What’s your comfort game?
>>4017948Skyrim
>>4017948Morrowind
>>4017948Skyrim for me as well
Fire Emblem 7
>>4018032A great choice.
>>4017948Pokémon GSC.
Trails FC.
>>4017982Good choice
>>4017948Titan Quest. The new DLCs make your experience worse (though only Ragnarok can't be skipped), but the original game + Immortal Throne are incredibly comfy to play through and enjoy the art direction.
More like a guilty pleasure, but I've replayed it more than 1-3 & Tactics & 5 combined. In fact I'm playing it again right now.
>>4017948For me it´s FF IX.
>>4017949>>4018023Just putting the controller down and standing still in the plains of Whiterun during a light rain, gazing across the distant landscape while Far Horizons plays is more satisfying than 99.9% of games ever made.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarbRbkV4ak
>>4017948Playing games from my childhood don't comfort me, it's just a reminder that I can never go back and they don't have the same impact they did back then. These days the only comfort games are ones with persistent multiplayer because I can log in and feel like other people actually exist somewhere out there. But I guess with AI they could all just be bots now so even that is gone.
>>4018658find a local meet-up for 3rd Strike near you and go cut up with uncs around 30 year old arcade cabinets
>>4018658https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9lthDyKFb4
>>4017948Quest for Glory 4
>>4018522Yeah eternia or vesperia for me tales games used to be sovl
>>4017948Disgaea 2 or 3
>>4018658>Playing games from my childhood don't comfort me, it's just a reminder that I can never go back.I am not fond of that period of my life and I much more comfortable in the modern day. The titles themselves don't bring comfort, but I love seeing new titles in a similar vane and creating pieces inspired by said titles.
>>4017948Oblivion
Star Ocean 2. I've played through it several times, but I can still pick it up and find something new to do in it, and the combat is always enjoyable despite the simplicity.
>>4017948Source me
>>4019873NGMI
>>4019883Oh its jap shit, nvm
Baldurs Gate 2Vagrant Story
>>4017948as shitty as FF8 is, the setting is still pretty comfy, if a bit too much on the nose. a bunch of teenagers running around as special ops mercenaries is pretty stupid.
>>4017948Fallout 1
>>4017948>What’s your comfort game?Nothing comfier.
>>4021719Can agree with that, miss being able to play it.
>>4019399On god and on gang, how do you get that many hours out of it? I barely managed 200.
>>4022265What's the problem? Even a shitty phone can emulate Dreamcast these days.
Not even trolling.
>>4017948it's between this or Breath of Fire III
>>4017948What game is that?
Starcrawlers or Might and Magic 3 if I want a dungeon crawlerDungeon Dreams if I want rpgmaker stuffWrath of the Righteous if I want to play for 8 hours and decide I want another build after all
>>4017948Moraff's World and....
>>4038774DEAD Maze
>>4017948SaGa Frontier 2
>>4017948Is that Rogue galaxy?
Vandal Hearts is just a nice game to get into
>>4039456i got bored of it the 1st time around. 2nd time, i got stuck at the prison level and had to check a walkthrough. then i forgot about it.
>>4039540Okay. you suck.
Sonic Adventureloved just chilling in the hub world and around mystic ruins
FF5. A couple of years ago on my birthday, nobody called me. None of my friends and none of my family. I genuinely thought about killing myself, but decided to play FF5 instead. Dunno if it was the right choice or not, but it's still an incredibly comfy game for me.
>>4018650That's the beauty of Skyrim. I can do RPG stuff, quest around and bash skulls and whatever I feel like, but I can also just wander aimlessly taking in the views and music and thoroughly enjoy my time with it. It offers so much, whenever I want.
>>4039741> I genuinely thought about killing myself, but decided to play FF5 instead. Dunno if it was the right choice or notYes, it was.
>>4017948probably the first Mass Effect, I know nostalgia probably plays a part in it but I just find it a thoroughly enjoyable experience every time, though tbqh I find gaming in general to be comfy
>>4039795chilling in the hub area of the snow world is comfy
>>4017948stat-maxxing in ffviii and dark souls 1 randomizer speedruns are my comfort games
>>4039592might hold a record for "hub world I fucked around the most in". It was so fun using all the different characters to explore and seeing if you could break their boundaries. I know I definitely got into Emerald Coast as Tails by glitching through the hotel ceiling.
Ultima 7, specifically Part 2: Serpent Isle. It was such a different and weird world from Britannia, creepy and fantastically and allegorical at the same time, with some cutting-edge graphics for its time.
>>4017948By a wide margin too.
>>4018742Unc jamz.I remember trying to like this tune more than I actually did in high school. Because DJ Shadow was popular with hipster musicheads and this was the only track of his I kinda liked except the unkle track with Thom Yorke when it was released. I kept trying to see what the fuss was about with DJ Shadow besides the cool name, and there just wasn't a lot there at the time.https://youtu.be/kEqGdGAgAjw?si=9e1l16liiykvORICDJ Shadow was in UNC-le.Anyway, VIDEOGAMES.
Time for another run.
I wanted to put on a game where I could just wander around, take in the vibes and not worry about having to deal with any kind of forced event or altercation. And it's especially true with this one - you never get forced into any kind of combat situation unless you specifically go to mission areas. I mean, you might get jumped by thugs in a Downtown alleyway, but that's such a minor and easily avoidable encounter anyway.https://youtu.be/sJVUtVaS86M
>>4018658>and feel like other people actually exist somewhere out thereOr you could just go outside and remind yourself why you don't go outside to begin with when other people will inevitably remind you of their existence first hand. Happens to me every now and then.
>>4039741>birthdayA serious question. Why do people care about some arbitrary daily cycle number simply because it so happens to coincide with the number of the cycle their meat unit got first exposed to the outside elements or spawned, if you will? I don't think I ever """celebrated""" that happening past the primary school nor did I ever considered that significant in any way. Is it really that important?
>>4047934Not that anon.>A serious question.Okay. Shoot.>Why do people care about some arbitrary daily cycle number simply because it so happens to coincide with the number of the cycle their meat unit got first exposed to the outside elements or spawned, if you will? I don't think I ever """celebrated""" that happening past the primary school nor did I ever considered that significant in any way. Is it really that important?Entirely dependent on context. From a passionless, philosophical, cynicism that is awaiting the heat death of the universe? Perhaps not.From the standpoint of human psychology? Most definitely. Identity is destiny, and if someone adopts the attribute of their identity that their very identity itself isn't even so much as worthy as the same celebration that all other humans get? That is a fast track to accepting and capitulating to very unfavorable circumstances in life.You have to ask yourself, "If I'm not worth it to me, who am I worth to in order to do the thing I need to get done?" Most people in that predicament to ask that question turn up a, "No one."Very few good things come from this mindset.If nothing else, a birthday should be a celebration that in spite of all the adversity, you looked it square in the eye, spat in it's face, and made it one more year.
>>4017948
>>4047934I am that anon. And well, your question is entirely irrelevant to my anecdote. I never said I was "celebrating" my birthday. I was literally at home alone. It's just that nobody called me, yet every year I am shamed and chastised if I don't call my brother/sister/mom/dad/whatever on their birthday. And it's not like the suicide contemplation was a spur of the moment thing; it had nothing to do with the fact it was my birthday. I've been contemplating suicide for years at this point. But the way I was being treated on my birthday was extremely hypocritical of my family, and basically just confirmed that they don't consider me an equal.>it so happens to coincide with the number of the cycle their meat unit got first exposed to the outside elements or spawned, if you will?As someone who regularly uses reddit, this is the most disgustingly reddit sentence I've seen in a while. My family may hate me, and I may be suicidal, but at least I don't say shit like this unironically, lmao.
>>4048763>I don't call my brother/sister/mom/dad/whatever on their birthday.>nobody called meSounds fair
>>4048766>I don't call my brother/sister/mom/dad/whatever on their birthday.I didn't say that. I said I get chastised if I don't. Apart from my mom, I actually have the best track record of not forgetting my family's birthdays.Stop trying so hard to read everything in the absolute worst faith possible just so you can be a dismissive cunt. Fuck, I'm a suicidal redditor who only has cats and video games in his life, and even I don't do that. Thanks for making me feel better about myself, anon.
>>4048791Glad to hear
>>4048791u sound like a cunt. but i don't care about your senpaitachi. so go be a cunt on readdit and keep playing FFs... and SaGa.
i couldn't wait to get off of work to play shining in the darknessi am gonna beat this game
>>4058345I played this just after Phantasy Star 2 and thought it was great. Have fun.
>>4048791Really cute kitty.
>>4039592i think he meant an RPG. this is an RPG board
>>4034021i have never beaten a western rpg yet. it has been all jrpgs that i have beaten
>>4017982simply the best
What's your discomfort game?
honestly persona 3 fes, i played that game a lot on my ps2 one of the times and the first time i was in a very suicidal phase it helped me feel like i could do something about my life.
>>4069923i was gonna say one of the times i was playing with a friend who used to come over every day before he moved but i cut it for brevity, but fucked up and didnt cut everything
>>4069923>>4069927Well, good job, Anon.
>>4017948I don't have a "comfort game."I play to win.
>>4069959among virgin gamers this guy is the chad
>>4039741Good choice. Happy super belated Birthday anon. I truly appreciate you anti-nihilists to counterbalance the rest of this board: >>4048791 >>4048391 For me then: FF4, D2, most of the bigger ARPGs like Dragon's Dogma, Titan Quest, Grim Dawn. I still haven't actually played 5 since I didn't play 2 and 3 yet either but I know it's where the job system originated which I love in Tactics.Later it was running builds in Kingmaker and Wrath, might still go back to Wrath.For me now: BG3 with a carefully cultivated set of mods to balance out items, classes, and feats and also add a great amount of extra battle and item content that is so well placed and on theme it's almost like expanding the story. Honestly like a whole extra game's worth, the modder called Fade really knocks them out of the park along with a couple of others. I could almost infinitely roll builds and different parties to see all the ways this game can play out like this, and the tactical demand is in a great place with on tactician + honor ruleset on. >>4068889Discomfort game:>World of warcraft retailAlmost feels enough like the real rpg it used to be to suck you in sometimes but then hits you with modern slop and grinding soul away and dealing with cliques and toxic personalities for a raid/mythic schedule just to have your progression become garbage again on the next live service update. And crafting still sucks since post WOLTK.
>>4070005>Discomfort game:>>World of warcraft retail>Almost feels enough like the real rpg it used to be to suck you in sometimes but then hits you with modern slop and grinding soul away and dealing with cliques and toxic personalities for a raid/mythic schedule just to have your progression become garbage again on the next live service update. And crafting still sucks since post WOLTK.I was actually gonna post this whole ass thing myself but cba then I refresh the thread and you've done it
>>4070005>FF4One of mine too. And I generally try to crank it out in day. Usually takes about 10-12 hours for me. I like a quick comfort game.Others I like...>FF1Only the original black background NES version. All the remakes monkey with the math, and everytime they figure out how to make the game worse. either do some form of 2 to 4 fighters, with maybe a redmage and/or blackbelt, or 2 black belts. Sometimes I'll try a completely oddball party.>Chrono TriggerI generally go with the big hitters, Ayla, Chrono, Frog, the Robot (I always rename him). I love Ayla because she can steal.>Final Fantasy Adventure/Secret of Mana/Legend of Mana/Visions of ManaI love getting lost in the mana worlds. Pretty much any of the Mana games, except trials. Nothing against trials, it's just not one of my comfort games.
