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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. Here's mine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    1. Killing Zonk

    2. Killing Zonk II: More Death to Zonk

    3. Killing Zonk III: Die Zonk Die

    4. Killing Zonk V: Can't Slashdot Fire Zonk Already? (Killing Zonk IV sucked almost as much as zonk)

    5. Tetris

  2. My favorite "comfort game" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    My favorite is an oldie called "Cock'n'Hand". It actually doesn't require a computer or hardware (either can be used though). It's very SATISFYING. It'll really BLOW a LOAD of stress from your mind. Even my girlfriend loves to play! She tends to play in SPURTS though. You know, I have this friend named JACK..... OFF the top of my HEAD, I think plays 3-4 times a day. He's such a WANKER.

  3. What is this, Digg? by hlomas · · Score: 1, Troll

    Go to any forum on games and you'll find about five threads of the same topic theme as this news post. It's an uninformative and pointless exercise in "look at what I enjoy". Waste of space.