What's Your Forever Game?

[el_principe]

𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐈 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐠𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐗, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐍𝐄𝐒, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚

 

[sun0wl]

Online pick:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
I've played it on and off (mostly off in recent years) for maybe 20 years now? Still a pretty active online community with lots of servers alive and well. Still fun.

Offline picks:
Dragon's Dogma II
Pretty much the most ideal open world RPG for me so far. Maybe only a few hundred hours of gameplay here, but to me that's basically forever.
(Well, maybe forever if Capcom released some actual DLC :') )

Shadow of the Colossus
I love just going back and visiting this world. The feel of the gameplay and aesthetic is still unlike any other for me. Possibly influenced why I like Dragon's Dogma as well (running around beautiful places and grabbing onto huge monsters to slay them before meeting a tragic fate myself).

FFIX
The Place I'll (always) Return to Someday. One of the only story heavy RPGs I could really play over and over, just to experience the world and characters again. The ability learning is like actual crack to me, too...

FFX
Really, the same reason as FFIX, it just has a different place in my heart. Spira is definitely my favorite world. I've played FFX several times and always revisit it every year.

Valkyrie Profile 1&2
For different reasons. Both have worlds that I also fell in love with, with very deep gameplay. I play VP1 once a year or so.

Vagrant Story
What can I say, I'm a masochist of some sort lol. Also it's a Yasumo Matsuno and Alexander O Smith production....in other words it's an ideal game to me. I can watch the cutscenes over and over.

Guilty pleasure pick:
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side (PS2 or DS)
Hahaha really. It's fun to play every few years. I've done every route and seen probably every event possible but still like to see how many bombs I can get to go off by dating the teacher and pissing off every boy (Himuro-sensei my beloved)

 

[Vexicrypt]

Original Resident Evil 4 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, I keep replaying them every year or so and they are fun every time and do not get old for me. Most likely because of unique muscle memory and knowledge they give you, that you just cant wait to put to use again and again.

 

[Dakarus]

 

[Segadude113]

 

[Deleted member 721976]

Tomb raider Anniversary!!!!!!!! are having influense the best on my condition.

P.s. At past i also played alot in call of duty multiplayer, resident evil 4, ninja gaiden 1, dark soulses. But now i find this games boring because in ALL character-action games there are constantly repetitive actions, such as killing millions of enemies in almost the same way. Last action game about killing was resident evil 4 remake 2023, its a good game i make platinum trophy in it and i am off. If anyone can recommend something like tomb raider anniversary (which i doubt) i would appreciate it. And yes i know about uncharted series - it sucks))

 

[Tom88]

The game you can see yourself playing forever

I like the way you turn the question. For me, it would be Shining Force 2, the best Tactical RPG ever done, in my opinion.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

Princess Crown (1997) developed by Atlus originally released for Sega Saturn, later to PSP

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and multiplayer honorable mention The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match (2009)

 

[Badseed]

Castlevania Symphony of the Night

 

[rugal]

wild arms 2

 

[Theriise]

The coin game for pc. (And also arcade paradise) literally play around your big own arcade space for a while to burn off steam. The coin game has the ones that absoluetly vomit out tickets for you and the arcade paradise game is more focused on really fun games to play based off of real arcade cabinets such as ddr and puzzle bobble. Theyre not heartless parodies either. I love the feeling of being able to hang out in arcades whenever I want, to burn though fake money and have time to experience these things without the worry of other people, and yelly children and gross sticky machines and using my own money.

 

[Rox00]

Offline for me it would go to Terraria, I put a ton of hours into the game and every run when I plan it out when I want to begin a run and imagine what kind of builds/strategies I could do in that run (local mage btw). It's also just a relaxing game in general. : P
While for an online game, I'll always go to Halo MCC as playing classic Halo is something that has aged well for me. Playing Halo 1 - Reach campaigns are great and all but the online is what really made Halo for me whenever I wanted to chill out and just play something like Halo 3 online on the weekend, especially as I have grown up with the classic Halos so the online just naturally clicked with me again when I revisited it recently.

 

[YULEcannon]

Battle Tycoon: Flash Hiders. It's a pretty fun fighting game that lets you Gamble to earn money for upgrades in it's adventure mode.

I love CPU bum fights.

 

[Zerpina]

Diablo 1 and 2, with their respective expansions, and not the remakes.
I have old hardware to play Win 98 - XP era games.
I could literally play Diablo 2 repeatedly forever.

*Specs on the dual-booting machine for old games*
Intel Core i7-4770 3.90 GHz
16GB 1600MHz DDR3
1tb Netac ssd
AMD FirePro W4300 4GB Low Profile

Yes, it's a bit overkill for that era of games but meh.
I got the whole machine, aside from the GPU and SSD, which I already had for about 25 bucks

 

[Deleted member 7989]

The PS2 era Rockstar stuff, all of it.

I think I missed last year because I forgot, but I do yearly runs of Crash Twinsanity. It was the first video game I ever played, when I was 3. It's a big favorite of mine. I've been doing yearly runs since around 2010. It's a game that I've always had a copy of, even in the worst times of my life.

OG Resident Evil 4, game is way too tightly designed to not load it up occasionally.

Halo 1 specifically is a game I return to a lot.

Classic Doom will always be a staple for me, there isn't a bad Doom game IMO.

Super Paper Mario is a big favorite of mine as well, it was the first game I played that had an actual coherent plot, and a pretty decent one at that. I love that game's style. Paper Mario before Sticker Star is fire.

Cave Story is a big one. That game is beautiful. Literal work of modern art.

And there's tons more, but those are my most notable. I've played a lot of shit, and I haven't been here THAT long in the grand scheme of things. I'll always see gaming as an artform, and it's quite important to me, even in the not so great state it's in currently.

 

[MagmaRam]

Classic Doom, but with how many WADs there are out there that's cheating, Doom 2 is basically a game platform all on its own at this point.

The PS2 Ace Combat trilogy is an easy replay literally any time.

The big one, though, is the general stable of Paradox's grand strategy games, especially Victoria II and Hearts of Iron IV. If I'd put all the hours I've spent in those games into something useful, I could probably be running a country for real by now.

 

[Bluewyne]

A bit of a boring answer, but the only games I regularly go back to are Oblivion and Skyrim.

I used to play Pokemon Emerald and Pokemon FireRed over and over again, sometimes in foreign languages to get immersion practice. Maybe I'll even play them again once my Japanese literacy level is high enough... but for now I have little interest in Pokemon games nor replaying these ones again. I think the current direction of Pokemon is tainting my interest in the old classics.

I wish I had more forever games, but I rarely replay videogames. I already have so many in my backlog that I don't really feel the need to retread old ground. I get that some people like revisiting a familiar game to see if they can clear it more efficiently with all the prior knowledge they have and maybe stumble upon things they missed, but for me, I don't enjoy sitting through familiar dialogue knowing how the story will resolve.

 

[Varyag]

I'll have to mention the games that I know I have already played for ages and could see myself continuing. But I have to mention that most all of them are kinda cheating a bit because of mods.

Classic Doom and Quake 1 both have an unlimited amount of gameplay with how many player created mapsets exist for both. Same could be said for Unreal Tournament '99 but that's online.

Other than that, Assetto Corsa my 300GB beloved. Can race literally any car and track combo I can think of. I could say many other racing games, but that's the one I'm absolutely sure I'll never get tired of. *maybe* BeamNG.Drive

And then for strategy gaming, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War, and Gates of Hell:Ostfront are both great and have great mods and dynamic campaigns you can keep playing forever. And lastly, to sate my army-building and scenario construction itch, Battletech via the Megamek implementation of the tabletop wargame. Thousands and thousands of mecha to pick from.

And lastly on the action game front, I've put a great amount of hours into Dead Cells, and roguelike/randomizer games are a good bet, but. Monster Hunter. I could play Monster Hunter forever. If I pick Generation Ultimate, that is literal because that game has so many quests and monsters I will literally never actually be able to finish it. I wanted to say Dark Souls too, but I've gotten myself tired of it before from playing it too much and would rather save it for eventual returns.

 

[Mopeybloke]

I have been playing Final Fantasy VII and IX since 2010 at the latest, so maybe those.
Quake is my most played game in the last 5 years or so. I can see myself going back in to play new mod releases for years to come.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Multiplayer:
-Dead or Alive 2 & 3
-UT99 & 2004
-Conker : Live and reloaded-multiplayer
-Counter Strike (Xbox)
-Diablo 1


Singleplayer:
-Ninja Gaiden Black & 2
-Fallout 3
-Metal Max Returns
-Vulcanus:Seek and Destroy
-Dino Crisis 1 & 2
-Silent Hill 1
-RE: Revelations 1
-Fable 1
-Turok : Dinosaur hunter
-Final Fight 3
-ObsCure
-Ridge Racer type 4

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I think... Smash Remix.

It's been a constant in my household for years and it's also a great bonding tool.

 

[Emerald Flowsion]

I have so many of those. Hard to chose one.

Virtua Fighter 5
Tekken 3
Super Mario 64
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Capcom vs SNK 2
We Love Katamari
PES 5
NBA Street Vol. 2
Time Splitters 2 & FP
WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain
Fire Pro Wrestling World
F-Zero GX
King of Fighters 98
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
OutRun 2
Ridge Racer Type 4
Burnout 3

 

[boreal_cryptid]

Skyrim, because it's dear to me, plus i can mod it into everything. simply walking around relaxes me, and new lands mods help with it too!
Oblivion, Morrowind, Fallout New Vegas for the modding reasons as well, plus some good memories.
Sims2, Sims3. literally endless games.
i often re-play Dragon Age and Mass Effect series, even if i know what will happen next, even if they are not open-world games. i just can't stop admiring the landscapes and locations.

 

[KenShjIN]

Mass Effect Trilogy
Skyrim
Morrowind
Oblivion
Panzer General Games
Rainbow Six Series

 

[Boo Man]

Diablo 2 on dead servers
FOREVER