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One Game For 150 Days & Nights

Let’s paint you a scenario that actually occurs more often than you think. Let’s assume you know a guy who knows a guy, you see where this is going. One of the many major oil corporations own oil rigs in extremely remote locations such as Alaska or Northern Canada. During the winter months, the environment is too extreme and dangerous to have an entire manned operation commuting back & forth from the site. What do they do? The rig continues to run during the winter months at a much smaller capacity. However, it always requires maintenance and minor routine checkups with the occasion button push and level pull here and there. Sounds bizarre to believe, but some lucky (or not so lucky) individuals are getting paid anywhere from $60,000 to $100,000 to stay at these oil rigs during the desolate times. Not being able to go outside due to the freezing temperature, short days with limited sunlight, and no one to do activities with…it’s fair to say that one of the few fun activities you’ll have is gaming. Now here comes the twist, you can only bring ONE GAME in which you will play during your 5-month stay. What game possibly packs so much entertainment value that you can play repetitively without going crazy. Due to limited human interaction and a diet of frozen/canned food, we decided it is only fair to include a moderately fast internet connection. So let’s dig in and see what are some of the top games we selected and let us know in the comments what you think.

Skyrim

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came out in 2011, yet it is still played by thousands of players every day. Mods on the PC have kept the game interesting, and a remastered edition came out in 2016. Bethesda created a masterpiece with a fun story line that takes place in a large game world. A lot of times, the side quests are so interesting that you often forget about the main request. There are many guilds and factions to join while you travel the lands and lose yourself. The mods available online add a great amount of depth to an already deep game. Anyone who is a true fan of the RPG genre is certain to admire The Elder Scrolls, but Skyrim really takes the cake as the best game in the series. This is a game where you can easily lose hundreds of hours of your life and not regret it. A great choice to play for an extended stay of solitude.

GTA 5

Grand Theft Auto V was an instant smash hit in 2013 and continues to entertain many every day. With an extremely long single player campaign and really fun multiplayer, it is easy to see why people are still obsessed with it. The single player world is huge and more immersive that almost any game out there. The characters are highly entertaining and hilarious, the missions are fast-paced and exciting, and there are many aspects to the game. There is also mods available online that can change the experience for you. Between bank heists, shootouts, car chases, planes and even boats, this game has many different gaming genres packed into one legendary blockbuster. This is easily one of the greatest games you can repeat night in and night out for an extended period of time.

Fallout 4

Another Bethesda classic in our list, Fallout 4 was an amazing follow up to the masterpiece Fallout 3. Released in 2015, the game takes place in the future post-apocalyptic Boston that was hit hard with nukes a few centuries ago. The main objective is fairly simple, you must find out if your son is still alive and save him. After a few hours in, there are so many deep elements unfolding that it is easy to forget what is going on while you try to survive. The fairly large single player world has many fun twists that introduce you to different factions with their own agendas. With different endings, it is likely that you will have a few play through and different methods in your play style. Did we mention you can also build small settlements however you see fit? Yeah, don’t get us started on that one.

Witcher 3

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt won many awards in 2015 as many viewed it as the best RPG to be released since Skyrim. The scope of the size of the world in this open sandbox game is crazy large, up to 30 times larger than the earlier Witcher titles. The intense missions are some of the most fun you’ll have in an RPG. The combat system is superior to Skyrim, while the story line keeps you fully engaged. The side quests are as awesome as you can possibly get, distracting you from the main story quests. The Witcher 3 has some of the most beautiful graphics you can find in a game. It is the complete package for a Triple A title, perhaps only missing a co-op feel that multiplayer could add. We have no doubt this game can keep anyone occupied for any extended period of time.

World of Warcraft

Is it possible that a game that came out in 2004 is still relevant in the year 2017? After many expansion packs, updates, and improvements to the graphics, you’ll be surprised. World of Warcraft is quite frankly one of the most successful video games of all time, and possibly the one that sucked up the most amount of hours of any other game out there. There is a fair amount of us that stopped playing many years ago, which would be very refreshing to try this game again with all the new features. When Blizzard makes a game, it is great for years to come. There was a big spike in the number of active players once the Legion expansion pack was released in late 2016, quite the revival for a game that was starting to die down. The World Of Warcraft map is biblical, it is impossible to comprehend the scale of it unless you have played it for a long time. This game can easily eat up six months of your time before you are even grinding for the end-game gear that everyone wants.

Diablo 3

Blizzard released Diablo 3 back in 2012, but the game truly became great when they killed the auction house in 2014. Sure, it’s been 5 years since they promised us PvP which never arrived, but we are willing to overlook that minor detail. Diablo 3 is one of those dungeon crawlers you can play with friends every single night without getting bored. Diablo 3 is an interesting game in the sense that it requires a lot of grinding in maps that are familiar, but it takes a long time to find the proper loot to make you the best player possible. Then you also have to tinker with different skills, rotations in which you use your skills and different ways to go down the skill tree. Sometimes you may even scrap an entire game play and find a new one later on that makes your character feel fresh. Once you’re tired of that, you can even start a new character brand new and not even feel like you are wasting your time because the experience is completely different. Blizzard games always do a good job of never boring people with their repetition.