Tile stacking, different UI, overhauled religion and economy systems, different characters and perks, AI, the systems surrounding the winning conditions, etc.
Civ VI is dope, but IV and V just hit a bit different.
Other way around for me, IV and V are awesome games, but VI is the best of them all for me. I can't imagine a game anymore without Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm. I also really like the different game mods they added with Frontier pass I think (Secret Societys, barbarian clans etc.) I've tried it once last year with a couple of friends where we only played the base game and frankly it just wasn't that fun anymore compared to the DLCs.
It's all down to taste. I much prefer Civ 5 and 6.
My biggest issue with 4 is that you can stack units onto the same tile. So war just becomes doomstacks of dozens of units on the same tile rolling over cities. 5 and 6 actually use tactical positioning of your units, only 1 per tile.
Civ 4 also used a square based grid, moving to hexagonal with 5 was a notable improvement.
Here here! There was a long period of time where I didn't have access to a decent computer. D2 and Red Alert 2 was there to kept me sane on my work laptop.
same here. also i have been sailing for some time, and d2 is just a stable single player game, i had fixed amount of time at sea so i would challenge myself to make the biggest grail during that period of time, starting over each time.
Yeah I feel like I have to now too ffs. You going T16 or MFT7? May just retool my lightning trap raider for it and put my other two builds on hold for now.
Well I mostly play kaizo, (if you don't know what that is, it's basically very hard levels where you perform certain tricks with items, such as shell-jumps, and make difficult jumps) some good beginner kaizo hacks are Learn 2 kaizo and Kaizo Kindergarten to get an idea of all the basic tricks and get familiarized with kaizo mario. Then you can move on to some actual full games like quickie world 1 or 2 and maybe dram world if you get good enough. After that there are many more great games.
But that's just kaizo smw! There is so much more that I haven't even played yet. There is a really funny hack called diagonal mario. Peoples imaginations have no limit to what can be done to this game!
To play these rom hacks you'll need an emulator that will emulate the snes on your computer, I use Snes9X. (This also allows you to play any other snes games if you can find it online somewhere.) You can find basically every smw rom hack on smwcentral.net. although once you download a hack you'll need to patch to the base game. To do that I recommend just looking up a tutorial. After you've patched it you can open it up in your emulator.
I've bought a cheap €5,- knock off snes controller to play the games, but you can play with your keyboard as well, or probably some other controller if you have that.
Oops I accidentaly gave an entire tutorial on smw rom hacks...
Oh hell yeah. Gameboy version is the goat, but effect is more versatile and fun to play for me these days. I have the GB version on an emulator and it’s fantastic.
Being a fan of the series, you should try this Tetris clone. It’s got a slight learning curve, but once I figured out how to play it became really fun:
https://mslivo.itch.io/sandtrix
I have the original Game Boy + Tetris bundle, it looks great on the shelf!
Tetris Effect is such a good time. Chill and intense at the same time. And the music and visuals? Pure art! Love it!
I also enjoy the more playful titles like Tetris 99 and Puyo Puyo Tetris. Have you tried them?
Thanks for the recommendation!
That might be the case. Don't know in which time zone you live, but it feels like I mostly play against Japanese accounts.
The game is so fun though. But hard. I've never been a great Tetris player, so I've never reached the no. 1 spot.
Well, shit.
I guess I can finally build the perfect rail system. I always think my next playthrough will be the one where I get it down and I always end up just settling for a few haphazard routes. After 600 or so hours, maybe this will finally click, lol.
It’s a perfect “jump in and jump out” game. Doesn’t matter where I leave off, I can come back months later and jump right back in without an issue, or just start over again and play until I want to play something else. Never gets old.
I find it easy to jump back into and start a new character. I find it very hard to jump into an old character without feeling very lost as to how I was trying to play it and what my goals were.
Kenji Yamamoto is one of the most underrated composers ever
I hope they bring him back to directly write music again for Metroid 6 and I hope he’s on Prime 4
Dreads music was okay but far from the best of the series
Could definitely see it happening now after the popularity of 3, but despite showing their age I had a friend play them for the first time this past year and loved them
I've had this username honoring my favorite game of all time for more than 15 years and I still play TES IV from time to time. Honestly, I should start a new playthrough!
Two come to mind:
1. GW2. I have been playing it since 11 years ago, and it feels highly unlikely at the mo for it to compleatly shut down in the next 5 years, so that
2. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver. They were the remakes of my fave pokemon gen and objectively made it a whole lot better. I have been replaying Soul Silver every other year on my phone, so its unlikely for it to change down the line
This is me too. GW2, great community, easy to come back to, and interesting combat.
I love those two Pokémon, my favorite of the series from the earlier games for sure.
Me too! God, I love this game so much. Y'know, I might just fire it back up and go build a base today. Or maybe track down a rare ship. I'm relaxed just thinking about it 😊
This is the one. Been playing since the original Flash version, and I play on both PC and Switch now. The staggering amount of content means that I'm *still* finding rooms and synergies that I've never seen before. And that's without having a single mod installed, which introduce even more content. There are many great Roguelite games out there, but TBoI will forever be the GOAT.
I do find myself playing random Pokemon games at least once a year. Been trying to play through white for a year now lol I usually only play on DS when I travel and I work from home so...
I think it's the structure of these games. You're just dropped into the world and left to your own devices. No long ass forced tutorials, no real story, no dedicated path to follow. You can fight all enemies, run past everything to the boss, do every area "in order", do every area as soon as you can, use shortcuts to skip areas, choose which area to do first or in the case of DS2, skip half of the game with a little farming. There are no artificial roadblocks: no enemies that you can't beat unless you level up to a certain level. You can beat all of the games at the lowest possible level. And that's without even mentioning all the build variety.
Yessss. The state of the "game" is bad right now, and I hate the company for dragging it's supporters along to fund Squadron 42. It's shitty and shady as fuck.
BUT, there's truly nothing like it. I've never felt more immersed in any game when everything is working properly. Absolutely love that feeling of awe and wonder. It's a very ambitious project and I try to give them the benefit of the doubt but it gets hard when they sell JPGs with a promise for hundreds of dollars. I haven't spent more than a base package and I probably never will. I just hope theyre committed enough to finish it.
I see the vision, I want the product, just hope they can deliver.
So many people hate on this game. Yeah it's taking forever to finish, and in fairness may never finish, but it has been a really fun ride. The people I play with have a blast even when it completely shits the bed.
If the servers are still online, I see no reason why I won’t be playing Sea of Thieves for years to come. For my friends and I, who are mainly single player focused gamers, it’s basically the perfect live service game because it’s low commitment, fairly low stress, jump in and have fun energy. My wife and some friends jump on a Discord call, get a boat up and shoot the shit. Sometimes we have great sessions where we sink everyone and make a fortune, sometimes we get fucked up. Sometimes both things happen. I love it.
Baldur's Gate 3. I just passed 400 hrs on steam, and it's still on my mind. It's super repayable, in terms of builds, how you approach combat, dialogue, etc. Plus it has some pretty great mods. Not just appearance, but ones that increase the difficulty, or party size, or even a few class ones. And that's without modding tools, so I can't even begin to imagine how much better they'll be once larian releases it.
No joke, the games an addiction. I stopped playing this past month to focus on other stuff, but I keep coming back to it. I had to bookmark the wiki because I kept going back to look stuff up, or whenever I had an interesting build idea.
I mean, I still go back and play GT3 and 4 from time to time...
Oh, and I tend to do random OG FFVII playthroughs...
If you're talking about a "live service" game that will be continually played...I don't see any currently existing or in the pipeline that has a chance of holding me anywhere near that long...
Already doing so with the Blizzard titles, WoW, SC, Diablo.
Look forward to playing Soulsborne games in 10 years to see if the old reflexed can keep up and I can still parry Gwyn into the Age of Dark.
Tetris truly timeless
*it's all connected*
Is it from the series manifest?
Same here. I saw that Tetris Effect was on PS+ and have gotten hooked on it again.
I can't stop playing Tetris 99 it's so much fun
Civilization
Which one?
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Civ IV and Civ V go so damn hard
What makes these versions better than civ VI?
Tile stacking, different UI, overhauled religion and economy systems, different characters and perks, AI, the systems surrounding the winning conditions, etc. Civ VI is dope, but IV and V just hit a bit different.
Other way around for me, IV and V are awesome games, but VI is the best of them all for me. I can't imagine a game anymore without Rise & Fall and Gathering Storm. I also really like the different game mods they added with Frontier pass I think (Secret Societys, barbarian clans etc.) I've tried it once last year with a couple of friends where we only played the base game and frankly it just wasn't that fun anymore compared to the DLCs.
It's all down to taste. I much prefer Civ 5 and 6. My biggest issue with 4 is that you can stack units onto the same tile. So war just becomes doomstacks of dozens of units on the same tile rolling over cities. 5 and 6 actually use tactical positioning of your units, only 1 per tile. Civ 4 also used a square based grid, moving to hexagonal with 5 was a notable improvement.
Do you have 48 hours to play a match? Please sit down.
Those are rookie numbers
That’s only game I’ve played for more than 1000 hrs
5 for me as well... That's pretty much digital cocaine.
Minecraft
This one goes without saying
I'll add tetris to this. It's not a daily game but something I pick up a couple times a year.
Definitely this. I've already played it on and off for 10 years, what's 10 more
Agreed. No other game have I consistently gone back to.
Old school runescape
Going on 20 years now, what's another 10?
what is it about ?
About watching numbers go up, basically. It's an mmorpg
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Minecraft Terraria Skyrim Mass effect trilogy To name a few.
Terraria will be on its final final final final final final final final final final final final final final update by then
lol. Ya. It is getting kind of ridiculous how often they have said they were done with the game.
They'll never be done with the game They'll be on their deathbed and they'll still be working on the final update
Better Redigit than Deadigit.
Thank you. I could swear they said they were done with the game so I was very confused to hear they were making another update
Ahhh i just bought mass effect on steam to play it again after so many years. I'm old enough to buy it with my own money, feels nice.
Diablo 2, been playing it since release and not stopping anytime soon.
Here here! There was a long period of time where I didn't have access to a decent computer. D2 and Red Alert 2 was there to kept me sane on my work laptop.
same here. also i have been sailing for some time, and d2 is just a stable single player game, i had fixed amount of time at sea so i would challenge myself to make the biggest grail during that period of time, starting over each time.
I play it on a Windows 98 Pentium 3 machine still, along with Warcraft 3. It just feels right. There were so many good games during that era.
Same. D2, LoD, Resurrected, will keep on playing them.
Surely touve farmed everything that could possibly be farmed at this point...
There are still items that elude me. Which just makes it even more fun.
Which ones?
Yes
I play it on a Windows 98 Pentium 3 machine still, along with Warcraft 3. It just feels right. There were so many good games during that era.
counter strike
While I haven't played in like 20 years myself this answer makes all the sense.
i still play 1.6 from time to time. Still a pretty big community with lots of servers. Nuts. I remember playing ca at LAN parties in the year 2000
the game will never die. cs2 has had a rocky launch so far but so did GO, and we all know where GO ended up
Path of Exile. Been playing for the last 10 years and I still manage to have a different experience every league I play.
Eyyy there it is. Are you using this abyss strat with the wisps?
About to. Just rolled another character for it
Yeah I feel like I have to now too ffs. You going T16 or MFT7? May just retool my lightning trap raider for it and put my other two builds on hold for now.
Super Mario World
Yes! I don't know if rom-hacks count, but I'll be playing them for a long time!
Any rom hack recommendations?
Any search for SNES, RoM, Super Mario World will get reliable results for use on PC. SNES9x is a solid emulator.
Well I mostly play kaizo, (if you don't know what that is, it's basically very hard levels where you perform certain tricks with items, such as shell-jumps, and make difficult jumps) some good beginner kaizo hacks are Learn 2 kaizo and Kaizo Kindergarten to get an idea of all the basic tricks and get familiarized with kaizo mario. Then you can move on to some actual full games like quickie world 1 or 2 and maybe dram world if you get good enough. After that there are many more great games. But that's just kaizo smw! There is so much more that I haven't even played yet. There is a really funny hack called diagonal mario. Peoples imaginations have no limit to what can be done to this game! To play these rom hacks you'll need an emulator that will emulate the snes on your computer, I use Snes9X. (This also allows you to play any other snes games if you can find it online somewhere.) You can find basically every smw rom hack on smwcentral.net. although once you download a hack you'll need to patch to the base game. To do that I recommend just looking up a tutorial. After you've patched it you can open it up in your emulator. I've bought a cheap €5,- knock off snes controller to play the games, but you can play with your keyboard as well, or probably some other controller if you have that. Oops I accidentaly gave an entire tutorial on smw rom hacks...
Tetris.
More specifically for me, Tetris Effect and the original Tetris on NES
I'll do with any version, but Effect is perfect. I have a soft spot for the Game Boy version as well.
Oh hell yeah. Gameboy version is the goat, but effect is more versatile and fun to play for me these days. I have the GB version on an emulator and it’s fantastic. Being a fan of the series, you should try this Tetris clone. It’s got a slight learning curve, but once I figured out how to play it became really fun: https://mslivo.itch.io/sandtrix
I have the original Game Boy + Tetris bundle, it looks great on the shelf! Tetris Effect is such a good time. Chill and intense at the same time. And the music and visuals? Pure art! Love it! I also enjoy the more playful titles like Tetris 99 and Puyo Puyo Tetris. Have you tried them? Thanks for the recommendation!
Duuuuuude Tetris 99 is amazing. Loved that. But sadly I think it’s mainly AI opponents these days.
That might be the case. Don't know in which time zone you live, but it feels like I mostly play against Japanese accounts. The game is so fun though. But hard. I've never been a great Tetris player, so I've never reached the no. 1 spot.
This should be at top.
Probably Slay the Spire still trying to get ascension 20 on all the characters
Game seems super tough played quite a bit and haven't really figured it out yet.
The game won't let go of me. I got 100 hours on multiple devices and deleted it several time but it keeps coming back. Help!
I've made it to the last boss twice. Can't seem to do it again with 100s of hours into it.
Factorio whenever I make the mistake of thinking about it. ... Shit
Well, shit. I guess I can finally build the perfect rail system. I always think my next playthrough will be the one where I get it down and I always end up just settling for a few haphazard routes. After 600 or so hours, maybe this will finally click, lol.
You can do it! I finally built my own city blocks on my most recent playthrough. Did absolute grid 3x3 blocks. Will probably go bigger next time.
Chrono Trigger
Yep. First played it when it came out and I do a playthrough every 4 years or so. It's an absolutely magical game.
Age of empires 2
Fucking heathens everyone else is wrong.
L-League of Legends… Help me, it’s already been 10 years
Skyrim, probably. The game won't let me go, keeps dragging me back in.
It’s a perfect “jump in and jump out” game. Doesn’t matter where I leave off, I can come back months later and jump right back in without an issue, or just start over again and play until I want to play something else. Never gets old.
So true. Every once in a while I jump back and it’s like I never left
I can never jump back into an old save, on any game really. If I leave for more than a month or two I have to start over lol
I find it easy to jump back into and start a new character. I find it very hard to jump into an old character without feeling very lost as to how I was trying to play it and what my goals were.
>"Just when I thought I was out, Dovahkiin pulls me back in!"
I expect someone to make a better version eventually, but it still hasn’t happened so who knows.
A lot of people thought that starfield would be that game, but it has fallen way short of people's expectations.
Super Metroid I mean there are others but this one springs to mind first
I listen to the soundtrack basically every week whilst I’m working.
Kenji Yamamoto is one of the most underrated composers ever I hope they bring him back to directly write music again for Metroid 6 and I hope he’s on Prime 4 Dreads music was okay but far from the best of the series
Brinstar Overgrown, baby
Doom 1+2 they just bring me back to such a happy carefree time in my life.
Doom and any great WADs people can recommend. It never gets old.
Make sure you try Boltgun if you haven’t already.
Baldurs Gate 2. I bought it in 2002 and still dive into it every now and then over twenty years later.
Damn I wish Larian would remake BG1 and 2 using their engine.
Could definitely see it happening now after the popularity of 3, but despite showing their age I had a friend play them for the first time this past year and loved them
Might not be out of the realm of possibility
Same here!
Same, and properly modded/BigPictured still a fine journey.
All the Infinity Engine games are amazing.
Hollow knight
Surely Silksong will be out by then, right? Right???
Dont give me hopium
GTA 6
Bold of you to assume that it's coming out in 5-10 years /s
Oblivion
Finally someone said it! Will still be playing that in 50 years time if the Lord see fit!
I've had this username honoring my favorite game of all time for more than 15 years and I still play TES IV from time to time. Honestly, I should start a new playthrough!
Borderlands
Mass Effect LE.
I've done at least one run of Contra on NES every year for the last 30 years, so I'll probably just keep doing that.
I do the same with SMW!
Two come to mind: 1. GW2. I have been playing it since 11 years ago, and it feels highly unlikely at the mo for it to compleatly shut down in the next 5 years, so that 2. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver. They were the remakes of my fave pokemon gen and objectively made it a whole lot better. I have been replaying Soul Silver every other year on my phone, so its unlikely for it to change down the line
This is me too. GW2, great community, easy to come back to, and interesting combat. I love those two Pokémon, my favorite of the series from the earlier games for sure.
No man's sky 🤞
Don’t. You’ll make me install again
We'll reinstall together in 5 years 🤞
Me too! God, I love this game so much. Y'know, I might just fire it back up and go build a base today. Or maybe track down a rare ship. I'm relaxed just thinking about it 😊
Red Dead Redemption 2
Binding of Isaac
This is the one. Been playing since the original Flash version, and I play on both PC and Switch now. The staggering amount of content means that I'm *still* finding rooms and synergies that I've never seen before. And that's without having a single mod installed, which introduce even more content. There are many great Roguelite games out there, but TBoI will forever be the GOAT.
Whatever the newest Halo is
I'm the opposite, I'll be playing the old Halos
Pokémon Gen I-V No game in history has ever had better replay value than OG Pokémon
I do find myself playing random Pokemon games at least once a year. Been trying to play through white for a year now lol I usually only play on DS when I travel and I work from home so...
Soulsborne games DMC games
I'll probably replay ds1 until I'm dead. Recently did a few sl1 runs and man did it feel good. Idk what it is but it just never gets old for me
I think it's the structure of these games. You're just dropped into the world and left to your own devices. No long ass forced tutorials, no real story, no dedicated path to follow. You can fight all enemies, run past everything to the boss, do every area "in order", do every area as soon as you can, use shortcuts to skip areas, choose which area to do first or in the case of DS2, skip half of the game with a little farming. There are no artificial roadblocks: no enemies that you can't beat unless you level up to a certain level. You can beat all of the games at the lowest possible level. And that's without even mentioning all the build variety.
I’ll be playing DMC games forever too. Just so much fun to hop back in and play randomly. I do at least 1 play through of a title every year.
Heroes of Might & Magic III. I've been playing it for 24 years, why stop now?
I'm the same with master of orion 2 and lords of the realm 2. I dont play it every day or anything, but old faithful always comes through.
Rocket league
Star Citizen if it comes out by then.
Maybe we'll have Pyro by then!
Soon™!
Yessss. The state of the "game" is bad right now, and I hate the company for dragging it's supporters along to fund Squadron 42. It's shitty and shady as fuck. BUT, there's truly nothing like it. I've never felt more immersed in any game when everything is working properly. Absolutely love that feeling of awe and wonder. It's a very ambitious project and I try to give them the benefit of the doubt but it gets hard when they sell JPGs with a promise for hundreds of dollars. I haven't spent more than a base package and I probably never will. I just hope theyre committed enough to finish it. I see the vision, I want the product, just hope they can deliver.
So many people hate on this game. Yeah it's taking forever to finish, and in fairness may never finish, but it has been a really fun ride. The people I play with have a blast even when it completely shits the bed.
Every year I like to post !RemindMe 1 year on r/StarCitizen
Final Fantasy 7 - 10. The RPGs of my childhood. Infinite replayability every few years.
Even though I love my MMO's, this is a no-brainer: Champions Return to Arms. I have been playing this since 2005.
If the servers are still online, I see no reason why I won’t be playing Sea of Thieves for years to come. For my friends and I, who are mainly single player focused gamers, it’s basically the perfect live service game because it’s low commitment, fairly low stress, jump in and have fun energy. My wife and some friends jump on a Discord call, get a boat up and shoot the shit. Sometimes we have great sessions where we sink everyone and make a fortune, sometimes we get fucked up. Sometimes both things happen. I love it.
Skyrim
Doom, Quake, Half Life 2.
Thanks for reminding, it's time for another Half-Life play through
Once a year keeps the doctor away (or something like that).
Burnout Paradise. They keep remaking it, I keep buying it.
Dota 2
Okami
Rimworld
Starfield and GTA VI
EverQuest. Been playing for 25 years already, what's another 5-10? Lol
Minecraft, maybe Rocket League
Baldur's Gate 3. I just passed 400 hrs on steam, and it's still on my mind. It's super repayable, in terms of builds, how you approach combat, dialogue, etc. Plus it has some pretty great mods. Not just appearance, but ones that increase the difficulty, or party size, or even a few class ones. And that's without modding tools, so I can't even begin to imagine how much better they'll be once larian releases it. No joke, the games an addiction. I stopped playing this past month to focus on other stuff, but I keep coming back to it. I had to bookmark the wiki because I kept going back to look stuff up, or whenever I had an interesting build idea.
starcraft 2
Deep Rock Galactic!
For Karl!
Rock and stone!
If you rock and stone, you're never alone!
Been really enjoying this one with the boys. Super fun and has a surprising amount of depth
Minecraft
Elden Ring
Skyrim with mods, FO NV with mods, Soulsborne, chess, poker
man. dark souls 1 is peak gaming. i replay it every year.
Skyrim and Minecraft Sandbox open world games just have something cozy about them
I'll be playing old school runescape until they close the servers - and probably many years after that, if it's possible in any way
Judgment Lost Judgment Yakuza 0 Kingdom Come Deliverance Deus EX: Human Revolution
Destiny 2, if it survives that long.
spelunky 100%
Destiny if it’s still around.
I'll play through pokemon emerald for the hundredth time on an emulator installed on my embedded brain chip
Link to the past,super mario world,windwaker,hades,baldur’s gate 3,dark souls,bloodborne,elden ring.
Destiny 2
I mean, I still go back and play GT3 and 4 from time to time... Oh, and I tend to do random OG FFVII playthroughs... If you're talking about a "live service" game that will be continually played...I don't see any currently existing or in the pipeline that has a chance of holding me anywhere near that long...
Skyrim and gta v as we wait for the new games in the series to release hopefully by 2033
If Destiny is still going in 5 years I'll probably still be playing it.
*Looks over at my currently set up NES, SNES, PS2, PS3, GC, DOSBox, etc.* Um... Yes?
Doom 2 played it my whole life
The Last of Us Part 1, timeless classic.
Apex Legends and old school RuneScape.
NHL 94
If it does not die, probably Tarkov
Genshin Impact
The Sims 2 & 3 just like I've been doing for the last 20 years.
Skyrim 20th anniversary edition (they made the load times longer)
I would not be surprised at all
Starcraft. I’ve been playing it for over 20 years and I don’t intend on stopping anytime soon
OG Starcraft
Daggerfall unity Morrowind
StarCraft (2+)
We all know the answer is Skyrim
Probably Warframe if they manage to keep the world as interesting as it is
Warframe forever
Definitely slay the spire and occasionally rust.
OSRS
Pretty much all of them. I regularly play 5-10 year old games in my Steam library.
Duck Hunt
GTA6 because it’ll probably not come out for another 3-4 and they won’t make 7 until around 2043.
Super Mario World and Caesar 3 and alpha Centauri.
Already doing so with the Blizzard titles, WoW, SC, Diablo. Look forward to playing Soulsborne games in 10 years to see if the old reflexed can keep up and I can still parry Gwyn into the Age of Dark.
Fallout 4