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Post by Head Mutant on Sept 16, 2005 9:07:43 GMT -5
Have we ever talked about this? I'm just curious what your most replayable video games are. I'm talking about the titles that you don't necessarily play non-stop for six months in a row, but the titles that you've found yourself picking up again and again and again over the years.
This popped into my mind because I just re-installed Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, a game from 1999 or 2000 that I've played through three times already. I adore it because it took a daring and nifty twist on the RTS genre: namely, you can't ever directly control your battle units, just influence semi-generic D&D "heroes" to explore and battle the enemy by putting bounties out there. The personalities and voices of the game only make it more endearing. I really wish that the proposed sequel hadn't fizzled out... this would've made a terrific series.
In any case... Caesar IV was just announced, and Civ IV and Age of Empries III are about to be released! And City of Villains! DARN YOU, LIMITED GAMING TIME!
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Post by pfrsue on Sept 16, 2005 10:26:10 GMT -5
I've been hooked on Age of Empires II for quite a while. For one thing, it's one of the few games that my venerable old 'puter at work can handle. (Albeit it runs depressingly slowly.) Nice for those days when it isn't dead enough to get into the groove with my writing, but I'm not exactly swamped with work either. I like being able to knock down fortifications and assassinate isolated villagers while customers are vacillating between Pepsi and Coke. There may indeed be something Freudian about that.
Another big favorite is Rise of Nations. I still haven't completely mastered it. Sims is addictive, but I think my CD of it finally gave out because I can't load it onto the new computer. *sigh*
And I hate to admit this, but my kids and I are total Crash Team Racing junkies on the PS/2.
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Post by PoolMan on Sept 16, 2005 11:22:35 GMT -5
The big leader for me in this respect is Jedi Outcast (and to a lesser extent, its sequel, Jedi Academy). I absolutely LOVE the lightsaber fighting mechanic, I never would have thought it possible to make a convincing lightsaber engine on keyboard and mouse, but there we are. It's one of the very rare games I've ever really bothered playing online, but I also truly love the single player game.
I also am big on coming back to certain strategy titles. I have replayed Advance Wars and Advance Wars II (for GBA, but on my TV) so many times it's silly. Just such fun games.
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Post by siegeshot on Sept 16, 2005 19:34:13 GMT -5
I'm kind of divided on what to list here, so I'll just list game name/console/type of game. Not including mmog's on here, cuz they're all designed specifically to be treadmills.
Fortress/GBA/Puzzle
Tetris/GBA/Puzzle
Dr. Mario/GBA/Puzzle
Sims, Bustin Out/GBA/Sim
Sims, Urbz/GBA/Sim
Animal Crossing/GC/Sim
Harvest Moon 64/n64/Sim
Dungeon Keeper 2/PC/RTS
Starcraft/PC/RTS
Warcraft 3/PC/RTS
So there's a nice little spread of replayable games there. Those're all games I've probably spent at least 30+ hours each on, some of those have been 100's if not 1000's though. A lot of people diss on Fortress but it is quite the little gem. Also props to Advance Wars 1,2 and 3. Spent many hours on each of them and I own all 3. Don't own or have even ever seen the original though.
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Post by bladestarr on Sept 16, 2005 22:32:42 GMT -5
Dr. Lunatic Supreme with Cheese! I've been playing this game for over a year now straight, at least an hour a day, and it never gets boring! Click the link to download a free demo that has 4 of the 80 worlds! They say it's the only game you'll ever have to buy, and they're right!!! More exclamation points for everyone!!!! This random ranting was not sponsored or supported by Hamumu Software in any way. Eat Snacky S'Mores
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Post by dajaymann on Sept 16, 2005 23:13:45 GMT -5
The big leader for me in this respect is Jedi Outcast (and to a lesser extent, its sequel, Jedi Academy). I absolutely LOVE the lightsaber fighting mechanic, I never would have thought it possible to make a convincing lightsaber engine on keyboard and mouse, but there we are. It's one of the very rare games I've ever really bothered playing online, but I also truly love the single player game. I'd like to second, third, and fourth Pooly's remarks on the Jedi Outcast(Academy) action. Lightsabers + Force Throw = Pure Awesome. I used to play Doom relentlessly, but that was mostly back in my old computer about 4 to 5 years ago, and Doom was about the newest thing it could run. Other than that, Spider Solitaire sure never loses it's luster to me. |
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Post by Al on Sept 18, 2005 11:08:03 GMT -5
Definintely agree with Jedi Outcast, though I wasn't all that impressed w/ Academy. My friends and I, when we can actually find time to get together, are also pretty consistently drawn to Mario Tennis, GoldenEye (even after all these years), whichever is the current incarnation of Mario Kart, Halo, TMNT: Turtles in Time (for SNES), and Atari Hockey.
Al
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Post by Hunter on Sept 18, 2005 16:34:55 GMT -5
for anyone that like sports games, tecmo superbowl is pretty addictive. pretty much the game that started how sports games should be made.
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Post by siegeshot on Sept 18, 2005 18:20:37 GMT -5
I think Tecmo Superbowl was as difinitive for Football as Blades of Steel was for Hockey. Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis had a few great sports game a piece, but I'm pretty sure I speak for everyone here that agrees that those two puppies were the definitive sports games in their respective genre's. I spose now Golf, Soccer, Baseball, Tennis are up for debate.  I've played Mario Tennis for the 64 an aweful lot and I keep comin back to whoop some Yoshi rear end on my Wario. I'd say that is a pretty darn good game there for replay esp. with team matches'n stuff. The new one looks good too, I just don't have the money anymore ya know. :/ Gotta have priorities. |
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Post by PoolMan on Sept 19, 2005 11:06:26 GMT -5
Oh, my lord. How could I forget Smash Brothers? Either generation, they were both AWESOME, and highly replayable.
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Post by siegeshot on Sept 19, 2005 15:19:55 GMT -5
My brother always whooped me at those, but I was soooooo good with Samus, he was always good with Falcon.
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Post by Hunter on Sept 19, 2005 17:24:17 GMT -5
I think Tecmo Superbowl was as difinitive for Football as Blades of Steel was for Hockey. i never like blades of steel, for nintendo i prefered ice hockey...fat guy skinny guy matchups as well as recreating the 1980 olympics (i was a year old so missed the whole thing) the definative hackey game is the NHL francises tops |
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Post by mysteriorockanova on Sept 20, 2005 18:30:11 GMT -5
WARIO WARE! It's one of the few games that I play because it is "fun" and not because I "have to collect the last key to unlock a new outfit."
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Post by siegeshot on Sept 20, 2005 23:15:30 GMT -5
I loved Wario Ware and its various little offsprings. They had a lot of replay but I don't know, some of them I'd wished there was full games of and it made me sad.  |
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Post by DarthToad on Sept 29, 2005 0:15:17 GMT -5
Oh, my lord. How could I forget Smash Brothers? Either generation, they were both AWESOME, and highly replayable. I concour. Smash Bros/Mario Kart=eternal replay. When it comes to single player, I can always play Super Mario RPG again. It's such a short and simple game, but it's so fun! |
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