What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games?

Via GameSetWatch, an article at The New Gamer talking about comfort games. These reliable, fun titles are the old favorites you consistently look to for amusement and solace after a bad gaming session, a bad day, a bad week. From the article, with the author's comfort games: "Mega Man 2 - This Capcom classic has been with me since I was a kid, and I know it like the back of my hand. I'm sure that, if blindfolded, I'd somehow intuitively be able to maneuver through the levels, but I'd much rather be able to view it in all of its 8-bit goodness and remind myself of the good times." My current top five would have to be Super Mario World, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, God of War, and Civilization IV. What are yours?

Comments

away from my job

[theMerovingian]

My current top five would have to be Super Mario World, Half-Life 2, World of Warcraft, God of War, and Civilization IV.

WoW is more like my full-time job, and I play other games to relax after my 8-hour pvp shift.

Re:away from my job

[Sarkoon]

You may have modded the parent funny, but if he's a chinese gold farmer he's telling the truth!

My Games

[Quaoar]

1. Duke Nukem Forever
2. Daikatana
3. Superman 64
4. ET
5. Extreme Paintbrawl

Whenever I'm feeling down, I can say: "At least I don't develop video games for a living!"

Re:Leisure Suite Larry!

[antifoidulus]

Playing Larry games is comforting, I know that no matter how bad I foul it up with the ladies, Larry manages to screw it up worse than I ever could!

Plus it is always fun to find new ways of killing Larry(which is why I didn't like 7, half the fun in the other games was finding out new ways to die!)

Re:New Vs Old

[kfg]

Honestly, I don't see how a racing game/destruction game could be a comfort game but to each their own.

Number one comfort game: Grand Prix Legends
Number Two: AOEII

A racing game and a destruction game.

Number Three: Red Baron 3D

A racing destruction game, although not in the mold of GTA.

Number four: Well, yes, it's solitaire. So sue me. I play it as . . .a racing game. For speed.

Five is right out.

KFG

Ze Zonk?

[Anonymous Coward]

3. Killing Zonk III: Die Zonk Die

I am how you say .... 'confused' as to the title of sub this game? "The Zonk The"?

Re:Top 5 Games for "Comfort"

[gEvil (beta)]

4. Lierati

I'm assuming you played off of someone else's 'T'...

Here goes...

[Masa]

My comfort games:

• Colin McRae Rally (the first one)
• Gran Turismo 3
• Nethack
• Commander Keen (any one of the series)
• SSX (the first one)

Colin McRae Rally actually has a lot deeper meaning for me than just being a comfort game. I have developed a habit that every christmas I buy some crackers, different sorts of cheese and I dedicate a day just for playing this racing classic. I eat nothing but cheese and crackers and play and I'll have this Zen-like experience. This ritual gives me the peace some people seek form churches or other spiritual christmas activities.

Re:my top five (in no particular order)

[LindseyJ]

1. Alpha Centauri

I must warn you, my scientists have just completed a 1/1/1 Missile Rover prototype, rendering my forces practically invincible.

Re:Nethack

[Anonymous Coward]

You sit down, play and lose. You get up...

You've done it! It's the holy grail of Nethack addicts everywhere! Please tell us how you manage to get up!

Yours faithfully,
Vladimir

P.S. I think you're lying.

Be seeing you...

Re:Adventure for the Atari 2600

[garethw]

when we were young and not concerned about... relationships

Livin' the dream, baby!

Aww, damn.

Re:Minesweeper

[DoubleRing]

No, no. Minesweeper on 8x8 with 63 mines. Thats mindless.

Re:Nethack

[TubeSteak]

You sit down, play and lose. You get up and you are full with that warm fuzzy feeling inside which wispers into your ears that the world is not so perversely against you, because the game has proven that things can be much, much worse.

Funny, that is exactly how I feel after a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War.

More Hot Pockets (TM)!

[Dobeln]

Mom! More Hot Pockets!

Re:Balder's Gate

[GreatBunzinni]

Personally I prefer Ballmer's Gate. It's somewhat of a cheap clone of Donkey Kong, where you play a poor developer trying to climb the corporate ladder and you have to avoid the chairs a big monkey at the top throws at you.

Don't go. The drones need you. (n/t)

[Hausenwulf]

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Re:Nethack

[m6ack]

There is a method to this "hjkl" madness. Nethack teaches you how to use the movement keys of "One True Editor" -- vi.

Re:My Top 5 Games

[meringuoid]

2) Baldurs Gate Series - One of the finest games to play across a home network with your girlfriend ever made.

It took me a while to get this, so I understand, but... Jaheira is not really your girlfriend.