Topic: "Life consuming" video games

[FreebirdSTF]

Give me the games that just consumed you.  I play a ton of NCAA Football, WWE games and Madden occasionally, but they don't get me as wrapped up in the game as these below.

For me, I'd say the following qualify:

• Metal Gear Solid series (I started with Metal Gear Solid on PSX and went from there)
• Grand Theft Auto (III, Vice City, San Andreas and IV)
• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas

[Prime]

For me it would be:
 

• the entire Call of Duty series (minus Black Ops II)
• Assassin's Creed series
• the EA Sports NHL series

[Chus-Kay]

Give me the games that just consumed you.  I play a ton of NCAA Football, WWE games and Madden occasionally, but they don't get me as wrapped up in the game as these below.

For me, I'd say the following qualify:

 

• Metal Gear Solid series (I started with Metal Gear Solid on PSX and went from there)
• Grand Theft Auto (III, Vice City, San Andreas and IV)
• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas

don't you create a whole universe and play out stories in the WWE game?

[Chus-Kay]

for me it's world of warcraft.  it's a never ending time sink.

[FreebirdSTF]

don't you create a whole universe and play out stories in the WWE game?

Yes, but it's still not as obsessive as these games.  I can pick that up and put it down repeatedly.  These games make you sit and play for hours on end in single sessions.

[Chus-Kay]

Yes, but it's still not as obsessive as these games.  I can pick that up and put it down repeatedly.  These games make you sit and play for hours on end in single sessions.

i dunno, it sounds pretty obsessive.  was it you that was creating excel files to keep track of everything?

[Pebble.2.0]

GTA:  San Andreas
Diablo II & III
Skyrim
Final Fantasy XII (grinded and explored so much I literally blew through all the final battles)

[Prime]

Shit, forgot about Diablo II. Wasted WEEKS playing that.

[Zandrax]

The Avengers Alliance Facebook game

[Horsehead]

for me it's world of warcraft.  it's a never ending time sink.

same here

[Vomikronnoxis]

Skyrim drains vital life force.

~rl

[POE-Bot Activated!]

Dark Souls
Demon's Souls
Hotline Miami
Final Fantasy VI
GTA Vice City (although I haven't finished it, just spent HOURS driving around)

[FreebirdSTF]

i dunno, it sounds pretty obsessive.  was it you that was creating excel files to keep track of everything?

Yes, but my point is once I get that part setup I can pick it up, play a couple of matches and put it down.  These other games completely dominate your free time and you tend to play them for hours on end in single sessions.

When I bought MGS I played it from noon to 9:00 PM without realizing how late it was.  My wife took the kids for a day and I played Fallout: NV from like 10:00 AM until 11:00 PM or something like that.

[Chus-Kay]

Shit, forgot about Diablo II. Wasted WEEKS playing that.

same here, but it was months.
 
i tried D3, but i just cant get into it.  after playing wow, arkham, skyrim, etc, it just seems antiquated.

[Chus-Kay]

same here

what server are you on?  all my toons are on cenarion circle.  IM me your battletag and i'll add you.

[Vomikronnoxis]

Dark Souls
Demon's Souls
Hotline Miami
Final Fantasy VI
GTA Vice City (although I haven't finished it, just spent HOURS driving around)

Fuck, Vice City was pretty much my life for a month after it came out.

~rl

[FreebirdSTF]

I finished MGS2 this morning and now I'm working through it again.

[DocSavage]

Super Pac Man

[Chus-Kay]

i played thru skyrim 3 times...warrior type, sneak type, and then mage type.

[A Very Smug Bear]

Warcraft 3
Sim City 3000
Final Fantasy 6
Super Mario World
No Mercy
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Fallout 3 and New Vegas to a lesser extent (I've probably done well over 300 hours on 3 and about 1/3 of that in New Vegas)
Skyrim

and right now Farcry 3. No idea what my hour count is but I've been putting in anywhere from 1-3 hours every night for the past month

[DocSavage]

I have a really short attention span..  Like, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is something I'd pull out once a year, and the last time I checked it had a save from 2006.  Zelda:  Windwaker has a save from 2005...

I do complete games, but only by forcing myself through it, or by being really, really immersed.  So, the here's the games that immersed me:

1.  Super Mario Bros
2.  Super Mario 2
3.  Super Mario 3

All three of these games were like hardcore drugs for me..  I just couldn't put them down.

4.  Double Dragon 3.  Beat it three or four times in a row.

5.  Final Fantasy II.

6.  Final Fantasy III.  Also beat it twice, and got a good way into a third play.

7.  Tie Fighter:  Collectors CD Rom.  This is the last game that ever hooked me 100%..  I even watched the intro every damned time, just because I was that into it.  Since, nothings ever come close to the appeal this game had.

8.  Myst

9.  Ultimate Doom:  Thy Flesh Consumed.

10.  Duke Nukem 3d

11.  System Shock 2.  Got the diskette collection.  In 2000 or 2001.    Good fun, very immersive.

12.  Bioforge.  Beating up someone with a severed arm is pretty fun.  ^_^;

13.  Wing Commander 3.  Personally, I thought the blonde was ditzy, and the redhead was full of herself.  :p

14.  Monkey Island.  This is well into 2004 or so that I'm experiencing a game most people played decades earlier, and so I had no nostalgia to draw me in.  But damned if this wasn't one of the best games I've ever not payed for.

15.  Metal Gear Solid.  Justified my buying a PS1 over an N64.

16.  MGS2.

[Horsehead]

what server are you on?  all my toons are on cenarion circle.  IM me your battletag and i'll add you.

I'm on Vashj

[DocSavage]

http://www.realmofthemadgod.com/

Right now, this. 

It's sort of like 8 bit Diablo.  For my money, more fun then Diablo 3, and I have a right to say that because I paid full price for Diablo 3, while this is a free game.   

[Elbow]

7.  Tie Fighter:  Collectors CD Rom.  This is the last game that ever hooked me 100%..  I even watched the intro every damned time, just because I was that into it.  Since, nothings ever come close to the appeal this game had.

Same here. One of my all-time favorite games (although I had the multiple floppy disk version). Later on I even downloaded some kind of editing software where you could create your own missions. I'd spend all this time devising all these elaborate storylines to better immerse myself in the experience.