Hi together,
lets assume you just got imprisoned for several years(lets say 3 years). You re allowed to take any systems and one game for each year with you. Though you wont get any internetaccess during this time. Which 3 games would you pick? Games you pick should be enjoyable or offer you shuch a good sandboxmechanic which keeps you busy as much as possible to let the time just fly by.
Every additional 2 games you pick will increase your sentence by another year.

The games in brackets i havent played but i think they could work out well for this szenario.

Rpgs: Baldurs Gate2, Morrowind, Fallout3, Skyrim (Wichter 3, Fallout 4)

Games without goal: Minecraft, Terraria, DwarfFortress, X3

Action: (GTA5)

ARpgs: Diablo2, Monster Hunter Series

Strategy: HoMM3

My Tope 3:
From Rpgs it would pick baldurs gate 2 i guess, never finished it but when i played it i already realized ill need a lot of hours to finish it. Morrowind would be second choice. Fallout 3 got kicked out since i never felt so stupit looting boxes like in this game.

Games without goal: this is the hardest part. All 3 games are good in their own way. Id take X3 or minecraft. Minecraft is good for that szenario since youve a lot of time and nothing better to do than just to build up your own world.

Is Gta5 worth it? I guess it is, would you guys recommend it?

ARpgs: Unless u havent played diablo2 aleady for a long time, i wouldnt play it in prison anymore.

Strategy: Heroes has a huge power of killing time i think. Though my biggest time killers so far were aoe and stonghold in strategy.

So here are my games id take with me:
Baldurs Gate 2, Minecraft, and Monster Hunter.
What would be your games youd take with you?

Think wisely, every additional game will sentence you more;)

Thief - The Dark Project

The Suffering

The Escapists

For three years?!! That's a no-brainer.

1. Tropico 4 Collector's Edition
2. Sid Meier's Civilization V Complete Edition
3. Endless Legend Complete Collection

I am going for the long mile here. Those will kill time better than an RPG, action game and so on. You'd get quickly bored with an open-world (or it will be over too fast). But games like those i've listed are there for a long time and have a rather serious replayability.

-Risk of Rain
-Sacrifice
-UT 2004

I'd pick

- Terrarria
- Mount & Blade: Warband (with mods if possible)
- The Witcher 3 (along with a PC powerful enough to handle it ;) )


Funny Sidenote: For all you Steam users, since there is no Internet access, you either have to get your cracks ahead of time, or end up realizing none of your games will work anymore after a short amount of time :P

A game of chess :)
And of course, Gothic 2 Gold Edition.
And probably HoMM 3. Or something supposedly huge which I haven't played before, like X3.

What better prison game than a game set in prison?! That's right, my pick is...Hard Time by MDickie!

Prison Architect and The Escapists of course.

I would probably enjoy programming, probably an entire system from scratch in a virtual machine... But that's not a game.

Let's see... Any Level-5 games would last you a long time, but none of them are on PC, so...

Games that would last me 3 years...

A rogue-like; Tales of Maj'eal (has infinite replayability, although i'd want breaks for sure)
A long RPG (Either say, The Wticher series [tiny](all 3 games plus DLCs/expansions)[/tiny], or Morrowind+All Expansions and modding tools; Unlikely Baulder's gate or Planescape Torment, as the 1st/2nd edition rules are harder to follow/plan for in advance since i haven't touched 2nd edition in 10+ years... )
An action or mindless game. Probably Diablo 2 with LOD expansion and the Zy-el mod.

I suppose at that point i could make my own OS or emulator or chips in my spare time for fun, but aren't really games just an exercise in mental stability at that point.

Interesting topic.
Hard to say what to pick...
Command & Conquer Ultimate Collection would be a good place to start, so many hours of gameplay right there with all those missions to complete (beating some of those missions on the hardest difficulty would take forever)

Super Mario Maker seems good as well (even without access to other levels online, being able to produce and then play an unlimited number of Mario levels seems good)

For the third game, something with a huge open world. Fallout 4 is nice but not sure if the world is big enough. GTA5 might work (its got a huge open world plus anytime the real cops/guards make you mad you could always go into GTA5 and kill a few virtual cops :)

Saints Row IV
Dragon Age: Inquisition
The Witcher 3

fritz 2 - reasonably strong engine
arena or daggerfall - nutritive straing on huge dungeons
panzer general - geting stuck in russian winter guaranteed

Yes it is.

Hmmm i wasn't referring to the TIS-100, which i beat after a few days of buying the game... loved it but what I'm meaning isn't actually a game, you only have a text editor and goals for what you want done, which is not a game. For say a 8-bit computer writing the OS necessary to use BASIC...

Hmmm, tough one though I think most people have gone down the right route.
I'd probably go for two 4x or city builder type games (let's face it.. one game of Crusader Kings could probably last a year, and I'm fairly sure I could stretch a game of Dwarf Fortress to three years if I could survive that long)

I'd probably go with one of the Civilisation games, not V because I find it's a bit dumbed down, but maybe IV (even the DS version I have played was more fun than V on PC, so I imagine the full blown PC version would be great); there's a bit more variety and re playability than one of Paradox's games.

Then probably Dwarf Fortress, as it combines the world building and editing fun of something like Minecraft with city management stuff.

And finally a roguelike, probably ADOM over ToME as I've actually managed to beat ToME and subsequent play throughs aren't as interesting now and with three years I might actually beat ADOM without save scumming (even with save scumming I've come no where close to beating it in the past)