Which game is a timeless classic for you? One that you frequently replay and never get tired of.
For me, it's the original Resident Evil. Ever since it first came out I have always found this game to be so much fun to playthrough, I've played it dozens of times on each character but still enjoy a near annual replay.
The other games in the series are good but they just don't hit the same, definitely have played this one more than all the others.

Halo 1
love shootin aliens

I replay Heretic many times per year. When I start I can't stop. It's just that good.

>>11797396
Also this. Halo 1 is like crack.

>>11797298 (OP)
Omg same anon. I don't know what RE1 is doing with my brain, but I also play this game nearly annually. I've probably played it many times now since I bought it probably around 98' and I still never get tired. Maybe it's the tranquility and being "alone" that calms me down after too much stress in my every day life. The save rooms and the garden ambience especially adds to the coziness despite the shortness and repetitiveness of these.

RE1
Viewtiful Joe
Devil May Cry 1
Tomb Raider 1
Crash 1
Super Metroid

All games that I can just sink into such a nice comforting rhythm with. With the exception of Tomb Raider and Crash, I feel like I can always try new things with them too.

>>11797298 (OP)
TES III: Morrowind
Starcraft
TloZ: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Final Fantasy X

These are the peak of retro games for me. In some ways still unsurpassed.

>>11797298 (OP)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on SEGA Master System. I hated the Game Gear port as a kid because I could never beat the 1st boss, even with save states, and I only heard horror stories about the Chaos Emeralds and levels like Green Hills where the screen crunch was even worse than usual... then I played the console version years later and it was a whole new level of quality, its genuinely crazy what a difference the resolution makes. I love Sonic and a title without special stages, where you have to go explore for the Chaos Emeralds, where levels are shorter and smaller in general, where you can beat the thing in less than an hour if you're used to it, it just makes it the most replayable title of my favorite franchise for me, it's "that video game" for me.

P.S. I can't believe Tails is fucking dead.

Amiga version specifically. It's such sovl, especially the soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3110BaS-pA&ab_channel=EluExtends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHf22UhCnVE&ab_channel=Kuokka77
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2eIuXcTk80&ab_channel=Ashitakai

>>11797298 (OP)
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six (NES). It's a 15 minutes long 1LC when you're used to it, and a fun one. I love the IP and I grew up playing this on a Famicom clone, went back to it years later thanks to emulation and finally beat it, now I beat it for fun when I have 15 minutes free and nothing better to do, it's just comfortable to replay for me, also love the moody atmosphere, the simplicity, the exploration in the 1st half, but also the linearity of the 2nd half, it all just works well, the bosses are fun to play too.

DBZ Budokai 3 is the best dragon ball game period. Tenkaichi toddlers need not apply.
>soulful as fuck story mode
>amazing post game mode that feeds back into subsequent replays of story mode at higher difficulties for grinding levels/unlocks
>the fighting is clean and fast
>that amazing plagiarized soundtrack
Only bad thing about the whole game is hyper mode, which I admittedly hate, but everything else is so good I can ignore it. I’ll sit and grind Dragon Arena with different characters endlessly and never not have a good time.

>>11797298 (OP)
>The other games in the series are good but they just don't hit the same
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OG RE1 is best RE

SMB3
It did everything right as a platformer.

>>11797298 (OP)
Mega Man 2

>>11797298 (OP)

1996 - 1997 were like the death years for live action FMV cutscenes. You just saw more and more pre-rendered stuff. RE2 for the PS1 has some pretty slick 30fps pre-rendered FMV cutscenes.

Deus Ex and Super Mario World

>>11797298 (OP)
I have played RE1 multiple times, I didn't even play it as a kid since I had an N64, so it's not nostalgia, it's just too fucking good

System Shock 2. Mind blowing and addictive. The stats progression feels more empowering than any game out there.

>>11802118
Me but with SS1

Silent Hill 1
I'm sad that they're not going to ruin it with another slop remake

For decades now I literally always have a playthrough of Ecco the Dolphin going on some platform or another. It's my go-to game for relaxing at this point. Every time I beat it I just start at the beginning again so I have some version of it on almost everything. The 3DS port is the best out there though so it's the one I usually go with.

I’ve beaten Timesplitters 3 multiple times.
Sonic 1 of course.
Mortal Kombat 1
I always play Columns.
I could just stay with the Genesis library forever, play once a day, and have a good time.
Tomb Raider 1 is an essential game.
I have beaten Road Rash 2 & Marble Madness many times.

>>11801259
I was going to ask what you thought of Infinite World but then realized it's technically not retro.

DOOM. Honorable mention to Duke Nukem 3D as well. Both are great games but DOOM is definitely easier to turn my brain off and blast through, but I will probably never tire of either of them.

>>11802462
Is this what you look like?

>>11797298 (OP)
I would say Half-Life 1 but that game has its higher highs and lower lows. Road Rash 3DO/PC however is awesome through and through.

>>11802497
I’ll answer anyway lmao. IW has the best and most balanced combat in the series but worse everything else. Budokai 3’s presentation and overall content/post-game grind is much more coherent. IW has an admittedly hefty story mode but it’s presented really disjointedly. This paired with the post-game literally just being a reskinned story mode with no overarching theme except “grind money to buy all the skills lol” I think makes it overall weaker than B3 despite the improved combat. That’s not even mentioning all my nitpick complaints like no more voiced menus, no world tournament mode anymore, tldr it’s sorta soulless.

IW is probably the better Budokai fighting game but B3 is a better game period.

>>11797298 (OP)
Holy shit is that Bruce Willis??

>>11802756
Yippee ki yay, Wesker

Dragon Quest (whole series)
Xevious and Ultra Xevious
Tekken 1-3
SoulEdge
Crash Team Racing
Ridge Racer type-4

I am in an eternal DQ loophole where I feel like playing an old JRPG and just start playing DQI, then I feel like playing DQII next thing I know I am replaying the whole franchise for the million time, right now i am playing DQIX on my phone (pic related) and will start DQXI as soon as I get all non DLC monster full descriptions on the bestiary, as for the rest of the games I play them at least once a day, before coming to the bathroom I was just playing Tekken 1.

>>11797298 (OP)
For me it's RE4. I love the gameplay, levels, encounters, characters, and pretty much everything about the game. I genuinely choke up with positive emotion every time Leon and Ashley ride off into the sunset at the end of the game. I assume for you it's the same when the surviving STARS members are in the helicopter at the end of RE1. RE1 is also really fun to replay because it's such a finely tuned game with absolutely no filler. On the other hand 4 is more of a multi-day adventure unless you're on NG+ but that's what I prefer. Both 1 and 4 have a very amusing campy style to the story as well, maybe it's a Shinji Mikami thing, but it makes the dialogue extremely charming and quotable.