So hopefully I’m doing this right! :) (I’m still new to some of this so haven’t figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)
Is there a computer game, a moment in a game, a boss fight, or a specific moment that you would love to experience fresh with no prior memory of it?
Mine would have to be The Seat of Sacrifice fight in Final Fantasy XIV, one of if not my most favourite fights in the game to date.
The mechanics work so well and tie into everything that’s been happening, and then that moment where <redacted> (I refuse to spoil it!) shows up to help and then leaves with I think what made me cheer SO MUCH the first time I did the fight.
The music, the song To The Edge has become one of my most played songs in my entire music library (alongside Endwalker - Footfalls and Shadowbringers) as it is quite frankly perfect for the fight. and when they revealed that Soken had been battling cancer and wrote it whilst in hospital…
I adore the fight all together, and cannot help but say the lines in the cut scene bit in the middle every time I do the fight, and will never ever get bored of it.
So what moments in a game would you love to complete again with no prior experience?
maybe not a specific moment but i would love to play Far Cry 3 for the first time all over again.
Never actually played a Far Cry game, I feel like I should at some point, but there are just toooooo many games to play. (And thank you for the suggestion, just updated he post to mention whole games too!)
Far Cry 3 was a leap from previous titles, and the formula hit so hard that the subsequent offerings (4, 5, and now 6) have basically not deviated from that formula - for better or worse. 11 years later, that formula has gotten quite stale but back in 2012 it was so fresh and exciting i didn’t even play another game for the entire year. and this was only one year post-Skyrim. ah… good times…
I think FC2 was better, personally.
i enjoyed it as well! i went back and played FC2 after FC3. 3 was my first foray into the series.
FC2 almost feels like a completely different franchise compared to 3. The fire mechanics were awesome–I wish more games did that. But I went into 3 expecting to play a few minutes and turn it off out of boredom–I remember being blown away.
I thought I was the only one!
The ‘outsider’ / white saviour storyline, switching allegiances in the nonsensical civil war… the betrayal at end game… amazing.
Weird how the more recent games are all sold on edgy, crazy stories but #2 did it all better.
Plus you got to set everything on fire.