Games you wish you could re-experience with a blank slate

After finishing Dark Souls recently I began to think about this through my second playthrough. What games out there do you wish you could go back and experience again like you did the first time? That sense of amazement,discovery and unpredictibility that can only be experienced the first time through the game.

For me obviously one is Dark Souls if you didn't figure that out by now. Another is Shadow of the Colossus, trying to figure out how to take down each beast and where to go with that sense of discovery can never be reclaimed after beating it

Half Life 2

Mass Effect

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl

Mafia

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Madden!

J/k, um I would say Lost Odyssey(at least just the first disc and the dreams)

Dark Souls

Mass Effect 1

Final Fantasy VI. IX, and XI

Pokemon

Zelda Majora's Mask

Super Mario 64

and plenty more that I sould never be able to list.

Demon Souls
Dark Souls
Final Fantasy 9

Brave Fencer Musashi

Legend of the Dragoons

Planescape Torment

Balrdur's Gate Saga (waiting for the compilation this year to play it yet again)

Fallout 1 and 2

Morrowind

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines

Dungeon Keeper

Pharaoh and Caesar III

and oh so many other pearls

Too many to listSonicNextGen2

At least a dozen from this gen, there's been so many amazing games. Pretty much any game that deserves to be replayed.

aww man there's so many!

Resident Evil 4. That games intensity stands the test of time on replay. I can only imagine what it must have felt like the first time. Game is just greatness all around. jg4xchamp

Ditto.

Also wanna add Metroid Prime to that.

Portal and Assassin's Creed II.

World of Warcraft.

I wish I can experience Half Life 2 all the way to Half Life 2 Episode 2 again.

Even before I clicked on the thread my first choice was Dark Souls. I think OOT, Halflife, Bioshock and Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay belong up there too

I have this issue with movies but not with games.

Planescape: Torment comes to mind but there are many, many others.

Xenoblade Chronicles, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Halo 3 on launch night, The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Legend of Legaia, Super Mario Bros. 3, and Spyro The Dragon!

Too many to list:

Pokemon Red/Gold

Super Mario 64

Resident Evil 4

F-Zero GX

Xenoblade

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Mega Man 2, 3, and 9

Castlevania SotN/IV/DoS

Metroid Prime

Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2/3

Devil May Cry 3

Wario Land 3

Super Mario World

Donkey Kong Country 2

I can keep going...

Of this generation, Arkham Asylum, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and Infamous. All those games absolutely blew me away on my first playthough.

Call of Duty 4

Halo 1 and Reach

Fallout 3

Batman Arkham City

Metal Gear Solid

Star Wars Battlefront

Turok (2008) Quite underrated if I say so

Mass Effect

Resident Evil 4

Super Smash Bros Melee

The Legend of Zelda OoT.

I will never forget the first time i saw Hyrule field...it truly felt like a real world was in front of me ready to be conquered, also the final boss battle is one of those moments when i realiced how much i love this industry, it wasn't a boss battle, it was the culmination of the biggest journey i've had in my gamer life.

Chrono Trigger.

Metroid Prime.

Resident Evil 4.

FFVIII.

The King of Fighters 96.

Kotor 1 and 2, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy X, Shadow Hearts Covenent, Oblivion, Skyrim, Metal Gear Solid 4 and Zelda Oot. Those are the few games that have totally engrossed me that I just couldn't wait to get back to playing them. I would love to be able to relive those moments of joy, of that first time experience.

Silent Hill 2.

How long did it take you to beat Dark Souls sean?

TESIII: Morrowind, TESV: Skyrim, and Borderlands. Maybe even Demon & Dark Souls.

Journey. Journey. Journey.

That game was utterly magical and truly wonderous the first time I played it. It's still a great experience playing it now, but the novelty of traveling through the world with one other, the beautifully vast, barren and haunting enviroments, the connection and feeling of intimacy to your partner, the freedom of flight, etc is just not as much there. Plus everyone has a white cloak now which lessens the need for cooperation and altruism which is what made it so awesome to begin with. I don't mean to get overly sentimental here, but that "game" moved me more than any I've ever played and if there's one game I that I could go back and do all over again from nothing, that'd be it without consideration.

Anything open world, that first time when you're exploring the world... omg

How long did it take you to beat Dark Souls sean?

mitu123

51 hours including the new DLC content and my dude was level 102

Dark Souls I got so deeply into stat-obsession and optimizing that I stopped appreciating the game. It would be awesome to be able to go back to that "innocence" of the first time and reexperience it all over again.Zeviander

Agreed. It's all about how much damage I can do now and I know all the patterns and enemy placements more or less.

Also that feeling of when you explore around and have so many paths to take and gates to open and you go down one to open a gate and realise you're back at firelink shrine or the undead burg. Those moments to me were amazing, when you realised how the whole world is totally open and all links back together in some way. When before that felt sort of linear just trudging along one path all the time.

Now I know where to go and where all the paths lead me, the novelty of that is gone forever

Persona 3 and 4

Xenosaga 1, 2, 3

Final fantasy X and X-2

Catherine

Spyro the Dragon (the original 3)

GTA San andreas

Final Fantasy XII

SMT: Devil Survivor

Jak and Daxter

All memorable and entertaining in their own way, in my book.