Do you have a Deathly Addiction to a Video Game?

[Volug]

Dont worry, We ALL do.

In this thread people can lists games they have been playing non-stop for the past month, games they are playing now, and games that they have been playing since 1996 ((Final Fantasy 7!!!:smalltongue: ))

I didnt see another thread of this, if there is kindly point it out.
and if a MOD thinks this is better suited for another part of the forum could they move it? i thought it would be better here though...

anyway for my deathly addictions...

Final Fantasy 7
Shadow of the Collosus
Kingdom Hearts 2
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Trauma Center: Second Opinion

yes, that IS a big list....:smalleek:

[tannish2]

morrowind.... i was on oblivion for a while, but then i patched morrowind so that my computer didnt hate it(i played the games in a weird order and seem to be beating them in reverse order, on the subject, does anyone have a working version of daggerfall? my disk seems to have died in the decade since i got it)
civilization 2, i have 4 installed, but 2 is ****ing evil... it runs in windowed mode... it looks so innocent and "play a turn, stir the pasta, then play another turn" but ITS A LYING BASTARD and soon i find myself thirsty, hungry, and looking out the window realizing that it was dark out when i started playing and that that ISNT a sunRISE)

oh, and now starcraft is back in my head, notice my decreasing post frequency? ya, im also feeling hungry and thirsty more, and not using the bathroom until i start smelling something odd.... HELP ME

[Freelance Henchman]

I'm semi-addicted to NWN2 at the moment. Actually I spend more time planning and trying out builds and theorizing about their effectiveness than actually playing.

[Mysticaloctopus]

Tetris.

Little blocks... I see them in my sleep!

[Dhavaer]

Tetris.

Little blocks... I see them in my sleep!

You don't happen to be the one responsible for tetris porn, are you?

[Mysticaloctopus]

No, rule 34 isn't my forte. Wish it was, though; ruining childhoods is great fun.

[Archonic Energy]

Hello, My name is Archonic,
And I am a MoO2aholic,
it has been about 1 year since i last fell off the wagon.

(I bet you all thought i was gonna say Starcraft)

MoO2 cost me a year of college with its highly addictive gameplay...

hmm i feel like a game of Civ now.

[Volug]

I can't ever get enough of this game (http://youtube.com/watch?v=82WXHV-h4wc) ever.

ESPECIALLY this game:smallbiggrin: (http://youtube.com/watch?v=edapSEbF5UI)

[Alex Kidd]

I've had too many to list, but my current one is Persona 3. 70 hours in 9 days. Who could have guessed crossing dungeon crawling, Harvest Moon style social/dating sim elements and teen suicide would be so incredibly fun. Anyone with brains on second thought.

[Tom_Violence]

This thread has the potential to absolutely terrify me, I suspect.

[blackout]

My addiction:

KotOR 2.

I kid you not.

[Volug]

I used to have an addiction to KotoR 1.
then the game disk got busted and i cant get passed the lower city cause of scratches and it cant read the disk:smallfrown: .

If it werent for that, i still would be playing it

[Tamburlaine]

KoTOR. 1+2. They're evilly addictive.

[DeathQuaker]

Very yes.

Oh, what, did you want to know specific ones?

I guess for ones I keep going back to and playing over and over....

Nethack. Very simple, very difficult. Key ingredients for going back for more punishment over and over. (I've only ascended once.)

The Sims/Sims 2. The original game and its sequel combined have probably eaten more hours of my time than I ever want to calculate in the last 7 years. It's funny, because I generally prefer more roleplay oriented games, let alone games that simulate "Real life"... but what can I say? It's fun to play God.

Civ: Any of the versions. I won't play it for months at a time, but I always go back to it in the end. Just... one... more... turn.....

Planescape Torment: RPGs are my favorite genre, but I don't replay them a lot because they require a certain kind of time investment. Torment is one of the exceptions, and even when I don't play it, it's still inspiring to think about.

NWN2: It's hard to say if this will last me years of gameplay since I've had it less than a year, but of new-ish games this one has me going back to it the most. And of course there's so much you can do with one piece of software... play the OC, play user created mods, play in the toolset.... that's enough to keep me occupied for a long time. I'm really looking forward to the expansion pack, too.

[Mysticaloctopus]

Nethack. Very simple, very difficult. Key ingredients for going back for more punishment over and over. (I've only ascended once.)

A feature of all Roguelikes. Curse them! So... damn... good!

[Assasinater]

A feature of all Roguelikes. Curse them! So... damn... good!

Seconded.

Besides those, Heroes 3 and Europa Universalis 2 are highly addictive too. Oh, and Master of Magic. I was playing that game 10 years ago, and I still play it.

[Setra]

I suppose I'll admit my addiction to Counter-Strike.

Just don't mistake me as a typical one.

[LordVader]

Alpha Centauri. Oft-overlooked Civ-style game made after Civ 2 in 1999. Great fun, really. That and Heroes of Might and Magic III.

*twitches* "I'll get off after this turn, I promise!"

[de-trick]

Ive been addicted to
san andreas
age of emires 2
shadow of rome

[Archonic Energy]

Alpha Centauri. Oft-overlooked Civ-style game made after Civ 2 in 1999. Great fun, really.

Please don't go... the drones need you... they look up to you
:smalltongue:

[Winterwind]

While I wouldn't go as far as to say I have an addiction, there are games I sometimes return to even though I should, theoretically, be doing something entirely different (and more important).
The game most responsible for that is, for me as well, Master of Orion II. Oh, the hours years, the hours years spent trying out new races and new strategies!
StarCraft and WarCraft III definitely belong on that list, too - there was a time when I was definitely addicted to those, so much I had to uninstall them and vowed to not install them for at least half a year again. That broke the addiction. Now I play them much more occassionally (it helps that, due to lack of training, my playing skills have atrophied sufficiently to make me too ashamed to play strangers on the BattleNet - yes, I know it doesn't make sense to be ashamed because of people one will never know, but I'm strange like that - and my friends usually know better than to let me play against them while I should be doing more important things).

[JabberwockySupafly]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night usually has me in it's grip. Whenever I get bored with my current play-through of whatever I may be on, it's right back to Alucard's all-too-welcoming arms. I still play FFTactics an awful lot to this day as well. And last but far from least, anything Katamari. Those games are sooooo addictive. Whenever I get bored at work, or on a train ride into Sydney, out comes the PSP & on goes Me & My Katamari.

[Threeshades]

It's interesting because i have never had a game that was really addictive. For a while i could play any game in excessive amounts but after a while they all eventually got boring and started collecting dust in my CD shelf.

I think the game that kept me occupied for the longest time was Starcraft but thats already a long time ago.

[Drascin]

Pokémon Puzzle league is one of the most egregious cases for me. Seriously, the main reason I was angry my N64 exploded was that I could never play it again (I patch it with an emulator, but the graphical problems and the errors in 3D-cylinder mode are horrible. Give me Puzzle League on the Virtual Console, or give me death, Nintendo!). The little colored blocks... they are calling me... and daring me to do x25 chain reactions...

In the same league, but more recent, there is Puzzle Quest. Until I beat 1-p, I played almost literally nothing else. That game is awesome.

Another game that has taken far, far more hours of my life than it should is Disgaea, both games. The amount of hours I have spent training, and levelgrinding, and improving weapons and characters, only to dislike them and transmigrate them and begin anew, again and again, every time a new weapon, class, or level was unlocked, is far into the hundreds. And the thing is, in most games I usually despise levelgrinding. But Disgaea is... different.

[SKarious]

I've spent about 300 hours on Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Does that count?

[Volug]

300? i got 786 hours......

is that a deathly addiction? i bet..... i'm still playing that game ..... it consumes my life and i cannot get rid of it.... kill me.

[Actana]

I have to second the roguelike addictions. I hate the games while loving them more at the same time. I love them sooooo much. *Hugs ADOM*

[Drascin]

300? i got 786 hours......

Whoa. And I thought my 321 were impressive... though I do not play anymore, since the game is, after all, completed in about 80 hours if you go around calmly and take your time to level up and experiment (the main reason I have that number of hours is because of replays from scratch) and continuous replayal gets boring after a while.

[Mysticaloctopus]

Ooh, and throw Fire Emblem onto the pile. In two weeks on holiday, I completed four levels of FE:SS on GBA, played each a load though. I'm no good at FE :smallredface:

[Volug]

Ooh, and throw Fire Emblem onto the pile. In two weeks on holiday, I completed four levels of FE:SS on GBA, played each a load though. I'm no good at FE :smallredface:

YOU SAID THE WORD!!!

.... i have an addiction to it SO bad I cannot say....

alright I will.

.... I've beating every game.... without anyone dying... on the hardest difficulty... on EVERY GAME
even the japanese ones...

[....]

I...uh... I was an Everquest addict for almost four years.

Like, I'd sit down at eight or nine to kill some gnolls or something... and then look up and it'd be dawn and time to go to school.

I slept through many a math class dreaming of Velious.

[Triaxx]

Total Annihilation. Not so much now, but I played it enough that my Skirmish disk cracked.

[mikeforte123]

three words O.o

ELITE

BEAT

AGENTS!!!!!!

[Setra]

I HAD an addiction to Guild Wars, thinking back on it.

Until Nightfall came out I knew EVERYTHING.

Every quest, every skill, every popular, and many unpopular builds, every mission, every bonus, every sell-price, every everything.

I stopped playing when I couldn't get hold of Nightfall.

I had over 1200 hours.

[The Orange Zergling]

Pokemon Red version, back when I was around 8, and, more recently, Warcraft III. Currently not addicted to any.

[Pronounceable]

Doom 2. I've been playing it for about 13 years. If that isn't a deathly addiction, I don't know what is.

Doom was the reason I got a computer in the first place. I can still play it, thanks to Doomsday Engine. Hail to the ports!

[Alyorbase]

I've been addicted to many a game in my days...however currently my addictions are World of Warcraft, and Starcraft.:smallbiggrin:

[Crispy Dave]

cant believe this hasent been said but WoW i dont curently la it but the weekend i did i packed in 77 and a half hours yes i went without sleeping or getting up from my desk(its a good thing i made that tray of brownies befor i strted

Oblivion
Warcraft 3
Guild wars

[Assasinater]

cant believe this hasent been said but WoW i dont curently la it but the weekend i did i packed in 77 and a half hours yes i went without sleeping or getting up from my desk(its a good thing i made that tray of brownies befor i strted

Oblivion
Warcraft 3
Guild wars

That's... 3 full days and 5 hours without getting up from the desk?!

Wow, and I wasn't believing those "guy died of playing computer" things that get on the news... :smalltongue:

But seriously, how? And most importantly, why?

[PlatinumJester]

Harvest Moon. Pulled 2 all nighters growing crops before falling asleep. Then woke up and did it again and then my mum took away my GBA SP. It had gotten the point where I had a field full of pineapples, all tools, all house upgrades, all animals, loads of cash, all records, been to every mine level and had dried my eyeballs into a thick gooey paste.

Bow before the harvest goodness.

[Daze]

Sleepless nights, malnutrition, poor hygeine, perhaps a caffeine and/or nicotine overdose....

Yup, surely been there on more than one occasion. If I calculated the total hours I've spent on gaming from the Commodore VIC I had back in 1983, right up to the PS3 I will have shortly... wow, I'm sure it'd be something completely unreasonable. Perhaps even outstripping the total hours of sleep I've gotten since then? Sad, very sad... but hey, at least it's a controllable addiction somewhat, could be worse.

Anyhow. If I had to pick just one game (among many) that sucked enormous time and energy out of me... it'd have to be Final Fantasy X. Yeah that's right, the game no other FF fan even likes.

I'm a grinder/leveler by nature, so this was a dangerous game for me. After spending about 130 hours completing the storyline, leveling my guys/gals to ridiculous heights, getting every ultimate weapon, mastering blitzball (yes, even the invisible shot), getting every summon and doing every side quest... what then do I decide to do? Put the game down? Nay... Yours truly takes it upon himself to start collecting clear spheres in the monster arena and reordering the ENTIRE sphere grid. Erasing +2's... replacing with +4's, etc...

Ridiculous and pointless I know, but I can't help myself. And yes, I use the present tense (!). Past 280 hours and counting... although I only pick it up every few months or so now. But one day... years from now that sphere grid will be complete and my dream fulfilled. I only hope a cookie pops out of the PS2 or I get a thumbs up from Auron when that happens... *sigh*

[Crispy Dave]

sorry that was a typo it was 47 hours and a half

[Dairun Cates]

three words O.o

ELITE

BEAT

AGENTS!!!!!!

Psh. Real men play Ouendan AND Elite Beat Agents. That way you don't look pathetic because you haven't been playing the EXACT same game for 12 hours.

[PlatinumJester]

Psh. Real men play Ouendan AND Elite Beat Agents. That way you don't look pathetic because you haven't been playing the EXACT same game for 12 hours.

Elite beat agents is cool just for the name.

[Crispy Dave]

o ya forgot about halo all halo yes halo is good

Halo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smallbiggrin:

[Prustan]

I don't have addictions to games. I just have games that I'll play almost constantly until I get bored, and move on to something new or replay something else. The latest in this pattern is Princess Maker 2. I'll probably go back to NWN 2 or UFO:Afterlight when I'm finished though.

[Triaxx]

Yes, I know it's off-topic, but is Afterlight any good? I'm looking for something to take my mind off the fact that I can't find Fallout Tactics.

[Quincunx]

I now feel much better about those eight consecutive hours lost to Pharaoh and/or other city-building simulations. That/those was/were addictions.

EQ I play, but can barely keep my butt in the chair for an entire raid--almost went bonkers on the days the power players backflagged their dualboxes, one mission arc (4 or 5 missions, ~3 hours per mission when not grouped with top-5 warrior & dualbox, another top-5 warrior & dualbox ((when the necro's crying out for a med break, you're pulling too bloody fast)) ) per day.

[Prustan]

Not everyone would like Afterlight, but I do. I haven't yet hit the usual UFO game 'everything falling to crap' events though (that happened in Aftermath as soon as the aliens got launchers). And the characters are quite a bit smarter then previous games.

[Triaxx]

Good something else fun to play.

I forgot to mention Sacred. So much fun.

[Martok]

While I have a good number of games on my hard drive, there are two in particular that I keep coming back to, even though they're both older titles. I've spent literally thousands of hours playing these two games. I just never get enough:

Medieval Total War (2002): I know it's not nearly as "pretty" as its younger sibling Medieval 2, but I find it to be far superior in terms of depth, replayability, and AI. I've never enjoyed conquering Europe more. :smallbiggrin:

Star Trek Birth of the Federation (1999): In a way, it's a mystery that this game remains such an addiction for me. It's horribly buggy, the graphics are definitely looking dated by this point, the AI is feeble-minded, and the map interface tends to be an exercise in frustration. However, the game does have that one certain quality that can suck me in so easily: atmosphere. Whatever its faults, BOTF (as the game is usually called) definitely has a strong Trek feel; with each of the major races having its own soundtrack, voicework, and interface style. I can honestly say there's rarely a week that goes by when I don't spend time playing a campaign. :smallredface:

[Prustan]

I must praise DOSBox, the DOS emulator that allows me to play classics like StoneKeep (albeit quite choppy) and Dungeon Master 2 (albeit with no sound effects, though the music works fine). The other oldies have all worked fine.

[LordVader]

I'm currently battling an addiction to Urban Dead as well.
Darn it, AP, recharge faster! >_<

[Crispy Dave]

o ya i used to be a runescape adict until i played a good mmo even then i still playif im not at home

[Kellus]

I'm fixated on Guitar Hero(s) right now. :smallwink:

[Dhavaer]

Arcanum at the moment. Must get... Droch's... Warbringer...

[valadil]

My only bad addiction was D&D Online. And compared to some players I wasn't even that bad about it. Only 3 level capped characters as opposed to some people with 2 accounts full of capped characters.

[Shovah]

Dominions 2&3 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/illwinter/Dom3/1.htm
Turn Based Strategy Games based on real-world mythology rather than high fantasy(no orcs here).

Both games made by 2 guys with other real jobs.
Poor graphics, but not bad for being made by one guy. Great and very helpful community, great developer-community interaction, consistent patches that also add plenty of new content(free, obviously), good modding community too.
The real seller? The gameplay(mainly multiplayer for a real challenge). The two games are probably the deepest, most complex, and most long-lasting games I have ever played. The magic system is great and deep and the whole game is just great fun.

They have outlasted any other games that I have been into and due to the sheer depth have never gotten old.
I highly recommend atleast the demo(sign up to the forums and post if you need help - it can be quite confusing at first) to anyone.

[asqwasqw]

Fallout 1 and 2... I played both through about 3 times, still ocassionally play (random slaughter of entire towns is fun!)

[Triaxx]

Especially when it's Vault City. They so deserve it. Dynamite in the pocket is always fun... Especially Lynette's pocket.

[Tekraen]

Fallout 1 and 2... I played both through about 3 times, still ocassionally play (random slaughter of entire towns is fun!)

This right here. I downloaded the Megamod so I could play through the EPA Vault, see Sulik's village, and raise cain across Northern California.

[Baboon Army]

Vampire the Masquarade: Redemption is just too awesome to not play. Untill your CD is stolen :smallfurious: :smallfurious:

Also I can't stop playing Age of Empires II, just can't stop.

[Zakama]

I'm lucky enough to not have any addictions now, but once... (no... do I have to say it? [evil dark voice] You must mortal. [/evil dark voice] No! please! NOOOOOOOooo.....

Runescape!

OK, end sarcasm. Man, glad I'm over that one. I wasn't even a member!

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Hello, my name is Zousha Omenohu and I have a Neverwinter Nights problem.

I've tried some of the gateway games like Diablo II and Titan Quest, and had a long addiction to Jade Empire: Special Edition. I tried Neverwinter Nights 2, but I prefer the original, undiluted stuff. I've also tried Baldur's Gate 2, but I just didn't get a buzz from it, ya know?

[Gaelbert]

I've had an addiction to Civilization 2 for 10 years now- more than half my life. KotOR is also a beautiful game, but once you play out every possible ending and side quest, there seems to be no point to it. And I've been addicted to Age of Empires 2 and its expansion since they came out.

[JabberwockySupafly]

I have a new contender for deathly addiction. Monster Hunter Freedom 2. I bought it last weekend (a little over a week ago, that is, not the weekend just past. I keep forgetting we in Australia have to make that clear otherwise people think i'm temporally challenged.), and so far, have logged over 54 hours into it. If I'm awake, and at home, and my wife is not around, i'm on MHF2. Such a good game.

[SmartAlec]

Hello, my name is Zousha Omenohu and I have a Neverwinter Nights problem.

I hear that. Bought it when it first came out, completed the OC... then snapped up the expansion packs. Then tried out a few of the Persistent Worlds out there. Started downloading player-made modules, finding or making portraits for my characters. Then I got back into persistent worlds, but then got hooked on weekly campaigns on NeverwinterConnections.com. Eventually I moved into building and DMing my own stuff. And just when it all seemed to be getting a bit stale, people come out with the Total Conversions; Star Wars NWN, Firefly NWN, D20 Modern.

I can't think of any other computer game that's given me five years of pretty much constant, at-least-one-time-every-day playing.

And there isn't even a monthly fee.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

For me, it's pretty much the OC and expansions. Again and again and again, each time with a different character build!:smallbiggrin:

[Rogue 7]

Civilization. 3, mainly, but that doesn't work on my PC anymore. I've got Civ 4 at home, but my mom wouldn't let me bring it up to college for fear I'd play it too much.

[Prophaniti]

I have so many game addictions... if they were serious drugs I would've been found dead in my bathroom long ago.
Let's see, where to begin.... Civ series, WoW, Guild Wars, KotOR 2, NWN, X-com, Halo 1, 2, soon 3, Starcraft, Warcraft III, Medieval Total War 2 (I love destroying the Pope!!!), Guitar Hero, Unreal Tournament...
That of course doesnt even touch on my rpg games...
I think I have a problem. (first step down, I'll do the second after some game-time! woot!)
(btw, if anyone can direct me to a version/copy of Ultima Underworld that will run on XP, I will be forever grateful!!!!!)

[DivineBriliance]

Its kinda funny Masato loves to exaggerate, Divide all of his game-time hours by 1.5 then round down, now thats most likely his game-time.

[Albub]

I'm currently battling an addiction to Urban Dead as well.
Darn it, AP, recharge faster! >_<

Yeah... I had days where I would play urban dead until my AP ran out, then read every wiki article I could get my hands on (all of them) and then go look at stuff about zombies on wikipedia, and then check and see how many AP I got back, and then cry or something. I'd spend hours on a game where I only actually played for minutes.

[Exachix]

Currently (and Always)
Anarchy Online (743 hours played with X-fire open. More than that in total)

At the moment, also:
Icewind Dale & Heart of Winter.

[Castaras]

Lets see...

I've had addictions to:

Runescape(This was a horrible addiction. Glad I'm off it now. :smalltongue:)
Dungeon Keeper II
Civilization II: ToT
Transport Tycoon(One of my current ones)
Anarchy Online(My other current one. Not really that big an addiction, but still pretty big)
Caesar III
Patrician II
Might and Magic VII, VIII, and IX

And many others.

[TheBoneSplitter]

^^^ Goodness man, M&M IX must've been a nightmare to play through!

I just bought DOOM for the GBA... so yeah. :smallbiggrin: Also bought New Super Mario Bros, permitted that this game will have enough staying power (probably not since it'll be a bit short lived... I don't know if there's enough in the game to keep me busy). Super Mario 64 and basically every other Mario game I get compatibility for I'll end up playing till the end of days.

[Corvus]

I've been addicted to gaming since, erm, the early 80s. Back in the days of the good old Vic20. And the addiction shows no sign of abating....how I've survived Pthis long who knows :P I've got a cupboard full of games, some on 5 1/4" floppies in monochrome.... Thousands of dollars of games in there....

List of games at various times I've been addicted to?

Master of Orion, Master of Orion II, Total Annihilation (and expansions), Civilization, A-Train, Settlers, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Alpha Centauri, Morrowind (and expansions), Diablo II, World of Warcraft, Half-Life, World War II Online, War in the Pacific, and probably more I can't recall off hand.

Top 3? That would go to Master of Orion II, Emperor of the Fading Suns and World of Warcraft (gah, its like crack - I know its bad for me but can't give it up....)

[king korath]

formerly Galactic Civilizations 2, curently not anything but when Starcraft 2 ans SSBB come out that may change.

[Vaynor]

WoW has only been mentioned twice!?:smalleek:

I play, almost 60 total days played. Maybe more.

[Raroy]

I love the fire emblem series. I could beat the ones on the GBA with my eyes closed without anyone dieing. Although the consul versions seem a bit harder for some reason...... Malhcia's(Sp? The light mage) party is so weak! Not counting those stupid strong characters.