Games you play constantly that mean NOTHING to anyone else

[Bruma Hobo]

I used to play the NES version of The Legend of Kage *a lot* recording high scores.

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

Age of Wonders, maybe.

I have MASSIVE love for the OG Campaign, its probably the most Tolkien game that wasn't an official LOTR game.

 

[Kabas]

Something that is not well known and at the same time something that i play constantly? I don't think i have one.

I have a few games i return to sometimes due to nostalgia, like Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood or The Nations. Never finish them when i start a playthrough though.
Tend to keep Warlords Battlecry 2-3 and Eador: Genesis installed but these games are not that obscure on Codex.
Amongst recent-ish stuff i sometimes like to replay levels from Spark: The Electric Jester 3.

Sims Medieval

Now, if it isn't a blast from the past. Remember playing this quite a lot.

Also reminded of that one rant i read on codex about how the Sims games are actually the ultimate RPG, that poster had a few fair points methinks.

 

[Lagole Gon]

I don't "Play it constantly" but considering it's a janky mess, I played Black Moon Chronicles way too much. I guess the vibe carries it.

 

[anvi]

Stuff that I play for nostalgia is a whole other idea. This thread reminded me of Moonstone, one of the best games ever.

Moonstone

Panza Kickboxing
Probably my favourite fighting game, custom moves that you can choose. Amazing control method and great combat, amazing animation, etc.

Panza Kickboxing

Minions of Mirth, an MMO made by 3 people which you can play single player. You can have a party and each character can be multiclassed twice! Nice little game, slow and floaty old controls but it runs on my laptop.

Minions of Mirth

Also talk about Sims Medieval reminded me of Castles.

Castles

Some others that I play sometimes for nostalgia: Atomic Bomberman, Dune, Eye of the Beholder 1-3, UFO, Alone in the Dark, Speedball 2, TV Sports Boxing, Syndicate, Tiberian Sun, Generals + Zero Hour, EverQuest, etc.

 

[Tehdagah]

My favorite Metroidvania

 

[Hagashager]

I've played Turok about a dozen times on multiple systems since 1997. I deeply love that game.

I really liked the first two Penny Arcade RPGs from 2008. Good possibility no one here played them and in my normal life no one even knows PA ever made games to begin with. I go back to those two on occassion. I cannot get into the 8-bit sequels though.

I have replayed Bastion about 5 times despite not playing anything else from Super Giant. It's a special ARPG.

That Alien Hominid PDA game from 2006 was also my jam as a teenager. I still boot up my PS2 occassionally to play it or Burnout 3.

 

[laclongquan]

Every few years I return to a selection of lesser known games:
Start point: Fallout Tactics brotherhood of steel
Then onto: Silent Storm, 2 campaign, take about 2 month.
Silent Storm Sentinels, around 1 month.
Hammer & Sickles, 2 months of several different routes.
Then I turn to UFO Aftershock, around 2 month.
And finally UFO Afterlight, 1 month.
This is to satiate my need for tactical, loot management, troop management, and terrain destruction games.

 

[DemonKing]

I've played 100s of hours of Company of Heroes 3 but none of my Steam buddies are interested in picking it up.

At its heart it's pretty much the original game with some QAL improvements, but given I really loved that title, it's filling the void for me.

 

[spectre]

"Constantly" is a bit of a stretch, though I used to play it a fucking lot. Out of the people in my circle, seems like I'm the only one who played and appreciated, heck even know that this exists.

Same could be said about Silent Hunter.

Nobody seems to know this. I played a lot of this with my kid, until we got 100% on it.


My favorite racer. I still get back to check for new content.


Also, my recent found asmr passtime. Doesn't even seem have a thread on the codex.

 

[Morgoth]

Does firing up a NWN fan module once in a while count? I mean it's supposed to be a forgotten game!

 

[otsego]

Takedown, aka 'Hardcore Tactical Shooter' on failed kickstarter by Christian Allen (of RB6/Ghost Recon fame).

It's awful. I don't know why I play it. Every now and then I check the multiplayer lobbies and find 2-3 lost souls also sating their curiosity on this abysmal game. But I can't stop playing it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/355932838/crowdsourced-hardcore-tactical-shooter

SimCopter

It's really buggy, and not very good, but I keep coming back to this at least once a year. It's difficult to get working on modern machines, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure. Hell, I've been playing this for 20+ years and I only discovered yesterday that sometimes, if you empty your water bucket, you can kill a Sim (because he was in the water bucket that you scooped up from the local lake.... random event). 20+ years and the game still makes me chuckle.
It also got me interested in helicopters, the types and their uses, up to and including when I used to ride helicopters to work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter

 

[Borelli]

Seven Kingdoms 1

I finished majority of the game's 50 scenarios and the ones i did not finish are imo gimmicky designed, and since this is an old RTS playing skirmish against AI should be boring right?
After all, many RTS that i consider GOAT like C&C, AoE, Warcraft and Starcraft i could not for the love of me
make myself play skirmish against AI, maybe once in a couple of years for nostalgia sake (campaign and multiplayer are a different story).
Well, for some reason, i could at any time start a Seven Kingdoms random map game, despite my victory being guaranteed i just love what you can do in this game,
Setting up trade routes, migrating half of your people to a new ore vein, peacefully annexing villages of your ethnicity, setting up factories near neutral villages, having multicultural villages where one ethnicity is only warriors since you like their units etc..
It's like a 4x experience distilled to a 90 min match, and after finishing i could play it against next week, without being powered by nostalgia.

Tropico 1

City builders and scoring systems don't seem like they go together since building a max size ideally designed city is great only for the first time since the puzzle is solved after that,
the score system (integrated into the game via the swiss bank account if you chose that scoring goal) makes every game start with the tension people usually have when they want to top high scores at the arcades.
Since i don't save scum, it is almost like a roguelite experience.

SimCopter

This game was one of my first open world experiences, i would play it endlessly just helping and helping people (and sometimes creating the situation for help,
if you crash your helicopter into a car lol), combined with the career advancement of buying better and better helicopters, it was godly.
Only later did i found out that the whole internet considers it a flop.

 

[index.php]

It's difficult to get working on modern machines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter

Have you tried running it with SimCopterX?

http://krimsky.net/patchers.html

Features:

• Multiple resolution modes!
• CPU sleep time selector (prevents crashing)
• Sims rendering crash patch
• Emergency vehicle ramp crash patch
• New chopper damaged bug patch
• Configures SimCopter without installer, required for 64-bit machines
• Easily configure Windowed or Fullscreen

 

[Eldrin]

I bought One Way Heroics on a whim while doing a game-shopping spree on a Steam Christmas sale years go - while honestly not expecting much from it. It was just lying for months untouched in my library, but once I gave it a chance and checked it out, I got surprised with how good this cheap little game really was. The gameplay loop was fantastic, the writing surprisingly good and funny, and the plethora of hidden mechanics, events and endings was awe-inspiring. It quickly became my main gaming past-time until I beat it to 100%. And when later the Plus Expansions got released, with new classes, events, items, zones, endings, and a much better, harder balancing I bought it for a full price without regrets, and completed it to 100% as well. And I still kept coming back even after that, setting myself new personal challenges for the next runs. I have more hours in this, (and oftentimes had more fun in it) than in many games from "gaming studios" that cost 5x as much.

A little bit of advice for anyone that would want to try it: The first mode you have to beat is just an easy tutorial (1 out of 8 difficulties) that actually gives you a very false First Impression in terms of the End Goal. Killing the Demon Lord won't be such a piece of cake on higher difficulties, and once you understand that you are actually required to run past him and get stronger, killing him is only the most basic ending, and how many secrets and interactions lie hidden past that, is when the game truly opens up.

 

[Dark Souls II]

I'm not even czechoslovak... I don't even remember how this game first got on my computer 20 years ago... You can download from here but it's 631,94 KB

 

[anvi]

SimCopter

It's really buggy, and not very good, but I keep coming back to this at least once a year. It's difficult to get working on modern machines, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure. Hell, I've been playing this for 20+ years and I only discovered yesterday that sometimes, if you empty your water bucket, you can kill a Sim (because he was in the water bucket that you scooped up from the local lake.... random event). 20+ years and the game still makes me chuckle.
It also got me interested in helicopters, the types and their uses, up to and including when I used to ride helicopters to work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCopter

I loved SimCopter! Surprised there isn't a modern version. Apparently you can get similar from Take On Helicopters and I think there's a GTA5 mod that is similar. But I doubt either are as good as SimCopter.

 

[e-mailio estevez]

I've played Turok about a dozen times on multiple systems since 1997. I deeply love that game.

I really enjoyed the PC port. Turok's Tekbow, Shotgun with explosive rounds and Plasma Rifle are so much fun- some of my favorite FPS weapons of all time. People go on about Turok 3's cerebral bore, but I like the original game's weapons much more.

There were also shades of Descent's tricording movement in Turok- you can move damn fast, at near Doom speeds- just by running diagonally. Getting around is a lot of fun. The game does hold up IMO.

 

[Kabas]

I'm not even czechoslovak... I don't even remember how this game first got on my computer 20 years ago... You can download from here but it's 631,94 KB

It looks like Arcomage.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Gothic 2 and Risen 1: Though they are being kinda worshiped here, means nothing for lots of so called "gamer" friends. Plebs... I just love the living world and sense of its character progresion. Too bad both have shit endgame.

Warlord III: Love RTSs and this one in particular. Especially with some mods if feels like new.

Generals Zero Hour: Another RTS, love to paint the map with orbital cannons and scuds. Poor AI have no chance against me after all those years.

LOTR Battle For Middle Earth: Another goddamn RTS, you see a pattern here? A bit vanilla and basic but I love the epicness and feel of it. Too bad we won't get anything like these nowadays.

King Quest 8: Mask of Eternity: Dunno about this one, maybe because my PC was shitty and loading times were enormus or I sucked hard at it but still replay it time to time.

 

[cioran]

Crime Wave

 

[Beastro]

Star Trek Birth of Federation, the atmosphere in this game is top notch and I always like trying different factions

It's oddly perfect in a way in how simple it is. Very easy to get into and enjoy.

Only issue for me is the maps csn be too random and hobble the AIs expansion. I can't play it anymore without using the map editor to give them good starts.

Hopefully you're playing a mod like Ultimate Dominion and getting rid of the Ferengi.

 

[jebsmoker]

i really like War on Folvos, even if it is just a low-rent Panzer General clone with a vaguely Dune-inspired aesthetic

 

[markec]

Star Trek Birth of Federation, the atmosphere in this game is top notch and I always like trying different factions

It's oddly perfect in a way in how simple it is. Very easy to get into and enjoy.

Only issue for me is the maps csn be too random and hobble the AIs expansion. I can't play it anymore without using the map editor to give them good starts.

Hopefully you're playing a mod like Ultimate Dominion and getting rid of the Ferengi.

I played without mods, next time I play it I will try that mod.

 

[Beastro]

Star Trek Birth of Federation, the atmosphere in this game is top notch and I always like trying different factions

It's oddly perfect in a way in how simple it is. Very easy to get into and enjoy.

Only issue for me is the maps csn be too random and hobble the AIs expansion. I can't play it anymore without using the map editor to give them good starts.

Hopefully you're playing a mod like Ultimate Dominion and getting rid of the Ferengi.

I played without mods, next time I play it I will try that mod.

It and other mods fix some other stuff, like the Federation losing moral from acts of war that makes it tedious to fight as them.