What's Your Comfort Game?

Do you have a game you return to when you're sick or down? A solid favourite that has stood the test of time that you keep coming back to, even when you might be in the middle of a really good recent release?

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DOOM 1 & 2 by a country mile.

I don't reach for them when I'm down and out. It's more like they're games that I just always come back to. That I never tire of. That feel like a warm blanket through thick and thin.

Recently that comfort food has been Farming Simulator 2013.

Mega Man X and Theatrhythm have been pretty good for that in the past, for me.

TF2 is the game I always go back to when everything else is done. When I'm stuck offline, though, it's Kerbal Space Program.

It's varied over the years. X-Com and Thief figure prominently. Civ II until it was supplanted by Civ IV, which was then supplanted by Crusader Kings 2.

I've been under the weather this week and apparently my game this time is Poker Night at the Inventory.

Sid Meier's Pirates! and and Railroads! either one makes me feel better.

Conversely, never play League of Legends while feeling down.

Aaron D. wrote:

Farting Simulator 2013.

I'm sorry this is what I read at first.

CCGs.

Magic: Dual of the Plainswalkers, Solforge, that kind of thing.

Amoebic wrote:

I'm sorry this is what I read at first.

Well, I imagine that it would lift spirits for many.

Team Fortress 2. 2fort. Sniper.

I've played that as my comfort gaming for over a decade.

Amoebic wrote:

(post inspired by le twitter).

Aww... :(

Mine probably remains FF13, though. Maybe some other tortured JRPG like Persona 3, as well.

Burnout 3, but more in Aaron D.'s sense:

Aaron D. wrote:

I don't reach for them when I'm down and out. It's more like they're games that I just always come back to. That I never tire of. That feel like a warm blanket through thick and thin.

Any elder scrolls game or the new fallouts. The only reason I'm not playing one right now is it will take me a couple weeks to the mods in order and to get myself back up to speed on tools needed to run the game.

One of things I do is only install user created missions that I haven't played. Also I will only look up how to start one. This way there is always something new to find. There were some pretty good ones. One had me acting as a news reporter in Morrowind. One started off with a naked man that had a bad run in with a witch. One had me capture animals for a zoo. The fun part was that many of them were just as good or better than the missions that came with the games.

Also GTA, Burnout Paradise, or any open city driving game. Sometimes I'll just drive around cruising listening to music.

My comfort food, and the thing I go back to when I am between games is Skyrim. I fiddle with mods and just wander, usually making a new character each time.

Diablo-esque games. Something I don't have to think too much about, but get a lot of satisfaction from.

MMOs are also good for this.

Final fantasy games of various eras. Love going back to them for nostalgia when sick. Never finish them, though.

Wing Commander 1&2, but really the whole series can fit that bill. If I ever feel down and out, I usually just start with the first one and play them all in order. It's always a series that never fails to put a smile on my face

Mount & Blade: Warband. I've put some 700 hours into the single player, but I've also never beaten it.

Delerat wrote:

Mount & Blade: Warband. I've put some 700 hours into the single player, but I've also never beaten it.

Is there a definitive end to that game? I always felt like that was one of those games that just always kept going. At least from the time I've played I've never run into any sort of end game quest or goal.

CptDomano wrote:
Delerat wrote:

Mount & Blade: Warband. I've put some 700 hours into the single player, but I've also never beaten it.

Is there a definitive end to that game? I always felt like that was one of those games that just always kept going. At least from the time I've played I've never run into any sort of end game quest or goal.

I don't know if it actually ends, but the goal is to become the sole ruler of Calradia. To take the throne.

Classically it's been Civ or Alpha Centuari. Something I can play at a leisurly pace and not worry if I play suboptimally. Crusader Kings 2 is starting to look like comfort gaming, and I won't be surprised if other Paradox games like EU end up joining it.

edit: Oh, and Star Wars Battlefront 2, mainly the Hoth level. Mowing down bots and watching walkers fall or crush rebel scum gives me warm fuzzies.

Minarchist wrote:
Amoebic wrote:

(post inspired by le twitter).

Aww... :(

Mine probably remains FF13, though. Maybe some other tortured JRPG like Persona 3, as well.

Ah dammit, my search skills are lacking. Sorry Min. *hat-tip*
Edit: Oh dear, I even posted in that thread. I'm a dope!

Civilization in its many incarnations.

Fallout1/2, Fallout3/Skyrim/Oblivion, Gnomoria, Civilization or current 4X, Peggle, old school JRPGs, the old Quest For Glory series... appropriate question because I've been so sick this week!

World of Warcraft.

Any MMO. Or FTL or Civ 5.

Ultima Online

Not on the official servers, though. *vomits*

Chrono Trigger. I fear for the day when I get tired of playing through it over and over, but that day has yet to come.

It was Civ IV from 2005 until last year, when Civ V finally supplanted it.

Amoebic wrote:

Edit: Oh dear, I even posted in that thread.

Out of curiosity, is yours still Katamari, or have you found a new old love?

The original Sonic The Hedgehog.