Games you play constantly that mean NOTHING to anyone else

[Hag]

Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy.

Have finished it over a hundred times, still comes back to it for a quick run when I need a fix. I enjoy the feeling of intimacy that you build, through constant tries, which every single area, and how even after being able to climb the mountain with relative ease you still need to find new ways to tackle obstacles if you want to improve.
A very cheap and fast way to develop one of those satisfying feeling of skill mastery.

 

[n0wh3r3]

Nothing like that, I guess most of the games I play are known or have high replay value. I also do not play the same games over and over again monthly, I usually switch up.

I will mention, let's say, Urtuk. Doesn't have a reputation but is one of the top fantasy tactical games for sure.

Recently I've played a bit of Missionforce Cyberstorm 1. That game is really fucking cool. It plays fairly smoothly overall still, and has a truly great setting and aesthetic - much stronger than Battletech as far as mech stuff goes. The vat grown pilots are something else. They remind me of some people I have had the displeasure of knowing. Pretty obscure title, but I don't know anyone that played it who didn't like it.

What makes Urtuk so good? I wanna know since I got it in my GOG library but never bothered to spend any relevant amount of time on it. I didn't seem my cup of tea.

Have you tried playing the Front Mission remakes?

 

[NecroLord]

I would like to add some other titles:

- Neighbours from Hell (a funny little game, though I am not quite sure just how popular it was way back).
- Star Trek: Elite Force 2 (I remember it getting favorable reviews, but it underperformed commercially).
- Aliens vs Predator 2 (awesome game and rather underrated Monolith gem).

 

[Lagi]

age of wonders 1

Aethra chronicles

Fantasy general 2

 

[Ash]

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

Why are games so...gay these days? The aesthetics, the sound effects, the music kill me now...gameplay is harder to judge from a short video but as a modern game the odds are slim that it's not braindead and doesn't hold your hand the entire way.

Just looks like a massively gay version of this badass classic from 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-LolE2LBzE

 

[gooseman]

For some retarded reason I very rarely replay games, even ones that I really like and actively want to play. (I'll be grateful if someone can help me diagnose this)

Closest things:

I used to autistically replay humongous games (spyfox, freddi fish) when I was a kid. The games would randomly pick the puzzles from a set for each playthrough and you could skip all dialogues and animations, tool assisted speedruns of any of these games are done in a few seconds.

Civ3. Seems to be a niche pick, stuck between SMAC (never played it) and newer civs. It's nostalgic to me and I absolutely love it for the simplicity. Economy and bonuses are very easy to understand. No great person points. How much gold is 1 great person point worth? Fucked if I know, you need more and more of those and it also scales with how close the game is to ending. No % bonuses, no cottages. Siege units are helpless and can be captured and bombard is simply an attack without retaliation, instead of whatever weird shit they came up in civ4 with retreating catapults. Powerful wonders. Pyramids give you a granary in every city on the continent. Very easy to gauge the benefit - save production time and opportunity cost and maintenance of all those granaries. But all this simplicity fits together perfectly to create a complex game.

Worms armageddon. Best game in the series. Managed to convince a few people to play it with me, but other than that it's mostly forgotten. Peak of the series. 2 guys from the community still work on it for free. 3.8 update released 4 years ago brought a lot of fun physics and other settings. Did you know it has boardgames?

Knights and merchants. Gorgeous citybuilder/rts game. Amazing art and music. It shares some DNA with the Settlers (Joymania was founded by Peter Ohlmann (programmer) and Adam Sprys (graphic designer) on Settlers 2). Play with KAM remake mod.

Spoiler

 

[Kabas]

Freddy Fish was the shit

 

[adddeed]

Carmageddon TDR 2000 - really hated by the fanbase for some reason, but it is my favorite Carmageddon game in the series.
Grand Prix 4 - my go to racing sim, its just amazing (play it in Stereo 3D and force feedback wheel). Also Race07, has been on my hard drive since well 2007.
Jane's USAF - a complete flight sim package, not too hardcore, full of great features.
Black and White 1 - still enjoy messing around with this.
Hidden and Dangerous 2 - have been playing since 2004. One if not the best WWII themed game, and easily the best tactical shooter ive played.
Imperium Galactica 2 - multiplayer is so damn fun. Have not enjoyed another 4X game as much as this one.
Empires Dawn of the Modern World - still regularly play it in multiplayer, this is peak RTS gameplay.

But then again, most of the above ARE actually designed to be played repeatedly so maybe i i failed at this topic.