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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] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Doom Eternal

Age of Empires 2

Minecraft

Those are the ones I go back to all the time, when not playing Counterstrike with friends.

For Doom I'd like to try the hardcore mode at some point and that would take a while to perfect it seems like so five years on an island are ideal. I almost always play AoE2 in Singleplayer against the computer anyway so that's okay for me too. I think Minecraft has the most potential for not getting tired of it. For that one I'd also like to take a one block mod, playing with that extra restriction is quite fresh sometimes.

[–] brotundspiele 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is there anything else for me to do on the island? Is it big enough to go hiking, can you swim in the ocean, or is there just a desk and a chair and you have to play all day while not eating/sleeping? Because if that was the case, I'd choose some sports game, probably Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure, but I don't know any alternatives. Sitting at the desk 16 hours a day would be quite uncomfortable after a while. Other than that my choices have already been named: Factorio (can I wait till October please, before you send me off to that island πŸ™. I can't wait 5 more years for the expansion!) and KSP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nier Automata

Fatal Frame 3

Tetris

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

Nier is an interesting choice. After the first (complete) playthrough, I have never felt the need to revisitβ€”except to make my husband play it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I find it comforting in a way. One of the last times I played a game and was like, "Oh, what's this? Joy!?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Fair enough!! Sometimes that's all you need

[–] kugmo 2 points 3 months ago

DOOM 2, Minecraft, F-Zero EXpansion Kit

[–] [email protected] 2 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Tetris, factorio, Halo CE.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't like playing multiplayer or online games anyways. So I'm good.

Starcraft, the OG, with Broodwars on the PC

Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, or some tycoon game.

Super Mario World on the SNES

[–] Pika 2 points 3 months ago

Elden ring, with the wiki to it

Sims 3 + DLC(sims 4 is far too basic for anything)

I'm not sure if this is cheating or not but, the Steam edition of Kingdom Hearts 2.5, not sure if it's cheating cause it's technically a few games in one

if it is cheating then definitly minecraft with access to mods

[–] [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

minecraft - duh

celeste - hehe funny trans platformer

odd choice, but if you removed the multiplayer and live service aspect of hypixel skyblock i would still be able to sink thousands of hours into it, so that's my pick

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

Stellaris Medieval 2 Total War Halo: The Master Chief Collection

[–] iAmTheTot 1 points 3 months ago

I might change these if I thought longer about it. But, completely off the top of my head, I'm thinking Anno 1800, EA FC 24, and Total War Warhammer 3

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

Descent 2
No Man's Sky
Deep Rock Galactic

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