The cycle of spending 20 hours finding mods, installing them and then planning a play through of Skyrim just to quit after around 10 hours of gameplay is undefeated lol
If I could get some of the kind of 'live another life' type story mods for Cyberpunk 2077, letting me start with another narrative and ignore the whole Silverhand storyline in favor of new narratives, I would probably go back and play Cyberpunk 2077 a lot more than I do. Skyrim's modding community helped that game last SO much longer than it would have out of the box.
And how Skyrims mod community was a continuation from Morrowind and Oblivions mods. It’s possible that there will never be another game as heavily modded as Skyrim, or the Bethesda modding community.
Calling Cyberpunk a bad game is very much not true, but all the flak it got at launch was very much deserved, but right now the game is actually really good and I can recommend it, but weather the full price is worth it or not is up for interpretation as we all know people see value through different lenses.
Cyberpunk, Fallout, and Skyrim all scratch a similar itch for me. I love running around exploring random locations, looking at all the details and having fun combat encounters.
> ARPGs are a very relaxing genre to play I had the same idea, bought Grim Dawn to chill after work which was quite stressful at the time. What was chill at first quickly turned into a tryhard hobby. Didn't even notice how I hit 1500 hours and several endgame-successful homebrew builds.
New Vegas is better. Also, Fallout 4's world is bland and unengaging compared to virtually every other open world sandbox. Bethesda is woefully mediocre as a game developer and their games are way overhyped
I disagree completely about the world, but I haven't played out of the box Fallout in years so maybe some of the mods are making the world better. Exploration is really good in that game. My personal favorite mod I've found is Horizon overhaul, it makes the survival part of the game 'make sense'.
Love most of the games from this list. But my favorite games: Alpha Protocol Dragons Dogma Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines Original War Tyranny Overlord II Knights of the Old Republic II
These top-down, isometric RPGS are always good for replayability; they aren't heavy on downtime due to cutscenes are chasing quests across a big open world, they don't get bogged down in dialogue and cutscenes, you never have to remember where you are in the story or what you planned to do when you come back after months away. There are plenty of games that I don;t have time to play because I play in bursts, a few hours at a time across the occasional weekend. These games would probably be amazing if I could ever get anywhere, but the Gods of Wars, Witchers, and other narrative driven RPGs require me to pretty much start over and relearn every time I wanna sit down for a weekend. Action RPGs are easy to pick back up quickly and put down just as easily
Fun list, great games. Specially fond of Diablo 2. The games I frequently play still are XCOM 2 and then the Mass Effect games. I just can't get enough of them.
Still do Mass Effect playthroughs as well. These days, I stop after Kronos Station, because that way I don't have to deal with the wet blanket of Priority Earth and Starchild.
Yeah Mass Effect is definitel yone of mine. Currently doing a ME run while waiting for Spiderman tbh. I recently got the Xcom games in the Stea m sale myself and can see myself doing multiple playthroughs of that over time. But often yeah I'm often returnin t oMass Effect or Dragon Age as atm they're among my favourite games. I get hte feeling looking at Midnight Suns that's going to get me playing it a lot when that comes out in October.
DOS:2 is how I discovered this channel. Got the game on sale and was looking for more info. I still play Diablo 2, in the form of D2R which just looks so good while giving me all the nostalgia. I played it first (and got addicted to it first) pre-LoD, even. No runewords...How did I ever manage? I also still play Grim Dawn, as I think it's the best overall top down ARPG. What Remains of Edith Finch is a "walking sim" I come back to and playthrough once a year or two. It's just so good. I still replay several JRPG's from the 16 bit console era (FF6, Phantasy Star 4, Chrono Trigger, etc.) and a few others, like Super Metroid, A link to the Past, Super Mario World, etc. again...Because of nostalgia, and they still hold up.
I come back to Skyrim a lot, and I hold special love for all Piranhya Bytes games. Played all of them since Gothic 1, each one at least 3 times (except Elex 2, this one has only 2 playthorughs so far).
I also play CP2077 and FO4 a lot, despite their shortcomings as 'hardcore' RPGs. The gameplay and settings of these games really do a lot to make it more fun to be in the world, even if they are not as much of an RPG as their source materials where.
Skyrim is my ultimate comfort game. Especially when I just finished one game and don't immediately know what to play next. I never really dared modding because I know nothing about it and I was afraid I'd break the game, until a friend of mine helped me with it at the beginning of this year. He installed what must be hundred upon hundreds of hours of extra content for me so I'm enjoying a whole new Skyrim experience with lots of new things to do ^^
I found your channel through Pillars of Eternity, the lore vids I absolutely loved and have been a huge fan ever since. Much love from Canada Mort keep up the fantastic work!
I really appreciate you putting this much effort into your reviews and opinions. I really wanted to love Pathfinder WOTR, but I just got really bored with the combat system, so I've never made it passed Mythic ranks 5 (I think) before starting a new save and stopping again. I still replay Divinity OS2 though, maybe because I find its combat system much more engaging.
@@PHeMoX yep. I just use mods to remove the Kingdom and Crusade Management as they were just annoying and half baked. But I also got bored with the combat, even with autobuff mods. After a time ot felt like I was judt going through the motions, which is why I started again and again and again, but never finished it.
DOS:2 is my all time favorite RPG (and DOS:1 was a lot of fun as well) along with Pillars of Eternity 2 (plus its excellent DLCs) and Skyrim are the ones I return to as time permits.
Neverwinter Nights 2. it's everything to love about fantasy and d&d. It's like "what does it mean to be a hero? and lets you answer that. Also, just how well every character starts as a well established trope (dwarf fighter who likes fighting and drinking etc), but then gets a twist in their arc to make them feel unique with lots of personality is such a good mix of comfortable familiarity with good personality that makes it feel good to come back time and again.
I don't replay games that frequently, there is so little time and so many good games these days. One that I replayed was ES Oblivion some years ago and I will eventually buy ME Legendary Edition to play all 3 games again. I want to play Bloodlines again too, that game was awesome.
Another fallout 4 fan! That is surprising. A lot of people hold it in contempt, but I love it so much. It's kind of my "happy place" (I wonder what that says about me, it being post apocalyptic). I love messing around with settlements and exploring the world. Plus the gameplay like you say is very enjoyable.
Skyrim was the first game I ever 100% completed for the Xbox 360 back when it came out and I still to this day come back to it multiple times a year. 11 years later and no game has been able to capture me the same since. Admittedly, mods have helped a ton with keeping the experience fresh, and things like wabbajack modlists open up a whole new world of modding where you don't have to spend dozens of hours modding before you get a stable experience the way you want it and can actually play.
I’ve played dozens, if not hundreds, of games since I started gaming in the 80’s. To this day, I still go back to Asheron’s Call. It had so much of what people crave in modern games. The massive open world, things to find and explore everywhere, loot to collect, puzzles to solve, lore to uncover, rumors to chase down, and the list goes on. It is not without fault and it’s old, but I never did find anything that could replace it or the experiences it contained.
Skyrim SE and Fallout 4 are my gaming crack. Particularly Skyrim. I've dumped over 2000 hours into that game, and I regret none of it. Unlike the more involved and complex CRPGs like Pillars of Eternity, or the Kingmaker titles, Skyrim lets you put your brain in a drawer for a couple of hours while you just run around and kill things. And that's exactly what you want after a long day at work. I save the more cerebral games for the weekend.
I usually come back to Skyrim or Fallout 4 every year or two. I mean, for a time, as I'll never beat the game fully. They're like the game equivalent of spending time with an old friend, very chill.
Cyberpunk is amazing. 1.5 made it the game it should have been at launch. I'm on my 4th playthrough and just can't get enough of its world and exploration. It's my new Skyrim, basically.
Definitely nowhere near the game it promised in the 2018 trailer with 1.5 and the 2019-2020 marketing, not even close. The complex and open ended Fallout 1-2 Esque quest design where quests can be completed in many ways leading to many outcomes isn't there. The deeply involved dialogues are massively scaled back. The advanced traversal like wall running and stuff isn't there. It's not even close to what was promised and it'd need several years of further development to be because it'd require a complete and outright overhaul of every single dialogue, quest, scene and location in the entire game.
@@7dayspking "It'd require a complete and outright overhaul" absolutely, because you're describing an entirely different game. They definitely made a mistake showing an earlier version of the game when their feature list wasn't nailed down, but nothing of the above was "promised" to you. I've worked in game development for 15 years now... I've even worked on a couple of games featured on this channel. I understand the development process and it's completely normal for features to end up on the cutting board before release. You saw some early footage of the game and you imagined this version of the game that doesn't actually exist. That's on them for lack of clarity, absolutely, but also that's on you for thinking you have any idea what this game SHOULD have been. Never judge a game based on unreleased footage. ALWAYS judge the final product only. You are not owed anything.
@@rickeyboy42 They advertises this entirely different game, Don't forget that. You tried to suggest the 1.5 update makes Cyberpunk the game they advertised but you know damn well it doesn't. They advertised the game with that demo. What you market is what is expected. They never at any point before release came out and admitted the game was no longer anything like what was advertised. Mate, I don't make purchases based on 'pre release' hype. I didn't even buy Cyberpunk! But CDP (The publisher) absolutely deserve everything they've got and a handful of them should rightfully be sitting in a cell right now for the lies and lack of clarity given both to customers AND investors.
The fact that I enjoy playing Cyberpunk 2077 as much as I do is pretty wild. I'm pretty old and I distinctly remember cracking open the Cyberpunk 2020 rule book back in the day with my RPG group, reading that first paragraph (the one you can find as a bit of lore in the computer game) and noping out super fast. I found it overly pretentious and that feeling came rushing back when I found it in the game and read it again (I hadn't thought about it in 40 years). I didn't realize at the time that I bought it that the game was based on that RPG I so despised years ago. But I waited until 1.6 when the reviews became more positive and gave it a try. It's a great world with lots of atmosphere.
Am a relatively new viewer and I'm definitely going to check out those Divinity lore videos. Long form video game content is something I really enjoy. Thanks for all the content, brother!
If you've never gotten into Path of Exile, i highly, i mean HIGHLY recommend it, because its objectively the best ARPG ever made. I tried to get into Diablo 2 but sadly it's way too outdated. Even Resurrected.
Good video. At some point I think you should cover some ARPGs (e.g. Grimm Dawn, Torchlight 2), also some of the rpg roguelike's Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Children of Morta, Wiz of Legend, but most important would be the Hereo's of Might and Magics. I never played those till recently and wish I had
My game I return to is a weird one. I keep returning to mgs V because each time I play a level it fell like something new. It also help with the smooth gameplay
Mount and Blade Warband. Eventhough Bannerlord has been released the whole modding scene makes me return to Warband frequently. Baldurs Gate I & II, Neverwinter Nights, Dead Island, Stalker series, X3-Terran Conflict
@@R3in_Ch After playing computer games over 40 years I cant deny looking back at some quality gems from the past. Then again the release of quality single player games is diminishing in favor of quick mony grabs [mobile gaming etc]. Reply again if you played over 40 years 😉
As someone who found you after WoTR full launch by your extensive and informational videos on it, it's so crazy to imagine you had so many BANGERS about DOS:2! I played DOS:2 to death last year, and if only I had thought to look up some lore videos I'd have found you much sooner haha Thank you for your content bud!
Well, the most surprising one for me is Cyberpunk 2077. I have a lot of respect for you so I will add it on my 'to play eventually' list, I feel that all the other games resonate with me, so I will probably have fun. Thanks for the video!
Great video. My list of the go back to type games would be skyrim, fo4, no mans sky, d3, bl3. Havent picked up path of the righteous yet, but I feel like I dont have time. Loved Kingmaker.
Master of Orion franchise, Fallout ditto, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate2, and Elder Scrolls 4, 5 and ESO. Given the overlap there are a few games on this list I need to check out.
Great list . For me sunset overdrive , the first dying light , oblivion , project cars , dirt rally 2.0 ,. I may stop playin them for a while but I always go Back to them .
Cyberpunk is a damn good game. They just revealed too much stuff that ended up cut from the game. I saw the disclaimer in the gameplay footage, but I guess a lot of people thought the disclaimer was a guarantee.
Any of the Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne and after I finally beat it, I'm sure, Elden Ring. I have played those games for a ridiculous amount of time, especially Bloodborne.
Hey man sometimes we want a high class dessert and sometimes we just want a handful of chips. I like playing fallout4 occasionally over other games to because I can just have fun doing stuff and not get to bogged down on min maxing and such.
Honestly aside from the bad way the faction stories all ended up basically the same and the stupid base building mechanics, I loved Fallout 4, but I still just love New Vegas more and so it is my go to Fallout game.
@@scalpingsnake It is not simping to present the truth? Do you know any other youtuber that 100%s games and plays RPGs nonstop? I don't. I would have gotten burnt out eons ago. I like gaming but I would begin to hate it.
I always find myself going back to Final Fantasy 12. I have probably put about 1,000 hours into the original PS2 version alone. Once I got into emulation and I found English patches for the Japanese released version with additional content, I probably ended up putting in another 400-500 just with the international zodiac job system. And now with the remaster it's just a blast going in and playing that game with a bit of a fresh coat of paint with some minor changes done. I think I in total of probably put about 2,000 hours into the game as a whole throughout some of its various versions, self imposed challenges, and a randomizer mod for the remastered version of the game.
I played 12 on the PS2 a lot. When I got the Xbox one version and saw the changes, I was concerned that I wouldn't enjoy it but I actually found it to be more fun with the limitations on the job board.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is my comfort space game. I’ve owned it on every system I have & still play it to this day. The combat is so engaging even by today’s standards & I love just exploring the world over & over. Very pumped they finally announced a sequel.
Oh cool, you're basically me xD In a sense that I also still play WotR, Skyrim and F4 occasionally, plus a game from my childhood I love (in my case it's Might & Magic 6-8).
Games are entertainment. And there's nothing wrong with a guilty pleasure game, anymore than there is enjoying a B movie for simple, unpretentious fun it is. For me, I can never escape Football Manager, Stellaris, XCom2, the Pathfinder games, or Battletech.
For me, its: 1) Warhammer Total War series 2) Xenonauts (X-Com) 3) 7 Days to Die 4) Axis & Allies (because it's so hard to find time and people for in-person) 5) Grim Dawn (ARPG) 6) Warlock 2 7) Rebuild games
Games I still crank up after all these years... Privateer 1 - yes the old space game from Origin. Wolfenstein New Order and Old Blood, just when I want to get in a little shoot em up, sometimes on easy and sometimes on hard. Age of Empires II (2013) Kingdom Come Deliverance Kerbal Space Program Last but not least - Everquest. Still playing it after all these years. That's about it
I wish I still had motivation to play games. I still find them to be as fun as I always used to but now whenever I start a game up I just lose all motivation and end up just closing the game after a few minutes. Most days I do nothing with my free time beyond sitting down, don't even watch tv or movies anymore. I think my brain is just burned out on having "fun".
fun list to read. For me the games I come back to again and again are: Baldurs Gates (even dragonspear since its release, but it used to be something of a yearly tradition to play through the originals, eventually using the old BGT mod when that was made. Mass Effects (though i played andromeda just once) Elder Scrolls 3 and 5 (I love morrowinds vibes and with mods it looks quite pretty, mechanics got a bit dated, I love skyrim but miss the RPG elements, cant wait for skywind) XCOM (i think 2 was overall a better game, but I love 1) Witcher series (All 3, I loved them all for their own reasons, though I ususally use "rise of the white wolf" for the 1st one now) As I've gotten older and have a family and job etc, I no longer really get to play games much so playing anything more than once is a luxury I rarely have. I'll absolutely go back to cyberpunk at some point, I loved it, even if it wasn't what was promised, even if there were issues, I still loved it.
Pillars 2 is so amazing I can keep going back over and over from 0 and not be bored , always find new stuff I missed on prior runs, but I always dread ending it, I don't know what it is, but it wrecks me!
Don't you struggle remembering how the games were like every time you go back to them after certain amount of time? Because I do, I usually need up to 30 minutes to remember the controls and the basic strategy, unless it's a simple platformer or something like that.
Dragon Age and Mass Effect --- I don't WANT to keep playing them over and over, but the state of the gaming industry pretty much leads me back to them over and over. I would have added Elder Scrolls, but I'm done with those games until ES VI comes out.
I understand why there's so much hate for Fallout 4. They went from RPG to shooter. But it's still really fun. I hope they can bring back the RPG elements while maintaining the improved gameplay in the future.
XCOM 2 Long War of the Chosen - the mod has entered 1.0 version on Steam Workshop - I wonder if Mort would like to try it out, probably not 100% but just for initial impressions. Quality of life mods like Overwatch/Evac All should still work, and if you're tired of the timed stealth/missions the Resistance Ring facility lets you pick the "Infiltrate" reaper order so timers don't start until you are spotted - under Advanced Options for the game difficulty you can also enable Time Turner so any mission timers are doubled. Ironman to prevent save scumming :D
Yes, to all those games! Any Heroes of might and magic love, here? I keep going back to H3, since it was released (no mods) and I still find new fresh ways to go about it.
IM so glad to hear that someone else still likes Cyberpunk 2077. Its such a good game, in a similar vein to Fallout 4 really. Gets lots of hate, but when you let all that melt away and just get into play its SO DAMN GOOD.
It took a ton of fiddling to get running and performing on Windows 10 and 11, but Red Alert 2 is my go-to comfort game... still holding out for a HD remaster. Every year or so I also get an urge to revisit FF9 and/or FFX.
The 2 games that i always come back to are diablo 2(resurrected) and Rimworld. Hell, i love those 2 to death and probly playing these for next 20 years lol
i keep playing fallout 4, elder scrolls skyrim, and the dead island games, i love to play them over and over. o and the very first tomb raider for nostalgia also final fantasy 7 the orginal. and i know i will play cyberpunk 2077 too a lottttt.
It is Grim Dawn for me! When I have time and not have a exciting new game to play, I always return to it for e new hardcore build or some endgame stuff to push on.
I still enjoy Cyberpunk too. It is just fun to play and many of the characters are fun to revisit. My favourite games are pretty much all that type of rpg though. I’d have the ones I always return to as Dragon Age Origins, Kotor 1/2/swtor, the Mass Effect trilogy, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and DOS2.
@@randomfcounter1930 In that your decisions don't matter. The player isn't responsible for anything that happens in the story, except when choosing the ending.
My 7 comfort games: 1) Diablo 2 2)Factorio 3)Rimworld 4)Warhammer Total war game series 5)Shogun 2 total war 6)Tekken 7 7)Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous So many good games...So little time :'(
Even now in 2024, nothing beats TES and Fallout. Most of their entries would never be considered great rpgs, by me, but they're good enough in that regard and excel in gameplay and exploration. They aren't the best, but they feel like home. And home is the best.
For me, Resident Evil 4. I own it on all my consoles. It’s like a ritual for some reason. I have to beat it on each platform. My 100% was unapologetically GameCube.
I play POE2 at least once a year since its release. I can't understand the sales failure of this game, in my opinion, it is superior to the first one in everything. Unfortunately, POE3 is not in Obisidian's plans and that is very sad.
Well, I can't speak to POE2, but I tried POE1 and I couldn't really engage with the combat. The real-time with pause combat isn't my cup of tea. I had the same issue with Tyranny. I also felt the fantasy world felt a little bit generic with POE1, like they went the 'safe' route. Tyranny was better in that respect. That said, I might give POE another shot one day. Have to finish Pathfinder first. Which might be difficult as I'm having fun with Skyrim at the moment. Ugh.
I don't actively go for 100%s, these are just a few games I find myself continually or perennially playing over the years. I come back to Skyrim occasionally, but never stay too long with it simply because I don't like its systems and design all that much compared to its predecessors. I'm more likely to go back to Oblivion, Morrowind or even Daggerfall. Divinity: Original Sin 2, whether to play it solo or co-op. The Sims 3 is probably my most played game of all time, though I think I've finally ran out of things to do in it. 9 years of playing it ain't bad though. Fallout and Arx Fatalis aren't similar games, but I lump them into the same category of 'highly-atmospheric RPGs that don't overstay their welcome and which I enjoy returning to every few years' Legend of Grimrock 2, even if by now I can remember a fair chunk of the puzzles there's always a secret or two I've never seen- or simply forgotten about- and there's a good variety of potential party compositions so it's another one I return to. It helps that there's a respectable handful of full-length player-made dungeons for it as well. And traditional roguelikes, Caves of Qud and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in particular with an honorable mention for Tales of May'Eyal
I started playing Cyberpunk again after the Anime came out, and hearing they patched it a lot. Is it the game that was promised to us? Or at least what Impression they gave us it would be? No, but after getting over that and knowing it's a not a Skyrim meets Cyberpunk, I quite enjoy it now. I do hope that if they make another Cyberpunk game, that they truly go the Skyrim route, open world and do what ever you like, join different factions that actually are factions and not just subquests. I wanted to be a corpo rat but you really can't be one beside the intro of the game, that is it. I want to work my way up the corporate chain, do shaddy stuff or become a corpo enforcer. I want to be able to join the police. I want to be able to just leave the main story for what it is and have great adventures as the faction I have chosen to join, like in Oblivion were I completely ditched the main story and just became a mage, working my way up the mage guild. Or like in Fallout New Vegas were I joined the rangers and played the game as a Ranger instead of the main story. Still, I have began to enjoy the game for what it is and don't regret my purchase anymore.
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The cycle of spending 20 hours finding mods, installing them and then planning a play through of Skyrim just to quit after around 10 hours of gameplay is undefeated lol
If I could get some of the kind of 'live another life' type story mods for Cyberpunk 2077, letting me start with another narrative and ignore the whole Silverhand storyline in favor of new narratives, I would probably go back and play Cyberpunk 2077 a lot more than I do. Skyrim's modding community helped that game last SO much longer than it would have out of the box.
Yeah say what you want about Bethesda, but their mod support is brilliant.
And how Skyrims mod community was a continuation from Morrowind and Oblivions mods. It’s possible that there will never be another game as heavily modded as Skyrim, or the Bethesda modding community.
Nwn also had a great mod tool and community. So many great story mods. Was sad when nwnvault was shut down
I just want a new game plus to get back into that. I really had a great time with cyberpunk
Calling Cyberpunk a bad game is very much not true, but all the flak it got at launch was very much deserved, but right now the game is actually really good and I can recommend it, but weather the full price is worth it or not is up for interpretation as we all know people see value through different lenses.
Cyberpunk, Fallout, and Skyrim all scratch a similar itch for me. I love running around exploring random locations, looking at all the details and having fun combat encounters.
> ARPGs are a very relaxing genre to play
I had the same idea, bought Grim Dawn to chill after work which was quite stressful at the time. What was chill at first quickly turned into a tryhard hobby. Didn't even notice how I hit 1500 hours and several endgame-successful homebrew builds.
I just keep coming back to Grim Dawn. It's so good that it has made some other ARPGs feel almost unplayable for me.
I just love Fallout 4 a whole lot, with or without mods, sue me 🤷♀️ I have an amazing time exploring that world and hanging out
I prefer Fallout New Vegas, but the combat and the way they handled power armor is definitely better in 4.
New Vegas is better.
Also, Fallout 4's world is bland and unengaging compared to virtually every other open world sandbox.
Bethesda is woefully mediocre as a game developer and their games are way overhyped
I disagree completely about the world, but I haven't played out of the box Fallout in years so maybe some of the mods are making the world better. Exploration is really good in that game. My personal favorite mod I've found is Horizon overhaul, it makes the survival part of the game 'make sense'.
It wouldn’t be the same without the radio stations👍
@@jt2749 "Most overrated game of all time"
That's how I know you never actually played it.
Love most of the games from this list. But my favorite games:
Alpha Protocol
Dragons Dogma
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Original War
Tyranny
Overlord II
Knights of the Old Republic II
I still play Dragon's Dogma too lol
You forgot Pong.
Dragons dogma is fucking don rumors for a sequel have been popping up the past couple years so heres hoping 🤞
@@danmarsh5009 announced
Damn, your first three picks are among my favourite games of all time!
These top-down, isometric RPGS are always good for replayability; they aren't heavy on downtime due to cutscenes are chasing quests across a big open world, they don't get bogged down in dialogue and cutscenes, you never have to remember where you are in the story or what you planned to do when you come back after months away. There are plenty of games that I don;t have time to play because I play in bursts, a few hours at a time across the occasional weekend. These games would probably be amazing if I could ever get anywhere, but the Gods of Wars, Witchers, and other narrative driven RPGs require me to pretty much start over and relearn every time I wanna sit down for a weekend. Action RPGs are easy to pick back up quickly and put down just as easily
Fun list, great games. Specially fond of Diablo 2. The games I frequently play still are XCOM 2 and then the Mass Effect games. I just can't get enough of them.
Still do Mass Effect playthroughs as well. These days, I stop after Kronos Station, because that way I don't have to deal with the wet blanket of Priority Earth and Starchild.
Yeah Mass Effect is definitel yone of mine. Currently doing a ME run while waiting for Spiderman tbh. I recently got the Xcom games in the Stea m sale myself and can see myself doing multiple playthroughs of that over time. But often yeah I'm often returnin t oMass Effect or Dragon Age as atm they're among my favourite games. I get hte feeling looking at Midnight Suns that's going to get me playing it a lot when that comes out in October.
@@shawngillogly6873 Mod it with the Happy ending. It skips starchild as well and gives a good vibe ending.
DOS:2 is how I discovered this channel. Got the game on sale and was looking for more info.
I still play Diablo 2, in the form of D2R which just looks so good while giving me all the nostalgia. I played it first (and got addicted to it first) pre-LoD, even. No runewords...How did I ever manage?
I also still play Grim Dawn, as I think it's the best overall top down ARPG.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a "walking sim" I come back to and playthrough once a year or two. It's just so good.
I still replay several JRPG's from the 16 bit console era (FF6, Phantasy Star 4, Chrono Trigger, etc.) and a few others, like Super Metroid, A link to the Past, Super Mario World, etc. again...Because of nostalgia, and they still hold up.
I come back to Skyrim a lot, and I hold special love for all Piranhya Bytes games. Played all of them since Gothic 1, each one at least 3 times (except Elex 2, this one has only 2 playthorughs so far).
I also play CP2077 and FO4 a lot, despite their shortcomings as 'hardcore' RPGs.
The gameplay and settings of these games really do a lot to make it more fun to be in the world, even if they are not as much of an RPG as their source materials where.
Skyrim is my ultimate comfort game. Especially when I just finished one game and don't immediately know what to play next.
I never really dared modding because I know nothing about it and I was afraid I'd break the game, until a friend of mine helped me with it at the beginning of this year. He installed what must be hundred upon hundreds of hours of extra content for me so I'm enjoying a whole new Skyrim experience with lots of new things to do ^^
I found your channel through Pillars of Eternity, the lore vids I absolutely loved and have been a huge fan ever since. Much love from Canada Mort keep up the fantastic work!
Hey Mortim. I would LOVE to see what you think about Dragon's Dogma
Its on my list
@@MortismalGaming Ooooooo boy, I'll be anticipating with excitement. Totally flawed, but yet it shines so bright to me.
Love your content
I really appreciate you putting this much effort into your reviews and opinions.
I really wanted to love Pathfinder WOTR, but I just got really bored with the combat system, so I've never made it passed Mythic ranks 5 (I think) before starting a new save and stopping again. I still replay Divinity OS2 though, maybe because I find its combat system much more engaging.
@@PHeMoX yep. I just use mods to remove the Kingdom and Crusade Management as they were just annoying and half baked. But I also got bored with the combat, even with autobuff mods. After a time ot felt like I was judt going through the motions, which is why I started again and again and again, but never finished it.
DOS:2 is my all time favorite RPG (and DOS:1 was a lot of fun as well) along with Pillars of Eternity 2 (plus its excellent DLCs) and Skyrim are the ones I return to as time permits.
Games I always return to: Pathfinder WotR, Empyrion, Division 2, Fallout 4, Monster Hunter World, Dragon's Dogma, Mad Max.
Neverwinter Nights 2. it's everything to love about fantasy and d&d. It's like "what does it mean to be a hero? and lets you answer that. Also, just how well every character starts as a well established trope (dwarf fighter who likes fighting and drinking etc), but then gets a twist in their arc to make them feel unique with lots of personality is such a good mix of comfortable familiarity with good personality that makes it feel good to come back time and again.
I don't replay games that frequently, there is so little time and so many good games these days. One that I replayed was ES Oblivion some years ago and I will eventually buy ME Legendary Edition to play all 3 games again. I want to play Bloodlines again too, that game was awesome.
Another fallout 4 fan! That is surprising. A lot of people hold it in contempt, but I love it so much. It's kind of my "happy place" (I wonder what that says about me, it being post apocalyptic). I love messing around with settlements and exploring the world. Plus the gameplay like you say is very enjoyable.
Skyrim is my favorite game of all time, but because you rule, and your content is so down to earth, in trying all the others on this list
Skyrim was the first game I ever 100% completed for the Xbox 360 back when it came out and I still to this day come back to it multiple times a year. 11 years later and no game has been able to capture me the same since. Admittedly, mods have helped a ton with keeping the experience fresh, and things like wabbajack modlists open up a whole new world of modding where you don't have to spend dozens of hours modding before you get a stable experience the way you want it and can actually play.
I’ve played dozens, if not hundreds, of games since I started gaming in the 80’s. To this day, I still go back to Asheron’s Call. It had so much of what people crave in modern games. The massive open world, things to find and explore everywhere, loot to collect, puzzles to solve, lore to uncover, rumors to chase down, and the list goes on. It is not without fault and it’s old, but I never did find anything that could replace it or the experiences it contained.
Skyrim SE and Fallout 4 are my gaming crack. Particularly Skyrim. I've dumped over 2000 hours into that game, and I regret none of it. Unlike the more involved and complex CRPGs like Pillars of Eternity, or the Kingmaker titles, Skyrim lets you put your brain in a drawer for a couple of hours while you just run around and kill things. And that's exactly what you want after a long day at work. I save the more cerebral games for the weekend.
I usually come back to Skyrim or Fallout 4 every year or two. I mean, for a time, as I'll never beat the game fully. They're like the game equivalent of spending time with an old friend, very chill.
Cyberpunk is amazing. 1.5 made it the game it should have been at launch. I'm on my 4th playthrough and just can't get enough of its world and exploration. It's my new Skyrim, basically.
Definitely nowhere near the game it promised in the 2018 trailer with 1.5 and the 2019-2020 marketing, not even close. The complex and open ended Fallout 1-2 Esque quest design where quests can be completed in many ways leading to many outcomes isn't there. The deeply involved dialogues are massively scaled back. The advanced traversal like wall running and stuff isn't there. It's not even close to what was promised and it'd need several years of further development to be because it'd require a complete and outright overhaul of every single dialogue, quest, scene and location in the entire game.
@@7dayspking "It'd require a complete and outright overhaul" absolutely, because you're describing an entirely different game. They definitely made a mistake showing an earlier version of the game when their feature list wasn't nailed down, but nothing of the above was "promised" to you. I've worked in game development for 15 years now... I've even worked on a couple of games featured on this channel. I understand the development process and it's completely normal for features to end up on the cutting board before release. You saw some early footage of the game and you imagined this version of the game that doesn't actually exist. That's on them for lack of clarity, absolutely, but also that's on you for thinking you have any idea what this game SHOULD have been. Never judge a game based on unreleased footage. ALWAYS judge the final product only. You are not owed anything.
@@rickeyboy42 They advertises this entirely different game, Don't forget that. You tried to suggest the 1.5 update makes Cyberpunk the game they advertised but you know damn well it doesn't.
They advertised the game with that demo. What you market is what is expected. They never at any point before release came out and admitted the game was no longer anything like what was advertised.
Mate, I don't make purchases based on 'pre release' hype. I didn't even buy Cyberpunk! But CDP (The publisher) absolutely deserve everything they've got and a handful of them should rightfully be sitting in a cell right now for the lies and lack of clarity given both to customers AND investors.
The fact that I enjoy playing Cyberpunk 2077 as much as I do is pretty wild. I'm pretty old and I distinctly remember cracking open the Cyberpunk 2020 rule book back in the day with my RPG group, reading that first paragraph (the one you can find as a bit of lore in the computer game) and noping out super fast. I found it overly pretentious and that feeling came rushing back when I found it in the game and read it again (I hadn't thought about it in 40 years). I didn't realize at the time that I bought it that the game was based on that RPG I so despised years ago. But I waited until 1.6 when the reviews became more positive and gave it a try. It's a great world with lots of atmosphere.
I was so happy to see Cyberpunk 2077 on the list. My favorite game hands down.
Totally agree most these, especially Pathfinder. Your videos on Pathfinder how I was introduced to channel
Am a relatively new viewer and I'm definitely going to check out those Divinity lore videos. Long form video game content is something I really enjoy. Thanks for all the content, brother!
If you've never gotten into Path of Exile, i highly, i mean HIGHLY recommend it, because its objectively the best ARPG ever made. I tried to get into Diablo 2 but sadly it's way too outdated. Even Resurrected.
I 2nd this it is a fantastic game
Good video. At some point I think you should cover some ARPGs (e.g. Grimm Dawn, Torchlight 2), also some of the rpg roguelike's Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Children of Morta, Wiz of Legend, but most important would be the Hereo's of Might and Magics. I never played those till recently and wish I had
My game I return to is a weird one. I keep returning to mgs V because each time I play a level it fell like something new. It also help with the smooth gameplay
I certainly learned divinity lore through this channel, thank you so much!!!
Mount and Blade Warband. Eventhough Bannerlord has been released the whole modding scene makes me return to Warband frequently. Baldurs Gate I & II, Neverwinter Nights, Dead Island, Stalker series, X3-Terran Conflict
it means you blinded by nostalgia
@@R3in_Ch After playing computer games over 40 years I cant deny looking back at some quality gems from the past. Then again the release of quality single player games is diminishing in favor of quick mony grabs [mobile gaming etc]. Reply again if you played over 40 years 😉
mort have you played Kingdom come deliverance? I would really appreciate your opinion of it.
As someone who found you after WoTR full launch by your extensive and informational videos on it, it's so crazy to imagine you had so many BANGERS about DOS:2! I played DOS:2 to death last year, and if only I had thought to look up some lore videos I'd have found you much sooner haha
Thank you for your content bud!
Fired up D2 Resurrected last night as a matter of fact. Good times
If you enjoy ARPGs, please give Grim Dawn a try. Would love to see your review for it.
The Skyrim total conversion mod Enderal got me playing it again. I think Enderal was amazing and imo is the best story told in a fantasy game.
Well, the most surprising one for me is Cyberpunk 2077. I have a lot of respect for you so I will add it on my 'to play eventually' list, I feel that all the other games resonate with me, so I will probably have fun. Thanks for the video!
For me: Vermintide 2. Holy crap. Iv'e put well over 2000 hours into that gem of a game and i still thinks it's superfun and the best game on my PS4.
Really enjoy these latest set of videos you’ve been putting out. For me I go back to civ 6 and ESO, plus POE.
Great video. My list of the go back to type games would be skyrim, fo4, no mans sky, d3, bl3. Havent picked up path of the righteous yet, but I feel like I dont have time. Loved Kingmaker.
Master of Orion franchise, Fallout ditto, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate2, and Elder Scrolls 4, 5 and ESO.
Given the overlap there are a few games on this list I need to check out.
2 years later your trust in Cyberpunk was proven worthwhile... it's now an AMAZING game.
Great list . For me sunset overdrive , the first dying light , oblivion , project cars , dirt rally 2.0 ,. I may stop playin them for a while but I always go Back to them .
I've been playing a lot of Zombie Army 4: Dead War. Never even heard of it until I saw it on gamepass and it's super underrated.
Cyberpunk is a damn good game. They just revealed too much stuff that ended up cut from the game.
I saw the disclaimer in the gameplay footage, but I guess a lot of people thought the disclaimer was a guarantee.
Any of the Dark Souls, Sekiro, Bloodborne and after I finally beat it, I'm sure, Elden Ring. I have played those games for a ridiculous amount of time, especially Bloodborne.
Hey man sometimes we want a high class dessert and sometimes we just want a handful of chips. I like playing fallout4 occasionally over other games to because I can just have fun doing stuff and not get to bogged down on min maxing and such.
Honestly aside from the bad way the faction stories all ended up basically the same and the stupid base building mechanics, I loved Fallout 4, but I still just love New Vegas more and so it is my go to Fallout game.
If you fools haven't given Mortismal gaming your sub whay are you doing? This guy fucking grinds! He deserves more subs!
Praise be to Lord Mortisimal, greatest of RPG players!
Why do people simp when they get here early xD
@@scalpingsnake It is not simping to present the truth? Do you know any other youtuber that 100%s games and plays RPGs nonstop? I don't. I would have gotten burnt out eons ago. I like gaming but I would begin to hate it.
I always find myself going back to Final Fantasy 12. I have probably put about 1,000 hours into the original PS2 version alone. Once I got into emulation and I found English patches for the Japanese released version with additional content, I probably ended up putting in another 400-500 just with the international zodiac job system. And now with the remaster it's just a blast going in and playing that game with a bit of a fresh coat of paint with some minor changes done. I think I in total of probably put about 2,000 hours into the game as a whole throughout some of its various versions, self imposed challenges, and a randomizer mod for the remastered version of the game.
I played 12 on the PS2 a lot. When I got the Xbox one version and saw the changes, I was concerned that I wouldn't enjoy it but I actually found it to be more fun with the limitations on the job board.
I’m so glad I found this channel.
Shoutouts to Skyrim and PoE off this list.
You can't 100% Skyrim, Todd made sure there are always fun quests to do for all eternity.
Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is my comfort space game. I’ve owned it on every system I have & still play it to this day. The combat is so engaging even by today’s standards & I love just exploring the world over & over. Very pumped they finally announced a sequel.
Oh cool, you're basically me xD
In a sense that I also still play WotR, Skyrim and F4 occasionally, plus a game from my childhood I love (in my case it's Might & Magic 6-8).
Games are entertainment. And there's nothing wrong with a guilty pleasure game, anymore than there is enjoying a B movie for simple, unpretentious fun it is.
For me, I can never escape Football Manager, Stellaris, XCom2, the Pathfinder games, or Battletech.
Diablo II was my first AAA game I had. I loved that game so much! :3
I started playing d2 for real when i was 12 back in 2012 and have played it every year since then
For me, its:
1) Warhammer Total War series
2) Xenonauts (X-Com)
3) 7 Days to Die
4) Axis & Allies (because it's so hard to find time and people for in-person)
5) Grim Dawn (ARPG)
6) Warlock 2
7) Rebuild games
I can tell we're both going to be playing the hell out Starfield when it comes out.
skyrim ages like wine with mods
Games I still crank up after all these years...
Privateer 1 - yes the old space game from Origin.
Wolfenstein New Order and Old Blood, just when I want to get in a little shoot em up, sometimes on easy and sometimes on hard.
Age of Empires II (2013)
Kingdom Come Deliverance
Kerbal Space Program
Last but not least - Everquest. Still playing it after all these years.
That's about it
I wish I still had motivation to play games. I still find them to be as fun as I always used to but now whenever I start a game up I just lose all motivation and end up just closing the game after a few minutes. Most days I do nothing with my free time beyond sitting down, don't even watch tv or movies anymore. I think my brain is just burned out on having "fun".
fun list to read.
For me the games I come back to again and again are:
Baldurs Gates (even dragonspear since its release, but it used to be something of a yearly tradition to play through the originals, eventually using the old BGT mod when that was made.
Mass Effects (though i played andromeda just once)
Elder Scrolls 3 and 5 (I love morrowinds vibes and with mods it looks quite pretty, mechanics got a bit dated, I love skyrim but miss the RPG elements, cant wait for skywind)
XCOM (i think 2 was overall a better game, but I love 1)
Witcher series (All 3, I loved them all for their own reasons, though I ususally use "rise of the white wolf" for the 1st one now)
As I've gotten older and have a family and job etc, I no longer really get to play games much so playing anything more than once is a luxury I rarely have. I'll absolutely go back to cyberpunk at some point, I loved it, even if it wasn't what was promised, even if there were issues, I still loved it.
I love Night City. Feels like home. Nice list
To me, its the crusader kings series, even at 100%, i keep coming back
Wotr is such a good game, might be my favorite ever
Fallout 4, Left 4 Dead 2, Skyrim, Subnautica, Darkest Dungeon, Age of Empires 2 and 3
Pillars 2 is so amazing I can keep going back over and over from 0 and not be bored , always find new stuff I missed on prior runs, but I always dread ending it, I don't know what it is, but it wrecks me!
Don't you struggle remembering how the games were like every time you go back to them after certain amount of time? Because I do, I usually need up to 30 minutes to remember the controls and the basic strategy, unless it's a simple platformer or something like that.
I might forget a few keys here or there but generally no
Dragon Age and Mass Effect --- I don't WANT to keep playing them over and over, but the state of the gaming industry pretty much leads me back to them over and over. I would have added Elder Scrolls, but I'm done with those games until ES VI comes out.
I understand why there's so much hate for Fallout 4. They went from RPG to shooter. But it's still really fun. I hope they can bring back the RPG elements while maintaining the improved gameplay in the future.
XCOM 2 Long War of the Chosen - the mod has entered 1.0 version on Steam Workshop - I wonder if Mort would like to try it out, probably not 100% but just for initial impressions.
Quality of life mods like Overwatch/Evac All should still work, and if you're tired of the timed stealth/missions the Resistance Ring facility lets you pick the "Infiltrate" reaper order so timers don't start until you are spotted - under Advanced Options for the game difficulty you can also enable Time Turner so any mission timers are doubled. Ironman to prevent save scumming :D
Yes, to all those games! Any Heroes of might and magic love, here? I keep going back to H3, since it was released (no mods) and I still find new fresh ways to go about it.
IM so glad to hear that someone else still likes Cyberpunk 2077. Its such a good game, in a similar vein to Fallout 4 really. Gets lots of hate, but when you let all that melt away and just get into play its SO DAMN GOOD.
It took a ton of fiddling to get running and performing on Windows 10 and 11, but Red Alert 2 is my go-to comfort game... still holding out for a HD remaster.
Every year or so I also get an urge to revisit FF9 and/or FFX.
I still touch the below average Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint after 1500hrs.
The 2 games that i always come back to are diablo 2(resurrected) and Rimworld. Hell, i love those 2 to death and probly playing these for next 20 years lol
i keep playing fallout 4, elder scrolls skyrim, and the dead island games, i love to play them over and over. o and the very first tomb raider for nostalgia also final fantasy 7 the orginal. and i know i will play cyberpunk 2077 too a lottttt.
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, I just love the combat and skill system. Medieval Total War 2, just the combat and mods keep me playing.
It is Grim Dawn for me! When I have time and not have a exciting new game to play, I always return to it for e new hardcore build or some endgame stuff to push on.
Even if I make it to 90 I'll still be down to spend 30 more hours in KOTOR and play Revan's storyline all over again.
I still enjoy Cyberpunk too. It is just fun to play and many of the characters are fun to revisit.
My favourite games are pretty much all that type of rpg though. I’d have the ones I always return to as Dragon Age Origins, Kotor 1/2/swtor, the Mass Effect trilogy, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk and DOS2.
Cyberpunk 1.5 is a really great game. Not without flaws of course but still so much fun.
The only thing I didnt like is that it's not an rpg like they claimed
@@noctiuagus1369 In what fasion is it not rpg?
@@randomfcounter1930 In that your decisions don't matter. The player isn't responsible for anything that happens in the story, except when choosing the ending.
I like Warhammer Inquisitor Martyr.
For me it's Planescape: Torment, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Icewind Dale 1&2, Divinity: Original Sin 1&2.
Yep three of these I also return to, thank you.
I finally got Cyberpunk for Christmas but yet to play it, does look cooll just way to many games, will play eventually
My 7 comfort games:
1) Diablo 2
2)Factorio
3)Rimworld
4)Warhammer Total war game series
5)Shogun 2 total war
6)Tekken 7
7)Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous
So many good games...So little time :'(
Even now in 2024, nothing beats TES and Fallout. Most of their entries would never be considered great rpgs, by me, but they're good enough in that regard and excel in gameplay and exploration. They aren't the best, but they feel like home. And home is the best.
Ngl I was shocked when you said Skyrim and Fallout 4
For me, Resident Evil 4. I own it on all my consoles. It’s like a ritual for some reason. I have to beat it on each platform. My 100% was unapologetically GameCube.
The exploration and gunplay of fallout 4 are very enjoyable
I play POE2 at least once a year since its release. I can't understand the sales failure of this game, in my opinion, it is superior to the first one in everything. Unfortunately, POE3 is not in Obisidian's plans and that is very sad.
Well, I can't speak to POE2, but I tried POE1 and I couldn't really engage with the combat. The real-time with pause combat isn't my cup of tea. I had the same issue with Tyranny.
I also felt the fantasy world felt a little bit generic with POE1, like they went the 'safe' route. Tyranny was better in that respect.
That said, I might give POE another shot one day. Have to finish Pathfinder first. Which might be difficult as I'm having fun with Skyrim at the moment. Ugh.
I don't actively go for 100%s, these are just a few games I find myself continually or perennially playing over the years.
I come back to Skyrim occasionally, but never stay too long with it simply because I don't like its systems and design all that much compared to its predecessors. I'm more likely to go back to Oblivion, Morrowind or even Daggerfall.
Divinity: Original Sin 2, whether to play it solo or co-op.
The Sims 3 is probably my most played game of all time, though I think I've finally ran out of things to do in it. 9 years of playing it ain't bad though.
Fallout and Arx Fatalis aren't similar games, but I lump them into the same category of 'highly-atmospheric RPGs that don't overstay their welcome and which I enjoy returning to every few years'
Legend of Grimrock 2, even if by now I can remember a fair chunk of the puzzles there's always a secret or two I've never seen- or simply forgotten about- and there's a good variety of potential party compositions so it's another one I return to. It helps that there's a respectable handful of full-length player-made dungeons for it as well.
And traditional roguelikes, Caves of Qud and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in particular with an honorable mention for Tales of May'Eyal
I started playing Cyberpunk again after the Anime came out, and hearing they patched it a lot. Is it the game that was promised to us? Or at least what Impression they gave us it would be? No, but after getting over that and knowing it's a not a Skyrim meets Cyberpunk, I quite enjoy it now. I do hope that if they make another Cyberpunk game, that they truly go the Skyrim route, open world and do what ever you like, join different factions that actually are factions and not just subquests. I wanted to be a corpo rat but you really can't be one beside the intro of the game, that is it. I want to work my way up the corporate chain, do shaddy stuff or become a corpo enforcer. I want to be able to join the police. I want to be able to just leave the main story for what it is and have great adventures as the faction I have chosen to join, like in Oblivion were I completely ditched the main story and just became a mage, working my way up the mage guild. Or like in Fallout New Vegas were I joined the rangers and played the game as a Ranger instead of the main story.
Still, I have began to enjoy the game for what it is and don't regret my purchase anymore.
A video on your favorite Skyrim/ Fallout 4 mods would probably be cool!