No Right Answer: Most Addictive Timesink Ever

[emeraldrafael]

I feel that alot of what kyle is saying how you cant awlk away from minecraft if false. I mean, I get into it, but I never really get into it. I've literally lost hours of time where the clock magically jump 15 hours ahead without realize playing pokemon, but with minecraft ive never been that immersed. Plus minecraft only goes as far as your creativity, which is both a good and bad thing.

... and pokemon never required you to eat in game or youd die, so I dont have to go do the tedious task of going to find a damn chicken, cow, or pig and killing it.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Minecraft is also portable now (although its quality is debatable), so that argument doesn't really work. I'd say Minecraft is more addictive, although only because I despise newer Pokémon games.

 

[ShadowHand25]

The problem with Minecraft is, yes, you can make whatever your imagination and patience will allow, but if you aren't creative enough or have the stick-to-it-iveness, it's just running around not having fun. And getting killed by creepers.

As for Pokemon, at least it has a plot; a driving force that makes you want to keep going. The Pokemon are more of a post-"game" collect-a-thon. And even devices such as Action Replay, "catchin' 'em all" still takes a loooooooong ass time.

 

[2xDouble]

ok, how about this... instead of the "best pokemon", you can debate which is the "most 'Pokemon (tm)' pokemon": the one that best embodies or represents. Pikachu is excluded, of course, because f*** that little yellow rat it's too obvious and pretty much chosen as the company mascot (although pikachu vs mudkipz might be an interesting exploration of corporate marketing vs word-of-mouth memetics).

There several others who could make the cut...
Mudkip of course (I herd u liek them),
Jigglypuff (smash brothers, anyone?),
Mew (representing the futile struggle of catching them all, overcome only by cheating... which in itself is an interesting conundrum: a game that literally must be cheated at to win.)


...or you could do videogames' douchiest rival, for which the clear must be Blue (Gary) from Pokemon vs Jimmy Lee from Double Dragon... with the possible option of Siefer from Final Fantasy 8.

 

[GryffinDarkBreed]

Forza Motorsport. By the time you finish all the races in one... BAM next game! Start all over!

 

[snowfi6916]

No WoW or League of Legends?

Both of those have taken more of my time and money than Pokemon or Minecraft.

In fact, I've never played Pokemon or Minecraft.

 

[Redd the Sock]

It depends on how your brain is wired. I was bored with minecraft, yet pokemon can and has sucked me in to a few hundred hours per generation.

Then again, on that front it fails next to Disgaea if for no other reason of the random elements (natures, IVs, Shineys) maing a master file next to impossible, and nintendo's limiting of various pokemon making even a complete pokedex something most of us never see without a cheat device.

Disgaea has characters that level to 9999 plus reincarnations, and all the weapons do the same, and then there's specialist gathering. it took 200 hours to gets even one character in Disgaea 3 to where I wanted him.

 

[Squaseghost]

Immediately after I was introduced to the Minecraft Alpha, I played for 9 hours straight.

 

[Chris Pranger]

P.S. u sure u dont drink chris?! i mean....REALLY?

Pretty sure, unless I'm sleep drinking or something. I'm actually pretty White Bread if you get to know me.

 

[Zing]

Pity only two games were discussed. Neither of these even compare to WoW in terms of addictiveness, a game which is literally designed to be an addictive time sink. Especially if you're a raider.

If I had to chose out of these two, I'd say Pokemon, I spent way more hours on that. Minecraft is god awful and gets me bored fast.

 

[shadowmagus]

Most Overhyped MMO Ever

Guild Wars 2.

 

[ischmalud]

P.S. u sure u dont drink chris?! i mean....REALLY?

Pretty sure, unless I'm sleep drinking or something. I'm actually pretty White Bread if you get to know me.

put white bread in a fermenter with water and bakin yeast - makes beer - horrible beer BUT beer

 

[Jaebird]

I would agree that Pokemon is a timesink, because of all the time I've spent level-grinding a specific Pokemon required to beat certain gym leaders. With Minecraft, I can just sit back, relax and dig away... Wow; that drug analogy is spot on.

 

[Scrustle]

Rubbish. I love Pokemon, but Minecraft is the better time sink. Pokemon may take forever, but Minecraft is endless. Every other point is redundant. And Pokemon isn't even that long anyway. Who really wants to collect every single Pokemon in every single game and train them all up to level 100? No-one really does that. Most people just beat the story. And the last points about Pokemon were completely irrelevant too. Minecraft is also portable, and music and cartoons have nothing to do with how good the game is. Also I'm pretty sure there's a lot of Minecraft music floating around anyway.

 

[karamazovnew]

Both games are potential time sinks, but in reality you get bored after a while. There are lots of games that can potentially ruin your sleep hours. For me, the champion in this is Silent Hunter 3 which I played for 37 hours straight. What I saw the sunrise creep through the window and looked at the clock, it took me a few minutes to figure out what PM meant (it was actually the sunset, on the following day... yeap).

But over time you get bored with almost every game. Except one. One that is the most addictive game ever made. One that will rob even a casual gamer hundreds upon hundreds of hours per year. Year after year. World of Warcraft will never, ever be beat. Since there are millions of players in this world, at an average of 2 hours of play per day per player (which is a huge underestimation), this game eats up the total life span of about 28 lives of an average of 81 years EVERY DAY.

I wasted 3 years of my life with it and I can't believe just how dumb I've been. Most of my friends still play it, day by day, 7 years and going strong.

 

[surg3n]

Minecraft for me, I've poured days and days of time into that game, and I still play it - not many games can still be fun after so long.

My biggest time sink of all time though is Captive on the Atari ST, I must have played that longer than any other game.

 

[Rtoip]

Well I never got into pokemon and played Minecraft for a while but after I stopped I was never bothered to return.

I would add Mount & Blade. You're dropped into an fictional anachronistic Early Middle-Ages and can do whatever you want. It's as sandbox and time-sinky as you can get.

Also Paradox games for those who can get into them, finishing the game as one nation takes ages and there are always more.

TV Tropes outside from gaming.

 

[Call Me Jose]

My biggest timesink has to be Super Smash Brothers Melee, as old as it is I can still have fun playing competitively with friends, pokemon has never really gotten my attention after the first few games even though I know a lot has changed. Minecraft, I'm scared I might enjoy too much so I haven't tried it out yet, maybe one day when I'm ready to face my fears I'll go ahead and give it a go.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

Civilization wins the time stealer award.

One more turn my ass.