Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?
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You're right, the modding community is probably why Minecraft continues to be so popular. Without mods, Minecraft is kind of boring. At least, in my opinion.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Minecraft's core gameplay sucks, it is only the genius and freedom of the general design coupled with mod support that sustains it.
I have played countless hours of minecraft but these days I don't see the point when I can play Vintage Story or Luanti.
https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/
(Luanti works on Android too!)
The engines of both games are far more capable than java minecraft.
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Morrowind was my big single player addiction. Oblivion and Skyrim were cool but they just never hit quite right.
Multiplayer I was heavy into Halo and Rappelz (some Korean MMO). I woke my brother up by sleep-playing halo, sat in front of the TV wiggling my thumbs on air, and shouted "THEYVE GOT THE FLAG". And would frequently have dreams where the conversation is being held in a floating chat box from rappelz.
Halo 1-3 are some of the best games ever. I played so much of those games and don't regret a moment of it.
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They are indeed. (
Here's the discord server for the game world where we play: https://discord.gg/ms37NPu8 (But there are around 50-100 of varying sizes and activity out there, so lots of variety and play styles to suit different players.)
DM sessions are in the 'Events' tab, but usually take place on Wednesdays or Fridays.
Damn, lemmy is cool af, so many interesting windows into worlds I would have never had otherwise!
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Slay the Spire
There are a bunch of games that I'll get super into, play for a while, then be finished with.
Slay the Spire taps perfectly into every compulsive center of my brain to make me keep playing. Like, we talk about 'addictive' games usually just as ones you like a lot... this is the first time I started to see it closer to actual addictive (though not actually a serious thing for me). It's such a sweetspot for my habits, I feel like I'd just keep saying 'one more run' so consistently, hours, days would evaporate. It kept me busy, to the detriment of doing other things.
You get on a good run, better keep going. You lose a run, might as well just start a new one and see if you have good opening luck. There's rarely a point that feels like "I should stop", until some IRL obligation comes up.
I still go back to it often when I just want an enjoyable way to kill time, or do something while I watch videos/tv on the side.
Other games with roguelike elements tap into this feeling too, like Balatro, Vampire Surviors, or Hades. But STS is where it felt strongest to me.
I respect STS but I LOVE Monster Train (haven't played the second).
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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.
️ 🫡Payday 2 probably takes the gold medal for me. I was once playing casually with a friend of me after work, chatting about the day, and when we were about to finish the level we noticed that we damn near broke the world record for that level, a record made by 4 players.
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I once calculated my Minecraft hours across all platforms I've played on and it's over HALF A YEAR. I was like mega addicted in middle school, I still play often.
servers SUCK now though, they're all pay to win and have custom texture packs that look horrible
the best one I've found (that isn't private) is UltraVanilla, and I actually found it from firefoxes "Minecraft Indy wiki redirect" plugin which crashed once and there was a little box on the side which mentioned the server bc the person that made the plugin is an admin of the server. When I joined the discord I had already interacted with several members from other modding discords.
As far as I know im the ONLY person that checked it out due to that popup lolI don't play on that server because some friends made a different (private) server.
I've easily got a full year into Minecraft since I started playing back in high school. and that's just active hours, not afk. I've never joined a public server
even accounting for the second account I bought for java and the bedrock account I may have had to buy when my account didn't port over properly, it's still the highest time/$ game I've got
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have you tried Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead?
Nope, but I will definitely check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Rocket league. Scrolled all the comments and slightly disappointed to not find this one
This was a game I was truly addicted. Uninstalled it many times recognising it as an addiction but kept coming back to it. I feel lucky that I could break out of it. It was THAT addictive. Around 1200-1300hrs on that game.
I have a few thousand more than that and only stopped because my Steam controller could no longer be repaired. The only reason I want to stay away is Epic/Psyonix being exploitive and abusive. Would love a FOSS clone.
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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.
️ 🫡Urban Terror, it has such a high skill ceiling. Spent many hours just happily running jump maps, let alone all the thousand of games. Thinking of going back.
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Splintercell. All. Of. Them.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Never played any of them myself but I watched a cousin play Chaos Theory when it came out and the soundtrack by Amon Tobin blew me away; I still listen to it frequently.
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Spent years on that one.
I love shattered PD!!!
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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.
️ 🫡Sad to say league
Less sad to say hades. Incredible game that I have preemptively already told my partner she won't see me for a week after hades 2 comes out
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Hades, I spent like 6 months playing almost nothing else. Platinumed it and still couldn't get enough, and I'm not even that good at it!ಥ_ಥ I managed to get to 25 heat I think.
It's such a good 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).
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.
️ 🫡Rhythm Doctor
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Payday 2 probably takes the gold medal for me. I was once playing casually with a friend of me after work, chatting about the day, and when we were about to finish the level we noticed that we damn near broke the world record for that level, a record made by 4 players.
I only played payday 2 casually because all I would play is hoxton breakout LOL
I was invested enough though to make my own skin mod (pre lootbox) and it was kinda popular
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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.
Advanced recipes seem better, but they end up just exacerbating the issue even more.There's a reason it's called cracktorio.
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I once calculated my Minecraft hours across all platforms I've played on and it's over HALF A YEAR. I was like mega addicted in middle school, I still play often.
servers SUCK now though, they're all pay to win and have custom texture packs that look horrible
the best one I've found (that isn't private) is UltraVanilla, and I actually found it from firefoxes "Minecraft Indy wiki redirect" plugin which crashed once and there was a little box on the side which mentioned the server bc the person that made the plugin is an admin of the server. When I joined the discord I had already interacted with several members from other modding discords.
As far as I know im the ONLY person that checked it out due to that popup lolI don't play on that server because some friends made a different (private) server.
If only I could relive the wonders of beta 1.5 from fresh
Don't get me wrong I think the evolution of minecraft is cool and one of my favorite mod packs was sevtech, which was around 2017, but beta 1.5 hits different when kid me was just spamming random mats into the crafting table to see if it built anything
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Sad to say league
Less sad to say hades. Incredible game that I have preemptively already told my partner she won't see me for a week after hades 2 comes out
After ten thousand hours in league I realised there's actually ten idiots in each game not nine
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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.
️ 🫡Subnautica, Witcher 3, Far Cry 4, Metro Exodus, Dead By Daylight so far
