What's your comfort game?

[The Holy Chaotic]

Suikode IV. I like to trade and collect the Stars of Destiny.

 

[TheDoctor455]

Hmm... For me it would probably be Torchlight. Man that game is addictive.

I found it too similar to Diablo II for my tastes. I finished it once, but now that I've finished it... I'm not sure if I'll ever want to go back to it, unless they bring out the supposed MMO version. Don't get me wrong, great game, but I only wanted to finish it once.

Its an indie studio, so not very likely... And I tried Diablo II once... and the combat was much slower in Diablo than it was in Torchlight. Though I won't deny where Torchlight's roots are. You may want to check out the mod scene.

 

[GamingAwesome1]

If there's a game I play to unwind when I'm really pissed off, it's UNO.

It's the only game that never gives me problems, I don't care about winning or losing, I don't care if there's a bunch of frat boy douchebags in the same room with me, it just mellows me out.

 

[sauerkraus]

The original. The one and only. Halo: Combat Evolved. (for pc). I miss that game. If anybody still played it these days I would wet myself at the loading screen.

 

[Scrat01]

MAH-JONG!

 

[Sedweiler]

Donkey Konga. I have it with the bongo-controller for Gamecube, and it is awesome fun. I would first do some warming up with easier songs, and then continue banging and clapping like hell through some of the harder ones. It is just so cheering and relaxing.

The original. The one and only. Halo: Combat Evolved. (for pc). I miss that game. If anybody still played it these days I would wet myself at the loading screen.

I recently tried to play it, but I couldn't even start it, it would jam up before the title menu...

 

[similar.squirrel]

Mirror's Edge. There's something tranquil about it.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Swat 4.

Believe it or not, that amount of tension actually calms me down.

Same for me, though my game of choice is Hitman: Blood Money. More thought-based/stealth games tend to relax me for some reason, with the tension and focus they provide numbing all other thoughts and feelings of mine. In contrast, the more simple reflex based games (shooters especially) tend to frustrate me even when I'm winning, until eventually I have to stop playing from anger.

 

[Dark Prophet]

BRAINPIPE: A Plunge to Unhumanity
Why??If u have played it u know why if u have not u really should, it's like dripping only cheaper.

 

[LogicNProportion]

FF (the original) or FFVII.

Dead Rising is also good for when I just want to mass murder people (zombies so it's okay! )

 

[karkashan]

Killer Instinct and/or Mach Rider. Both old school greats.

 

[Rossmallo]

Wario Ware. The sheer eye-burning speed stuff goes at REALLY tears away at my stress levels.

 

[Wayward Sean]

I go old school for this. Super Mario World and Donkey Kong Country 2. Time-consumingly comforting.

 

[CivilWar]

TF2 and Portal for me. Maybe some Brutal Legend, trying to finish my quest of finding all 120 bound serpents without using the online map, 18 to go!

And a quick burst on L4D2. The demo. Not the game. Cannot afford = Fail.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Hmm... For me it would probably be Torchlight. Man that game is addictive.

I found it too similar to Diablo II for my tastes. I finished it once, but now that I've finished it... I'm not sure if I'll ever want to go back to it, unless they bring out the supposed MMO version. Don't get me wrong, great game, but I only wanted to finish it once.

Its an indie studio, so not very likely... And I tried Diablo II once... and the combat was much slower in Diablo than it was in Torchlight. Though I won't deny where Torchlight's roots are. You may want to check out the mod scene.

It might be an independent studio, but I'm almost 100% I read that ex developers of DII worked on Torchlight. And apart from the speed (i found it a little too fast) It's almost Diablo II copy/pasted. Updated graphics, and not as long as DII, but still very similar.
They even had a store you could gamble items for (that was a bit too much like DII for me).
Good game, but unless the MMO version's released, I doubt I'll play it again.