Which games would you love to be able to play for the first time again?

[The_Echo]

Journey.

I wish every time I played it could be the first time. That game is fucking magical.

I'd also like to replay the Kingdom Hearts franchise for the first time. There were some things I wound up spoiling for myself due to wiki-surfing and the gap between Japanese and NA releases, so it'd be nice to experience everything without that.

 

[Blade1130]

I'm amazed no one here has said Spec Ops: The Line. That game still gives me chills when I replay it, it's just so much better (worse?) when you do it the first time.

I do have to agree with Portal, considering I've played it so much I'm memorized every puzzle.

I kind of want to do Mass Effect again, not so much to play it again for the first time, but to do it without any foreknowledge and see what choices I do different now that I'm older (and somehow stupider).

I would also like to do Zelda: OoT, simply because I played it on GameCube and after I was able to look it up online. I really want to play it for the first time without the internet. I have a feeling I wouldn't finish it though.

 

[Requia]

Eternal Darkness, the game left me a gibbering mess, doesn't work on second playthroughs though :/

 

[MetalDooley]

Ocarina of Time - It might be a cliched answer now but walking out onto Hyrule field for the first time and having the camera pan out to reveal what at the time seemed to be a huge world was a truly epic moment in my gaming history.Would love to be able to experience that sense of awe again

Honorable mentions - Mass Effect 1,KOTOR 1,Alpha Protocol,Eternal Darkness,Super Mario 64

 

[CommanderL]

Dragon age orgins I would love to have the sence of wonder I felt as I play through it again
also alpha protocal I have played both crazy ammounts
mass effect as well

 

[OneCatch]

Ocarina of Time. Because it was the game that first got me into gaming, I've played the crap out of it over the years, and most importantly, I just saw this nostalgia imageset again:

Spoiler: Bloody huge image

Minus the last, depressing slide. I'm actually pretty happy overall!

 

[putowtin]

The Mass Effect trilogy

Firstly, for the end run in ME2: it still gives me chills
Secondly, so my femshep can try another relationship but Garrus....

Ah who an I kidding, I could never pick anyone over Garrus!

This is the thread that got me to sign up to the forums so thanks Jess.

welcome, and I think your Darth Revan has had their ready brek!

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Mass Effect, all day every day. I still remember that feeling, booting up a game I bought second hand and had no idea about, then getting to the main menu and being greeted by THIS:

Spoiler

...and thinking "Wow, this is going to be special."

And it was. I still get a little emotional whenever I hear Vigil.

I'm not trying to start anything with anyone, but that short clip sort of encapsulates the series for me. ME1 was amazing. ME2 and 3 were, for me, weaker experiences.

OP: I might be stretching the question a bit, but a lot of my favorite games probably wouldn't have the same impact if I played them for the first time right today - for obvious reasons. The original Twisted Metal, Resident Evil 1, Wipeout XL, Soul Reaver, Soul Calibur 1, arcade Killer Instinct, Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Halo: CE, Dungeon Master, SotC, Ico... these games blew me away, but a lot of that had to do with context. They were mind-blowing in their respective days, but I'm not so sure they all hold up so well given modern tech. I'm not saying they weren't great games in truth or that I wouldn't enjoy the hell out of them for the first time tomorrow, but I'd only ever want to "erase" them from memory if it meant I could re-experience their full impact.

 

[Uncle Nick]

Dungeon Master. And you can all get off my lawn.

 

[KOMega]

Resonance of Fate or Valkyria Chronicles or Shadow of the Colossus or Demon's Souls.

I just want that feeling where everything felt like a puzzle, but not a completely unfamiliar one, something I knew I could figure out if I just carefully observed for a bit.

 

[Rooster893]

inFAMOUS. I'd do the evil path all over again. Mmmmm, Sasha.

 

[Vern5]

Skyrim, Morrowind, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Mass Effects 1&2, and Dragon age Origins.

The Bethesda/Obsidian games are on this list for obvious reasons. Nothing is quite as interesting the second time around in those games. I generally ended up knowing where everything is by the time I've started my 3rd character and thus all sense of wonderment is lost.

As for the Bioware games, freedom of choice only seems exhilirating when you have no idea what the consequences for your actions might be. I keep trying to play Dragon Age Origins and at a certain point I just give up because I know exactly how the rest of the game will go.

I might want to take Skyrim off of this list. I've logged nearly 300 hours in that game across many characters and it still manages to surprise me at times.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Ocarina of Time, would like to play it as a fresh experience. Maybe the 3DS version, though I'm not shallow enough to dislike a game based on outdated graphics. Actually pretty much every Zelda game. Being able to solve all the puzzles and navigate through the game without knowing everything again would be great.

Pokemon Black, I remember very clearly playing it for the first time and how it really got me back into Pokemon. I've played it so many times since using teams I love, but it would be nice to play it without trading in my strong OP favorites. I can do that, but it wouldn't have the new experience.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I'd go with Oblivion. I was youngish when I first played it on my cousins Xbox and I'd never played an RPG like it before so it was an amazing feeling with the then good graphics, first person combat that wasn't FPS, and actually interesting plot. The start of that game up until leaving the sewer is 10/10 and after that I went straight to the shivering isles which was also amazing.

 

[SKP]

Hmm Deus Ex.

Spoiler

Also, Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age, not just for playing but to watch the absolutely awesome cutscenes - that don't need fancy modern day technology and realistic animations etc. to send shivers down my spine - for the first time again.
"Viktoria, are you prepared to give Mister Garrett his... compensation?"

 

[GonzoGamer]

Fallout 3. Definately

Stepping out of the vault, with nowhere to go but forward, seeing the Capital Wasteland spread out before me. Stumbling around the ruins, gathering old bottles and gawking at everything. I would've waved cheerfully at the people camped out in the school ruins, but they got out their rifles and shot at me.

Of course, those are all rather cherrished memories by now. Like finding a familiar face in a very unexpected place, meeting a familiar stranger in another, bearing the weapons on the past of the savages of today... It'd be very difficult to part with them.

But it'd very very almost be worth it.

Yea, I think Fallout 3 would be my lobotomy game (that's what I called it when I started a thread like this a couple of years ago) for those same reasons. Everything in it seems so spontaneous.
GTA San Andreas for those same reasons too. I remember unlocking the third island and thinking: how much content could they have possibly packed into this game?

The Portal games are a good choice too, just because the puzzles and humor (as brilliant as it all is) lose their cache after the first playthrough.

They're some of my favorite games of all time and it's kind of a shame that you can never experience it in the same way again...without serious head trauma. However, I can always hope that there will be another that has that same "you've unlocked: awe and wonder" effect being worked on now.

 

[EyeReaper]

I'll go with the Ace Attorney series. Back when I first played them, I was young and stupid, so I looked at a walkthrough every once and a while, If I could do over, I wouldn't. that spoils the mystery. You can also apply this to Persona 4 and Dangan Ronpa, which I read a let's play of (to be fair, that was before they announced it to be brought over here)

Basically, any game with a big mystery, because w=once you know all the secrets, no playthrough can compare to the first time you figured everything out all on your own without the help of gamefaqs. Apollo Justice taught me that

 

[llubtoille]

Pokemon!
I felt a shadow of the original awe playing Pokemon Y recently,
so much fun

 

[Samantha Burt]

I'd love to be able to play Spec-Ops: The Line without any of the prior knowledge of it that I had. Does that count? I usually have to wait a while to pick up games, and I spend a lot of time online so spoilers are usually inevitable. I'd like to imagine the experience would have been much greater if I hadn't know about some elements of the game beforehand.

 

[littlealicewhite]

Skyrim. Definitely Skyrim. The joy of discovering everything for the first time was indescribable.

Dragon Age: Origins and the Mass Effect series. (I would leave a note for my future amnesiac self to get the Extended Cut DLC before playing)

The Walking Dead by Telltale Games. I watched a metric crapton of LPs for the Walking Dead, and while that was fun at the time I now have access to the game itself and knowing everything that's going to happen is kinda ruining it for me.