If you could only play one game the rest of your life...

MuddBudd

This discussion came up at work today, and we had a lot of fun coming up with answers.

So if you could only play one game from today until you die, what would it be?

Rules:
1. It can be any game ever made or unreleased games that we know will exist at some point. So no GTA 27, etc... but say, Super Mario Galaxy or Assasin's Creed would be ok.
2. Why? Give a small description of why you chose it. What qualities does this game have that make it 'The One'. Great level design? Characters? Story?
3. No Pong.
4. No MMO's
5. If it's a multiplayer game, it is assumed you would have enough people to play against most of the time. Or bots that are good enough.
6. No Duke Nukem Forever.

Personally, I am thinking Spore would give me enough replay value to be 'It'. The ability to create and destroy worlds as I see fit? Play God? I think that would keep me amused for a long time.

harvest

Spore probably, or any game that produces procedural/randomized content.

LewieP

Alpha Centauri

edit - now where's my install disc...cheers for removing any chance of me getting to bed at a reasonable time tonight...

DragonKhan

No brainer for me...

Tetris!

I don't think a description to why is needed...

MuddBudd

LewieP wrote: »

Alpha Centauri

edit - now where's my install disc...cheers for removing any chance of me getting to bed at a reasonable time tonight...

Yeah I almost picked that.

A lot of guys at work picked fighting games.

JustinChar99

Mine would probably be PSO Episode I&II. Despite only playing offline, I have upwards of 200 hours on my HUmar, and three other characters in Ult. I don't think that the game would ever get old to me. Hell, I've never even played a FO past normal.

JWashke

Resident Evil 4, the long Single player combined with Mercenaries mode makes it forever playable for me.

Couscous

Spore. It would take me years to get bored of making penis monsters.

Keith

but who knows if Spore will be as good as you guys think it will be

I guess my game would be Tetris

Pata

Disgaea.

I could die and still not have gotten everything.

elevature

Diablo II, with expansion. So many options for builds, it would keep me busy forever. Plus I'm still not tired of doing the same five chapters over and over after playing it for years.

Scrumtrulescent

Probably another vote for Tetris, but that's just off the top of my head.

Rhesus Positive

Another vote for Spore, but also Nethack, simply because it's randomly generated each time I fail and retry. Due to my crappy laptop, it was indeed the only game I was playing for a good few months in any case.

quovadis13

1st choice is Tetris, but my second choice would be Mario Kart, only if I could play it multiplayer.

Jammers

Probably Civ 3 (or possibly 4, tho I still haven't got round to playing it yet). Massive length, with a different experience each time. I've been playing it on and off for a couple of years, and the best I've ever done was winning on about the 3rd difficulty level, so if it ever gets too easy I've got plenty more difficulty levels to go through.
It's also one of the few games I actually like playing in multi-player, since with it being turn-based you can take your time compared with faster paced action games.

Scrumtrulescent

Maybe a sports game?

Also, do we have access to online play?

Burtletoy

Super Mario World, been playing it for years already, and i'll probably play it till I die anyways, might as well be the only game.

Aaron Lee

Hard to say without a lot of thought, but Morrowind comes to mind. I already sunk probably 200 hours into it, and that was just focusing on one player type. Plenty other things to explore that I never touched.

MuddBudd

Scrumtrulescent wrote: »

Maybe a sports game?

Also, do we have access to online play?

Yes. It is assumed multiplayer games will have enough opponents for you to play as much as you want, or close to it.

stigweard

What about games with mod-able content? Right now there is no game that currently exists or would in future exist that I would want to be stuck with forever, but my favorite genre is probably racing sims. Most currently don't have much of a user base (except lfs and possibly rfactor - mots other racing sims use the rfactor engine) and survive in part by their continuing user support through modifications and events.

Fireflash

I think I'd go with the original Tetris. It's a simple and perfect game, and it's always ideal to kill some time.

Scrumtrulescent

MuddBudd wrote: »

Scrumtrulescent wrote: »

Maybe a sports game?

Also, do we have access to online play?

Yes. It is assumed multiplayer games will have enough opponents for you to play as much as you want, or close to it.

Oh, okay.

Maybe Blazing Angels, or a game similar.

I love me some dogfightin'.

Threepio

LittleBigPlanet.

Though the overdose of cute might kill me.

MuddBudd

stigweard wrote: »

What about games with mod-able content? Right now there is no game that currently exists or would in future exist that I would want to be stuck with forever, but my favorite genre is probably racing sims. Most currently don't have much of a user base (except lfs and possibly rfactor - mots other racing sims use the rfactor engine) and survive in part by their continuing user support through modifications and events.

I'm going to go ahead and say no to anything heavily modded, unless you know enough to mod it yourself. Otherwise everyone could just pick Morrowind or Oblivion or something and the thread would get boring.

jackal

I'll go with Gran Turismo 4. I think I would die before getting 100%. I was thinking Oblivion, but that would probably not hold my interest as long.

AtomicBanana

Quake 3 : Rocket Arena (online of course

jackal

Wait, why no Pong? I don't see anything wrong with the answer except being stupid.

Rhesus Positive

jackal wrote: »

Wait, why no Pong? I don't see anything wrong with the answer except being stupid.

The sound effects would drive me insane after the first couple of years.

MGS3-SS

Star Wars: KOTOR

I like how the lightsabers sound.

D00M

Frontier: Elite 2.

Trade, fight, explore.
Love landing/taking off on planets and spinning the camera around

SageinaRage

Civ 4, absolutely. Or any civ, really.

Runner up would probably be SimCity or Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Big Dookie

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

I know I haven't played it yet, but come on. We all know it's going to be awesome.

august

Tribes 1.

Lucky Cynic

I would really have to say Tetris but how come no MMO's? Oh well, I guess I will have to go with the next best thing; Oblivion, and all of it's upcoming expansion packs, if they ever release more than 1 which I hope they do.... yeah.

Malvient

I'll probably be playing Lumines and it's descendants until the day I die, whether I have to or not.

Pajama_Man

Deus Ex

NOR

I play SSB:M close enough to all the time now that I think I can easily chose that.

GimpyBoy

If things go as well with that game as I hope, Mass Effect would be my choice.

VeritasVR

Company of Heroes.

ikillkenny

Probably one of my own games so I could spend the rest of my years adding to it and maybe actually finishing one of them.

Otherwise, probably Starcraft. It seems to be the one game I keep going back to, and if I had to play it forever I probably would at least get decent at it.

Jensen

Pata wrote: »

Disgaea.

I could die and still not have gotten everything.

seconded.

Starcraft would be a tough choice to beat too.

DisruptorX2

It'd have to be something simple. Like Doom. The original, and still best, FPS game. (yes, I know, wolfenstein, its not nearly as good)