Games you can play repeatedly and never get tired of

I know it's not as bad as some Anons will say, but I've been playing Monster Hunter since Freedom Unite and have somewhere around a thousand hours in the series over seven years, which is about twenty minutes or one hunt per day, which tracks.

Amen. I'm so bored with current gaming and the lack of stuff I enjoyed growing up that I started making my own 8-bit style games. I know everyone's sick of indie pixel shit but whatever.

I remember renting this from the drug store like 20 times when I was a kid. I still enjoy playing through it every year or two.

People give shit to pixel-styled stuff because there are a ton of them, but the problem is that it's also the most affordable art style for new and hobby developers to use. So you either tell up-and-coming developers not to develop and rid the industry of a lot of new content, or you deal with it and take the good and just ignore the bad.

I play through Jet Set Radio from time to time, until I get Jet on every level and can pull off cool loops, then I stop

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runs on a potato laptop and the fun goes on and on

Could name so many good games.

Eventually i get a little bored though, its just like my 300gb porn folder, somehow i manage to get bored of it every now and then

I don't even play it competitively. It's just feels so nice, single player is so comfy, and the stages are all really cool.

And Morrowind ofc

R4 is great, nice 90 Japanese arcade.

Booooring

So solid. Rom hacks also.

I've beaten every game in this series multiple times and like RE4 or metroid prime its the type of game where credits finish rolling and i just stat playing again.

Even MGSV in its unifnished state has gameplay where i will just play through it again and again.

1st every summer, 2nd every winter.
i just noticed what the fuck is going on with the Phantom's left hand/cannon/clusterfuck

That's some fine busting there user.

SH2, and all the souls games (excluding 2)

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2 has more replay value than 3.

Any of the F-Zero games.

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Gotta play this again now that it's October. The biggest flaw I found with the game was the lack of the actual theme song though.
Really wish these devs had gone on to make more since the Rookie started his own branch, it was the perfect passing the torch story told only as a video game could, because the torch was passed to you the player and GB fan. No movie could do that.

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repping w101. such a fucking good game.

+1

These games have top-tier cheats and are a large part of why I go back to them so often. Playing as an invincible Lando with a Sith sword fighting against Jedi and giant rancors scratches a big itch.

funny thing about the franchise plot:
the concept art suggests that the player character was intended to be Tully. This would also be a good outsider view for the the player as well as explaining at some level why the others are willing to trust you for various tasks (like hanging off the roof to fight Staypuft)
Unfortunately, they couldn't get Rick Moranis to come out of retirement

I think it works better as the Rookie because he's the stand in for all the longtime Ghostbusters fans over the years, one of the only times I think the player proxy thing really hit it out of the park. Louis I would much rather be Louis and left to his own devices at the firehouse with Janine.

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right back to its basics

The games are designed to be played repeatedly anyhow, but I've sunk so many hours into these games that it makes most autists look downright moderate.

I wish the online was what it used to be. Outcast is all but dead.

On topic, pic related.

Timesink games get me most of the times too. Outside of PSO and portable 2, the biggest ones were monhun and etrian odyssey for me.
Also games where choices actually matter, like alpha protocol.

Splatterhouse is just quick, arcadey fun. The other three have so many variables that you'll never have dull playthroughs.

I can play these games non-stop. But they're even better to play around this time of the year.

This + Capitan's edition mod.

OG Punch-out!! for a quick run through when I've got a few minutes for a game.

That's the ticket

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I wish I was good at panel de pon. I still have yet to unlock all the pokemon in Puzzle Challenge after all these years

Why aren't you playing the best game of 2016, Holla Forums? Did you know this game has 180 gorillion planets, you'll never run out of gameplay!

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I've played at least 4 full games and beat all the DLC on all 4 runs. I added at least 300+ mods. Played 500 hours since 2011.
Played the shit out of it on 360. When it came out on PC last month I already got every achievement, but the 5-7 days. I enjoy the game despite it's flaws and it pisses me off they're going to fuck up 4 so bad.
I can just play it over and over again. Trying different runs like SL1, axe only, hammer only ext. I used to be into the PVP for a while, but now I just play for the PVE.
I never had an N64. I had to play OOT at my friends house, but I did get a gamecube, so I did love playing Wind Waker. I loved sailing from island to island and finding treasure. I loved that I could see other islands from far away. I like the music and the charm of the cartoon look, even if at the time a lot of people shit on it for that.

Sonic 3 in original level order. not & Knuckles.

i find myself going back to mario games a lot. i just played 3, and now im doing a run of ur mr gay

The fact that I've had to explain to people that there is an appeal in this convenience is mind boggling, especially when modern consoles are basically just worse PC's.

I have no idea why I love the Witcher 2 this much, I broke the fucking thing's systems over so hard I wrote a guide on a mage build and have killed all the bosses in under 10 seconds each.

Chaos Theory is just god tier though.
The Dark Mod keeps putting out good content so there's that too, I suppose.

For me, the easiest games to replay are ones that I can beat in one or two sittings and let me beat the fuck out of all the bosses that used to give me trouble.

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mah nigga

mah eternal nigga

For some reason it makes my PC crash hard.

Wew, I was just about to remind everyone.

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Does beating this game over 50 times count? I haven't played it in probably a couple years, though.

level design 7/10 could use some work

boss fight 10/10

i swear, looking back its like somebody got the creator of dark souls to design them.
Iblis = 2nd best boss

Characters? Memorable
and so many twists! I will never forget how cool Silver was XD
I feel as if Tails really came into his own in this game.
Also his romance with the princess made me cry at the end.

In ragards to soundtrack? eh could be better.

but the best part of all was how streamlined everything was. It was so simply,yet had an enormous depth to it to master and the game never once slowed down either! I was ALWAYS on the edge of my seat.

10/10 would reccomend

Why is this so hard for modern developers to get? This is what we want. Not all that other shit.

Haha time for medieval themed neverending games

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Resident Evil 4.

Just got it on PC, thanks to a kind user the village intro still got my blood pumping after all these years.

Its also funny how the spot of those blue medalions comes back to me naturally.

I can't even count how many times I played through this game on PS2.

Game looks like shit though on PC, those textures are god awful, the models aren't too bad though

Isnt there 2 versions of the pc one?

Super Metriod
Sonic CD
Shadow Warrior
Metal Gear Solid Series
Doom

Right now, Grand Ages Medieval. Got my OCD running once I solved the formula the game used to equalize my supply and demand. I'm trying to maximize my earnings compared with my AI competitors by being an autist at the game. This includes savescumming and gambling, having the best starting point, playing on easiest difficulty, etc.

We don't talk about the initial release, that thing is still considered one of the worst port jobs of all time.

Everything else has already been posted. But this in particular is one of the few fight games I find endlessly entertaining. The story mode that plays out like a choose-your-own adventure book where you earned gold and bought new weapons and shit was endlessly entertaining to me as a kid, and there was a stunning amount of content for you to parse through.

Also it hails from an earlier era, where I knew picking up a copy of the game meant I was getting all the content I wanted without having to shovel out forty extra bucks for costumes and characters that should have been included in the initial release.

I'm sad to know that Soul Calibur will probably never be as good as it was here. If SC2 had the character creation available in later entries I'd be way into it.

Honorable Mentions:
F-Zero X
KoF 97
KoF 2002 UM
Super Smash Bros 64
Paper Mario: TTYD
Banjo Kazooie/Tooie

Is it worth buying an NES and going the buyfag route for NES games? Or should I not bother?

Got a good strong hard laugh out of that one thanks user.

Let me throw my hat in. I abolutely think roguelikes (The best of them) are perfect for this. If you're willing to dive in without doing it on the easier side of the genre, then I'd say start with ADOM or nethack. You can get crazy amounts of playtime out of either of these. And if you suck? It's going to take a long, long, long time to win.

If you need something to ease you into the genre, go ahead and start with TOME. You can waste 100s and 1000s of hours on getting into roguelikes.

It's not even my favorite AC, that would be LR, but it was my first and I always come back to it every few months.

Hell yeah motherfucker.

Pretty much everything in this list I still play today, if I don't then I clocked in at least 200 hours.

Honorable mentions:

Street Fighter III : 3rd Strike
Legend of Mana
Elite +
Mercenary II : Damocles
Princess Maker 2