Windows Games that kept you coming back?

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  1. jrduquemin

    jrduquemin Minimodder

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    GTA IV
    GTA San Andreas
    NFSU 2
    Sniper Elite (When I can get it to work on Win7 64 Bit:D )
     
  2. marone

    marone What's a Dremel?

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    UFO: Enemy Unknown (Originally Amiga 1200, then PC, then PSone more recently PPC)
    FFVII (without doubt the best so far, hoping XIII is as good :D )
    Some C&C Series (Original + RA 1&2)
    Mechcommander 2
    WoW (for my sins)
    DoW
     
  3. Xen0phobiak

    Xen0phobiak SMEGHEADS!

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    Deus Ex.
    Halflife and all Episodes/sequels/parallels.
    Warzone 2100
    Forza 1
    Project Gotham Racing 2
    Eve Online (do MMORPGs count?)
    Mechwarrior 3+4+expansions.
    Left4Dead
    Counter Strike Source
    Team Fortress 2
    Supreme Commander&Forged Alliance
    Total Annihiliation
     
  4. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    Fallout 3
    batman AA good for a quick game it dont take long
    prototype
     
  5. Bogomip

    Bogomip ... Yo Momma

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    Warcraft 3
    Tactical Ops
    Quake 3
    UT GOTY Edition
    C&C - Tiberian Sun

    Awesome :)
     
  6. johnnyboy700

    johnnyboy700 Minimodder

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    The turn based X-Com games are never far from any of my hard drives down the years, going further back to my ZX Spectrum days I even had Laser Squad and Rebel Assault nearby for a quick blast. The Gollop brothers did another game which consisted of a very large open area and was in the same style as Laser Squad - can't remember what it was called but it had Alienesque styled creatures and Wub-Wub trees (love that name!).

    All of the Half Life games are aways loaded and get dipped into every once in a while (especially for Ravenholm) plus I occasionally give Portal a whirl just to remind myself just how much fun it is.

    The CoD4 Modern Warfare campaign is simply terrific and gets frequent plays.

    I also love playing Crysis just for the action bubbles - the schoolhouse rescue is my favourite.
     
  7. LithiumDesign

    LithiumDesign 3dsMax User

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    Oblivion, nuff sed.
    Maybe I'm the only one but aren't we all forgetting Runescape? :D
    Good times.
     
  8. Redsnake77

    Redsnake77 Useless Idiot

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    Stalker SOC + Oblivion Lost mod and now Complete 2009
    FEAR + expandalones
    RD Grid
    Burnout Paradise only occassionally now since a corrupted HDD resulted in losing everything and having to start again from scratch.
    and Crysis although I just dip in and out occasionally too.

    I wont be returning to Assassins Creed however, very disappointing!
     
  9. Cerberus90

    Cerberus90 Car Spannerer

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    You'll probably all laugh at me but....

    Runescape keeps me coming back every now and then.

    Half Life 2 series - I think its the only set of games that I've completed more than three times.
    CSS when I was into it, but got bored of it.
    GTA IV was good for quite a while, and I started playing it again after a while away from it.

    I seem to get bored of games pretty quickly, seems to be less replayability in most new games, as they are just linear and no big open ended sandbox style gaming.
     
  10. dead beat

    dead beat Rippin six 4 life

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    Half Life trilogy
    Goldeneye
    Perfect Dark

    But the best of all for me was Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. Probably because of my age when it came out. IMO that was the best game ever created. There was just so much to achieve and secrets to unlock. Plus the fact that the story line just captured you so well.
     
  11. mikeuk2004

    mikeuk2004 What you Looking at Fool!

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    Used to be any of the Battlefield games and C&C games until I finally gave up PC gaming this year.

    These days its,

    Xbox 360

    Bad Company
    Battlefield 1943
    Halo 3
    Grid
    Bomberman
    Worms
    Carcasonne

    PS3

    Formula 1
    Fat Princes
    Killzone 2
    Crash Commando
    Lemmings

    PSP

    Toca Race Driver 2
    Gran Turismo
    Destruction Derby PS1
    Mahjong (Minis)
     
  12. samkiller42

    samkiller42 For i AM Cheesecake!!

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    C&C Red Alert 3: Uprising- Love both the Harbinger Gunship and Giga Fortress
    GTA 4 PC- Playing this alot recently, trying to complete in under 30 hours, got 30 missions left (done 62 so far) and still have 19 hours odd to go, so hopefully should get it done in the next few days.

    Sam
     
  13. Lord-Vale3

    Lord-Vale3 His Tremendousness

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    Most all of the command and conquer games :D
    Total Annihilation
    Empire Earth
    Sins of a Solar Empire

    Can you guess what my favorite genre is? :thumb::thumb:
     
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  14. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    I can say that Morrowind kept be going forever.

    And Age of Empires is always worth a revisit.
     
  15. tominated

    tominated What's a Dremel?

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    HL2 and eps
    Fallout 3
    Borderlands

    only ones I can think of right now
     
  16. Digi

    Digi The not-so-funny Cockney

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    What, no one mentions CS 1.6? I still play it regularly. 10 years going strong.

    Unreal tournament (all)
    TF2
    HL1+2+exps
    GTA Vice City
     
  17. javaman

    javaman May irritate Eyes

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    Final fantasy VII, VIII, X
    Oblivion, even tho morrowind was far better, theres just something that keeps me coming back to it.

    started playing runescape again on my netbook when im bored in uni.
     
  18. glaeken

    glaeken Freeeeeeeze! I'm a cawp!

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    Same here. It's the only game that I wanted to complete all the challenges to unlock cheats and levels. Now days we get achievements or pictures [insert dismissive **** motion here]. And multiplayer with friends was a very good time.

    Only other games that I came back to are multiplayer games:

    Team Fortress Classic
    Day of Defeat (hl1 mod)
    America's Army <= 2.7
    Battlefield 2
     
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  19. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    QFT.

    I must have replayed all the GTA games many times, in anticipation of the next one coming out. Having said that, now that I've played GTA IV I'm not sure I can go back to San Andreas.

    Crysis and FarCry also keep me coming back for more. :D
     
  20. knuck

    knuck Hate your face

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    easy and predictable answer from me would be UT(99 and 2k4), but there is also all the Gran Turismo games. I haven't played the first one in forever but until a few months ago I would still play the 2nd one. Right now I am working on some endurance races in GT4. The PS2 is plugged to my 40" LCD with a composite cable I bought online so that it can render the game in 1080i (GT4 is one of the two PS2 games that can do that) and I play with my G25 ... I never thought I could have this much fun again with Gran Turismo :D

    The G25 really makes the gameplay shine more than I thought. It doesn't feel arcade as much anymore !
     

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