Mycanid
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EyeontheMountain said:To get the 1E feel again, I would have to wipe my brain of all I have learned since High School and efectively re-live my life. It was my first RPG, and I don't think you can get that again.
For the next best thing, I would need a totally new game, that I had never read or heard about from friends, family or the net. Then I could get the exploration feel that to me was the biggest part of 1E. Explorignthe magic system, the classes, the world, all of it. To me, that newness was 1E.
I know exACTly what you are saying here sir ... but I must admit that I have to disagree. The "newness" of a thing does not depend solely on an absence of familiarity. There are plenty of people who experience all sorts of things and have the same freshness and feel to a thing as when they first tried it out. And this applies both to gaming and many, many other aspects of life.
Admittedly this is one of my "standard rants" ... I am convinced that one can keep the disposition of newness and freshness alive in all one's activities while at the same time growing and changing and experiencing such activities in a different way as the years go by.
Yes - some game systems have more percentage wise that could "haze-ify" the things that make the gaming experience what they were when the glow of "first love" was upon one. But the main factor in all this is US ... it is something in US that has "grown old". Nor am I saying that every single gaming experience should be a peak experience!
But the quality of it CAN be raised as a standard reference point by out attitudes and what not outside of the gaming sessions towards gaming and other things in general. I've seen many people do it.