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How To Forget A Game

Published on Sat, Aug 24th 2024 Gaming Rectangular HD

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We’ve all heard it before, maybe because we said it or someone around us said it… The phrase “I wish I could forget this game so I can play it for the first time again” … It’s a lovely thought, albeit an impossible request, to be able to re-experience your favorite game again completely blind. But IF we could… how would it be done? And realistically, what is the closest we could come to it? Let's take a look at a mountain of psych research that might give us as close of an answer as we can get.

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▶Games Shown

Stellar Blade (2024)
Final Fantasy XIII (2009)
NieR:Automata (2017)
Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020)
Gris (2018)
Neon White (2022)
Hollow Knight (2017)
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
Tekken 8 (2024)
Elden Ring (2022)
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024)
Persona 4 Golden (2012)
Final Fantasy X (2001)
Persona 5: Royal (2019)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (2022)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019)
Final Fantasy VII (1997)
Control (2019)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (2019)
Signalis (2022)
God of War (2018)
Hades (2020)
Alan Wake 2 (2023)
Metroid Dread (2021)
Ghost of Tsushima (2020)
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017)
The Last of Us (2013)
Firewatch (2016)
Death's Door (2021)
Haven (2021)
And many more… sorry didn’t have time to get title cards added to the video this time. Comment with a timestamp if you see one you want to know about!


▶Movies/TV/Anime Shown

Forrest Gump
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

▶Media/Clips/Considerations:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwABHajSLTc9-FK0w9TVx6L0oNkWxE-Ps&si=Rqin56LRfVj0zUvx

▶Music Sources (in Order):

Converging Emotions - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST
H U J I - Sierra's First Ride (Replay Selection).wav
(https://youtu.be/5bWVrKMro_Q?si=osDymnAmVGio15Tv)
Telescopic - There Came an Echo OST
Heartland - Metropolis Street Racer OST
Idealism - Nagashi
(https://youtu.be/Gz7WRR41T08?si=R7Sriay5isW0MHq3)
Photon - Enclosed
(https://soundcloud.com/photonsound/enclosed)
The Song of the Traveler - Stellar Blade OST
Eidos 7 Abandoned Station - Stellar Blade OST
Appearance of Imaginings - AI: The Somnium Files OST
Detective Pennington's on the Case - Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake OST
The Snowboard - MAX speed [TURBO 002]
VS Nobodies - Kingdom Hearts II OST
Wandering Flame - Final Fantasy X OST
Main Theme - Super Smash Bros: Brawl OST
Online Menu - TEKKEN 8 OST
Infinite Azure Stage Theme - TEKKEN 7 OST
Kerusu - Drifting in Silence
(https://youtu.be/shdnsCcLNIA?si=gnVwwaBrUKWvRTKP)


▶Research Sources

(H) The Forgetting Curve
https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/groups/Writing%20Program/forgetting_curve.pdf

(A) Forgetting Curve
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/forgetting-curve
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128196205000199

(B) Replication and Analysis of Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4492928/

(C) Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16719566/

(D) Flashbulb Memory: What to Know About Vivid Recall
https://www.verywellmind.com/flashbulb-memory-7111798

(E) Flashbulb Memories
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721415622487

(F) How Long Term Memory Works
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-long-term-memory-2795347

(G) The Representational Consequences of Intentional Forgetting: Impairments to Both the Probability and Fidelity of Long-Term Memory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4694085/

(G2) Event-method directed forgetting: Forgetting a video segment is more effortful than remembering it
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691813001571#bb0090

(I) A New Look at Memory Retention and Forgetting
https://memorylab.nd.edu/assets/512320/2022_radvansky_doolen_pettijohn_ritchey_jep_lmc_.pdf

(J) A ten-year follow-up of a study of memory for the attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb memories and memories for flashbulb events.
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0000055

What Is The Forgetting Curve (And How Do You Combat It)?
https://elearningindustry.com/forgetting-curve-combat