Addiction to Games

[SoulBlazer]

Anyone gotten into a game SO MUCH that they can't stand to pull themselves away from it?

I'm into one of those cycles now, and it's killing me. :P

I'm the kind of person who, if they really like a game, will try to play it on a regular basis until I either finish it or get bored with it. And I also love RPG's, the genre being one of my favorities. Put the two together and you get some periods where I'm playing one game four to eight hours a day for two weeks straight until the game is finished. :eek 2:

Whenever a new Final Fantasy comes out is a good example, but I also recall doing it for the two Lunar PSX remakes, the Suikoden games, Final Fantasy Tactics, Wild Arms, and Morrowind. (The latter, thank God, was big enough that I could wean myself on THAT one to a couple hours a day during the four MONTHS that it took to see everything big in that one. :hmm: )

A week ago, on a spur decision, I picked up a used copy of Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time for the PS2. It was a game I planned to wait to get, but the cheaper price, the reviews and comments from my friends, and the desire for a new game caused me to get it.

Now I can't tear myself away from it. @_@

I find myself putting other things off so I can sneak in a little time, even if it's just a few minutes to play around with inventing or reading the dictionary terms. I have'nt touched anything else gamewise since then. I put of sleep, chores, job hunting, and other stuff to get in time. I think about it when I'm laying in bed and talk about it with people at work (like I'm doing now. ;) )

And it's a great RPG, one of the best I've played this year -- good story, good graphics, good music, good setting. The fact the game actually has support for widescreen TV's and I just got one also me coming back for more, and wishing MORE games had that.

The sad part is that I've logged in 25 hours (according to the game timer) and I estimate I'm only half way through. O_O Well, actually, that's a good thing, except for the fact I'm addicted.....

So if you ever don't see me for a few days, you know what got me. LOL

[Ed Oscuro]

/me bashes his PC with a lead pipe

Yeah, I've had times where I'll play something a bit. I tend to - as I guess everybody knows - spend WAY too much time here and reading up on stuff and things. Along with work and classes, that means not much gaming time. Got to spend some quality time with Aria of Sorrow this (last?) evening, though.

[soniko_karuto]

i currently play ragnarok on school, counter strike home, neo turf masters pocket on the can, and bomberman tournament on the bus. Also i find the time to play some animal crossing now and then.

[max 330 mega]

i spend alot of time trying to master strikers 1945, its one of my favorite games, i pretty much hate all rpg's (except shining force series) so you wont see me plopping down on the couch for an 8 hour gamefest. though, im about to start playing dragon force, so if i get sucked into this one we will see how much time i spend on it.

[MarioAllStar2600]

Yea I am. I wasn't but ever since school started I can't stop playing games..... I am having urges to play through games before even touching another one. Which is wierd cause I was never like that.

I can't stop buying games which is an even worse habit. I buy a game and am onl satisfie for like a day. Then I have urges to buy another. I don't feel satisified unless I pick something up everyday. Which is impossible. I end up buying soemthing little or big every 3 days or so.

[Promophile]

I actually didn't like SO 3. I'm sort of playing games less and less lately, I think I burned myself out.

[PapaStu]

I had a roommate who was like that. He'd get a game, and play it nonstop, for days on end. I'm talking pulling multiple late late late nights in a row on this game. Sometimes it would be a few weeks, sometimes a month. Then out of the blue, randomly, he'd put it down, and never touch it again. I watched him do it with Diablo 2 (again, as aparently he did it when he was dorming before he lived with me), FF X (watched me play it, and started a game over, and cranked through it in like a week with over 80 game hours logged.) Animal Crossing (watched me playing it got him hooked), some random Xbox titles, and GTA VC for the PC. Then Star Wars Galaxies came out, he didnt stop playing that one. By the time I moved out, 3 months after it came out, he was still playing.

[Stark]

I am currently on a break from Anarchy Online. Those MMORPGS can consume you to a point where you start dreaming about playing the damn game! I'll be back into it soon enough though. LOL

[Gapporin]

I have exact opposite problem. I'll play an RPG for about 5-10 hours, and then I'll put it down, play something else, and never finish it. I wish I had enough willpower to actually complete one.

[captain nintendo]

You know it sucks when your playing at 1 in the morning and you have to be up for work at 4:05 :(

I get into those moods when I play sometimes I just cant stop. PSO was a big time killer for me. LOL

[Speedy]

Had it with Half-Life, played it so much online for hours and hours a day. As soon as i came home from school i started playing. It did cost me a year at school to :embarrassed:

[El CiF]

final
fantasy
XI
:help: :help:

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I get into those moods when I play sometimes I just cant stop. PSO was a big time killer for me.

I feel your pain when PSO came out I was still in high school Id play till like 3 or 4 in the morning and get up at 6 and miss the bus "by accident" because my grandfather drove by my house every morning on his way home from work. So he'd give me a ride to school. Then one day I got on to play and all my items were gone...Never played it again. Then I got EQOA for PS2 *drools*

[MegaDrive20XX]

You know it sucks when your playing at 1 in the morning and you have to be up for work at 4:05 :(

I get into those moods when I play sometimes I just cant stop. PSO was a big time killer for me. LOL

you and me both brother, when I had PSO, trying to go to College at an 8am class...and it's 4am on the clock....now that's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE for me.

Worst month of my life lol

[slip81]

The summer right before I went into 10th grade I was 15, and spent the entire thing playing SNES/Genny RPGs day and night. I would play games for about 8-10 hours just about everyday. I even played through some 40+ hour game two or three times during the summer. I was heavily addictend to RPG's.

But then the school year started and I didn't play them as much, I turned 16 got a job and had even less time. Now I'm in my 5th year of college and don't really get many chances to play, plus my girlfriend is into games now so we have to divide the console time and now I'm lucky if I get to play for 5 hours over the course of a 3 day weekend. Now though if a game comes out that I really enjoy I'll find ways to make extra time to play it, like I got Katamari and X-Men Legends and I've been playing thouse just about everyday, usually late at night from like 10pm-1am. So I'm not as addicted as I was before, but if a really good game comes along a little bit of that addiction comes back.

I can just imagin how bad it's going to be when San Andreas comes out in two weeks LOL

[captain nintendo]

you and me both brother, when I had PSO

Worst month of my life lol


Month ? I played that thing for a year online,offline any time I could.
I still play from time to time. I have about 350 hours in one character and 300 in another. Not to mention countless others I have saved :o

Thankfully I never got FSOD or lost any of my items :) If I did lose them at this point , I would probably just set tyhe game down for good...

[Cryomancer]

I've played PSO on almost every format it's been available on for times ranging between years and months for each. I had PSOX for several months, I've played on pirate PC servers, I even played the pirate-ish method of getting into the japanese beta for Blue Burst PC. Gah that game.

[MegaDrive20XX]

you and me both brother, when I had PSO

Worst month of my life lol


Month ? I played that thing for a year online,offline any time I could.
I still play from time to time. I have about 350 hours in one character and 300 in another. Not to mention countless others I have saved :o

Thankfully I never got FSOD or lost any of my items :) If I did lose them at this point , I would probably just set tyhe game down for good...

Well I played longer, but I remember that month of March 2003 being the longest time I have ever spent on a game heh Afterwards I controlled the "habits" so to speak down from 30 hours to 12 hours a week lol

[JR]

I had that problem with UT for PC. I played it almost every day for the longest time, then I got away from it. I go and pick it up again, get suckered into a online tournament (MLUT 4 for any UT players out there) won the tourney and stopped playing again. I picked up FFXI in july got into that for days on end, and just took my longest leave from it which has been a week and a half.

I got problms! x_x

[EricRyan34]

I get addicted to games alot too.

[SMB]

RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT.... I am addicted to Ocarina of Time.

I am almost finished with it :)

Many other games can get me so into them that I spend around 3 to 7 hours a day on them, no time for anything else

But then I take a week off of games to enjoy life :D

[TRM]

I remember having this trouble with Final Fantasy Vi for the SNES. My problem is that I want to complete some sort of quest before quitting every session I would play. This led to some very very late nights...

I realize now that whenever I start a new RPG, I will end up entering this viscious cycle. That is why i havent started any new RPGs in college yet.

[Raedon]

MY game addiction comes and goes with the games currently out..

I was addicted to :

Everquest

Morrowind

SFII - literally thousands of quarters.

FF3 mostly but the story in 10 was amzing even if it was a interactive movie

I still playing UT and UT2K$ after all these years.. It's the longest running game series I pick up at least a few times a week.

Going way back Bard's Tale 1-3 and before that Zork. I've still got my original Bard's Tale grid maps.

[FlufflePuff]

It happened to me with Suikoden 1. I owned them for a while and on a whim decided to play the first one about a month ago. DAMN! I was hooked. I ended up calling in sick to work twice and burning through all three in about three weeks. Can't wait for 4...*drool*

[Keir]

A week ago, on a spur decision, I picked up a used copy of Star Ocean 3: Till the End of Time for the PS2. It was a game I planned to wait to get, but the cheaper price, the reviews and comments from my friends, and the desire for a new game caused me to get it.

Now I can't tear myself away from it. @_@
In the grand tradition of keeping 1 generation behind, I picked up Star Ocean 2 a couple weeks ago. I had the same problem. Each day around 9pm I would sit down with the intent to play for an hour and go to bed. Then, around 1 or 2 in the morning I would finally crawl to bed knowing I would regret it at work the next day.

It was so bad that I finally told Beth not to let me near the Playstation. It only took a day or 2 of going cold turkey to get over it.

[o2william]

This thread makes me need a fix, so to speak. Prior to the days of jobs, marriage and all that "responsibility" nonsense, I practically did nothing but get addicted to a specific game for hours or days at a time. Now I hardly have time for that -- and boy do I miss it. It's a way to zone out and let the tensions of the day fade away. The last game I let myself become addicted to was Castlevania: CotM, and that was a good while ago.

I just ordered Zelda: Outlands (go here (http://www.cg-games.net/challenges/zeldac/) if you don't know what that is) from leonk; maybe when it arrives I'll take a day off work and let a new addiction kick in. :-P

[The Clonus Horror]

I've spent thousand of hours of my life playing Smackdown 2: Know Your Role and Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain.

Weird.

I really like those games. I've tried pretty much every other wrestling game and even the mighty No Mercy didn't get much play time, though I REALLY like the royal rumble mode on there, especially tweaking all of the rules. Of course, the game is so freakin' slow-moving that it NATURALLY takes up more of your time....

...and, in all fairness, Smackdown 2 has horrendous load times...

[shopkins]

Since I quit my job it's been insane. I've played Star Ocean 3, Megaman Anniversary Collection and Planescape: Torment for hours each day, switching between them. But Monday I started playing Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude at about 6 P.M. and stopped at 11:30 the next morning, no eating and no significant breaks. I wasted Sunday on it too. And though it's funny, it's not a very good game. It just taps into a collecting, completion element that's always been a weakness of mine.

When I do work I go on gaming jags I know aren't good for me. Once I played Jax and Daxter to 7:30 in the morning, and I had to be at work at 9 p.m. I often get so into it I think about the games and strategies at work and while driving, especially with the very engrossing games like Fallout. And the games regularly come up in my dreams. After the Leisure Suit Larry marathon my dreams took the forms of the crappy button mashing gameplay in that.

There are times I don't play much at all, though. I have hundreds of games I've barely touched.

I guess I just need to get serious about my job hunt.

[Crush Crawfish]

I'm very fickle when it comes to games. I rarely play one game for more than an hour or two. The last game that I played for large amounts of time was Tales of symphonia, which I played in 3 hours blocks about twice a day.