(Saw this question asked on another popular link aggregation website and it got me thinking)
If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would you choose? This might be because you want to do it all again, or because you don’t think you got enough out of it the first time. It could be experiencing the game exactly as you were back then, or experiencing a game with what you know now.
For me, it’s Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, experienced exactly as I was back in 1991.
Nothing comes close to how jaw-droppingly amazed I was by that opening sequence. The epic orchestral score, the cinematic rainstorm, creeping around in the dark… it was a generational leap above anything I’d played on 8-bit computers and consoles, and even the Megadrive. I’d love to play it again without thirty plus years of Nintendo/Zelda knowledge, or without knowing about the dark world.
Either:
Or
Came here to say Mario 64 but I have to agree with Morrowind as well, both of these were such ground breaking games for their time.
I remember playing Mario 64 at my grandparent’s house back in the day. My grandpa had pretty much ignored video games, but had probably casually noticed games like Pong and Pacman over the years. Then he caught a glimpse of Mario 64 in 3D and was just blown away.
Morrowind was my intro into elderscrolls and it blew my mind. So many options, dialog, spell crafting, dlc, mods on pc… every iteration after felt kind of empty and lacking. Being able to kill a god or three was something else.
I still havent played Morrowind, though somewhere along the line I picked up a PC version. One of these days I’ll have a gaming machine.