Which games do you think have limitless playability?

[floppylobster]

Single Player: Robotron 2084 (Arcade - NOT Xbox Live), 29 years and I still enjoy it.

Multi-player: Left 4 Dead 2 (Xbox 360), 3 years and counting.

(Doom 2 and Rock Band are close seconds. Also, surprised at how few Minecraft answers considering how loved it was a few short months ago. I see it's not completely unloved but the way people were talking about it I thought there would be more).

 

[babinro]

Rock Band - I've been playing the game for years and I'm still pretty much only focusing on drums. It would take me decades to get a mastery of all instruments in the game.

I suppose The Old Republic may contain that near infinite re-playability factor. But I'd imagine once I get through it with every class in the game and having chosen every decision point available I'd lose interest in the end game MMO features. This process alone would likely take 10 years though.

 

[Xaio30]

[HEADING=1]Baldurs Gate II: The Shadows of Amn[/HEADING]
This RPG is beast. With a unique story, fully realized city with landscape, over 90 side-quests, 11 classes with multiple sub-classes each, this game could be considered the perfect fantasy cRPG. I have played it since I was six years old and I still consider it my favorite game of all time.

 

[Athinira]

[HEADING=1]Baldurs Gate II: The Shadows of Amn[/HEADING]
This RPG is beast. With a unique story, fully realized city with landscape, over 90 side-quests, 11 classes with multiple sub-classes each, this game could be considered the perfect fantasy cRPG. I have played it since I was six years old and I still consider it my favorite game of all time.

Same here.

Not to mention that mods make the game even more interesting.

 

[efAston]

Cameltry

I never really stopped playing Quake, so I guess that, though Tenebræ did draw that out.
Nibbles
Pong (especially in Commander Keen IV, where you could spike the ball)
Kinda tempted to mention Donkey Kong Country. I've played it several times, and it never gets any less pleasing to look at or listen to.
Terminator 2: The Gun used to get thrashed every time I had a "super session" (unlimited games for an hour or something) at the arcade.

 

[necromanzer52]

Single player: The original halo, Ratchet & Clank, and just about any pokemon game.

Multiplayer: Halo 2. Or at least it would be, if it could still be played.

 

[zehydra]

left 4 dead 1 and left 4 dead 2
so...many HOURS
That AI director is amazing

I have to agree with this, so long as they're enough people online to get a game going :/

 

[Antwerp Caveman]

Jagged Alliance 2, just go wherever and conquer whatever and you are never done meeting new npc's!

 

[-KC-]

- Warcraft III:TFT
- Pokemon games
- GTA: SA
- DA:O

 

[SovietX]

The Punisher. I never get tired of that game. Fun gameplay, interesting missions and awesome executions.

 

[Red Mammoth]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. I play this game almost every three months. I've played through every story-choice, every artifact combination, every weapon choice, every achievement. And yet I still play it from beginning to end more times than I can reasonably understand why.

But in terms of a game with literal limitless playabilty, I'd have SimCity 4 as a close second.

 

[MadHatter1993]

Single player, Final Fantasy 9 for the Story, Mass Effect for action and story,awesome gameplay mechanics, depth with characters. Dragon Age 2, for story and it's so short that you'll want to replay a different class to see what's different, Character development and depth. Star Wars Knights of the old republic, (really any BioWare i find is RPG awesome) As you know know i'm a big RPG fan. Fable Lost Chapters for reminiscent reasons. Skyrim, only because i wanted to be some crazy mage, or Conan. Heavy Rain, it's really a movie with choices. Any Portal game, because when you got an insane robot wanting to kill you, you just gotta find that cake.IT'S NOT A LIE!!!!! Bulletstorm because you just want to blow off some steam by kicking someone in the balls and shoot their face off with a 4 barrel shotgun, is just sooo satisfying

Multiplayer, Gears 1, i prefer the physics in it compared to 2, and 3. Team Fortress 2 because of the perfectly balanced gameplay and class specialization makes it very dependent upon team work. call of duty Modern series, just because of the thrill and adrenaline. i dislike it because you can get killed by any kid with a lucky shot or grenade but when you get streaks, your the JUGGERNAUT!!!!

so the reason wh we play games multiple times is because we love the story, art, music, jokes, depth, or just blowing the sh*t out of that n00b with a boom.

 

[WaffleCopters]

SP: ME series (hopefully ME3 too), seriously, i have no idea why, but i find it intensly entertaining to play it over and over.

MP: Minecraft. believe me, every player you add, makes the game more and more crazy (and laggy at times, but derp)

 

[MadHatter1993]

Also i forgot to mention, i play all the old games from Gameboy Advance, Playstation, Nintendo 64, and Super Nintendo on my HTC Evo 4G phone with emulators. but not only Emulating, but with a Wii Remote. all it cost me was Patience, Beer, and a Warranty (Rooted Phone) so now my wii remote connects to my phone via Bluetooth.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

Any game that has an active modding community really. Makes for tons of re-playability.

It helps when games have multiple endings and replay value a la Chrono Trigger.

 

[Mediteral]

Persona 3 for me. Home is where the heart is and my heart is forever in Iwotodai Dorm while I study late in the night for the upcoming exams. I love going through the social links every time.
I'd also have to say LoZ: Majora's Mask, I'll never get tired of the clock town tune.
I'd even add metal Gear Solid 3, just cuz I think it has the best story out of the series, it can be stand-alone, the jungle has so much detail, and it was the first one I attempted the hardest difficulty on, a real challenge!

 

[Ris]

left 4 dead 1 and left 4 dead 2
so...many HOURS
That AI director is amazing

I have to agree with this, so long as they're enough people online to get a game going :/

A thousand times yes. I don't really bother with L4D now that the campaigns have been ported over to L4D2, but I play L4D2 almost every night. Together with all the mods and community maps available, you've got pretty much infinite playability.

The only other game I've felt that way about is TF2. The fun of TF2 is kinda dependant on the skill/common sense of the people you're playing with though (especially if you main Medic), since it really is a "team" game; unfortunately that's become a bit of a problem of late. A lot of the more seasoned players have abandoned it. :/

 

[pluizig]

Any game with a decent story can be played loads of times. Example: Psychonauts.

Multiplayer I tend to get bored with, exactly *because* there's no goal.

 

[Random berk]

In my experience, none. No game can keep me enjoying it indefinitely. Once you've been through the story enough times, and done every side quest and piece of dialogue available, the game gets boring. Games like Mass Effect and Fallout 3 were big enough to hold onto my attention for four or five playthroughs, which was a very good number, but eventually I was just playing the entire game for one character romance I hadn't done, or one achievement that I wanted. Hell, I played ME2 three times just for the 'No man left behind' achievement, and all because in the second round, Mordin suffered a sudden case of stupidity and took a bullet while holding the line. I imagine Minecraft might have what it takes to keep me interested indefinitely, but thanks to fucking Paypal I can't get Minecraft, so I don't know.

 

[monkey_man]

So far I've got tf2 and Left4dead. Littlebigplanet is also great, but it get's repetitive sadface. I also keep coming back to God of War