How To Forget A Game

Expand your scientific horizon with Brilliant! Use my link to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 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. Support Daryl Talks Games on Patreon! ▶▶ Bonus content, early access, YOUR name at the end of videos, and more all for $1/month! Twitter ▶ Twitch ▶ Like the first time... (0:00) Become brilliant with Brilliant (2:55) Ebbinghaus and letting it rest (4:28) The science of lost details (10:06) Okay, but how long? (12:06) No really, HOW LONG? (15:40) Here’s your answer, don’t do it (19:48) XOXO, Gossip Girl (22:24) ▶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: ▶Music Sources (in Order): Converging Emotions - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 OST H U J I - Sierra’s First Ride (Replay Selection).wav ( Telescopic - There Came an Echo OST Heartland - Metropolis Street Racer OST Idealism - Nagashi ( Photon - 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 ( ▶Research Sources (H) The Forgetting Curve Program/ (A) Forgetting Curve (B) Replication and Analysis of Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve (C) Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: A review and quantitative synthesis (D) Flashbulb Memory: What to Know About Vivid Recall (E) Flashbulb Memories (F) How Long Term Memory Works (G) The Representational Consequences of Intentional Forgetting: Impairments to Both the Probability and Fidelity of Long-Term Memory (G2) Event-method directed forgetting: Forgetting a video segment is more effortful than remembering it #bb0090 (I) A New Look at Memory Retention and Forgetting (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. What Is The Forgetting Curve (And How Do You Combat It)?