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Darth Rosenberg

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Of this/current-ish gen; Skyrim's not been uninstalled since the day it launched, which is the only game that's never budged from my never-upgraded 120Gb 112Gb 360 drive.

The [latest] Tomb Raider reboot is the only other game, off the top of my head, that has a bizarrely compulsive replayability factor; just the actual moment to moment gameplay (movement, immersive HUD, controls, sound design, etc) is satisfying to the extent that I've never found it a chore, or got bored by it. Lara's, finally, a great character to virtually hang around with, and Yamatai's a gorgeously crafted and varied world, rich in detail.

Whether those technically count as 'always in the mood to play'? Perhaps not, but those are two games I can't seem to tire of, no matter how many times I return to them.

Oh, and then there's Street Fighter IV, which qualifies simply because its core gameplay stretches back to SFII, and is - one could argue - perfect, conceptually, ergo I can always jump back into that series and love it.
 

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Faster than Light is installed on all of my computers. I love how I can sit down and just play a few systems or try and settle in for the long haul. Usually just a brief mention of it is enough to get me to seek it out.

As for other games I've basically never stopped playing: Skyrim, Fallout 3/NV, Final Fantasy 8, Smash Brothers, the Dead or Alive games, and The Longest Journey. I used to count TF2, but I gave it up last year when I just got too bored with the hat simulator.
 

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I will never stop being in the mood to play Metal Gear Rising.
All I need to do is hear the words "THERE WILL BE BLOOD!" and I'm already in the game, hacking away like a complete psycho. Nice touch is if that was intentional by Platinum as well.

CAPTCHA: "think green"...........Oh what cruel irony that you had to be hear for Metal Gear, CAPTCHA.
 

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The Madman said:
The day I stop loving a quick round of deathmatch in Unreal Tournament 2004 is the day I've stopped loving fun.
With mods/muts of some kind? Better be with mods/muts...

I'd have to say Halo 3 or... Yeah, UT99 or UT2004.
 

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For me, pretty much any of the Pokemon games are safe bets that I'm always up for playing, especially Red/Blue HeartGold/SoulSilver and X/Y. There's just something comforting about going into them, knowing exactly what I'm going into and wallowing in nostalgia.

Other than that, I think the two games I'm always in the mood to play are Skyrim and Kingdom Hearts II. Especially with Skyrim, I'm always up for making a new character and putting another 100-odd hours into it, it just never gets old.
 

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I think Binding of Isaac and Hearthstone are those games, thanks to the fact that you can launch them so quickly and that every game is so short and unique.
 

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It varies for me. For the last few weeks it's been Path of Exile whenever I'm in the mood to play a game, but not feeling strongly about any one particular game. It's easy to boot up, slaughter a couple maps worth of mobs for some XP and loot, then go about the rest of my day.

Previously it was some iteration of Call of Duty (mostly MW2 and MW3) since I generally enjoy the chaotic multiplayer. Since they're segmented into rounds lasting 10 minutes or less they're decent filler games and general time-wasters. As an added bonus it's always fun to laugh at people that confuse my natural aptitude for FPS games and reasonable reaction time for cheating.
 

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I generally tend to rotate between XCOM and its expansion, Skyrim and Dark Souls II. If you include board games and RPG systems into the mix, I'd have to mention Elder Sign and my current D&D campaign.

I'd kill for a chance to go through a decent Arkham Horror run - but this thing is typically longer than an old-fashioned RISK game.
 

Mutant1988

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Timesplitters 2.

I don't care. I can play that game any time. And whenever I visit my best friend, we play that game. If he visits me, we also play that game. It's just an awesome game that holds up to this day.

There's a handful of others that I have replayed many, many times. Maybe not timeless classics (Like Timesplitters 2), but good games worth replaying.

Psi-Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy springs to mind. I played through that 6 times. Great game.
 

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It seems that I'm always able to pick up Prototype or Prototype 2 when nothing else grabs my fancy. I've played so much of that game, yet it still just takes control of me and doesn't let me play for short periods of time.
 

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Civ and spelunky. I play spelunky like.... every day im home at least once. I have over one thousand hours on civ 5 alone. I have a problem.
 

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Flammablezeus said:
It seems that I'm always able to pick up Prototype or Prototype 2 when nothing else grabs my fancy. I've played so much of that game, yet it still just takes control of me and doesn't let me play for short periods of time.
It's a very cathartic game to play. Well, at least the second is. The first game could get insanely hard at times. I screwed myself over by getting to the final boss underleveled and not having any saves further back.

That sucked a whole lot.
 

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Majora's Mask

Pokemon Ruby/Saphire (including ORAS)

Golden Sun (all games)

Smash Bros.

League of Legends

Lords of Waterdeep (Board Game)

Skyrim

Morrowwind

New Vegas

Borderlands 2

Bastion
 

Mr Companion

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Left 4 Dead 2 is a great fallback. Dry patch? Can't think of anything to play? Weeel I could always boot up the Ol L4D and humiliate everybody.

Dwarf Fortress. Once again if I ever got bored of or run out of AAA big budget games I just go back to trusty Dwarf Fortress.

Age of Wonders is quickly becoming scarily addictive to me. Not the single player campaign (which is kind of a slog) but the local multiplayer with my friend. We've just been playing the same two classes, me as Arch Druid and him as Dreadnaught. I hear you say "But playing the same two classes in any game is BOOORING" but there is literally enough depth in just playing those two classes on various random maps with various races that we are not even close to being bored after a solid WEEK of playing it all day. Literally from sunrise to sunset.
 

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Halo 3. Nothing wrong with jumping into a few games of that.
 

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Ihrgoth said:
Mass Effect 1. I could easily play that game any time.
Really? I always considered any Bioware RPG to be very mood specific. There's so much in mass effect 1 and 2 that don't really end up mattering at all. Not that they aren't great games, but I find like the mineral locating, prothean and turian artifact locating just so...tedious. It drags the game's pace down...