If you were paid $1,000,000 in exchange for being able to only play 5 different video games for the rest of your life, which ones would you pick?

[khatun]

Tabletop Simulator
Europa Universalis 4
Super Mario Rpg: Legend of the Seven Stars
Star Fox 64
Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun: Firestorm

Although being honest a million bucks is a really low price for not being able to play a lot of games with friends TBH. Like I'd still do it but I'd be mildly grumpy about it at least once a month

 

[legrio]

Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals

The Ancient Cave by itself is endless hours of fun. The rest of the game is just icing on the cake.

Fallout New Vegas

The modding scene is insane, and there's Tale of Two Wastelands. Two games for the price of one!

Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix

IMO the ultimate refinement of the KH formula. Beating Sephiroth's ass never gets old!

Chrono Trigger

The ultimate RPG. IMO, it's never been topped.

World of Warcraft

As much as I love and hate the game, its the one I've put more time in than any other.

 

[GruntLordRyan]

My 5 picks
1.) Mass Effect trilogy (legendary edition if specifieing one game)
2.) DragonAge series
3.) Modded Fallout 4
4.) Modded Skyrim
5.) Pokémon Fire Ashley fan remake of all regions

 

[certher]

Hmm.

Path Of Exile 1
Witcher 3
Zelda Breath of the Wild
Skyrim with mods
Elder Ring

 

[Ni Kato]

Touhou Games

That's it. That's the only game I want to play.

 

[khatun]

Touhou Games

That's it. That's the only game I want to play.

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But which five! There are thirty-three of them!

 

[Sympathetic 12]

Terraria
Fallout new Vegas
Hoi4
Classic wow
Black souls 2 (Up to change If I think of another H game)

 

[Selias]

Shit, that's a tough one.

World of Warcraft (Wrath of the Lich King)
MapleStory
Baldur's Gate 3
Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
Super Mario RPG

WoW, MapleStory, and Baldur's Gate 3 all have a ton of replayability, Super Mario RPG is one of my favorite games of all time, and I wanted one Pokemon game since I like to replay one of them every year or two. Might replace it with Dragon Quest XI.
EDIT: Actually, I might replace MapleStory with Elden Ring or DQXI.

 

[ScriptGenius12]

My tastes have evolved.

Doom Eternal

HSR

Dying Light

Genshin Impact

Trepang2

 

[Sympathetic 12]

Shit, that's a tough one.

World of Warcraft (Wrath of the Lich King)
MapleStory
Baldur's Gate 3
Pokemon Alpha Sapphire
Super Mario RPG

WoW, MapleStory, and Baldur's Gate 3 all have a ton of replayability, Super Mario RPG is one of my favorite games of all time, and I wanted one Pokemon game since I like to replay one of them every year or two. Might replace it with Dragon Quest XI.
EDIT: Actually, I might replace MapleStory with Elden Ring or DQXI.

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BG3 is a great pic ngl especially because of the modding potential that hasn't really taken off yet because the game is so new

 

[ScriptGenius12]

Again:

HSR

Doom Eternal

Endless Ocean: Blue World

Dying Light

ZZZ

 

[Reignwyn]

Probably... Minecraft, Tale of Immortal, Bloons TD 6, Slay the Spire, annnndddd (forgive me) League of Legends.

 

[bacqqc]

Frankly, for a million bucks I would play 0 video games. I don't play them much these days anyways and don't have nearly the financial security to turn down that money.
Buuut... If you're offering (with all the hardware included) I would go with:
Elden Ring
Bloodborne
Sekiro
Dark Souls 1
And a floater for one future Fromsoft/Soulsborne masterpiece. I don't want to have to pick between DS2 and 3

 

[Sympathetic 12]

Frankly, for a million bucks I would play 0 video games. I don't play them much these days anyways and don't have nearly the financial security to turn down that money.
Buuut... If you're offering (with all the hardware included) I would go with:
Elden Ring
Bloodborne
Sekiro
Dark Souls 1
And a floater for one future Fromsoft/Soulsborne masterpiece. I don't want to have to pick between DS2 and 3

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I was having trouble deciding what fromsoft game to pick but that is definitely a way to do. I can respect a man that knows what they want.

 

[Capitalist DeeDeeDee]

choices are;
Master Chief Collection
MechWarrior Online
Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries
Destiny 2
And either TF2 or TF2
If Digital versions of TTRPGs counted as "videogames" my new choices would be;
Master Chief Collection
MechWarrior Online
MegaMek/MegaMekLab
And TF2

 

[Colonel "Bardak"]

I'm putting Apex legends in my empty slot. After a long time of playing only strategy games, it's really nice to play something like this.

 

[gt101]

This is hard, but if had to chose off the top of my head, it would be:
Elden Ring
Cyberpunk 2077
Fallout New Vegas
Red Dead Redemption 2
And it's a toss up between the Sims 3 or Stardew Valley for the last slot. Fallout New Vegas by itself has about 2000 hours spread over Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Most of those hours on the my dead Xbox, but there is no way I can say I won't ever play again.

That's over 80 days of play time inside a fictional world. Also, one ( or two) of these entries is not like the other... but the other 4 I always have installed. I thought about fighting games like Super Smash Bros Ultimate or Ultra Street Fighter 4, but unless I play in person, I usually drop them. Online fighting games has come a long way, but shit talking your friends is half the fun in fighting games for me. Half of my play time in Rdr2 was from the Red Dead Online version, but it was literally only because you can twirl handgun like Ocelot from the Metal Gear Series.

Speaking of, I would put the Metal Gear Solid collection, but those 3 games were the first time I ever completed a game 100%. Love the story, the action, and especially the scenes, but it playing it isn't fun as much as I remembered. But the MGS series played a huge fact into my love for gaming, so I couldn't at least give an honorable mention.

 

[Fanqolfo]

I'd pick something with huge replay value, indefinite scaling, ongoing support / multiplayer.
I can pick 2 right now and would safe the other two for future releases.

AoE 2 (decent player base for an RTS that's already clocking 20+ years and the support is also ok; more playable countries were added in another dlc recently, I'd pick this over SC2 or Warcraft 3)
The Witcher 3 (assuming Gwent is included) or either a numbers go up = better kinda game like "Heroes of Hammerwatch" or "Geometry Arena".
For anything more i'd have to do more research and wait 2 more decades to see what has been released in the mean time.
And anyway with a million I'd first be busy with the money, properly managing it and planning vacations e.g skiing in the winter, surfing in the summer. At first there wont be much time or interest in games I think.
Even if you take the million and buy US bonds or something on 4.5% interest thats 45k a year, with minimal effort.

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Witcher 3 is another reliable choice, especially considering all the add-ons and Gwent; it's a game you can immerse yourself in for hundreds of hours without feeling repetitive.

 

[Wintercat]

Hum, hard to say, I could see a number of fun games that I'd want to play, and picking any 1 to play above others is sometimes difficult. Picking up just 5 to play for the rest of time?

Ugh, well...

1) Satisfactory - The factory must grow... but I also love the fact resource-nodes are infinite, otherwise, this would be replaced by Factorio.
2) Terraria - I like the battles and the option to expand to multiple worlds and return with resources to primary 'Hub world'. It was either this or Minecraft, and I just enjoy the options here. Honorable mention to Starbound for similar reasons.
3) Skyrim - I liked playing Oblivion a lot, and I enjoyed the good old Morrowind before that, so I'm an Elder Scrolls fan, so this world has its appeal. Never really got into their MMO game though. Still, Skyrim draws me back, from time to time.
4) Rimworld - I like building things up, and toying around with setting up my base and watching after my colonists. I should note that Norland is interesting too, but I have not played it myself, but it would be an option here, just would need to see it finished, first.
5) Graveyard Keeper - Combination of humor, some automation through Zombie-labor, a bit of mystical hints of immortality, and an amusing fantasy world, yeah this is an interesting game to toy around with. Thing is, its the least 'secure' option on this list, I have a lot of other games on mind that could replace it. Some of them pretty lewd and that would push them towards replacing this, but I think that in interest of having fun for longer time and not just following the naughty lure, this with its humor might well bring me back to try again another time. Also, considered Stardew Valley here too, but that is a game I've played so much I think it requires a good break, every now and then, and with limited selection? Yeah, not quite there.

Not a great list, more what I think right now would make for an entertaining selection for longer term, but I figure I'd regret one or two in due time, others, well, they're good as long as you can take a break in between returning to them.

If mods are still very much an option, it certainly helps, as I think three of those have a good amount of Mods, I have never looked for Satisfactory mods but I figure some might exist out there.

 

[Bartimaeus]

Witcher 3 is another reliable choice, especially considering all the add-ons and Gwent; it's a game you can immerse yourself in for hundreds of hours without feeling repetitive.

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While that is true, yet Witcher 4 is pending for 2027. Depending on how it will turn out can you get as many hours of play time out of it as Witcher 3?
Same as Skyrim if you count mods it too is reliable I've friends on Steam with 1700h in both these games.

The longer I think about this, the more restrictive the 1M$ seem being limited to 5 games only.
As would board games count as well like Chess / DnD / Wh-40k? Where as some board game choices are supported on PC e.g. 'CATAN' settlers as is 'terraforming mars'.