Gaming Black Holes

[The_Deleted]

I haven't been as enamoured by a game as I am with Fallout 3 since playing San Andreas and Rome: TW. F3 is the only game in recent memory that has me thinking about it even when I'm not playing it and I know if I do sit down to play it, it is going to swallow hours of the day and I'll forget to do something important.
Which game has had you so besotted that you've lost hours or your life and not even realised it? How long have you spent in one session of play time?
Note: WoW doesn't count. We all know that particular game is Coded Crack.

 

[Zani]

Oblivion, and pokemon games for the gameboy *hides in shame*

 

[J-Man]

Oblivion, Counter Strike: Source and I used to play on this one server for hours on Call of Duty 2.

 

[Sporadic]

I'd say oblivion of course. Considering I just did the mage guild, and kinda felt like i was playing a whole game on its own. And I've just managed to finish Farcry 2 in roughly a day and a half.

 

[JakalMc]

Pretty much any FPS where I have just have to get the next checkpoint or cutscene.
That and the Disgaea series.

 

[kommando367]

note: these are the most play time in one setting. oblivion (12 hours), 2moons (16 hours), Morrowind (10 hours) fallout 3 (8 hours) dead rising (10 hours, we'll actually that was for the lightsaber, not imersion)

 

[Meatstorm]

Morrowind and Fallout 3

 

[Rolling 20]

Okay *deep breath*, don't hate me for this but......Viva Pinata 1 and 2......holy crap....so many hours wasted....seriously....more than a JRPG and i'm STILL nowhere near beating the game

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Kingdom Hearts 2 which I spent 7 hours playing and the Playstation 3 in it's entirety.

 

[vede]

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Just so damn immersive. I would say it kept me from doing homework for school, but I don't do homework for school anyway.

I probably sat and played that game for... maybe... eight hours in one sitting. (On weekdays, too, when I get home from school around 4pm. The only time I stopped would be because I had to eat, but I usually just took bites of food between the parts I needed to be focused on.)

 

[Incompl te]

animal crossing, trying to get all the songs...more than a years worth of effort right there

 

[FluxC]

I spent hours of my life playing Championship Manager 4. It's insane how much a game like that can hook you. I remember when I fractured my hand early on in 2007, I was off work for about 4 weeks. During which I clocked up nearly 110 hours in one week on Final Fantasy XII. You do the math..

Fallout 3 is also keeping me busy. I waited until I had played some of my Christmas games before putting that in the console. And I was right to. Before I put that in, i was disk swapping more than I have in a long time. As soon as that went into the machine, it stayed in for 3 days straight.

 

[corporate_gamer]

Football Manager 2007 had me obsessively compulsively checking bbc sport for new talent and actually debating for hours if i should put out a full team for europe, even though i won't get past the group stages, or if i should save the team so i can give pompey a proper thrasing next week.


But damn it was good when the game got buggy in 2013 and portsmouth crashed out of the premiership while southampton won the treble two years on the trot. And *in my head* it was all to much for redknapp and he decided to paint the wall an interesting shade of brain.

 

[kickin wiing]

I had gone through Resident Evil 4 about 15 times one summer and continued to play it every now and then for a good year.

 

[k3v1n]

counter-strike:source...HOOLY SHIIIITSHITshitshitshit....aah loved that sound,and I'm getting re-hooked to that

p.d.can you actually say "enamoured"?¿ looks like a bad translation from spanish

 

[MrGFunk]

Which game has had you so besotted that you've lost hours or your life and not even realised it? How long have you spent in one session of play time?

I was horrified to find my playtime on Burnout Paradise was up to 200hours. Oh dear. I still haven't done all the online challenges ~ This is because getting people to join in with things you want to do is hard. Finding people who can do all the things you can do at the same time is even harder.

My wife is thoroughly bored of Burnout.

A friend of mine once played C&C for 12 hours on the most uncomfortable stool you could imagine. (I'm a mechanical man, indeed.)

 

[Same River New Water]

Hoooo boy.

Any good turn-based strategy game will keep me locked indoors for a month. Right now it's Fire Emblem, but Advance Wars, Armageddon Empires, Battle for Wesnoth, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, Master of Orion, Civilisation, Colonisation and Heroes of Might and Magic have all sunk their claws into me at one time or another.

Other than turn-based... hmm. When Baldur's Gate came out I could think of nothing else, although strangely I've never played the sequel. Must fix that.

 

[Trivun]

Gears of War and the entire Halo series - shoot me if you want, but they are SO awesome

 

[Librarian Mike]

When I played Final Fantasy 12, I just did the basic story stuff and a couple of side missions and my playing time was around 100 hours. That was the moment when I thought to myself, "I really need to get a life". Also, Morrowind ate up quite a few evenings but it was on a PC so it didn't feel like such a black hole. For me, being in front of the TV feels like more of a disconnect.

 

[Fightbulb]

Wind Waker, Pokemon Pearl, Timesplitters 2 and 3, and Skate. Oh, and all the old THPS games, what the fuck.