What games stole the largest portion of your lifetime?
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MMO or other regulary updated game: WoW.
Single-shot game: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
Game series: Pokemon.
Honourable mentions: FFVII, the Civilization series, the X-COM series, The Sims, Runescape, Alundra, EA Sports Double Header on the Megadrive, Baldur's Gate II.
Single-shot game: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
Game series: Pokemon.
Honourable mentions: FFVII, the Civilization series, the X-COM series, The Sims, Runescape, Alundra, EA Sports Double Header on the Megadrive, Baldur's Gate II.
definatly oblivion ive had to star multiple charecters and tehn i get far enough to be content with my things it freezes and the charecter is irretrivible no matter what i do and i stop playing for a month but boredom always brings me right back i must have spent at least 3 days on all of my charecter which adds up to like 1700 hours
it's a tie between Mass Effect and Okami, I've been through Mass Effect on two different profiles because I loved being able to create my own (female!) character to be the savior of the galaxy (it's a complex that I have...)
I loved Okami because it was stimulating and beautiful and I took my time to go through the entire game.
I loved Okami because it was stimulating and beautiful and I took my time to go through the entire game.
MMOs WoW, FFXI and Guild Wars combined i spent around 90 full days of my life on them, however I havnt played an mmo in ages so my addiction isnt too much of a problem atm 
For non mmos it would definitely have to be my fighting games, i got really obsessed with the soul calibur, tekken and street fighter series, street fighter 4 is taking over my life right now
For non mmos it would definitely have to be my fighting games, i got really obsessed with the soul calibur, tekken and street fighter series, street fighter 4 is taking over my life right now
Ragnarok Online...5 years gone and counting. Hoping the new Final Fantasy MMO brings me out of it.
Warcraft 2 / Diablo 2 I played for a good 2 year stretch before quitting for new things (restarted Diablo 2 last month in anticipation of Diablo 3 coming out sometime this century). Final Fantasy 11 I've logged 801 days of playtime over 6 years, although I could probably knock off 50 days of that to AFK. Still ate a substantial amount of time.
The single player game that has taken the most of my time was probably Final Fantasy 12, at a lot of it wasn't even playing the game normally. I have a save at 220 hours playtime, and who know how many hours I spent killing that imp for the Danjuro that never dropped. I never saved during that time.
The single player game that has taken the most of my time was probably Final Fantasy 12, at a lot of it wasn't even playing the game normally. I have a save at 220 hours playtime, and who know how many hours I spent killing that imp for the Danjuro that never dropped. I never saved during that time.
The jRPG's in my life, mostly.
1) Finalf Fantasy IX: somewhere between 450 and 550 hours, I figure... Playing it out multiple times and ever since my second playthrough, getting 100% within the game (apart from Excalibur II, having to play a game out in 12 hour simply takes the fun out of it). Every now and then (but not more than once a year) a go for another playthrough. Ah, nostalgia...
2) Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call: almost 300 hours I think... Trying to nab all 6 the endings you know. Two down, four to go. Luckily, the worst one (true demon ending) was the first one I did. Christ! The clock stood at 160 hours when I finally beat Lucifer's butt, had to do a lot of preperation there...
3) Probably one of the platformers I've played so vigorously over and over again: Either Crash Bandicoot II: Cortex Strikes Back, Spyro 2: Getaway From Glimmer, Ratchet & Clank 2 or Jak II: Renegade. Huh... Look at al the number 2's...
1) Finalf Fantasy IX: somewhere between 450 and 550 hours, I figure... Playing it out multiple times and ever since my second playthrough, getting 100% within the game (apart from Excalibur II, having to play a game out in 12 hour simply takes the fun out of it). Every now and then (but not more than once a year) a go for another playthrough. Ah, nostalgia...
2) Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call: almost 300 hours I think... Trying to nab all 6 the endings you know. Two down, four to go. Luckily, the worst one (true demon ending) was the first one I did. Christ! The clock stood at 160 hours when I finally beat Lucifer's butt, had to do a lot of preperation there...
3) Probably one of the platformers I've played so vigorously over and over again: Either Crash Bandicoot II: Cortex Strikes Back, Spyro 2: Getaway From Glimmer, Ratchet & Clank 2 or Jak II: Renegade. Huh... Look at al the number 2's...
Everquest, the original one.
Right before it came out I had my heart broken by a cheating fiance, so I really needed to loose myself in something to deal with the pain. I got so into EQ that I ran two guilds in (2 different ones over the course of 2 years) and literally gave up 2 years of my life to it. I would get out of work every day, buy beer and food and go home and play till the wee hours, get up go to work and repeat. I would also normally play from Friday through Sunday without any sleep. I also took my 4 weeks of vacation, sick and personal days just to play. After playing it for a few months My roommate and I split a small fridge and Microwave to go in our gameroom so that we didn't have to leave for anything other than sleep and bathroom breaks.
Sad I know, but damn did I love that game (until a few people in it pissed me off enough to rage-quit). There was a reason we called it "evercrack".
Right before it came out I had my heart broken by a cheating fiance, so I really needed to loose myself in something to deal with the pain. I got so into EQ that I ran two guilds in (2 different ones over the course of 2 years) and literally gave up 2 years of my life to it. I would get out of work every day, buy beer and food and go home and play till the wee hours, get up go to work and repeat. I would also normally play from Friday through Sunday without any sleep. I also took my 4 weeks of vacation, sick and personal days just to play. After playing it for a few months My roommate and I split a small fridge and Microwave to go in our gameroom so that we didn't have to leave for anything other than sleep and bathroom breaks.
Sad I know, but damn did I love that game (until a few people in it pissed me off enough to rage-quit). There was a reason we called it "evercrack".