Never Gonna, But Wanna - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

What's the game you really desperately want to revisit, but new releases, DLC, life surprise drops, the desire to play retro games get in the way of?

If it were last week I'd have said Death Stranding but I'm making moves on it now. At present it's Breath of The Wild. If time stops, I'll play immediately.

LivDiv

Soggy biscuit

Wait what?

regmcfly

Here he is

Syph79

Breath of the Wild is one I’d like to go back to. Watched my eldest play/finish it recently and my YouTube feed (because of him) is full of ‘things you didn’t know about…’ videos, that make me feel I did it wrong, even though I loved it.

Started playing Doom (2016) again recently, but as much as I want to see it through to the end again, the pull of other stuff means it my waaaaay back burner game right now.

Death Stranding is too fresh for me, plus Drumbeg has it.

LivDiv

I would like to have a go at GTA Online again but the game has ran away from me now.
It would need a serious investment in time or money to experience it properly now I feel. Absolutely loved it at launch, it provided some of the most epic and hilarious experiences Ive had.

Also my mates that I played with barely play games these days, they didnt really play then either but got caught up in the GTA hypetrain.

Kow

Edit. Didn't read op of course.

mk64

the latest fire emblem, the wandering around in the outworld bored the hell out of me and probably masked an otherwise interesting ingame

mistercrayon

Nothing unless I can wipe my brain. Keep moving forward.

Eric

There's a few but Red Dead Redemption is probably my big one. Don't think there's a game that I have played that compares narrative wise.

Others include:
Binary Domain
Shenmue 2
Quantum Break

Raiziel

There’s something about the atmosphere of Shadow Man (I played it on N64) that has stayed with me over the years. I could never revisit it now though as I imagine the control scheme is likely way too arcane for my modern sensibilities.

g.man

Raiziel wrote:

There’s something about the atmosphere of Shadow Man (I played it on N64) that has stayed with me over the years. I could never revisit it now though as I imagine the control scheme is likely way too arcane for my modern sensibilities.

Apparently it’s just been remastered and I think has new control options and a lot of cut content restored. Absolutely loved it back in the day in the DC.

Raiziel

Ooh, that might work.

regmcfly

Yeah I also love that. Still have my pal copy with 90% essentual emblazoned on the front from ONM

afgavinstan

I'd love to have the time to properly get waist deep on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 but I just... Don't. Sigh.

LivDiv

I would like to play a Pokemon with the same enthusiasm I had for Gen 1 and 2.

RedDave2

Red dead 2. I bought my bone with it but after the prologue i lost interest after i had a few fails on a mission. Loading times were a big pain so really interested in seeing how it runs on the series s.

I also really wabt to restart Ori 2. Started it, than some stufd happened and i feel lost when i start it up. A fresh start is needed.

yourfavouriteuncle

The only game i’ve ever completed more than once is Ico. I just don’t ever really go back but such is my admiration for it’s world, I’m re-starting Red Dead 2 this coming week as i recuperate.

MattyJ

Would love to play through all the bioshocks again, just to see how well they hold up.

Diluted Dante

The first one is still rubbish.

Blue Swirl

Shenmue 2 has been on my list since it came out on Dreamcast, and now of course there's 3.

More recently, my brother has been on at me to play Control. I got it gratis on Epic, but I keep playing other stuff.

Moot_Geeza

Four Sword Adventures. Would just about count as a revisit because I did play it briefly in three player near launch (before I sold it). Probably won't happen as it's never been rereleased and it's not as easy as it used to be to get a roomful of mates in for videogames.

I've often thought about playing Ocarina of Time again too, was my favourite game for many years but I've only played it through once. Probably won't happen either, I have started replaying a few things in recent years but I much prefer not to miss out on new stuff*

*This doesn't apply to older retro games; I'll replay MS/MD titles over and over, it's the 32-bit and beyond software that became more one and done for me.

Questor

To you last point Moot, I think that's possibly because in the 32 bit era, the games in general started to become much longer experiences that are way more of a chore to replay through.

Moot_Geeza

Definitely. Plus early to mid 3D games lack so much refinement compared to subsequent gens. Think about how good Tomb Raider was compared to how it would play without nostalgia.

davyK

Tomb Raider was shit even back then.

Moot_Geeza

Each to their own but nuh-uh. Even with the tank controls it was a very well designed game, some of the level design was streets ahead of the norm.

LivDiv

I played M64 before I played Tomb Raider and that totally killed TR for me.

davyK

Me too.

I played TR on PC after M64 and lost interest very early on. I hated the dark, grimy look to it too.

Kow

Fools. TR was the greatest. Davy is Tombphobic.

JonB

After Dread I have a hankering for Super Metroid again. I've been meaning to play it for years.

Diluted Dante

davyK wrote:

Me too.

I played TR on PC after M64 and lost interest very early on. I hated the dark, grimy look to it too.

Tomb Raider Davy.

Tomb.

davyK

Heh. I got it again for PS2 - the Anniversary edition. Looked and played great but I ended up getting stuck somewhere, got bored, and gave up......I might not have even got out of the mansion come to think of it.....

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