this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2024
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Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

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Curious as to what people think has the most replay potential.

Rules:

  1. The "desert island" aspect here is just to create an isolated environment. You don't have to worry about survival or anything along those lines, where playing the game would be problematic. This isn't about min-maxing your situation on the island outside of the game, or the time after leaving.

  2. No live service games unless the live service aspect is complete and it can be played offline -- that is, you can't just rely on the developer churning out new material during your time on the island. The game you get has to be in its complete form when you go to the island.

  3. No multiplayer games -- can't rely on the outside world in the form of people out there being a source of new material. The island is isolated from the rest of the world.

  4. You get existing DLC/mods/etc for a game. You don't get multiple games in a series, though.

  5. Cost isn't a factor. If you want The Sims 4 and all its DLC (currently looks like it's $1,300 on Steam, and I would guess that there's probably a lot more stuff on EA's store or whatever), DCS World and all DLC ($3,900), or something like that, you can have it as readily as a free game.

  6. No platform restrictions (within reason; you're limited to something that would be fairly mainstream). PC, console, phone, etc games are all fine. No "I want a game that can only run on a 10,000 node parallel compute cluster", though, even if you can find something like that.

  7. Accessories that would be reasonably within the mainstream are provided. If you're playing a light gun game, you can have a light gun. You can have a game controller, a VR headset and controllers, something like that. No "I want a $20 million 4DOF suspended flight sim cockpit to play my flight sim properly".

  8. You have available to you the tools to extend the game that an ordinary member of the public would have access to. If there are modding tools that exist, you have access to those, can spend time learning them. If it's an open-source game and you want to learn how to modify the game at a source level, you can do that. You don't have access to a video game studio's internal-only tools, though.

  9. You have available to you existing documentation and material related to the game that is generally publicly-available. Fandom wikis, howtos and guides, etc.

  10. You get the game in its present-day form. No updates to the game or new DLC being made available to you while you're on the island.

What three games do you choose to take with you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
  1. Heroes of Might & Magic 3

  2. Red Dead Redemption 2

  3. either The Witcher 3 or Skyrim

All 10/10, all with a lot to do.

After 5 years a rescue ship appears and they find me playing Heroes 3. They want to take me aboard and I'm like "can I have just one more turn?".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago
  1. Fallout - Tale of two wastelands.....hopefully that counts as one game, if not then Skyrim. For the endless mods.

  2. Hades or Binding of Issac - for the infinite replayability.

  3. Minecraft - for the creative aspect of building and lots of content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Elden ring

Tetris

NFL quarterback club 98

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This feels hard, I'm sure.

Anyone who's actually had to be alone for decades though....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

- Little Big Adventure 2
- Total Annihilation
- Minecraft

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Modding a Bethesda game nowadays is actually fairly accessible. So the number one most obvious choice has to be:

  1. Skyrim - What you can create in this game using modern modding tools is absolutely crazy. TESVI please, Todd. Todd?!

Casual playtime with characters that feel like friends? Excellent choice! Might help you from going insane at the same time.

  1. Balder's Gate 3 - Possibly the best digital role-playing game of all time. Moddable too. A completely normal playthrough can easily burn a couple weeks. Factor in experiencing every character's story and 100%-ing the game and aside from challenge runs this will probably burn a lot of oil. Sorry, atmosphere!

The big ones are out of the way. Those two can probably prop up the five years on their own if you stretched them a bit and did some other activities, like exercise, you bums. People will claim driving games, Elden Ring, fighting titles, etc. I wonder though...what about...

  1. Rocksmith with all downloadable songs. Get some good music and with the right mindset learn how to play. Since you can bring gear related to the game along grab an extra guitar and some strings. Rock out for five years and come back able to rip those chords.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not familiar with Rocksmith, but is it still legally-available in any form in 2024? Looking at Steam, it looks like Rocksmith was taken down. There's a Rocksmith 2014 Remastered Edition that got taken down. There's a Rocksmith+, which is free-to-play and has an Overwhelmingly Negative rating on Steam and a description about how it's the continuation of the earlier games in the series because music licensing rights expired on them...I'm not sure what's going on there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Long story short: Licensing the songs.

The game was unique and the costs too high.

Shame too. I was looking into it as a way of learning guitar without the usual boring procedure of plucking out and recognizing chords for the next year. Be fun to learn how to play songs alongside learning on the standard curve.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Monster Hunter World GTA V Ocarina of Time

Then I’d paint cave walls with my stories for future generations to discover.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just because I'm seeing this quite a bit with out explanation, and I'm super curious, I will once again copy my question from another comment

Genuine question. Do the Legend of Zelda 64 games give you replay value, or do you feel you have enough with the other 2 and want to bring a favorite?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Skyrim

Borderlands 2

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

I probably would have picked Mass Effect over Odyssey if you hadn't specified no series. There's really no point in playing just one ME.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Tetris, MarioKart 8, and Solitaire.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Maybe this is cheating but RPG maker, ACC or maybe ACE if it's out in time with a great rig, and probably Minecraft.

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