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Not technically the 'same' place but the Spencer Estate in RE5's DLC was very nostalgic.

For revisiting the same place, Shadow Moses in MGS 4 is GOAT. Especially with that music.

 

[Mac the KNife]

Leene's Bell in Chrono Cross

Lots of good callbacks in Chrono Cross.

 

[mclem]

This was the first thing I thought of. MGS4 had a LOT of problems, but they absolutely nailed that bit.

As far as recently goes, I would have to say Zelda: BotW

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when you make your way through the Lost Woods to the Master Sword's resting place and The Great Deku Tree. Absolutely fantastic callbacks to LttP and Oot.

Speaking of the bolded bit:

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One nice touch is that the torch/wind puzzle to enter the Lost Woods in BOTW? Paid attention to the direction you actually travel?

You go north, west, south, west.

 

[Megalosaro]

Pokemon gen 2 and dragon quest 3

 

[Little Mons†er]

Throwback Galaxy in Mario Galaxy 2.

The nostalgia was strong there.

I came for this

 

[Draft]

Dead Space 2 is the run away winner.

A fake Spencer Mansion in RE:CV is fun.

Diablo 2 turns Tristram into flaming rubble, complete with several dead NPCs from the first game.

But Dead Space 2 nails it. That's a real gaming experience.

 

[Lynchian]

FFVII

I know it's within the same game, but parachuting into Midgar gave lil me a rush of nostalgia.

Just shows how grand a journey you've taken in that game.

 

[Violence Jack]

Definitely MGS4, but Saints Row 4 going back to the original Saints Row in the "rescue Benjamin King" mission was an awesome site to see.

 

[AntraxSuicide]

That's why it's really good, it's not nostalgia per se. It's playing your expectations of what you did in the first game and the memories of it, then mashes it with heretofore not experienced tension in the second game. You stop and wonder stuff like"...was it that vent the first time?" or "did it come from around this corner before?" for an agonizingly long time. Finally getting attacked was a release from that.

It's PTSD, is what it is

 

[0coolclimate0]

Borderlands 2. Returning to Fyrstone.

 

[Kamina]

 

[Pontiaction]

Last level of System Shock 2 was a nostalgia trip, though a simulated one. Loved it.

Since then, my favorite is the Ishimura in Dead Space 2 as has been mentioned many times.

 

[Haganeren]

MGS4 and going back to 1.

Replaying MGS1 with old graphics was awesome but the actual chapter was terrible. It's the only chapter i REALLY didn't liked in MGS 4.

My favorite must be System Shock 2 myself, i played those two games back to back and it really felt awesome !

Edit : Damn

 

[Valonquar]

Honestly I get these same feels in every From Software game when I unlock a shortcut from a late game area that links to a much much earlier game area. The long hours in-between them always left me feeling like "Remember the many deaths here? Look at how much I've grown since then!"

Followed by5 things that shouldn't pose a threat anymore destroying me.

 

[Herp Derpington]

Dead Space 2 is the run away winner.

A fake Spencer Mansion in RE:CV is fun.

Diablo 2 turns Tristram into flaming rubble, complete with several dead NPCs from the first game.

But Dead Space 2 nails it. That's a real gaming experience.

You hit it on the head with Dead space 2. Such a cool eerie experience going back to the Ishimura. So we'll done and part of why that's one of the best games ever made to me. Just a great experience overall.

Definitely MGS4, but Saints Row 4 going back to the original Saints Row in the "rescue Benjamin King" mission was an awesome site to see.

For the longtime SR fans this was an incredibly cool experience and showed real attention to detail and love of the series by Volition. It's easy to forget a games roots but they nailed it and was a very cool callback. I wish more games did this. SR2 could be the obvious choice too with how they treated the church. The cool audio guides with Julius's voice narrating them was an awesome touch. It's pretty impressive how interconnected they kept the Saints Row games through the years. Makes you really appreciate the love they have for the series.

 

[ZiggyPalffyLA]

Lots of good callbacks in Chrono Cross.

Goddamn that game was gorgeous, hard to believe it's a PS1 game. It was really smart to go with the pre-rendered backgrounds.

 

[DylanEno]

Breath of the Wild has alot of these.
-Hyrule Town Ruins.
-Arbiter Grounds.
-Lon Lon Ranch ruins.
-Deku Tree, Lost Woods, Master Sword in pedestal.
-Hyrule Castle
-Gerudo and Sheikah having heir own cool town and society instead of being full thieves or extinct nearly.
-3 skeletons of monsters and the big wise fishes from old games.
-Koroks, Zora, Rito, Goron's.
-Alot of callbacks with music.
-Alot of callbacks reference wise.
-Lots ofcallbacks area/location wise.
-Temple of Time.
-Enemies (Lynels especially)
- BotW is a modern call back to the first Zelda game ever, it eveb started as such in development. They tried to do crazy things in a nes zelda build first and add that to BotW later.

And even more.

What hit me the hardest was 100% the Rito Village music. Such a beautiful opening followed by a blast of nostalgia that is the Dragon Roost Island melody... Damn. ;-;

 

[mcfrank]

 

[AAK]

MGS4 and going back to 1.

This.

Will also give a special mention to the return to the Ishimura in Dead Space 2.

 

[ViolentP]

MGS4 and going back to 1.

This was my thought. The second I saw there was a reply in this thread when I read the title I knew it was covered.

 

[RagnarokX]

One neat one is how in Kirby Squeak Squad you go to the bottom of Orange Ocean and find the Halberd where it's been resting ever since it crashed in Super Star as the Squeaks salvage it and it takes flight once more.

 

[GodofWine]

MGS4 and going back to 1.

Came here to say this...playing a pixelated dream sequence of MGS1 was too damn cool

 

[Kamina]

I understand what you mean, but you were actually never in that place in OoT.
It less nostalgia and more discovering what happened.

 

[Rad Shadow]

Suikoden II did it really great (probably not the best though). The sidequest you get when importing data from the first game is superb, and to say you simply revisit an old location only scratches the surface of what the sidequest adds to the game.

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The hero from the first game, Tir McDohl, joins your party and together, you cross the border to the Toran republic, where the first game took place. You can explore the main town, Gregminster, and its castle, both with updated music and graphics. You get to stay at McDohl's house where you get extra scenes of Suiko2 characters interacting with the first game's characters. Later, you can visit and put McDohl in your party whenever you want.

This.

 

[Green Mega Man]

All the Chrono Cross callbacks were bittersweet to me, because of how that game treated the events/outcomes of Trigger.

But that's a whole other can of worms to discuss.

Leene's Bell during the Miguel fight was a thing of beauty though.

 

[JBourne]

For me, it was definitely returning to the Ishimura on Dead Space 2. It's one of my favorite gaming moments ever. Fantastic buildup to it, and walking through the plastic-covered hallways of the ship was really eerie throughout.

 

[adamantypants]

There's a right answer to this question. It's MGS4

 

[Kaydan]

I always have a hit of nostalgia when I visit Old Tristram in Diablo 3.

 

[ActWan]

MGS4 was perfect.
Going back to Kaer Morhen in The Witcher 3 was so good...

 

[Izuna]

MGS4

Ninja Garden 2 (beautiful shit)

Even Ninja Garden black, if it counts

Final Fantasy X-2 was fantastic

Chrono Cross had one good scene (which had a shit plot twist tbf)

Knights of the Old Republic 2

In order

 

[hullostranger]

MGS4 return to Shadow Moses. Best moment in gaming history.

+1

 

[Izuna]

Gears of war 4, marcus mansion.

Joke post?

 

[RagnarokX]

Breath of the Wild has alot of these.
-Hyrule Town Ruins.
-Arbiter Grounds.
-Lon Lon Ranch ruins.
-Deku Tree, Lost Woods, Master Sword in pedestal.
-Hyrule Castle
-Gerudo and Sheikah having heir own cool town and society instead of being full thieves or extinct nearly.
-3 skeletons of monsters and the big wise fishes from old games.
-Koroks, Zora, Rito, Goron's.
-Alot of callbacks with music.
-Alot of callbacks reference wise.
-Lots ofcallbacks area/location wise.
-Temple of Time.
-Enemies (Lynels especially)
- BotW is a modern call back to the first Zelda game ever, it eveb started as such in development. They tried to do crazy things in a nes zelda build first and add that to BotW later.

And even more.

To be fair, though, most of the callbacks are very superficial. Like if Arbiter's Grounds had like actual ruins that looked like Arbiter's Grounds that would have been amazing but as it is in the actual game it's just a neat nod.

The closest BotW gets to this is the Spring of Power, which appears to use retextured models from Skyward Sword:

http://i.imgur.com/5u8JLnN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uOrcUOr.jpg

 

[Mokujin]

Xenogears had quite a bit of Chrono Trigger references, and I would almost say Xenos Goliath is a revisit of Chronos Blackbird which was something awesome.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Dead Space 2 is the winner.

It's executed perfectly, serves the story in a great way and turns expectations on your head as you

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enter the Ishimura and it's completely empty and in mid-clean.
The tension of looking around waiting for something to attack you is so thick.

Dead Space 2 is actually one of the top 5 games of the last generation.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

 

[Aranjah]

Pokemon Gold and Silver returning you to Kanto.

Yeah, this was going to be my answer, too.

 

[Shotgun Kiss]

Cheating a bit, but Rainbow Road from Mario Kart 64 appearing in F-Zero X was cool.

Eapecially the remixed music.

 

[Sami+]

NieR Automata

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taking you back to the library from the first NieR got me very excited.

I looked over at my gf in absolute shock and she just blinked and looked blankly back at me waiting for me to explain why I got so excited lmaoooo

 

[Adam_Vania]

Monkey Island 2 was already a mindfuck. but to have the back alley from MI1's Melee Island unexpectedly appear during the ending was balls to the wall crazy. equally insane was that the room had no function. it was truly Lynchian.

thinking about how bizarre MI2's ending was will always be bitter sweet. when is Gilbert crowdfunding his MI3?

 

[Bornstellar]

Probably not a popular choice, but reassaulting the control room at the end of Halo 3. One of the few Flood levels I don't hate.

My pick as well.

 

[Fata1moose]

Fable's Oakvale ---> Fable II's Wraithmarsh. You start out in a more developed Borrow Fields, then you turn the corner to see the dilapidated iconic bridge as Teresa reveals Oakvale was cursed.

 

[woopWOOP]

I think in Kirby's Adventure (NES), you visit the first level from Kirby 1.

This was fun. I loved that they changed the palette to Gameboy colours for that one stage too.

Kirby Super Star also remade the first Kirby's Dreamland in fancy SNES graphics as Sping Breeze, but without one stage and that blimp boss.

This was great too. Had me exploring all the other racetracks to find similar secrets.

Pokemon G&S's Kanto trip is the king of nostalgia trips for me tho. Not having it spoiled for me greatly increased the wow factor. Thanks to the internet I don't think anything will come close anymore

 

[BKatastrophe]

Darksiders 2

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going back to Earth. Fighting demons alongside Uriel. Coupled with finding out a bunch of backstory from the first game prior to that (Ulthane, Strife's guns, Abaddon, etc) it just hits.

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Kingdom Hearts 2

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Though it happens very early, going to Hollow Bastion had a very "THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!" feeling to it.

 

[PSqueak]

I dunno if it counts, but the Tunnel of Memories in Mother 3 is a boat ride with an exhibition of landmarks and items from Earthbound/mother 2 while a remix of "Pollyanna" plays, also the rooms leading and departing from the boat ride play the Earthbound Beginnings/Mother title theme.

I originally played the series back to back so it really hit me.

 

[Moff]

I think Gothic 2 did this best

 

[WaterAstro]

MGS4 and going back to 1.

One and done.

 

[jptuo]

Company of Heroes 2

 

[WordsintheWater]

Top is MGS4 for me, I don't think I have ever felt as much of a nostalgia trip as I did with that. Another good one is Dead Space 2.

 

[erlim]

As much as I loved the MGS4 callback, the enemies there were so obnoxious it detracted from the experience.

Maan, i wish that game was available for PS4 Of all the games that have been remastered...

Yeah, I agree, not to throw the topic off, but I don't understand why Konami can't rerelease the games that Kojima made for them. Like they could rerelease PT for $2.99 and make money. They could rerelease the silent hill games. They could release the castlevania games on Xbox one and ps4. But instead, panchinko.