Comfort Food Gaming

Hey, everyone, I'm looking into the feasibility of writing a Thing about comfort food gaming. Before going further, some general thoughts on what seems to categorize the practice:

• Recovering the feeling of play when you're too tired, scattered, or stressed to handle novelty.
• The appeal to nostalgia, either the specific experiences you had with the game in question or what was going on in your life while having said experiences.
• The appeal to achievement, revisiting games you've taught yourself to autopilot.
• Completism, the desire to "once and for all" finish a text you've already "finished" by most reasonable standards. Predominantly associated with open-world games, which constantly provide "excuses" to keep playing.
• Perfectionism, the desire to use hard-won knowledge of the system to moonwalk though things that had previously been difficult.

I've written briefly about my comfort food gaming staples: Final Fantasy Tactics, Quest for Glory, the entire DS-mononucleosis library. I'll presumably be writing about them in some more detail. In a desperate bid to avoid that, how about you? What old games can you not seem to stop replaying, even though you probably "should" be playing something new? Has the behavior changed as you've aged? You have aged, right? Are you Fae or what?

This will look really dumb if there aren't any comments, so, y'know, get on that.