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What Are Your Top Five 'Comfort' Games?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-try-to-eat-them dept.

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?

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  1. away from my job by theMerovingian · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    "If you think you have things under control, you're not going fast enough." --Mario Andretti
  2. Re:my top five (in no particular order) by LindseyJ · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Alpha Centauri
    I must warn you, my scientists have just completed a 1/1/1 Missile Rover prototype, rendering my forces practically invincible.
  3. Re:Nethack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...