Games that took over your life
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Americas Army took my entire summer away from me back in the day.
These days its Final Fantasy and the obsession of whether to buy a PS3 just for the privilege of playing MGS4
These days its Final Fantasy and the obsession of whether to buy a PS3 just for the privilege of playing MGS4
I know what you mean. I've finished every quest (dont have any expnsions yet) except the vampire cure quest and the last deadra shrine quest. I know this because I ended up buying the fat ass walkthrough just to check if I missed anything. To my suprise there wasn't much left to do.TMAN10112 said:
Any time I come home with a metal gear solid 4.
Oblivion held a grasp on me.
I was also wow's ***** for about half a year.
Oblivion held a grasp on me.
I was also wow's ***** for about half a year.
A lot of MMO's took over my life at one point or another, Everquest, FFXI, LotRO, and of course WoW.
Super Mario 3 took over my life back in the NES era, so much so that I quite literally thought I heard some of the themes everywhere I went. Yeah, when you play a game so much you start to have delusions, you're playing too much.
Most recently, though, the culprit is Persona 3. That game is friggin' long, but insanely awesome at the same time.
Super Mario 3 took over my life back in the NES era, so much so that I quite literally thought I heard some of the themes everywhere I went. Yeah, when you play a game so much you start to have delusions, you're playing too much.
Most recently, though, the culprit is Persona 3. That game is friggin' long, but insanely awesome at the same time.
Surprisingly enough, I've only played a Pokemon game once. (And that was using someone else's game, to play against that person, who had two different versions.)Shadow Tyrant said:
Now that I have gotten that off of my chest, I used to be obsessed with Dead Rising.
WoW...I was it's ***** for so long...
Now I have new addictions, like TF2. The diacetylmorfine to WoW's heroin.
Now I have new addictions, like TF2. The diacetylmorfine to WoW's heroin.
Zelda: Majora's Mask "forced" me to skip 2 whole weeks of school when it was released
Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6 costed me alot of sleep pulling my grades down cause i was to tired to complete the tests
then more recently WoW stole 3 years of my life
those are the 3 games i've skipped important stuff for
Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6 costed me alot of sleep pulling my grades down cause i was to tired to complete the tests
then more recently WoW stole 3 years of my life
those are the 3 games i've skipped important stuff for
during my summer after my freshmen year in highschool i played tfc pretty much everyday, staying up until 3 or 4am each day playing it.
then i realized i have more important things to do. So from then on out, i never really let a game do that to me...or maybe because i never found a game as fun as tfc to me. Hell, i grew up on that game
then i realized i have more important things to do. So from then on out, i never really let a game do that to me...or maybe because i never found a game as fun as tfc to me. Hell, i grew up on that game
Team Fortress Classic took my whole summer holidays in 2002. Ofcourse more, but that was an unforgettable event of giving my RL up.
I played Diablo2 : LoD for about seven years with some ups and downs in extremeness. Mostly some grinding after returning from work.
And finaly Pokemon. I sunked in for HOURS in red/blue, then gold/silver and after I thought I went away from them I somehow felt myself forced to buy the new "spin off" RPG Pokemon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Time, because playing AS a pokemon yourself without any humans seems insanely cute to me. After 4 days, the game already counts over 30hours of playing. Damn it...
I played Diablo2 : LoD for about seven years with some ups and downs in extremeness. Mostly some grinding after returning from work.
And finaly Pokemon. I sunked in for HOURS in red/blue, then gold/silver and after I thought I went away from them I somehow felt myself forced to buy the new "spin off" RPG Pokemon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Time, because playing AS a pokemon yourself without any humans seems insanely cute to me. After 4 days, the game already counts over 30hours of playing. Damn it...
For me, any game I enjoy takes control of my life, but not for weeks on end. Games like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Orange Box, CnC, Warcraft 3... I enjoyed them all, and would play them non-stop for a few days, but after 2 (or sometimes 1) run throughs, I tend not to bother going back and doing it all again (Bioshock being the recent exception for that lame cut scene heh).
Haha, Its so reassuring to see I'm not the only one that skipped school to play video games. I spent about 2 years of my life on and off Runescape, it couldn't have come at a worse time too since I was just going into high school. It made me miss a lot of important stuff like making new friends ectFronken said:
. Still... I had many a happy time during my addictions as most of you probably did too. Its not all bad!
Final Fantasy XI. Even though I don't really "play" it a lot, I'm pretty much always logged in chatting with friends and linkshell(guild) members. And since there's a new form of leveling that doesn't involve sitting around waiting for a party invite for 2 hours, then building said party for another hour, and then partying for an hour, I can play it a lot more safely now. Like, now I can just log in, get some good experience points, and then log out whenever I want or have to.
Video games, video games, video games, games, GAMES! The ones that really sucked me out of my social life were: GTA San Andreas, Kingdom Hearts 1-2 (even now I have an urge to play 'em!), Orange Box (any sane person would be addicted to that!), Oblivion (yay...), Fable TCL and more or less every FF game I've played (not many ). Kinda makes me wonder why the LONG, GOOD and addictive games are becoming extinct... or maybe I'm not that blessed because I refuse to spend 10000000 euros to buy a current gen console... feh!
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). Kinda makes me wonder why the LONG, GOOD and addictive games are becoming extinct... or maybe I'm not that blessed because I refuse to spend 10000000 euros to buy a current gen console... feh!PS:
That's one of the worst things that Video games may do to you, if you're not careful! For me it was about 2 years before I realized this...Solo508 said:It made me miss a lot of important stuff like making new friends ect
Yup me too. Only two games that have had me so incredibly immersed in them that I completed them in a ludicrous amount of time have been Oblivion and GTA IV. Just because both had pretty good stories and I was given the chance to really get into the game.TMAN10112 said:
