Prey tried to have some interesting ones but thanks to the writing, I didn't cared about a single one.. the System Shock games atleast have Shodan, Prey doesn't have even a character similiar to that one
It's cuz they called it "Prey" which confused a lot of gamers who mistook it as a reboot of the original "Prey" (2006). The game play/story/mechanics have NOTHING to do with the 2006 version; Arcane took an innovative and original story, with novel/original gameplay and scrapped that for a wannabe Bioshock that nobody asked for and slapped the name "Prey" on it as an afterthought. It's exactly the reason I didn't buy it. I have to imagine other consumers felt the same way.
Prey has got to be, hands down one of the most underrated games of its time. The story is great, the characters are interesting, the combat is fun & environments are interesting and in some cases creepy to explore. The game actively rewards exploration, has multiple ways of playing it. Will you use Neuromods, which corrupt you as you install more of the aliens powers? Will you remain pure with no special powers? Will be merciful or merciless with your interactions with survivors? The twist at the end was great too. This was a game I knew barely anything about & played about a year or two after its release because it was on sale. Picked it up and loved it.
I love you can find each and every one of the 249 Talos crew members (plus 18 volunteers and 1 other dude) hiding all over the station. Unfortunately, hiding didn't help them😵
@@SuperLocrian That is an insanely detailed feature and one that I don't think some players even knew existed. I also love the stupid D&D group backstory that is a reference to Arx Fatalis. BTW, that game is amazing too if anyone hasn't tried it.
"saying yes to the player" is what drived arkane studios and its exemplified with Prey 2017. The commercial Flop of Prey 2017 is one of the worst things to happen to modern gaming and it still haunts the industry, Prey embodied everything that games should strive for with its insane open ended game design, interactivity and the players ability to express themselves it is what separates gaming as medium compared to movies and books and that’s what arkane understood, sadly gamers and reviewers didnt and even though the main studio didn’t shut down most of the key developers left.
It was developed by Arkane Austin and was also the last game with both Colantonio and Capron at the head of the companies, I'm still not sure if I like less what came after due to some of teh folks who took charge (one is a very obnoxious and rude person) or simply due to the changes in style of the games they pushed out.
Reviews were actually pretty good at the time. Most of the lower scores you'll find are because at launch it was incredibly buggy. It all (or most) got fixed and so playing it now is nothing like at launch. It's easy to see it as a game that slowly built up a cult following but I got the impression at the time that reviewers were surprised that it didn't find much of an audience. In fact that still seems to be the prevailing viewpoint. For whatever reason it just didn't catch with a lot of players. Some of that will undoubtedly be because at the time it launched the game would just crap out and destroy your saves occasionally but that doesn't explain why it is still not as big as it should be. It's not so much a game that nobody understood at the time as a game that people who played a lot of games got quickly, especially reviewers, but that just didn't translate into a bigger player base.
25 years a gamer, 10 years competitive.. Just for reference that i dont talk out of my ass.. One of the worst games ive ever played.. Everything sucked balls. 0/10
I got 2 plus a wildcard. 1: Dark souls 1. This game came out when I was a sophomore in college. I never really participated in a gaming community prior to then, and I also enjoyed picking a side in the skyrim vs dark souls debate. 2: pillars of eternity 1 was my very crpg ever. I've been a long time tabletop rpg fan, but never even knew about the genre. So discovering it years after it's launch and realizing there were a ton of games in the genre to play was awesome. Very quickly became my favorite game genre and pillars 1 despite it's flaws will always have a special place in my heart. 3: my first campaign with my current pathfinder group. Just being an absolute novice having no idea how to build a character. Getting my first player death, and then doing actual research to make an absolute unit. I'll never have that experience again with pathfinder. But man was it something special. Wall of text crits for 9999
It’s really funny because we mix the context and time with the actual game when we played it through for the first time. All those things come together to create emotions that simply wouldn’t happen if we played them today for the first time with all of our other context being put into place… it makes it very hard to answer this question. That being said… Morrowind when it first came out was the first first-person perspective open world RPG I’d ever played. I remember simply exploring and adventuring without regard to any set story. My first 50 hours and first character of that game were an incredible time that I’d love to recreate. I actually got to the city of Balmora and accidentally talked to the guy that I had met on the ship in the beginning. He said something like… so glad you are here and that was the first time that I thought of the main plot. I tried to play with that character through the main plot, but it was too simple by that point. I started a new character. This model of playing games from Bethesda has continued to be the way I play them. I tend to play a character up to very high-level while engaging in very little of the story. I might do guild quests and such or lots of side quests and whatever else I come across. then I roll up a new character and play through the story. Every time I play their games I have the same experience. Don’t know of any other game developer where I have felt this way in their games.
I wish I could replay Soma for the first time. The existentialism and what it meant to be conscious and cloning/copying someones brain was such a mind fuck.
That's on my list! Played The Swapper not too long ago, that was suprisingly affecting for a small little game. I'm looking forward to The Alters to - potential to be... well, also a mind fuck👍
@@AEGISDEFENSE ive yet to play both of these, but will try to at some point! ive heard such great things about both titles! theyre are in my steam library for when i make time :) cheers
Yakuza 0 for me. Had no idea what I was getting into when I bought it on the Steam release, and it blew me away. I'm going to wait a few more years until I forget most things about it before replaying it. Wasteland 3 is a great pick, too. Had lots of fun playing through it one time but don't feel I would get enough out of a replay.
Red Dead 2 and The Witcher 3. I would give every cent to my name to erase my memories of those games so I can experience them for the first time again.
Oh, Disco Elysium is probably my number one. The tones & atmosphere & writing on that game are unmatched & it really resonated with my soul. I absolutely love that game. Makes me wanna cry just thinking about how it moved me. It truly is such a beautiful work of art that I feel everyone should experience it ❤
My game I would have to say has to be Everquest. When it first released, I kept saying that there is no way I was going to pay for a monthly subscription on a game. My wife of course was saying the same thing so that was a challenge to convince her to let me play it. I had a few friends telling me about it and eventually I started to play it and the experiences I had were great. My first character was a paladin and after a friend geared me up, I lost my body on a corpse run as I couldn't find it. I remember grouping at the zone lines just because how tough the monsters were to our level and experiencing the zones for the first time I will never forget especially seeing a wizard solo a hill giant in western commonlands while we hung around the zone line. Eventually, I gave up on playing the paladin and started playing the necromancer and that is where the fun really began. My favorite class in all mmos. If I were to start again, I would start off playing the necromancer and also would have just stayed with Everquest all these years and not even mess with WoW and the multiple others I tried.
Prey had one of the best twists, not because of the actual twist realization itself but because of all of the bread crumbs that led to it. I remember reading newspaper articles in the game that at first seemed to be a developer error, until it all clicked at the end.
There's this feeling I've always associated with being "in space" (even though I've never been) that Outer Wilds captures better than any Elite Dangerous or No Man's Sky has managed and it's the feeling of being really small and completely reliant on a small lifeline to stay alive. There are two giant spoilers that I wish I could experience again, because they both managed to get my stomach to drop like a real-life rollercoaster. One is obvious, the other is when you go from being in one place to being in a place VERY far from that place in the blink of an eye, ha ha.
It’s Bloodborne for me. I didn’t even know what Dark Souls was, let alone a “soulslike” game. I got Bloodborne because it was a brand new ps4 exclusive so I figured I’d give it a shot. Didn’t understand it, died countless times to Gascoigne and left it behind. Decided to start a new game and use the axe and all of a sudden a whole new world of gameplay, storytelling, and atmosphere opened up for me. Bloodborne remains my favorite game of all time, what a special game and moment in time I wish I could relive.
I’ve been gaming on a nearly daily basis for 40 years. I’ve played so many incredible games but without any doubt Elden Ring was the best gaming experience I’ve ever had. The timing was perfect so that I could play daylight to dusk uninterrupted every single day. Like you said, there were no guides yet so it was awesome coming together with the community to figure everything out. For me personally, it was perfect. I know that’s a forbidden word for some reason but I don’t care. Imo Elden Ring is a perfect game and I wish I could play it for the first time again.
Have you played Outer Wilds? Pretty much the quintessential “wish I could play it for the first time” game to me. Also a complete masterpiece Edit: the things you said about how you gain knowledge for prey and Elden ring are also VERY true for outer wilds
Wasteland 3 was so good. I am fond of it for more than one reason. It was the eve of Christmas that I went to my mother's home, and for whatever reason, found the cover of the Wang Chung song Everybody Have Fun Tonight, and decided to play it. And now she thinks it is the best version of that song there is.
The dreampop cover of Land of Confusion is not merely the only good cover of said song, but also possibly the best song ever to have been written. It's such a pity that only half of it was recorded.
Loved wasteland 3, ive played all the older fallout games but never played any wasteland and it the writing reminded me of fallout when it was good. Plus those 2 songs were epic.
@@elqord.1118 I never created additional team mates just used ingame companions(assuming that what you mean?) for their dialogue. Shame some don't appear till later like Pizepi Joren.
Finally got one of my colleagues at work to play Prey (2017) as it’s 100% the sort of game I knew he’d love. He completed it for the first time over this past weekend, and he has not stopped talking about it since. Absolutely excellent game.
It's probably Elden Ring for me too. What a magical feeling to play a From game without knowing what's around the corner. Also, best thing about these kinds of lists is finding the game you haven't played before and putting it on your own list. Look at you, Wasteland 3.
Props for consistently providing timestamps in these. It's like you do this for a living or something. Useful list of discussed-games, valuable at the beginning. And also promotes jumping, which is actually to a YTer's disadvantage but to a viewer's advantage.
If I could recapture the feeling of experiencing Morrowind at 12 years old, I would be truly elated… it felt so much larger than it does now, and I had some of the largest sensations of wonderment that I think I’ve ever known. My friend, who introduced me to the game, and I would talk about what we did the prior night at school each day for what felt like hours. Age definitely has a huge impact on open-ended prompts like these. Great video!
Gothic 1, Gothic 2 NOTR (including Archolos standalone mod), OG Deus Ex and Human Revolution, Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, Yakuza 0, Skyrim, Oblivion, Mafia 1, Mafia 2, Max Payne trilogy, GTA SA, GTA 4, RDR 2, WoW Classic (Vanilla, TBC and Wotlk), Mass Effect trilogy, every Half Life game ( Black Mesa too), Dishonored 1....
@@aleksandarsiljanovic1468 Props for mentioning Archolos. I'd go so far as to say it's even better than Gothic 1 & 2. Nice to see GTA 4 and STALKER mentioned as well. So few games with a world and atmosphere that comes close to those
@@DanielParezanovic They are going to revamp the whole magic system in the mod of the decade edition, lets just hope that they are going to release it in 2025
Disco Elysium and The Stanley Parable were both amazing first experiences for me because they actively subverted my need as a player to understand and master a game's system. The time I spent confused and the joy I got once I figured it out are hard to replicate.
Great video idea. Shadow of the Erdtree was as close as I've seen to getting the player back to the feeling of the original experience of the game. I would also add to the list World of Warcarft. The whole concept of an MMO was new then, but everything from the leveling to the raiding to the hanging out in virtual cities with other people was such an amazing experience the first time through.
Not really your usual style, but Outer Wilds is the king of this wishful feeling, and a game every single (not motion sickness suffering) person should play
Both Last of Us games left a dent in me. I’d love to experience that for the first time again. Batman Arkham Asylum was also incredible the first play through, enjoyed finishing that over on snowy weekend
Yes, finally someone mentioned Arkham. I took a break from gaming during college. I got my first job, bought a xbox 360 and played Arkham. It blew my mind and restarted my love for gaming.
Deus Ex 1 and Human Revolution, Dragon Age Origins, Witcher 3, The Longest Journey, Curse of Monkey Island...and that's just what came to mind without pondering too much!
Fallout 3, no question. This was the first game that my son and I both became obsessed with. Sitting there watching each other’s play throughs, the two of us up till 2am getting sidetracked with side quests. The opening title sequence still gives me the feels.
Discovering the shortcut to Liurnia, rocking almost every memory charm before RL20, finding the Wondrous Physick and the portal to the Bestial Sanctum, realizing the Banished Knights dropped all their drip...yeah.
I would love to play Morrowind again for the first time. The way that game just lets you loose right from the beginning to go out and do whatever you want was amazing. The land felt so alien. The flying jellyfish things, the giant mushrooms, silt striders, etc. What a fantastic time i had with my friend discovering what that game had to offer.
The first time I had the convo on the wagon....that Skyrim start was one of the fondest memories in gaming for me, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
The Outer Wilds is the one for me. The whole gimmick of the game is discovering a mystery. The journey is amazing, but unfortunately you can't go back.
1. Subnautica. Seeing my first reaper for the first time, exploring the deep dark waters with warnings of leviathans nearby. Too bad they didn't follow up their success with Below Zero. 2. To the moon. Maybe the best emotional game I have ever played. When a game cam get me to actually cry, that's something. Budget cuts. Best VR game ever. The pure terror of the last boss. That last boss could have been a horror game on its own. 4.Phasmaphobia. I have never enjoyed a horror game more. Now that I'm super experienced, I don't get startled the same way as it used too. 5. Witcher 3. Loved that game. The blood and wine DLC could have been a stand alone games. Massive and beautiful. 6. The last of us, part 1. I just loved that story. I do anything to forget that game and play it all over.
To the Moon! Wow. So you're the other guy who played it, ha ha. How can someone make a game about regret so amazingly triumphant and life-affirming? Who knows! No one will ever play it. Subnautica is disgustingly immersive. I play a lot of survival games, and it's one of the few that can balance wonder and fear so sublimely. It's the kind of good fear that drives you forward even when you KNOW it's not safe, because it's just that important that you see what's just a little deeper.
You just going off on a tangent are probably your most enjoyable videos! Certainly more enjoyable than reviews of a game I’d never heard of before and which I’m most likely not going to play anyway in my limited gaming time.
Elden Ring's first playthrough was just magical. It truly was magical. The beauty (and amazing verticality!) of the various landscapes, the enigmatic backstories and lore entries... I used to think that soulslikes were overrated, but after playing Elden Ring, I now understand why so many people hold this genre dear to their hearts.
Prey might be one of the most underrated games ever. I worked on it as LQA lead tester and have put thousands of hours in it. Mooncrash is an amazing DLC in its own right.
The Wasteland 3 prologue is incredible. The scene that you described along with the music that goes with it really sold the game for me as well. For me the one game above them all to play again would be Mass Effect 2 so I can relive the thrill of doing the Omega 4 relay jump for the first time again.
Thief: The Dark Project and Witcher 3 for sure! Thankfully in Thief's case there are 20+ years of amazing fan missions that surpass the high bar set by the first two games. Also, your list is a strong reminder that I really need to muster up the courage to finally play Darkwood lol. I tend to handle horror just fine but much of that game feels like pure nightmare fuel. I end up feeling so overwhelmed that I drop off. Probably the best compliment I can give the devs tbh I still need to play Divinity 2 as well. Have it and Divine Divinity in my GOG library but haven't gotten around to it
The first Division game, for the first couple of weeks was amazing. The only end game activity was a pvp enabled zone that allowed you to steal loot from other players. It was also the only way to obtain endgame loot.
Seeing "Games I Wish I Could Play Again For The First Time" and Prey 2016 as the thumbnail is why I subscribe to you Morty. God your taste in games is so good. Great video!
I used to travel a ton for work, as in, on a plane 2 times a day 4-5 days a week doing installs for a SV startup. I carried with me an OG GBA SP and 3DS XL and would cycle through all 6 castlevania games in order. Because my memory sucks by the time I would back it back to Circle of the Moon, I'd have forgotten all of the nuance and it would feel fresh again. Edit: I'll never understand HOW nintendo did it, but the GBA SP battery lasts for like, an entire week of heavy playtime.
If you want to replay Skyrim for the first time, you should give a modded Skyrim VR if you like VR. It's an incredible experience and it won't rush you because you'll actually walk through it instead of sprinting and jumping at full speed. Truly an incredible, and the best VR, experience
Prey is one of the most special gsmes ive ever played. Once I saw a dev comment on a video. Said you could stop the final corrupted operators from ever spawning by clogging the machines that make them. Thats crazy.
The original EverQuest at launch. Nothing else comes close nor can replicate that initial sense of wonder. There were no online guides. The game was unforgiving and really demanded that the community work together. It was a truly transformative gaming experience.
I would choose Deus Ex, World of Warcraft, Half Life, and Pool of Radiance. These four come to mind. There are others, but these games were revolutionary to me.
Totally understand. I was at a coffee shop, last week listening to old timers, like me, talk about Everquest and Ultima Online. I can't imagine going thru those again, for the first time. The internet was new. No online guides. Just discover, for yourself. A new and "magical" time for many.
Please, keep going on these interesting tangents. One of the games I wish I could forget about to play as if I had never done so before is Vagrant Story. It's a masterpiece that I wish gets its well-deserved remaked at some point.
You need to play enderal it’s a Skyrim total conversion mod, basically a whole new game. It’s plot is the best I’ve experienced in all of gaming. It’s definitely gonna feel like you’re re-experiencing Skyrim.
This is why i love remasters/remakes so much! (The actualy good ones) I'm 39, and i now tend to rathers watch old movies that i know i liked, rather than seeing new. The exeption is realy originals. Remakes of RE4, RE2, Silent hill 2, Last of us etc, have been one of my best gaming experience lately
DS1 forsure. I cant quite put it to words, but something about experiencing the atmosphere of Lordran for the first time hit in a why no other game ever has before or since.
The most difficult part of this question is trying to separate yourself not only from emotions & nostalgia attached to the games, but comparing it to games which came later. That's not a comparison many old games can survive. I enjoyed Skyrim, but I doubt I'd want to give it another first shot simply because the disappointment of how linear & forced some of the areas & the story are. Kingmaker & WoTR are also games which suffer from carryover knowledge from previous playthroughs. You can change up your class & your choices, but the items, companions, & most events are the same. The two which spring to my mind are Kingdom Come: Deliverance & Tyranny. The feeling of accomplishment you gain when you finally begin making progress is quite enjoyable.
2 things: 1. I am a gamer but somehow never got to play Skyrim until 2 years ago. Even stranger, besides seeing some mods for it and the obvious meme of Fus Ro Dah, I went into it completely spoiler free. All I have to say is that it’s an incredible game. It still looks so good and everything about it is amazing. A true masterpiece I do humbly say. 2. Dragon Age Inquisition is incredible. It was my introduction into the series and I think I’ve played it through 3 or 4 times. The story is so good, the gameplay is amazing, and I wish I could forget all the spoilers in my head and just play it fresh once more.
When I think about playing games for the first time, It’s always to experience “Wow” moments again. When Blizzard and Final Fantasy would use cutscenes to mark progression. Enemies that you would hear about or be working towards in a game to be revealed. Gotcha moments when the story twists that take so many mysteries make sense from previous playtime.
Man I would play a bunch of games for the first time again such as Baldur's gate 3, The Witcher 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Mass effect 1, 2 and 3 and Kingdom of Amalur : Re-reckoning. Letting the stories of these games with the exception of Kingdom of Amalur mesmerize once more.
What are a few gaming moments that really stuck with you? One for me is an easily missed moment in metro exodus, where Anna asks they player to sit with her for a moment and if the player does, she’ll share a 3-4 minute dialogue about her hopes for the future and vent her frustrations about their current situation. The whole scene is a constant reminder of how real and human game characters can feel and has stuck with me for years
I was a bit disappointed with Elden Ring, to be honest. And I've been a fan o FS games since Demon's Souls. I'd love to play Dark Souls and Bloodborne for the first time; as well as Portal and DOSII.
I think for me the main game I would love to play again for the first time is Disco Elysium. It's still incredibly fun to play through again, but there was something magical about that first playthrough when I didn't know yet how things could play out, didn't know yet the protagonist's backstory and all that.
I am sure a lot of people will say this, Witcher 3! Man the amount of detail put in the side quests and monster hunts. Not to mention the quests with the Crons. I would love to experience that for the first time again.
Story wise Red Dead Redemption 2. I really felt for the characters in the game. The scene of Arthur's last ride with the song That's the way it is by Daniel Lanois playing in the background, brought me to tears, like no other game ever has.
Nier Replicant and Nier Automata. Those games hit so damn hard, and I would love to be able to go back and replay them and experience them like the first time. Just incredible experiences that leave you emotionally wrecked.
Prey and Skyrim are solid picks for sure. Obra Dinn is definitely one I'd like to experience again for the first time. Also, Tyranny. The music, setting, reactivity - would love to play that for the first time again.
Super nice idea to make a video about! Love your content! Actually, to hear what inspired you to do what you do is very interesting. Im happy for you, respect!
@@jasontiller Yeah, I often highlight it to younger gamers today as probably the perfect example of a 60-minute pure-gameplay loop. One of the greatest games ever made, and it didn't need to be long for the sake of being long. It is one of the great ironies of modern gaming that Ubisoft, who I think are the holders of the PoP license, are one of the studios/publishers most guilty of this kind of bloat.
I was listening to an interview with Jordan Michener about how they shoehorned PoP’s advanced graphics and smooth animation into the systems of the time. Apparently the “evil” prince was born out of a lack of available sprite storage and is just the negation of the “good” prince. Saved a ton of money and memory that way. Oh, man, I can’t still remember that intro!!
Such a great title! I remember playing Skyrim for the first time. I was in awe! I’d also mentioned both KOTOR games. The twist in KOTOR 1 my mouth fell open.
I tried playing KOTOR on PC in 2017 and.... maybe I wasn't ready. No, I was not - I was only 2 years into my PC gaming journey... I think I hit some bugs and bailed. That was long before I learned to mod, bug fix, etc.. and long before I knew who Obsidian is. Now that I've been lost in New Vegas for close to 600 hours, I should be ready. Actually, a few days ago I saw a vid demonstrating just how evil you can truly be if you embrace the Dark Side 👺
Prey DLC - the escape from the moon with unlocking characters and replaying same day over and over was a game in itself. It was soooo good. It’s so different the only thing it has from Prey is game assets and some world building.
Majesty! That's a game I wish I could play again for the first time. I have very fond memories as a wee lad with that game & I hardly ever see anyone reference it
For me, it's of course Disco Elysium. Everything about that game made a strong impression on me, the always amused consumer of wacky and out of alignment fiction. But the single most impactful thing for me was "the pale", and what the nature of DE's world is. The concept itself of the pale was completely unexpected, and the way it was unveiled was perfect for me. Those conversations with the rich liberal woman on her boat, and especially the whole church quest: WOW! To this day, whenever I hear or read people talking down this "murder investigation game", I have to suppress my very negative reaction. It's clear that many who played DE thought that the murder investigation is what the game was about. I mean, of course they didn't like it: that's just because they didn't get it. I generally hate the amnesiac protagonist trope in games. But this game IS the amnesiac protagonist, and that's a completely different thing. Thanks for your videos! p.s. I went down to put a thumb up on every comment with Disco Elysium listed in, and I was surprised by how many here share my love for this game, and for its first impression especially. Very pleasantly surprised!
It's The Witcher for me. And not just playing the games, but also reading the books. As it happened, I experienced the series back-to-front. Played The Witcher 3, then went on to play 2 and 1, and then I read the books. Because of this, a lot of revelations or secrets in TW3 (like meeting Roche and Regis) went over my head when I first experienced them. I wish that I could wipe my memory of the story and the characters so that I can relive everything in the correct order by reading the books first, and then playing TW1, 2 and 3
Prey was such an underrated game
You say underrated but I say it was rated below what it should've been rated.
It’s so underrated it’s actually become overrated lol
Well it's still kind of underrated because it didn't sell as well as they thought it would.
such a dope game. we need more imsims in the industry, but since theye so damn hard to show with trailers and whatnot, they havent yet to breakthrough to the greater industry 🤧
The game I will put 10/10 with how much effort and details went into this game, most games have minor details like "sand gets wet when water hits them" and "Spidey tendril changes color wow" instead Prey 2017 went ahead and beyond with it's gameplay option and details that it's deep and wide as an ocean.
I did a full playthrough of DOS2 with a friend and he betrayed me at the very end. It was the greatest gaming moment of my life. I was forced to watch an undead archer, that i carried the whole game, ascend to my godhood. My buddy still remarks on how he is a higher being than me, and deserves 2 action points when voting on restaurants.
Fallout 3 for me. The moment we walk out of the Vault for the first time is still - after so many years - one of my best memories in all games I've played.
How ? F3 is terribly mediocre
@@glorfindead3259 🤷 that's just your opinion
@@glorfindead3259mediocre for thick headed fools
Love FO3 but the first one i ever played was New Vegas still one of my favourite games ever
YES!!! I’ve stood by this game for as long as I can remember. It got me into RPGs & I’ve told people it’s my favorite game of all time. Had the pinup doll & nuka-cola posters. I think it was the universe that really just pulled me in and got me invested on top of the gameplay that really did it for me.
Wait until you pass 40 mate. You can play every game you own for the first time again.
So true! After the fallout tv show, i replayed f1 and 2 after 20 plus years and although i remembered many things, it felt like i played them for the first time.
I totally had this thought too… I turned 50 this year and when I replayed a game recently, I feel like I had similar to the first time I played the game type feelings. I guess there are benefits to longevity other than not being dead.
@@jweare333 67 here. And, yes, at a certain point in my life I manage forget all kinds of details almost instantly. Over the last few years I replayed the entire AC franchise and the ME (almost done). Nice to know I can recycle my memories.
Speak for yourself. I wish I could forget
@@bigego503 Ha ha! Just yesterday I finished the last of the 3 Ezio games. The last one (Revelations) I thought I had fond memories of.... Yeah, right.
The only 2 things I remembered was the one tower in Galata and the fact that the Bosporus was between the 2 parts of the city. Everything else, even the girl, was new to me.
Steam even told me I already played it for 40 hours, precisely as much as many as I did this time, so I must have completed it then too.
It always warms my cold-cold heart to see Prey mentioned.
Planescape Torment, Bioshock, or Disco Elysium. DE was the only game I felt a compulsion to play, I couldn't stop until it was over.
Storywise I agree. Nothing comes close to PS: T and Disco Elysium. There are many genre defining games that were great for their time, but wouldn't hold up today. Having a great story/world usually does. Can't say I know how well PS: T would hold up today though. It's been over 20 years...
Revachol!
Yeah, I think I ruined both those games as replay options. Back when I played PS:T, I played it with a guide to get everything in one playthrough, and I played DE with a ton of intuition or whatever it's called when the city speaks to you, so there's not a lot of stuff left to discover.
@@preppen78 the combat in PS:T is pretty rough, but if you can get through that it's still pretty good. I'm probably due a replay again soon.
Bioshock for me.
Utterly blew me away when it first came out and still does to this day.
My brother played the CRAP out of bio shock, to the point where i was sure he wasnt home for days
There's a kind of annoying backlash against Bioshock that I think was caused by Infinite being a little bit simpler than the original, but that first Bioshock is still incredible.
World of Warcraft was pure magic for me when it launched. I had never seen such a huge, beautiful, fully realized world. Mesmerizing
I'm dumbfounded by how Prey didn't go absolutely viral. The setting, premise, and theme is great, the level design is fantastic, story is great, combat is fun. But all of those despite being good pales in comparison to the immersion of it. It's like a RE2 mansion escape room type "base exploration" game on steroids. It also has a lot of replay value. I've finished Prey like ... 5-6 times I think. And it's still a game where - if I haven't played it in 6-12 months and I'm out of games - I can enjoy the hell out of rerunning it still.
I just don't understand how Prey didn't sell more or become more popular with the mainstream. I've had gaming as a hobby for over 30 years and it's up there with FO2, FF7, Morrowind, BG2+3, Rimworld, Skyrim, and all sorts of other heavy hitters.
@@notvknI just didn’t care for it, I beat it twice because I thought I missed something I just didn’t find it fun, I didn’t like the alien design, or the powers. For me it’s like a worse version of bioshock
@@prestonwinters9656 I think that's it. It wasn't as good as people say. I couldn't get through it, I didn't like the enemies either.
I think Arkane only really managed to dupe the mainstream into playing an im sim with Dishonored 1 and that audience never returned once they figured out that it didn't play like Bioshock or whatever they thought that game was going to be like,
I loved pretty everything about it - even though I love the option in immersive sim games when I can play the whole game without using guns and getting into fights which Prey doesn't allow - but the story and the writing was only ok IMO.. the story was mostly interesting at the start and got more and more "boring" the more I played and I really didn't cared about any character in the game which is a big problem for me.. even when BioShock 1 and 2 are immersive sim-lite games, they have many really unique and interesting characters.. Prey tried to have some interesting ones but thanks to the writing, I didn't cared about a single one.. the System Shock games atleast have Shodan, Prey doesn't have even a character similiar to that one
It's cuz they called it "Prey" which confused a lot of gamers who mistook it as a reboot of the original "Prey" (2006). The game play/story/mechanics have NOTHING to do with the 2006 version; Arcane took an innovative and original story, with novel/original gameplay and scrapped that for a wannabe Bioshock that nobody asked for and slapped the name "Prey" on it as an afterthought. It's exactly the reason I didn't buy it. I have to imagine other consumers felt the same way.
Prey has got to be, hands down one of the most underrated games of its time. The story is great, the characters are interesting, the combat is fun & environments are interesting and in some cases creepy to explore. The game actively rewards exploration, has multiple ways of playing it. Will you use Neuromods, which corrupt you as you install more of the aliens powers? Will you remain pure with no special powers? Will be merciful or merciless with your interactions with survivors? The twist at the end was great too. This was a game I knew barely anything about & played about a year or two after its release because it was on sale. Picked it up and loved it.
I love you can find each and every one of the 249 Talos crew members (plus 18 volunteers and 1 other dude) hiding all over the station. Unfortunately, hiding didn't help them😵
@@SuperLocrian That is an insanely detailed feature and one that I don't think some players even knew existed. I also love the stupid D&D group backstory that is a reference to Arx Fatalis. BTW, that game is amazing too if anyone hasn't tried it.
"saying yes to the player" is what drived arkane studios and its exemplified with Prey 2017. The commercial Flop of Prey 2017 is one of the worst things to happen to modern gaming and it still haunts the industry, Prey embodied everything that games should strive for with its insane open ended game design, interactivity and the players ability to express themselves it is what separates gaming as medium compared to movies and books and that’s what arkane understood, sadly gamers and reviewers didnt and even though the main studio didn’t shut down most of the key developers left.
It was developed by Arkane Austin and was also the last game with both Colantonio and Capron at the head of the companies, I'm still not sure if I like less what came after due to some of teh folks who took charge (one is a very obnoxious and rude person) or simply due to the changes in style of the games they pushed out.
Reviews were actually pretty good at the time. Most of the lower scores you'll find are because at launch it was incredibly buggy. It all (or most) got fixed and so playing it now is nothing like at launch. It's easy to see it as a game that slowly built up a cult following but I got the impression at the time that reviewers were surprised that it didn't find much of an audience. In fact that still seems to be the prevailing viewpoint. For whatever reason it just didn't catch with a lot of players. Some of that will undoubtedly be because at the time it launched the game would just crap out and destroy your saves occasionally but that doesn't explain why it is still not as big as it should be. It's not so much a game that nobody understood at the time as a game that people who played a lot of games got quickly, especially reviewers, but that just didn't translate into a bigger player base.
25 years a gamer, 10 years competitive.. Just for reference that i dont talk out of my ass.. One of the worst games ive ever played.. Everything sucked balls. 0/10
I think the design of the ending did it harm too.
Well said and very true. Prey had a very special something, you keep learning along with the main character all the way to the end
I got 2 plus a wildcard.
1: Dark souls 1. This game came out when I was a sophomore in college. I never really participated in a gaming community prior to then, and I also enjoyed picking a side in the skyrim vs dark souls debate.
2: pillars of eternity 1 was my very crpg ever. I've been a long time tabletop rpg fan, but never even knew about the genre. So discovering it years after it's launch and realizing there were a ton of games in the genre to play was awesome. Very quickly became my favorite game genre and pillars 1 despite it's flaws will always have a special place in my heart.
3: my first campaign with my current pathfinder group. Just being an absolute novice having no idea how to build a character. Getting my first player death, and then doing actual research to make an absolute unit. I'll never have that experience again with pathfinder. But man was it something special.
Wall of text crits for 9999
It’s really funny because we mix the context and time with the actual game when we played it through for the first time. All those things come together to create emotions that simply wouldn’t happen if we played them today for the first time with all of our other context being put into place… it makes it very hard to answer this question. That being said… Morrowind when it first came out was the first first-person perspective open world RPG I’d ever played. I remember simply exploring and adventuring without regard to any set story. My first 50 hours and first character of that game were an incredible time that I’d love to recreate. I actually got to the city of Balmora and accidentally talked to the guy that I had met on the ship in the beginning. He said something like… so glad you are here and that was the first time that I thought of the main plot. I tried to play with that character through the main plot, but it was too simple by that point. I started a new character. This model of playing games from Bethesda has continued to be the way I play them. I tend to play a character up to very high-level while engaging in very little of the story. I might do guild quests and such or lots of side quests and whatever else I come across. then I roll up a new character and play through the story. Every time I play their games I have the same experience. Don’t know of any other game developer where I have felt this way in their games.
I wish I could replay Soma for the first time. The existentialism and what it meant to be conscious and cloning/copying someones brain was such a mind fuck.
That's on my list! Played The Swapper not too long ago, that was suprisingly affecting for a small little game. I'm looking forward to The Alters to - potential to be... well, also a mind fuck👍
Second this!! The stomach dropping existential dread of realising what’s going on in that game for the first time was such a unique experience
Dark Souls 1, and Outer Wilds are the two that are magical first time games.
@@AEGISDEFENSE ive yet to play both of these, but will try to at some point! ive heard such great things about both titles! theyre are in my steam library for when i make time :) cheers
Dark souls 3 weirdly has me in a grip where I would like to experience that weird sense of nostalgia again.
Wasnt even that long ago 😂
Yakuza 0 for me. Had no idea what I was getting into when I bought it on the Steam release, and it blew me away. I'm going to wait a few more years until I forget most things about it before replaying it.
Wasteland 3 is a great pick, too. Had lots of fun playing through it one time but don't feel I would get enough out of a replay.
I have recently acquired Yakuza 0.
I had the same journey as you
@@shivaharshith9361 I suppose you purchased it at a discount.
Wasteland 3 blew me away! Just finished my first playtrough, will do a second after some time has passed 4sure
@@しらこ-465 i loved that game so much. would be awesome to play it once more with a fresh memory 🤧
Red Dead 2 and The Witcher 3. I would give every cent to my name to erase my memories of those games so I can experience them for the first time again.
Both games are sitting forever in my backlog with memories of hype but barely playing them.
@@Hoppelite Likewise. Witcher 3 & Red Dead Redemption 2 ruined gaming for me! Just can’t enjoy anything else after playing them………………
Return of the Obra Dinn, Kentucky Route Zero, Norco, Disco Elysium. Which I think shows what I value in a gaming experience.
Obra Dinn is my perfect example of this. Now I can only watch others experience it for the first time.
Oh, Disco Elysium is probably my number one. The tones & atmosphere & writing on that game are unmatched & it really resonated with my soul. I absolutely love that game. Makes me wanna cry just thinking about how it moved me. It truly is such a beautiful work of art that I feel everyone should experience it ❤
My game I would have to say has to be Everquest. When it first released, I kept saying that there is no way I was going to pay for a monthly subscription on a game. My wife of course was saying the same thing so that was a challenge to convince her to let me play it. I had a few friends telling me about it and eventually I started to play it and the experiences I had were great. My first character was a paladin and after a friend geared me up, I lost my body on a corpse run as I couldn't find it. I remember grouping at the zone lines just because how tough the monsters were to our level and experiencing the zones for the first time I will never forget especially seeing a wizard solo a hill giant in western commonlands while we hung around the zone line. Eventually, I gave up on playing the paladin and started playing the necromancer and that is where the fun really began. My favorite class in all mmos.
If I were to start again, I would start off playing the necromancer and also would have just stayed with Everquest all these years and not even mess with WoW and the multiple others I tried.
Prey had one of the best twists, not because of the actual twist realization itself but because of all of the bread crumbs that led to it. I remember reading newspaper articles in the game that at first seemed to be a developer error, until it all clicked at the end.
The list of games I wish I could play again for the first time:
1. Outer Wilds
2. Some other games I wish I could play again for the first time
Outer wilds is amazing.
There's this feeling I've always associated with being "in space" (even though I've never been) that Outer Wilds captures better than any Elite Dangerous or No Man's Sky has managed and it's the feeling of being really small and completely reliant on a small lifeline to stay alive. There are two giant spoilers that I wish I could experience again, because they both managed to get my stomach to drop like a real-life rollercoaster. One is obvious, the other is when you go from being in one place to being in a place VERY far from that place in the blink of an eye, ha ha.
It’s Bloodborne for me. I didn’t even know what Dark Souls was, let alone a “soulslike” game. I got Bloodborne because it was a brand new ps4 exclusive so I figured I’d give it a shot. Didn’t understand it, died countless times to Gascoigne and left it behind. Decided to start a new game and use the axe and all of a sudden a whole new world of gameplay, storytelling, and atmosphere opened up for me. Bloodborne remains my favorite game of all time, what a special game and moment in time I wish I could relive.
for me the mass effect series has always been one I wish I could experience all over again
Mass Effect and Witcher 3 for me.
Same! ^^
The Mass Effect 2 intro.. 😊
Please don't say that
I’ve been gaming on a nearly daily basis for 40 years. I’ve played so many incredible games but without any doubt Elden Ring was the best gaming experience I’ve ever had. The timing was perfect so that I could play daylight to dusk uninterrupted every single day.
Like you said, there were no guides yet so it was awesome coming together with the community to figure everything out. For me personally, it was perfect. I know that’s a forbidden word for some reason but I don’t care. Imo Elden Ring is a perfect game and I wish I could play it for the first time again.
Wasteland 3 music is fabulous
Have you played Outer Wilds? Pretty much the quintessential “wish I could play it for the first time” game to me. Also a complete masterpiece
Edit: the things you said about how you gain knowledge for prey and Elden ring are also VERY true for outer wilds
Witcher 3, Disco Elysium, MGS3, Bioshock, Persona 4
Wasteland 3 was so good. I am fond of it for more than one reason. It was the eve of Christmas that I went to my mother's home, and for whatever reason, found the cover of the Wang Chung song Everybody Have Fun Tonight, and decided to play it. And now she thinks it is the best version of that song there is.
That cover of the Wang Chung song is amazing.
The dreampop cover of Land of Confusion is not merely the only good cover of said song, but also possibly the best song ever to have been written. It's such a pity that only half of it was recorded.
Loved wasteland 3, ive played all the older fallout games but never played any wasteland and it the writing reminded me of fallout when it was good. Plus those 2 songs were epic.
Even the Land of Confusion cover that plays when you drive near the old airport..music was 10/10 in Wasteland 3
@@ChoppedCheeese I forgot that was thinking washed in blood of the lamb and battle hymn of the republic
I gave up on it when I saw that the crew can be expanded by dummy npcs. It became too impersonal, too unwieldy to manage
@@elqord.1118 I never created additional team mates just used ingame companions(assuming that what you mean?) for their dialogue. Shame some don't appear till later like Pizepi Joren.
@@elqord.1118 you don't have to bring them along. I felt they added to the experience. Party Pal & Captain Tom were my faves.
I'm up there with you on Wasteland 3. Favourite game of all time.
Finally got one of my colleagues at work to play Prey (2017) as it’s 100% the sort of game I knew he’d love. He completed it for the first time over this past weekend, and he has not stopped talking about it since. Absolutely excellent game.
Prey got me back into gaming after several years of lost interest. Haven’t stopped since 😅
Started playing prey for the first time recently and it's easily one of the best games i've ever played. Probably an all time favourite
It's probably Elden Ring for me too. What a magical feeling to play a From game without knowing what's around the corner. Also, best thing about these kinds of lists is finding the game you haven't played before and putting it on your own list. Look at you, Wasteland 3.
Props for consistently providing timestamps in these. It's like you do this for a living or something.
Useful list of discussed-games, valuable at the beginning. And also promotes jumping, which is actually to a YTer's disadvantage but to a viewer's advantage.
If I could recapture the feeling of experiencing Morrowind at 12 years old, I would be truly elated… it felt so much larger than it does now, and I had some of the largest sensations of wonderment that I think I’ve ever known. My friend, who introduced me to the game, and I would talk about what we did the prior night at school each day for what felt like hours. Age definitely has a huge impact on open-ended prompts like these. Great video!
Gothic 1, Gothic 2 NOTR (including Archolos standalone mod), OG Deus Ex and Human Revolution, Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, Yakuza 0, Skyrim, Oblivion, Mafia 1, Mafia 2, Max Payne trilogy, GTA SA, GTA 4, RDR 2, WoW Classic (Vanilla, TBC and Wotlk), Mass Effect trilogy, every Half Life game ( Black Mesa too), Dishonored 1....
@@aleksandarsiljanovic1468 Props for mentioning Archolos. I'd go so far as to say it's even better than Gothic 1 & 2.
Nice to see GTA 4 and STALKER mentioned as well. So few games with a world and atmosphere that comes close to those
@@shevek612 Archolos would be perfect if it just had some kind of mage guild and all circle spells
@@DanielParezanovic They are going to revamp the whole magic system in the mod of the decade edition, lets just hope that they are going to release it in 2025
@@shevek612 yep, the atmosphere and ambient in those games, its just perfect, timeless classics
Disco Elysium and The Stanley Parable were both amazing first experiences for me because they actively subverted my need as a player to understand and master a game's system. The time I spent confused and the joy I got once I figured it out are hard to replicate.
Great video idea. Shadow of the Erdtree was as close as I've seen to getting the player back to the feeling of the original experience of the game. I would also add to the list World of Warcarft. The whole concept of an MMO was new then, but everything from the leveling to the raiding to the hanging out in virtual cities with other people was such an amazing experience the first time through.
Not really your usual style, but Outer Wilds is the king of this wishful feeling, and a game every single (not motion sickness suffering) person should play
Both Last of Us games left a dent in me. I’d love to experience that for the first time again.
Batman Arkham Asylum was also incredible the first play through, enjoyed finishing that over on snowy weekend
Yes, finally someone mentioned Arkham. I took a break from gaming during college. I got my first job, bought a xbox 360 and played Arkham. It blew my mind and restarted my love for gaming.
Deus Ex 1 and Human Revolution, Dragon Age Origins, Witcher 3, The Longest Journey, Curse of Monkey Island...and that's just what came to mind without pondering too much!
Return of the Obra Dinn
Please someone erase my memory, I want to play this game for the first time again
Fallout 3, no question. This was the first game that my son and I both became obsessed with. Sitting there watching each other’s play throughs, the two of us up till 2am getting sidetracked with side quests. The opening title sequence still gives me the feels.
Discovering the shortcut to Liurnia, rocking almost every memory charm before RL20, finding the Wondrous Physick and the portal to the Bestial Sanctum, realizing the Banished Knights dropped all their drip...yeah.
I would love to play Morrowind again for the first time. The way that game just lets you loose right from the beginning to go out and do whatever you want was amazing. The land felt so alien. The flying jellyfish things, the giant mushrooms, silt striders, etc. What a fantastic time i had with my friend discovering what that game had to offer.
Outer Wilds will always top this list for me
The first time I had the convo on the wagon....that Skyrim start was one of the fondest memories in gaming for me, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
Disco Elysium would be my pick. I went down the route of trying to fully redeem Harry and find the the cryptic. It was such an elating experience
The Outer Wilds is the one for me. The whole gimmick of the game is discovering a mystery. The journey is amazing, but unfortunately you can't go back.
did you just copied the other dude's comment?
1. Subnautica. Seeing my first reaper for the first time, exploring the deep dark waters with warnings of leviathans nearby. Too bad they didn't follow up their success with Below Zero.
2. To the moon. Maybe the best emotional game I have ever played. When a game cam get me to actually cry, that's something.
Budget cuts. Best VR game ever. The pure terror of the last boss. That last boss could have been a horror game on its own.
4.Phasmaphobia. I have never enjoyed a horror game more. Now that I'm super experienced, I don't get startled the same way as it used too.
5. Witcher 3. Loved that game. The blood and wine DLC could have been a stand alone games. Massive and beautiful.
6. The last of us, part 1. I just loved that story. I do anything to forget that game and play it all over.
To the Moon! Wow. So you're the other guy who played it, ha ha. How can someone make a game about regret so amazingly triumphant and life-affirming? Who knows! No one will ever play it. Subnautica is disgustingly immersive. I play a lot of survival games, and it's one of the few that can balance wonder and fear so sublimely. It's the kind of good fear that drives you forward even when you KNOW it's not safe, because it's just that important that you see what's just a little deeper.
You just going off on a tangent are probably your most enjoyable videos!
Certainly more enjoyable than reviews of a game I’d never heard of before and which I’m most likely not going to play anyway in my limited gaming time.
Elden Ring's first playthrough was just magical. It truly was magical. The beauty (and amazing verticality!) of the various landscapes, the enigmatic backstories and lore entries... I used to think that soulslikes were overrated, but after playing Elden Ring, I now understand why so many people hold this genre dear to their hearts.
For me, it's Persona 5. If I could play that again for the first time, that would be FANTASTIC.
Prey might be one of the most underrated games ever. I worked on it as LQA lead tester and have put thousands of hours in it. Mooncrash is an amazing DLC in its own right.
The Wasteland 3 prologue is incredible. The scene that you described along with the music that goes with it really sold the game for me as well.
For me the one game above them all to play again would be Mass Effect 2 so I can relive the thrill of doing the Omega 4 relay jump for the first time again.
Vampire the masquerade: bloodlines, Darkwood, Hyperlight drifter,Thief:The Dark Project, Oddworld games, Divinity Ego Draconis, Dishonored Games,Witcher 3, Skyrim
Probably some more
Thief: The Dark Project and Witcher 3 for sure!
Thankfully in Thief's case there are 20+ years of amazing fan missions that surpass the high bar set by the first two games.
Also, your list is a strong reminder that I really need to muster up the courage to finally play Darkwood lol. I tend to handle horror just fine but much of that game feels like pure nightmare fuel. I end up feeling so overwhelmed that I drop off. Probably the best compliment I can give the devs tbh
I still need to play Divinity 2 as well. Have it and Divine Divinity in my GOG library but haven't gotten around to it
Dude, Darkwood is probably my favorite horror title ever created. That game is truly a hidden gem
I just finished darkwood and it was such a fun experience. Underrated gem.
The first Division game, for the first couple of weeks was amazing. The only end game activity was a pvp enabled zone that allowed you to steal loot from other players. It was also the only way to obtain endgame loot.
Seeing "Games I Wish I Could Play Again For The First Time" and Prey 2016 as the thumbnail is why I subscribe to you Morty. God your taste in games is so good.
Great video!
I'd love to play disco elysium again for the first time. That game changed my brain
What are your top 10 mechanics that make you smile? Those mechanics that just feel good in games?
I used to travel a ton for work, as in, on a plane 2 times a day 4-5 days a week doing installs for a SV startup. I carried with me an OG GBA SP and 3DS XL and would cycle through all 6 castlevania games in order. Because my memory sucks by the time I would back it back to Circle of the Moon, I'd have forgotten all of the nuance and it would feel fresh again.
Edit: I'll never understand HOW nintendo did it, but the GBA SP battery lasts for like, an entire week of heavy playtime.
If you want to replay Skyrim for the first time, you should give a modded Skyrim VR if you like VR. It's an incredible experience and it won't rush you because you'll actually walk through it instead of sprinting and jumping at full speed. Truly an incredible, and the best VR, experience
Prey is one of the most special gsmes ive ever played.
Once I saw a dev comment on a video. Said you could stop the final corrupted operators from ever spawning by clogging the machines that make them.
Thats crazy.
I can't think of a game beyond Knights of the Old Republic. The reveal was so well done. And after you've seen it, it's "Who is Kaiser Soze?!"
The original EverQuest at launch. Nothing else comes close nor can replicate that initial sense of wonder. There were no online guides. The game was unforgiving and really demanded that the community work together. It was a truly transformative gaming experience.
I would choose Deus Ex, World of Warcraft, Half Life, and Pool of Radiance. These four come to mind. There are others, but these games were revolutionary to me.
Gold Box Pool? Yeah, I couldn’t get enough of that!
Totally understand.
I was at a coffee shop, last week listening to old timers, like me,
talk about Everquest and Ultima Online.
I can't imagine going thru those again, for the first time.
The internet was new. No online guides. Just discover, for yourself.
A new and "magical" time for many.
Ahh running around Felluca in your underwear on a nightmare. Good times.
@1969bones69 Ha!
Any bards or necros available that can help me get my body?
@tropictom5996 Ha!
Wasteland 3 was incredibly, played it every minute I could when it first came out. Top Tier game, one of my all time favourites
Please, keep going on these interesting tangents. One of the games I wish I could forget about to play as if I had never done so before is Vagrant Story. It's a masterpiece that I wish gets its well-deserved remaked at some point.
You need to play enderal it’s a Skyrim total conversion mod, basically a whole new game. It’s plot is the best I’ve experienced in all of gaming. It’s definitely gonna feel like you’re re-experiencing Skyrim.
i really like these types of videos! since you work with so many games, its awesome to hear your thoughts on stuff like this
This is why i love remasters/remakes so much! (The actualy good ones) I'm 39, and i now tend to rathers watch old movies that i know i liked, rather than seeing new. The exeption is realy originals.
Remakes of RE4, RE2, Silent hill 2, Last of us etc, have been one of my best gaming experience lately
DS1 forsure. I cant quite put it to words, but something about experiencing the atmosphere of Lordran for the first time hit in a why no other game ever has before or since.
The most difficult part of this question is trying to separate yourself not only from emotions & nostalgia attached to the games, but comparing it to games which came later. That's not a comparison many old games can survive.
I enjoyed Skyrim, but I doubt I'd want to give it another first shot simply because the disappointment of how linear & forced some of the areas & the story are. Kingmaker & WoTR are also games which suffer from carryover knowledge from previous playthroughs. You can change up your class & your choices, but the items, companions, & most events are the same.
The two which spring to my mind are Kingdom Come: Deliverance & Tyranny. The feeling of accomplishment you gain when you finally begin making progress is quite enjoyable.
2 things:
1. I am a gamer but somehow never got to play Skyrim until 2 years ago. Even stranger, besides seeing some mods for it and the obvious meme of Fus Ro Dah, I went into it completely spoiler free. All I have to say is that it’s an incredible game. It still looks so good and everything about it is amazing. A true masterpiece I do humbly say.
2. Dragon Age Inquisition is incredible. It was my introduction into the series and I think I’ve played it through 3 or 4 times. The story is so good, the gameplay is amazing, and I wish I could forget all the spoilers in my head and just play it fresh once more.
Glad you mentioned Wasteland 3, you got me onto that game and it got me to love turn based. Great suggestion.
When I think about playing games for the first time, It’s always to experience “Wow” moments again. When Blizzard and Final Fantasy would use cutscenes to mark progression. Enemies that you would hear about or be working towards in a game to be revealed. Gotcha moments when the story twists that take so many mysteries make sense from previous playtime.
Man I would play a bunch of games for the first time again such as Baldur's gate 3, The Witcher 3, Fallout: New Vegas and Mass effect 1, 2 and 3 and Kingdom of Amalur : Re-reckoning. Letting the stories of these games with the exception of Kingdom of Amalur mesmerize once more.
These tangents are great. I’d love to see a long form video about things you love i.e. 30 minutes on everything you like about WoTR
What are a few gaming moments that really stuck with you?
One for me is an easily missed moment in metro exodus, where Anna asks they player to sit with her for a moment and if the player does, she’ll share a 3-4 minute dialogue about her hopes for the future and vent her frustrations about their current situation. The whole scene is a constant reminder of how real and human game characters can feel and has stuck with me for years
I was a bit disappointed with Elden Ring, to be honest. And I've been a fan o FS games since Demon's Souls.
I'd love to play Dark Souls and Bloodborne for the first time; as well as Portal and DOSII.
I think for me the main game I would love to play again for the first time is Disco Elysium. It's still incredibly fun to play through again, but there was something magical about that first playthrough when I didn't know yet how things could play out, didn't know yet the protagonist's backstory and all that.
Prey for sure man
I am sure a lot of people will say this, Witcher 3! Man the amount of detail put in the side quests and monster hunts. Not to mention the quests with the Crons. I would love to experience that for the first time again.
Story wise Red Dead Redemption 2. I really felt for the characters in the game. The scene of Arthur's last ride with the song That's the way it is by Daniel Lanois playing in the background, brought me to tears, like no other game ever has.
One of few rare documentet cases of someone who finished main storyline in Skyrim
Ultima 7, Gothic 1 and 2, The Secret of Monkey Island, DOOM, Night in the Woods...
The Black Gate or Serpent Isle?
Great choices, I'm a big ultima 5 fan too
7:41 best time to be gaming, EVER
Nier Replicant and Nier Automata. Those games hit so damn hard, and I would love to be able to go back and replay them and experience them like the first time. Just incredible experiences that leave you emotionally wrecked.
I also put so many hours in Skyrim, but never finished the main story. There is not much I would need "first time again" experience in that x3
Prey and Skyrim are solid picks for sure.
Obra Dinn is definitely one I'd like to experience again for the first time. Also, Tyranny. The music, setting, reactivity - would love to play that for the first time again.
Super nice idea to make a video about! Love your content!
Actually, to hear what inspired you to do what you do is very interesting. Im happy for you, respect!
Subnautica. Demons' Souls. Jagged Alliance 2. Prince of Persia (DOS original). In reverse chronological order.
Hells, yeah, I whooped my a** off after beating PoP.
@@jasontiller Yeah, I often highlight it to younger gamers today as probably the perfect example of a 60-minute pure-gameplay loop. One of the greatest games ever made, and it didn't need to be long for the sake of being long. It is one of the great ironies of modern gaming that Ubisoft, who I think are the holders of the PoP license, are one of the studios/publishers most guilty of this kind of bloat.
I was listening to an interview with Jordan Michener about how they shoehorned PoP’s advanced graphics and smooth animation into the systems of the time. Apparently the “evil” prince was born out of a lack of available sprite storage and is just the negation of the “good” prince. Saved a ton of money and memory that way. Oh, man, I can’t still remember that intro!!
Such a great title! I remember playing Skyrim for the first time. I was in awe! I’d also mentioned both KOTOR games. The twist in KOTOR 1 my mouth fell open.
Played KOTOR for the first time a couple years ago and was in awe as well. Such a shame there isn’t a good modern take on it
KotOR was a defining game for me, too. The cut content mod made KotOR 2 the masterpiece it was meant to be.
I tried playing KOTOR on PC in 2017 and.... maybe I wasn't ready. No, I was not - I was only 2 years into my PC gaming journey... I think I hit some bugs and bailed. That was long before I learned to mod, bug fix, etc.. and long before I knew who Obsidian is. Now that I've been lost in New Vegas for close to 600 hours, I should be ready. Actually, a few days ago I saw a vid demonstrating just how evil you can truly be if you embrace the Dark Side 👺
Prey DLC - the escape from the moon with unlocking characters and replaying same day over and over was a game in itself. It was soooo good. It’s so different the only thing it has from Prey is game assets and some world building.
Majesty! That's a game I wish I could play again for the first time. I have very fond memories as a wee lad with that game & I hardly ever see anyone reference it
For me, it's of course Disco Elysium.
Everything about that game made a strong impression on me,
the always amused consumer of wacky and out of alignment fiction.
But the single most impactful thing for me was "the pale",
and what the nature of DE's world is.
The concept itself of the pale was completely unexpected,
and the way it was unveiled was perfect for me.
Those conversations with the rich liberal woman on her boat,
and especially the whole church quest:
WOW!
To this day, whenever I hear or read people talking down this "murder investigation game",
I have to suppress my very negative reaction.
It's clear that many who played DE thought that the murder investigation is what the game was about.
I mean, of course they didn't like it: that's just because they didn't get it.
I generally hate the amnesiac protagonist trope in games.
But this game IS the amnesiac protagonist, and that's a completely different thing.
Thanks for your videos!
p.s.
I went down to put a thumb up on every comment with Disco Elysium listed in,
and I was surprised by how many here share my love for this game,
and for its first impression especially.
Very pleasantly surprised!
It's The Witcher for me. And not just playing the games, but also reading the books. As it happened, I experienced the series back-to-front. Played The Witcher 3, then went on to play 2 and 1, and then I read the books. Because of this, a lot of revelations or secrets in TW3 (like meeting Roche and Regis) went over my head when I first experienced them. I wish that I could wipe my memory of the story and the characters so that I can relive everything in the correct order by reading the books first, and then playing TW1, 2 and 3