That one game you just keep going back to

[Vigormortis]

Only one?

My thoughts as well. I usually find myself having a sudden craving to revisit any number of old favorites.

Half-Life series
Homeworld
Diablo 2
Portal 2
Torchlight 2
Terraria
FTL
Super Smash Bros / Super Smash Bros Melee
Dota 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Team Fortress 2
Doom 2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Sven Co-op
MechCommander 2
Hexic HD (gods I love the soundtrack on this one)
Prototype
Crackdown

And really, occasionally, a few others. I can't say I find myself jonesing to play all of them every week like some withdraw-suffering addict, but I do think back to them fondly from time-to-time and usually find myself revisiting them for a few hours.

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Wow there's a lot of twos up there...

 

[Maximum Bert]

Well there is a few but I will go with Crash Team Racing I still play it with friends now 15 years after its release god knows how many 1000s of hours we must have clocked up in it for MP fun it hasnt been beaten yet imo although Towerfall Ascension may stand a chance only time will tell if it has the legs.

 

[Tony Stark]

Final Fantasy IX

I finish the game about once a year and I'm still not getting tired of it.

You're the man...no, seriously - IX is pretty much one of mine, right along with Ace Attorney 3.
'the only time a lawyer can cry is when it's all over' - chills, everytime.

 

[pilouuuu]

I always come back to classic Lucasarts games. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indy & the Fate of Atlantis...
Also fighting games. Street Fighter 2 or 4. Mortal Kombat.

I also used to always come back to playing The Sims games. It has something that is kind of relaxing when playing them. But now I got bored of The Sims 3, so maybe when The Sims 4 gets released and it doesn't suck, then I'll won't stop playing it.

Also PopCap games have something that you can play them again and again. Same thing with Civilization games.

Team Fortress 2, Hearthstone and Doom are also games that you can come to back time after time.

 

[Artina89]

Mine are Resident evil 2,Godhand, Sleeping dogs, Resident evil 4 and Deadly premonition. I think I may have to add Dark souls II to that list as well, I am finding that game rather addictive at the moment and I don't see that diminishing any time soon unless Watchdogs lives up to the hype it seems to be generating amongst my friends.

 

[pilouuuu]

Mine are Resident evil 2,Godhand, Sleeping dogs, Resident evil 4 and Deadly premonition. I think I may have to add Dark souls II to that list as well, I am finding that game rather addictive at the moment and I don't see that diminishing any time soon unless Watchdogs lives up to the hype it seems to be generating amongst my friends.

I totally agree with you on Sleeping Dogs. Such an awesome and enjoyable game! I'm playing it again now with DLC and it is as fun and good-looking as ever.

Hopefully the other game based on dogs is at least as good as this one.

 

[Artina89]

Mine are Resident evil 2,Godhand, Sleeping dogs, Resident evil 4 and Deadly premonition. I think I may have to add Dark souls II to that list as well, I am finding that game rather addictive at the moment and I don't see that diminishing any time soon unless Watchdogs lives up to the hype it seems to be generating amongst my friends.

I totally agree with you on Sleeping Dogs. Such an awesome and enjoyable game! I'm playing it again now with DLC and it is as fun and good-looking as ever.

Hopefully the other game based on dogs is at least as good as this one.

I find it a bit of a shame that Sleeping dogs often gets overlooked when my friends compare it to GTA and Saint's row, as I find Sleeping dogs far more enjoyable, and I really like Wei as a protagonist. The best thing is that I went in the game with very limited expectations as I heard tales of it's troubled development and found myself very pleasantly surprised, I think that is one of the reasons that I am only tentatively hopeful about Watchdogs as I don't want to go in with high expectations only to be disappointed.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm giving GTAV another chance but it's just not Saint's Row 2 or Just Cause 2...I also would go back to Deus Ex HR but I don't have it on the PS3 or U...my 360 is boxed up at the moment so I can't really get use out of it at the moment. Then there are the games that start with the words Donkey Kong and end in Country. My most played games though are probably Final Fantasy IV, VI, VII, VIII and, IX...not in that order though (IX is my favorite)

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Unreal Tournament 2004.

Every now and then I'll boot it up and play for a few hours. I love that game.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

I always come back to classic Lucasarts games. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indy & the Fate of Atlantis...

YES!! Secret of Monkey Island is my #1 go-to game of all time. It's held that status since the month after its original PC release.

More recent games include Fallout 3, Morrowind, Skyrim, and Saints Row 4.

I just started Borderlands 2 last week and it'll probably wind up on this list too. Loving the hell out of this game. It's given me so many great laughs. Last night, for the first time, I experienced the joy of Face McShooty, followed immediately by Sarcastic Slab. What a riot!

 

[Daeric]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11.

All of China will be mine over and over and over again. Its helped by the fact that at some points in the game the ai just launches suicidal attack after another which makes it a huge timesink.

 

[Chrozi]

strategy mood: Starcraft.
FPS multiplayer mood: Black Ops II.
Puzzle mood: Bejeweled Blitz,
Retro Arcade mood: Ms. Pac-Man
Retro Console mood: SMB3
When on the laptop: FTL
On my phone: Ascension
Fighter mood: MvsC 2
Shmup mood: R-Type
RPG mood: Anything Phantasy Star

 

[pilouuuu]

I always come back to classic Lucasarts games. Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Indy & the Fate of Atlantis...

YES!! Secret of Monkey Island is my #1 go-to game of all time. It's held that status since the month after its original PC release.

More recent games include Fallout 3, Morrowind, Skyrim, and Saints Row 4.

I just started Borderlands 2 last week and it'll probably wind up on this list too. Loving the hell out of this game. It's given me so many great laughs. Last night, for the first time, I experienced the joy of Face McShooty, followed immediately by Sarcastic Slab. What a riot!

Monkey Island is such an amazing game. I used to play it every year. As enjoyable as new games from Telltale or Broken Age are there is something missing from them that only Lucasarts knew how to do. It's something like magic!

Fallout 3 was such an amazing experience as well! I haven't replayed it because I feel afraid of not enjoying it so much this time.

 

[Swishdude]

For me that is an easy pick. Magical Puzzle Popils!

Nobody has ever really talked about it before so I made a video a while back on it.

 

[bojackx]

I always end up going through a Pokemon game every few months like clockwork. Other than that, recently I've gone back to Fire Emblem: Awakening, but I don't think that counts though since it's only been about a month since I put it down in the first place.

 

[Phlogiston]

Spoiler

Thanks thread

 

[laggyteabag]

Batman: Arkham Origins at the moment, just so that I can jump onto the challenge mode, play as Deathstroke, and pulverise 100 henchmen on the wonderful "1 to 100" challenge map.

Titanfall, mostly because it is the only multiplayer game that I really own that actually works right now, and one of two that I actually enjoy playing on my own. It's fun, but as most people will tell you, after about an hour you have really done everything that the game has to offer, so I hardly ever play it more than that.

Battlefield 4, its fun, BUT IT DOESNT WORK RIGHT NOW

Spoiler

Thanks thread

I have never actually played Deus Ex. Does that make me a criminal or something?
(Wuh oh, may wanna watch out, you may get flagged for low content there pal.)

 

[Rariow]

Since 2011, I've been relapsing into Skyrim every couple months. It's kind of sad, really, since I wish I had the strength of will to power through those initial tedious hours of not being able to kill anything quickly in Morrowind, seeing as how I consider Skyrim the weakest Elder Scrolls since Daggerfall.

Over a longer time period, I've re-played the original Deus Ex pretty much every single year since 2008. I'm still finding new stuff, and it's still insane amounts of fun.

Also, I guess Team Fortress 2, though that isn't as much "keep going back to" as "never left". I think, with the exception of when I wiped my hard drive to change to Windows 7, I've always had that game installed since the first time I played it. I guess it must be dawning on 5 years now.

 

[Animakuro]

I have a few.

Any of the main series Pokemon games for a start. I ALWAYS play through the main storyline three times, once with each starter. Sometimes I do another run where I don't use any of the starter Pokemon and I've attempted a nuzlocke on every region with... varying results. Currently on my fifth playthrough of Pokemon Y, as there are six (Seven with the Event Torchic) starters in that game and a huge pokedex to choose from.

Final Fantasy VII - Like many, this was my first FF game and my very first RPG. I own this game three times already; the original Disc release, on PSN and on Steam. Each time I return to this game, i play it obsessively and neglect all other games/ my life until the very final battle with Sephiroth. I still get goosebumps whenever I see the Supernova attack.

Guild Wars 2 - As to be expected of an MMO. I do keep deleting and reinstalling it and many complain it begin a gear treadmill with the inclusion of Ascended Gear, but for me this MMO fulfilled its promise of not requiring thousands of hours of grinding and the need to copy one of maybe six viable builds that each class as. I run all of my characters with unusual builds and it's not caused me any problems in PVE, though, I cannot speak for PVP as i only dip into it occasionally.