Same here. Used to be Deus Ex, a replay a year or so but I just don’t have the time anymore.
SimCity 4.
The Citybuilder games - Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh/Emperor. I’d include Children of the Nile but it doesn’t like my new monitor.
Awww jeez, how could I forget Diablo 2? I’m an idiot. That’s got to be tied with MOO2 as my most frequently revisited game. I started playing both of them around the same time too, even though MOO2 came out years earlier. I just didn’t discover MOO2 until about 2000/2001.
Morrowind - I wanted to invoke my right to have babies (as a man), specifically Bethesda’s babies, after playing Morrowind (I know, I haven’t got a womb… but I have a box).
Final Fantasy IV, V and VI. Played the originals, emulated versions, PSONE compilations, GBA versions (currently playing VI again!) and the DS remake of IV which is my favorite of all.
Icewind Dale - at least 5 times already.
Wizardry 8 - admittedly never probably got more than 1/2 way through. But every year I roll a party, play it and LOVE it to death! Someday I’ll commit!
Dragon Quest III - GB version. Finished it twice, started it about 4 times since. My favorite DQ game.
Baldurs Gate II - My favorite RPG of all time. Only finished it once many moons ago (110 hours!) but I still think of it while fondling the beautiful box and manual. Have the expansion pack somewhere still unplayed… but I just KNOW I will want to replay BG2 first and where do I find 100 hours???
Divine Divinity -What an underrated game. Never finished it but have played it most of the way through 3 times already and am thinking about playing it again.
The following games go on every computer I upgrade to.
Diablo 2
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom- For my money the best city builder to date.
Warcraft 3- For the Tower Defense mods.
If I could get the following to work on Windows 7 I would still be playing them:
Monopoly Tycoon- A great multiplayer game. I have never been able to take advantage or be as evil to another player as you can be at this game. Rushing bases and launching missiles doesn’t compare to starting an auction on a players block when they are low on cash, or dropping your prices to steal sales.
Dungeon Keeper 2- Such fun building my lair. It needed work on the expansion/defense side of the game (so it wanst just dropping units). But watching units going to play in my casino was awesome.
Max Payne 2 - The best rail shooter ever and simply a much underappreciated masterpiece.
Crysis - It’s close to perfect for the first 2/3rd of the game. I must have played it ca. 6 times, and it’s always different.
Only Doom II because the scene keeps making a handful of high quality WADs and TCs each year.
Almost everything else tops out after playing it twice, other than a few old games like XCOM.
Morrowind- it’s always on my hard drive.
The game is amazing by itself, and mods just make it better. I’ve stuck more hours in Morrowind then in any MMO, and I always end up going back to it. Thanks to mods the graphics don’t really age, and a different mix of mods can make for a very different experience.
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Oh, I love this question! For me, it would be:
Freespace 2 - I play this at least once a year, and it’s my most favoritest video game ever.
Tie Fighter - I’ve not revisited it in a little bit, but I’ve gone back constantly over the years.
HardWar - Still an amazing game that should’ve lit the world on fire at the time.
Missionforce: Cyberstorm - The random nature of the campaigns and the sheer brilliance of the game system keep me coming back to this one.
Master of Magic - Hasn’t been a game like it before or since.
Master of Orion 2 - Still one of the best 4X games of its type. Speaking of…
Imperium Galactica II - Still my favorite 4X space game.
Fighters Anthology - Sure the graphics are horribly dated, but no other sim covers so many eras of fighter combat, nor includes so many aircraft.
Conquest of the New World - Few games really captured the feeling of awe and discovery as this one did.
Uprising - Sure, Battlezone sold more copies, but this was the better game of its type.
Freelancer - The story is okay, but it’s the visceral combat that keeps me coming back.
Daggerfall - I still revisit this amazing world every now and then just because of how amazing and awe-inspiring it is.
Zeus - Still my favorite Impressions city builder.
Carmageddon - This one never gets old, even with its dated graphics.
M.A.X. - I’m not entirely sure why this game got so much right, but it did.
Transport Tycoon
Also, a lot of great stuff in here. :)
Unreal: I replay parts of this every few months. There’s just something about the atmosphere that hits me in a very sweet spot – takes me back to the 12 year old I once was, scribbling comic books of sci-fi adventure on unknown worlds with giant moons hanging in the sky.
Tetris: I always seem to be playing it in some form or another.
Age of Empires/Rise of Rome: The later AoE games improved the interface and all that, but there’s something about the feel of this one. I like starting a skirmish game on a huge map and just taking my time rolling over the other civilizations. I only wish the pop cap were higher so I could build a really huge host of hoplites and composite bowmen and suchlike.
I’m pretty sure it runs in Dosbox. Did you try that?
Diablo II
I think I have played this game more than any other game ever. Still unbeaten the best action rpg. Oh how many “Diablo killers” have come and gone since? In the end, only Diablo remains. A bit annoyed by the more frequent ladder resets “recently”, though…
Diablo I (not as often as II)
Darker atmosphere than even Diablo II, has its own charms.
Master of Orion II
Still the king of 4X games.
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Currently playing again (Armageddon’s Blade), this game is crack cocaine.
Super Metroid
I play it nearly every year to completion in a ~3 hour session, mostly around christmas because the SNES is at my parents place.
Secret of Mana
Same as above but not as often.
Counter-Strike
I play it with a friend regularly against bots since at least 10 years ago now. We switched to Source a year or so ago and haven’t looked back.
Age of Empires II
Play it with the same friend against the AI since a similar long time (we have a rule: Never play against each other, though it is kind of a tradition to bitch at each other the whole time we are playing. This is worse in Counter-Strike…)
Mostly Master of Magic these days. It isn’t because I don’t like revisiting my old games, it is because I don’t have enough time to play them as well as my newer games. And I’m retired!
How are you running Darklands? Even in DOSbox I found that I could not fight the robber knights without a crash.
Jagged Alliance 2 - I do a run-through one or twice a year
King of Dragon Pass and Steel Panthers used to get lots of time but have fallen oft in the past couple of years. Same with Crusader Kings.
I keep a copy of Chaos Overlords on my main flash drive. You can’t reload games but I love it enough that I don’t care.
Baldurs Gate 1…still my favorite game.
Also Jack Nicklaus golf…Golden Bear edition now. I still play in on-line leagues.
Diablo 2 - So many times over the years, usually with a new mod like Median XL now.
Age of Wonders Series - None of them have really been off my computer at any time.
Baldur’s Gate II - Basically get the urge to replay it every few years.
Heroes of Might and Magic III - A true classic.
Morrowind - For some reason the magic of that game doesn’t die for me.