Games that took over your life

[corporate_gamer]

gta: san andreas (unfortunately coincided with my GSCE's)
timesplitters 2
age of empires 2(+conquerors)
shogun total war

good times.
extremely long periods of good times. with very few breaks. which will probably have caused eye-strain, RSI and back problems in later life.

 

[Daemon888]

My younger years were lost completely to the original Zelda and FF games on my nintendo.

College was lost to Quake on my PC and Mario Cart on my N64... nobody and I mean nobody EVER beat my lap times on any board... I'm serious... ever.

Grad school actually required some attention unfortunately but I remember several lengthy Halo sessions at my friends house that turned into weekend long binges.

Right now its a mix of COD4 all nighters abusing snotty kids which was only recently slowed down by a massive dose of MGS4 that has persisted since its release. Now that game is crazy addictive...

 

[Mr.Pandah]

WoW sadly...damn that game. I finally kicked the habit about a year and half ago, yet my friends still play >_<

 

[SargentToughie]

That would be Star ocean 2 for the original playstation, I played nothing else for about three months

 

[Terramax]

Final Fantasy VII, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Final Fantasy Online, Under Defeat.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Oblivion, Halo 1,2 and 2, Fable and City of Villains.

 

[zachbob2]

Oblivion
Kotor 1 and 2
Assassin's creed
and I assume Fable 2 and Fallout 3

 

[Tanner fool]

fable
and
orange box have taken total control of my life

 

[Nossy]

Star Wars Galaxies, Portal, and Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master

 

[Squarewave]

Final fantasy XI- Got the game at the end of 2003, Just quit it for the 5th time with around 400 days played

With non-mmos that would be oblivion, probably put 500 hours into it

 

[mbv-]

battlefield Vietnam but don't worry I fought back and won!

 

[Rocksa]

Makai Kingdom, Disgaea, Disgaea 2, and Phantom Brave, well over 150 hours clocked on each one. Damn those games. Other than that, WoW and FFXI had their grip on me for some time. I also played the original Bionic Commando for days and days strait, always loved the end when you blew up Hit...er, uhm...Master D.

 

[Mahoshonen]

World of Warcraft, I'm embarresed to admit

 

[ThrGree]

Fable: TLC, Diablo 2, GTA 3/ Vice City, and The Ocarina of Time.

 

[Tizzle491]

Runescape for about 6 months, City of heroes for about 3 years, Oblivion on and off about 4 months, morrowind 1 year, Kotor for about 4 months Fable:TLC for about 3 months

I can't stand WoW, never played more than an hour of it

And my grades dropped when I got my N64 when I was in second grade

 

[The_Mop]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R - Shadow Of Chernobyl took over my life for a while.

Though, interestingly, it gave a bit back - I didn't know a great deal about the Chernobyl disaster to start with, so I did a bit of research while I was starting up playing it. A few months later and I'm doing a physics research paper, so I thought I might as well use the research and interest I'd gained from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ended up getting 95% \o/

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Suikoden V, I basically did nothing else except play that for like 2 weeks.

 

[Some_Jackass]

GTA Vice City...whenever I could wrestle the controller away from my brother...

...Theres also Gears of War which sucked my life away as I was trying to type up a midterm paper...

 

[Jumplion]

MGS4 when I got it, played it non-stop for a week. Unfortunately i beat it :'(

But overall, every single Ratchet and Clank game, I just cannot put the controller down when I play those games and as a result the games always end too soon for me.

 

[TunaCanner]

Oblivion, took over more than a month of my life, I got all achievements, then spent like $30 to get all of the DLC and got the other 250 points.