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Phaelax
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A story on slashdot with various links discussing what games keep players coming back for more, even after you've beaten it.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/01/28/1911221.shtml


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Posted: 29th Jan 2006 04:11
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Interestingly enough, in the article that links to, the opening line reads:

Quote: "Like airport novels and the movies of Adam Sandler, there are some games you only ever want to experience once."


I know lots of people hate Adam Sandler movies (probably because there's so many of them), but I can watch the dumb comedy in his movies millions of times and never get tired of it.

Back to the topic though, I've probably finished a dozen NHL 2005 seasons, and I can still pick it up again after a month. The NFS series are also games I can definitely play over several times, but without a doubt, Starcraft is probably the single most played game of mine, I can bust that out every couple of months and never get tired of it!


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the few game i can play over and over again: Morrowind, and the Ratchet and Clank series.

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Raiden DX! It's rather difficult to get these days which is unfortunate.. I have it, it's absolutely one of the funnest games to play on the computer and one of the best vertical shooters i've ever played.

And also like you said Exeat, Starcraft is another one that i've spent many hours of my life playing.


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Oh god. No. Addiction drawing in Civilization 3 and Civilization 4.

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Adventure games on my PC. Those old and new--- Space Quests, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, etc. I can beat, re-beat, and re-re-beat those pretty much every year.


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i'm still playing half life: team fortress classic, been playing it on and off for the last 6 years

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Nights, FFVII, Daytona USA, Doom I, Sonic games, Tetris/puyo puyo/puzzle bobble/klax/Tube it...


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Battlefront II


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Deus Ex, Gabriel Knight 3 and all NFS and Tony Hawk's Skater games (I can't even get over screaming while doing a 360 over the high pole )

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Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. No contest.

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Any game I have maintains the potental of me picking it up again and start playing. Problem is, I have some kind of impecable memory. While playing I will remeber how many enemys are at the other side, where they are, when they come out. The works. Sometimes I forget a few, expecally the snipers, but for the most part, the inital frights I had, the slow moving, On another play I just run though mowing them down.

This makes things terrible on me because if the AI remains predictable, then I will make statagi to defeat the enemy. Of course as AI becomes more unpredictable, game-play has increasing replay value. AND as difficulty increases, replay has better value.

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I've played through Indigo Prophecy heaps of times, mainly just to try all of the different conversations you can change (And killing Lucas' brother...). I have played every Resident Evil title dozens of times, but that may just be because I'm a fanatic--although, RE games generally have things to spice it up; unlockable mini-games, extra weapons, costumes, even modes. Not to mention playing character's in a different order (RE2) or completely different characters altogether.


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Deus Ex, because the storyline was the best ever in a game. Whenever I played it, I got so involved I felt like I was watching a movie.


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Games that I seem to keep getting (or they get me) would be Captive, Bubble Bobble, and Rainbow Islands. BB and RI both sorta come together, but I've completed those on...

Spectrum
C64
ST
Arcades
MAME
Megadrive
XBox (Taito Hits)

For some reason I keep forgetting how frustrating these games are and keep coming back to them.

Captive is a humungous RPG like Dungeon Master, it's got 65,000 levels - according to the coder it would take someone 50 years constant play to get to the end. It's full of cool gadgets, upgrades - really one of the finest games ever written, the sort of thing you can loose yourself in. If I was being sent to a desert island that would be my one 'thing' to take with.


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Civs 3 and 4 and game called Astral Masters
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Quote: "Deus Ex, because the storyline was the best ever in a game. Whenever I played it, I got so involved I felt like I was watching a movie."


Absolutely

(And don't forget how many different paths your game can take each time you play it )

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"Bubble Bobble, and Rainbow Islands... XBox (Taito Hits)"
I bough that compilation a couple of weeks ago, and play bubble bobble every night to unwind, for some reason I find it theraputic. Trouble is even though I play it everyday, the furthest I've got so far is level 28 ( I never collect umbrellas as I'm trying to beat my score rather than just skip levels )


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Super Mario Brothers 2
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Van B -- You've completed Bubble Bobble? How many levels are there? That's an amazing feat I must say


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"How many levels are there?"
Around 100 I think, as I said, I've only ever got to 28 recently
(unfortunately even in the arcade version there is not "continue" option so you can't keep putting more money in and complete it like you can with most arcade games - extra money just lets you start from the beginning again)

PS VanB - did you know that to complete it "properly" and get the ending you HAVE to complete it with 2 cooperative characters? (I guess you do as you probably watched the video interviews on the xboxb disk)


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nfsmw it's amazingingly fun

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Quote: "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine"

funny...

i was going to say that before i read your post


my "soaddictingimusthaveplayedthemlikefourtytimesgames"
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
Civ II
Lords of the Realm II

(i didn't really like Lords of the Realm III at all... Civ III was pretty good though, but i liked II better )

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Hehe, Bubble Bobble is a helluva lot easier with 2 players - the XBox version has unlimited continues, which is handy. To kill the last dude, I just fire bubbles at the left or right hand side of the screen, so they burst as soon as you fire them and fire the lightning bolts. Not sure if I've ever completed it single player - never got the chance to watch the extra's on the game, my mum stole the disk months ago .

Rainbow Islands is so much more difficult than BB, damn that's a feat to play through.


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"the XBox version has unlimited continues, which is handy"
No it doesn't! OR does it and I'm just stupid/blind? I can put in as many credits as I like, but when I run out of lives it says gameoevr, with no continue screen? I'd really like to be able to continue when I run out of lives, so if theres an option / method I don't know please tell me so I have a chance at completing it!


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nothing beats Morrowind. so many quests in it already, but wait there are hundreds of thousands of different mods for it which makes it practically an endless game

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Daggerfall!! Most old school sierra and lucas arts adventure games as well

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Kangaroo,

It surely does - I think it's the white button that inserts a coin, but I'll find out the version I have, like the exact disk it's on - it's one of those coin-op collections (I have a few of those).


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exploding fist c64
monkey island
doom 1,2
igi
thief 2

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Yes you can put in as many coins as you want. Trouble is the original bubble bobble had no continue option, you can only use spare credits to start again from the title screen

Bubble Symphony you can I believe (on taito legends 2), but not Bubble Bobble (on taito legends 1)


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Doom 3 and Wolfenstein 3d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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diablo 2...

MOST addicting game ever. And after getting sick of it, and not touching it for 2 or 3 months, i'm back to playing!
100% better than that "Walk 20 minutes, kill a few things, walk 20 minutes..." WoW...

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Deus Ex

Whenever i tell my friends about this depending on how i pronounce it, they think i'm saying one of the following:
day sex
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do sex

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"day-us ex"

there's always somebody i have to convince the pronounciation of this. My ex-gf's dad always said "day-soo" and drove me nuts. He said I was wrong. I'm like oh yea, its not like I took Latin or anything. Finally, I found a video of the creators talking about its creation and showed him how they pronounced it. Hehe, end of fight, I won.


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How do you get "day-soo" out of Deus?

Anyway, I recently became a WoW addict

The coming back games though are Super Smash Brothers, Halo 1/2, Indigo Prophecy (at least until I exhaust the endings numerous times, heh heh), and Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem


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