Timeless classics

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With the number of games coming out increasing every year its very easy to play a game for two weeks or so and then move on to the next big release. However what games (if any) do you keep coming back to year after year? You know the ones that are about more than just the latest graphics or features!?

Although I don't have as much time as I use to these are the classics I play over and over again still to this day:

Deus Ex
Mafia
Civ 4
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire

edit: feel free to mention console games as well :).
 
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OpenTTD.
Pharaoh.
Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Mafia.
Worms Armageddon.

Don't think civ4 is a classic just yet, it's still modern-ish...
 
Civ II
Diablo
Diablo II
Call of Duty
Call of Duty 2
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Probably CS:S too as I've spent over 2000hours on it since 2005.
 
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PC Games:
X-COM (yes, even interceptor)
Alpha Centauri (saying that, I wanna play that right now, where is my disk...)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (I simply can't be evil)
GTA: Vice City & San Andreas (mods make these games something fantastic)
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Battlefield 2 (300hours and counting)


Console Games:
Goldeneye 007 / Perfect Dark
Legend of Zelda (basically all of them, but my favourite is Majoras Mask)

Damn this thread, I want to play all these games again. Now i'll never get any work done.
 
Heart of Darkness, i just thought it was brilliant, absolutely loved the story.

Hostile17 said:
edit: feel free to mention console games as well :).
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Im guessing the usual ones like mario 64, banjo kazooie, always enjoy playing through them again and the graphics don't seem to spoil the game or the memories at all like quite a few other games do when you revisit them.
 
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
MGS 2/3
KH I/II
CnC RA2 & YR

I'm pretty much Square-Enix & Konami's beeeeatch
 
*Diablo series so far. I spent hours, weeks and years on Diablo 2. I'd go back now if it hadn't changed so much to the pre 1.09 patch days.
*Starcraft - not so much
*Warcraft (DoTA too)
*C&C Tiberium Sun is a game I replay now and again.
*Age of Empires
 
Freelancer
Mafia
Vice city
Vampire the Masquerade : Redemption (played this online loads, making my own plots for people to play through. Good times)

Are my top oldies for the PC in no particular order.
 
Must admit I'm pretty impressed, I didn't think many people would go back and play older games in this day and age. I guess its just that you don't read about it much on here, only the latest and greatest games of the month!

Interesting so many of them are single player experiences, I guess your kind of forced to go where the community goes with multi player games.
 
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Daphne emulator
Battlefield 2 with 2500hrs and over 40000 kills in a j10 currently retired awaiting Bad company 2
 
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Vampire the Masquerade : Redemption (played this online loads, making my own plots for people to play through. Good times)
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I played Bloodlines recently and loved it, is this more of the same (but obviously a bit more dated)?

Must admit I'm pretty impressed, I didn't think many people would go back and play older games in this day and age. I guess its just that you don't read about it much on here, only the latest and greatest games of the month!

Interesting so many of them are single player experiences, I guess your kind of forced to go where the community goes with multi player games.
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Personally I play (and write about) quite a lot of oldish games; however, it's rare that I play them more than once. There's some I wouldn't mind revisiting (Deus Ex, KOTOR, Max Payne 2, Freespace 2) but generally speaking I don't see the point in going back to old titles when there are so many classics (both new and old) that I haven't even tried yet.

Regarding the multiplayer thing, I don't think players are really forced to go where the community goes, otherwise it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. When Quake 3 came out so many people left Quakeworld "because everyone else is" despite saying it was a better game - if they'd all stayed on, there wouldn't have been a problem :) In any event the only timeless classic that I still play regularly is QW. If you are happy to put up with a hardcore European scene then I expect most FPS games from down the years still have a community going strong.
 
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