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Favourite games to play around Christmas time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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Lots of people have traditions for their favourite Christmas songs and Christmas movies, but I don’t see games get talked about as much. It makes sense, there’s not many Christmas video games, but does anyone have anything they like to play specifically around the holidays? For me, I always go back and play some Elder Scrolls games. I also tend to play a lot of racing games around Christmas (tradition with my dad), and of course most of my playtime in hockey games are during the winter. Does anyone else have anything they like to revisit, or any genres they save, for this time of year? I’d love to hear about it

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[–] SomeAmateur 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I love the Army Men games as a flawed but nostalgic childhood series and I've loved the idea of it ever since

Army Men Sarge's Heroes has two Christmas levels, but the last one is the final boss where you fight a dreaded poodle. It's flawed but I usually dust it off and give it a play. The Mean Greens also has a neat toy train level.

I was super stoked when Rising Storm 2 had their christmas event come out in 2018. It was a great mix of serious and fun gameplay with the army men concept done with a level of polish I've never seen. Before the game died out I had a ton of fun for several christmasses!

I have fond ~~ptsd~~ memories of being a radioman following the green faction commander around as he calls in artillery strikes. We got pinned down behind some legos. The game mode keeps all the base game sound effects so when the commander peeked out and took a hit I got to listen to the long agonising death sounds while fighting for a kid's craft table lol

Completely unrelated but Hitman is also a go to. The Paris christmas level is amazingly well decorated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Funny you mention Hitman, that’s been what I’ve been playing most this year, against my typical traditions.

Slightly off topic but if you combine my hours between the three modern Hitman games (since they’ve combined the three into one game now), it’s my second-most played game of all time