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10/23/2017 7:57 PM ·Spoilers

Perhaps a weird question: Do you ever wish that you could have your memories of any game(s) completely wiped so you could once again experience it/them anew? For me, two candidates are Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask.

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Not really, I mean, I'm still finding easter eggs and secrets in games that came out YEARS ago, and in my opinion, I would never find any of them as a beginning gamer.

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What I was getting at was maybe you have a game that you first played as a beginning gamer and wanted to play it now both as a more experienced gamer and as if it was your first time playing it. Myself, I used to use walkthroughs with games my first time playing them (including Ocarina and Majora); now that I've played many other games on my own, I've come to regret using walkthroughs.

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Well, I hear people often say this Matt, and I don't quite understand why. If you had your memory erased of a particular experience only to experience it again, nothing has changed. You've still only experienced that event a total of one time, only at a different point of your life. So, understanding it this way, I think that what people are more likely trying to communicate when they say

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For me I wish I could have my memories of the Ganbare Goemon/Mystical Ninja games wiped out from my memory so I could enjoy their greatness blindly again.

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something like this is either; A) I wish I could have an experience like this a second time, enjoying it just as much as the first, or B) I wish I could've had this experience as I am now, rather than when I was younger, so I could potentially enjoy it even more so In response to A, well of course that'd be fantastic. But it's clearly not implied by "forgetting your past memory", so people may

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not be fully understanding what they're saying when they say something like this. And in response to B, it's a very interesting concept. Because how would one know what the best time to experience something for the first time is? If something touched them as a youngin', would that same thing be nearly as impactful on them as an older, wiser adult? You can't know, so if you mean something like B

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I'd say you have a good imagination, to think about alternate realities like that. Now, I understand there's a third option, one I've neglected to mention but thinking about it, is probably what a fair amount of people mean when they say they want to experience a game for a second time: "The game so impacted and inspired me, and the emotions I felt throughout playing so powerful, that I want to

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feel that all again. It would amazing to have that same experience now and in the present, rather than it be a distant memory." If that's what you mean when you say you want your memory wiped of a game, then I totally get it. It makes absolute sense to want to have that happiness *now*, or at the least have it happen yesterday, because as humans we essentially crave happiness. The video game that

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left the largest impact on me as a person was Ocarina of Time. I have a lot of powerful emotions connected to that game, that world, those characters, and that story, of good rising against evil. No other game's world was so believable, or dungeon ambience so effective at creeping me out. No other game has made me feel happier at the end of it all, feel as complete as I did (in that moment.) Yes,

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the game transcended "game" and into "experience", and I'm grateful for having experienced it. But do I wish I could have those same powerful emotions for the game in the present day? No. I just don't. I'm happy having had them in the past, and I'm grateful for how its impacted my life coming up to the present. Zelda has done a lot of wonderful things in my life, not the least of which is connect

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me with a community, and even given me friends. And thus ends my ramblings. I went on for a lot longer than I intended to, answering your original question in a very roundabout way, so I hope that you got something out of what I had to say. See you around, Matt. :)

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I think it would be a cool experience.

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Just popping in here to say that I really like Chris’s answer, and am completely unsure how to respond to this question after reading that. =P

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That actually encapsulates a lot of my feelings on the question, Christian! Thank you for commenting.

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I understand what you mean perfectly. Often times I’ll replay a game that I haven’t played in years forget apart and feel like I was able to experience it again for the first time. My most recent example of that is when I finally returned to Cave Story after 5 years.

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I was originally going to answer, but then Christian gave hat brilliant thought.

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Although now that I think about it, in a sense, I HAVE experienced this new beginning feeling twice. When I first played the Japanese version of Ocarina of Time with the intent of reading all I could and 100%ing it, it really did feel like it was the first time I had played it again. Same goes for the Japanese Majora's Mask. Just changing the language was enough to change the game to feel new.

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I suspect, if I ever decided to play Breath of the Wild in English, which I never have, it would feel like a new game altogether.

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I ALWAYS DREAM OF THAT!!!

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