What game do you keep coming back to?

[Bug MuIdoon]

Grim Fandango (duh!) gets a replay every 6-7 years. I currently am due for a replay but I'm holding out for the remastering that'll be out next year(!)

I replay quite a few other classics every now and then, but nothing quite as ritualistic as my Grim Fandango replay sessions.


I get a lot of pleasure watching my wife (she isn't a "gamer") playing through my old games for the first time. I don't quite get the same joy/scare/feels etc. out of them as I did when I was younger, but it's beautiful to see my wife does.

 

[babinro]

Final Fantasy 6 (aka FF3 on SNES)

I tend to revisit this sucker every 2-3 years and I found myself absolutely loving it the last time I did. This has everything to do with the games soundtrack mind you. It's my favorite game soundtrack of all time and listening to it while actually playing the game has only enhanced the experience over time.

Warcraft 3

Easily my favorite RTS campaign in gaming history. At least up until you play the Night Elves then it drags a bit. I'm speaking of the original campaign as well. I find the Frozen Throne expansion campaign to be exceptionally boring. I typically don't replay Frozen Throne when revisiting this game unless I want to play online/skirmish.

Resident Evil 4

Simply amazing experience each time I revisit the game. I remember booting up the gamecube version 2 years ago and being horrified by the overly pixelated graphics and terrible control. I 'forced' myself to play to the opening town sequence and became immediately hooked again.

Honorable Mention: KOTOR 1&2 - Up until the last time I played these games I would have said they qualify. However, my last experience with them was very negative because of my impatience with backtracking. I adore these games but it honestly feels like you spend 75% of the game time walking to and from quests/dialog. If you could just warp to the fun I'd happily replay these games again.

 

[RicoADF]

ArmA series is probably my main one, then Command and Conquer, Star Trek Online and Company of Heroes as secondaries. There are others but those would be the big ones.

ArmA series being because of the open world and ability to mod. Also with the sandbox mission my mates and I play it's literally endless gameplay. Many a story has come out of these games.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Sadly enough, Runescape.
I can never escape the grind. Ever since they released oldschool I've been pretty much hooked and before that I would always play for a month or so every now and then.

I also pull out Halo 3 every now and again.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Zelda games, Pokemon games, Mario games(including the rpgs), Halo games, Smash Bros., Metroid, Golden Sun, Pikmin etc. I play the games in this series at least once a year.

These are my favorite/comfort zone games for the most part.

 

[Inglorious891]

Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2 are two games I've always been in the mood for ever since they first came out. I probably have 2000+ hours in each individually, and yet I keep coming back for more.

Bioshock 1 as well; I've completed it... 7 times I think, and currently I'm going in for another run. No matter how much I play, it's still fun.

Skyrim. I just can't stay away. I might only play it for like 10 minutes, but I keep coming back to it.

Minecraft I come back to as well. I just wish more people I knew played it, I would love to set up a server in one of the modpack worlds (FTB, Tekkit, Yogscast Complete, etc) so we can be awesome.

Skyrim would be on my list as well if the fucking thing would work while modded. Recently I applied a bunch of mods that should be compatible, spent 2 days troubleshooting the CTD-every-fucking-time-at-start-up issue, only to have the game crash after 5-10 minutes of normal playing.

Got so frustrated I haven't touched it since, which is shame because those 5-10 minutes are quite fun.

 

[dreamfallbandits]

-The Longest Journey/Dreamfall/Dreamfall Chapters (it's finally out!)
-Metro 2033/Last Light
-Half Life 2
-Psychonauts
-Alan Wake (though the combat gets a little tiresome by the end of each playthrough)
-Silent Hill 2
-Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth
-Deadly Premonition (it's a very hard game to describe why I love it so much)
-Fallout 3/New Vegas
-Grim Fandango
-No One Lives Forever 1 and 2
-Deus Ex
-Operation Flashpoint

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Team Fortress 2.

It's just that good of a game.

 

[FPLOON]

The Kingdom Hearts series
The Pokemon series
The Smash Bros. series
The Jak & Daxter trilogy
Tales of Symphonia
Persona 3 FES
Rayman Origins/Rayman Legends
Rez/Child of Eden
Virtua Quest
Sonic 06 >.>

No... That last one is not a joke... and I constantly have a ranty death wish...

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Golden Sun
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Megaman Zero Collection

Nowdays, I don't typically replay a game unless I want to go for the Platinum Trophy. But there isn't a year that goes by without me replaying at least 2-3 of these titles. Where Megaman Zero Collection is concerned, I'll typically replay all four games.

 

[kilenem]

Sonic 2
Super Off Road
Super mario Land.
Pokemon Gold(Screw silver)
Legend of Zelda Link's awakening.
Call of Duty Black Ops.
The smash, Mario Kart and Mario party series. I Figure I'd lump those into one because if someone breaks out a N64, Gamecube, or Wii 9 times out of ten your playing one of the 3.

I would come back to X-men Legends but I don't want to have to buy a Xbox, PS2 or Gamecube/Wii. Maybe a Backwards compatible PS3 and the Xbox version doesn't work on the 360.

 

[kilenem]

The Kingdom Harts series
The Pokemon series
The Smash Bros. series
The Jak & Daxter trilogy
Tales of Symphonia
Persona 3 FES
Rayman Origins/Rayman Legends
Rez/Child of Eden
Virtua Quest
Sonic 06 >.>

No... That last one is not a joke... and I constantly have a ranty death wish...

I thought Maybe you just stop playing sonic 06 but hope to beat it one day.

 

[kilenem]

I have quite a few actually, but off the top of my head:

Psychonauts PS2
Silent Hill 2 PS2
Persona 4 PS2
Resident Evil 4 Gamecube/PS2
Godhand PS2
Resident Evil 2 Playstation
Banjo-Kazooie N64
Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue Gameboy
Pokemon: Soulsilver Nintendo DS
Deadly premonition: Directors cut Playstation 3
Castlevania:Symphony of the Night Playstation

I am currently replaying Godhand and I love the game so much, regardless of the steep difficulty curve.

I still have yet to beat Psyconauts. Bought it originally for Xbox then PC a couple years ago. Downloaded once this year fried my Hard drive. Re-downloaded it on to my new Hard Drive haven't even reached the title screen this year.

 

[SGT_Noobnuts]

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

I have no idea why I love this game considering it has more than its fair share of flaws.

On console it has numerous texture pop ins and constantly has to load if you move through the game too quickly, it has something of a rushed story and the weapons rating system was really redundant and kind of stupid.

But I still love the game so much. The combat is visceral and exciting, the weapons are great fun to use, the variety of situations and game styles are interesting and memorable. Wether it's stealth, Classic third person gameplay or even being a melee fighter in two chapters.

Hell even the multiplayer was really good fun. It's a shame that basically no one plays this game anymore but hey, that's the price of going online.

 

[ghalleon0915]

Vandal Hearts 2, have had to get it on emulator since my PS2 copy keeps getting stuck on the loading screen after Chapter 3. I've logged in more hours in that than in FF Tactics, and that is a lot.

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the past is still one of my favorite games of all time and I play that still. Oddly, that is also the last Zelda game I have played, it's like an ex I cant get over with.

Super Bomberman is also timeless for me; we still play this with the multitap during special times like a birthday or Xmas, or when people just want to be silly and have fun. I am hard-pressed to find a game that has brought so much fun.

FF II ( or IV) gets a lot of playtime for me as well, more so than FF VI just because I've beaten VI to death so II needs more attention.

On a more contemporary note, FTL just keeps sucking me in trying to get all the ships. Ditto for Terraria, that game is the best $3 I have ever spent.

Shadows of Mordor is getting dangerously close to being one of these games; killing uruks is just fun, and revenge killing ( or vendetta) makes it even better.

 

[Arean]

Neverwinter Nights 2. Every damn time.

The sheer amount of playable classes/builds (especially with the PrC class mod) means that I always find something else I want to play a tiny bit more. I still haven't found a build that gives me everything I want, so I keep re-rolling around the start of the third act of the OC.

Currently at around the spot where I tend to re-roll, and still going strong, so hopefully I may be able to complete the OC for the first time, and move on to Mask of the Betrayer.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

KoTOR II.

Excellent game, and I never seem to finish it on repeat playthroughs XD

 

[Artina89]

I have quite a few actually, but off the top of my head:

Psychonauts PS2
Silent Hill 2 PS2
Persona 4 PS2
Resident Evil 4 Gamecube/PS2
Godhand PS2
Resident Evil 2 Playstation
Banjo-Kazooie N64
Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue Gameboy
Pokemon: Soulsilver Nintendo DS
Deadly premonition: Directors cut Playstation 3
Castlevania:Symphony of the Night Playstation

I am currently replaying Godhand and I love the game so much, regardless of the steep difficulty curve.

I still have yet to beat Psyconauts. Bought it originally for Xbox then PC a couple years ago. Downloaded once this year fried my Hard drive. Re-downloaded it on to my new Hard Drive haven't even reached the title screen this year.

Psychonauts is one of my all time favourite games. It is a really interesting premise and the dialogue is sharp and witty, with each character having their own quirks and stories that you can find out about if you really want to. You really don't have much to lose by trying it out.

 

[Duster]

quake 3, though I play matches, not the sp

 

[FPLOON]

The Kingdom Hearts series
The Pokemon series
The Smash Bros. series
The Jak & Daxter trilogy
Tales of Symphonia
Persona 3 FES
Rayman Origins/Rayman Legends
Rez/Child of Eden
Virtua Quest
Sonic 06 >.>

No... That last one is not a joke... and I constantly have a ranty death wish...

I thought Maybe you just stop playing sonic 06 but hope to beat it one day.

Well, as a word of advice for Sonic 06, do not try to get all S ranks on the main story stages unless you're trying to win a money-based bet... Other than that, just beat it once and then buy the soundtrack instead of using the game as a means to listen to the soundtrack...