Sometimes I want to erase all my memory of playing video games. - Games

Seriously. I remember the times when I got a game and started playing it. Exploring San Andreas, looking for all the weird and cool things - the bigfoot tracks, the ghost cars, the suicide photographer, climbing Mount Chiliad... I remember exploring Fallout 3 for the first time - finding the hallowed out rock near Megaton, finding Dave's Republic, finding the cockroach king, exploring. Nowadays I can't bring myself to play it. I know everything about it. I've been everywhere, done every quest, met every character, seen every random encounter, read every computer in the game, seen every secret, tested every weapon, collected all the boobleheads. I remember other games too. I remember Oblivion. I remember walking through the forest, exploring the forts, finding unique weapons, helping small villages in the middle of nowhere. I also remember walking into the Fringe in the Shivering Isles for the first time. Everything was so beautiful and surreal - like a dream. And then I looked to the sky. I seriously consider this to be one of the most stunning things I've even seen on a computer screen. I want to experience this again. I want to learn how to do the perfect freekick in Fifa again, I want to learn the secrets of Vice City, I want to master Call of Duty 4 again, I want to listen to the story of each character in Mass Effect again, I want to soak in that information again, because I want to forget, so that I can learn it all again. Does anyone else feel like me?

Yeah I often feel like that after completing something, lately I have been wanting to play Dead Rising 2 again, but since I have done pretty much everything I dont feel like playing it...I love not knowing whats going to happen next.

I had a nostalgia night a few days ago and player all 3 of the good Crash Bandicoot's but I stopped for a while becuase I knew everything, there was nothing new to face

I want to replay Red Dead Redemption without knowing all of the spoilers.

Thank god I finished it before everyone was spoiling it all over the megathread.

I would love to start playing Oblivion again with a fresh start. I remember when I played that for the first time. It was just so immersive and everything was so awesome. It's hard to explain but it gives you a certain feeling when you think back at those games.

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Damn i wanna play Morrowind again without what i know about the game. I know every goddamn place on the islands, played through both expansions, i played thousands of mods and stuff. Everytime i think of this game now i'm like shit i need to play that again but i know it has barely anything to offer. I could do the Redoran and Hlaalu fortress questlines though. But i agree with OP completely.

[QUOTE=DoubleDD;26028832]I would love to start playing Oblivion again with a fresh start. I remember when I played that for the first time. It was just so immersive and everything was so awesome. It's hard to explain but it gives you a certain feeling when you think back at those games.[/QUOTE] Getting out of the jail for the first time... But now I just can't. I know that outside there would be bandits in the ayleid ruins, I know that one of them would be armed with a bow, I know that there is an apple on a chest that the archer practiced on, I know there is garlic hanging from their tent, I know that on the dock there are mudcrabs, I know that there is an unlocked jewel box in a wooden box there, I know it has pearls and some gold in it. I know too much. [editline]13th November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=K1ngo64;26028938][img_thumb]http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hammer-1.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] That would work, but these are all things in my longterm memory. A blow to the head wouldn't make me forget it. Maybe I'll forget I made this thread though.

[QUOTE=Stopper;26028986]That would work, but these are all things in my longterm memory. A blow to the head wouldn't make me forget it. Maybe I'll forget I made this thread though.[/QUOTE] You never know until you give it a go.

Same here. Oh well..

New games come out with new experiences.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;26029233]New games come out with new experiences.[/QUOTE] True. Although you can call me when a game matching San Andreas' exploring factor comes out, or a game with Mass Effect's storytelling, or a game with Oblivion's lore.

[QUOTE=Stopper;26029274]True. Although you can call me when a game matching San Andreas' exploring factor comes out, or a game with Mass Effect's storytelling, or a game with Oblivion's lore.[/QUOTE] dragon age and new vegas seriously, get new vegas. You'd love it

[QUOTE=Stopper;26029274]True. Although you can call me when a game matching San Andreas' exploring factor comes out, or a game with Mass Effect's storytelling, or a game with Oblivion's lore.[/QUOTE] Every Rockstar sequel ever, Mass Effect 3, TES 5.

I always wish I could wipe my memory of Majora's Mask so I could play it again. I love that game.

I get the same feeling, I miss those days of wonder. Eventually, all games will become procedurally generated so we won't need to worry about this anymore.

Getting an amnesia which would reset my history of playing games back to 1997 would be totally awesome. Seriously, imagine waking up in the morning and going all "Oh man, Half-Life got delayed aga---is that a Half-Life 2 icon on my desktop?"

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[QUOTE=lilcheeselad;26029309]dragon age and new vegas seriously, get new vegas. You'd love it[/QUOTE] Dragon Age, I've completed it about four times - it falls in the same category as the other games. New Vegas, I have it and I am playing it, but for some reason Fallout 3 kept me more occupied. I don't know why.

I replayed Conker Live and Reloaded again the other week. It was awesome, as usual, but lacked the excitement and wonder of when I first played it.

I wish this for movies, too, as well as games.

That's why we have sequels. You'll be able to enjoy Fallout/Oblivion again when the next Elder Scrolls game comes out. As for GTA, try out GTA IV. It's pretty good.

[QUOTE=Agoat;26030529]That's why we have sequels. You'll be able to enjoy Fallout/Oblivion again when the next Elder Scrolls game comes out. As for GTA, try out GTA IV. It's pretty good.[/QUOTE] Uh, you missed my point. New games come out, but old ones are no longer interesting to me. I've played and completed GTA IV.

If I could wipe my memory I could be playing series like The Elder Scrolls and the Fallouts forever, I really miss the feeling of launching Oblivion for the first time and being blown away by the intro, and by everything I saw. Now I already know everything (Especially after finding the wikia, big mistake honestly because I tend to look up all info about locations/ characters to make sure I didn't miss anything.) and I fear New vegas will get the same fate. Though usually for me waiting 5-10 years helps, but god knows if i'll still be able to play Oblivion/games at all.

I would give a lot to go back on that day in which I bought Red Dead Redemption. The story and setting blew me away and the ending made the game one of the most epic games I have ever played.

Good thing I forgot most all of my crash bandicoot playing experience. When I play it it is just a whole new world for me.

[QUOTE=Tyvak;26029348]I always wish I could wipe my memory of Majora's Mask so I could play it again. I love that game.[/QUOTE] I've never gotten past the first part. I'd give you my fresh memories if I could <3 Perhaps I should try playing it again sometime.

[QUOTE=healthpoint;26032159]I've never gotten past the first part. I'd give you my fresh memories if I could <3 Perhaps I should try playing it again sometime.[/QUOTE] You should. :buddy:

Can't bring yourself to play FO3 again because you know everything? Play New Vegas.