Comfort Zones

AlBQuirky

Sometimes, I just want relax with a game I know like the back of hand.

I see lots of posts here demanding "innovation" or "something new/different" and I agree. But sometimes, Freecell or Iron Dragon hits the spot. I've heard WoW is "the comfort zone" for many MMO players and why it has such a large core base of players.

Do you have "comfort games" that you go to just whenever? If so, what are some of them?

For me, games that are comfortable are:
Freecell and Iron Dragon (as mentioned previously)
Master of Magic
Skyrim
Fallout 3 and New Vegas
XCom 2
Doom and Quake

Scorchien

Ultima Online for 20+ years now ... its home

JeffSpicoli

Bethesda games are super comfy to play especially when you come back to them after a long break

Hearthstone
WarThunder
XCOM2
Fishing Planet
American Truck simulator
Tropico 
Age of Wonders 3

Lithuanian

Master of Orion 2. Just a safe corner. Enough planets to breed my Sakras. Build up fleets and bring the joy on the bayonets to remaining Galaxy.

Lord of the rings online, at least LP grind.

Panther2103

I don't have specific games I go to as a comfort game. I've been playing L2 and WoW for 12+ years each, and I guess I'll go back to those every once in a while.

I have so many games that I wouldn't go back to the same one after beating it unless I really really enjoyed it.

ConstantineMerus

DMKano said:

To me - gaming is a comfort zone.

So I guess whatever I happen to play at the time.

And the number of games I have in my steam library that I am yet to touch is absurd.

I see my current library as a great almost eternal comforting cruise trip. 

Asheram

Mount & Blade Warband multiplayer

Scorchien

ConstantineMerus said:

DMKano said:

To me - gaming is a comfort zone.

So I guess whatever I happen to play at the time.

And the number of games I have in my steam library that I am yet to touch is absurd.

I see my current library as a great almost eternal comforting cruise trip. 

Nice way of putting it , i think my great grandkids may have to finish my games backlog tho as between all digital distribution i have near 3000 games now ... hah probably 2k ive never touched , and i see at least 6 games that will be added in sept alone ...

alkarionlog

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

Sovrath

Morrowind

Skyrim

Lord of the Rings Online

Scorchien

Well when there on sale i just grab them up ... My 7 year old looks at my game library and i tell him .."It will be his one day "  .Its funny the look on his face ..

  I give alot away also friends family  , have given dozens away here over the years , will be doing that near the holidays

AlBQuirky

Some great games listed here! Some surprises and interesting titles.

alkarionlog said:

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

I know a few players like this. That's cool, too. Maybe I'm too old and "set in my ways" to fully embrace this attitude

@Sovrath, TES and Fallout 3 & NV are comfort games for me, too. I've had some troubles with the TES series and also the Fallout 3 and NV games. I had to remap Morrowind's keys so that [space bar] jumps and [e] activates for both games now. I tried playing Fallout 3 and Skyrim in the same time period (not at the same time, mind you) and their keymap differences were tricky, too

Like some others, I have a huge library of games that I have not even seen the title screen to. I'll poke around my games list and see these untried games and sometimes I'll pick one, other times I find myself clicking that old "tried and true" game

alkarionlog

AlBQuirky said:

Some great games listed here! Some surprises and interesting titles.

alkarionlog said:

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

I know a few players like this. That's cool, too. Maybe I'm too old and "set in my ways" to fully embrace this attitude

@Sovrath, TES and Fallout 3 & NV are comfort games for me, too. I've had some troubles with the TES series and also the Fallout 3 and NV games. I had to remap Morrowind's keys so that [space bar] jumps and [e] activates for both games now. I tried playing Fallout 3 and Skyrim in the same time period (not at the same time, mind you) and their keymap differences were tricky, too

Like some others, I have a huge library of games that I have not even seen the title screen to. I'll poke around my games list and see these untried games and sometimes I'll pick one, other times I find myself clicking that old "tried and true" game

that is the funny thing, when I was younger I could replay the same game over and over, finish secret of mana and chrono trigger like over 10 times each, but now, after I finish it once i'm done, if the game is really good maybe a second, but mostly I just do it once and if the game is good I get all possible things in one run

AlBQuirky

alkarionlog said:

AlBQuirky said:

Some great games listed here! Some surprises and interesting titles.

alkarionlog said:

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

I know a few players like this. That's cool, too. Maybe I'm too old and "set in my ways" to fully embrace this attitude

@Sovrath, TES and Fallout 3 & NV are comfort games for me, too. I've had some troubles with the TES series and also the Fallout 3 and NV games. I had to remap Morrowind's keys so that [space bar] jumps and [e] activates for both games now. I tried playing Fallout 3 and Skyrim in the same time period (not at the same time, mind you) and their keymap differences were tricky, too

Like some others, I have a huge library of games that I have not even seen the title screen to. I'll poke around my games list and see these untried games and sometimes I'll pick one, other times I find myself clicking that old "tried and true" game

that is the funny thing, when I was younger I could replay the same game over and over, finish secret of mana and chrono trigger like over 10 times each, but now, after I finish it once i'm done, if the game is really good maybe a second, but mostly I just do it once and if the game is good I get all possible things in one run

It may be my loss of memory that helps facilitate my replaying of games. If I wait a month or so, playing games in between, I can boot it up and it's like a new game again!

Octagon7711

GW2
Watch Dogs
Homefront Revolution
Torchlight 2
Dark

Octagon7711

alkarionlog said:

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

I like the new ones also but I also like to go over titles and play some of the old ones from time to time and also install and play some I purchased and never got a chance to play. 

Kyleran

DMKano said:

To me - gaming is a comfort zone.

So I guess whatever I happen to play at the time.

And the number of games I have in my steam library that I am yet to touch is absurd.

My guess the number of games you've actually played goes way beyond absurd, ludicrous perhaps?

alkarionlog

Octagon7711 said:

alkarionlog said:

feh I don't feel like playing old games, i'm always after the next new shiny, on hard+ difficult if possible

I like the new ones also but I also like to go over titles and play some of the old ones from time to time and also install and play some I purchased and never got a chance to play. 

pretty much when I say new is not really like new, i can be a couple of year old, the new to me is I never played, example I finished playing 2 months ago star ocean last hope,

@AlBQuirky ;

with my memory I guess i'm fucked then lol, I remember the whole damn thing I can kinda forget a story part here and there, but I remember the whole mechanic, and my muscle memory take like a couple seconds to work like I never stoped playing