The Command and Conquer RTS games up until but excluding Red Alert 2. I really dislike that they decided to remove adjustable speed.

Forgot that one! Me too big time. In fact because of another totally unrelated thread I found a great new installer for the original Red Alert and I've been having a blast playing it without all the transition bugs and problems.

Now I do love RA 2 I admit though I hate it when the scoring the screen comes up and tells me I went too slow. :-(

Still go back to Age of Empires II quite often, and play Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 pretty much annually.

HOW could I forget the SNES-era Final Fantasies? Great plots, great gameplay, great soundtracks. Just evergreen.

Morrowind. Especially with mods, it's just as beautiful as later ES games, and honestly much better story-wise. Between mods and OpenMW, I can reasonably look forward to playing it for years.

Lords of the Realm 2. The enemy AIs are entertainingly bad. Succeeding is hard without being impossible. I like how the audio is handled, and the narrator is funny. The graphics are certainly dated, but they were designed well and the game still looks good. It's easy to start and stop, I don't get locked into playing.

Cyberstorm. Doesn't work on my current PC, which is very, very irritating. I loved how the story unfolded as you went through the game. It was full of little touches that made the whole experience fun. The controls were good too, and the UI thoughtfully designed.

For console games, Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time. Those games are masterpieces.

Thief 1 and 2 + some of the top fan missions
Deus Ex
Gothic 2
ADOM

These are my warm blankets, when the world is cruel and people suck.

Oh, let's see...

Morrowind, Oblivion

Baldur's Gate 1 and 2

the Spellforce games

the Stronghold games

Majesty (the original)

Warlords III Battlecry

Vampire TMB

the Deus Ex games

The Witcher games

Drakensang

Might and Magic IX

Lots more to add, whenever I buy them...

You should really see what WZ2100 is like recently, it amazes me the amount of work that the community has been putting into it the last few years. It's kind of hard to believe the game is as old as it is.

I forgot Zelda ! ! !

Jeebus, I've played that like 7 times, both the first one (for the NES) and the third one (for SNES). I loved those games. The second one, not so much. (It was just too damned hard to beat. I got to that last level, and it was so long, and when you died you had to start it ALL over again, I just tried and tried and tried and finally gave up. If the end hadn't been so hard, I would've probably like it better, but it still wasn't as good as 1 and 3 IMO.

For me it's most of the following:

Kid Dracula/Boku Dracula-kun
Mother trilogy (mostly EarthBound and Mother 3)
Lucas Arts Adventure games (especially Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy
Journeyman Project 2 & 3
Fallout 1 & 2
Star Wars: Jedi Knight series
Tokyo Jungle
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle
Gundam Breaker

On PC:
Morrowind. From time to time I get the itch and have to reinstall. Existence of Overhaul project makes the replay-me-now twitch that harder :)

On PSone:
Legend of Dragoon. That game was my childhood. I remember playing it one whole summer... A couple of days ago I actually bought a LoD coffee mug XD

GTA: San Andreas.

Although I don't enjoy it with the same intensity I did 7 years ago, I still relish going fast and furious. Plus, oddly, GTAIV seems to chug on my 8500 GT graphics card.

The Freedom Force and No One Lives Forever games.
Deus Ex.
System Shock 2.
The various Sierra Quest quest games.
Infocom's text adventures...

This isn't counting games like Civilization or Pirates, which are games/series I may take breaks from but never truly stop playing. It's always good to go back and do a long session with one of those.

How about a game I'd like to go back to?

LOL, for some reason I've been thinking a lot about Final Fantasy VII lately. (Might have been that really hilarious Steam review someone posted here about a JRPG).

I never played 1 - 6, nor any after, but I put in a good 30 to 50 hours into that one before I got stuck, but I'm not sure I'm gonna get that puppy to run on my new rigs.

I like this thread. It reminds one of really good feelings from the past, and that's always a good thing.

FUN FACT: Both of my nephews, ages 15 and 20 now, were big into Fallout 3 a couple of years ago. One day they came over to my house, and I fired up and showed them Fallout 1 and Fallout 2.

The words came out of both of their mouths at the same time "So THAT's why they named it Fallout 3. For some reason that tickled my funny bone for a good half hour. I kept wondering what the hell they thought the 3 meant.