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If your games library disappeared, which games would you repurchase?
Imagine that your Steam account (or whatever other type of video games collections you have) gets permanently and irreversibly erased. Which of the titles you used to have would you then buy again without any hesitation?
Zero. I would dedrm what I had on disk and could since I paid for it already, be sad about the rest and be significantly less likely to bother "purchasing" files containing drm.
But hypotetically games from indie developers that could presumably use the support:
Wow, I totally agreeon Creeper World. I didn't even think I would one day stumble upon someone who knows these games! CW3 is my most played game by hours, surpassing even games like Oblivion Witcher 3 and Age of Empires 2 on my Steam account.
There are dozens of us! CW has been consistently fantastic. CW3 is a good one
My personal picks:
I already paid for all of this, so I'd pirate everything that's not DRM-free on GOG or humble, and procure all the installers for everything else (I do keep an external hard drive with the installers of DRM-free games).
If you're asking to learn what I "still play"/has replay value, there's little I'd need in the short term (that costs money), and therefore little I'd have to pirate immediately. Beat Saber is one, Tabletop Simulator another, maybe Age of Empires 2. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth? Some simulators, like Cities:Skylines? Stuff like that.
Age 2 - an absolute necessity. That said, did they update AoE2DE to do LAN multiplayer like they did to AoE3DE?
Having no access to the servers would kill my reason for playing
When you reference LAN and servers in the same paragraph I'm not entirely sure how you expect the setup to be (I don't play AoE3), but I believe the last time I played the person hosting invited people over Steam. Did they remove the original ability to connect via IP address at some point?
I'm not entirely sure as I saw the option for a LAN match when we played, but our team only played via the online service. I'd have to take another look, but I thought it interesting that the option existed after all these years.
I learned that lots of Vietnamese play AoE2 and that a distinct Civ was created for a super niche community in Vietnam. Because AoE3 is hardly a popular game, I wonder if the decision to add LAN for for some ultra niche group of longtime players who demanded it.
I believe AoE1 is the popular iteration in Vietnam. They did kind of add AoE1 to AoE2DE through a DLC and that had the added Vietnamese civ, Lac Viet.
In light of this, it may come as little surprise that I also enjoy watching reruns, lol!
I've already bought Morrowind 4 times (original on PC/CD; original+2 expansions on PC/CD; GOTY on Xbox; Steam), so what's it hurt to buy it a fifth time?
We make a special trip just for you, same low price!
Not much, just games that I feel comfort playing. Now if we add on to my Switch, then we have:
PS5?
I'm sorry to inform you of this, but Balatro is on PC as well. Enjoy the grind again!
Think that's where I'd start.
Timberborn is where it’s at!!
Honestly if my FFXIV account went away, I'd be done
The story I was hooked on was wrapped up in EW and redoing the story (especially arr, endwalker and dawntrail) would be a daunting enough experience never mind unlocking and clearing all the random things like eureka etc. over the years. I don't have the time I did in 2014 - 2018 especially for MMOs.
I wouldn't mind doing any of the expac content again, even if it would require a lot of time...but I would definitely buy the "skip ahead" thing for ARR. That is such a slog. It's like $10-20 and gets the character to Lvl 60 and at the start of HW.
But if that didn't exist, I'm with you. No way I'm doing ARR again. No thanks!
Oh no, you’ve named pretty much all the ones I was going to, plus a few extras! That means you have good taste (from my perspective) and therefore I really should try the others that I was mostly convincing myself that I could skip out on...
Specifically, I haven’t played Hitman but I’ve enjoyed watching other people play it, and Timberborn was another one I was keeping an eye on but haven’t played yet. I guess I’ll pop them back on my Wishlist and pick them up when I have the money.
I haven’t played Eve Online or FFXIV but I think Star Citizen and Elder Scrolls Online scratch those respective itches.
The only ones that come to mind that you haven’t listed would be Terraria, Astroneer, and Eco. Maybe something like Just Cause (2 or 3) for silly mayhem, and FTL because it would be great fun to start over from nothing and unlock all those ships again.
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I love Hitman. I don't play a whole lot of action games, but when I do, I love stealth games. Hitman tops it, but the Splinter Cell series, and Deus Ex HR/MD are probably my favs. Though Deus Ex doesn't have to played stealth.
I have Terraria, but I've never played. And Astroneer has been on my wishlist for awhile now, just never pulled the trigger. I'll have to try both!
FTL I have played and yeah it's a great one, basically the first roguelike I ever played, but I haven't played it in years. One game the reminds me of FTL that I did played in the last year, though it's a card-based game, is Cobalt Core. I also tried another called Crying Suns, which reminded of FTL, specifically because you really can't/shouldn't go backwards. Gotta collect resources and upgrade your ship and all that, but the combat is completely different. It's more RTS than anything.
Answering for my kids (whose happiness is my happiness):
Geometry Dash
Celeste
Minecraft Java
Portal
Portal 2
Cookie Clicker (the one I don't enjoy)
Wow, that's a really good question!
Games I would love to have in no particulate order (and not taking in inspiration from others, so I'm intentionally "forgetting" some I wouldn't come up with myself):
There are certainly others I would buy again, but these are the ones that immediately sprung into my mind.
Oh! How could I forgot Stardew Valley! And Talos Principle! I would buy those two immediately!
I'll go with my all-time favorites starting in early childhood, since they hold the most emotional value to me, in no particular order (hopefully chronologically):
Spotted the 90's-era Apogee and Epic shareware fan.
<3 <3 <3 <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfzg2vuqia0
I only ever owned the demo of Wacky Wheels. That didn't really bother me, I could play that game over and over and over. Occasionally there'd be an additional level available and I never could figure out what the trigger was for that level.
A nice extra challenge from what it sounds like! It was my very first boxed game my parents bought for me when I was like, 5 maybe. Glad you got to experience it, the music is forever stuck in my mind ;D and the Youtube channel Jay Foreman/Mapmen occasionally uses it as background music which causes me a lot of guilty joy.
I think I would just re-buy whenever I felt a strong desire to play one of them. There are a lot of games in my digital library that I love, and like the feeling of "owning" even if I don't play regularly, but I don't think I would immediately re-buy those games "without hesitation" if they were lost.
So... probably Slay the Spire, Balatro, or Celeste would be the first one I'd get a craving for. Someone mentioned Halo MCC which I think would be another strong candidate, however it has been quite a while since I booted that one up. Along the same lines, maybe Duck Game.
Dark Souls
Dark Souls 2
Dark Souls 3
Bloodborne
Elden Ring
Monster Hunter 4U
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
Monster Hunter Rise
Monster Hunter World
Minecraft
That's it, that's all I'd need.
If I lost all access to my games libraries, I’d probably would revisit a lot of games through YouTube. I don’t actually play that many games anymore. More fun setting them up in my opinion.
Probably just Total War Warhammer 3, because then I would have to buy all of the other games and DLC again to have everything. Small fortune, especially buying it all at once.
I have over 990 hours in as well as over 426 hours in the second game.
I would want to get other games back eventually, or just pirate them. But the amount I have played these games... I guess I have a problem.
Assuming you're only asking for digital games:
1: I have a physical copy for xbox, but I would prefer playing it on PC.
There are other games I'd rebuy later, but if I had to give a list "rebuy now!", this is it.
Probably just whatever game I was actively playing at the time and maybe whatever's next in my backlog (right now that would be Watch Dogs Legion and Red Dead Redemption 2 respectively). As much as I like to think I will when I impulse buy during Steam sales I very rarely go back to games I've already finished with, so I don't think I could bring myself to buy any of that again.
If Nintendo deleted my games library I'd just throw my Switch in the garbage and that would become the last console I ever bought.
Probably just Ozymandius since I still play it sometimes.
I only really play two games, so them:
Scrolling down my Steam library and Nintendo eShop titles... I'm trying to curb my gaming time (not because it's a problem; just have upcoming life events) so I'd probably just want the games I occasionally pick up and get sucked into for a week or two, then drop (rinse and repeat after a few months). So that would be...
I'm sure there are a few farm sim or indie titles I'd rebuy just because of (usually) lower price tag and supporting the devs, like Stardew if I feel the itch (though I don't get that into it as often as the above)
I would miss many games and remember them fondly, but there are only two I would have to own again: Factorio with DLC and Noita.
Halo Master Chief Collection
HL2
Assetto Corsa
The 3 Batman Arkham Games
Bioshock
I don't actually play most of the games I own. The only ones I would repurchase immediately would be Stardew Valley because I want to support my favorite dev, and Titanfall 2 because I want to support my favorite game. After that, I would either buy or pirate anything I have a hankering to play
FTL, Crypt of the Necrodancer, and KSP would probably be reobtained pretty quickly
At this point, I'd probably just drop the PC architecture and go for a Playstation or a Nintendo. Or I might stop gaming altogether. My vast Steam library is probably holding me as a kind of hostage right now.
I have only one. And that's Dragon Age Origins. It's the only game I've replayed over and over and wouldn't mind replaying again still.