Gaming Black Holes

[Xpwn3ntial]

Civilization Series, any Pokemon game, any final fantasy game, Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I'll just give the obligatory answer of Fallout 3 and Oblivion. Sucking entire weeks out of my life between 'em. Used to be that way with Guitar Hero type things but I find myself playing them less and less these days.

It's my Oblivion addiction that's responsible for keeping me away from MMO territory. I've ploughed nearly 200 hours into my current save and still have two thirds of the Mages' Guild, most of the Daedric Shrines and a load of miscellaneous quests to do. So it's fair to say there's been a lot of aimless messing around... and that's on the 360 version, so no mods. I'm intending to upgrade my graphics card (this weekend, actually) and get the PC version just for the sake of dicking around with mods. I've already missed enough study to virtually guarantee that I'll fail this year of my degree, so I might as well enjoy myself while I'm wasting the rest of the year...

That said, I could do the modding on Morrowind which I've already got and am able to run without an upgrade... but having only played for about 20 minutes I'm obviously not that familiar with it, which I'd like to be before getting into mods an' whatnot.

 

[-Javelin-]

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.

Heroes of might and magic 3, such a cracking game.

 

[Lord_Ascendant]

Guild Wars, I spend many hours on that just grinding myself retarded.

But other games like Final Fantasy 12, or Morrowind, or Team Fortress 2 had be obsessed.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Most recently:
Bioshock. 20:34 to 8:34.
All time:
Tf2. 16 hours.
Favorite time eater:
Aquaria and Python. (python the programming language, though that ain't a game it still swallows time en masse)

 

[CrazySlyHawk]

LoZ:Oot. 12 hours of play from 11 'til 11 in the summer of '07!

 

[Brokkr]

Oblivion and Fallout 3.

 

[Abedeus]

Diablo 2. Neverwinter Nights.

Both these games are awesome. I think that there was a time where I could play NwN from 8 am to 8-9 PM with stops only to eat something. In summer, of course, because during school year I can only play Diablo 2. But it does consume a lot of my time.

Other than that, I loved playing Megaman Battle Network series on GBA, especially 3rd one.

TF2 - Ah, yes, I bought the game. I lost 6 hours. And another 6 day later. Great online FPS.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Battlefield: Vietnam and Battlefield 2. Sunk SO many hours into both. Played on ladders, the whole shi-bang.

Single-Player: BioShock and DarkMessiah of Might amd Magic. Would play those for several hours without realising what time of day it was.

And Pokemon Blue. FTW.

 

[Sennz0r]

Morrowind (hell two years of continuous play), Oblivion, Neverwinter Nights (once went to a bar, got back and thought "ah let's play a bit of NWN". I played till it was light out again), Halo 3 Matchmaking.

 

[PureChaos]

Phantasy Star Online ep 1 and 2, Twilight Princess

 

[AuntyEthel]

GTA Vice City. Best GTA game ever made.

Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Been playing it solidly since it came out (1999). In fact, I'm gonna stop everything and go play it now!

 

[Daymo]

Civ 4 and FF 12. With Civ 4, three friday nights in a row i play from 10pm till about 3am. And FF 12, I played 150 hours before i got bored and decided to do the final boss ight.

 

[Dys]

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.

Farcry 2 is heavily eating into my time. My xfire has logged 27 hours so far, so in real terms I've probably played close to two days. Fortunatly I can't game for more than a few hours at once or I start feeling queasy, so I've not missed anything important.
Doom 3 had me enthralled for a few hours when I first got it. Unfortunatly this was when I had the house to myself, and was between the time when there is sunlight and is not sunlight. So when I finished playing I was in the computer room with no lights on in the house. Couldn't play it for some time after that.

 

[sequio]

Hitman 1-3 trying to get the silent assassin title.

 

[fedpayne]

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.

Looks to see... Yes, I did already add you as a friend. First goal was offside and never a freekick or penalty. Tch.

 

[TMAN10112]

Oblivion, for 2 weeks straight I spend every secound of free time playing it, it was the worst addiction I ever had.

 

[Pseudonym2]

I spend over 8 hours playing Bioshock when I first got it. Considering my attention span, that's quite an achievement.

 

[Sizz]

Eve Online - It's huge.

 

[Vek]

According to my Xfire stats, over 800 hours in Battlefield 1942, 200 hours in BF2, and 450 hours in Call of Duty (just the first one).

THose are my biggest time sinks.