Comfort Games Options

[Saffy]

What games do you love to pick up time and time again? You know, those games that give you that warm feeling whenever you play and you always enjoy the experience? :)

For me there's Earthbound and Lunar that first come to mind. Both RPGs, but I just absolutely enjoy every bit of playing them. There's certain charm and feel that is absolute bliss. In Earthbound, the game starts with Onett and Twoson, both of which I heavily explored as a kid when I never understood what an RPG was. Lunar was the the main RPG series I really got into and I personally like to credit it for drawing me into game development. Though I've beaten Lunar twice already and its sequel once, I still desperately want to get around to playing them again. The beautiful sprite work, the story, just all of it comes together so nicely. There's some other games I'd love to play again, but at the moment I'm heavily into playing Earthbound again.

I guess comfort games play a lot on nostalgia. You can just forget everything else and enjoy the moment.

[Tolby]

Every Holiday I would go over to my cousins and all the kids would play games in his room. Me, my brother and my cousin would always play video games while the other watched or did something else. They were fun times, so because of that a lot of various old games hold that time for me. The games include:

Turtles in Time
Super Mario All Stars (specifically Super Mario Bros 3)
Power Rangers
Various other SNES games.

As time went on we still did this, it was less fun, but sometimes it felt the same and so some games from new systems made their way into those memories.

Yoshi's Island
Glover
Spiderman 64
Various other 64 games

Super Mario 64 and StarFox 64 also make the above list, but they have memories all on their own. More immediate family memories. With my brother, sister, and even occasionally my parents. Those games where awesome.

I had some great times with Sega as well. Most Sonic games were with my brother and sister, and eventually playthroughs on my own. But I have some really fond memories of old X-men games and Streets of Rage with my oldest friend.

Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Powerstone 2, Rush, Jet Radio, Grandia II, Code Veronica I beat these games countless times with my best friends from Middle school. We'd basically spend the night at each others houses every weekend and just beat these games repeatedly. Dreamcast is where it was at.


Then of course there are other games that I just loved to death like .hack and megaman but they don't have too many memories attached to them. Well, the original megaman games do, I remember playing them with my elementary friends. And I'm sure in a few years I'll have fond memories of the Golden Sun, Sonic Battle, battle network series. megaman zero series and other more recent seriesbecause I played them with my highschool friends, but that still too close to pull at the nostalgia heart strings just yet.


I talked about Harvest Moon with some of my friends but they never really liked it, but I guess theres HMO, HME, DB, RS memories to consider..

A few games my brother introduced me into like Dynasty Warriors (who I love the characters and the lore around them) and Bouncer (which he didn't introduce, but we played together) which I loved that game so much. Awesome game.

Think thats most of them.

Guess some stragglers are Michael Jordan and the Windy city, Looney Toons B-ball, the Tiny Toons game, Ninja turtle game on NES, and other older games. Though I don't remember the events surrounded them, they just make me happy when I think of them.

Theres probably more, but I think I hit the timeline fairly evenly and often. Elementary, Middle, High school. Immediate family, extended family.