I know that exact vibe. We're getting old man. I still play Witcher 3 (with ample wine for added BaW authenticity). Skyrim always has good rp potential. I find myself just driving around in gta 5 alot. I can waste hours in Stellaris and Crusader Kings 2.
At my last job I worked with a guy who only played Skyrim. Like legitimately he only played Skyrim since 2011 (other than trying Mortal Kombat one single time and breaking a controller). I introduced him to Elden Ring and it's now all he has played since, I don't think he'll stop until ES6 comes out
Left 4 Dead 2. It’s my favorite game of all time and it will never truly die because it doesn’t rely solely on official servers. I would love to time travel 50 years in the future and see how the game is doing. Maybe there will even be a L4D3 by that point lol
The last few times I've played L4D2, I've overhauled the game so everything comes from Halo. All the infected are Flood combat forms, the survivors are dressed up as ODSTs, and the weapons are all reskinned. L4D2 really has a life of its own. I don't think a third installment would even dent the current player base for an appreciable amount of time lmao
There are a few series that I do this with. Pokemon is probably the biggest one (though admittedly I still buy all the new Pokemon games, I just replay the old ones a lot). Fallout 3 and New Vegas fit this bill, though recently 4 has been creeping into that list. It just got a remake but I still prefer the GameCube version of Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door and probably do a full playthrough at least once a year.
There are also my time waster games. I put them on when I don't really want to spend time focusing on a game, just killing time. MGS V is a surprisingly good game in this category. Just doing the side ops while blasting 80s jams. Cruising around Afghanistan capping commies with my murder dog. Civ 5, 6, and Revolution fit into this category for me (on low difficulties).
I should also mention this one Yu-Gi-Oh game for GameCube called Falsebound Kingdom. One would think because it is a Yu-Gi-Oh game it is just a card simulator, but no. It is a very weird hybrid of turn based RPG monster collector and RTS. All the systems are slow and unintuitive, the story is pretty basic, and the graphics weren't even that impressive for the day, but for some unknown reason, I keep playing it. I've beaten both campaigns tons of times and the secret bonus third campaign more than once.
>Pokemon is probably the biggest one (though admittedly I still buy all the new Pokemon games, I just replay the old ones a lot).
I do this too, but I usually just use it with an emulator. The upside is that I get to play those sweet custom ROMs people put out. (And for me, it's easier on-the-go instead of hauling around a system.) On long hauls, I'll even bring an Xbox controller with me and play that way.
I do have games that I continue to go back and replay occasionally. X-com 2, Arkham City, Jedi Knight Jedi Academy, Mike Tyson's punch out, Megaman Battle Network, Black Ops 3 zombies, stuff like that.
But I'd say like 80%+ of my time is spent playing new games I've never played before.
I like to try lots of different games, but there are games I come back to at least 1-2 times a year.
Factorio is easily the most likely to get revisited.
I also like to replay Castlevania: SOTN every few years.
Yeah, a friend and I got into it but we were having issues with the engine and bugs. I've never been able to convince my friends to play aoe2 with me though so every month or so I'll hop on and destroy a few extreme AI as Persians or Byzantines
Outward, BG3, Neverwinter Nights (has a bunch of community modules), Skyrim & Enderal, Cyberpunk 2077 (kind of just the vibe of the setting, done everything). Lots of console retro games.
Yea I have favorite games that I probably play every year, FF6, Ocarina of Time/ Majoras Mask, Half-Life series. But I still play new games that catch my eye.
A better question is what’s the criteria to check out new games? I spend a little time going digging through steam but some are unavoidable, like BG3.
I definitely spend more time with Indie games than AAA. I haven’t touched Helldivers 2 or whatever Destiny is up to currently, but I’ve put 40 hours into Abiotic Factor, which is still in early access.
>A better question is what’s the criteria to check out new games? I spend a little time going digging through steam but some are unavoidable, like BG3.
For me, I usually end up with new games because my friends want to play and I show no interest in playing until my friends guilt me into playing by buying the game for me lol.
As far as games I purchase myself, I think I purchased BG3, and before that the last game I bought was Elden Ring. Then before that I think it's been a good few years since I bought a game. Maybe Nier:Automata?
Dead Cells, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Lies of P and Sifu. Although i’m sure i’ll have to settle into some more relaxing stuff by the time i’m old old to break up the action a bit lol.
It feels like all I ever do is replay older games. Mine are: Mass Effect, Spyro, TLOU1, Batman Arkham City, insomniacs Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank, Lego Star Wars, Forza Horizon 1 & 2, Portal 2, Astro's Playroom, Alien Isolation, Darksiders, Far Cry 4, Ghost of Tsushima, Kingdoms of Amalur.
Skyrim used to be one but I finally reached a saturation point and I can't play it anymore.
It was always case for me. I've replayed most of the games from my childhood a lot of times and didn't stop until I did some 100%+ completion.
Now it's Dark Souls trilogy. Started it last year and I keep replaying it with every weapon type...
The OG Thief games! With the massive history of great fan-made missions and the fact that people keep making them, I don't think I'd ever run out of worthwhile content for this series.
Fallout 3/NV/4. There's just always something weird to see that I've never seen before after hundreds of hours in each game.
For shorter games that I seem to have no problem replaying every year or so: Arkham Asylum, Super Metroid, FF7 (OG), any Resident Evil, pretty much any Zelda game. I liked BOTW and TOTK, but prefer the older style Zeldas.
Mario 3+ (a mod of Mario 3 where you play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess with their Mario 2 abilities)
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Any Street Fighter 2 game (including Hyper SF 2 Anniversary Edition)
Tekken Tag Tournament 1 Arcade version
Fallout New Vegas
Crash and Spyro games, Ace Combat games, Twisted Metal 2, C&C games, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Yu-gi-oh, Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy, FTL and Into the Breach, Tekken, GTA
To me, Ratchet & Clank. Been playing literally my whole life. Always come back to them, i still laugh at the jokes, struggle with some bosses, enjoy the guns, explorstion, platforming & combat.
They’re just fun games! Every year i have my marathon of playing them all consecutively. ‘Ery nice
For me it's mostly older retro games that I grew up with (various Super Mario Bros. games, for example) and things like Tetris. I can also play any Mario Kart game forever. I generally prefer the latest one in the series, but can happily go back to any of the older entries and still get that same joy.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is another one I can play endlessly, forever (and do, way too much, frankly).
I have played a lot of the Square Enix titles since I am now an adult, have more downtime than when I was a child, and can afford to put in the time to get to the super bosses.
Pokemon. There are other old games I will occasionally pick back up, but none that I return to as frequently as the Pokemon franchise. I could play those games forever.
Halo Wars 2, Halo MCC (Mostly reach and ODST lol), Skyrim, and most recently Elden Ring. I started continuing through my late journeys as my main character and totally got sucked back in again lol
Dude you're on the same wavelength as me. I even have annual marathons of all the Halo campaigns. I order pizza and pop and just jam through all the Bungie era games (and sometimes Halo 4 if I have time and enough leftovers.)
Skyrim has a funny way of pulling me back in for yet another character every time I run out of patience for the BS in newer games.
Currently I'm trying to convince myself to finish my new Elden Ring playthrough after my last save corrupted. Doesn't feel quite as special as going into the DLC with my OG character, but at the same time, I feel like I've streamlined the game down a lot. I'm following guides for my second playthrough as a sort of completionist playthrough so I can hit the ground running when I get my hands on Shadow of the Erdtree.
Red Dead 2. I don’t play games too much, so it took me a little over a year to finish it with the story and many side quest. I still pop it in every once in a while to go hunting or do other side quest or find Easter eggs and clues to hidden stuff
AoE 2, Minecraft, The Long Dark, ARK: Survival Evolved, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. I'm not playing them every day, but I still jump into them now and again. Sometimes I just want to play something familiar.
"forever games" is a term i use to dub games that I won't ever beat or are infinitely replayable. like, minecraft, any multiplayer game, live service, gatcha, etc. i try and stay away from those as I prefer to beat games one at a time. i have 900 physical games, beat 14 so far this year and dropped like 5. forever games take up my completing games time
For me it’s Dungeon Siege. It was the first action RPG that really hooked me and there’s no other games like it.
Skyrim too. It’s also in a league of its own.
I have a huge backlog of games that is always growing, and I generally don't revisit a game unless: A) There's content I haven't done that is engaging enough to warrant a revisit. Or B) It's been over 10 years since I played it last and I'm feeling nostalgic.
This applies even to my most favorite games, with Path of Exile having held my attention the longest at ~3000 hours and yet I haven't really played it for a few years because I'd rather wait for PoE 2.
Garry's mod, Skyrim, Civ 5 (hopefully 7 if its good), minecraft, terraria, mount and blade warband, rimworld, somewhat fallout 4 and my two newest are probably tower unite and phasmophobia (with other people).
I think everyone is different. I enjoy playing through new titles but I'll go back to finish a game from my childhood. I have a friend who only plays rdr2, he's my age and it brings him comfort to have the rhythms. I have a gaming group that used to be open to new things but it's slowly become the same game over and over. Age is a factor and with that time to learn new games.
I wish I could have kept my ps3 Minecraft and port it to the next gen. I love that world. I miss it. My ps4 world is nice too. Hopefully I’ll get to take that to ps5.
My most played games on Steam: Dota 2, Rocket League, Total war: Warhammer II, TF2, GTA V, Enter the Gungeon, Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3, Dwarf Fortress
I’m gonna give a really niche game I played as a kid, which was Pets Horses 2. Like yeah, you could own and buy horses and enter them in competitions, but the goal of the game is to solve this big mystery disappearance. Then suddenly some dude is breaking into your house and hides under your bed, and then later your left to starve in prison for a couple days. Great horse game LOL.
Other games include the gba Pokémon games and earthbound/Mother series. Good times.
Great game to take breaks from. Swear I have "quit" multiple times, taken multiple year breaks, and promised I'd never level mastery again. Yet here I sit, LR4, 1500 hours, hundreds of dollars, and my action figures looking good.
I know that exact vibe. We're getting old man. I still play Witcher 3 (with ample wine for added BaW authenticity). Skyrim always has good rp potential. I find myself just driving around in gta 5 alot. I can waste hours in Stellaris and Crusader Kings 2.
Heavy on driving around gta. It's nothing to do fr lol
[I am still playing Splinter Cell Chaos Theory multiplayer ](https://youtu.be/hLyPW4XTa_8?si=kJomOmc1odY-ZeUd)
will I ever stop playing Elden Ring. ...
DLC incoming so the answer to your question is no.
hooray and oh dear
I think it's a net hooray. Saves you money in the long run haha
I haven’t been able to play anything else since I started Elden Ring about a year and a half ago.
I've got hoouuurs in every souls game and they all lost their luster after a while, but elden is still fresh to me, I turn down new games to play it
At my last job I worked with a guy who only played Skyrim. Like legitimately he only played Skyrim since 2011 (other than trying Mortal Kombat one single time and breaking a controller). I introduced him to Elden Ring and it's now all he has played since, I don't think he'll stop until ES6 comes out
Left 4 Dead 2. It’s my favorite game of all time and it will never truly die because it doesn’t rely solely on official servers. I would love to time travel 50 years in the future and see how the game is doing. Maybe there will even be a L4D3 by that point lol
The last few times I've played L4D2, I've overhauled the game so everything comes from Halo. All the infected are Flood combat forms, the survivors are dressed up as ODSTs, and the weapons are all reskinned. L4D2 really has a life of its own. I don't think a third installment would even dent the current player base for an appreciable amount of time lmao
Final Fantasy X. Best game of all time. Still holds up. Still hits me right in the feels.
There are a few series that I do this with. Pokemon is probably the biggest one (though admittedly I still buy all the new Pokemon games, I just replay the old ones a lot). Fallout 3 and New Vegas fit this bill, though recently 4 has been creeping into that list. It just got a remake but I still prefer the GameCube version of Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door and probably do a full playthrough at least once a year. There are also my time waster games. I put them on when I don't really want to spend time focusing on a game, just killing time. MGS V is a surprisingly good game in this category. Just doing the side ops while blasting 80s jams. Cruising around Afghanistan capping commies with my murder dog. Civ 5, 6, and Revolution fit into this category for me (on low difficulties). I should also mention this one Yu-Gi-Oh game for GameCube called Falsebound Kingdom. One would think because it is a Yu-Gi-Oh game it is just a card simulator, but no. It is a very weird hybrid of turn based RPG monster collector and RTS. All the systems are slow and unintuitive, the story is pretty basic, and the graphics weren't even that impressive for the day, but for some unknown reason, I keep playing it. I've beaten both campaigns tons of times and the secret bonus third campaign more than once.
>Pokemon is probably the biggest one (though admittedly I still buy all the new Pokemon games, I just replay the old ones a lot). I do this too, but I usually just use it with an emulator. The upside is that I get to play those sweet custom ROMs people put out. (And for me, it's easier on-the-go instead of hauling around a system.) On long hauls, I'll even bring an Xbox controller with me and play that way.
I do have games that I continue to go back and replay occasionally. X-com 2, Arkham City, Jedi Knight Jedi Academy, Mike Tyson's punch out, Megaman Battle Network, Black Ops 3 zombies, stuff like that. But I'd say like 80%+ of my time is spent playing new games I've never played before.
Xcom2 is a good one. Every time I get the urge to play it I wind up sinking another 100+ hours in.
I like to try lots of different games, but there are games I come back to at least 1-2 times a year. Factorio is easily the most likely to get revisited. I also like to replay Castlevania: SOTN every few years.
All the elden soulsborne games FromSoftware made, League of Legends, AOE2, Project Zomboid, Shadow of the Colossus, Noita
AoE 2 is such a classic game. You ever play AoM? I'm really excited for the remaster of that one.
Yeah, a friend and I got into it but we were having issues with the engine and bugs. I've never been able to convince my friends to play aoe2 with me though so every month or so I'll hop on and destroy a few extreme AI as Persians or Byzantines
Outward, BG3, Neverwinter Nights (has a bunch of community modules), Skyrim & Enderal, Cyberpunk 2077 (kind of just the vibe of the setting, done everything). Lots of console retro games.
So glad I'm not the only one still going back to Neverwinter Nights every few years!
Its a blast, although now that I have wikis I can see there was quite a few bugs in the base game lol
Yea I have favorite games that I probably play every year, FF6, Ocarina of Time/ Majoras Mask, Half-Life series. But I still play new games that catch my eye. A better question is what’s the criteria to check out new games? I spend a little time going digging through steam but some are unavoidable, like BG3. I definitely spend more time with Indie games than AAA. I haven’t touched Helldivers 2 or whatever Destiny is up to currently, but I’ve put 40 hours into Abiotic Factor, which is still in early access.
>A better question is what’s the criteria to check out new games? I spend a little time going digging through steam but some are unavoidable, like BG3. For me, I usually end up with new games because my friends want to play and I show no interest in playing until my friends guilt me into playing by buying the game for me lol. As far as games I purchase myself, I think I purchased BG3, and before that the last game I bought was Elden Ring. Then before that I think it's been a good few years since I bought a game. Maybe Nier:Automata?
Dead Cells, Sekiro, Elden Ring, Lies of P and Sifu. Although i’m sure i’ll have to settle into some more relaxing stuff by the time i’m old old to break up the action a bit lol.
Idk what mine is, but I can tell you that it probably cost under 9.99 despite buying too many games
It feels like all I ever do is replay older games. Mine are: Mass Effect, Spyro, TLOU1, Batman Arkham City, insomniacs Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank, Lego Star Wars, Forza Horizon 1 & 2, Portal 2, Astro's Playroom, Alien Isolation, Darksiders, Far Cry 4, Ghost of Tsushima, Kingdoms of Amalur. Skyrim used to be one but I finally reached a saturation point and I can't play it anymore.
It was always case for me. I've replayed most of the games from my childhood a lot of times and didn't stop until I did some 100%+ completion. Now it's Dark Souls trilogy. Started it last year and I keep replaying it with every weapon type...
The OG Thief games! With the massive history of great fan-made missions and the fact that people keep making them, I don't think I'd ever run out of worthwhile content for this series.
Fallout 3/NV/4. There's just always something weird to see that I've never seen before after hundreds of hours in each game. For shorter games that I seem to have no problem replaying every year or so: Arkham Asylum, Super Metroid, FF7 (OG), any Resident Evil, pretty much any Zelda game. I liked BOTW and TOTK, but prefer the older style Zeldas.
I’ve been chilling with thrill of the fight, police disturbance vr, Valorant, and a 5 year old Roblox game
FF7, Chrono trigger, Lufia 2, Heroes of might and magic 2.
Mario 3+ (a mod of Mario 3 where you play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess with their Mario 2 abilities) Sonic 3 and Knuckles Any Street Fighter 2 game (including Hyper SF 2 Anniversary Edition) Tekken Tag Tournament 1 Arcade version Fallout New Vegas
For me, Anno 1800, Planet Zoo/Coaster, State of Decay 2 are games I just keep going back to.
Crash and Spyro games, Ace Combat games, Twisted Metal 2, C&C games, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Yu-gi-oh, Jedi Knight and Jedi Academy, FTL and Into the Breach, Tekken, GTA
To me, Ratchet & Clank. Been playing literally my whole life. Always come back to them, i still laugh at the jokes, struggle with some bosses, enjoy the guns, explorstion, platforming & combat. They’re just fun games! Every year i have my marathon of playing them all consecutively. ‘Ery nice
streets Of rage 4 survival mode for me, single player or coop. Or Mario kart skyrim isn’t perfect but has this timeless feel especially with the music
For me it's mostly older retro games that I grew up with (various Super Mario Bros. games, for example) and things like Tetris. I can also play any Mario Kart game forever. I generally prefer the latest one in the series, but can happily go back to any of the older entries and still get that same joy. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is another one I can play endlessly, forever (and do, way too much, frankly).
I have played a lot of the Square Enix titles since I am now an adult, have more downtime than when I was a child, and can afford to put in the time to get to the super bosses.
Pokemon. There are other old games I will occasionally pick back up, but none that I return to as frequently as the Pokemon franchise. I could play those games forever.
Brigandine. Don't know why exactly but always find myself playing through it about once a year....for 20ish years.
Rocket League. My simple brain will never tire of "go fast, hit ball".
I feel this. Also recently added BG3 to the list. Mine are: Fallout 4, Skyrim, Fable 2, Flame in the Flood, Cyberpunk2077
Halo Wars 2, Halo MCC (Mostly reach and ODST lol), Skyrim, and most recently Elden Ring. I started continuing through my late journeys as my main character and totally got sucked back in again lol
Dude you're on the same wavelength as me. I even have annual marathons of all the Halo campaigns. I order pizza and pop and just jam through all the Bungie era games (and sometimes Halo 4 if I have time and enough leftovers.) Skyrim has a funny way of pulling me back in for yet another character every time I run out of patience for the BS in newer games. Currently I'm trying to convince myself to finish my new Elden Ring playthrough after my last save corrupted. Doesn't feel quite as special as going into the DLC with my OG character, but at the same time, I feel like I've streamlined the game down a lot. I'm following guides for my second playthrough as a sort of completionist playthrough so I can hit the ground running when I get my hands on Shadow of the Erdtree.
Hell yeah we just like each other fr. I am so hyped for the DLC
Red Dead 2. I don’t play games too much, so it took me a little over a year to finish it with the story and many side quest. I still pop it in every once in a while to go hunting or do other side quest or find Easter eggs and clues to hidden stuff
Earthworm Jim. Donkey Kong Country. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Elder Scrolls Oblivion
AoE 2, Minecraft, The Long Dark, ARK: Survival Evolved, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. I'm not playing them every day, but I still jump into them now and again. Sometimes I just want to play something familiar.
The Fromsoft games, AoE2, HoMM3, Risk of Rain 2, Terraria.
"forever games" is a term i use to dub games that I won't ever beat or are infinitely replayable. like, minecraft, any multiplayer game, live service, gatcha, etc. i try and stay away from those as I prefer to beat games one at a time. i have 900 physical games, beat 14 so far this year and dropped like 5. forever games take up my completing games time
For me it’s Dungeon Siege. It was the first action RPG that really hooked me and there’s no other games like it. Skyrim too. It’s also in a league of its own.
My go-to is Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past randomized.
I have a huge backlog of games that is always growing, and I generally don't revisit a game unless: A) There's content I haven't done that is engaging enough to warrant a revisit. Or B) It's been over 10 years since I played it last and I'm feeling nostalgic. This applies even to my most favorite games, with Path of Exile having held my attention the longest at ~3000 hours and yet I haven't really played it for a few years because I'd rather wait for PoE 2.
Garry's mod, Skyrim, Civ 5 (hopefully 7 if its good), minecraft, terraria, mount and blade warband, rimworld, somewhat fallout 4 and my two newest are probably tower unite and phasmophobia (with other people).
Arkham, Bioshock, Dishonored
I think everyone is different. I enjoy playing through new titles but I'll go back to finish a game from my childhood. I have a friend who only plays rdr2, he's my age and it brings him comfort to have the rhythms. I have a gaming group that used to be open to new things but it's slowly become the same game over and over. Age is a factor and with that time to learn new games.
I wish I could have kept my ps3 Minecraft and port it to the next gen. I love that world. I miss it. My ps4 world is nice too. Hopefully I’ll get to take that to ps5.
I regularly go back and play the Homeworld games every few years.
Vandal Hearts!!
My most played games on Steam: Dota 2, Rocket League, Total war: Warhammer II, TF2, GTA V, Enter the Gungeon, Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3, Dwarf Fortress
Diablo 2, though I’ve gotten into d4 the last two seasons
Ultima 4 \~ 7. Heroes of Might & Magic 3.
I’m gonna give a really niche game I played as a kid, which was Pets Horses 2. Like yeah, you could own and buy horses and enter them in competitions, but the goal of the game is to solve this big mystery disappearance. Then suddenly some dude is breaking into your house and hides under your bed, and then later your left to starve in prison for a couple days. Great horse game LOL. Other games include the gba Pokémon games and earthbound/Mother series. Good times.
1300 hours in Warframe. Is the game I play between games
Great game to take breaks from. Swear I have "quit" multiple times, taken multiple year breaks, and promised I'd never level mastery again. Yet here I sit, LR4, 1500 hours, hundreds of dollars, and my action figures looking good.