Ever Asked Yourself "Why Do I Even Play This Game?"

[bioshockedcriticjrr]

thats kinda what I thought playing "Raymond Raving Rabbids" which is also why I regifted it to the same person who gave it to me as a gift in the first place

 

[Ben Legend]

World of Warcraft. I don't even know if I had fun. I'm glad I quit.

World of Warcraft.

Its a drain on money, a social destroyer, and a devourer of souls.

So why do I like it so much?!

You make it sound like an addiction, the heroin version of gaming. =/

But it is! First you just play a little bit, and then you play a little more, and then you lose you friends, you gain weight and you are sexually attracted to female night elves. Not that I know anything about that...

Did you do it in a dark room, the lights off, and curtains closed... I meant the gaming... not the night elf thingy =/

Probably. I played all the time. The thing with the night elves was just a joke by the way. *cough*

ahhh.... I'm sure it was... *winks*

 

[atomictoast]

Animal Crossing, I easily put in 80+ Hours into that damn game, and I have no idea why.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Fable II

MAKE VIRTUAL MONEY SO YOU CAN INTERACT WITH VIRTUAL NPCS!

Atleast WoW has actual people to play with. Fable 2 just doesn't have any point to it..

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Only with Call of Duty 4. I was playing it at release, enjoying the multiplayer, but now I can't go back to the online because I realized how ball-breakingly frustrating it is to grind 55 levels.

To true. Another would have to be Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3, I busted one of my controlers thanks to that game. But i still enjoyed it.

Awesome fucking game.


Me? I say X Moto, I suck but I play it all the time, hehe.

 

[Hotfoottfox]

Animal Crossing. I have the biggest house and loads of money, so why do I keep playing? I honestly couldn't tell you.

Nintendogs is another one. I had a Mario hat, but it was my sister's game and she sold it I hit her with the DS after that...

 

[cheeseds]

Garry's Mod. the game has no real purpose and by the time your about to finish something the server crashes and your back to an old dupe but you just cant stop playing

 

[Archetype]

'The Sims' games... But luckily when I got 'The Sims 3' - which I had no idea why I had purchased it - I started creating a Sim and stopped after a few hours because I guessed the game had no hope.

 

[Mordwyl]

Runescape. Sure it felt great having your time and veteranhood respected throughout the community but after a certain point I just logged in for... Nothing? It didn't take me very long to quit permanently after they went ballistic against goldsellers and taking out my ability to help new players out by simplying the game and undermining my hard-earned achievements.

 

[Lynx]

When I sat and played Tetris on my Gameboy all summer just to beat record after record.
Then again, I thought it was fun, so I didn't need to ask myself why.

 

[klakkat]

A list of them. Jericho being the most prominent; I also found myself asking that question on any number of MMOs, as well as a number of action games. I don't remember all of them, so let's see how many I can:

MMOs: (most of which I played for free)
Lineage II
Ragnarok Online
Ultima Online
Final Fantasy 11 (I'm still a little embarrassed I actually played this, let alone paid money for it)
I also mention Atlantica, because despite a good design and new take on combat I couldn't get into it that much.

Console games:
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (for the PS2)
Final Fantasy Tactics (I've heard it praised by nearly fucking everyone. I don't care, I don't like it)
Soul Reaver II
Xenosaga 1 and 2 (I still can't believe I actually bought 2)
.hack
Final Fantasy 10 part 2
Final Fantasy 12

and probably many more I'm forgetting. There are a few PC games I dropped besides MMOs, but Jericho is the only one I remember at the time, owing to its spectacularly bad design and the fact that I play too many PC games to remember the ones that were just barely not worth playing.

 

[quiet_samurai]

I probably ask myself that question at least once with every game I play. Especially if it's frustrating or incredibly difficult. I have been playing games since the first NES so I'm kind of a snob now when it comes to games and I find myself harder and hader to be pleased with them. But there are sparkling gems in that sea of rubbish.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I was wondering has anyone here ever played a game obsessively for many, many hours for weeks on end, not willing to stop, even once you've asked yourself "why do I even play this game?" and unable to come up with an answer?

For me, it's been Harvest Moon for the Gameboy SP. I spent weeks/months playing that, constantly just waking up in the morning, cutting down tree stumps, collecting milk and eggs to slowly but surely build a small fortune to buy a bigger house. But I honestly can't think to this day why I cared less about getting a bigger house.

Anyone?

Oblivion... why oh why did I bother finishing that buggy cluster-fucked pos!?

 

[Daedalus1942]

A list of them. Jericho being the most prominent; I also found myself asking that question on any number of MMOs, as well as a number of action games. I don't remember all of them, so let's see how many I can:

MMOs: (most of which I played for free)
Lineage II
Ragnarok Online
Ultima Online
Final Fantasy 11 (I'm still a little embarrassed I actually played this, let alone paid money for it)
I also mention Atlantica, because despite a good design and new take on combat I couldn't get into it that much.

Console games:
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (for the PS2)
Final Fantasy Tactics (I've heard it praised by nearly fucking everyone. I don't care, I don't like it)
Soul Reaver II
Xenosaga 1 and 2 (I still can't believe I actually bought 2)
.hack
Final Fantasy 10 part 2
Final Fantasy 12

and probably many more I'm forgetting. There are a few PC games I dropped besides MMOs, but Jericho is the only one I remember at the time, owing to its spectacularly bad design and the fact that I play too many PC games to remember the ones that were just barely not worth playing.

Jericho wasn't horrible, not great (but i've played worse), though I mainly played it for the story.
I'm a massive Clive Barker fanatic.
I also agree with you on Tactics. It's good til about the 100th mission. Then I just got bored.

 

[Chrono180]

Everquest stole five years of my life and something like five hundred dollars in monthly fees and expansions. On the bright side, my typing skills improved dramatically. But still, I played it from the release of velious to whenever the "monster missions" came out. Around the time I was grinding the pixie quests I realized "Hey, this isn't fun anymore" and quit. When I picked up WoW a few years later, I realized that compared to EQ, WoW was ridiculously easy. So I made level 43 in a month and got bored and quit.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

World of Warcraft trial. When I grinded to Level 10, I wondered, "What is the point of the game?"

So...yeah...

I'm not touching that game again.

 

[HT_Black]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Bioshock. Both of them gave me spectacular migraines, yet I couldn't just put them down...

 

[badgersprite]

Iron Realms games. I got incredibly addicted to Imperian.