One game for the rest of your life - which one do you take?

[GrayingGamer]

You're gonna be stuck on an island alone, Crusoe-style, for years. Or the modern world is basically ending tomorrow and your amazing, infinite battery laptop only has room for one game. Or aliens are beaming you up in 5 minutes and ask which game you'd like to take for your long journey.

Whatever the circumstances, assuming no internet / multiplayer capabilities, what game do you choose?

 

[Sonereal]

Either Dwarf Fortress or something like it.

 

[Maniacal]

Dwarf Fortress because it is the deepest and most replayable game I know of.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Probably SimCity 4.

It's the only game I still (or at least still can) enjoy after almost a decade. It's aged well, is extremely replayable, and for me it... it gives me this wistful, nostalgic mood (though partly because of the custom music I put in it).


All other games, they come and go, no matter how much or for how long I play them. SimCity 4... It stays, my dearest vanilla flavour (so to speak), waiting patiently, always there, ready to give me the same enjoyment it gave me when I first got it in Middle School.

 

[Glassmage]

civ5 of course

 

[bonefang]

warcraft tft mod - dota

 

[Luckymoose]

Dwarf Fortress.

 

[GrumpyGamerLP]

I would take Minecraft with the Tekkit mod pack. I have only been playing it for less than 2 months but you can do so much with that game such as build machines and factories. I recently joined a new server and this is what I have made so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK6AslsMIg

 

[Truronian]

Probably EU3DW

 

[sophie]

I would take Minecraft with the Tekkit mod pack. I have only been playing it for less than 2 months but you can do so much with that game such as build machines and factories. I recently joined a new server and this is what I have made so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTK6AslsMIg

This, provided I was able to use a computer powerful enough to properly enjoy the game.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Probably one of the Elder Scrolls games. I think I'd spend most of my time learning to create mods for myself and enjoy the endless possibilities.

 

[Leonel]

Minecraft. I'll have a long time and might as well build my own little world I can immerse myself in.

 

[Arakhor]

Probably one of the Elder Scrolls games. I think I'd spend most of my time learning to create mods for myself and enjoy the endless possibilities.

Definitely. I'd take TES III: Morrowind with the 2012 megamod and the Construction Set to continue making improvements as I go along. Either that or my modded version of TES IV: Oblivion, plus the Construction Set and associated modding programs, such as BOSS and Wrye Bash. There's still a lot more life in Arakhor Vesharrok, my Dremora Courtier of Boethiah, and Fesdrick Leaflock, my Bosmer vampire assassin!

 

[Akka]

Probably either Civ4 or Minecraft.

They are games that can entertain you for hours on hand, but can also provide for a quick fix if you just want a short game, and both are nearly infinitely replayable.

 

[TheDanish]

If I could download mods beforehand, definitely The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. And even if I couldn't download mods, probably still Morrowind.

Second choice would be Dwarf Fortress.

 

[Mosher]

Dwarf Fortress or Minecraft, probably.

 

[GrayingGamer]

Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup for me!

Although DF would be a close second. Now that everyone has brought that one up, I'm tempted to change my mind...

 

[StLeibowitz]

Dwarf Fortress, hands down. No other game even approaches the replayability, even modded EU3.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I couldn't.

The longest I've played a game ever was CivIV for 2 years before I got bored. Nowadays it's even less.

 

[Maniacal]

warcraft tft mod - dota

That will be incredibly dull without internet.