I'm talking about games or franchises you come back to time and again and have clocked up ridiculous hours in.
This doesn't necessarily mean your 'Favourite' Sega games, but the one you've spent the most time playing, and possibly see yourself coming back to indefinitely.
For me it's got to be Virtua Fighter. I've been playing the series since VF2. When I bought the console my parents said I could get one game, I didn't know whether to get VF2 or Sonic 3D. I went with VF2 since even the 8 year old me could tell that Sonic 3D looked like a cheap cash-in.
Best choice I made on that system, VF must have easily been my most played game. I was mostly playing single player, but even just learning every characters movesets was so much fun. It was the game I'd play against friends each time they came over as well, and I just fell in love with it.
I remember Fighters Megamix came out, and I expected that it would finally dethrone VF2. I played it for an awful long time, but eventually I went back to VF2 just for 'old times sake' and couldn't believe how much tighter VF2 played in comparison and how much nicer the game looked and sounded. I was right back on the VF2 train. Not to mention interspersed with this, I was playing VF Kids for yucks as well.
It was similar story with VF3, even though it was a crappy port on Dreamcast.
Most recently it's been Final Showdown. This is the first time I played VF at tournaments (Even though I'm not a top player my any means, I've now played this game across a lot of tournaments in three different countries). Playing in tournaments just opened up a whole new world of Virtua Fighter. It revealed just how marvellous this game is (not that I wasn't already impressed) and I realised I could play this game for the rest of my life and not get bored with it, so long as I had people to play against. I can't even hazard a guess at how many hours I've poured into VF5:FS across meetups, tournaments, online matches and training mode etc.
So what is it for you guys? Are you a fiend for Sonic the Hedgehog? have you rolled into four digits for 'hours played' in the Total War series? Have you 100%'d every Yakuza game, twice?
