Games you can play over and over again

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Every single pokemon game and I've played them all more times than I'd care to count.

Borderlands and Diablo 2 I've played a lot.

I'm doing another run through of Deus Ex: HR at the moment since I freaking love that game to bits.

 

[Fidelias]

Star Wars Battlefront 2, especially if you get it on PC and get the Conversion and Dark Son Rising mods.

Also Mass Effect Series, and Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2.

 

[piinyouri]

Morrowind
Borderlands
Symphony of the Night
Super Metroid
Star Ocean 3
Crystalis

 

[Epona]

Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XIII (yes, 13, I enjoy the pace of the game)

Playing Secret of Mana right now. This game fires my imagination because I think it was entirely programmed by one man, Nassir Gebelli and he did it a short time. I remember him saying in an interview that he keeps it all in his head so if a game took him longer than a month, he would have trouble remembering it all. I take that to mean that he programmed this entire game in a short time and it is a beautiful game that performs well (except for AI characters getting stuck sometimes). Programming for the SNES was in assembly so a little more difficult than higher level languages used today. He said he used no programming tools like Merlin to assist him.

I don't know, I just can't get enough of this game.

 

[ManimalR]

Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge
Red Alert 3
Mass Effect 1 and 2
Tomb Raiders Legend and Underworld

 

[Squilookle]

I could play Goldeneye singleplayer and Perfect Dark multiplayer till the emd of time. Same with UT2004. Ideally I'll play through Mafia once every year. Just Cause 2 and The Saboteur are going very strongly and I don't see either of them slowing down for a very long time- even though I've finished Saboteur's story.

 

[Saviordd1]

Mass Effect, Hands down. For years now there hasn't been a time where there's not the "current Shepard". I'll always go back to that.

...and I don't even do much different between the various playthroughs.

This, 15 playthroughs and counting, not including ones I got half way through and decided that their eyebrows werent up to snuff.

Captcha: You are happy

Well...thanks captcha...I guess?

 

[Arqus_Zed]

Final Fantasy IX and the original Spyro The Dragon trilogy - and in lesser extent Jak II: Renegade and Ratchet & Clank 2.

Yes, nostalgia is probably a factor.

Oh! TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, the multiplayer at least.

 

[In Search of Username]

Just Cause 2. Sure, it's repetitive, but you can stunt jump onto a car and proceed to chain the driver to the vehicle's rear bumper. What's not to love?

Got that game on PC? Three mods, and that game is impossible to stop playing. Superman, unbreakable grapple rope, multiple grapple rope. YOU BECOME A GOOOOOOD!

You missed the multiplayer mod!

 

[auron200004]

Dark Souls is great. I've made 4 different files, all of them NG+1 at least, planning a fifth.

I've replayed the Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly Cooper trilogies countless times.
Same with the first three Spyro games.

I love Final Fantasies 6 and 9 and have played them both a bunch accordingly.

Resident Evil 4 I have played a lot as well.

I'd play more Vampire: the Masquerade Bloodlines (I've made 5 files) if it weren't for the fact that I'm a huge wimp and the Oceanview Hotel (that's what it's called right) is a mandatory part of the storyline. I know how to do it, where to go, and what to pick up and everything. It's just the idea of turning a corner and the axe murderer standing right fucking there and then disappearing just as you freak the hell out. Funny thing is, other than the required run-in with him (where you see his feet moving behind some pipes), there are times where I don't even encounter him and I'm still paranoid to start a new file again.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Just Cause 2. Sure, it's repetitive, but you can stunt jump onto a car and proceed to chain the driver to the vehicle's rear bumper. What's not to love?

Got that game on PC? Three mods, and that game is impossible to stop playing. Superman, unbreakable grapple rope, multiple grapple rope. YOU BECOME A GOOOOOOD!

Alas, I'm a dirty Xbox-playing peasant, pale in comparison to the glorious PC gaming master race. There's been nights I've just fallen asleep slingshotting across roads. It's glorious and probably mentally unsound.

 

[Starik20X6]

Not sure if it counts as 'over and over again' because it never ends, but I have a soft spot for Animal Crossing games.

 

[TheKaduflyerSystem]

When I was about 10; I received a copy of Ratchet and Clank. On the back of the box, there is a wanted poster for Ratchet, promising a reward of 6 million bolts; with my mind set on collecting that many bolts over multiple playthroughs, I played it all the way through about 30 times. At 14 I achieved the objective of 6 million bolts. Then my PS2 broke, but ho hum.

 

[Reaper195]

Just Cause 2. Sure, it's repetitive, but you can stunt jump onto a car and proceed to chain the driver to the vehicle's rear bumper. What's not to love?

Got that game on PC? Three mods, and that game is impossible to stop playing. Superman, unbreakable grapple rope, multiple grapple rope. YOU BECOME A GOOOOOOD!

Alas, I'm a dirty Xbox-playing peasant, pale in comparison to the glorious PC gaming master race. There's been nights I've just fallen asleep slingshotting across roads. It's glorious and probably mentally unsound.

Ironically, I also have it on the 360, and have only played the modded PC version on my flamtates computer. ot it for about four bucks in the Steam sales, and hope to eventually be able to play it above seven FPS when I get a better computer.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Just Cause 2. Sure, it's repetitive, but you can stunt jump onto a car and proceed to chain the driver to the vehicle's rear bumper. What's not to love?

Got that game on PC? Three mods, and that game is impossible to stop playing. Superman, unbreakable grapple rope, multiple grapple rope. YOU BECOME A GOOOOOOD!

Alas, I'm a dirty Xbox-playing peasant, pale in comparison to the glorious PC gaming master race. There's been nights I've just fallen asleep slingshotting across roads. It's glorious and probably mentally unsound.

Ironically, I also have it on the 360, and have only played the modded PC version on my flamtates computer. ot it for about four bucks in the Steam sales, and hope to eventually be able to play it above seven FPS when I get a better computer.

Score one for the peasantry!

 

[hoboman29]

Fallout New Vegas is my game that I can replay over and over such great characters and a damn good rpg with different ways to play each time.

 

[Kroxile]

Easy. The first Doom.

I must've run through that game over 50 times.

 

[DoPo]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (with the In the Wake of Gods mod) - Heroes has never left me. Without exaggerating, Heroes has been on a hard drive near me more than Minesweeper. At any one point, I can go and start a new game. I'm that accustomed that I don't need a "mood" or any "right feeling" or whatever.

Oh god yes. I never tried any mods, but Heroes III is probably one of my favorite games, strategy or otherwise, that I've ever played. God I wish it was on steam so I can stop doing that stupid disk install that doesn't work that well with Vista.

The game is on GOG. You're welcome. Also, really, do try WoG - it's pretty neat. You can turn features on and off, to customise what you want. So, you can play the vanilla game, or make just some small tweaks[footnote]I ban the Water Walk and Summon/Scuttle Boat spells, as well as the boots of levitation, since I don't play on water maps, for example[/footnote], make giant changes[footnote][include new artifacts, a new neutral faction that replaces Conflux, new creatures, new game objects, new behaviour of old creatures, such as them gaining levels and so on[/footnote] or anywhere in between. Give it a spin, it's worth it. And, hey, you can just as easily turn it off, so nothing to lose. I like the fact that it fixes some useless skills to be, well, somewhat useful.

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Spartan: Total Warrior. Lets you pick which mission you want to replay so you can just skip to your favourite bits. In my case thats the ones where you get to kill enough enemies to populate a small city in the underworld of your choosing

 

[Catie Caraco]

Final Fantasy Tactics and Dragon Age Origins. Luff luff luff them both.