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LinkPizza posted...

Ever not play a game so long that you forget pretty much everything about it?

Depends on the game, and depends on how much I played it.

For most games if I haven't played them in a while (and if I've been playing other games in the meantime), there's a bit of muscle-memory relearning involved as I have to re-adapt to the specific control scheme and what the buttons do. But beyond that I'm pretty good at remembering details if it's a game I've played a lot before, even if it was a long time ago.

I may not remember specific details (like which chests I put my stuff in in my Skyrim or Fallout house, or what sidequest I was doing last and what I was going to do next, or what projects I was working on in my Stardew Valley run), but I could easily drop into a new run and still remember where stuff is on the map, where specific things are hidden, etc.

I mean, I haven't played Dragon Warrior since the 1980s, yet I could probably still draw the entire map from memory, tell you where all the important things are (and the order you should look for them in to optimize monster levels), find the exact spot where Erdrick's Token is in the marsh without using the Princess' love, and so on. I'll remember boss strategies and the like.

It's really only if I was kind of disinterested in the game the first time, or if I didn't really play it all that long, that I tend to forget stuff. Like I've got PS1 games I can't remember a single detail of, but I've got Atari 2600-era games I could probably still play with my eyes closed.