Cyberpunk 2077 is that comfort game that i always end up going back to every couple of weeks just to play for an hour or two to relax. I don't even do any of the quests, fights or anything, i just drive around nightcity listening to music before go to sleep. Something about that game and its ambience just makes me want to keep going back, i am excited to see how good gta 6 is, so i can do the same with that game when it comes out.
Oh yeah,me on my Kusanagi Peacekeeper listening to "Kill the Messenger" on Radio Vexelstrom while riding around the streets of Night City,fullfilling contracts...
Cyberpunk 2077 is my favorite video game open world maybe ever. Night City is just the most beautiful video game city I have ever been in and the aesthetic feeling and vibe of that city is just special to me. Edgerunners made me love it even more which I didn't even think was possible.
that's interesting. I've played the game 3 times since launch and think it's a fantastic 9/10 but I can't replay it more than once a year. too limited RPG wise and the world is pretty but dead
I wish I could get into Warhammer 3. Used to love the total war games, but in Warhammer it feels like brown blob against slightly less brown blob and if you don't look at the banners you can't tell what's happening.
Any tips for getting into warhammer 3 I suck badly and loose sense of direction and what objectives to pursuit after a couple of turns and random pop up enemy armies like the beastman drive me crazy have a great day thank you
@@naveenbabu5125 play on easier difficulty and play easy/simple factions to get the hang of the game. In wh3 i would recommend Cathay. If you have access to previous game faction, high elf is straight forward and powerful. Once you feel familiar with basic mechanics move on to more complicated faction and dangerous location. Oh and play immortal empire so you dont have to deal with events and can just learn with the sandbox.
@@naveenbabu5125 Just watch beginner guides.. trust me it will help you. I am sucker for Total war games. My 1st total war was warhammer 2. Didn't understand a thing. Then I watched some beginners tip now I can't stop playing this series of games
OMG, Mort is human. Actually good to see that you still enjoy gaming. When you make a living at something it's very easy to get jaded with it no matter how much you loved it at the start. After gaming since my early teens (I'm currently 66) and thru a lifetime of ups and downs gaming has always been there for me. As for the games I always come back to Skyrim is on my list along with Oblivion. So is Xcom (both EU and WotC), Borderlands (2 mostly), the Mass Effect trilogy (I've played thru that at least a dozen times), Romance of the Three Kingdoms in all it's various releases (I have to admit I find that bit of history fascinating) and I've played all the Assassins Creed games pretty much to death and then some (currently finishing replaying the entire franchise, on Valhalla). Good vid
You sir, are a man of culture. Thanks for posting. I myself are playing Borderlands 2 for the third time. I'll also return to Skyrim and Mass Effect. Need to get into Romance of the Three Kingdoms, always wanted to play it.
@@rhalegi99 In the 70's. First game we saw was the original Pong. Two plays for a dime in the coffee shop near my home. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I remember we used to lock up the little white "ball" and then watch it go for a few minutes. Gaming has advanced a bit since then.
@@purehearted7249 to be clear it's called "Death of the Outsider" a fairly short one tho and it is the third "Dishonored" game after the sequel with a whole new set of fun abilities
3:58 "nobodies exactly waiting for word on skyrim" I personally love skyrim analysis and retrospective reviews. I know that game inside and out, and even though I don't play it as often as I used to, I still know all of the nuances, quest breaks, npc's (yes all of them) and all of the little things that made that game what it is. It's something I can put on in the background and listen to for hours and hours.
The other beauty is you can mod it to death. Even on console. It's not only a game you can sink into, it's a game you can remould into so many other things.
That city is just so amazingly done that i just love to jump into the game and walk or drive around in it. Finished it before the overhaul, now playing with all the new stuff, completely new game but such a great experience.
Bethesda Game Studios titles are forever in my rotation. Every year for the past 15-20 years I do a playthrough of at least one of their titles. Last year I did Morrowind & Skyrim, the year before it was Enderal (shout out to SureAI) & F4 and this year it was Daggerfall and a completionist Starfield playthrough. They are just my comfort games. And while objectively they might not be perfect (no games are I suppose), they just have this unique "spark" for a lack of a better word that just keep me engaged. And most of the time I can find at least 1 thing, big or small that I haven't seen in a previous playthrough. I only use bug-fixing/stability mods and keep them as much vanilla as possible as well.
Yeah. A lot of people hate Starfield and that's fine. I'm not blind and can see there are issues with the game. But I can't lie either, I like it. It's fun, I don't always mind the emptiness and I enjoy the time I've put into the game. When the DLC comes out, I'll do another full playthrough.
Honestly... 1) Ghost Recon: Wildlands (pure comfort for me nowadays, end up creating scenarios in my head to mess around with) 2) Dragons Dogma (I own this on every console I can and will happily jump in and create a new character and just enjoy the combat and the fun of the jank) 3) Hollow Knight (for the fun of the challenge)
Ghost Recon: Wildlands is one of 3 games I can recall playing more than once. It's awesome. Love the writing (script and plot), the VO, and that it is based on somewhere REAL where I've visited and the little cultural collectibles [apology items] were great. Didn't bother with the next one, had none of the features I liked.
@@sodapopinksi667 Yeah, I can get behind that. I actually like what Mort and others disparagingly [and accurately, tbf] call the "checklist games"--map icons and world-view icons appreciated. Recent Ubi stuff unattractiveness is not really about the gameplay recipe they systematically apply but other things.
Comfort games I’ve 100% but still play: Bloodborne Baldurs Gate 3 Resident Evil (1/2 remakes) Monster Hunter Worlds Witcher 3 Sekiro Lies of P Max Payne 3 GTA IV
It's always nice seeing someone else enjoy Starfield, since it's easy to feel like the only person in the world that doesn't hate it with all the jokes and anti-hype around the game. It's not my favorite by any means, but I find it comfortable to jump into and play for a while every now and then. It's the oatmeal of gaming, satisfying and filling but not a flavor explosion or anything.
"Oatmeal of gaming" is the absolute best description I've seen of Starfield. Sometimes I need that comforting Bethesda jank as a palate cleanser between more engaging games.
Unfortunately you're in the great majority of people that are willing to accept terrible game quality. Which is why the gaming industry sucks now. Normal people want a game that's made with actual love and passion, and so we avoid Bethesda like the plague 😊
@@theincrediblefella7984 Or maybe people just have different opinions, don't consider Starfield terrible at all and not liking one game doesn't make you better (or smarter) than anyone else.
I'm currently obsessed with Wrath of the Righteous, loving a second playthrough, and at this stage am planning on at least a few more playthroughs for the mythic paths and slowly upping the difficulty and complexity each time - and it's completely down to this channel. I absolutely would not have overcome the barriers to entry for that game if it hadn't been for being a fan of this channel, and I'm so glad I did. (I found myself continually wishing that there were more of your build guides though, because I found them the most useful of anyone's by a considerable distance to learn the ropes with.) So thank you for making that one of these games for me (well, one day). I also feel you about Starfield, strangely enough. I haven't played it in a while, but it's an easy game to jump back into in that TV-show-you've-seen-before sense and go shoot some stuff up. It might be time for a reinstall soon....when I eventually get to putting down WOTR. And VTMB is the next one on my "games I really ought to get over their barriers to entry and have a go at" list.
Something about Bethesda games, that I keep going back to despite having seen most there is to see, often at the expense of not starting many yet unplayed games in my library.
I want to warn you about something. Grim Dawn is massive as far as 100 percenting. I know you are a beast and kill these things like some monster from a different dimension, but You might want to get a head start. The dlc always comes after the base game anyway. So each DLC adds to the end game.
I doubt he’s actually gonna 100% it, 100% on grim dawn is pretty subjective anyway but getting all recipes and all the legendary monster infrequents just takes way too long, I’m talking 100s of hours of grinding
@@esoessify I don’t doubt him. The man is gets insanely focused. And the real reason is that I think grim dawn is fun even when you are going for the 💯 and I watch morti play games that are not fun with that focus.
Starfield is definitely a comfort food of mine at the moment. I fell off of my BG3 playthrough on the road to Act III because Act II was such a slog and my Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty playthrough stagnated when the recently implemented level scaling made stat based conversation choices ridiculous, locking me out of some of my favorite quest outcomes because I didn't min/max my character for that particular stat. Regarding Starfields flaws, for anyone else underwhelmed by the exploration aspect of it, I would strongly recommend checking out the "Desolation" POI mod available both on the Nexus and Creations menu. While it doesn't "fix" POI generation perfectly, it goes a LOOONG way to making the things you find on planets much more intuitive and somewhat more varied/unique feeling. Inhospitable planets outside the core no longer have all sorts of human settlements for example, and on settled planets the generation makes them feel more inhabited with fewer immediately repeating "dungeons".
I still play Starfield and find it fairly relaxing. Something about the grand music and vistas, and "NASA-punk" aesthetic is a comfort. I also replay Dark Souls 1 just because I know it so well that I can beat it without a lot of effort and find it nostalgic. For some games, they're like a good book where I just want to visit their world for an escape.
I liked Starfield despite the backlash. I didn’t have high expectations for it though which is maybe why I liked it so much. Also love the nasa punk aesthetic
@@mattc7420 At some point I may buy starfield if the mod community gets really rolling, or they make it good. I was so happy I didn't get it on launch though.
I am so glad that I'm not the only one that still plays Vampire the Masquerade at times. That game was so glitchy, but so different and fun when it came out. I am hoping someone eventually goes back and releases some new World of Darkness titles (I'd love to see a Hunter: The Reckoning).
I’m glad you mentioned Starfield. I just built my first PC a few months ago and have been wanting to play Starfield. I’m not a very critical person and can have fun with just about any game so I’m sure I’ll love Starfield.
You’ll love it. The vanilla game is good, but since you’re on pc I highly recommend installing some of the vanilla+ QoL mods from nexus, they turn a good game into an amazing one IMO.
I bought Borderlands Pandora box today (basically all the games and DLCs except for one particular game called Anita's Wonderland's). Will start the games after my exams.
Destiny 2 is mine. Weapons drop with random perks and always looking for that “better” drop, redoing content over and over again - with something new every month or so.
Fully modded SkyrimVR is the closest thing we currently have to that whole "live your life in a VR fantasy world" thing that we've been promised for so long in stories and anime.
Yes! This. Fully modded Skyrim VR is jaw droppingly immersive! I've played games where I just want to do "one more thing" and end up playing for hours but modded SkyrimVR is like some weird time vortex in a good way. I feel like I've played for 20 minutes and take my headset off and it's been 2 hours. It is amazing
@@forreal5331 Mad Gods is fine. You could just not wiggle, and roleplay the melee a bit? There's also some ini settings somewhere (PLANCK?) that set a cooldown on melee hits, if you want to force it. You can break Skyrim in so many ways if you choose (eg. stealth archer), so what's one more thing to avoid? I also run FUS and Tahrovin, in addition to Mad Gods, but overall they all use similar melee mods. If you want detailed VR melee then you play something like Blade and Sorcery or Legendary Tales. SkyrimVR is for "living your life in a fantasy world", hahah.
I often come back to Skyrim, Elden Ring or Cyberpunk 2077. But the only game I've never uninstalled and always come back to is Guild Wars 2. It's probably my most played game of all time. There's just no other game like it. Sure, there are multiple MMOs to choose from, but nothing compares to Guild Wars 2.
A game that I make a new run in once a month would be Rimworld. Bought it during the beta and have been playing it consistently. And it can be played in a ton of different ways as well, either as a peaceful basebuilder or as a pretty hardcore and deep RTS with the NoPause mod. BattleTech is another one that I keep coming back to this last year. The career mode specifically. Cyberpunk also gets some screentime most weeks. I start a new Solasta campaign pretty regularly too. And, outside of singleplayer experiences, Warframe is probably my most played game and I log in for at least a quick fifteen minute run every day.
6:55 Yeah. I know how it is. So many systems in this game that I have serious problems with and I still play it and constantly following Nexus for the latest mods... For me, Stardew Valley is my current comfort game. It's my "one more turn" game, for the moment.
It’s funny as soon as he said Skyrim I knew that it was a comfort game for me that I think of all the time but rarely play now. But the game that I installed at all times on each hard drive with different mods is BattleTech I cannot help but restart a play through whenever I get the time. I think it’s the randomness of the start and the diversity between each sort of start whether you play clans or tanks or your favourite house. Its just the real struggle for the first few contracts, will I live will I have to swap out people will I have to throw away a mech because I can’t afford to repair them. It just hooks me and every time .
hey man just want to leave a quick comment saying i really appreciate your work. me and my friend always get super excited whenever you drop your opinion or views on a game. thank you man
Games that I always go back to are: - Darksiders 2 (Just started a playthrough recently) - X-Com 2 (In the middle of setting up mods) - Skyrim or Fallout New Vegas - Vampire: Bloodlines
Love your choices, especially Skyrim. I've pumped thousands of hours into every flavor of Skyrim imaginable over the years. It's like ASMR for me. Hearing good things about the new paid mod, Bards College stuff, and while I don't like or agree with mods being a paid thing, my 'virtue' is not going to get in the way if a good thing comes to Skyrim. Definitely my favorite comfort game over the years, and others that don't leave my hard drive would be XCOM 2, Elden Ring, and BG3.
Skyrim is one of the comfort games I go back to time and again over the years. It is relaxing to post up somewhere and enjoy the nights in the temperate zones like Whiterun or The Rift. I've done quite a few playthroughs of the Borderlands games as well. They're games that are easy to pick up and play for a bit.
Skyrim is the one game I never stopped playing but because of all the mods it still gets to this day. If you like vanilla Skyrim that much, I think if you install one of those mod megapacks it will blow your mind.
To me it's Diablo 2, AC 2-Brotherhood-Origins-Odyssey, and nowadays BG3. I’ve replayed ACII and Brotherhood the most, but I’ve spent the most time in Odyssey and consider Origins to be the best in the series. I know these games are very simple compared to Dio2 and BG3, but the atmosphere, nostalgia and storytelling are just too amazing. Diablo 2 always becomes an obsession when I start playing it, so I’m very careful with that. (For the same reason, I will never pick up WoW again-especially as a family man.)
Great list with every one of them being games i have played heavily especially THE ELDER SCROLLS V SKYRIM and every ELDER SCROLLS rpg since ARENA along with PATHFINDER WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS which was the first to deliver tabletop gaming to the digital realm the way i always imagined it to be in every way followed by BALDUR'S GATE III. As for comfort games i play almost every day WARHAMMER 40,000 GLADIUS: RELICS OF WAR- 763 hours, BATTLETECH- 972 hours, FALLOUT 4- 1,579 hours, DYING LIGHT- 359 hours and many many more especially horror games like THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT and INFLICTION as well as war games such as AGE OF WONDER PLANET FALL, PANZER CORPS 2, STELLARIS, ORDER OF BATTLE, every WARHAMMER 40,000 game from SLITHERINE, action games like TERMINATOR RESISTANCE, ROBOCOP ROGUE CITY and of course STARFIELD which i really wish i could find more time to play. Looking forward to the STARFIELD DLC as well as the release of ZEPHON by PROXY who created WARHAMMER 40,000 GLADIUS: RELICS OF WAR. Thanks for the great video and putting it out there what great games are available to be enjoyed with near infinite replay value ☕
My list: Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 and 12 Morrowind Skyrim Castlevania Symphony of the Night Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Parasite Eve 1 Sim City 4 I will replay these games forever! That is the truth...
1. Front mission 4 2. Arcanum 3. Ogre Battle 4. Final Fantasy Tactics 5. Tactics Ogre 6. Shadow Run (all of them) 7. The Final Fantasy series (up to 12, nothing after 12) I love tactical RPG's. Problem is I've played contemporary games like Wasteland 3 and... I hate it. The story does nothing for me, and I can't get into a game that has a story that doesn't interest me, I find this to be a common problem with games made recently...
Skyrim is my comfort game too. My first character on Xbox 360 had almost 500 hours and I can only guess how many hours I've spent in total over all platforms, modded and unmodded. Might be over 3000 hours. Just recently started a new run. Fun fact: I've finished the main story only once. Previously my go-to game was Fallout 2 which is the oldest boxed copy I have still.
Solasta is mine. For all the mechanical complexity of the pathfinder games and the graphical awesomeness of BG3, playing through a simpler 5E adventure with well implemented combat works for me. Plus, the way spider climb is implemented is a total blast. Oh, and the Solasta battle cleric class always amuses me for some reason because it’s so OP compared to everything else in the game - it’s basically a cleric/paladin/wizard, but it’s one class 😆 A cleric that doesn’t need a free hand to cast, can use martial weapons, can divine smite, can cast fireballs, has extra attacks, oh and has paladin auras as well.
Oh? I haven't tried that, but maybe I should. When it comes to casting spells, even though DMs hate it when you point this out, according to the rules as written it is a free action to drop your weapon while one of the examples for your free object interaction during a turn is explicitly stated to be picking up a dropped weapon. In short, you're allowed to drop a weapon, cast your spell, and pick it up; at least during your turn.
@@gr1mgr1n No, it wouldn't. You get one free object interaction per turn, and picking up a dropped weapon is explicitly stated as an example. Letting something go is a truly free action. RAW you do both on your turn so long as you don't interact with other objects, such as doors. I get a DM's instinct to go, "No! Not in MY game!" But it works RAW.
@@gr1mgr1n They're two distinct things. The "free object interaction per turn" is separate from letting something go. Letting go is specifically cited as a free action. The whole thing about casting really just matters when physical shields are involved. Those specifically say that the tie up the hand involved and take a full Action to either don or doff. It's the same thing as to how a "two handed" weapon only needs both hands at the specific moment of attacking. You're completely free to let go with one hand and use it for anything else. E.g. a Monk using a Spear as a Monk Weapon can make unarmed strikes alongside the spear strike, because they can let go with one hand and have it available for other things. Anyway, you can still say you disagree, but it goes against the rules of 5th edition. That said, maybe WotC will change things with their 2024 update(sort of a 5.5e for D&D).
I feel that with Skyrim. Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, but I definitely have hours in Skyrim across the 360, ps3, switch, and PC. But with mods it is infinitely more replayable and comfortable than any other game as a chill, casual experience. Definitely recommend falling into the modding rabbit hole someday; you will regret it in the best way possible! I played WildTangent's Fate as a kid, but Skyrim is what really got me into RPGs. It will always be a game I return to at least once a year.
already being able to play games as a job must be nice 😶 also the feeling while playing must be completely different knowing you not "wasting" time but you are actually can focus because its your job, must be great.
@@maxmuller6730 It's a bit of a double-edge sword. While playing these games he needs to: take notes on what he does in the game (mechanics, plot etc.), write a script, record footage sometimes dozens of hours of it, then record voice-overs... and sometimes you play a game you absolutely hate but yet since it's your job you need to finish it and in his case 100% it which is mind-boggling to me. I'd hate video games if I had to 100% them on the regular.
I'm a developer, and sometimes after a bad day solving a really annoying bug I'll relax by contributing to some open source project. I got into programming because I enjoy doing it, so I can see how he doesn't get burnt out playing games.
Most days I only have the time and mental energy for roguelikes I've beaten into an unconscious formula like Vampire Survivors or Slay The Spire. But when I have a bit more time/energy I go back to two strategy games - Stellaris and Total War Warhammer 3. When I really want to invest across many game sessions then I go to my CRPGs of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, Pathfinder Kingmaker/WOTR, etc. If I put those down too long I forget the story thread and the feeling of attachment to my character's state.
Really great idea for a video! Especially as so many of us feel like seeking 100% can ruin it for us in future playthroughs. If anyone can answer this well, then you’re the guy. (Dealing with family crises so haven’t been able to game much either, glad to hear you’ve got an active family life alongside your platform! Can’t wait to get back and resume my Path of Exile playthrough 😅) Keep up the amazing work Mort!
Factorio, Subnautica, Stardew Valley, Skyrim. Ones that is not often but occasionally (meaning I will never uninstall them): The Sims 3, DQ Builders 2, Fallout New Vegas. Cyperpunk 2077 might be added to that list. If the DLC expansions for Starfield shows a sign of improvement, that too might be added.
Nice to hear that you still have time to play games for enjoyment. And since you asked, here are those games that feel like comfortable old shoes to me: (1) Dishonored 2. Both 1 and 2, actually, but Emily is one of my favorite game protagonists, and the gameplay fits my preferences perfectly. (2) Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2. I never get tired of the story of POE1, of which I was a major backer so there's that factor as well, and POE2's well-realized world. (3) Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I used to like its story better than WotR's but that appears to be changing right now as I'm replaying that latter game. In any case, one of the two will remain. Honorable mention for games I haven't played within one year but will return to eventually: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Baldur's Gate (all of them) and Spellforce The Order of Dawn including its expansions, a very old and mechanically not very good game from 2004 which I return to for very specific reasons.
These are the ones I'm currently still playing: 1. Baldur's Gate 3 (though I create a lot of characters that I just don't end up finishing the game with). 2. Starfield. 3. Skyrim. 4. Fallout 4. 5. Red Dead Redemption 2. I've started playing Total War Pharaoh: Dynasties, which is really good (and finally a proper Bronze Age game), but it's a new release so I haven't finished it yet. I don't think I'll keep playing it forever, though, I'm burned out on Total War battles. I'm also playing Elden Ring when I feel like but I'm nowhere near finishing it (and I don't think it'll become a "forever game" for me).
Thanks for the video, its great to hear that you have some time to enjoy games rather than to just review them. Personally, my comfort game is pretty divergent from the games I usually play, crpgs and survival games mostly. I always find myself going back to Sid Miers Railroads. It is very laid back, no pressure, and just plain fun.
For me it is Deadfire, WOTR, would be BG3 but taking a break from it until the big patch. Every now and then I too fire up VTMB as well as Tyranny and fantasise about the sequel that will never come.I have over 6K hours in Skyrim but have not played it in over a year. I may have reached my limit on it but part of it is that I cannot play it unmodded and modding for the most part is a pain, especially with hundreds of mods so my 6K stat might stay that way until the Hammerfell ES comes out but I am not young so I might also be dead by then.
Gothic 2 and New Balance mod is my comfort zone, each playthough takes 300h. I have occasionally stopped at about 200h mark where I know rest will be a steam roll / not particularly interesting upgrade wise. It's incredible and Gothic as a whole is just infinitely replayable.
My comfort food games are Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Skyrim/Oblivion(I'll get a craving for either pretty often) and a new addition is Dragon's Crown for the PS4/Vita, it combines two of my favorite things in the world, ARPG grind systems plus beat em up mechanics, and the cherry on top? Fantastically hand drawn art.
Gothic II. I have played through it so many times since it was launched and I can just keep on replaying it. Sometimes I finish the entire game, sometimes I just do Acts 1-2. It's the ultimate comfort game for me.
Ahhhhhhhhh, yes. Skyrim. Probably my all time favorite game. I've owned way too many copies on various platforms. I've put 100s of hours into this game. And, call me a psycho, but to this day I always play vanilla. Not that I have anything against mods. But Skyrim has such a nostalgic power for me, that I dont wanna change it in any way.
Slay the Spire is my comfort game... though I'm actually not good enough to 100% it. Still have hundreds of hours in it and always have a good time even while losing.
Love the Starfield shoutout. One of my permanently installed games is Dysmantle. Great pick-up-and-play factor coupled with TONS of questlines & locations.
I play Starfield in basically the exact same manner. Building ships and surveying planets. The latter is not something I'd claim to be engaging, or even particularly fun, but to me it has a medative quality. As for comfort games, that would be the good old Command and Conquer games. RA2, TibSun, and C&C3 in particular.
I think games today are overly complicated. Way too many systems and mechanics to keep track of. Games just takes forever these days. the tutorials alone can take up hours in certain games.. That is why I tend to stay with indie games, as they are made in the same way as AAA games was made back in the 90s. Simple, easy to understand, can be played in shorter bursts, and they are often not really meant to be completed.. So, there's no real pressure of having to get back into and complete the story mode, so it's a more relaxing relation ship I have with those games.. Example.. I've started on Spiderman 2 with my son, we played maybe 4-5 hours, and it has been a few weeks now. And I'm already starting to pressure the kid "we have to play it again soon", or we will forget the controls, we will forget the abilities we have unlocked, and we will forget what happened in the story, so there's already now a pressure that we need to get back to it soon... I don't think that is healthy at all..
Mine are Total Warhammer 3, Street Fighter 6, Hades, DOS2, Final Fantasy Tactics and replaying the Halo trilogy. I feel the same with BG3 as you but I also like the combat of DOS2 more. Pillars of Eternity and TF2 would have been on here a few years ago as well
My comfort games are (or atleast the games I always come back to most often) - Slay the Spire - Risk of Rain 2 - Titanfall 2 - Skyrim - Dark Souls 3 - Halo MCC with new mods
Modding and playing Skyrim has been my biggest gaming experience for sure, TW series are easy to come back to, Dawn of War, Borderlands, ESO and Battlefield are all franchises/games i come regularly back to, some pokemon rom on emulator about once every two years when i take a couple weeks off work and buy some weed.
I'd love if you could review Enderal! It's made from skyrim's engine in a world new world, with amazing dark narrative and characters. It's my favourite game hands down. Never had another game making me feel the feelings I felt while playing it. There are faction quests, romanceable characters... Just amazing.
I always for over 10 yrs have 2 games installed, Grim Dawn (though never 100%) and Stalker, though I upgraded to Stalker Gamma which is an incredible mod last yr. Like you, always just are easy to jump in and get that fix for games you love.
For a loooong time, World of Warcraft was my comfort game. If we exclude MMOs though, there has never really been a specific game but rather a genre. Tower Defense games are my brain's happy place.
I think I beat every Kingdom Rush game at least a few times. I'm still waiting for Defender's Quest 2. I know people play Bloons for 1000s of hours but I haven't tried it yet.
I feel you heavy on alot of this. I was also someone who really liked Starfield and never really stopped playing it like that. I don't have much space on my laptop so sometimes I have to uninstall games that I'm not playing at the moment. I'd say *content* wise I really only focus on 3 games right now. Stellaris Street Fighter 6 EVE Online (taking a bit of an extended break though) However like getting home from work comfort wise Star Traders Stellaris Street Fighter 6 XCOM 2 Starfield (unmodded) Fallout 4 (unmodded) Fallout 76 No Mans Sky Foxhole I REALLY want to eventually finish Wrath of the Righteous but its hard :/ maybe one day I will go back to it honestly. I told myself from a money perspective that I wouldn't buy another cRPG until I beat Wrath of Righteous.
Awesome list! For myself I would add Mass Effect trilogy, another “tv show” style game for me. And a pack of strategy games: Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Civilization 5 and 6, Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris and more.
Those are mighty good reasons not having spare time. Altough they can be considered spare time, if you enjoy it. That amount we deducted from your overtime payroll, so actually you now owe us. (the story above reminds you of your old work, and how much better it is now)
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, and Heroes of Might and Magic III. I always go back to those over and over again. Even after the newer titles, such as AoW 4, which... just made me want to go and play Shadow Magic again. Over twenty years old, and still just as good as the day they released.
For me it's the Mass Effect Legendary Trilogy. It's like rewatching a good old tv show. I still hope that HBO picks it up and makes a series out of the Mass Effect world.
I'm currently doing an Azata run through WOTR and I forgot how much I love the game. The pathfinder system is so crunchy and tactical in the CRPG format, and I love it.
My comfort games: Age of empires series, Left 4 Dead 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Dark Souls 1 and 3, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, Super Metroid, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Streets of Rage 1 and 2, Castlevania SotN, Ghouls and Ghosts, Super Mario Galaxy, Darkest Dungeon, Subnautica,Tony Hawk 2.
Since you asked about comfort games, here's one random person on the web's list: Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2. Still good after almost 30 years and damn does that make me feel old. Skyrim, since I'm addicted to modding, and it's great in VR with mods. Starbound. Originally was pretty bad, but the modding community has turned it kind of incredible and is somehow still surprisingly active. Like, we just got an open-source version of the game, a planet generation and hazard overhaul, and a very nice new mechanic/QoL feature in a "planet searching" tool added in the last year or so. Kingdom Under Fire The Crusades and its Heroes expansion/sequel. Old, the translation's rough, and the port's not the best by any means, but still one of my favorite RTS games, and I wish more developers made games with a system like it. Simple to learn, but damn did it get hectic once you got into it.
Cool video. I find myself always coming back to the same games too. Mass Effect trilogy (usually end up playing the first two and never finishing the third though...) Bloodborne, Elden Ring and Doom 1, 2 and Doom 2016.
Skyrim is by no means my favourite game, not even in the top 20, but I have thousands of hours played, 99% of which come from playing with overhaul mods. I do not know what the vanilla talent trees contain because I used SkyRe pretty much immediately after realising I simply do not like vanilla Skyrim. Nowadays, I've modded it with MCO and it plays more like dark souls than skyrim, I have a mod that completely reworks all the dungeons to be about 4 times bigger, Morrowloot overhauls most of the game, couple of different mods overhaul the perk trees, and generally almost no system in the entire game works the way it does out of the box. Everything from Smithing and Gathering ingredients to how the magic system is different. It's an absolutely amazing sandbox for modders, but the fact that I feel the need to mod the game so extensively to enjoy it kinda speaks volumes of how I feel about the game itself, and no amount of modding fixes the shit main story.
My comfort game is HOMM 5. Yes, I know, I like the 3rd one, too, it was my first HOMM, but there's just something about the design and animations of the troops in the 5th one that really scratches an itch in my brain. So full of life. And the town screen panning around synced to orchestral music!
One of my comfort games I know inside and out and always seem to come back to eventually is 7 Days to Die. I'll play until the late game, get all the best gear, solve all the horde night problems, and eventually set it down, only to come back to it months later and do it again, sometimes with friends. It's a surprisingly good game these days; the skill system is my favorite of all the survival games I've played.
Skyrim and Starfield are classics in my rotation too. Fallout New Vegas, Baldur's Gate *2*, and Sins of a Solar Empire are other games I always come back to eventually. I've been playing Sins, for instance, since it released. I own a physical copy even, bought when it was new from a Fry's Electronics in Dallas, TX. BATTLETECH is the other one I play all the time but that one is for work these days so it doesn't really count for me.
Good list of games. I think my comfort games have changed over the years, currently its Darktide and Total war warhammer 3. I can boot up TWW 3 and play few hours almost every day. My older games use to be Baldurs gate 2 and Icewind dale. Mostly Icewind, cause it was relatively short so..i think I've beaten that game 10+ times with multiple party variations
I am convinced Mortisimal has cracked the time code and his day actualy has 34 hours in it as opposed to 24. Simply superhuman.
Haha I totally agree, dude is a beast
It's 32 hours. The day adjusts it's schedule to give him an eight hour sleep.
He 100% time
That 'time code crack' is called meth, I was told
@@WoodieW😂😂😂
Cyberpunk 2077 is that comfort game that i always end up going back to every couple of weeks just to play for an hour or two to relax. I don't even do any of the quests, fights or anything, i just drive around nightcity listening to music before go to sleep. Something about that game and its ambience just makes me want to keep going back, i am excited to see how good gta 6 is, so i can do the same with that game when it comes out.
Oh yeah,me on my Kusanagi Peacekeeper listening to "Kill the Messenger" on Radio Vexelstrom while riding around the streets of Night City,fullfilling contracts...
Cyberpunk 2077 is my favorite video game open world maybe ever. Night City is just the most beautiful video game city I have ever been in and the aesthetic feeling and vibe of that city is just special to me. Edgerunners made me love it even more which I didn't even think was possible.
Definitely. I've had to uninstall it to make room on my PS5 for other games but I always end up installing Cyberpunk again.
this sounds so relaxing I think I might have to give it a try so thanks for the tip
that's interesting. I've played the game 3 times since launch and think it's a fantastic 9/10 but I can't replay it more than once a year. too limited RPG wise and the world is pretty but dead
Total war warhammer 3 is my comfort game. Sunk like 3000 hours in total for the trilogy. Another one would be Fallout.
I wish I could get into Warhammer 3. Used to love the total war games, but in Warhammer it feels like brown blob against slightly less brown blob and if you don't look at the banners you can't tell what's happening.
Any tips for getting into warhammer 3 I suck badly and loose sense of direction and what objectives to pursuit after a couple of turns and random pop up enemy armies like the beastman drive me crazy have a great day thank you
Are you me?
@@naveenbabu5125 play on easier difficulty and play easy/simple factions to get the hang of the game. In wh3 i would recommend Cathay. If you have access to previous game faction, high elf is straight forward and powerful. Once you feel familiar with basic mechanics move on to more complicated faction and dangerous location. Oh and play immortal empire so you dont have to deal with events and can just learn with the sandbox.
@@naveenbabu5125 Just watch beginner guides.. trust me it will help you.
I am sucker for Total war games.
My 1st total war was warhammer 2.
Didn't understand a thing. Then I watched some beginners tip now I can't stop playing this series of games
OMG, Mort is human. Actually good to see that you still enjoy gaming. When you make a living at something it's very easy to get jaded with it no matter how much you loved it at the start. After gaming since my early teens (I'm currently 66) and thru a lifetime of ups and downs gaming has always been there for me. As for the games I always come back to Skyrim is on my list along with Oblivion. So is Xcom (both EU and WotC), Borderlands (2 mostly), the Mass Effect trilogy (I've played thru that at least a dozen times), Romance of the Three Kingdoms in all it's various releases (I have to admit I find that bit of history fascinating) and I've played all the Assassins Creed games pretty much to death and then some (currently finishing replaying the entire franchise, on Valhalla). Good vid
You sir, are a man of culture. Thanks for posting. I myself are playing Borderlands 2 for the third time. I'll also return to Skyrim and Mass Effect. Need to get into Romance of the Three Kingdoms, always wanted to play it.
when u started gaming? in the 80s?
@@rhalegi99 In the 70's. First game we saw was the original Pong. Two plays for a dime in the coffee shop near my home. I was 14 or 15 at the time. I remember we used to lock up the little white "ball" and then watch it go for a few minutes. Gaming has advanced a bit since then.
@@bigego503 wow, great
These are my comfort games or games I always came back to:
1. Skyrim
2. Total War Warhammer 3
3. Dishonored Trilogy
Even dishonored 3? Haven't played that one, looks a bit worse
The lack of Uno tells me everything I need to know. Plebian. Jk
Nice comfort games!
@@purehearted7249 to be clear it's called "Death of the Outsider" a fairly short one tho and it is the third "Dishonored" game after the sequel with a whole new set of fun abilities
Skyrim is just immortal!
3:58 "nobodies exactly waiting for word on skyrim"
I personally love skyrim analysis and retrospective reviews. I know that game inside and out, and even though I don't play it as often as I used to, I still know all of the nuances, quest breaks, npc's (yes all of them) and all of the little things that made that game what it is.
It's something I can put on in the background and listen to for hours and hours.
yes, pepeepupoo. i agree
The other beauty is you can mod it to death. Even on console. It's not only a game you can sink into, it's a game you can remould into so many other things.
Nobody's*
go play kingdom come deliverance
@@notvkn I did, for 16 hours with no more content left but fetch quests and treasure hunts.
cyberpunk 2077 is my comfort game, i just cant seem to get bored of building a super human and then spending hours doing ncpd scanner missions 😆
That city is just so amazingly done that i just love to jump into the game and walk or drive around in it. Finished it before the overhaul, now playing with all the new stuff, completely new game but such a great experience.
Bethesda Game Studios titles are forever in my rotation. Every year for the past 15-20 years I do a playthrough of at least one of their titles. Last year I did Morrowind & Skyrim, the year before it was Enderal (shout out to SureAI) & F4 and this year it was Daggerfall and a completionist Starfield playthrough. They are just my comfort games. And while objectively they might not be perfect (no games are I suppose), they just have this unique "spark" for a lack of a better word that just keep me engaged. And most of the time I can find at least 1 thing, big or small that I haven't seen in a previous playthrough. I only use bug-fixing/stability mods and keep them as much vanilla as possible as well.
Yeah. A lot of people hate Starfield and that's fine. I'm not blind and can see there are issues with the game. But I can't lie either, I like it. It's fun, I don't always mind the emptiness and I enjoy the time I've put into the game. When the DLC comes out, I'll do another full playthrough.
For all their faults, one thing that is true is that no one is making exactly the kind of games that Bethesda is making, at least for now.
@@fueldr9597 same. I think it's a 7.5/10 title but I go back every 2 months to just play it for a while
Honestly...
1) Ghost Recon: Wildlands (pure comfort for me nowadays, end up creating scenarios in my head to mess around with)
2) Dragons Dogma (I own this on every console I can and will happily jump in and create a new character and just enjoy the combat and the fun of the jank)
3) Hollow Knight (for the fun of the challenge)
Ghost Recon: Wildlands is one of 3 games I can recall playing more than once. It's awesome. Love the writing (script and plot), the VO, and that it is based on somewhere REAL where I've visited and the little cultural collectibles [apology items] were great. Didn't bother with the next one, had none of the features I liked.
Ubi games have their critics, but if it provides comfort, then it's a good game.
@@sodapopinksi667 Yeah, I can get behind that. I actually like what Mort and others disparagingly [and accurately, tbf] call the "checklist games"--map icons and world-view icons appreciated. Recent Ubi stuff unattractiveness is not really about the gameplay recipe they systematically apply but other things.
Comfort games I’ve 100% but still play:
Bloodborne
Baldurs Gate 3
Resident Evil (1/2 remakes)
Monster Hunter Worlds
Witcher 3
Sekiro
Lies of P
Max Payne 3
GTA IV
escapism
Ah, Skyrim. I just gifted my nephew the Complete Edition for his 12th birthday. He's loving it so far.
Heroes of Might and Magic series. Never gets old for me.
Ah, a man of culture
There is a HOMM orchestra I listen to on RUclips when I want to chill
man, I don't know how you have the time... forever games I go back to periodically. starsector, kenshi, bannerlord, path of exile, last epoch.
For me those games are Witcher 3 and CP77... and Vampire Bloodlines also :)
I'm a father, and hearing how involved Mort is with his son just makes me so happy.
Gothic 2 is my all-time comfort game. Played it through like 40 times.
nice I also like to play gothic 1 and gothic 2 😁👍
Oh come on! Nobody play the same game that number of time.
It's always nice seeing someone else enjoy Starfield, since it's easy to feel like the only person in the world that doesn't hate it with all the jokes and anti-hype around the game. It's not my favorite by any means, but I find it comfortable to jump into and play for a while every now and then. It's the oatmeal of gaming, satisfying and filling but not a flavor explosion or anything.
"Oatmeal of gaming" is the absolute best description I've seen of Starfield. Sometimes I need that comforting Bethesda jank as a palate cleanser between more engaging games.
Unfortunately you're in the great majority of people that are willing to accept terrible game quality. Which is why the gaming industry sucks now.
Normal people want a game that's made with actual love and passion, and so we avoid Bethesda like the plague 😊
@@theincrediblefella7984Get your head out of your ass, dude.
@@theincrediblefella7984 Or maybe people just have different opinions, don't consider Starfield terrible at all and not liking one game doesn't make you better (or smarter) than anyone else.
@@theincrediblefella7984you seem like an annoying person in real life
I'm currently obsessed with Wrath of the Righteous, loving a second playthrough, and at this stage am planning on at least a few more playthroughs for the mythic paths and slowly upping the difficulty and complexity each time - and it's completely down to this channel. I absolutely would not have overcome the barriers to entry for that game if it hadn't been for being a fan of this channel, and I'm so glad I did. (I found myself continually wishing that there were more of your build guides though, because I found them the most useful of anyone's by a considerable distance to learn the ropes with.) So thank you for making that one of these games for me (well, one day).
I also feel you about Starfield, strangely enough. I haven't played it in a while, but it's an easy game to jump back into in that TV-show-you've-seen-before sense and go shoot some stuff up. It might be time for a reinstall soon....when I eventually get to putting down WOTR.
And VTMB is the next one on my "games I really ought to get over their barriers to entry and have a go at" list.
Something about Bethesda games, that I keep going back to despite having seen most there is to see, often at the expense of not starting many yet unplayed games in my library.
My comfort game and the reason i still have my n64 hooked up is Ogre Battle 64. I wish the game was more popular so it could be remastered.
I want to warn you about something. Grim Dawn is massive as far as 100 percenting. I know you are a beast and kill these things like some monster from a different dimension, but You might want to get a head start. The dlc always comes after the base game anyway. So each DLC adds to the end game.
Grim Dawn is hands down the best ARPG in my opinion. It's a mainstay of mine. Can't wait for the new expansion.
Grim Dawn and Last Epoch are the only two arpgs i got really engrossed in the past few years.
I doubt he’s actually gonna 100% it, 100% on grim dawn is pretty subjective anyway but getting all recipes and all the legendary monster infrequents just takes way too long, I’m talking 100s of hours of grinding
@@esoessify I just meant 100 achievments.
@@esoessify I don’t doubt him. The man is gets insanely focused. And the real reason is that I think grim dawn is fun even when you are going for the 💯 and I watch morti play games that are not fun with that focus.
XCOM 2 (modded of course) seems to keep me coming back every few years.
Starfield is definitely a comfort food of mine at the moment. I fell off of my BG3 playthrough on the road to Act III because Act II was such a slog and my Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty playthrough stagnated when the recently implemented level scaling made stat based conversation choices ridiculous, locking me out of some of my favorite quest outcomes because I didn't min/max my character for that particular stat. Regarding Starfields flaws, for anyone else underwhelmed by the exploration aspect of it, I would strongly recommend checking out the "Desolation" POI mod available both on the Nexus and Creations menu. While it doesn't "fix" POI generation perfectly, it goes a LOOONG way to making the things you find on planets much more intuitive and somewhat more varied/unique feeling. Inhospitable planets outside the core no longer have all sorts of human settlements for example, and on settled planets the generation makes them feel more inhabited with fewer immediately repeating "dungeons".
I still play Starfield and find it fairly relaxing. Something about the grand music and vistas, and "NASA-punk" aesthetic is a comfort. I also replay Dark Souls 1 just because I know it so well that I can beat it without a lot of effort and find it nostalgic. For some games, they're like a good book where I just want to visit their world for an escape.
I liked Starfield despite the backlash. I didn’t have high expectations for it though which is maybe why I liked it so much. Also love the nasa punk aesthetic
Excited for Shattered Space?
@@atharvawaikar9730 I'm waiting to see how the questlines playout. Because The difficulty update and Trackers guild made it significantly more fun!
@@mattc7420 At some point I may buy starfield if the mod community gets really rolling, or they make it good. I was so happy I didn't get it on launch though.
@@atharvawaikar9730 I dig the theme of the DLC, but I'd wait until at least like 2 DLCs dropped.
I am so glad that I'm not the only one that still plays Vampire the Masquerade at times. That game was so glitchy, but so different and fun when it came out. I am hoping someone eventually goes back and releases some new World of Darkness titles (I'd love to see a Hunter: The Reckoning).
I’m glad you mentioned Starfield. I just built my first PC a few months ago and have been wanting to play Starfield. I’m not a very critical person and can have fun with just about any game so I’m sure I’ll love Starfield.
You’ll love it. The vanilla game is good, but since you’re on pc I highly recommend installing some of the vanilla+ QoL mods from nexus, they turn a good game into an amazing one IMO.
Borderlands series is my comfort, no stress playing through the games and so many lovable characters
Very good answer. The randomisation in equipment drops is like crack for replayable games. That’s why I love the design of these kinds of games.
@@Evanz111 yes 100%
I bought Borderlands Pandora box today (basically all the games and DLCs except for one particular game called Anita's Wonderland's). Will start the games after my exams.
Destiny 2 is mine. Weapons drop with random perks and always looking for that “better” drop, redoing content over and over again - with something new every month or so.
Same, bought them now on switch so can replay those whenever
Fully modded SkyrimVR is the closest thing we currently have to that whole "live your life in a VR fantasy world" thing that we've been promised for so long in stories and anime.
Yes! This. Fully modded Skyrim VR is jaw droppingly immersive! I've played games where I just want to do "one more thing" and end up playing for hours but modded SkyrimVR is like some weird time vortex in a good way. I feel like I've played for 20 minutes and take my headset off and it's been 2 hours. It is amazing
what mods do you use? I tried Mad God and was not happy with it. I could just wiggle a 2h axe around and insta-kill everything
@@forreal5331 Mad Gods is fine. You could just not wiggle, and roleplay the melee a bit? There's also some ini settings somewhere (PLANCK?) that set a cooldown on melee hits, if you want to force it. You can break Skyrim in so many ways if you choose (eg. stealth archer), so what's one more thing to avoid? I also run FUS and Tahrovin, in addition to Mad Gods, but overall they all use similar melee mods. If you want detailed VR melee then you play something like Blade and Sorcery or Legendary Tales. SkyrimVR is for "living your life in a fantasy world", hahah.
I often come back to Skyrim, Elden Ring or Cyberpunk 2077. But the only game I've never uninstalled and always come back to is Guild Wars 2. It's probably my most played game of all time. There's just no other game like it. Sure, there are multiple MMOs to choose from, but nothing compares to Guild Wars 2.
A game that I make a new run in once a month would be Rimworld. Bought it during the beta and have been playing it consistently. And it can be played in a ton of different ways as well, either as a peaceful basebuilder or as a pretty hardcore and deep RTS with the NoPause mod.
BattleTech is another one that I keep coming back to this last year. The career mode specifically.
Cyberpunk also gets some screentime most weeks.
I start a new Solasta campaign pretty regularly too.
And, outside of singleplayer experiences, Warframe is probably my most played game and I log in for at least a quick fifteen minute run every day.
6:55 Yeah. I know how it is. So many systems in this game that I have serious problems with and I still play it and constantly following Nexus for the latest mods...
For me, Stardew Valley is my current comfort game. It's my "one more turn" game, for the moment.
It’s funny as soon as he said Skyrim
I knew that it was a comfort game for me that I think of all the time but rarely play now.
But the game that I installed at all times on each hard drive with different mods is BattleTech
I cannot help but restart a play through whenever I get the time.
I think it’s the randomness of the start and the diversity between each sort of start whether you play clans or tanks or your favourite house.
Its just the real struggle for the first few contracts,
will I live will I have to swap out people will I have to throw away a mech because I can’t afford to repair them.
It just hooks me and every time .
hey man just want to leave a quick comment saying i really appreciate your work. me and my friend always get super excited whenever you drop your opinion or views on a game. thank you man
I appreciate that!
Games that I always go back to are:
- Darksiders 2 (Just started a playthrough recently)
- X-Com 2 (In the middle of setting up mods)
- Skyrim or Fallout New Vegas
- Vampire: Bloodlines
I always come back to play Chrono Trigger, Suikoden II, Grandia and the (now remaked) Star Ocean: The 2nd Story.
Love your choices, especially Skyrim. I've pumped thousands of hours into every flavor of Skyrim imaginable over the years. It's like ASMR for me. Hearing good things about the new paid mod, Bards College stuff, and while I don't like or agree with mods being a paid thing, my 'virtue' is not going to get in the way if a good thing comes to Skyrim. Definitely my favorite comfort game over the years, and others that don't leave my hard drive would be XCOM 2, Elden Ring, and BG3.
Skyrim is one of the comfort games I go back to time and again over the years. It is relaxing to post up somewhere and enjoy the nights in the temperate zones like Whiterun or The Rift. I've done quite a few playthroughs of the Borderlands games as well. They're games that are easy to pick up and play for a bit.
Skyrim is the one game I never stopped playing but because of all the mods it still gets to this day. If you like vanilla Skyrim that much, I think if you install one of those mod megapacks it will blow your mind.
To me it's Diablo 2, AC 2-Brotherhood-Origins-Odyssey, and nowadays BG3.
I’ve replayed ACII and Brotherhood the most, but I’ve spent the most time in Odyssey and consider Origins to be the best in the series. I know these games are very simple compared to Dio2 and BG3, but the atmosphere, nostalgia and storytelling are just too amazing.
Diablo 2 always becomes an obsession when I start playing it, so I’m very careful with that. (For the same reason, I will never pick up WoW again-especially as a family man.)
Great list with every one of them being games i have played heavily especially THE ELDER SCROLLS V SKYRIM and every ELDER SCROLLS rpg since ARENA along with PATHFINDER WRATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS which was the first to deliver tabletop gaming to the digital realm the way i always imagined it to be in every way followed by BALDUR'S GATE III.
As for comfort games i play almost every day WARHAMMER 40,000 GLADIUS: RELICS OF WAR- 763 hours, BATTLETECH- 972 hours, FALLOUT 4- 1,579 hours, DYING LIGHT- 359 hours and many many more especially horror games like THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT and INFLICTION as well as war games such as AGE OF WONDER PLANET FALL, PANZER CORPS 2, STELLARIS, ORDER OF BATTLE, every WARHAMMER 40,000 game from SLITHERINE, action games like TERMINATOR RESISTANCE, ROBOCOP ROGUE CITY and of course STARFIELD which i really wish i could find more time to play. Looking forward to the STARFIELD DLC as well as the release of ZEPHON by PROXY who created WARHAMMER 40,000 GLADIUS: RELICS OF WAR.
Thanks for the great video and putting it out there what great games are available to be enjoyed with near infinite replay value ☕
My list:
Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9 and 12
Morrowind
Skyrim
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
Parasite Eve 1
Sim City 4
I will replay these games forever! That is the truth...
1. Front mission 4
2. Arcanum
3. Ogre Battle
4. Final Fantasy Tactics
5. Tactics Ogre
6. Shadow Run (all of them)
7. The Final Fantasy series (up to 12, nothing after 12)
I love tactical RPG's. Problem is I've played contemporary games like Wasteland 3 and... I hate it. The story does nothing for me, and I can't get into a game that has a story that doesn't interest me, I find this to be a common problem with games made recently...
Skyrim is my comfort game too. My first character on Xbox 360 had almost 500 hours and I can only guess how many hours I've spent in total over all platforms, modded and unmodded. Might be over 3000 hours. Just recently started a new run. Fun fact: I've finished the main story only once. Previously my go-to game was Fallout 2 which is the oldest boxed copy I have still.
Solasta is mine. For all the mechanical complexity of the pathfinder games and the graphical awesomeness of BG3, playing through a simpler 5E adventure with well implemented combat works for me. Plus, the way spider climb is implemented is a total blast. Oh, and the Solasta battle cleric class always amuses me for some reason because it’s so OP compared to everything else in the game - it’s basically a cleric/paladin/wizard, but it’s one class 😆 A cleric that doesn’t need a free hand to cast, can use martial weapons, can divine smite, can cast fireballs, has extra attacks, oh and has paladin auras as well.
Oh? I haven't tried that, but maybe I should. When it comes to casting spells, even though DMs hate it when you point this out, according to the rules as written it is a free action to drop your weapon while one of the examples for your free object interaction during a turn is explicitly stated to be picking up a dropped weapon. In short, you're allowed to drop a weapon, cast your spell, and pick it up; at least during your turn.
@@XoRandomGuyoX I don't think "free" means unlimited though so picking up your weapon again would need to happen on the next round
@@gr1mgr1n No, it wouldn't. You get one free object interaction per turn, and picking up a dropped weapon is explicitly stated as an example. Letting something go is a truly free action. RAW you do both on your turn so long as you don't interact with other objects, such as doors. I get a DM's instinct to go, "No! Not in MY game!" But it works RAW.
@@gr1mgr1n They're two distinct things. The "free object interaction per turn" is separate from letting something go. Letting go is specifically cited as a free action. The whole thing about casting really just matters when physical shields are involved. Those specifically say that the tie up the hand involved and take a full Action to either don or doff. It's the same thing as to how a "two handed" weapon only needs both hands at the specific moment of attacking. You're completely free to let go with one hand and use it for anything else. E.g. a Monk using a Spear as a Monk Weapon can make unarmed strikes alongside the spear strike, because they can let go with one hand and have it available for other things. Anyway, you can still say you disagree, but it goes against the rules of 5th edition. That said, maybe WotC will change things with their 2024 update(sort of a 5.5e for D&D).
CIV VI, Rimworld, Anno 1800, BG3 are all "comfort" games for me, always happy to jump into an existing save or start a new game.
Lord of the rings online is that comfort game for me. Exploring Middle Earth in this game is so calm and magical.
Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Deus Ex (HR & MD), the Dishonored (plus Prey) series are my 5 go-to play-forever games.
I feel that with Skyrim. Morrowind is my favorite game of all time, but I definitely have hours in Skyrim across the 360, ps3, switch, and PC. But with mods it is infinitely more replayable and comfortable than any other game as a chill, casual experience. Definitely recommend falling into the modding rabbit hole someday; you will regret it in the best way possible!
I played WildTangent's Fate as a kid, but Skyrim is what really got me into RPGs. It will always be a game I return to at least once a year.
If I played games for a job, I wouldn't be playing games to relax. I don't know how you do it, especially, when you 100% them.
already being able to play games as a job must be nice 😶 also the feeling while playing must be completely different knowing you not "wasting" time but you are actually can focus because its your job, must be great.
@@maxmuller6730 It's a bit of a double-edge sword. While playing these games he needs to: take notes on what he does in the game (mechanics, plot etc.), write a script, record footage sometimes dozens of hours of it, then record voice-overs... and sometimes you play a game you absolutely hate but yet since it's your job you need to finish it and in his case 100% it which is mind-boggling to me. I'd hate video games if I had to 100% them on the regular.
I'm a developer, and sometimes after a bad day solving a really annoying bug I'll relax by contributing to some open source project.
I got into programming because I enjoy doing it, so I can see how he doesn't get burnt out playing games.
Classic WoW is my comfort food game, specifically the leveling process. Something about it is very zen if done in moderation
Most days I only have the time and mental energy for roguelikes I've beaten into an unconscious formula like Vampire Survivors or Slay The Spire. But when I have a bit more time/energy I go back to two strategy games - Stellaris and Total War Warhammer 3. When I really want to invest across many game sessions then I go to my CRPGs of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, Pathfinder Kingmaker/WOTR, etc. If I put those down too long I forget the story thread and the feeling of attachment to my character's state.
Really great idea for a video! Especially as so many of us feel like seeking 100% can ruin it for us in future playthroughs. If anyone can answer this well, then you’re the guy.
(Dealing with family crises so haven’t been able to game much either, glad to hear you’ve got an active family life alongside your platform! Can’t wait to get back and resume my Path of Exile playthrough 😅)
Keep up the amazing work Mort!
Mortismal is a superhuman. Completing games and making a detailed video out of it while having a Family. What a Boss
Factorio, Subnautica, Stardew Valley, Skyrim. Ones that is not often but occasionally (meaning I will never uninstall them): The Sims 3, DQ Builders 2, Fallout New Vegas. Cyperpunk 2077 might be added to that list. If the DLC expansions for Starfield shows a sign of improvement, that too might be added.
My comfort games are
Borderlands 3
Dying light 2
The loot for borderlands is fun to grind and the speed and parkour of dying light 2 is unmatched
Inquisitor Martyr, Power Wash Simulator, Borderlands 3, or Arkham City are games I can always return to and fun with.
Diablo 2 - I think I’ll always play this masterpiece
Nice to hear that you still have time to play games for enjoyment. And since you asked, here are those games that feel like comfortable old shoes to me:
(1) Dishonored 2. Both 1 and 2, actually, but Emily is one of my favorite game protagonists, and the gameplay fits my preferences perfectly.
(2) Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2. I never get tired of the story of POE1, of which I was a major backer so there's that factor as well, and POE2's well-realized world.
(3) Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I used to like its story better than WotR's but that appears to be changing right now as I'm replaying that latter game. In any case, one of the two will remain.
Honorable mention for games I haven't played within one year but will return to eventually: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Baldur's Gate (all of them) and Spellforce The Order of Dawn including its expansions, a very old and mechanically not very good game from 2004 which I return to for very specific reasons.
Skyrim, Starfield and Subnautica are the games I always go back to. They are just very relaxing and fun to play.
These are the ones I'm currently still playing:
1. Baldur's Gate 3 (though I create a lot of characters that I just don't end up finishing the game with).
2. Starfield.
3. Skyrim.
4. Fallout 4.
5. Red Dead Redemption 2.
I've started playing Total War Pharaoh: Dynasties, which is really good (and finally a proper Bronze Age game), but it's a new release so I haven't finished it yet. I don't think I'll keep playing it forever, though, I'm burned out on Total War battles. I'm also playing Elden Ring when I feel like but I'm nowhere near finishing it (and I don't think it'll become a "forever game" for me).
Thanks for the video, its great to hear that you have some time to enjoy games rather than to just review them. Personally, my comfort game is pretty divergent from the games I usually play, crpgs and survival games mostly. I always find myself going back to Sid Miers Railroads. It is very laid back, no pressure, and just plain fun.
For me it is Deadfire, WOTR, would be BG3 but taking a break from it until the big patch. Every now and then I too fire up VTMB as well as Tyranny and fantasise about the sequel that will never come.I have over 6K hours in Skyrim but have not played it in over a year. I may have reached my limit on it but part of it is that I cannot play it unmodded and modding for the most part is a pain, especially with hundreds of mods so my 6K stat might stay that way until the Hammerfell ES comes out but I am not young so I might also be dead by then.
Wandering in the Fallout Wasteland with the radio on is my jam. Skyrim is the close second.
Gothic 2 and New Balance mod is my comfort zone, each playthough takes 300h. I have occasionally stopped at about 200h mark where I know rest will be a steam roll / not particularly interesting upgrade wise. It's incredible and Gothic as a whole is just infinitely replayable.
Hi, no Skyrim mod, rough!Thanks for the video! Great to see what you are playing.
My comfort food games are Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Skyrim/Oblivion(I'll get a craving for either pretty often) and a new addition is Dragon's Crown for the PS4/Vita, it combines two of my favorite things in the world, ARPG grind systems plus beat em up mechanics, and the cherry on top? Fantastically hand drawn art.
Gothic II. I have played through it so many times since it was launched and I can just keep on replaying it. Sometimes I finish the entire game, sometimes I just do Acts 1-2. It's the ultimate comfort game for me.
Ahhhhhhhhh, yes. Skyrim. Probably my all time favorite game. I've owned way too many copies on various platforms. I've put 100s of hours into this game. And, call me a psycho, but to this day I always play vanilla. Not that I have anything against mods. But Skyrim has such a nostalgic power for me, that I dont wanna change it in any way.
Slay the Spire is my comfort game... though I'm actually not good enough to 100% it. Still have hundreds of hours in it and always have a good time even while losing.
Love the Starfield shoutout.
One of my permanently installed games is Dysmantle. Great pick-up-and-play factor coupled with TONS of questlines & locations.
I play Starfield in basically the exact same manner. Building ships and surveying planets. The latter is not something I'd claim to be engaging, or even particularly fun, but to me it has a medative quality.
As for comfort games, that would be the good old Command and Conquer games. RA2, TibSun, and C&C3 in particular.
I think games today are overly complicated. Way too many systems and mechanics to keep track of. Games just takes forever these days. the tutorials alone can take up hours in certain games..
That is why I tend to stay with indie games, as they are made in the same way as AAA games was made back in the 90s. Simple, easy to understand, can be played in shorter bursts, and they are often not really meant to be completed.. So, there's no real pressure of having to get back into and complete the story mode, so it's a more relaxing relation ship I have with those games..
Example.. I've started on Spiderman 2 with my son, we played maybe 4-5 hours, and it has been a few weeks now. And I'm already starting to pressure the kid "we have to play it again soon", or we will forget the controls, we will forget the abilities we have unlocked, and we will forget what happened in the story, so there's already now a pressure that we need to get back to it soon... I don't think that is healthy at all..
For me;
#1 ARMA 3 with and without the SOG Prairie Fire DLC,
#2 Witcher III Wild Hunt.
Two of the best games ever made.
Mine are Total Warhammer 3, Street Fighter 6, Hades, DOS2, Final Fantasy Tactics and replaying the Halo trilogy. I feel the same with BG3 as you but I also like the combat of DOS2 more.
Pillars of Eternity and TF2 would have been on here a few years ago as well
This was such an interesting video, thanks for making. I especially liked the Vtmb summary. I really need to actually finish that game for once lmao.
My "comfort" games are replaying TLOU1,2, RDR2, MGS1-4 and Resident Evil 4 (OG or Remake)
My comfort games are (or atleast the games I always come back to most often)
- Slay the Spire
- Risk of Rain 2
- Titanfall 2
- Skyrim
- Dark Souls 3
- Halo MCC with new mods
Modding and playing Skyrim has been my biggest gaming experience for sure, TW series are easy to come back to, Dawn of War, Borderlands, ESO and Battlefield are all franchises/games i come regularly back to, some pokemon rom on emulator about once every two years when i take a couple weeks off work and buy some weed.
I'd love if you could review Enderal! It's made from skyrim's engine in a world new world, with amazing dark narrative and characters. It's my favourite game hands down. Never had another game making me feel the feelings I felt while playing it. There are faction quests, romanceable characters... Just amazing.
I always for over 10 yrs have 2 games installed, Grim Dawn (though never 100%) and Stalker, though I upgraded to Stalker Gamma which is an incredible mod last yr. Like you, always just are easy to jump in and get that fix for games you love.
For a loooong time, World of Warcraft was my comfort game. If we exclude MMOs though, there has never really been a specific game but rather a genre. Tower Defense games are my brain's happy place.
I think I beat every Kingdom Rush game at least a few times. I'm still waiting for Defender's Quest 2. I know people play Bloons for 1000s of hours but I haven't tried it yet.
Dragons Dogma... ps4, 360 and switch.... so many hours love it.
I love to return to the city of prague in mankind divided. Love the exploration, the music, the locations and the art style.
I feel you heavy on alot of this. I was also someone who really liked Starfield and never really stopped playing it like that. I don't have much space on my laptop so sometimes I have to uninstall games that I'm not playing at the moment.
I'd say *content* wise I really only focus on 3 games right now.
Stellaris
Street Fighter 6
EVE Online (taking a bit of an extended break though)
However like getting home from work comfort wise
Star Traders
Stellaris
Street Fighter 6
XCOM 2
Starfield (unmodded)
Fallout 4 (unmodded)
Fallout 76
No Mans Sky
Foxhole
I REALLY want to eventually finish Wrath of the Righteous but its hard :/ maybe one day I will go back to it honestly. I told myself from a money perspective that I wouldn't buy another cRPG until I beat Wrath of Righteous.
Awesome list! For myself I would add Mass Effect trilogy, another “tv show” style game for me. And a pack of strategy games: Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Civilization 5 and 6, Crusader Kings 3, Stellaris and more.
Those are mighty good reasons not having spare time.
Altough they can be considered spare time, if you enjoy it.
That amount we deducted from your overtime payroll, so actually you now owe us.
(the story above reminds you of your old work, and how much better it is now)
Also WotR, Starfield. To your list I add Kenshi, Blood Bowl 2/3 and Satisfactory. All very much comfort food!
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, and Heroes of Might and Magic III. I always go back to those over and over again. Even after the newer titles, such as AoW 4, which... just made me want to go and play Shadow Magic again. Over twenty years old, and still just as good as the day they released.
For me it's the Mass Effect Legendary Trilogy. It's like rewatching a good old tv show. I still hope that HBO picks it up and makes a series out of the Mass Effect world.
I'm currently doing an Azata run through WOTR and I forgot how much I love the game. The pathfinder system is so crunchy and tactical in the CRPG format, and I love it.
My comfort games: Age of empires series, Left 4 Dead 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Dark Souls 1 and 3, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, Super Metroid, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Streets of Rage 1 and 2, Castlevania SotN, Ghouls and Ghosts, Super Mario Galaxy, Darkest Dungeon, Subnautica,Tony Hawk 2.
Starfield is also my comfort game! Mods definitely help minimize the flaws
Since you asked about comfort games, here's one random person on the web's list:
Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2. Still good after almost 30 years and damn does that make me feel old.
Skyrim, since I'm addicted to modding, and it's great in VR with mods.
Starbound. Originally was pretty bad, but the modding community has turned it kind of incredible and is somehow still surprisingly active. Like, we just got an open-source version of the game, a planet generation and hazard overhaul, and a very nice new mechanic/QoL feature in a "planet searching" tool added in the last year or so.
Kingdom Under Fire The Crusades and its Heroes expansion/sequel. Old, the translation's rough, and the port's not the best by any means, but still one of my favorite RTS games, and I wish more developers made games with a system like it. Simple to learn, but damn did it get hectic once you got into it.
Cool video. I find myself always coming back to the same games too. Mass Effect trilogy (usually end up playing the first two and never finishing the third though...) Bloodborne, Elden Ring and Doom 1, 2 and Doom 2016.
Skyrim is by no means my favourite game, not even in the top 20, but I have thousands of hours played, 99% of which come from playing with overhaul mods. I do not know what the vanilla talent trees contain because I used SkyRe pretty much immediately after realising I simply do not like vanilla Skyrim.
Nowadays, I've modded it with MCO and it plays more like dark souls than skyrim, I have a mod that completely reworks all the dungeons to be about 4 times bigger, Morrowloot overhauls most of the game, couple of different mods overhaul the perk trees, and generally almost no system in the entire game works the way it does out of the box. Everything from Smithing and Gathering ingredients to how the magic system is different.
It's an absolutely amazing sandbox for modders, but the fact that I feel the need to mod the game so extensively to enjoy it kinda speaks volumes of how I feel about the game itself, and no amount of modding fixes the shit main story.
What's the dungeon mod? Dungeons Revisited?
@@Player1GamingChannel I think I have both that and forgotten dungeons
My comfort game is HOMM 5. Yes, I know, I like the 3rd one, too, it was my first HOMM, but there's just something about the design and animations of the troops in the 5th one that really scratches an itch in my brain. So full of life. And the town screen panning around synced to orchestral music!
One of my comfort games I know inside and out and always seem to come back to eventually is 7 Days to Die. I'll play until the late game, get all the best gear, solve all the horde night problems, and eventually set it down, only to come back to it months later and do it again, sometimes with friends. It's a surprisingly good game these days; the skill system is my favorite of all the survival games I've played.
Skyrim and Starfield are classics in my rotation too. Fallout New Vegas, Baldur's Gate *2*, and Sins of a Solar Empire are other games I always come back to eventually. I've been playing Sins, for instance, since it released. I own a physical copy even, bought when it was new from a Fry's Electronics in Dallas, TX. BATTLETECH is the other one I play all the time but that one is for work these days so it doesn't really count for me.
Avatar: frontiers of pandora is my newest favorite comfort game. Everything about it is just fun and calming for me.
Good list of games. I think my comfort games have changed over the years, currently its Darktide and Total war warhammer 3. I can boot up TWW 3 and play few hours almost every day.
My older games use to be Baldurs gate 2 and Icewind dale. Mostly Icewind, cause it was relatively short so..i think I've beaten that game 10+ times with multiple party variations