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zandravandra
@zandravandra asked:

aside from Ghost Trick, what's another game that is much more enjoyable if you've never heard of it at all before playing it?

Zero Escape, Danganronpa, Immortality and Her Story, "basically any visual novel in the Mystery genre" probably qualifies to some extent? Frog Fractions and any other game relying on subverting expectations probably qualifies.

Beyond that... hmm. Undertale? Deltarune? I guess the third "Don't spoil me" genre for me is "games where the sheer joy is in being On the Ride". I played Undertale exactly one time and never touched it again and I'm more than happy with that experience, it was a single moment in my life and I think having it Be That Way actually feels better on some level. I'd probably put disco elysium on this list too.

Maybe the answer is just "games with writing that I like" lol

PS zandra we need to play AI: the Somnium Files sometime


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in reply to @MOOMANiBE's post:

Seconding Outer Wilds. Ghost Trick is eternally my favorite game but Outer Wilds is my new "this is the best game ever made". I guess in a similar vein Portal 1 could fall into "better going blind" as well

It genuinely baffles me to hear "according to Science you'll enjoy stories more if they've been 'spoiled' for you" repeated as indisputable fact so often, which just completely disregards the wonder of discovery and of getting to think and speculate about the setting, characters and story as meaningless.

I do like re-experiencing a story and getting to appreciate the craft of it in a way you only fully could when knowing where things are going - and you can still get some of the wonder when enough time has passed that you don't remember the details anymore - but the first-time experience is absolutely unique.

People always cite that study but I feel like it was a pretty weak one tbh. Picking a bunch of stories known for their twists and then telling some percentage is always going to allow some people to spot things in advance, the same way someone rereading them would, and obviously that's going to affect enjoyment in an environment where those who didn't know in advance can't then go back and reread it because it's for a limited 800-person study (that, btw, ended up with a like 8% margin at best, so whatever "preference" for spoilers existed seems like it could easily be within an error margin.)