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.

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!"

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...

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.