THE MOST ADDICTIVE GAME YOU HAVE EVER PLAYED

Rikimaru_X

I would like to know from the community, "What is (was) the most addictive game you have ever played?" What do I mean by addictive? A game that you could never put down no matter what.

For me, Morrowind was my drug. To this day I sill think it's a beautiful game. The game has made me
cry (i'm a pretty hard guy), laugh, wonder and I get my usual WTF
moments. I remember I fell out of my chair when I first saw a vampire run up to me in a cave. It creaped
me out and I'm still afraid to go inside GhostGate even when i'm lvl 48+. Oh someday...someday.

I mis my favorite flying creatures, levitation, the...worm egg things (), Dumers..well their technology. I used to know all of the names till I got soaked in Oblivion. The one daderia (well lesser one) that I will never for get is

SCAMP

But ehh they are strong in Oblivion and you know when you are running from a SCAMP when you was a Morrowind player..that it's pretty sad.


Anyway guys, share your most addictive (that means only 1) game.

Vanillacream

For me it was Anarchy Online.

It was my first love for the MMO games, and I really got into it. Sure Singelplayer games get you hooked, but AO pushed me farther then ever before. I just HAD to get to max level. Seeing people higher lvl then me stressed me out. LOL

Addictive for me would be forgetting to eat and starting to feel faint, something AO did to me. I actually lost alot of wight plaything that game....came back quick tho!

BUT I fear that SPORE might get me hooked, but not addicted...., if its as good as it looks, and it holds up to what they are saying about it who knows?

Getting addicted to Singleplayer games...well I dont see it happening. I mean there is no pressure, no compitition. I think thats why so many people get hooked on MMOs.

Uiruru

I disagree with what you say about MMOs, I think if they have really good plot then the pressure is to find out what happens next.

bmjames80

My first MMO addiction was EQ, second was AO, and im still searching for my 3rd.  My first singleplayer addiction was the old Final Fantasy games, still break em out and play em every so often.

outfctrl

Mine was Ultima Online back in the late 90's.  I used to skip work to play, especially when I was GMng my blacksmith.

daeandor

Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear.  I was utterly addicted trying to maintain my ranks on multiple ladders.

baff

Ghost Recon had me doing 20 hour days for a year.

Enigma

Slickinfinit

Army ops was my fist comp addiction where I spend 3-4 hours per day playing but SWG took that cake I went a little crazy when into SWG and used to spend 6-12 hours per day on SWG! It got so bad I kicked a out my gf for nagging about my SWG time and she was HOT! I regret that decision lol.

oklahomaer

mine was dark age camelot but all the people that played quit.  that makes me sad... lol

shae

Lineage started my addiction but SWG became my crack the moment I started Beta. It was a steady downhill from there, or uphill, heh, guess it depends on how you look at it. I'm actually amazed I came out of that with any sort of social life left, or family, or friends and education.

Good learning experience though, as much as I still love MMO's, I'll never let one take over my life like that ever again, there's just way to many other important things to do in life then to make a game your central focus point.

seabass2003

Any of the TOTAL WAR series games. Man there is so much carnage and death, I love it. I can't wait for Medieval Total War 2 in November!!!!!!!!

8hammer8

For me it was Guild Wars when I first got it...at first I spent all my time trying to go everywhere in the environment and help people in my guild, but then I decided to check out the PVP aspect....at that point it truely became a different beast.  I would usually start playing around 6 PM and then I would begin to realize it was getting late/early when there were more European players on the North American server than North American.  I would stay up til 2-4AM and get up for work at 7.

It was always about the next challenge for me or finding that group that clicked and went on huge runs.  What build to use, so on and so forth...I need to get my computer built...I miss my games.  Currently playing Morrowwind for the first time and finding my self only staying up until 12:30 or 1AM, but that is only because I am wiser now.

WantsumBier

The first game that got me hooked was the arcade version of Donkey Kong. I must have put $5K worth of quarters into that thing. For computer games each of the CnC series stole days of my life away.

Xexima

For me it would probably be america's army.  I played that every day as soon as I got home from school to midnight every day for a few weeks straight.  It would either be that or Guild Wars.  That reminds me, I haven't finished it yet. ... I usually just played pvp in GW.

LilithIshtar

Lineage 2.

Laserwolf

Toss up between UO and Battlefield 1942/Desert Combat.

At least I spent the most time playing those games. Almost 6-8 years daily with UO and 2-3 years daily on BF1942 and DC.

Jackcolt

Command & Conquer(first one)

Damn I could play that forever...

Shiymmas

Since it wasn't specified that it needed to be an MMO, Half-Life.  I got the game in early '99, played through single-player a handful of times, then accidentally stumbled into the multi-player option.  After that, it was all TFC, CS betas, etc..  TFC was my first real online game aside from Rise of the Triad back in the mid-90s (over a 9600baud connection with a RL buddy), and it kept my attention for hours at a time.  Really, to take it offline, I'd have to say the Fallout series, though.  I'd stay up late at night to play Fallout 2, then wake up only hours after getting to bed to get to school, then sleep through my first period class.   Of course, Fallout didn't hold my attention for over 2 years and keep me glued to the PC quite like HL.  There really was nothing like sniping in TFC with that awesome laggy ass dot on my 56k, pre-netcode adjustments, that is.  Who in the hell needs client-side prediction?

To specify an MMORPG, Final Fantasy XI.  After a stint in the Planetside beta, then the disaster that was retail, I moved to FFXI with a few buddies and man what a game.  I'd never seen anything like it, and haven't since.  That game really did kick ass.  Good times man, good times.  To this day I still regret quitting FFXI shortly after WoW's release.  I only hope some of the upcoming MMO releases won't disappoint like so many others in between.

Cowinspace

shogun: total war

still play it, even more than rome.

SnaKey

I played Dransik 36hrs straight once.

Infliction

Suppose that'd be a tossup between The Realm and Counterstrike. I played The Realm for a bit over 3 years long long ago, and I've played Counterstrike off and on for the last 3 or 4 years.

Boozbaz

Diablo II lord of destruction. I basically lost @ college because of that....well that + alcohol,

Blurr

Everquest.

The original Evercrack. I played that game for 5 years, and played it waay too much and too often.

patheos

played runescape from 6th grade to the end of freshman year. d2 lod from there to end of junior year.

Neveras

Final fantasy 3 us for the snes. My first experience with an rpg. I rented it from the video star when I was a kid, played it like mad (with the sound off at night when my parents thought I was asleep) then promptly told my parents that I lost it. Got punished for a week, but kept the game and played it on the sly. I was a bit of an evil eleven year old.