If you could only re-experience from new one game (like total immersion, wide-eyed wonder-at-the-majesty-of-it-all re-experience) and had yet to pick a console (Xbox versus PlayStation), what game on which console and why? (and feel free to remark on ideal controllers, add-ons, etc.)
I was hoping Starfield might be that kind of galvanizing experience, but the reviews are pretty underwhelming. So now casting about for the real deal.
Easy game choice for me, Outer Wilds. I’ve regularly said that I wish I could go back in time and experience it again. I am a PS5 fan personally, Xbox has too much overlap with PC gaming.
I would have to say Elden Ring. Just walking out to see limgrave and all of it’s glory and the pure joy of a non linear souls like with exploration I’ve never experienced before made this a top 5 best game ever.
I played it on PlayStation 4 and quite honestly it felt great with the trackpad and the placement of the sticks where I could really feel responsive with my movement in PVP.
Playing new game is fun but man I would pay to have a brain injury to forget everything about Elden Ring just to experience it for the first time.
Breath of the Wild on Switch. It had been a long long time since a game felt that immersive. I'd start a session, say to myself, "I'm gonna head towards this objective," and four hours later I'd be in a completely different direction yet still entirely satisfied. Even the tutorial felt huge and weighty... at least until I was dumped into the wider world with only a suggestion and a general direction in which to go. I loved the hands-off approach. Everything felt organic. I remember being giddy playing Wind Waker at release, excited to get to explore the map once it opened... only to find that the first few far-off places I visited were locked behind items I didn't have yet. With BotW, it felt like that decades-old disappointment was finally righted.
Hard agree that BOTW on switch was, at least at the beginning, a feeling I may never replicate. The scale, the detail, the never ending variety of the landscapes, the wistful post-apocalyptic loneliness, the near-absence of boundaries. I have an embarrassing number of hours logged, multiple playthroughs, the DLC, master mode, etc. I’m afraid nothing else will even come close ever again; to be honest, this was part of my motivation for my original post, because I seek something like it.
TOTK is awesome and a fitting continuation; in fact, is so rich that I have a better appreciation for having some kind of attention deficit disorder, because there is always something beckoning, and it is nearly impossible to stay on track. But ultimately it lacks the grandeur? the completeness of the original.
I think TotK put my jaw on the floor more times than BotW overall. And the mechanics are amazingly well thought out. But yeah, BotW has something TotK doesn't. And that's okay.
I'm gonna go with a more out there option and go with The Return of the Obra Dinn on the PC. Easily the best game I will never play again. The mystery and presentation were everything.
Hell, if I could just re-live the moment just after the tutorial section when you look up and see what is happening during the storm, that would be enough.
There’s an extremely popular private server called HorizonXI that is the game as it was in '04. The community is amazing and it’s always easy to find a party. If you have the time to spare, I definitely recommend it.
Well, I’d pick a Steam Deck. But luckily Baldur’s Gate 3 is also available on the PS5. I’d really like to play that game blind again. It’s so wonderful to discover all the stuff. And when you’re done you have only found about 50 % of the content this game has to offer.
I’m just done with my third playthrough in which I would still see new stuff in every play-session. I’m gearing up for my fourth by playing Baldur’s Gate 2. I want to continue playing the same character in BG3. Not officially supported, but I want to play her with the same race and class and personality. I already know of some things I want to explore that I haven’t seen before. And I wonder what new unknown details I will find.
I would like to play a finished dark souls 1 (like the team imagined) with dualsense 5 controller support.
When a weapon hits your shield the trigger pushes your finger up. Or the to raise a shield or swing a weapon the triggers are hard to press initially but get easier on the way, to mimic velocity.
That would be my dream. Of course with ps5 graphics.
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