doctorfrog on 19/2/2009 at 23:35
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There are triple-A fire-and-forget-em games, like Bioshock and Dead Space, visceral shootfests that are a thrill a minute, then you forget them about a minute later.
There are multiplayer games that you might keep playing, simply because you've played them for so long and you know everything in your muscle memory, and you're unable to move on. (tsk, tsk)
There are the loved classics that never leave your heart or your hard drive, your Thief Golds and System Shocks, Deus Exes or Legends of Zeldas. These are the games that make you a gamer, whether or not you subscribe to that horrible term.
Then, there are games that you come back to once a year, or every couple of years. They're not necessarily your
favorite games, and they may not make many top-10 lists, because they're not quite what you think of when you think of hardcore gaming.
Maybe you forget they exist until you find them supporting the uneven leg of the dining room table, and once you see the label side of the install CD, you can't help but toss it into your drive and give it another go. For the next seven days or so you'll be one of a small number of people who may still be playing a game that most everyone else feels is superceded by the next version up, or became boring long ago. Most of the time, you'd agree with them, but for now...
For me, this week, it's
SimCity 3000 Unlimited:
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Next week, I won't be able to stomach the game, its fuzzy, ill-defined sprites or lack of dreadful reality (where's my black unrest, dammit). But for now, I'm all about dismissing petitioners and laying down zones.
What about you? What game do you keep coming back to, in spite of yourself, or the fact that the gaming world has since moved on? Maybe you keep coming back to the Morrowind province. Maybe it's Mario Bros. or Mega Man. Or Tetris. Maybe it's hopscotch. Bonus points if it's dreadfully dull to everyone but yourself.
In this thread: what almost-forgotten game or games do you come back to every once in a while for a short, obsessive period of time? If you're playing one now, don't be lazy, post a screenshot!NOT in this thread: a stock list of your favorite games.
The more obscure, the more interesting! Try to think of games that you find yourself hungering for again every now and then, even though the last time you played them, you were thoroughly bored with them and firmly convinced you would never play them again... but you came back anyway.
june gloom on 19/2/2009 at 23:50
That's easy. Thief trilogy. I play it for about 2 months and by the end I'm ready to scream.
Hence why I don't do it every year anymore like I used to.
demagogue on 20/2/2009 at 00:19
Does a sex hentai game count?
Seriously, though, I'd probably say
Civilization 2.
Edit: Looking back over your post, if you mean really forgotten games ... since the age of emulation, there have been a number of C64 games I keep going back to ... some really obscure ones like
Shogun,
Rags to Riches, and
Doriath ... also that fit the "binge" description because they all involve some ludicrous, pointless task-fest marathons towards some laughable goal like turning a Japanese peasant into Shogun or a homeless man into a millionaire. But once I get started, I practically can't stop until I do it.
Funny that I already posted screenshots of all three games together at the bottom of (
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1771517#post1771517) this post.
Some IF I keep going back to, also, like the Microscrolls games
The Pawn and
Guild of Thieves.
doctorfrog on 20/2/2009 at 01:39
Quote Posted by demagogue
Does a sex hentai game count?
Seriously, though, I'd probably say
Civilization 2.
Edit: Looking back over your post, if you mean really forgotten games ...
I mean games either forgotten by you personally, as in "I forgot I had this damn thing..." or forsaken by game players at large for the new and shiny (or simply because it was bad). Or, in the case of Civ2, loved and classic games that still infatuate you for a short period, but you legitimately don't have a "good" reason to go back and play it (CIV is out and inexpensive, and generally regarded as the best 4X evar).
Yep, that's three kinds of forgotten.
heretic on 20/2/2009 at 01:50
The Black Isle/Bioware Infinity Engine games. Whether it's Baldur's Gate 2 w/ TOB expansion, Icewind Dale or even Planescape Torment it's the same mods, same party, same class and same rapt attention.
Nox - Man I love this game. A quick, charming and delightfull run-through with each class is just what the doctor ordered during the slow part of the season.
Outcast - Still a beauty, and still unmatched in many regards.
RavynousHunter on 20/2/2009 at 03:41
I second NoX, its pretty good when you need a quick fix. Never got to play much of Outcast, all I could ever get my hands on was the demo, and it was pretty good; though the most fun I had was screwing with the guns. Nothing says fun like meter-tall bullets that scream toward your enemies at Mach 7. :thumb:
EvaUnit02 on 20/2/2009 at 03:58
Off the top of my head:-
Shogo: Mobile Armor Division
Half-Life + Opposing Force
nicked on 20/2/2009 at 08:56
Transport Tycoon.
Matthew on 20/2/2009 at 10:49
Alpha Centauri, Jagged Alliance II and, er, Pokemon Diamond.
