Hey folks. Help me with some research!
What non-ttrpg games (such as video games, board games, card games, mobile games, social media games) have you played the most/longest, enjoyed the most, or remember most fondly?
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Dominion. Marvel Legendary. Marvel Heroes MMO. Pandemic. Gloom!
+Mickey Schulz are those most/longest, most enjoyed, remember most fondly?
Those and Cribbage. Cribbage I’ve played since I was 5.
If I had to pick another from childhood, 221b Baker Street, the Sherlock Holmes game.
Otherwise, those ones I listed before. Legendary, because it’s like playing a comic book. I have some great memories of playing Dominion with less nerdy but still awesome friends. Same with Pandemic. And the Marvel Heroes MMO which I’ve played almost since the very beginning, which avoids many of the pitfalls of other MMOs by not having vent.
Memoir ’44
Arkham Horror
Dominion
Warhammer 40K
Age of Steam
Hero’s Quest
Lone Wolf
Past (homebrew freeform)
Magic: The Gathering
Star Wars Battlefront
Doom 1, 2 & 3
KROZ/ZZT
Colossal Cave Adventure
MELRO (local boffer larp)
i played magic: the gathering for a good 20 years
Boardgames and cardgames I think of most fondly at the moment: Gloom, Hobbit Tales, Elder Sign, Fluxx.
Video games (fond memories; I’m not currently into them): The Blackwell series, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Civilisation (various), Age of Empires.
I put an absolutely ridiculous number of hours into Axis & Allies and enjoyed… mmmm… maybe 1/3rd of them.
According to Steam, I have over 100 hours in Witcher 3 and Ghost Recon Wildlands, and I’m probably going to put more into the former, since I have only just started the DLC.
And for a brief window, around 2001-2002, my friends and I played regular day-long games of Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, the V:tM card game.
Marvel Legendary is my favourite and most played board game by hundreds and hundreds of hours. The mechanics are right in the sweet spot for me.
Played a heck of a lot and greatly enjoying:
– Sentinels of the Multiverse and its expansions (Greater Than Games)
– Gloomhaven (Cephalofair Games)
– Mice and Mystics (Plaid Hat Games)
– Vanished Planet (Vanished Planet Games)
– Race for the Galaxy (Rio Grande Games)
– Tokaido (Funforge)
– Talisman (Games Workshop) — but now I’m a bit sick of it.
Edited to add:
– The Room (Fireproof Games) – Especially the original, but #2 and 3 as well.
Spades, Master of Orion 2, and probably either Carc or Catan.
Dominion. Mass Effect (all 4).
Board games I remember the most fondly right now: Battlestar Galactica, Sentinels of the Multiverse. Had a lot of late-night BSG games in law school.
Galaxy Trucker and Race for the Galaxy because my wife plays and loves them.
Longest/Most Played: World of Warcraft
Game I have a soft spot for/remember fondly: Planescape:Torment (this might be cheating since it’s a CRPG that is based on a TTRPG)
Matt Johnson Not cheating at all– the gameplay and design is very
different.
Carcassonne and The Secret of Monkey Island.
I have more on the list, but they’re at the top.
Fallen London. I played it for five years before I exhausted the storylines (except for the monthly premium content, which I was paying for) and finally embarked on the Quest for Mr. Eaten’s Name.
Pokemon. I played every cartridge from Yellow for the GBC up through Black and White. I stopped because I couldn’t justify spending $300 for a new handheld game platform when I’d become a casual gamer.
In Video Games I can think of three that I put hundreds of hours into each: Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyrie Profile, and Xenoblade Chronicles X. I love each of them: worlds, stories, systems.
For board games, Here I Stand is probably the longest continuous bg I played. I kind of love it; kind of dread it. It’s fun but super involved. Otherwise it is probably Marvel Legendary and Wurfel Bohnanza.
Skyrim, Osmos, 80 Days, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
I had a real problem with Final Fantasy XI online. I played it daily for 18 months, as soon as I got from work I logged into the game at 4pm and played through to 2am on daily basis. When not working I have played 36 hours solid, eating at the computer, only leaving the computer to answer the call of nature.
In board games, my fan favorite has to be Pandemic, with Eldritch Horror coming a close second. I recently played Eldritch Horror with 6 people, the game took 6 hours to play.
Longest: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Enjoyed Most: Shantae: Half-Hero Genie
Most fondly: Super Mario World
Civ (all versions)
Sid meirs pirates gold
Sid Meiers Colonization
Wasteland
Space rogue
Xwing vs tie fighter
Alpha Centauri
Angry birds
Carcassone
Scrabble
Battletech
Mass Effect trilogy: played and replayed so, so many hours. Many fond memories, too (sometimes recaptured with friends while playing homebrew Mass Effect TTRPGs).
Ms Pac-man: I just really like it and it makes me feel nice to play it whenever I see it out in a bar or arcade. I have always liked it. And it’s more interesting than Pac-man with his one map and boring, motionless fruit.
Scrabble: Longtime fan. Maybe the only game I can consistently get family to play with me.
Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii.
My housemate and I would basically manage a level per night. We’d get drunk finishing one punishingly hard level, be too drunk to finish the next, then come back the next night and finish it on muscle memory.
Of course by that point we were too drunk to do the next level, and so on.
Okami and Stardew Valley
Hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on Capcom’s Monster Hunter franchise.
Computer/Console Games:
Mario Kart
Half Life 2
Portal 1&2
Telltale’s Walking Dead
Dark Souls
Tabletop Games:
Warhammer (+ the myriad variations thereof 40k, Necromunda, etc.)
Settlers of Catan
Rails
7 Wonders
Castles of Burgundy
Oh, also the Lego Harry Potter games. I’ve played them three or four times. 🙂
Starflight (video game, 1986). The first really big sandbox game, using fractals to cram 800 planetscapes onto two 360k floppies. I loved how the sandbox grinding gave way to a metaplot, it blew my mind.
Rogue and Hack 1.02. I guess Rogue was the first Rogue-like. 🙂
Ultima II-V I’ve loved maps ever since I was a youngster; I collected cathedral and castle maps from trips to the UK. They fired up my imagination, but Ultima’s cloth maps were something you could actually explore. I loved all the easter eggs, like the forested city with the NPC way in the corner. A pal and I used to exchange notes in class, written in those runes.
Angalon MUD A small, tone-consistent fantasy MUD. Simple, black and white text, no jargon or compressed stat blocks. I begged to become a wizard (content creator), and logged over 2k hours coding and describing content areas. So much fun; I’m still sad that MUDs were essentially killed by MMOs.
Warmaster and Epic. Despite years of reading and re-reading my WH40k 1e rulebook (so dense!), I never actually played it. Warmaster and Epic were the mini games I really poured myself into.
Robo Rally, Fluxx, Munchkin, ChipWit, Planescape: Torment, Civilation: Call To Power, Spelljammer, probably more. Many of the computer games I remember fondly are far less enjoyable when I go find them and try them again. The opposite is true for card/board games.