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Post by Bobinator on Nov 26, 2014 18:09:53 GMT -5
By that, I mean, what game do you love to pull out when you're bored and want to just generally waste time with when a "bigger" game just takes too much effort? Handheld, PC, console, whatever. Could be something like Tetris, could be something else entirely.
For me... hmm. It could either be One Finger Death Punch, which I've already gone into on the "Best Games of 2014" thread, or, depending on my mood, Klax. They're both pretty simple games, sure, but that means that it's not as much of a commitment to open them up and play them for ten or so minutes when I'm bored and lazy. Cook, Serve, Delicious is pretty good for that, too, since it's not quite as difficult. You just have to appreciate the sorts of games you can just pull up, play for a bit, and put back down whenever, y'know?
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Post by The Great Klaid on Nov 26, 2014 18:12:51 GMT -5
Really depends, usually the title goes to Sonic 1. But, sometimes it's Tetris or Bejeweled.
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Post by Weasel on Nov 26, 2014 18:14:05 GMT -5
If I want to seriously just blow a few hours for no reason, Doom. There are so many different megawads and gameplay patches that there are combinations that I still have not tried.
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Post by Digitalnametag on Nov 26, 2014 18:29:09 GMT -5
Super Mario Bros. If I'm waiting for some friends to arrive I'll plug in the NES and kill some time.
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Post by JDarkside on Nov 26, 2014 18:44:31 GMT -5
LYNE. Indie game I played this year that has daily new puzzles, can be really addictive on hard puzzles, but it's easy to quit at anytime. I play it when I don't want to do something heavy. Before that, I'd throw in SNK Vs. Capcom Card Battle DS for some brain dead fun. It is not a very complex or well balanced card game. I usually try playing with an all female deck as a restriction for the hell of it.
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Post by moran on Nov 26, 2014 19:20:44 GMT -5
Depends on my mood, but Castlvania(NES games or SotN), any Mega Man, or good ol Tetris.
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Post by X-pert74 on Nov 26, 2014 20:17:08 GMT -5
XCOM, Contra, Doom, Umihara Kawase, Mario (mostly one of the games I've already played a ton, like Super Mario Bros. 3 or 64)... lately I've been spending a lot of time blowing up AI bots in Atomic Bomberman. It's really amazingly fun when I don't feel like doing anything else  |
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Post by Dingo on Nov 26, 2014 20:55:22 GMT -5
Before that, I'd throw in SNK Vs. Capcom Card Battle DS for some brain dead fun. It is not a very complex or well balanced card game. I usually try playing with an all female deck as a restriction for the hell of it. I'm glad to see someone else enjoyed this. It's not nearly as good as the NGPC games, but it's a fun distraction and I enjoyed a lot of the card artwork. As for my go to time wasting games, The Ninja Warriors for the SNES would definitely qualify. I would say Contra as well, but I don't have my NES at my apartment so I turn to the SNES for this most of the time. I will also say Real Bout 2, and just about any fighting game now that I think about it. |
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Post by JDarkside on Nov 26, 2014 21:34:26 GMT -5
Before that, I'd throw in SNK Vs. Capcom Card Battle DS for some brain dead fun. It is not a very complex or well balanced card game. I usually try playing with an all female deck as a restriction for the hell of it. I'm glad to see someone else enjoyed this. It's not nearly as good as the NGPC games, but it's a fun distraction and I enjoyed a lot of the card artwork. It's my favorite guilty please that isn't pornography. I've played through it at least four times by now. |
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Post by cambertian on Nov 26, 2014 21:38:01 GMT -5
Mario Golf and Dr. Mario have become two favorites for this sort of thing lately. Dr. Mario's easy to jump into at any point, so I can pretty much just pause it and let it sleep at any time. Mario Golf has a lot of the same qualities, but is a slightly "deeper" experience, if you want to call it that. There's a lot more intricacies involved.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Nov 26, 2014 23:27:23 GMT -5
Really don't have a "time-wasting game." But certain open world games like Red Dead Redemption, Gun and Retro City Rampage let's you going around doing evil things like killing people for no reason. I've found (the few times I've played them,) doing this I find myself wasting time for hours on end. (Man, do I feel bad right now telling you all this with some guilt. But I'm pretty sure some of us have done this in similar games.)
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Post by Lash on Nov 27, 2014 0:12:38 GMT -5
Has Rampage ever been anything but?
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Post by nightdreamer on Nov 27, 2014 3:50:52 GMT -5
Pretty much any NES, SNES, CPS1/2, Neo Geo, Mame ROMs of non-RPGs, but the ones I very frequently load up would be Mega Man, Punch Out, Super Punch Out, Super Street Fighter 2
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Post by Woody Alien on Nov 27, 2014 8:42:10 GMT -5
Nowadays I play a lot Adult Swim's Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe on Steam, nice little hybrid of block-matching and platforming.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Nov 27, 2014 11:22:16 GMT -5
Castle of Illusion, Super CastleVania IV and Bloodlines are great go-to classics for me when I'm in a platform game mood. Other than that, ACIV: Black Flag and Saint's Row IV are great because there is so much to do, you can turn them on for a few hours and feel like you've done something.
Mario Kart 8, Out Run 2006: Coast 2 Coast, SEGA Rally Championship and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed are my top choices when I need to scratch that arcade racing itch that pops up.
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