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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. Balder's Gate by nickgrieve · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Balder's Gate series. It is a HUGE game. And it runs great on old hardware,..

  2. Re:My Top 5 Games by PatrickThomson · · Score: 5, Informative

    if you loved Transport Tycoon, check out openttd, at http://www.openttd.com/. The usual random spraffing of OSS patches, multiplayer, etc.

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  3. My top five... by SpryGuy · · Score: 2, Informative

    1) "Rise of Nations" (Thrones and Patriots) ... by far.

    2) Roller Coaster Tycoon 3

    3) F.E.A.R.

    4) Quake 3 Arena

    5) Black & White 2

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  4. Open Transport Tycoon is your friend! by FinchWorld · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go here. Its even been improved (well, i think so).

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  5. Re:My Top 5 Games by cheater512 · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenTTD is great. Its easy enough to find a copy of the original files on the net.

    My 5 favourites would have to be something like this:

    1. UT GOTY
    2. Wolfenstein 3d
    3. Quake 3
    4. Age of Empires II
    5. Duke Nukem (1, 2 and 3d)

  6. Re:Minesweeper by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Informative
    No, no. Minesweeper on 8x8 with 63 mines. Thats mindless.
    Not everybody may realize this, but the first square you click on is never a mine.
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