The best part about a game you've already beaten is that you can play as much or as little of it as you're in the mood for and you don't feel bad whenever you decide to put it down and pick up something else.
Gen 3 Pokémon is comfort to the extreme. Add the GameCube games to the mix too and it’s a nostalgia overload. Those horns from the OST blasting through my GBA is priceless.
What was your starter? I always picked fire types, but treecko was the first time I picked a grass type. Gen 3 was so beautiful on the gba. The shadows from the clouds up above and the water reflections. It was perfection!
For me it was the Gen 1 remakes. Which is technically Gen 3. So much nostalgia for Veridian Forest and catching Mewtwo for the first time. I once had a play through where I completed the Pokédex with only poke balls. Love making the games artificially harder.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass 100% man! Torchic and Charmander were the ones for me. Nowadays I mix my starters with each playthrough, but for sure fire starters!
Borderlands 2. Hands down its the most comforting comfort game ever. Its such an easy to play game with so much going on and it has its peaceful moments.
This year I bought a CRTV, Hooked up my PS1 and played through the entirety of FF9 taking around 43 hours. I got home from work sat down in front of it and played, it was the greatest experience with a video game I’ve ever had. Cracking open some Root Beer, eating some hot Cheetos and stealing every single item, doing all the chocobo got and cold quests. It was amazing, the visuals, the music, the combat. It’s just my favorite game of all time, and I have spent possibly and equal amount of time playing FF9 this year over anything else combined. The first time this year was on my switch, beat it in about a week. Then I got sick and had just finished getting Retroarch on my N3ds, so I compressed the ps1 files for FF9 and beat the entire game over the span of 50 hours on my N3ds. It was like I lived in this alternate reality where final fantasy 9 had been released as a digital release on the 3ds, with widescreen support and nice crisp visuals. It was such a great time, I forgot I was even laying in bed on my 3ds at one point, I was just so immersed. The controller disappear, the world did too. If you are reading this, thank you for reading me ramble about Final Fantasy 9, I hope someone can appreciate this and tell me their experience with a favorite game too!
Mine is Xenogears (precursor to the Xenosaga and Xenoblade series’). It was basically an unfinished game (budgeting or something idk) but it was my first turn-based rpg and is still one of my favorite combat systems. The story was so good for what was there and it’s one i played countless times. Also Chronocross lol but i don’t throw that one out much cuz i get yelled at for never having played Chrono Trigger. Anyway rant returned! Have a great day!
I’m just impressed a PS1 game like FF9 can run on a N3DS. Still, I love that immersion of rpgs. The kind that get you into their world and their story. Honestly, I just recently booted back to Skyrim to replay it and get into the smithing, enchanting, and brewing that I never got into on the original version. I’m not even playing as the Dragonborn right now. I just made it up in my head that my character is just some random guy that sailed in from Morrowind and lives a simple adventurers life. Maybe he finds the bigger quest lines, maybe he just builds a homestead. Idk. I’ve already got 8 hours so I know the next time I boot it up I’m gonna get so absorbed by it.
@ that’s awesome! Disconnecting from the story of a game and making it your own! A game like Skyrim allows that because of how open it is too! I’ve done similarly Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. And yeah it’s pretty crazy that FF9 is fully playable on a N3DS, the only weird thing is switching discs, when I switched from disc 1 - 2 the audio broke and the game sped up. But I restarted the emulator and my setting were fixed. The transitions from disc 2 - 3, and 3 - 4 were perfect though! Also the full screen mode on the N3DS screen looks great! It felt as if I was in an alternate universe playing a 3ds port of the original game.
I played Final Fantasy 9 probably about 10 years ago I got several hours in and got stuck on a boss I believe it was in a sewer type location probably 10 to 15 hours into the game I have never gone back and played through it again but this comment has sparked my interest I am currently playing through Spyro 2 right now but it might be next on my list
My switch was the first nintendo console I've had since the gba sp. I've now played every zelda game on that system with the exception of majoras mask and I already know I'll be playing many of them again someday after I beat them.
This’ll probably be an overused example, but I’ll always hold the classic LEGO games, like LEGO Star Wars II and LEGO Batman, close to my heart for this very reason.
I've learned a long time ago not to sell my old games. I know from experience that I'll just get the urge to replay them, only to find out I don't have them anymore. There are games I've played dozens of times, games like the original Resident Evil trilogy, Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Castlevania series and the Fromsoft Soulsborne-titles. Some jrpgs like the first three gens of Pokémon, the first seven Final Fantasies and Chrono Trigger are fun to give another spin every once in a while too. Then there's the Mega Man series, the original one I grew up with. That's something I try to revisit every year, just for the good vibes they give me.
Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Skyrim, and Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance. There’s a few other games I replay somewhat frequently, but those are my go-to comfort games
I really enjoyed this video especially the part about the the guy locked himself in the bathroom and you guys fake comforting him to finish him off. Those are the top of memories that last for a lifetime. Thank you for sharing that.
3:35 I played all gba pokemon games many times. Sometimes to try a new starter pokemon. And sometimes to go to league with a different team or with different moveset. Those were good times.
I'm completely with you. Nothing wrong with going back to an old favourite. I just booted up another farm on Stardew just today (did feel the yearning to do it some months back, but since I believed the new update was just around the corner, I waited, lol). A few months back I did another playthrough of Hollow Knight. I love revisiting old favourites, just as I love re-reading my favourite stories and rewatching my favourite shows and movies. I think the only key thing is to know how long you need to let a game "rest" for the new playthrough to properly shine.
You've convinced me, Im organizing my steam library. Adding a vibe check category, and I'll play through all of them for a bit to see the ones I want to continue. I'm starting with Earth Defense Force, definitely Atlas too.
Dude, i resonate with you so much. As a 36 year old gamer, everything you talk about is just spot on. Anyways, a game ive been wanitng to play again but havent pulled the trigger is FFIX or FFVII
@ccaprice8595 final fantasy 9! That was my first ff game. I finally played 7 last year, and despite the aging graphics, it was so immersive once I adjusted. A lot of creators on this platform cover news and numbers, and I feel like storytelling has become a lost art. But, yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed the video because making it was so fun and nostalgic.
What a great topic for a video. I really enjoyed this. I am also a long time advocate for replaying old favorites. Some of mine I return to pretty much every few months are -- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Katamari Damacy, Shenmue 1 and 2, Left 4 Dead (the og not 2) and pretty much every Bungie-made Halo game.. and many others! I love them all for different reasons, but I can ALWAYS go back to any of these and have a great time without even trying :)
StarCraft 1 and age of empires 2 are some of my classic comfort games. Recently I’ve been into souls likes and almost always l do a new game + on them because knowing what’s coming but that being hard or harder is also comforting. You know you’re going to be challenged but you know what kind of challenge it’ll be
Once a year I play SMW on GBA. It's still my favorite Mario-Game of all time. Around Christmas I also play some ither comfort games of the past. This year it will be one of the Mario & Luigi Games on NDS or GBA.
Just started a new DS1 again a few days ago myself for the reasons you've mentioned. Sometimes you just need to decompress and enjoy something you know you'll enjoy.
THPS 2 and THPS 1+2 (remake). I turn off the brain and just... melt into it. Also, honorable mention - the long dark. There is something so homey and comforting in its atmosphere....
Have you ever wondered what THPS would look like if it was mixed with hack and slash combat? Well, the lead designer is a guy who worked on Tony Hawks underground back in the day, and they're making a game called Helskate. it looks glorious!
I feel like there's still an issue that hasn't been addressed with this video, and its the backlog. Its fine to replay favorites, but that doesn't bring us any closer to clearing it out. So I actually want to share what worked for me, and helped me get that choice paralysis: putting it up to wheeldecide! I've cleared a lot of my backlog this year, managing to take 11-13 games off of my pile in August alone iirc. If you can't decide, then take choice out of the equation by putting a couple of your games onto a wheel of fate and playing whichever it chooses! Its surprisingly very affective, and even helped with giving me the initiative to choose what other games I wanted to play next; I was actively CHOOSING what to play sometimes thanks to wheeldecide, and it felt good. I'll admit that part of why this worked so well was because a lot of the games I took off were shorter games, some taking as little as 3 hours to beat, but some games like Horace, #BLUD and Paranormasight were well over 10 hours. Besides, this trick could work for longer games just as easily as shorter games so I'd encourage everyone whose still struggling with a backlog to try it 👌
I'm slowly getting back into games where the graphics aren's so realistic and are 16 bit graphics. There is this charm of this style that let's your imagination flow more than a game that gives it all to you with over the top visuals.
I'm doing an Arkham series marathon right now. Just starting on Arkham Knight. I love Batman and grew up on the Arkham games. My all time favorite comfort games with some of my favorite Batman stories
Most of the games I play these days are comfort games 😅 I think it kinda depends on why you're playing games. Sometimes you wanna be adventurous and try something new. Sometimes you just wanna lean back on something reliable that you already know is always a great experience. Since I've been in Uni, I've been so stressed, so I haven't really played a ton of new games. My comfort games are usually Nintendo games like Pokemon. The music, sounds, visuals, everything... takes me right back to being a kid. Also as you mentioned, takes me back to all the other times I've replayed it and it just becomes this beautiful blended memory across different parts of my life. Good times
What a nice topic. At the end of the day it all about having fun and enjoying the game. I personally go back to To the Moon each year between Christmas and New Year's Eve as a ritual. Besides that I encounter myself going back to Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2012 and Remaster), DiRT 2 (2009), Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2 and every Gears of War game
My max comfort is sitting at the bonfire in DS1, it reminds me of my teen years when I spent a winter in Florida and played dark souls for the first time. Good times
Classic Doom and some SNES games are my comfy ones. When I'm notbin the mood of playing something newer and challenging, these still give me a lot of fun.
How dare you hit me with Goku's Home theme! Legacy of Goku 2 is a game that I think about like every couple of months and just replay it. I loved it when I first played it, and I love it every time I replay it. A recc that I have for people who have lost love in gaming, check out what I can only "love letter games." Stuff like Pillars of Eternity (a call back to the old CRPGs like Baldur's Gate 1 & 2), Chained Echoes (heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6), and Blasphemous 1 & 2 (the most Castlevania that's not Castlevania). Love letter games often are made by fans of a given game, but sometimes those former developers, and they really show a sense of nostalgia for a game or type of game. Gives the old feel, but something new. The indie scene was really kicked off by Studio Pixel's Cave Story (one of my comfort games) and I can't recc the game enough.
Gokus Legacy 2 is a passion project in the purest sense. Every time I hear that song I'm filled with so many memories that are attached to it that I end up getting emotional. Like you, blasphemous knocked my socks off! You may have given me an idea for a new video. "When Games Are Love Letters"
When I first played 7d2d, I was not expecting to get sucked in for 150 hours. I still remember me and my buddy digging a trench around our base the day before getting destroyed by the unrelenting waves. This is an S tier survival game, in my opinion.
I love this topic, and I wish more people would make videos or forums about it sharing their comfort games. Most videos tend to talk about "cozy" games. I have been fighting the backlog as well. It has been a struggle with a family. I had to force myself to play one game at a time for a few sessions to measure how I feel about them, and I found out something interesting. I gravitate more toward quick session games. My current big comfort game is Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition. I love the characters, and the chaos, but I also like the objective management. I played for so long on the 3ds, and I thought it was superior because of the more convenient map, but I really enjoy the visuals and denser enemy crowds on switch. I also love Monster Hunter. I have been going back and forth with Generations Ultimate and Rise/Sunbreak. Depends if I want quick action or to dance with the monster. I'm undecided if I like GU or RS more. Both are massive games, so I would like to stick with one. One thing I've learned is I've fallen off of jrpgs. I still enjoy them, but I'm not enjoying my time with them if that makes sense. I like the strategy, team building, and progress, but I don't feel as fulfilled. Anyway, thanks for making a space I can share my thoughts. I have been thinking about this for a long while, and I will continue to think about it as I refine my games list for my limited play time.
Yeah, "cozy" games have become synonymous with this type of topic. That's why I had to put Doom and Dark Souls in thumb to not confuse anyone. I know how you feel between GU and Rise. It's hard to pick between ultimates sheer amount of content and rises fluid movement and combat mechanics. I'd personally choose monster hunter world, but I feel like monster hunter is best experienced on a handheld because of its pick up and play nature. I don't have a huge friend group anymore to talk about games with and this is really why I started making these videos; to talk to people about video games and the reasons we love this hobby.
Just replayed Dragon Age Origins, and was stunned about how good the story and decision making is. I think I had the most fun replaying that than any other new single player game within the last few years.
Witcher 3 is my comfort game for sure! I've played it around 30 times (I think, I lost count at around 22 playthroughs XD) and I'm currently replaying it again. The entire Witcher universe (the books and games) are my biggest comfort in general, to have such a game/series which brings you so much comfort/happiness is amazing :). Everytime I play the witcher games or read the books I just feel at peace and forget about everything else.
FarCry5, it was the first co-op game my wife and I seriously got into. I have 270 hours clocked on it with 255 hours in co-op alone. Dying Light and Fallout 3 coming in a close second. My wife and I have been gamers since the 1980s when we were kids, when we first met in the 1990s it was games and rock music that hooked us up, now empty nesters we have a ton of time to game together and it's the classics we go back to quite often as they have some great memories of just chilling on Saturday afternoons once the kids were old enough to go out on their own.
The ringed city is the reason I will always buy fromsoft games with no need for a review and total media black out. I knew this topic would resonate with people like us because there's this idea of "cozy" games being this chill, no conflict type of game, but for people like us, cozy/comfort is that game we have a deep personal connection to
Been playing Dragon Age Origins lately! Can’t believe we just abandoned that style of combat. It’s awesome and not nearly as slow as most turn based/ crpgs, yet still super tactical
4:28 To interject, I have a phenomenon going on right now with Persona 5. I played the first 2 when I was a kid. Never touched any others in the series just due to too many games to play at the time. I replayed the PSP release of the first one, and that was the last time I touched the series. I bought 5 on a whim for 13 bucks. I haven't stopped playing it since I got it. Why? Because of the nostalgia that I have for the first one and it's a great classic made modern. It doesn't just happen to old games. New games can become instant comfort games if they're familiar to your comfort games. In this case, the same franchise.
@christopherromero7829 Uh, no. Walked away from that crap after a while. P5 is a celebration of old school JRPGs, while Pokémon is shackled by them and does nothing new to shake it up, and no, Mystery Dungeons don't count.
@christopherromero7829 Not even. I've been a fan since Gen 1 and just watched the series steadily decline. Gave up after Sun and Moon because there was nothing new. There are just more gimmicks that will be forgotten in the next game. The only staple they had congruent was the experience share. That's sad.
Great video!!! I gotta say for myself it's final fantasy 15 despite it being one of the weaker narratives in the series but Chained Echos gave me nostalgia feels and I can't wait to play it again when it feels right!
Can you believe that one person worked on chained echoes alone. Sadly, I didn't end up finishing it, but I need to go back to it because the writing and combat were so good, plus the pixel art. Seriously, that game is beautiful
My tips to anyone. 1 play whatever you feel like and dont overthink it. 2 If you decide to put a game down before finishing write yourself a quick note of plot points, controls, mechanics and what you were trying to do in the game before you stopped. This way you never have to worry about starting something from the beginning every time you decide to return to it. Change everything for me.
These are really good tips! I'm gonna actually try this. I'm playing darksouls again, and even after all these years, I almost lost firelink shrine to Lautrec.
@Tenacityfromtheglass Ive been trying to get through Lost Odyssey and every time I forgot the Ring Timing attack is done by holding down Right trigger and release in the center. I finally got tired of struggling to find how to do it since my copy didn't have a manual and thats when I started writing stuff down. Feels so much better to bot have that hangup everytime I pick something back up.
Maybe just deep down you don’t actually want to but everyone else has so you feel that FOMO? I can completely understand that if that’s the case. No shame in it either…kinda like when an insanely popular movie comes out but i just couldn’t care less about it. This was me with that Joker movie that everyone flipped out about. It just seemed SO boring to me.
Well if you had it the other way, you'd never revisit your favourite games because you'd always be playing new ones. You can't win either way so just go with the flow.
To me nowadays, it has become Sekiro. The timing, the sound of blades clashing when you do a perfect parry is just so calming I just drink my beer when I get home feeling a small bit of buzz and just smashing boss fights until i feel sleepy
I played through Saints Row 2 and 3 multiple times each back in high school, and I could boot them up and bang through Stillwater or Steelport like i was just there yesterday, haha. Whenever i hear Misery Business, I'll always think of cruising through the suburbs in my lowrider with Johnny Gat, gunning down Ronin members while rocking out to Paramore. ⚜️💜👾
For me, My comfort game is Assassin's creed 4 black flag. it just feel so good just sailing with you crew singing sea shanties. I can play that game a million times and not get bored.
I did a full No-Hud playthrough of Black Flag last year, and it was an experience like no other. 🎶"OH, SALLY BROWN, SHES THE GAL FOR ME, BOYS, ROLL BOYS, ROLL BOYS ROLL."🎶
@@Tenacityfromtheglass “I’ll go no more a-rovin’🎶with you, fair maid A-roving, A-roving, since roving’s been my ruin I’ll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid”🎶
Dang gum this is recent Good video, I agree with most of what you said Haven’t played a comfort game in awhile, I’ve had a list I’ve been going down of new games and been having a blast But I know if I ever need to, my emulators are sitting right where I can always use them…
Super Mario 64, Tetris and Resident Evil Revelations 2 Raid mode. Three of my my most replayed comfort games. If i'm down or frustrated I just boot up one of those games and I feel a bit better.
I’m currently enjoying playing a Pokémon XD: Gale of darkness and doing the mount battle 100 challenge super early. I’m always smiling when I see how far I get and improving my strategy every time I lose. It makes me think and enjoy each run.
I never understood why dark souls was thought to be difficult. It's only memorization. It's a different game, you don't run in and fight, you memorize. If your memory is good you win
OMG this resonated so much with me. Im in this exact place right now. Trying a bunch of games on the ps+ catalogue and denying myself of going through Sleeping Dogs for a second time, just because Sleeping Dogs will be available forever cuz i bought it. Guess i'll ahead and replay it now. Thanks for the oush man 😅 BTW my top comfort games are the metal gear series. I've played through each multiple times. Always gets me back in love with gaming. Also, when life gets tough, a comfort game will help a lot.
30 years old here and each year im less and less itnerested in new games and the biggest factors is time and money. they are more expensive for usually less quality
for me it's Hollow Knight (over 300 hours). Darkest Dungeon (800 hours), any SaGa game, or retro-speaking, Chrono Trigger (i've beaten 60+ times and it never gets old), Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and some other non-rpgs like Donkey Kong Country 2 and Yoshi's Island.
My comfort games gotta be GTA V (story mode but online too with friends), GTA San Andreas, Fallout 3, Minecraft, GMod and Skyrim. All absolute masterpieces 😫
I've lost count of how many times I've beaten Heroes of the Pacific, same with the PS2 Ace Combat games. And though I only recently discovered them, the TimeSplitters games are well on their way to fitting in that category too.
I love booting up old ps2 games I've never played. I just recently played Sly Cooper for the first time, and it was like playing a high-quality indie game.
Personally, for me, one of my biggest comfort games is Stardew Valley, and while I love the game to bits, I can't find myself playing long enough to unwind on my own anymore. I find myself stressing over "Go do XYZ, stalk ~~Abigail~~ chosen Wife/Husband to be for the save/give gifts to 'em, crack my geode, water the crops, pet the dog/cat, my animals, etc etc." So I normally hold off on that until friends want on, then thanks to the helpers I can take things slower. One thing I did recently, was go back and play Mass Effect prior to N7 Day, and got all the way to the Thessia Priority Mission in ME3 by the end of it. Then I got sick and didn't play much for Nov 6 & 7, but man that felt good! I *do* need to go back and play Fable 1-3 again, and find a way to play Legend of Dragoon again, so maybe time to fire up an Emulator, and hope those discs still work, if I can find 'em...
My comfort games are Thief Deadly Shadows and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Even though I grew up in the mid 80s, those games stood out because I had so many memories playing them with friends and laughing our asses off at the shit the enemies said and the things you could do to taunt them.
Secret of Mana and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow. Maybe it’s the music or the crispy sound design when it comes to killing enemies or picking up items. I lost count how many times I’ve restarted the game and I have them for every system.
Yeah... But I'm convinced my sleep paralysis demon is really just my backlog manifest in metaphysical form tormenting me until I clear it out. His name is Vorgox and he mocks me from the shadows, breathing heavily and hissing malevolently.
Most of the traditional zelda main console releases are what works for me…or more recently the dragon quest builders series. Going back to them every few years is fantastic therapy
I felt the same way hopping back into KH1. As soon as I heard that traverse town theme, I started feeling emotional. I miss getting home from school back in the day and running straight to my ps2
Fond memories of hanging at the local arcade, it was the go to spot to meet friends, catch up on gossip & lose quarters on Tekken 2 trying to beat Kazuya...they changed the AI to block every attack so we would keep sinking quarters in
Fallout 1 and 2 are super comfortable for me as random as that is. Ive played both to death and still find new and interesting interactions. Also gotta mention the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series's and Tekken i can easily go back too at any time
I never got around to playing 1 and 2. I know I love new Vegas to death, though. No other studio has ever done choice in a game quite like obsidian! Maybe I'll fall in love with those classics just the same.
After beating Final Fantasy 1 for the first time, the next game I want to focus on is Sonic Adventure 2 (I've beaten it several times, but never 100% completed all the challenges and mini games). However, I kept wanting to play a new round of the Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask randomizer. And right on time, someone in the randomizer's Discord server posted some challenge settings for a Halloween-themed Majora's Mask-only run, including adding advanced tricks to the logic that I've never tried before (and even a music pack to fit the Halloween mood!). So it was settled: It's back to the land of Termina!
Mega Man X, the Doom franchise, Kirby's Adventure, Warcraft 3 (before Reforged ruined it and killed the Battlenet experience), Hotline Miami, Payday 2, Killing Floor 2 - these are my comfort games
Hotline Miami has been recommended to me so many times. I'm gonna have to play it at some point along with mullet mad jack, because I know I'm gonna get absolutely addicted to them.
Ill share my comfort games, going in order of when I played them growing up. Im going to list a lot, but i will put a * next to the ones that are EXTRA comforting or sentimental to me and more*** for the ones that are just absolutely important to me for their ability to calm me down on even the worst of days. The rest are at least moderately comforting and more so than just games i liked. Zelda OoT*** Devil May Cry 1 & 3 Dark Cloud Mercenaries Playground of Destruction (Old school) Runescape*** Morrowind* Oblivion* Fable 1 Fallout 3*** Mass Effect 1* Fallout New Vegas* Skyrim*** Diablo 3 Pillars of Eternity 1 (and somewhat 2 - also the opening up to when you arrive to the first town in poe1 hits hard for me because i played through that on one of the worst days of my life and it brought me comfort to disconnect from the real world on that day) Breath of the Wild Persona 5 Assassins Creed Odyssey (I’m not an assassin’s creed fan but I will defend this as a stand alone RPG with my life) Outward*** Immortals Fenyx Rising (it’s so underrated) Persona 4 Final Fantasy 14 Dragon Quest 5, 8, and 11
Rolling through hyrule field and never getting to the drawbridge in time, spending 4 hours straight walking around the presidium and being waaaaay too late to warn the jarl of white run about helgen 😂
Honestly my comfort games are fallout new vegas, far cry 5 and minecraft. The amount of times I've "quit" minecraft just to get addicted like 2 months later is actually crazy lmao
Just recently i watched a retrospective on a card game that never really hit it's stide in America. It's called duel masters and when I was a kid I had one of the gba games of it and since I can't really go to the card shop, pick up a deck and play with someone I started emulating that same gba game I played as a kid. I started remembering deep memories of car rides to relatives long pased.
I'm in a similar situation these days, I'm the type to finish a game 100% before starting a new one (I play two games simultaneously, of different types so as not to get too bored) but it takes time to finish them and like that I don't test many games and even when I want to play an old game by the time I finish the current one the hype has completely disappeared and I don't want to replay it anymore, so I decided, I want to test as many games as possible and not finish them if I don't have the enthusiasm unless I find one that really captivates me.
Racing games in general for me, the one that did it for me first was Gran Turismo 2, that game was a masterpiece to 7 year old me. The only other games I had this feeling with was Terraria and Skyrim cause it reminded me of Zelda: A Link to the Past
I ve been in gaming for more than 15 years , beated a numerous number of titles , but there are ten games very special for me , which always were , are and will have special place deep in my heart : 1)Mafia the city of lost heaven (2002) 2) Max payne 3 3) Gta 4 4) Deus ex human revolution 5) Witcher 2 6) Assassin's creed brotherhood 7) Resident Evil 4 (2005) 8)Devil may cry 3 9) Mafia 2 10)Far cry 3
@Tenacityfromtheglass well , the game came through rough development hell and the main director left admist the development , so a helluva content and concepts were cut with the root from the game , always pains me to think what a masterpiece this title could be , especially from story perspective , but I guess they've got to chose between canceling the project or releasing what they got.
I have so many games I've beaten dozens of times over the years, to the point where Im basically a walkthrough. Majora's Mask, Morowind, KotoR, final fantasy's. And Sekiro is my most current comfort game, whenever I run out of stuff to play I always fall back on it, the boss fights never get old
I'm way ahead of you with my library of classic Doom 1/2 Perfect Dark XBLA Halo MCC Rare Replay The bigger challenge is finding anyone to play perfect dark with
I dunno about anyone else, but my comfort game is easily Mass Effect. The first game specifically. I like the other two games, even Andromeda, but ME1 is the most enjoyable for me. The clunky gameplay, the rpg mechanics, and all the characters just make the game better. It was ahead of its time when it released in 2007, and I find it the most impressive out of the 3.
DMC 3 is my favorite game to go back (any DMC game really), but 3 because I love the characters and story, and the gameplay is top notch, and you can always play around with weapons and difficulties. Wish they would bring over Switch version to PC, and update the models/textures, would buy in an instant, even if it was 70$. Aside from that I've recently replayed SMT V, Persona 3/4/5, TES IV/V, NFS Underground 1/2 + MW and the Mass Effect Trilogy... especialy on the ME Trilogy, such an amazing trilogy, so many feelings. Also Path of Exile... I've already poured god knows how many hours into it, 10k+. Though that's online ARPG that's constantly evolving.
The best part about a game you've already beaten is that you can play as much or as little of it as you're in the mood for and you don't feel bad whenever you decide to put it down and pick up something else.
Gen 3 Pokémon is comfort to the extreme. Add the GameCube games to the mix too and it’s a nostalgia overload. Those horns from the OST blasting through my GBA is priceless.
What was your starter? I always picked fire types, but treecko was the first time I picked a grass type. Gen 3 was so beautiful on the gba. The shadows from the clouds up above and the water reflections. It was perfection!
Pokemon XD Is so good I like Colesseum as well but XD is my shit! one of the best pokemon games ever.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass Sceptile is awesome, always go for it. And the graphics blew me away at the time.
For me it was the Gen 1 remakes. Which is technically Gen 3. So much nostalgia for Veridian Forest and catching Mewtwo for the first time. I once had a play through where I completed the Pokédex with only poke balls. Love making the games artificially harder.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass 100% man! Torchic and Charmander were the ones for me. Nowadays I mix my starters with each playthrough, but for sure fire starters!
As a child Paper Mario on N64 literally opened a whole new world my tiny mind could barely comprehend, and it was glorious.
I feel you. Nintendo introduced me to RPGs as a kid, and yes, it was glorious.
Borderlands 2. Hands down its the most comforting comfort game ever. Its such an easy to play game with so much going on and it has its peaceful moments.
As soon as I hear handsome Jack's obnoxious voice, "Well, looks like I'm locked into a full play through again."
This year I bought a CRTV, Hooked up my PS1 and played through the entirety of FF9 taking around 43 hours. I got home from work sat down in front of it and played, it was the greatest experience with a video game I’ve ever had. Cracking open some Root Beer, eating some hot Cheetos and stealing every single item, doing all the chocobo got and cold quests. It was amazing, the visuals, the music, the combat. It’s just my favorite game of all time, and I have spent possibly and equal amount of time playing FF9 this year over anything else combined. The first time this year was on my switch, beat it in about a week. Then I got sick and had just finished getting Retroarch on my N3ds, so I compressed the ps1 files for FF9 and beat the entire game over the span of 50 hours on my N3ds. It was like I lived in this alternate reality where final fantasy 9 had been released as a digital release on the 3ds, with widescreen support and nice crisp visuals. It was such a great time, I forgot I was even laying in bed on my 3ds at one point, I was just so immersed. The controller disappear, the world did too. If you are reading this, thank you for reading me ramble about Final Fantasy 9, I hope someone can appreciate this and tell me their experience with a favorite game too!
Mine is Xenogears (precursor to the Xenosaga and Xenoblade series’). It was basically an unfinished game (budgeting or something idk) but it was my first turn-based rpg and is still one of my favorite combat systems. The story was so good for what was there and it’s one i played countless times. Also Chronocross lol but i don’t throw that one out much cuz i get yelled at for never having played Chrono Trigger. Anyway rant returned! Have a great day!
I’m just impressed a PS1 game like FF9 can run on a N3DS.
Still, I love that immersion of rpgs. The kind that get you into their world and their story.
Honestly, I just recently booted back to Skyrim to replay it and get into the smithing, enchanting, and brewing that I never got into on the original version. I’m not even playing as the Dragonborn right now. I just made it up in my head that my character is just some random guy that sailed in from Morrowind and lives a simple adventurers life. Maybe he finds the bigger quest lines, maybe he just builds a homestead. Idk. I’ve already got 8 hours so I know the next time I boot it up I’m gonna get so absorbed by it.
@ that’s awesome! Disconnecting from the story of a game and making it your own! A game like Skyrim allows that because of how open it is too! I’ve done similarly Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. And yeah it’s pretty crazy that FF9 is fully playable on a N3DS, the only weird thing is switching discs, when I switched from disc 1 - 2 the audio broke and the game sped up. But I restarted the emulator and my setting were fixed. The transitions from disc 2 - 3, and 3 - 4 were perfect though! Also the full screen mode on the N3DS screen looks great! It felt as if I was in an alternate universe playing a 3ds port of the original game.
I played Final Fantasy 9 probably about 10 years ago I got several hours in and got stuck on a boss I believe it was in a sewer type location probably 10 to 15 hours into the game I have never gone back and played through it again but this comment has sparked my interest I am currently playing through Spyro 2 right now but it might be next on my list
Ooo, i have a few comfort games, and most of them are from the Zelda series
Mario might be Nintendo's mascot, but Link is Nintendo's hero
My switch was the first nintendo console I've had since the gba sp. I've now played every zelda game on that system with the exception of majoras mask and I already know I'll be playing many of them again someday after I beat them.
This’ll probably be an overused example, but I’ll always hold the classic LEGO games, like LEGO Star Wars II and LEGO Batman, close to my heart for this very reason.
Witcher 1 is my all time fav. Every winter, when work starts to add up and I train a lot I jump into it.
Dark souls, Skyrim, Sekiro are my comfort games 👍🏻
pornhub simulator is my comfort game
This man is NOT comfortable
Your an extremely skilled gamer IF DARK SOULS and SEKIRO are your comfort ganes 😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
@@rcarfang2 they are easy though
@@micklucas1451 making me feel bad for not playing or being good at Dark Souls 😢😢😢😕😕😕😕😭😭😭😭😂😂😂😂
The classic Tomb Raider games were my comfort games. The fact we have 1-3 remasters with 4-6 on the way make my heart happy 😊
Borderlands 2, Binding of Issac, and Portal 2 are some of my favorite comfort games 😊
13 years tomorrow since I waited outside GAME and had one of best days off work ever! Still play it and feel good every time. Great vid, made my day.
I've learned a long time ago not to sell my old games. I know from experience that I'll just get the urge to replay them, only to find out I don't have them anymore. There are games I've played dozens of times, games like the original Resident Evil trilogy, Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, Castlevania series and the Fromsoft Soulsborne-titles. Some jrpgs like the first three gens of Pokémon, the first seven Final Fantasies and Chrono Trigger are fun to give another spin every once in a while too. Then there's the Mega Man series, the original one I grew up with. That's something I try to revisit every year, just for the good vibes they give me.
The Team Ico games are some of my comfort games. Been meaning to replay Ico again recently, finally got round to it last weekend.
Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Skyrim, and Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance. There’s a few other games I replay somewhat frequently, but those are my go-to comfort games
I really enjoyed this video especially the part about the the guy locked himself in the bathroom and you guys fake comforting him to finish him off. Those are the top of memories that last for a lifetime. Thank you for sharing that.
@michaelbrooks9474 leaving a supply run at a gas station and seeing a wave of zombies - "Wait! Where's the car! Did you just leave me! You asshole!"
3:35 I played all gba pokemon games many times. Sometimes to try a new starter pokemon. And sometimes to go to league with a different team or with different moveset. Those were good times.
I'm completely with you. Nothing wrong with going back to an old favourite. I just booted up another farm on Stardew just today (did feel the yearning to do it some months back, but since I believed the new update was just around the corner, I waited, lol). A few months back I did another playthrough of Hollow Knight. I love revisiting old favourites, just as I love re-reading my favourite stories and rewatching my favourite shows and movies. I think the only key thing is to know how long you need to let a game "rest" for the new playthrough to properly shine.
You've convinced me, Im organizing my steam library.
Adding a vibe check category, and I'll play through all of them for a bit to see the ones I want to continue.
I'm starting with Earth Defense Force, definitely Atlas too.
Dude, i resonate with you so much. As a 36 year old gamer, everything you talk about is just spot on. Anyways, a game ive been wanitng to play again but havent pulled the trigger is FFIX or FFVII
@ccaprice8595 final fantasy 9! That was my first ff game. I finally played 7 last year, and despite the aging graphics, it was so immersive once I adjusted. A lot of creators on this platform cover news and numbers, and I feel like storytelling has become a lost art. But, yeah, I'm glad you enjoyed the video because making it was so fun and nostalgic.
@Tenacityfromtheglass keep it coming man, I look forward to your videos
Just replayed Portal 1 and 2 with my roommates, and I'm certain we'll be replaying them five years from now as well. Always a great time.
What a great topic for a video. I really enjoyed this. I am also a long time advocate for replaying old favorites.
Some of mine I return to pretty much every few months are -- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Katamari Damacy, Shenmue 1 and 2, Left 4 Dead (the og not 2) and pretty much every Bungie-made Halo game.. and many others!
I love them all for different reasons, but I can ALWAYS go back to any of these and have a great time without even trying :)
StarCraft 1 and age of empires 2 are some of my classic comfort games. Recently I’ve been into souls likes and almost always l do a new game + on them because knowing what’s coming but that being hard or harder is also comforting. You know you’re going to be challenged but you know what kind of challenge it’ll be
Bold of you to assume i don't do this already.
Let's just say I've played more hotline miami then one guy realistically should.
Once a year I play SMW on GBA. It's still my favorite Mario-Game of all time.
Around Christmas I also play some ither comfort games of the past. This year it will be one of the Mario & Luigi Games on NDS or GBA.
Just started a new DS1 again a few days ago myself for the reasons you've mentioned. Sometimes you just need to decompress and enjoy something you know you'll enjoy.
THPS 2 and THPS 1+2 (remake). I turn off the brain and just... melt into it. Also, honorable mention - the long dark. There is something so homey and comforting in its atmosphere....
Have you ever wondered what THPS would look like if it was mixed with hack and slash combat? Well, the lead designer is a guy who worked on Tony Hawks underground back in the day, and they're making a game called Helskate. it looks glorious!
I feel like there's still an issue that hasn't been addressed with this video, and its the backlog. Its fine to replay favorites, but that doesn't bring us any closer to clearing it out. So I actually want to share what worked for me, and helped me get that choice paralysis: putting it up to wheeldecide! I've cleared a lot of my backlog this year, managing to take 11-13 games off of my pile in August alone iirc. If you can't decide, then take choice out of the equation by putting a couple of your games onto a wheel of fate and playing whichever it chooses! Its surprisingly very affective, and even helped with giving me the initiative to choose what other games I wanted to play next; I was actively CHOOSING what to play sometimes thanks to wheeldecide, and it felt good. I'll admit that part of why this worked so well was because a lot of the games I took off were shorter games, some taking as little as 3 hours to beat, but some games like Horace, #BLUD and Paranormasight were well over 10 hours. Besides, this trick could work for longer games just as easily as shorter games so I'd encourage everyone whose still struggling with a backlog to try it 👌
I'm slowly getting back into games where the graphics aren's so realistic and are 16 bit graphics. There is this charm of this style that let's your imagination flow more than a game that gives it all to you with over the top visuals.
I'm doing an Arkham series marathon right now. Just starting on Arkham Knight. I love Batman and grew up on the Arkham games. My all time favorite comfort games with some of my favorite Batman stories
Most of the games I play these days are comfort games 😅 I think it kinda depends on why you're playing games. Sometimes you wanna be adventurous and try something new. Sometimes you just wanna lean back on something reliable that you already know is always a great experience. Since I've been in Uni, I've been so stressed, so I haven't really played a ton of new games. My comfort games are usually Nintendo games like Pokemon. The music, sounds, visuals, everything... takes me right back to being a kid. Also as you mentioned, takes me back to all the other times I've replayed it and it just becomes this beautiful blended memory across different parts of my life. Good times
What a nice topic. At the end of the day it all about having fun and enjoying the game.
I personally go back to To the Moon each year between Christmas and New Year's Eve as a ritual.
Besides that I encounter myself going back to Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2012 and Remaster), DiRT 2 (2009), Rollercoaster Tycoon 1&2 and every Gears of War game
My max comfort is sitting at the bonfire in DS1, it reminds me of my teen years when I spent a winter in Florida and played dark souls for the first time. Good times
Classic Doom and some SNES games are my comfy ones. When I'm notbin the mood of playing something newer and challenging, these still give me a lot of fun.
I definitely always go back to playing jak and daxter and dmc3 those games just bring me right back to myself as a kid
How dare you hit me with Goku's Home theme! Legacy of Goku 2 is a game that I think about like every couple of months and just replay it. I loved it when I first played it, and I love it every time I replay it. A recc that I have for people who have lost love in gaming, check out what I can only "love letter games." Stuff like Pillars of Eternity (a call back to the old CRPGs like Baldur's Gate 1 & 2), Chained Echoes (heavily inspired by Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6), and Blasphemous 1 & 2 (the most Castlevania that's not Castlevania). Love letter games often are made by fans of a given game, but sometimes those former developers, and they really show a sense of nostalgia for a game or type of game. Gives the old feel, but something new. The indie scene was really kicked off by Studio Pixel's Cave Story (one of my comfort games) and I can't recc the game enough.
Gokus Legacy 2 is a passion project in the purest sense. Every time I hear that song I'm filled with so many memories that are attached to it that I end up getting emotional. Like you, blasphemous knocked my socks off! You may have given me an idea for a new video. "When Games Are Love Letters"
I started replaying 7d2d a couple of days ago. I've been writing down my goals as I play along, and it helps keep me interested in the game.
When I first played 7d2d, I was not expecting to get sucked in for 150 hours. I still remember me and my buddy digging a trench around our base the day before getting destroyed by the unrelenting waves. This is an S tier survival game, in my opinion.
I love this topic, and I wish more people would make videos or forums about it sharing their comfort games. Most videos tend to talk about "cozy" games.
I have been fighting the backlog as well. It has been a struggle with a family. I had to force myself to play one game at a time for a few sessions to measure how I feel about them, and I found out something interesting. I gravitate more toward quick session games. My current big comfort game is Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition. I love the characters, and the chaos, but I also like the objective management. I played for so long on the 3ds, and I thought it was superior because of the more convenient map, but I really enjoy the visuals and denser enemy crowds on switch.
I also love Monster Hunter. I have been going back and forth with Generations Ultimate and Rise/Sunbreak. Depends if I want quick action or to dance with the monster. I'm undecided if I like GU or RS more. Both are massive games, so I would like to stick with one.
One thing I've learned is I've fallen off of jrpgs. I still enjoy them, but I'm not enjoying my time with them if that makes sense. I like the strategy, team building, and progress, but I don't feel as fulfilled.
Anyway, thanks for making a space I can share my thoughts. I have been thinking about this for a long while, and I will continue to think about it as I refine my games list for my limited play time.
Yeah, "cozy" games have become synonymous with this type of topic. That's why I had to put Doom and Dark Souls in thumb to not confuse anyone. I know how you feel between GU and Rise. It's hard to pick between ultimates sheer amount of content and rises fluid movement and combat mechanics. I'd personally choose monster hunter world, but I feel like monster hunter is best experienced on a handheld because of its pick up and play nature. I don't have a huge friend group anymore to talk about games with and this is really why I started making these videos; to talk to people about video games and the reasons we love this hobby.
Just replayed Dragon Age Origins, and was stunned about how good the story and decision making is. I think I had the most fun replaying that than any other new single player game within the last few years.
I actually played it for the first time. You're right. My jaw was to the floor with how good the writing was
Witcher 3 is my comfort game for sure! I've played it around 30 times (I think, I lost count at around 22 playthroughs XD) and I'm currently replaying it again. The entire Witcher universe (the books and games) are my biggest comfort in general, to have such a game/series which brings you so much comfort/happiness is amazing :). Everytime I play the witcher games or read the books I just feel at peace and forget about everything else.
La Noire, Tomb Raider 2013, Super World 2, Gears of war 1 through 3 and Dead Island is my comfort games
TR 2013 makes sense cuz it has so many beautiful locals and has good controls. Its not my comfort game but thats a good choice.
Wait dead island? Interesting and shocking to see
FarCry5, it was the first co-op game my wife and I seriously got into. I have 270 hours clocked on it with 255 hours in co-op alone. Dying Light and Fallout 3 coming in a close second. My wife and I have been gamers since the 1980s when we were kids, when we first met in the 1990s it was games and rock music that hooked us up, now empty nesters we have a ton of time to game together and it's the classics we go back to quite often as they have some great memories of just chilling on Saturday afternoons once the kids were old enough to go out on their own.
Having spent the last few days doing a completionist run of Elden Ring, it's borderline therapeutic to replay your favorite games.
Dark Souls 3 is my confort game. Nice video man and great topic
The ringed city is the reason I will always buy fromsoft games with no need for a review and total media black out. I knew this topic would resonate with people like us because there's this idea of "cozy" games being this chill, no conflict type of game, but for people like us, cozy/comfort is that game we have a deep personal connection to
Been playing Dragon Age Origins lately! Can’t believe we just abandoned that style of combat. It’s awesome and not nearly as slow as most turn based/ crpgs, yet still super tactical
4:28 To interject, I have a phenomenon going on right now with Persona 5. I played the first 2 when I was a kid. Never touched any others in the series just due to too many games to play at the time. I replayed the PSP release of the first one, and that was the last time I touched the series. I bought 5 on a whim for 13 bucks. I haven't stopped playing it since I got it. Why? Because of the nostalgia that I have for the first one and it's a great classic made modern. It doesn't just happen to old games. New games can become instant comfort games if they're familiar to your comfort games. In this case, the same franchise.
Same but with Pokémon
@christopherromero7829 Uh, no. Walked away from that crap after a while. P5 is a celebration of old school JRPGs, while Pokémon is shackled by them and does nothing new to shake it up, and no, Mystery Dungeons don't count.
@ I meant on a way they make you feel not if they are good or not chill 😅
@christopherromero7829 Not even. I've been a fan since Gen 1 and just watched the series steadily decline. Gave up after Sun and Moon because there was nothing new. There are just more gimmicks that will be forgotten in the next game. The only staple they had congruent was the experience share. That's sad.
@@gamervet4760 that’s cool and all but I didn’t ask
Great video!!! I gotta say for myself it's final fantasy 15 despite it being one of the weaker narratives in the series but Chained Echos gave me nostalgia feels and I can't wait to play it again when it feels right!
Can you believe that one person worked on chained echoes alone. Sadly, I didn't end up finishing it, but I need to go back to it because the writing and combat were so good, plus the pixel art. Seriously, that game is beautiful
My tips to anyone.
1 play whatever you feel like and dont overthink it.
2 If you decide to put a game down before finishing write yourself a quick note of plot points, controls, mechanics and what you were trying to do in the game before you stopped. This way you never have to worry about starting something from the beginning every time you decide to return to it.
Change everything for me.
These are really good tips! I'm gonna actually try this. I'm playing darksouls again, and even after all these years, I almost lost firelink shrine to Lautrec.
@Tenacityfromtheglass Ive been trying to get through Lost Odyssey and every time I forgot the Ring Timing attack is done by holding down Right trigger and release in the center. I finally got tired of struggling to find how to do it since my copy didn't have a manual and thats when I started writing stuff down. Feels so much better to bot have that hangup everytime I pick something back up.
I replay my favorite games too much to where I can't bring myself to play the games on my backlog that I want to get to.
Maybe just deep down you don’t actually want to but everyone else has so you feel that FOMO? I can completely understand that if that’s the case. No shame in it either…kinda like when an insanely popular movie comes out but i just couldn’t care less about it. This was me with that Joker movie that everyone flipped out about. It just seemed SO boring to me.
Well if you had it the other way, you'd never revisit your favourite games because you'd always be playing new ones. You can't win either way so just go with the flow.
To me nowadays, it has become Sekiro. The timing, the sound of blades clashing when you do a perfect parry is just so calming
I just drink my beer when I get home feeling a small bit of buzz and just smashing boss fights until i feel sleepy
I played through Saints Row 2 and 3 multiple times each back in high school, and I could boot them up and bang through Stillwater or Steelport like i was just there yesterday, haha. Whenever i hear Misery Business, I'll always think of cruising through the suburbs in my lowrider with Johnny Gat, gunning down Ronin members while rocking out to Paramore. ⚜️💜👾
Any Pokémon before gen 6, skate 3, and stardew are for sure my comfort games
For me, My comfort game is Assassin's creed 4 black flag. it just feel so good just sailing with you crew singing sea shanties.
I can play that game a million times and not get bored.
I did a full No-Hud playthrough of Black Flag last year, and it was an experience like no other.
🎶"OH, SALLY BROWN, SHES THE GAL FOR ME, BOYS, ROLL BOYS, ROLL BOYS ROLL."🎶
@@Tenacityfromtheglass “I’ll go no more a-rovin’🎶with you, fair maid A-roving, A-roving, since roving’s been my ruin I’ll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid”🎶
Dang gum this is recent
Good video, I agree with most of what you said
Haven’t played a comfort game in awhile, I’ve had a list I’ve been going down of new games and been having a blast
But I know if I ever need to, my emulators are sitting right where I can always use them…
Super Mario 64, Tetris and Resident Evil Revelations 2 Raid mode. Three of my my most replayed comfort games. If i'm down or frustrated I just boot up one of those games and I feel a bit better.
I’m currently enjoying playing a Pokémon XD: Gale of darkness and doing the mount battle 100 challenge super early. I’m always smiling when I see how far I get and improving my strategy every time I lose. It makes me think and enjoy each run.
I never understood why dark souls was thought to be difficult. It's only memorization. It's a different game, you don't run in and fight, you memorize. If your memory is good you win
OMG this resonated so much with me. Im in this exact place right now. Trying a bunch of games on the ps+ catalogue and denying myself of going through Sleeping Dogs for a second time, just because Sleeping Dogs will be available forever cuz i bought it. Guess i'll ahead and replay it now. Thanks for the oush man 😅 BTW my top comfort games are the metal gear series. I've played through each multiple times. Always gets me back in love with gaming. Also, when life gets tough, a comfort game will help a lot.
30 years old here and each year im less and less itnerested in new games and the biggest factors is time and money. they are more expensive for usually less quality
@mudshrooze I'm with you. I've been buying fewer and fewer new games after big publishes started the "buy now, fix later" trend.
Thank you dude, I'm gonna play Resident Evil 4 on the wii
for me it's Hollow Knight (over 300 hours). Darkest Dungeon (800 hours), any SaGa game, or retro-speaking, Chrono Trigger (i've beaten 60+ times and it never gets old), Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and some other non-rpgs like Donkey Kong Country 2 and Yoshi's Island.
My comfort games gotta be GTA V (story mode but online too with friends), GTA San Andreas, Fallout 3, Minecraft, GMod and Skyrim. All absolute masterpieces 😫
Fallout 3! I've always leaned more towards it than new Vegas, but I love them both
Warframe and Doom Eternal are my comfort games.
Personally games are better on the 2nd or 3rd playthrough. Gives you a chance to perfect the game or enjoy the story.
Once you memorize the patterns of when a monster will strike, Resident Evil games become practically cozy exercises in satisfaction 😊🎮
Super Mario Odyssey is my comfort game,it’s like being a kid again 😅
I've lost count of how many times I've beaten Heroes of the Pacific, same with the PS2 Ace Combat games. And though I only recently discovered them, the TimeSplitters games are well on their way to fitting in that category too.
I love booting up old ps2 games I've never played. I just recently played Sly Cooper for the first time, and it was like playing a high-quality indie game.
Personally, for me, one of my biggest comfort games is Stardew Valley, and while I love the game to bits, I can't find myself playing long enough to unwind on my own anymore. I find myself stressing over "Go do XYZ, stalk ~~Abigail~~ chosen Wife/Husband to be for the save/give gifts to 'em, crack my geode, water the crops, pet the dog/cat, my animals, etc etc." So I normally hold off on that until friends want on, then thanks to the helpers I can take things slower. One thing I did recently, was go back and play Mass Effect prior to N7 Day, and got all the way to the Thessia Priority Mission in ME3 by the end of it. Then I got sick and didn't play much for Nov 6 & 7, but man that felt good!
I *do* need to go back and play Fable 1-3 again, and find a way to play Legend of Dragoon again, so maybe time to fire up an Emulator, and hope those discs still work, if I can find 'em...
My comfort games are Thief Deadly Shadows and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. Even though I grew up in the mid 80s, those games stood out because I had so many memories playing them with friends and laughing our asses off at the shit the enemies said and the things you could do to taunt them.
classic wow and resident evil games and pokemon games are always comfortable for me.
Probably going to replay both Banjo-Kazooie games since the sequel was just put online. Seems like they fit for around Thanksgiving time.
Secret of Mana and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow.
Maybe it’s the music or the crispy sound design when it comes to killing enemies or picking up items. I lost count how many times I’ve restarted the game and I have them for every system.
Castlevania games have some of the best atmospheres & soundtracks in gaming ever
Yeah... But I'm convinced my sleep paralysis demon is really just my backlog manifest in metaphysical form tormenting me until I clear it out. His name is Vorgox and he mocks me from the shadows, breathing heavily and hissing malevolently.
Getting the steak deck aged gaming for me. It's the ultimate retro nostalgia gaming life hack
Pcsx2 on the steam deck connected to a projector playing nfs underground 2 was insane. Best gaming device ever created!
Most of the traditional zelda main console releases are what works for me…or more recently the dragon quest builders series. Going back to them every few years is fantastic therapy
I started kingdom hearts 2 and almost cried just walking around twilight town as i warped back into being a young teen
I felt the same way hopping back into KH1. As soon as I heard that traverse town theme, I started feeling emotional. I miss getting home from school back in the day and running straight to my ps2
Fond memories of hanging at the local arcade, it was the go to spot to meet friends, catch up on gossip & lose quarters on Tekken 2 trying to beat Kazuya...they changed the AI to block every attack so we would keep sinking quarters in
Fallout 1 and 2 are super comfortable for me as random as that is. Ive played both to death and still find new and interesting interactions.
Also gotta mention the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series's and Tekken i can easily go back too at any time
I never got around to playing 1 and 2. I know I love new Vegas to death, though. No other studio has ever done choice in a game quite like obsidian! Maybe I'll fall in love with those classics just the same.
After beating Final Fantasy 1 for the first time, the next game I want to focus on is Sonic Adventure 2 (I've beaten it several times, but never 100% completed all the challenges and mini games). However, I kept wanting to play a new round of the Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask randomizer. And right on time, someone in the randomizer's Discord server posted some challenge settings for a Halloween-themed Majora's Mask-only run, including adding advanced tricks to the logic that I've never tried before (and even a music pack to fit the Halloween mood!). So it was settled: It's back to the land of Termina!
I replay pokemon yellow and conkers bad fur day around once every few years. Cheaper than therapy.
My comfort games are surprisingly pikmin 2 and 3 because those were my favorite games as a kid
For me, any soulsborne game, Spyro trilogy, Crash Bandicoot 2. These games I can play on and on and on
Mega Man X, the Doom franchise, Kirby's Adventure, Warcraft 3 (before Reforged ruined it and killed the Battlenet experience), Hotline Miami, Payday 2, Killing Floor 2 - these are my comfort games
Hotline Miami has been recommended to me so many times. I'm gonna have to play it at some point along with mullet mad jack, because I know I'm gonna get absolutely addicted to them.
@@Tenacityfromtheglass It's a brilliant game. It unironically changed my life.
I’m playing through all the metal gear solid games atm,lovin em
Ill share my comfort games, going in order of when I played them growing up. Im going to list a lot, but i will put a * next to the ones that are EXTRA comforting or sentimental to me and more*** for the ones that are just absolutely important to me for their ability to calm me down on even the worst of days. The rest are at least moderately comforting and more so than just games i liked.
Zelda OoT***
Devil May Cry 1 & 3
Dark Cloud
Mercenaries Playground of Destruction
(Old school) Runescape***
Morrowind*
Oblivion*
Fable 1
Fallout 3***
Mass Effect 1*
Fallout New Vegas*
Skyrim***
Diablo 3
Pillars of Eternity 1 (and somewhat 2 - also the opening up to when you arrive to the first town in poe1 hits hard for me because i played through that on one of the worst days of my life and it brought me comfort to disconnect from the real world on that day)
Breath of the Wild
Persona 5
Assassins Creed Odyssey (I’m not an assassin’s creed fan but I will defend this as a stand alone RPG with my life)
Outward***
Immortals Fenyx Rising (it’s so underrated)
Persona 4
Final Fantasy 14
Dragon Quest 5, 8, and 11
Rolling through hyrule field and never getting to the drawbridge in time, spending 4 hours straight walking around the presidium and being waaaaay too late to warn the jarl of white run about helgen 😂
Honestly my comfort games are fallout new vegas, far cry 5 and minecraft. The amount of times I've "quit" minecraft just to get addicted like 2 months later is actually crazy lmao
Just recently i watched a retrospective on a card game that never really hit it's stide in America. It's called duel masters and when I was a kid I had one of the gba games of it and since I can't really go to the card shop, pick up a deck and play with someone I started emulating that same gba game I played as a kid. I started remembering deep memories of car rides to relatives long pased.
Shatter Hand NES my first game ever my love ❤
I'm in a similar situation these days, I'm the type to finish a game 100% before starting a new one (I play two games simultaneously, of different types so as not to get too bored) but it takes time to finish them and like that I don't test many games and even when I want to play an old game by the time I finish the current one the hype has completely disappeared and I don't want to replay it anymore, so I decided, I want to test as many games as possible and not finish them if I don't have the enthusiasm unless I find one that really captivates me.
Racing games in general for me, the one that did it for me first was Gran Turismo 2, that game was a masterpiece to 7 year old me. The only other games I had this feeling with was Terraria and Skyrim cause it reminded me of Zelda: A Link to the Past
I ve been in gaming for more than 15 years , beated a numerous number of titles , but there are ten games very special for me , which always were , are and will have special place deep in my heart :
1)Mafia the city of lost heaven (2002)
2) Max payne 3
3) Gta 4
4) Deus ex human revolution
5) Witcher 2
6) Assassin's creed brotherhood
7) Resident Evil 4 (2005)
8)Devil may cry 3
9) Mafia 2
10)Far cry 3
I played Mafia 2 for the first time last year, and wow! They don't do storytelling like this anymore! All the little attention to detail, too.
@Tenacityfromtheglass well , the game came through rough development hell and the main director left admist the development , so a helluva content and concepts were cut with the root from the game , always pains me to think what a masterpiece this title could be , especially from story perspective , but I guess they've got to chose between canceling the project or releasing what they got.
I have so many games I've beaten dozens of times over the years, to the point where Im basically a walkthrough. Majora's Mask, Morowind, KotoR, final fantasy's. And Sekiro is my most current comfort game, whenever I run out of stuff to play I always fall back on it, the boss fights never get old
Going back to sekiro and feeling so overpowered purely out of your own skill as a player is an experience like no other.
@Tenacityfromtheglass Absolutely, my first playthrough was around 70 hours, now I take about 15-20 hours per playthrough.
I'm way ahead of you with my library of classic Doom 1/2
Perfect Dark XBLA
Halo MCC
Rare Replay
The bigger challenge is finding anyone to play perfect dark with
Perfect dark was so fun to play with my cousins back in the day. For us, it was on the 64. fighting over the jungle green 64 controller
@Tenacityfromtheglass you got the XBLA port? If so want to co-op?
I got tired of Halo single player, but I'm down for some MCC co-op...
...if I can clear the hard drive space.
Mario Odyssey, Skyrim, DMC 3, and Just Cause 3 are mine!
I dunno about anyone else, but my comfort game is easily Mass Effect. The first game specifically. I like the other two games, even Andromeda, but ME1 is the most enjoyable for me. The clunky gameplay, the rpg mechanics, and all the characters just make the game better. It was ahead of its time when it released in 2007, and I find it the most impressive out of the 3.
This is Touhou Project 08 Imperishable Night for me. I replay that game at least 5 times a week.
DMC 3 is my favorite game to go back (any DMC game really), but 3 because I love the characters and story, and the gameplay is top notch, and you can always play around with weapons and difficulties. Wish they would bring over Switch version to PC, and update the models/textures, would buy in an instant, even if it was 70$.
Aside from that I've recently replayed SMT V, Persona 3/4/5, TES IV/V, NFS Underground 1/2 + MW and the Mass Effect Trilogy... especialy on the ME Trilogy, such an amazing trilogy, so many feelings.
Also Path of Exile... I've already poured god knows how many hours into it, 10k+. Though that's online ARPG that's constantly evolving.
That Spiderman game was the first game I ever remember beating
One of my favorites and also my own comfort games are Resident Evil 3: Nemesis and The King of Dragons.
Crash bandicoot 2 and 3 , devil may cry 3 , kingdom hearts 1 and 2. My steam deck is the greatest console I've ever owned .