What are your favorite single player games to go back to often?

  • Minecraft
  • Furi
  • Mario 64
  • Super Mario World
  • GTA SA and Vice City

It’s kinda rare for me to go back to a single player game and replay it, but there are some games that are nostalgic in the same way place or smell can be nostalgic.

I know them so well that I can’t help but want to go back and visit and I never really get disappointment by the experience. Sure, I don’t get as immersed as the first time, but I definitely still enjoy the games.

  • BurntPunk@kbin.social
    7·
    10 months ago

    Skyrim,
    Fallout NV
    Fallout 4
    Witcher 3
    Ghost of Tsushima
    Mass Effect (full trilogy)
    BioShock (mostly 1, but sometimes 2 and 3 as well)
    Borderlands (1 and 2, never really got into 3 or the Tales games)
    Red Dead Redemption (both)
    Assassins Creed Black Flag
    Mad Max
    Cyberpunk 2077
    Dying Light (the original. Haven’t played 2 yet)

    As far as single-player goes, the ones above all have several hundred hours each (a couple of them well over 1000 lol), across countless play throughs lol

      • BurntPunk@kbin.social
        3·
        10 months ago

        Really?

        I mean, I’m not a big fan of “Five different endings” (technically 6) that literally just exist as “select which ending you would like” in a dialogue choice to choose the last mission, I’ll give you that. That being said though, I really do feel like all of them represent different attitudes and/or takes on the story preceding, and really feel like they could be a legitimate close to the story each in their own way.

        Just curious if it’s a similar feeling for you, or if you actually don’t like the endings themselves

        • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
          2·
          10 months ago

          The endings were interesting, but despite being distinct, they also kinda felt samey. Like Mass Effect 3, just a little less so.
          It was like after having run around NC for so long, and doing so much, there just wasn’t a feeling of fulfillment for me with any of the endings.

          • BurntPunk@kbin.social
            2·
            10 months ago

            That’s fair, I can see where you’re coming from there for sure.

            To be honest, I ran through all the different endings once, and then settled on one that I personally prefer every time after that for a bit, but lately I actually just play all the way through, finish every gig, mission, and scanner hustle up to that final point of no return, and that’s where I quit. Then start over from scratch lol. I’ve ended my last 3 playthroughs that way.

            • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
              1·
              10 months ago

              Sometimes I hop back in and do some missions, or drive around and kill a bunch of gangers. But having done all the endings I just don’t feel like it’s really interesting. It’s just GTA in the future.