Two initially jump to mind for me.

Outer Wilds took me three attempts to get into, but when it did…wow. Its a game that I is definitely more than the sum of it’s parts, and one that I’d argue is genuinely beautiful in it’s story and how it tells that story.

That said, once you’ve worked out the games mystery; it’s story, it’s tricks, timing and logistics, I wonder how more pull the game would have.

Return of the Obra Dinn is a game that I spend a lot of my time thinking about. The music, the atmosphere and of course, the games moment to moment gameplay.

Those puzzles will likely (hopefully) melt from my mind at some point, but even then I fear that initial sense of excitement and intrigue will be lost.

As much as I plan on going back to it at some point, I’m not sure a game of it’s nature is all that well suited to additional playthroughs unfortunately.

  • drmeanfeel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    It’s World of Warcraft, and it includes being the age I was with the knowledge I had at the time. Vanilla was such a stabbing in the dark experience, and then stepping through to Hellfire Peninsula, what a vast view compared to the prior landscapes. I miss not knowing who’s “bad” and who’s “good” and who’s “meta”

    Maybe that was always there (though I doubt it was there as much without all the third party metric collecting interference) but that’s why I caveat with knowing what I knew at the time

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same, I think.

      I still vividly remember, just a few hours into my first character (orc hunter), when I made it to the Crossroads in the Barrens for the first time. While I was seeing what NPCs were there and starting to pick up quests, a bunch of Alliance PCs turned up and attacked. Word made it back to Orgrimmar and high-level Horde characters started dropping in. As a level 5-ish character, watching all these high-level characters go at each other was so exciting.

      I hit one of the Alliance guys with Hunter’s Mark, which turned on PVP for me, and I was almost immediately one-shotted by something I never saw Worth it though.

      Played through a few of the expansions, but nothing quite recaptured the sense of exploration of that vanilla experience.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      The culture that grew up through that game has never been equaled. I was only there from BC onwards, so I missed the initial evolution but it’s really interesting to look back and read the history, especially the parts I lived.

    • Ruscal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This. I wish I could finish Portal 1 and hear the ending song for the first time again. I remember finishing this game in like 3 in the morning after the party I hosted. I wanted to finish it so badly I couldn’t resist. My jaw was so dropped. Still one of the best feelings I had with games.

    • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world
      English
      2·
      1 year ago

      Try Portal Revolutions if you haven’t, I just started and it feels just as “Portal” as any Valve-made game.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s the Outer Wilds. That’s the right answer to this question.

    But also, Hellblade was absolutely incredible to play in one sitting with good headphones in a pitch black room. It took a few minutes to get used to the voices, but once I was finished with the game, my mind felt strangely empty for a while

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I didn’t play Hellblade in one sitting, but I also really loved it. The blind trial where you navigate purely through sound and controller vibration and have to ignore the scary monsters will stay with me for a while. Very cool level.

      Looking forward to the sequel.

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think there was a boss immediately at the end? It was one of the many trials for the sword. But if you mean Garm a bit later then yeah that was very cool!

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Chrono Trigger.

    Because Chrono Trigger.

    Maybe FF8.

    Also because Chrono Trigger.

  • Weirdfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Fallout 4, it’s taken me ages, but I finally have a console mod set that makes survival mode what I always wanted it be, and being able to explore the world that way with fresh eyes would be amazing.