Okay. If you could play any videogame again for the first time, what would it be?

  • dipbeneaththelasers@kbin.social
    28·
    1 year ago

    Outer Wilds. A lot of games have a high level of replayability, but your first playthrough of Outer Wilds is something you never get back.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      Really didn’t think they could keep that same sense of mystery and wonder with the DLC, but they absolutely smashed it. And yes, this was also my immediate thought in answer to the question.

    • Snowfall@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s one of those that I really gotta finish. I just wish the mouse and keyboard controls were a little better.

    • bee@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      This is the answer, and for anyone who hasn’t played Outer Wilds it’s still their answer and they just don’t know it yet.

      • TeaHands@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        All of us degenerate Outer Wilds enjoyers spreading it to our friends just for the merest shadow of the feeling we’ve lost and can never recapture…

    • flame@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If anyone hasn’t played it and has a VR headset, please play it in VR. Absolutely phenomenal experience.

  • private_ruffles@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    Mass Effect 1.
    The first encounter with the Reapers, with Sovereign, is such an incredible moment. These horrifying, unkillable deities that can’t be reasoned with or stopped that just want to destroy was so intimidating on the first playthrough.
    The reveal about the mass relays and how they guided tech advancement was incredible too.

    You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.

    • VitulusAureus@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Same here. The story and presentation are so sublime. ME universe is was designed so comprehensively and coherently it left me awestruck on many times throughout the first playthrough.

      And the sequel is just a cherry on top, drawing from the now-estabilished world, themes, interstellar politics, all to build one absolutely epic finale. No other game managed to engage me so much.

  • Brome@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    Portal.

    I’ll never forget the day I started playing this game. It was so cool and so different from anything else I had played that I couldn’t stop playing, and finished the game in one session. Awesome night!

    • Anissem@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh god I loved that game. As an MMO, it had to learn so many hard lessons since it was so new and different

    • SunburyStudios@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Man… That was such a trip. A friend of mine brought it over because my computer was much better and I had a 3rd party ISP lightning fast 56k connection. It was so crazy just to see the little world. I still log into the private servers every few years just to see some of the new tech fans are throwing on top of it.

  • eltimablo@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Oblivion. As much shit as it gets, I think it’s still the best Elder Scrolls game to date, with Morrowind as a close second.

    • Jojo-Mcfrost572@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Agree. First elder scrolls. I prefer oblivion to Skyrim. It was Soo buggy but so good. I just preferred the vibe. It was more fun and less serious.