Games you keep going back to?

Resident Evil 2

5 years. I played almost everyday of this 5 year period but lets just say 1200 days for easy calculation. I finished the game at least thrice a day; which roughly calculates to 4 hours.

That means I spent 200+ days for the game... And I'm arachnophobic... :(

Every few years I rediscover EV Nova.

Sonic 2 on the Genesis. I have it on its original cartridge, in a collection on the Gamecube, in a collection on the PSP, and I emulate it on PC. It's my absolute favorite game ever. I just can't get enough of it, and I don't know why. At one point, I was playing it every single day, from start to finish (or at least close to finish), and this was waaaaaaaay after its release. It's not like I was noticing new things or running through new paths or anything... I was just enjoying playing it, over and over and over. I loved the gameplay, the sprites, the music... everything! If I could total up all the hours I've spent with it across all the platforms I've played it on, it'd probably have more playtime than any of my other games. Granted, I don't particularly like multiplayer games, but I play everything from shooters to racing games to RPGs, and Sonic 2 would still very likely have the highest playtime of all my games.

That ability to play the same thing again and again probably has something to do with my childhood. I grew up with a NES and didn't have heaps and heaps of games like I do now. Back then, I'd just play my favorite games (then Super Mario Bros. 3, Castlevania, and Balloon Fight) again and again, just happy to be playing a video game.

mechwarrior 2

DOOM and World of Warcraft.
Fuck their addictiveness.

DOTA 2

At the moment there isn't much time to return to all the old favourites. When I think of the last 15 years it may be Master of Orion 2 and Master of Magic - both are timeless masterpieces. Closely followed by UT99 (because of the great ThieveryUT mod next to its normal gameplay). And then System Shock 2 and Wizardry.

There are many games that I'd really like to play again at the moment. Especially many Dungeon Keeper and Magic Carpet 2.

Sins of a Solar Empire. The best multiplayer LAN rts, apart from arguably starcraft.

I loved Mass Effect on 360, and it was my first purchase on Steam.

Won't fucking play on my laptop, haha. If I could play it I would probably be on there everyday.

I keep cycling through games. TF2, then NFSW, then Minecraft and back. I play other stuff in between, but I rotate playing those 3 games every day. (NFSW can lose its cycle to other F2P games though)

WEll Ihad like 4 playthroughs of Mafia, 4 of Mass Effect 1, 3 of Mass Effect 2 and 2 with a 3rd planned for Darksiders but take into account I don't usually replay games.

Gunz : The duel, I'm still playing this game. I play it like 4-5 years.

left for dead and fallout

Super Mario Bros. the 1985 one, my entire child hood was comitted to it, even my whole family played it and enjoyed it, good memories.

Terraria
Minecraft (Obviously)
Fallout (the first one)
Skyrim
Red Dead Redemption (I've played it for around 200 hours)

That's about it I guess.

rise of immortals

Metal Gear Solid 3 is among the most times I've been through a game. Really amazing story, characters, gameplay and things to do. There are a lot of games I've played that are great or better in several ways, but for some reason I haven't gone back to them multiple times as I have with this one.

Heroes 3 Might and Magic

Diablo 1
most re-playable RPG in the world!

The Ace Combat series, Ace Combat 4 in particular.

I keep playing Fahrenheit. I finished this game already 5 or 6 times. And every New Year i play russian game Space Rangers 2, one of the best games of my childhood.

I always loved all Hitmans, GTA and Fallout series, these games were the most epic for me and I can't stop playing it - ever! :D

Mount & Blade Warband
Any of the Dawn of War games

Mount n Blade games. GTA series. Total War Series.