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If you could erase the memory of one adventure game so you could play it again for the first time, what would it be?

I have more than one and I can’t choose. All three have a superb story.
Return of the Obra Dinn. For the obvious reason that it’s so much fun figuring out every person’s identity and piecing the story together.
The Wolf Among Us. Bigby! And all the other wonderful fairy tale characters. I’d love to experience the exciting and emotional rollercoaster with all the twists and turns for the first time.
Outer Wilds. Again, piecing everything together, which is quite challenging. The most satisfying ending ever.

Return of the Obra Dinn is a good choice. I would’ve also added Hypnospace Outlaw, but there’s a sequel on the way which looks like the same old game with a new story. I tend to forget older titles after some time, so it’s just a matter of waiting for 10-15 years and then replaying them like it’s the first time.

Nice thread! And a nice on twist on the first thing that came to my mind: a game I’d like to wipe from my brain to clear up space. But this is better than mental disc space management.

Day of The Tentacle: I know the game from start to finish. It’s probably the one game where every puzzle solution was still stuck in my mind somewhere while playing the remake. I wonder how I’d experience the game with a clean slate.

The Last Express: Amazing game. I think coming into the game without knowing anything about the story, except maybe the historical setting, really enhances the experience.

its actually of my top 10, LSL3, I wish I can forget all about Kalalau dumping me for another woman; the divorce, and the whole…
for real, the drama and silliness of that part always stuck in my mind

My answer is Riven, but not because I think it’s the greatest adventure ever and not because I had a ton of fun playing it.

I’ve heard so many people praise it and talk about how great it is, and I just didn’t have that same experience. I played it with a friend when I was in my early teens and we just didn’t “get” it. We struggled for hours on the puzzles until finally checking a walkthrough, and I remember a complex puzzle in a cave which we never got past. I remember the scenery being gorgeous, but other than that I think it was wasted on me. I just wasn’t mature enough for it. And I hadn’t even played Myst yet.

I’ve never tried playing it again because I felt that experience tarnished the game. So if I could, I’d love to erase that whole experience and play it with fresh eyes. I would like to think of Riven as something more than impossible puzzles, which I know it is.

I’ve grown to love 1st person puzzlers like RHEM, Quern, The Witness and Obduction and the rest of the Myst series. So ideally I’d absolutely love a remake of the same quality that Myst got last year, with modern graphics and free roaming movement. If that happened I’d definitely jump right in.

If the question is what game you have played before that you would love to play again without the memory of that game, GK3 would be my game.

rtrooney - 13 May 2022 09:42 PM

If the question is what game you have played before that you would love to play again without the memory of that game [...]

I’m not entirely sure what part of If you could erase the memory of one adventure game so you could play it again for the first time, what would it be? you didn’t understand. Everybody else seems to get it.

I apologize for my Dunglish, but please don’t feel obliged to respond to anything I post.

If you mean by saying the things that are written in words to formulate the question you are posing to query what adventure game manufactured in the digital format and controlled an input device, most likely a mouse—but possibly sometimes a keyboard or controller—one would wish to disremember from one’s cranial thinking device in order for said one to re-experience in a quasi-simulation of one’s initial sequence of interactions with this same game, then I posit thus:

I wouldn’t wish to forget any of the games that I played as a youth, because in addition to the experience of interacting with the game itself, the game itself factors into many associated warm and fuzzy ‘meta’ memories. Maybe I’d like to play KQ5 again for the first time…but I definitely wouldn’t want to forget the many hours I spent with my friends and brothers trying to fudge our way through the game, in the days when logging onto Compuserve or AOL for hints was not so simple for a group of 7-10 year olds.

So I’ll choose Thimbleweed Park. One of my favorite recent games, and I’m sure I’d enjoy experiencing it again for the first time, especially because I actually really liked and was completely surprised by The Twist.

Als mijn Engels zo waardeloos is dat mensen het nodig vinden te doen alsof ze het niet begrijpen of er zogenaamd geestig commentaar op leveren, dan lijkt het me beter om voortaan in mijn moerstaal te posten. Of misschien liever nog helemaal te verdwijnen.

Pretty sure Baron Blubba was satirizing rtrooney’s comment in his distinctive way Don’t disappear, Karlok.

Doom - 14 May 2022 03:54 PM

Pretty sure Baron Blubba was satirizing rtrooney’s comment in his distinctive way Don’t disappear, Karlok.

That wasn’t satire. That was sarcasm. Big difference.

Karlok’s origininal post said

If you could erase the memory of one adventure game so you could play it again for the first time, what would it be?

My response, to clarify if I was interpreting her correctly, said

what game you have played before that you would love to play again without the memory of that game?

Either one of us might have phrased our comments better, but they essentially say the same thing. “If you could forget a game so that you could play it again for the first time, what would that game be?”

And, yes, I found BB’s attempt at sarcasm insulting.

Karlok - 14 May 2022 02:41 PM

Als mijn Engels zo waardeloos is dat mensen het nodig vinden te doen alsof ze het niet begrijpen of er zogenaamd geestig commentaar op leveren, dan lijkt het me beter om voortaan in mijn moerstaal te posten. Of misschien liever nog helemaal te verdwijnen.

Your English is excellent.

In het Nederlands en het Engels. 

Vegetable Party - 14 May 2022 09:17 PM

In het Nederlands en het Engels. 

If that was supposed to be English, then I just don’t know what to do with you.