Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?
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If we’re talking actual legit addiction, to the point of finding it hard to quit, Skyrim and Pokémon (first four generations). Any other game, no matter how much I love it or how many hours I’ve got, I could put away and not touch for a while. When I first got into Skyrim, I played it nonstop for about 3 or 4 years, hours a day every day. After around 5k hours I finally had a hard drive failure which corrupted a save file and I finally took that as a sign to stop playing. I actually stopped playing video games entirely for a while to make sure I didn’t go back to it. About a year ago I figured I’d reinstall it and play again for a bit, immediately sank 50 hours in and uninstalled it before I fell into that rabbit hole again.
Pokemon is similar, though not as bad. But any time I revisit a Pokemon game I have to go through all the games in the first four gens, get super into it with dozens of tabs on individual Pokemon and stats and such, and then I have to stop myself, otherwise I’d probably do the same thing as Skyrim. As a kid growing up I was properly addicted to that series, and as an adult it still hasn’t gone away.
There’s lots of other games I’ve had tons and tons of hours into, but I could hang them up and move on. Skyrim especially but Pokemon too are actual addictions for me.
wrote last edited by [email protected]RS3 was my go-to, started up on a halloween event prior to pandemic, then decided to test a 6month prenium membership, and then the pandemic hit, and people are staying home anyways, so farmed enough ingame currency to buy yearly membership up until last year, when the bonds jumped in price(in game and irl money) immediately stopped at that point. i was already looking for excuse to quit before, but couldnt stop myself from playing though. although i still have itch to play, i only do it as a matainenace mode now, rather than spend hours and hours playing everyday.
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Old School Runescape. I have multiple characters, but started from scratch a month ago, already have 250 hours of play time on it.
on rs3 i played a ton during the pandemic, until it became too expensive (in game currency, and as a principle for the bonds) so i just stuck with doing dailies now. I do stick around longer for EVENTS/holidays.
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I can definitely relate to the counter strike stuff. I played faceit and esea for a while and the competitiveness eventually ruined the game for me. Also it was incredibly frustrating to start a regular game just for fun and have an opponent start spinning immediately.
Yeah, and somehow it just gets worse once you’re just scheduling a full calendar of scrims a week in advance and treat it like work that way. The pugs were at least entertaining in some way, but the rest of it was only ever going to be satisfying if it lead somewhere instead of being a clearly misguided wasted effort from the start
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Civilization, Civilization 2, Civilization 3 and FreeCiv
Just one more turn. Looks up. Where did the day go?
I finally kicked the habit with FreeCiv.
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Dungeon Master on the Amiga 500 was probably the first, followed by the SSI silver-box Krynn series. Moving over to IBM-compatibles, Sim City ate a ton of my time. SC2k, various AD&D games, and eventually FPS games (especially Team-Fortress-Likes) came to eat up wayyyy too much of my time. My first MMO was FFXI and it ate about every waking moment I was not otherwise occupied. At work, I was looking up gear locations, mobs spawns, etc. and talking on forums. I would later go on to work in the MMO space and played a lot of them for work. Rift: Planes of Telara from alpha until the (first?) major revamp was the last game to really do that to me. Ever since, I will get briefly addicated to games, but nothing lasts... and that's probably good with everything else I have going on. I do get super into Skyrim once ever couple years, though, and put an unhealthy amount of time into it.
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Team Fortress 2 and Splatoon
I have probably over 3k hours on Splatoon. I can't stop. I'm S+8 fwiw
I always thought Salmon Run looked so fun when my daughter played, but I never gave it a go.
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You gotta check out elite dangerous then.
Elite in VR is a singular, unparalleled gaming experience. I can run minerals in a Type 6 back and forth like bus driving is my job.
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Quake (any), Dyson Sphere Program, Path of Exile. Those are the big three, many others had smaller but intense addiction phases.
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Minecraft, holy shit, I have a singleplayer, creative world that I spent hours every day building on for 8 years or so.
That map is gigantic, and I even saved it from a hard disk crash
Then, if you ever get bored of regular minecraft, the mods come in.
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Dungeon Master on the Amiga 500 was probably the first, followed by the SSI silver-box Krynn series. Moving over to IBM-compatibles, Sim City ate a ton of my time. SC2k, various AD&D games, and eventually FPS games (especially Team-Fortress-Likes) came to eat up wayyyy too much of my time. My first MMO was FFXI and it ate about every waking moment I was not otherwise occupied. At work, I was looking up gear locations, mobs spawns, etc. and talking on forums. I would later go on to work in the MMO space and played a lot of them for work. Rift: Planes of Telara from alpha until the (first?) major revamp was the last game to really do that to me. Ever since, I will get briefly addicated to games, but nothing lasts... and that's probably good with everything else I have going on. I do get super into Skyrim once ever couple years, though, and put an unhealthy amount of time into it.
Have you played Factorio? Based on what games you posted, I think you'd like it.
I'm at like 650 hours and it still feels fresh, challenging, allows for creative and logical thinking
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡850 hours on Skyrim and counting.
I seem to have it under control now.
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡wrote last edited by [email protected]Anno 1404, Hades, the recent Hitman series, and now also Satisfactory. Help.
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Hitman: Codename 47
wrote last edited by [email protected]Have you tried the recent trilogy since 2016? Now rolled into one as "World of Assassination".
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Barotrauma, I checked it out on a free to play weekend a few months back and have been hooked since
Lots of tinkering and the modding community is extensive, best played with friends but the single player is good too
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I played Factorio first and since my friends are "done with Factorio" (not sure what's wrong with them but I think I need new friends) I agreed to play satisfactory with them. It was fun for a couple of hours then it just started tobuild up rage inside of me because of so many strange or stupid design decisions the devs made.
When we got to trains and I started building that was when I hit my rage limit and boiled over. My god those stations are huge and the unloading was the most stupid shit ever. Then all the small finicky tricks you can do to slim your builds... And this you want to learn/do since blueprints are small. Don't get me started...
Never started the game again after we were done but have a couple of hundred more hours in Factorio since then -
850 hours on Skyrim and counting.
I seem to have it under control now.
Rookie numbers
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Modded Factorio. I did 450 hours of pyAnodon's recently and it just broke me. I didn't win the game. I feel like I lost at it and life.
It seems impossible to manage the side products properly. Ridiculous amount of materials that are all interrelated means that if you are low on one thing, it is very hard to fix it because you need the thing to work to make anything.
Too many recipes means it is very difficult to make modular, adaptable designs to copy and paste.
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡League of legends, yes I am a toxic person
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡Project Zomboid. I have over 1000 hours of playtime. I always come back to this game.
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For me it was Terraria, Satisfactory, Tetris Effect Master Mode, Minecraft with Mekanism mod & CSGO / CS2 (almost 2000 hours in CS alone).
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️ 🫡GW2. When i first started playing it many moons ago, I couldn't stop playing it! It was so addicting.
