Related to a post I made last year, but a little different because (1) you get to choose 10 now instead of 5, and (2) other games don’t get deleted, you just aren’t able to play them, so you don’t need to think about the good of humanity or anything, purely just selfish picks because it only impacts you.
A couple notes:
- Any equipment necessary to play the games, you’re obviously allowed to have
- You can play any DLC for the games you choose
- You’re not allowed to make any games for you to play. If you make video games, either as a career or hobby, only other people are allowed to play them
- Mods are allowed, but you’re not allowed to make any for you to play. You can try to commission someone else to make them for you, though
- If there was historically a trilogy, for example, that now is sold on a major storefront (Steam, Xbox, PlayStation) as a single game (such as Mass Effect or Hitman) that counts as one game now. Game bundles, though, do not count. Basically, if it’s in one entry in your steam/xbox/ps library, it’s one game
I’m interested to see what this community chooses, and hopefully it’s different enough from my old post to warrant some good discussion here.
Dark souls Bloodborne Elden Ring OSRS Death stranding series Caves of Qud Dwarf fortress Crusader Kings Anno 1800 Mechwarrior 5 mercenaries
Jarvis, generate a list of games with the most replay value.
- DotA 2
- Dwarf Fortress
- Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup
- The Sims 4 or something
hmmm, I’ll want some classic RPGs
- TES V: Skyrim
- Fallout New Vegas
- Red Dead II
better throw some MMOs in there
- WoW
- Runescape
one more… I guess -Minecraff
Ironically I’m probably not going to choose my favourite games because those are usually just very simple story based games, and can be just as enjoyable to read as a book instead.
The games which instead give the most fun-value and replayability:
- Balatro (my go-to “I’m bored and don’t know what to do with myself” game.)
- Stardew Valley. Super good, something is so satisfying in the art, animations and little gameplay loops. I replayed it to death earlier this year and now I’ll try not to think about it again until that time next year.
- “The Sims Medieval” is one I keep on coming back to, so I’ll definitely add that.
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon (don’t think this counts as a mod.) Super good replayability, I’ve been playing it intermittently for about 11 years now.
- Anno 117. Gotta have some strategy games - I’m kind of boring in that I only do anno and not more complicated stuff like city skylines.
- Fields of Mistria is a new farming sim that I have high hopes for.
- Pentiment has a lot of replayability despite only being a linear story game.
That gives me enough time to add 8. Minecraft, which I don’t play anymore but it’s a great boredom buster, and 9. Life and Suffering of Sir Brante and 10. Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian - afforementioned visual novel stories which are also fine to enjoy in book form.
Doom 2016 Carmageddon Battletech Deus Ex Titanfall 2 StarCraft C&C Yuri’s revenge Neverwinter Nights Saint’s Row 3 Mass Effect 2 or 3
I love lists, so this is an easy one for me:
- Bayonetta: unfathomably high skill ceiling. I could spend forever getting better at this game and consistently having fun.
- The Wonderful 101: same as Bayonetta.
- God Hand: not many games provide the exhilaration of a perfect God Hand run. I would have the best time spending the rest of my life perfecting my God Hand gameplay.
- Ninja Gaiden 2: peak action groove. Playable crack cocaine. Would never get tired of it.
- Gunvein: no shmup encourages you to concquer and obliterate the screen like Gunvein, even though it’s tough as nails. It’ll take me forever to no death the highest difficulty, and I’ll savour every moment.
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R: I would like to be Shadow Gallery-looping people into eternity with Zato/Eddie.
- Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes: immensely deep systems with one of my favorite fighting game characters of all-time: Chaos. Infinite potential to get better at both the game and playing Chaos.
- Persona 4 Arena Ultimax: Ken Amada is the most lighthearted fun I’ve had in a fighting game. I will need him to always be available.
- Hellsinker: easily most mechanically dense shmup of all-time. Easily at least hundreds of hours to digest and internalize everything.
- Gravity Rush: best traversal in gaming. I’m content to just boot it up and float for hours.
With your tastes (impeccable btw) you might enjoy HYPER DEMON. I think it’s a little too fast and overstimulating for me but it’s still on my to-do list. I’ve had it heavily recommended.
- Diablo 2
- Grim Dawn
- Path of exile 2
- Celeste
- trackmania
- Valheim (itd be enshrouded if it had mod support)
- hollow knight
- silksong
CyberpunkOxygen is not Included!- Skyrim (only because of mods, otherwise id pick morrowind)
Edit: I cant believe i forgot oxygen is not included! Sorry cyberpunk.
I’d have to give up 13 copies of Vagrant Story.
I couldn’t find a solid 10 but…
- Minecraft for sure; the mod packs are insane and just GTNH could last me months.
- rimworld - I suck at it but… I have time to learn
- Oxygen not included - i have to be in the mood for this but it can hook me for hours
- fallout 3 - ive never actually finished this because I’ve always got distracted by mods
- Car mechanic simulator 21- I love the car mechanic games, I have hours in each even though ive basically finished them
- Mass effect trilogy(I’ve never finished the series and the fact they all interweave means its defo on my bucket list)
- If multiplayer is allowed: Ark survival evolved or ascended.
- elden ring with randomizers.
I so agree on oxygen. I have to be in the mood for it, but when i am, that game destroys my social life for weeks.
In no particular order:
- Kerbal Space Program
- Factorio
- Rimworld
- Valheim
- Minecraft (Java)
- Ark SE
Those are my main games and easy for me to pick.
The last 4 slots are tougher. They’re likely to change the longer I think about it.
- Some version of Civilization. I’m not sure which I’d prefer.
- Something technical. Shenzen IO, Human Resource Machine, MHRD, etc
- EverQuest. If a live service MMO isn’t allowed, I could arguably run a private, emulated server using the EQ emu project.
- If I can pick a sold-as-one collection that I bought years ago but is no longer available for purchase, it would probably be a collection of Infocom text adventure games.
Journey
GTA San Andreas
GTA V
OpenTTD / TTD
Minecraft / modded
Half Life 2
Interstate '76
Age of Empires II
Roller Coaster Tycoon
And probably Factorio for the very end
I am curious about Journey on the top. I haven’t played the game, partly because I got the impression that it’s a relatively short game with little replay value. Now I went to look again and I did find a few Steam reviews with hundreds of hours of playtime but they don’t really elaborate on why they keep playing it. Here is what one review says:
“Albeit not a long game (typically 2h long), it has a great replay value, mostly because of its anonymous multiplayer.”
I’d love to hear your take on why you’d want to keep replaying it. I am OK with spoilers if necessary.
In short: it is like a playable fine art painting. You can just kind of let it play itself. There is even an animation to sit down and meditate. Same goes für GTA V btw: let the control sit and watch what horrors unfold around you. It’s just like in real life. Think about the elder people looking out their windows in peace. Did I deliver the jist?
Thanks, I appreciate the answer, yes I think I see what you are getting at. I guess what I am missing is a sense of the sort of stuff I’d see when I look through that “window”. I will probably have to try it myself to fully get it.
For me, I’d probably have to go with:
- Skyrim - my most played game of all time, and nearly endlessly moddable
- Elden Ring - probably my favourite game, if you twisted my arm and forced me to choose
- Hitman: World of Assassination - my second most played game of all time, and tons of content there. Way more replayable than a lot of people realize
- Dishonored - the best linear stealth game of all time imo
- Pokémon SoulSilver - I’ll get in occasional Pokémon moods and this is my favourite one
- Forza Motorsport 6 - maybe a weird choice, but I play this game every Christmas with my dad, and I wouldn’t want to throw that tradition away
- Halo: Master Chief Collection - CE was my first ever video game, and I played the hell out of Reach back in the day, so this is mostly a nostalgia pick, but seriously who’s gonna argue against some Halo
- Batman: Arkham City - I have such strong nostalgia for this game for some reason, way more than lots of other games I’ve played. Not too sure why, but it definitely draws me back every now and then
- NHL24 - I guess it could be any NHL game since they’re all basically the same just with updated rosters and occasionally a new feature, but 24 is the most recent I own so I’ll stick with that one. Anyway, I love hockey and this is a great game to pull out when friends come over
- GTA V - when my wife and I first got a place together, we used to play this game together (pass the controller back and forth) after work every night. We still occasionally pull it out to play together, and I wouldn’t want to put a stop to that
GTA V - when my wife and I first got a place together, we used to play this game together (pass the controller back and forth) after work every night. We still occasionally pull it out to play together, and I wouldn’t want to put a stop to that
You inspired me to see if my partner would want to share playing GTA 6 in this way. That sounds fun! Thanks :)
There’s lots of fun stupid stuff you can do, at least in 5. Obviously I can’t comment on 6.
- Set a countdown timer and you have to switch right at the timer, then right before the timer goes off drive off a cliff or jump out of a helicopter and the other person has to try and survive. Basically death swap
- Try to steal a tank or fighter jet from a military base and switch after every death
- One person exclusively controls the left half of the controller, one person exclusively controls the right half of the controller, try to complete a mission or a custom objective
- Start a timer and see who can get a five star wanted level the fastest
Basically do stupid shit and don’t take it seriously. Extra points if you both suck at the game.
Yeah my wife enjoyed watching me play the GTA v campaign and we played a bit of online together for a while but the used GPU on her PC would always start to crash out
Shadowrun (Sega version) - one of the best RPGs of all time
Grim Dawn - I was a big Diablo 2 guy, and this is the next step up
Chronotrigger - probably my favourite RPG
Terraria - just a treasure of a game and fun for lan coop
Deus Ex - my favourite game of all time
Final Fantasy 6 - perfect example of what was good about the SNES
Sonic 3 and Knuckles - there’s a lot of excellent 8 and 16 bit platformers, this one is edging out some tough competition from Shinobi 3
KKnD - I’m going back to my PC roots in real time strategy, and I’m going with an old favourite that never lets me down when I go back to it
OpenTTD - I can (have) spent years building up a transport empire
Tyrian 2000 - the king of shmups
There’s definitely games I regret not being able to play again, but I’d be happy with this lot.
- Minecraft, obviously.
- Skyrim, obviously again.
- No Man’s Sky.
- Elden Ring.
- Wii Party, for local multiplayer.
- Deadlock, for PvP multiplayer.
- Gary’s Mod, for variety.
- Roblox, for variety again.
- Terraria.
- Project Zomboid.
Can you tell I’m almost only into sandbox / open world games ? x)
I could be convinced to replace Roblox as a variety game with Diablo II.
- Factorio with all mods like A&Bs
- Manor Lords and I have all the source code to mod it
- One of the total war games, maybe Warhammer because dinosaurs and jungles, ditto with source code for mods
- Dark Souls
- Elden Ring
- Ocarina of Time
- Minecraft with all mods
- Dwarf Fortress
- Final Fantasy X
- Age of Empires 2
You mean the source code to the full game? How’d you get it?
I assumed wishes were a part of the package of getting whatever game you wanted
Have you played FFXIV? The story is amazing, and I’ve seen more people going from WoW to FFXIV than vice versa.
I have not… but I’m intrigued
WoW is more about my personal nostalgia than any particularly compelling game loop. I’ve got really fond memories of playing at different seasons of my life.
I’ll check out FFXIV though, I’m sure it’s a banger
Ocarina of Time
I am incredibly excited for the Switch 2 remake. My kiddo can experience it around the same age I did originally!
- Galaga
- Burnout Paradise
- Mahjong
- Grim Dawn
- Just Cause 3
- Destiny 2
- Unreal Tournament (1999)
- Dwarf Fortress
- Star Craft 2
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (I’m assuming that community campaign mods will continue for many years to come)
