Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?
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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]Everquest Online Adventures and then City of Heroes.
For EQOA I had 3 CRT tvs and five PS2s with an account for each one going for a couple of years straight. I worked on the road at the time. I was in a different hotel every two months and lugged that around with me. I was in a guild, led raids, powerleveled my and other people's alts.
City of Heroes was similar. Three accounts, I met my ex wife there, was a prominent member in one of the largest Super Groups in the game. I was there from the first couple months of the game until it shut down.
When I found out about the CoH private servers I went back and caught myself slipping right back to the old ways so I haven't touched a multi-player game since.
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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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️ 🫡Factorio, Europa Universalis IV, Victoria 3, Baldur's Gate 3 when it was new, and special shout-out to Outer Wilds which hooked me unforgettably
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Nope. I used the fact that it never really went on sale as an excuse to avoid it, which had saved me a half year or so of my life, I think.
Incredible 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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️ 🫡All FromSoftware games including most recently AC6. Also Stardew. I've beaten Stardew probably more than any other game and there's a ton of mods that expand the experience.
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George Washington 2? George W 2?
ohhh wait, I got it. Gone Wild 2. I didn't know there was a sequel to that
Guild Wars 2
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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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️ 🫡I was in university and had just passed my midterms and as a treat for myself picked up both KOTORs. Mainlined that shit.
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here.
️ 🫡Gemstone 3 mud back in the late 90’s. Had its claws in me for a few years.
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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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️ 🫡Valkyrie Chronicles, I legitimately called off work sick for 2 days when the game came out on ps3.
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
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️ 🫡The Cluefinder series, Minecraft beta from 1.4 to 1.6, BOTS, Secret of the Solstice, Realm of the Mad God, Skyrim, Mindustry, FTL, and currently CS2 and PokeRogue. Though I'm sure I'm forgetting at least one.
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Fallout. I played 1 and 2 back when they first came out. Great games, great writing, seditious humour ad a real feel of a world.
But then came 3, FNV, and 4. Each of those I played through as my default 'helpful stealth archer' character, then a second time as 'evil melee' character, and then again to make sure I had maxed out each faction and got each ending. And then again, because I loved it, and again to collect all the bobbleheads, magazines, etc.
I'm in my late-50s. I'm already slowing down my career in preparation for retirement, and now I work as a freelance consultant which means I have some control over my working hours. I can't wait for Fallout 5. I will be probably take at least two weeks off work to binge the shit out of it.
Less so with Elder Scrolls 6, but I'll be taking at least a week off to play it when it drops.
Fo4 has to be in my top five for hours spent. The settlement building is what ends up taking most of my time, but I also obsessively reworked my modlist until I felt I had achieved a brutal level of realism, which means scrounging up the shit to build my settlements takes long hours of unforgiving scavenging.
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Oh shit, how could I forget gmod. Those were good times.
I still get sucked back in for a week or so every now and then. I never was much for the multi-player, I like taking big city maps and furnishing all the buildings in them and making up little backstories for everything in my head.
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here.
️ 🫡Star wars galaxies, RuneScape, Minecraft, destiny 2, red dead redemption, dark souls 3, elden ring, bloodborne, and currently dayz
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I can't enjoy Factorio... It just feels like I'm at work. I don't even think I've finished the tutorial levels yet.
Wait, you guys are enjoying it? (Source: 500 hours of gameplay)
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Nope, but I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
If you want a run based experience check out the mod (included in the basic install) Sky Islands
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here.
️ 🫡last one was dave the diver. Loved it
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here.
️ 🫡And Terraria most recently.
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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).
Edit: There are so many answers that I might only reply if I have something interesting to say. I will read all of your answers though.
Edit 2: It has become too much for me and I have to disable notifications. Thank you for the massive response and please continue to discuss with everyone here.
️ 🫡First was RuneScape, that lasted a month or so. Next was Civ V, that was a couple weeks. I learned my lesson.
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Have you tried Beyond All Reason?
No, but played supreme commander
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Operation Harsh Doorstop multiplayer - I can't get enough of Project Reality style semirealistic battlefield games.
Motortown: Behind The Wheel - the driving just feels so damn good...
Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead - specifically Sky Islands mod to give the game a more "run based" focused feel. This game has passed an event horizon of environmental richness no other adventure game comes close to, the landscape truly feels alive and it is very addictive in a good way.
Call Of Duty Mobile & Other Battle Royale Mobile Games - such as (now defunct) Apex Legends Mobile or Farlight 84, never spent money on it in addictive way I just find higher level competitive battle royale gameplay fascinating.
You might like Insurgency: Sandstorm
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All FromSoftware games including most recently AC6. Also Stardew. I've beaten Stardew probably more than any other game and there's a ton of mods that expand the experience.
AC6 was so great, I went directly from NG -> NG+ -> NG++, which I never do. Never wanted it to end.
