I was going to say replaying but I feel like that limits the question to games like Prey or Fallout New Vegas that have endings and games like The Sims 2 or Cities Skylines where you can play indefinitely end up excluded.
I’m not really referring to games like League of Legends where you’re coming back every month. More so games where you stop playing for an extended period of time.
Minecraft, you can only pretend to have gotten away for so long before the block game calls again.
One thing I’ve gotten into doing is instead of starting a new game I just run off in some random direction for an hour. It’s neat to stumble across things you built years ago
I definitely get what you mean
They have bees now!
We play it HARD a few weekends a year. So amazing to get lost in a new world every now and then.
Factorio. I love the gameplay but none of my friends play it so I normally play other games with them and come back to Factorio every now and then.
I’m with you, I got a lot of hours in it but still come back every few months for a new map.
But although I’ve done mega bases, deathworld, Bobs and Space Exploration, I don’t want to do them again even though I thoroughly enjoyed them.
My love is the early game and up to launching a rocket. Anyone with me on this?
Civ V, every few months I decide to completely fuck up my sleep schedule playing later than I should
One more turn…
…and it’s morning.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon
- Project Zomboid
- Vampire Survivors
- Rimworld
- Metal Gear Solid V (on PC with mods that greatly expand/enhance free roam, and add more side ops)
- Tomba 1 and 2 (Tombi in the EU)
- Chrono Trigger
- Megaman Legends (love the sequel, but haven’t ever completed it, life keeps getting in the way)
- Castlevania Syphony of the Night
- Sonic Adventure (it’s trash, but fun trash, especially with mods)
- Sonic Mania, Sonic 3 and Knuckles
- Minecraft
Some that I haven’t come back to in a while, but I’m overdue:
- Ape Escape
- Crash Bandicoot (1-3)
- Spyro (1-3)
- Digimon World 3
- Any of the GBA or DS Castlevanias
- Actraiser
- Rayman 2
- Megaman Battle Network series(3 and 4 are my favorite entries)
- Dissidia Duodecim
- Zone of the Enders 2
- God Hand
- Wipeout Pulse/Pure
- Pretty much any Kirby game
Most of these games I find just plain fun. Thanks for asking, I was starting to get burned out and not finding stuff as fun, but writing this out has me hankering to revisit some old favorites again.
MGSV bored me to death. I think I watched 10 minutes of cutscenes, got bored of watching a game, and then never touched it again.
Can you recommend some Sonic Adventure mods?
Skyrim for the mods. Every hardware upgrade I wonder how much more I can push it.
What were the results of your most recent trial?
Aside from textures being able to run enbs more smoothly.
After my most recent upgrade i loaded up nearly a TB of mods with Wabbajack. It looked gorgeous. It ran smoothly. The gameplay mods made it less fun!
Wabbajack makes me regret not getting the nexusmods lifetime option.
Was definitely worth it. My biggest problem with it isn’t even Wabbajack.
The modding community send to have settled on making Skyrim hardcore these days. While I fine games that are meant for that fun, it’s not why I want to play Skyrim. So those mod packs end up ruining the game for me.
Peggle
Great, now I need to play some peggle
Peglin is also pretty great
Star Wars: The Old Republic. I don’t care about all the MMO stuff, but every time I watch or read something star-wars-related, I want to fire it up, get the one month subscription, and go on with some single-player story I need to finish. This happens twice a year more or less.
Here are some of mine:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Romancing SaGa 2 & 3
- Mega Man X 1-4
STALKER, Stardew Valley, No Man’s Sky, Skyrim, Morrowind, WoW Classic/Vanilla, Mass Effect, Fallout 3/New Vegas.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dwarf Fortress. Highly-replayable, open-world and they keep being developed, so when you come back, there’s new stuff.
Skyrim, Fallout 4. Same idea, but the modders have added a lot of content.
Some of the city-builders, like Tropico 5. I play for a while, get tired, uninstall, but tend to come back, because the game is replayable.
Chase the Sun and Nova Drift are action games that I have spent some time away from and then come back and played. Nova Drift has seen regular development.
Pinball sims. I think that one can only play so much pinball, but I find myself thinking “I’d like to play a pinball game” down the line and reinstall.
I think that most of the games have some common characteristics:
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Didn’t live-or-die based on their technology or graphics, because they’re invariably obsolete by the time I’ve come back.
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Need to be highly-replayable. I’ve played games with story, like Fallout: New Vegas but I don’t really go back to play them for the story (though I’ll concede that specifically Fallout: New Vegas does have multiple paths to explore). They can’t be appealing because of a surprising or tense plot or a plot twist.
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Often see continued development or modding, so there’s some reason to go back and see what’s there (though pinball would be a notable exception…you don’t go back for new content).
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Morrowind, there are some great multi player communities.
Mindustry, sometimes i just listen to the machines.
pretty much any console game on emulators, recently playing ffvii again while i wait for rebirth pc port.
shattered pixel dungeon.
I had no idea morrowind had multiplayer mods. That sounds cool!
Do you mind talking a bit more about the Morrowind multiplayer? I’d be interested to hear how it works and your experience
You have to have the original game files either from the disk or downloaded from GoG or steam. Then you need tes3mp which runs great on linux and windows. I personally play on a server called neravarine prophecies, they have seasonal events and the community is a lot of fun. It uses the same engine as openMW so most of the mods that work on OpenMW are compatible, I’d stick with cosmetics to keep the servers you join compatible.
Different servers have different rules, many of them forbid going into areas that cause server crashes, i.e. mornhould.
I had a blast, then I got my kids to play and i was there to guide them a bit when the game gets tough.
For me,
- half life 1 and 2
- portal 1 but not 2
- psychonauts 1 and 2
They’re like chicken soup. So good.
Just curious as why not Portal 2? That’s honestly one of my “chicken soup” comfort food games - Portal 1 is great but to me, Portal 2 is so much more.
I think it’s the length, is all. Tough to commit to all that again now. It is great, for sure. We reference it in quotes all the time around my house.
Portal 2 is definitely the one I pick up regularly, but specifically for the Perpetual Testing Initiative. I’ve already played the main story enough times, but dropping in for a few really well-made user-created levels with a little bit of new Cave Johnson dialogue is great!
Don’t starve, hands down
Also Pokémon Rom hacks
Don’t Starve ticks pretty much all the boxes for a game that I should like…but I just don’t.
I like a number of action roguelikes, like The Binding of Isaac.
I like the open-world nature.
But the game just doesn’t do it for me. I dunno. I guess that a lot of the gameplay is clicking on things to gather them, which I am not that blown away by. I don’t feel like I change things up much based on what the world throws at me, which I think is an important aspect for a roguelite/roguelike to have. Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead does a better job of this, The Binding of Isaac a much better. I think that the low-sanity graphical artifacts might build mood, but are obnoxious.
The aesthetic just doesn’t really do it for me.
Postal 2. The game mechanics and open-world flexibility have aged amazingly well, it’s still very funny, and I love the way the game’s level of violence firmly depends on the player’s actions.
Plus the Postal Dude’s petition to make whiney congressmen play violent video games is needed more than ever.On Android I miss Spaghetti & Marshmallows, where you had to build towers out of said materials. That was a wonderful game with great physics but sadly only runs on very old phones.
Fallout 4 and FO:NV
Civ VI
The entire Myst series, Obduction (haven’t played Firmament yet)
Ultima VII, Ultima Underworld, Ultima Underworld II
Under a Steel Sky, Beyond a Steel Sky
Ooh, Under a Steel Sky. I’ve been in the mood to play one of those old ScummVM games. How is that one?
Great story. It’s on GOG. Beyond a Steel Sky is the sequel, released a few years ago. Kinda sad, but really great, too. Made by the creators of the original from the 90s, and has an in-game commentary track!
Under a steel sky
Is there a third game in the series I’m not aware of or did you mean Beneath a steel sky?
I did mean that. Fixed
