Which games do you think have limitless playability?
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No game has limitless replay, except possibly tetris. I played over 400 hours of TF2, and I thought I'd never get bored of it. I did. Every time a new FPS comes out with a persistent multiplayer, I always say "I'll finish it! I'll reach max level and get all the unlocks!". I never have. I always get bored 20 to 30 hours in. I've been playing BF3 for 30+ hours and I'm already growing sick of it. Don't get me wrong, it's a great game. I just get bored easily. Really easily. I'll play a bit more of it when the new maps are released, but I'd be surprised if I played it for more than 50 hours total. CoD games are the same: I usually play the multiplayer for about 30~35 hours then I just stop stone cold dead and never play it again. Actually, I've played MW3's multiplayer for about 8 hours and already I have no desire to go back to it.
I've put hundreds of hours into Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, but I too will stop playing those games. I haven't played Oblivions since Fallout 3, come to think of it. Final Fantasy IX is probably the only game whose single player I go back to every two years or so.
Tetris stands alone as the only game I will never stop playing.
I've put hundreds of hours into Oblivion, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim, but I too will stop playing those games. I haven't played Oblivions since Fallout 3, come to think of it. Final Fantasy IX is probably the only game whose single player I go back to every two years or so.
Tetris stands alone as the only game I will never stop playing.
star wars battlefront (1&2)
minecraft
desert bus
for multiplayer i'd say wow, i haven't played in a year or 2 but if i could get a new account or something now i'd be on it like a dog on a bone...
kinda sad really : /
minecraft
desert bus
for multiplayer i'd say wow, i haven't played in a year or 2 but if i could get a new account or something now i'd be on it like a dog on a bone...
kinda sad really : /
Somewhat controversially, FIFA. Every time I get a FIFA game, it clocks hours, and hours, and hours on whatever console I'm playing it on. It's just a great game to sit down and play with friends, and I always have great banter about it.
Aside from that...well, I would say Skyrim but I think it's too early to tell.
Aside from that...well, I would say Skyrim but I think it's too early to tell.
I don't think if I know of a single game that has LIMITLESS playability. I mean, sooner or later, I will get bored of any game and need to break for weeks, months, years, and then come back to it later. However, a few examples of games that I still can pick up and play anytime and still do to this day, I will leave out any that eventually died, even if they did offer many years.
In no particular order...
1. Doom
2. Starcraft: Brood War
3. Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
Hmm, I know I am missing something but I can't think of any others I still play often enough to count. Sure, I still pick up old games all the time, but not often enough to match your criteria.
In no particular order...
1. Doom
2. Starcraft: Brood War
3. Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike
Hmm, I know I am missing something but I can't think of any others I still play often enough to count. Sure, I still pick up old games all the time, but not often enough to match your criteria.
I typically play through Mega Man 2-3 and Bionic Commando (NES version) at least once per year.
Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past also rank highly.
A always enjoy playing through Mass Effect as well. Still have yet to go through it as an Engineer, Vanguard or Sentinel.
Multiplayer?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES version) a timeless classic.
Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past also rank highly.
A always enjoy playing through Mass Effect as well. Still have yet to go through it as an Engineer, Vanguard or Sentinel.
Multiplayer?
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (SNES version) a timeless classic.
Singleplayer: Prototype. I love that game and I always know it's there if I feel like running round New York with big spikey fingers.
Multiplayer: GTA IV because it's fun to run/drive with others around...New York... maybe I just have a New York fetish or something.
Multiplayer: GTA IV because it's fun to run/drive with others around...New York... maybe I just have a New York fetish or something.
Games like CoD are limitless, until the next one comes out for people to flock to.
Other than that, the Disgaea series is practically limitless with how long you'd have to play to hit the 9999 level cap.
Other than that, the Disgaea series is practically limitless with how long you'd have to play to hit the 9999 level cap.
Single/Multiplayer: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 has a map editior, random map generator and hotseat multiplayer. It's pure gold. And if that's somehow not enough, there's still Wake of Gods...
Purely single player: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines comes the closest. I've completed the game almost five times, which is a record for me, and I still feel like playing more in the near future.
Purely single player: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines comes the closest. I've completed the game almost five times, which is a record for me, and I still feel like playing more in the near future.
Single player for recent consoles will be ME:1/2 and DA:O for all the reasons stated by everyone else.
Honorable mention goes to Spyro the Dragon, it only takes 4 hours to complete but once in a while I like to say screw everything and spend the afternoon reliving a significant chunk of my childhood.
Multiplayer would have gone to TF2 had I not quit 2 years ago. It also would have gone to COD4 and COD:WAW had they not been hacked to hell.
So multiplayer will go to L4D with a future prize to Minecraft. I've only just got into it and I haven't tried the mulitiplayer yet, but going by the fun I'm having in singleplayer alone this will be the distraction that fails my degree.
Honorable mention goes to Spyro the Dragon, it only takes 4 hours to complete but once in a while I like to say screw everything and spend the afternoon reliving a significant chunk of my childhood.
Multiplayer would have gone to TF2 had I not quit 2 years ago. It also would have gone to COD4 and COD:WAW had they not been hacked to hell.
So multiplayer will go to L4D with a future prize to Minecraft. I've only just got into it and I haven't tried the mulitiplayer yet, but going by the fun I'm having in singleplayer alone this will be the distraction that fails my degree.
Minecraft, since you will only feel really bored when you have a diamond ten story house with a gold dick statue on the front garden.
CoD, because you always have that one stat that needs boosting or that one camo you haven't unlocked. I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to get to 10th prestige, with all gold camos and every title unlocked in MW3 it would take you at least a full year of playtime.
CoD, because you always have that one stat that needs boosting or that one camo you haven't unlocked. I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to get to 10th prestige, with all gold camos and every title unlocked in MW3 it would take you at least a full year of playtime.
Crash Bandicoot 3 and the Spyro trilogy. No matter how many times I've replayed them I still get the jitters and have to go through each one a minimum of once a year, either at separate times or just back-to-back. People keep telling me it's just nostalgia, they were some of the first games I ever owned, but I still genuinely think they hold up even now. I think they've claimed more of my life than Elder Scrolls and Call of Duty put together.
I've never stayed a game without taking a break from it for more than 6 months, and that was World of Warcraft. I always have to have new games eventually, i have a wierd habit of playing games for only 10 hours before i put it off in my mind...
The closest would have to be Garry's Mod, with 850 hours played on it.
The closest would have to be Garry's Mod, with 850 hours played on it.
Rome: Total War (especially SPQR mod, which I'm convinced would take infinite time and craziness to conquer completely)
Mount & Blade: Warband & Sid Meier's Pirates! (combat never gets old, and there's so much to do)
Galactic Civilizations II & Civilization IV (randomly generated maps FTW)
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (somehow, slaughtering entire cities in that game still outlasts anything I've done in Skyrim)
Race Driver GRID (driving backwards into ALL THE CARS never, ever gets old)
Starcraft II & Modern Warfare # (perfect multiplayer)
The Sims # (for obvious reasons)
and finally,
Spore (this game would literally require multiple lifetimes to see everything, and even then you could just play again and explore an entirely new galaxy)
Mount & Blade: Warband & Sid Meier's Pirates! (combat never gets old, and there's so much to do)
Galactic Civilizations II & Civilization IV (randomly generated maps FTW)
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (somehow, slaughtering entire cities in that game still outlasts anything I've done in Skyrim)
Race Driver GRID (driving backwards into ALL THE CARS never, ever gets old)
Starcraft II & Modern Warfare # (perfect multiplayer)
The Sims # (for obvious reasons)
and finally,
Spore (this game would literally require multiple lifetimes to see everything, and even then you could just play again and explore an entirely new galaxy)
Deus Ex:
the best tactical shooter/rpg/brawler/stealth game I've ever played. There's just so many ways to approach every mission and so many choices to make (during which it doesn't judge you with anything like a good/evil meter; you choose what the right choice is), I've yet to get bored on 8+ 16-hour playthroughs. It's graphics (and voice-acting) might be antiquated, but its gameplay seems still so far ahead of anything else.
But if you still manage to get bored of that, there's always Super Mario 64; that game never gets old.
the best tactical shooter/rpg/brawler/stealth game I've ever played. There's just so many ways to approach every mission and so many choices to make (during which it doesn't judge you with anything like a good/evil meter; you choose what the right choice is), I've yet to get bored on 8+ 16-hour playthroughs. It's graphics (and voice-acting) might be antiquated, but its gameplay seems still so far ahead of anything else.
But if you still manage to get bored of that, there's always Super Mario 64; that game never gets old.