What's the most obsessional computer game you have played?

[leftistangel]

I purchased Goldeneye with an imported N64 in August 1997 and I didnt go outside for about 5 days. It was an enormous leap forward and still the best console FPS.

Others include: Mario Kart for the SNESwhich became a daily ritual after school. Likewise SF2 Turbo. Final Fantasy 7 for the PS1 and Resident Evil 4 for the Gamecube, the most artistic game ever.

 

[psykoptic]

Guildwars took up a lot of my time at the begininning of 2005

 

[sorearm]

counterstrike source

*eyes pingu suspiciously*

*dodges nades*

 

[Junglist]

Championsip Manager is the most addtictive game ever! When I'm in the right mood I could play non stop all day and all night!

 

[Cid]

Definately world of warcraft - I have a ridiculous amount of days on the game clock...

However I think even WoW will take a backseat now that elder scrolls: oblivion is out soon.

 

[kage]

Half life deathmatch, lost my entire university first year to that game, then again was in the best clan in Europe (PB) in the early stages of HLDM.

Fuck it, that aint no colsolation, although it did save vast amounts of cash.

I now avoid finely crafted computer games like the plague.

 

[gentlegreen]

I remember seeing something like this in the late 70s
I could never work up the enthusiasm myself - did it ever catch on then ?

 

[Flavour]

FF7, Civ2, Metal Gear Solid and Shenmue (inc. 2)

 

[Dai Sheep]

Final Fantasy 7, 8, 9.

Delta Force: Blackhawk Down

Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising

 

[hegley]

World of Warcraft - clocked up over 1,000 hours so far , dream about it, run forums for a guild for it, live it ... has entirely taken over my life. And godammit today is patch day!!

 

[Iam]

World of Warcraft - clocked up over 1,000 hours so far , dream about it, run forums for a guild for it, live it ... has entirely taken over my life. And godammit today is patch day!!

Innit. Real time weather.

I'm so close to being level 40 and able to afford my horsey! Damn work and time away from WoW. I could be out mining Mithril...!

 

[Cid]

Innit. Real time weather.

I'm so close to being level 40 and able to afford my horsey! Damn work and time away from WoW. I could be out mining Mithril...!

I now have something like 45 days on the game clock... My shaman has loads of epics though.

Taking time out to play oblivion now.

 

[Kanda]

Everquest. For about 5 years.

The last 18 months (before i quit) was 5 days a week 4-5 hours raiding a night.

Kicked it though, thank god. I had 7 accounts subscribed

 

[kerb]

nice thread...

theres more than one. Tony Hawk 1. spent hours on it. especially that first level. played it so much i was just short of half a million points on it before the days of combos like on the later versions


Crash Team Racing... me and my mates spents a whole 2 weeks playing this game. his parents went on holiday and we got the playstation in , a load of weed and didnt leave for a fortnight

Vice City- lets just say that i was playing this game so much, that whenever i would get into my own car, i get in on the left hand side

 

[chintz]

Vice City- lets just say that i was playing this game so much, that whenever i would get into my own car, i get in on the left hand side

I stopped playing Mario Kart when I found myself pulling into laybys and buss stops to get weapons

 

[Structaural]

Everyone at some point in their lives must have picked up a games console, shoved a game in the mechanism, picked up the controls.....and then spent the majority of their waking lives for the next 'n' months sat in their pants playing it to death.

For me:

GTA Vice City: December (xmas) 2002 till March 2003.

It absorbed my life. It sucked away every spare moment. I was like a degenerate gambler in a casino ,or a junkie in a crack basement.

Almost a marker of an epoch in time, and all it was was a non existent world within a computer game.

Scary when I think about that. Just thought I'd share.

Elite on my old Electron - never played like that since - have to go to work these days.

Metal Gear Solid the first one probably put the most hours in - or GT1

 

[strung out]

I stopped playing Mario Kart when I found myself pulling into laybys and buss stops to get weapons

For ages when I was in a car I'd imagine doing power slides whenever going round a corner

 

[TeeJay]

I remember seeing something like this in the late 70s
I could never work up the enthusiasm myself - did it ever catch on then ?

Go and check out this version:

"Democratic Pong" (massively multiplayer pong - the paddle moves based on the average of all the 'votes' of people on your team. We could have an urban75 game where everyone plays it at once! )

http://pong.flash-gear.com/