Ever wish you could wipe your memory clean of all your favourite games?...

[NoNameMcgee]

Oh definitely.
Sometimes I'll go a good 6 months or a year without touching some of my favourite games and then pick them back up. It is almost a new experience.
I try not to think too much about it and remember what happens next, but I have, for the most part, forgotten most of the story.

Yes, same for me. I just started playing The Witcher for the second time, but I last played it two years ago so my memories of it have been fading, making it fun again. While I remember a lot of the environments and some of the quests I mostly forgot the story as a whole. I certainly don't remember how it ends. It also helps that I got the Enhanced graphics patch, and while before I was playing the normal edition on medium settings, I can now play the enhanced edition on High with my new computer. So better graphics seem to be able to peak my interest again too.

It's the same for most games that it takes me at least a year to reach the point I'm willing to play something again. There are a couple of games I can play through 10 times after each other (Mirror's Edge, Half-Life 2) but those games are few and far between.

 

[Baneat]

Assuming memory modification would be possible, I'd decline any and all such procedures on pure principle. I am who I am because of my experiences and memories of those experiences. Without a damned good reason, I would never allow my memory to be modified in any manner.

Not even if it meant rediscovering Star Control 2 and Chrono Trigger, or feeling the kind of awe I felt with Civilization I as a kid.

Way to completely miss the point and spock everything. This isn't a philosophical discussion on the ethics of technology.

I wouldn't wipe, because then I'd suck at them again

Who I am means more to me than rediscovering some of the greatest games I've played.

I still think you're flying WAAAY over the point. It was really a question of how much you would value being able to experience games for the first time, again, not the composition of a person as a whole, it's far deeper than what the thread was aiming at, hence the "spocking". I'm all for a good ethics discussion, just I think it's beyond the scope of the thread.

 

[Zacharine]

Assuming memory modification would be possible, I'd decline any and all such procedures on pure principle. I am who I am because of my experiences and memories of those experiences. Without a damned good reason, I would never allow my memory to be modified in any manner.

Not even if it meant rediscovering Star Control 2 and Chrono Trigger, or feeling the kind of awe I felt with Civilization I as a kid.

Way to completely miss the point and spock everything. This isn't a philosophical discussion on the ethics of technology.

I wouldn't wipe, because then I'd suck at them again

Who I am means more to me than rediscovering some of the greatest games I've played.

I still think you're flying WAAAY over the point. It was really a question of how much you would value being able to experience games for the first time, again, not the composition of a person as a whole, it's far deeper than what the thread was aiming at, hence the "spocking". I'm all for a good ethics discussion, just I think it's beyond the scope of the thread.

And I feel you're almost deliberately missing my counterpoint; that being that my answer to "how much you would value being able to experience games for the first time again" is 'not that much, if it means messing with my brain'.

I admit, I may have taken a turn unintended by the OP down the philosophy lane, but I still feel I've actually been addressing the topic all this time. Simply from a point of view not many would consider when presented with the original question. If that is Spocking, then so be it.

And I feel stating that " just I think it's beyond the scope of the thread" shows just a smidgen of arrogance and underestimates your fellow Escapists when it comes to 'intellectual' discussions. But since it seems that no one else but us still posts into this thread, we won't be finding out anytime soon if that is true or not.

 

[funksobeefy]

the original Knights of the Old Republic.

Sigh, I wish I could experience that again.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I see KOTOR is a big one.
And I want it back too. 'sniff'

KOTOR 2's secret tomb sequence, absolute brilliance, and I want it back. It was so haunting.


The Sands of Time, Oh how I feel for that game, beautiful.

Mass Effect 1, The paragon ending battle with Saren, that was just shocking!

 

[carelesshx]

As long as I could leave myself a note... it would say something like

Dear Future Me,

Play Grim Fandango.

Hugs and kisses

You

PS. Get a job

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

I'd love to go through FFX again with a blank slate. I never really saw any of the plot twists coming...

Spoiler: except for...

Seymour being evil. Come on, everything about his introduction said "THIS CREEPY GUY WITH INSANE HAIR GETTING OFF THE BOAT IS A BAD GUY! SEE? WE'LL EVEN PLAY BAD GUY MUSIC IN CASE YOU DIDN'T GET IT!"

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

No way in hell I'm reliving the end of Persona 3.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Dude, I have had this exact thought so many times about OoT

Course, its my own damn fault I have the game memorized.
Beating something that many times will do it XD

 

[ffxfriek]

No i wouldnt. man that would stink so badky

 

[Ryuk2]

I would make a list of my favorite games (just so that i won't instal the bad ones i have) and then delete my memory about every game i have ever played.

 

[jimduckie]

every time i play gta san andreas i remember where everything thing is , and it's a good habit to have ... in my mech tech field it is important that you remember how things go together if ya take them apart