8 Games that You Never Get Bored Playing
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I maintain Mass Effect doesn't have enough changes per play-through to justify a lot of replay value; you'd be better off watching any scenes you want on YouTube.
But Killing Floor was floated around a bunch. I'll look into that. I doubt I can run KF2, but the first one seems to be fairly popular.
I maintain Mass Effect doesn't have enough changes per play-through to justify a lot of replay value; you'd be better off watching any scenes you want on YouTube.
But Killing Floor was floated around a bunch. I'll look into that. I doubt I can run KF2, but the first one seems to be fairly popular.
Ironically, a lot of these games I either own and don't play, or have played and getting bored very quickly; Deus Ex, Terraria, Killing Floor, and Torchlight 2 fall into the list. I do agree completely with Civ 5 and Tony Hawk games. Addicting as shit.
If it weren't for mod support, I suspect that the TES/Fallout games re-playability would be dramatically reduced. I would like to imagine that the meeting at Bethesda over paid mods generated quite a happy amount of buzz for future games, but the Valve rollback may have caused them to rethink their strategy.
Is it bad that I've only played two of the games on this list (Mass Effect and Deus Ex), and of the two I only replayed Mass Effect games more than twice? I don't know, Deus Ex just didn't seem to hold my interest. I think the game that I've replayed the most is Dark Souls II. For some reason, I can't put that game down, despite getting the platinum.
Although I did just get the PS4 platinum for it today, so hopefully I'll be able to try something else finally.
Although I did just get the PS4 platinum for it today, so hopefully I'll be able to try something else finally.
Now there is a list which is rather the opposite of what I feel towards those games as I got bored with most of those already.
Tony Hawk: Agreeable on the long run with the entire franchise. But a single game... running out of steam once you're at 100%. And some of the newer ones (basically all after American Wasteland) weren't even that good.
Terraria: Got bored of that rather quickly and after they added the rather ugly female player sprite, I never had the wish to play it ever again.
Civ IV: Weren't even able to really start it.
New Vegas: While I can replay it often, I usually need a break of about two to three months minimum between each playthrough. Mostly because I end up playing roughly the same way, anyway, and the story is only interesting so many times straight in a row...
Torchlight 2: Never played it, never liked the genre
Killing Floor: Not only am I bored of it, I am SICK of if to death. And after their stunts they pulled with the paid DLC (like raising the original four-characters-DLCs from 1.50$ to SEVEN BUCKS!), I don't want to buy the sequel, either.
Mass Effect: See New Vegas. Except add "lost interest because the last game requires Origin and playing only 2/3 of a story is not fun", making me not want to go back to it.
Deus Ex Human Revolution: Exactly the same as New Vegas.
On the other hand, I do notice a serious lack of Minecraft, Payday 2 and CoD Zombies in that list...
Tony Hawk: Agreeable on the long run with the entire franchise. But a single game... running out of steam once you're at 100%. And some of the newer ones (basically all after American Wasteland) weren't even that good.
Terraria: Got bored of that rather quickly and after they added the rather ugly female player sprite, I never had the wish to play it ever again.
Civ IV: Weren't even able to really start it.
New Vegas: While I can replay it often, I usually need a break of about two to three months minimum between each playthrough. Mostly because I end up playing roughly the same way, anyway, and the story is only interesting so many times straight in a row...
Torchlight 2: Never played it, never liked the genre
Killing Floor: Not only am I bored of it, I am SICK of if to death. And after their stunts they pulled with the paid DLC (like raising the original four-characters-DLCs from 1.50$ to SEVEN BUCKS!), I don't want to buy the sequel, either.
Mass Effect: See New Vegas. Except add "lost interest because the last game requires Origin and playing only 2/3 of a story is not fun", making me not want to go back to it.
Deus Ex Human Revolution: Exactly the same as New Vegas.
On the other hand, I do notice a serious lack of Minecraft, Payday 2 and CoD Zombies in that list...
Tetris. Sure, after a while you'll go do something else. But personally, I've never reached actual boredom when playing Tetris. Not once.
I would add the original xcom and TFtD. Im always playing them on and off. Have never completed either of them and just get side tracked having fun with building bases and kicking the crap out of every alien that dares land on earth. Even when i do decide to attempt the last mission. Along comes an enemy ship or base and i just can not leave it alone.
City of Heroes was the game I never got bored of playing. Played for 6 years, had 61 characters across 4 servers (mostly Defiant) with 14 max level characters. It was difficult to get bored as there were so many potential combinations of powers and costumes to make pretty much any type of hero or villain you wanted.
Hopeful for the successors in development and the possibility of CoH making a return. If it does, I suggest people try it as it'll let you know that not all MMOs have to play like WoW.
Hopeful for the successors in development and the possibility of CoH making a return. If it does, I suggest people try it as it'll let you know that not all MMOs have to play like WoW.
RolerCoaster Tycoon would have been on my list, could never get enough of those.
Also Team Fortress 2 never gets boring.
Also Team Fortress 2 never gets boring.
The, uh, the listed game is Civilization 4, not Civilization 5. Which is how it should be, Civilization 5 managed to keep my attention for about 3 or 4 games before I got disinterested in its ease and small scale, while Civ 4 has me coming back for more even after over a thousand hours clocked in.Elfgore said:
There is no such game that I won't get bored of. Pretty much everything gets boring after a while. DotA after probably 3000 hours, Dota 2 after ~600, Team Fortress 2 after 600 hours, Terraria after 300 hours, probably the same in Minecraft. Before DotA there were custom maps in Warcraft 3 and TFT, before that there was standard Warcraft 3 and TFT, CS 1.6 as well. And I shouldn't even start thinking how much time I've invested in Nintendo games in general... I wasted a lot of time on games... I enjoyed it a lot, but sometimes I wonder if it was the right choice.
Eh, anyways. No such game that doesn't get boring.
Eh, anyways. No such game that doesn't get boring.
Honestly? My game to fall back on is Bubble Bobble. Yes, that old fossil.
It's just...so much goddamn fun.
It's just...so much goddamn fun.
It's incredible to come across a list like this and agree with almost every point. Hell, I still fire up Tony Hawk 2 and 3 just for the sheer hell of it. The only two I didn't agree with were Mass Effect and Terarria. I just couldn't get into those.
Games that aren't on this list that I replay a lot are: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, FreQuency, TES: Skyrim, the Dawn of War series (mainly Dark Crusade and Soulstorm), Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Prince of Persia (2008), Curse of Monkey Island, GTA: San Andreas, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Dungeon Siege, Bionic Commando (2009), Beyond Good & Evil, Need For Speed: Underground 1 + 2, and Folklore.
Then again, my tastes are all over the place.
Games that aren't on this list that I replay a lot are: Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, FreQuency, TES: Skyrim, the Dawn of War series (mainly Dark Crusade and Soulstorm), Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Prince of Persia (2008), Curse of Monkey Island, GTA: San Andreas, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Dungeon Siege, Bionic Commando (2009), Beyond Good & Evil, Need For Speed: Underground 1 + 2, and Folklore.
Then again, my tastes are all over the place.