Which games made you go into an "addiction phase"?
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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.
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️ 🫡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.
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RS3 is really filled with way too much p2w, that's why I stick to osrs. There's still bonds of course, and I wouldn't recommend trying to pay for membership through them, but it's a lot better concerning in game currency than RS3.
i used in game currency to pay for the membership, i stopped last year, because it became to chore-y.
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I bailed on RS3 a couple years ago for OSRS, recently liquidated my RS3 bank to fund bonds for my hardcore ironman on OSRS haha.
i mostly on maintenance mode for rs now, but holiday events i will stay longer, but i will be mostly afk.
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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.
️ 🫡deltarune, tf2, and uh.. hsr or pgr.
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Then return right where I left off anywhere between 6 months and 4 years later.
Unless the return consists of restarting the game, or trying to play for an hour or two then quit out of frustration because you have no idea what the fuck was going on here, I just can't relate.
That was me and Hollow Knight's difficulty. I just could not retrieve my competence out of a lack of patience to rebuild it.
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Project Zomboid. I have over 1000 hours of playtime. I always come back to this game.
I tried that game and just couldn't handle the mouse cursor when attacking; the height art for it is just bizarre to me. I also hated various gameplay issues in SurrounDead. I hope ZERO Sievert may scratch this itch.
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Pretty much everything I’ve ever played. Going all-in on a new hobby for periods of time (before cycling to another interest weeks later) is just how my brain works.
But right now? I’m very into playing Surviving Mars. Something about escaping from Earth and creating a new society on another planet just feels so appealing right now, for some reason. Nervously glances at news headlines
We're totally not gonna make it there IRL.
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No Man's Sky. Keeps drawing me in.
Homeworld 1, 2, Cataclysm. Forget the latest one.
Need for Speed Most Wanted.
Horizon 1 & 2
So many more...
Did you play 1 and 2 original or remastered? I'm wondering if the remastered version is worth it and if it makes the HW1 levels more 3D (many of the levels', until near the end at least, elements were still mostly on a flat horizontal plane, which I found to be disappointing).
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Elite. Lode Runner. Castles of Dr. Creep. Boulderdash.
Lode Runner was so cool!!
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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.
️ 🫡Mindustry
