So hopefully I’m doing this right! :) (I’m still new to some of this so haven’t figured out things yet! I did ask this via Mastodon also, but wanted to add more detail to my answer!)
Is there a computer game, a moment in a game, a boss fight, or a specific moment that you would love to experience fresh with no prior memory of it?
Mine would have to be The Seat of Sacrifice fight in Final Fantasy XIV, one of if not my most favourite fights in the game to date.
The mechanics work so well and tie into everything that’s been happening, and then that moment where <redacted> (I refuse to spoil it!) shows up to help and then leaves with I think what made me cheer SO MUCH the first time I did the fight.
The music, the song To The Edge has become one of my most played songs in my entire music library (alongside Endwalker - Footfalls and Shadowbringers) as it is quite frankly perfect for the fight. and when they revealed that Soken had been battling cancer and wrote it whilst in hospital…
I adore the fight all together, and cannot help but say the lines in the cut scene bit in the middle every time I do the fight, and will never ever get bored of it.
So what moments in a game would you love to complete again with no prior experience?
Man, the first time I got swarmed by thrall with a wizard bombarding me was something else, and their maps were gorgeous. And very little in gaming was as satisfying and popping cabal heads.
I came back to try D2 (after buying it originally and having everything I bought tossed out in one of the bullshit waves of free to play nonsense) and you’re fighting some corny shit and end up in some safe city with things that look like a blend of Greek gods and super heroes. I might get past it if they weren’t pretending their malware “anticheat” was useful and made Linux support impossible, but it would be only for the gunplay, when the original game nailed design top to bottom. I had no problem playing strikes dozens of times because the design worked that well. Now? Eh.
Yeah, I left and tried to go back… but couldn’t bring myself to grind out the same strikes from 3 years ago (apparently some great ones were released and sunset in my time away! 🙄)
D1 had some of my favourite gaming moments ever, sad the sequel didn’t live up to it.
Oh well; guardians make their own fate.