Biggest time-suck of a video/computer game that you possess

You know, the game that you almost avoid plugging into the unit because you know as soon as you turn on the unit you're not going to be moving from your seat for the next few hours.

For me it's Morrowind: Game of the Year Edition for Xbox. I bought a Xbox last month almost exclusively because of it's upcoming crop of open-ended RPG's and I don't know how anything else is going to surpass the freedom this game offers you to do whatever you bloody want to outside of or within the main storyline.

Must admit, playing the game as a morally conflicted wandering pilgrim probably isn't the most exciting approach to take but damn if wandering the earth like Cain in Kung Fu and helping people isn't oddly addictive.

Man, I could play that game for hours on end.

If you like III, you'll love VC--motorcycles, drive by shootings, boats, helicopters. Lots of fun!

Can't walk away, I'm always playing it when my boss walks in...

hands-down, including all the expansion packs.
Honorable mention goes to Grand Theft Auto (III and Vice City) as well as classics like Mortal Kombat, Twisted Metal II and Super Mario All- Stars.

My kids were getting mad at me because I was a Playstation hog.

That's the sign that you have to step away from the computer (or console).

It isn't good music either! I thought I was going to go crazy!

Strangely addicting that game is.

I even found a registration number off some message board for free, so I get all the cool stuff with the game! :evilgrin:

I have a full copy... (I actually paid to register a program!!)

Snood and DU tend to have the same effect on me- I keep wanting to just read one more thread, or play just one more game. ...

Now where did my tuesday night go off to?

You need to have the registered version. Instructions for loading are at the Snood website.

Here's the replacement Snoods.
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And they look like this:



You can't know how creepily they writhe and wriggle until you try them. :evilgrin:

AUUGHHH!

Bake

Great way to eat up untold hours of your life.

Another good one is The Suffering. Creepy as all hell and entertaining to boot. You can be a complete asshole, or attempt to have some redeeming qualities.

Played Morrowind on the PC, too damned frustrating. You spend entirely too much time going back and forth to places you've already been just to complete insignificant tasks.

That does seems to be the biggest complaint I hear in terms of that game. Hasn't really started to bother me though as I always find ways to diverge on side paths between pt. A and pt. B.

I got Halo at the same time as Morrowind and Halo was probably a bigger time suck as it's been one of very few games that I played almost non-stop from the beginning till I reached the conclusion.

It's the best shooter ever made.

I'm trying to complete the game using just the pistol in the Heroic level.

When I run out of ammo, I run around and whack everything with the gun. I've found hunters are easier to kill this way. I'm up to the flood, where things are going to get hairy.

My friends and I hooked up 4 XBox's onto 4 TV's, in 4 different rooms of my friends house, and had 16 people playing Halo. We played literally ALL night. The last few there (including me) played from 8:00PM until 6:30AM. It was alot of fun though.

Playstation 1.

Buy it.

Trust me.

6-12 hour play sessions won't be unusual...it's THAT addictive.

We never beat it (made a few incorrect choices that resulted in the She killing herself, so we decided not to bother). But GODDAMN was it fucking fun.

Easily one of the most enjoyable (and hardest) RPGs, after Tactics Ogre.

-C

that and the Sims. Although I realized that even though the Sims sucked a lot of time, I wasn't exactly having fun, so I uninstalled it. I love Age of Empires, but I haven't played it in a really long time.

Do you have the second one???? If you don't, you should get it. It's exponentially better than the first!

I meant Age of Empires to be all encompasing - both AOE and Age of Kings.

My kids love Age of Empires and Age of Mythology.

I'm a bit addicted to DU and everyone in a while I play a computer puzzle game of some sort. I have never found computer games as interesting as the real world.

I try to avoid playing if I have anything important to do.

Must . . . not . . . click . . . icon. Must . . . not . . . fight . . . Battle of . . . Trafalgar . . .

On the GameCube. It was my gift for mothers day. I was up until 2 am playing it. It is a fantastic game.

Online game, one of the few for Linux. More fun than a pocket full of running vibrators.

I run it here on the Mandrake real-time Multimedia Kernel and it is sweet beyond sweet. Violent as hell, though. I get lost for far too long in it.

Which recently replaced GTA Vice City.

I'm waiting for the Sims 2--I'll never cook dinner again. . .

I lose several hours playing that game and I find it hard to quit. Another one is Pebble Beach Golf on EA Sports website.

I'm a DU junkie already.

The original. Now available for your palm pilot.

Still a huge timesuck.

I picked up Sim City 4 Deluxe a couple months ago...I've been playing it ever since. There's just so much going on in that game it's not funny.

My weekend went so fast. I think I stayed up till 2 on Sunday.

It is so much harder to get ahold of than 3000.

I have a pretty old machine. It takes about 10 minutes to save a file.

SC4 is great, though..It takes much more time to develop a city than before.

GO MOHAA!

Though I have to admit, I have spent some time on Battlefield 1942, Call of Duty and MOH Breakthrough. But MOHAA is still my favorite and my friends and I can spend hours killing each other.

but you cant beat MOHAA when it comes to nonstop action. 64 people in Stalingrad with realism... Ive burned out more than one pair of headphones playing this.

How can you turn around. Thought try Free-for-all with twelve people and shotguns only.

When you spawn, you start firing.

MOHAA online. I was fragged everytime I came in until I figured out what I was doing. My first map ever to play was Algiers. What is your favorite map, I like Algiers or Remagen.

Stalingrad or Algiers. Depending on play type and # ppl.

The Russian part was frustrating. I nearly came to killing the guys there to help me in the single player mode.

My favorite is defending the bridge on the UK part

I also like the tank battles. but the british part is a blast.

both the original and the expansion. It is perfect D&D, in so much depth it is scary.

Fucking fun as hell. I'm playing through it for the first time, and having a great time (although I seem to be dying a lot, but shit happens).

-C

and am playing the "Throne of Bhal" expansion. My girlfriend HATES that game, it has me so addicted :)

I was about 75% through and my hard drive croaked! I'm slowly going through it again though its hard to redo what took so much time in the first place (playing BGII as a wizard). If my HD dies again I think I might have some kind of break-down.

Edited cause I spell like a freeper'

It's such a screwy game - good family values, that!

The DH is a NeverWinter Nights fan, but I like the BG interface better.

Love that game.

Pcat

I'm right now playing russia, huge, archipelago, right in the middle of the industrial age. I've got behinds on the island continents belong to my two biggest rivals, the Inca and the Chinese. My only soure of oil is a tiny little island deep in enemy waters. I'm gearing up for a massive invasion on two fronts. Hitler ain't got nothing on me. It's going to be a doozy.

It started my obession with empire building games. Sim City always wins me over though.

for my kids, and they just haven't gotten into it. I'm bewildered because they love AOE.

All the more for yourself.

Spending 4-5 hours building a cyber-empire is not the best way to spend one's time. But damn if it's not addictive!

I swear, one weekend I was on that thing for 18 hours...225,000 tons don't come easy, baby!

Thank gawd it won't run on a Pentium....

And the 40 golf courses that I have for it.

other games, I don't really consider it a "waste" of time because I really have had so much enjoyment, particularly playing team games with my friends online against others, and against my friends. In fact, they just now patched it again and I'm probably going to start playing it again.

Plus you can save the replays of your matches, and review and learn a lot about your own and your opponent's strategies. I downloaded many games of awesome players and improved greatly. Korea has had (don't know if they still do) a big pro circuit of Starcraft/Broodwar with big money prizes and many, many AWESOME players who are "masters" or "gosu" and their replays are inspiring.

I know it sounds geeky to talk about studying game replays, but that is how games like chess became "classics"--by having recorded games that could be studied, the game advances through its own "literature".

is obsessed with Starcraft and Broodwar! I'm happy to hear it has some redeeming value. He wants Starcraft Ghost. Have you seen or played it?

Starcraft and Broodwar, which are RTS (real time strategy) games. That's why I was so disappointed that Blizzard (the software company) chose to make a shooter rather than a true sequel to SC/BW. He has great taste, SC/BW is a great game.

If he's ever looking for an opponent or partner, send me an email through DU. I think my online account has become inactive since I haven't used it in so long but I will reactivate, just haven't decided what my new userID will be. Mayberry Machiavelli is too long I think, LOL.

I really don't like shooter games. (It is too bad that they didn't make a sequel to SC/BW.)

I'm sure he would be thrilled to play on-line. But I'm not going to tell him until school is out...:hi:

I can't stop playing...

Kengo for PS2
Americas Army and Freedom Force for Mac

Good thing I haven't played it in a while. I could EASILY spend 2 days straight playing that game if I didn't have to eat, sleep, interact with family members, etc.

It takes an just to:

• set the weather
  
• plan your flight
  
• set up the aircraft (frequencies etc.)
  
• taxi
  
• climb to altitude
  
• descend
  
• line up with runway
  
• land
  
• taxi
  
• debrief
  

Never mind actually fly anywhere.

My husband (who is not a game addict) really liked that one for a while. He has been trying to find up-dates for the game since it is "old." He was very particular about getting EAW rather than any other flight game.

Any Nintendo Original Series Game (Metroid - Super Mario Bros 1 2 3 Etc - Zelda) And All The Incarnations Of These Great Franchises Thru The Famicon To The 64 To The Gamecube - And Then There Are The PC Games.

I Lost A Year Of My Life To The Bard's Tale Series. KOTOR Is A Good Game As Well, But It Just Goes By Too Quickly (Hopefully KOTOR2 Will Be Longer - Slated For Christmas)

And Don't Get Me Started On MAME! :)

MAME Galaxian! MAME Berzerk! MAME Joust! MAME Q*bert!
MAME Battle Zone! MAME Space Invaders! MAME Discs of Tron! MAME Tempest! MAME Frogger! MAME Galaga! MAME Space Invaders! MAME Donkey Kong! MAME Centipede! MAME Major Havoc! MAME Sinistar!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

At least when I'm not wasting my time here on the DU. ;)

Is the biggest time-suck for me. I have literally played it all day. Stop for supper, play all evening.

The Sims hits me the same way. Can't wait for Sims 2 (release date 8/31/04!!)

TL

From 1999 to the present day I've played it on a Mac performa 200 (with 300mhz upgrade card and voodoo 3) to my current AMD XP system. I've gone through about 5 mice,and just recently ruined my intellimouse explorer 3.0. When I looked at it closely, I see that I have worn down the surfaces on the buttons. On a previous keyboard that had textured keys, the ones I used for movement were perfectly smooth.

I can't quit. I hope the new Doom or the next Quake can save me. Sorta.

I like it-nothing dies and it's friendly and cute.

for the Cube (well, that's what I have it for)

that and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.

Kind of obscure, but I got ridiculously addicted to that game. Its another empire builder, kind of real-time, kind of turn based. I eventually had to put it away because I could NOT stop playing.
I also get kind of addicted to football games, especially college. Love running the wishbone!!!

Incredibly addictive. Simple yet beautiful graphics and animation.
You control a female shaman and her tribe of braves, who build and upgrade huts, including special training huts that turn simple braves into warriors, spies which can disguise themselves as enemy braves, fire warriors that shoot fireballs a considerable distance, and, most important of all, preachers, who can convert enemy tribesman. After several hours of play I learned that the best way to beat the enemy tribes was to train as many preachers as possible and have them attack en masse, converting all of an enemy tribe so that they destroy their former huts and shaman. As an real life, the key to victory is winning the hearts and minds of the enemy. I should send a copy to the White House.

I'm sure anyone who's ever played any version of Civilization knows how much of a time suck that is. Sit down 8:00 pm look up next, it's 6:30 in the morning and you're still going "just one more turn"...

Final Fantasy:Tactics-try and max level all the different type of characters, and finish the game as each type. Zounds and gadzooks.

Honourable mention:GTA3 and Vice City. The actual game was't too hard, but the driving around causing mayhem and destruction part...

its not a game, its a drug i swear, i was plugged in for 3 years straight... it was fun while i was doing it but i had no social life to speak of.

-LK

i had over 20,000 games played before my stats got reset. i'm only back up to around 4,000 right now. i play it constantly.

i need a wingman.

I can't play a lot of the new games...so I spend more time than I should playing Diablo II.

I remember when I faced off the Flood at 2 am..on a worknight :wow: and just NOT wanting to stop. Also KOTOR when I fought Darth Malak (right before Revan's past was revealed), again a 2am jedifeast, Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow. I haven't played GTA for a while, but I should rent it again soon.

Now I'm waiting for Sudeki, Doom III, the EA football and soccer games on Xbox Live--finally!--Driv3r if they ever finish it, and of course Halo 2. Forza Motorsport is also a new title coming out for Xbox. Mechassault 2 I think will be doe after Christmas.

Morrowind, Knights of the Old Republic, Civ 3, and Call of Duty have all been big time-suckers for me.

Right now it's Champions of Norrath, the buggiest damn game I've ever played. It's still fun, though.

I have wasted **days** with that damned game.