What is your favorite games? What games did you love but probably never play again? What games would you tell friends to try out? What games do / did you hate? Is there a game you keep going back to play over again? Or one you refuse to give up on?

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How are you?

And in order:

Diablo 2
Half-Life
Project Zomboid/Terraria
Anything TBS
Commandos/Tomb Raider 1-4
Terraria

The only game I've played in recent times is Defense Grid: The Awakening. Still haven't found a worthy replacement for this highly addictive tower defense game, my favorite in that genre. I've already burned thorugh all the DLCs and pretty much all the mission challenges, things got highly repetitive ages ago but this game just scratches a particular itch like no other game in that category. I enjoy how it's action packed in real time but you need no quick reflexes, it's still a cerabral challenge, a puzzle game of sorts. Not as draining as grand strategy, can be played in short bursts and the controls are dead simple. Perfect for me at the moment!

edit: but I really need a replacement, if there only was one!

Max Payne. Maybe. I don't like to pick one favourite anything - movie, book, game. I always feel like there's so many great ones, and they are so very different it's impossible to pick just one. Divine Divinity. I loved it like crazy, but now I have this irrational fear of going back to it and discovering it doesn't hold up, it's not as good as I remember. Not many of my friends play games any more, and those that do have quite different tastes, so usually even when I do recommend something it's hard to find common ground. But I was just recently trying to convince a friend of mine to get Apotheon and Hand of Fate, some of my favourite recent games. Dust: An Elysian Tale, for it's annoying as hell characters, creepy anime graphics and boring-ass repetative combat. Hearthstone, somewhat irrationaly, for being such a dumbed down, cute simplistic focus-tested graphics watering down of the genre, and taking players and media attention away from much more deserving titles. I rarely replay games, and when I do it's usually years later, so there's not many games I played more than twice, at least in full. But there are some long gmaes I play in bursts and then take a break for a long time, like Morrowind or Cardhunter. I may never actually finish Morrowing at the rate I'm going, but I'm likely never going to officially "quit" either. Just a super-long hiatus, like Doctor Who.

Among my last-few-years favorites: Mount & Blade: Warband (currently with the Propehcy of Pendor mod), I-War 2, Stalker series. Several others I have enjoyed but don't quite get 'favorite' status. Whatever that means.

Love but may never revisit: possibly I-War 2. Was thinking earlier today about turning the office desk into a gaming center as well. Got an older 46" HD set sitting on the corner, and I'm planning to hook up the stereo maybe this weekend. Just need to add the new Thrustmaster T.16000 HOTAS combo and gaming should be friggin' glorious. Unfortunately the office is in the shop and not the house. Another game I may not go back to: Operation: Flashpoint. It's fantastic and there are a bajillion add-ons for it, but...

Tell people to try: I've gifted I-War 2 at least a couple times now, so that's one I've encouraged others to play. And I think Driftmoon is a fantastic game, so I've suggested that title around here now and then. Maybe gifted it once or twice.

Hated games? Tough to remember - you hate them so it's best to forget and move on. Been disappointed in some; though, to be fair, probably as much to blame on me as it is to blame the game.

Go back to: Alien Shooter games. Not sure why. Not much depth or variety, but they're simple and stupid fun where you get to shoot the shit out of everything that moves.

Won't give up on: none. Ha! I'll give up on any game. If I lose interest then that's that. Except Baldur's Gate 2. It just dragged on and on toward the end but everyone talks about how great it is, so I felt compelled to get through that last 10% or so. Used the CTRL-key cheat to insta-kill whatever I was targeting, just to proceed and see how it ends. And then uninstalled. Meh.

One day, I'm bored and my friend recommended a sport game, and I downloaded World Cricket Championship at worldcricketchampionship2apk for PC . It's a 3D sport game and I really love it and want you to try it if you're a big cricket fan like me. And I used to love Talking Tom but I'll never play it again cause I'm an adult haha.

My 5 favourite games (and I quite often get an urge to replay them):

1. Suikoden 5
2. Suikoden 2
3. Death Knights of Krynn
4. Sam & Max Hit the Road
5. Blade Runner

Favorite games:
Some of my favorite games, in no particular order:
Half-Life
Unreal
Morrowind
Skyrim
Divine Divinity
Resident Evil 4
Quake
Batman: Arkham City
RuneScape

What games did you love but would never play again?
The only game in my favorites that I can think of at the moment that I wouldn't play again is RuneScape. I played it back in late elementary/middle school, in the early to mid-2000s, and far too much. But I also had a lot more time for games back in those days, so I played it a ton then. Yet even at the point I thought it was pretty grindy. There is no way I'd be able to invest nearly as much time these days as I did then, and I wouldn't have the patience for it. And I have other games I want to get to. For the purposes of nostalgia, I may download the installer for that version of RuneScape (the game is a lot different now, from what I've seen and heard), but I wouldn't actually seriously play it.

What game would you tell friends to try out?
Tough question. A fair amount of the games I like or even love I don't think the vast majority of my friends would play, like Daggerfall for example. I guess I'll go with Mirror's Edge. It's a really fun and unique game, although it is way too short, and it's probably much more accessible.

What games do/did you hate?
An easy one since there was a recent one I played: Turok 2. Goodness, I despise that game. I noted some of what I felt about the game in the Games Finished in 2017 thread, so I won't go on too much about it. But the level design is infuriatingly confusing--especially when you have to backtrack--and the atrocious map does you no favors either. This was made worse by the fact that Turok, which I finished a few weeks before playing Turok 2, was a great deal of fun and the level design was great. Anytime I missed an area that I needed to go into in the first game was either my fault or easy to go find again. Turok 2, on other hand, just made it so tedious. And where you moved fast and the game was at a faster pace in the first game (along with a good soundtrack that fit well with the pace and world), Turok 2 was slow and had a mostly repetitive soundtrack (although that was partially because the levels were so damn tedious.). Did I mention I hate Turok 2?

Is there a game you keep going back to again? Or one you refuse to give up on?
I almost never replay games these days. I don't have as much time to game, and there are other games I want to get to. But Half-Life and Batman: Arkham City are two games that just find ways to pull me back. I started a 5th playthrough of Half-Life that I want to go back to later and have played through Arkham City 6 times. I actually just played that a few months ago for the first time, and honestly I think it holds up pretty well. Not to mention it was ridiculously fun. Sure, there's definitely some dated aspects and just like any other game it isn't perfect, but I think it is a fantastic game.

My favorite game of all time is Far Cry 3.I've played it 3 or 4 times.I still wanna play it again.This game has an excellent story mode.It's very fun to play.I love this game because this game has the best characters ever.Whenever I play the story mode I feel like I am playing a story.The voice acting, the animations are so good that it keeps me coming back to this game again and again.I gotta say Vass is the best villain ever.I absolutely love him.His acting is so damn good.This game has a beautiful wild open world.The jungle is amazing and crafting and hunting animals is a lot of fun.Capturing outposts is the best part.Every time I try a new gun and a new approach to capturing the outpost.This game is stealthy and you can also be one man army.
In simple words, this game is a masterpiece and there is nothing like this one.It will always be my favorite.I will recommend far cry 3 to everyone.

Possibly you made the topic a tad too broad. You asked too many question for a coherent discussion to develop. Essentially you said "let's talk about games" and expected a big reaction.

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Deus Ex GOTY Edition: I played it religiously, especially with mods, until Human Revoltuion came out. If I have to choose a single favorite of all time it would be this, though the Director's Cut of Human Revoltuion is nearly equal.

Deus Ex Human Revolution: I never played it more than twice though I love the greater attention to detail and being more modern in general. I played through the Director's Cut once and I have a New Game + playthrough in progresss.

Borderlands 2: I have 1,370 hours on it though I rarely played it over the past year.

Tales From the Borderlands: A masterpiece story-wise but gets old after a few playthroughs.

Saints Row: The Third: I play this whenever I need something simple and humorous.

Witcher 2 and 3: I love the effort that went into them but the Witcher verse does not hold me like Deus Ex.

"What can change the nature of a man?"
"What's the secret of Monkey Island?"

You usually list 3 favourites, but I'm not sure i can think of 3. Maybe "Did you kill much when you were alive?"

Blade Runner, Warcraft 3, Dwarf Fortress, Kerbal Space Program, Fallout 2. World of Warcraft, and possible Simcity 3000. For the latter - built a kickass city and felt I accomplished all I wanted to accomplish. I might return if they decide to fix highways. Otherwise SC4 from now on. WoW was great, but I started to lose interest with the expansions up to cataclysm. The classic warcraft feel that I loved seem to mostly be confined to the vanilla zones. Disciples 2, Startopia, OpenTTD, OpenXCom, any of the Sierra city builders Never liked JRPGs until I tried chronotrigger. Used to hate turn based combat until I tried Fallout. I'm still pretty hostile towards the moba genre. A few : Warcraft 3, Tiberian Sun, Bio Menace. (used to refuse to give up on) Warcraft 3 hard difficulty until I managed to overcome the damn thing.