Most time consuming game you've experienced?

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 9:55 am

REMEMBER, the game that stole the most time from your life over the years. NOT NECESSARILY YOUR CURRENT FAVORITE!

This is a classic question thats probably been answered a thousand times, but even so, I've never ventured into the "gaming" section of SG to know. Just curious to see what games really devoured the most of our spare time.

For me, I'd have to say the Elder Scrolls series consumed me the most. I played Arena back in High School, Daggerfall freshman year of college, & Morrowind I've been playing since it was released but I've been on about a month break right now. Those three games combined have totally destroyed hours, and hours of my spare time over the years. So have Civ & Doom, but not quite as much.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 10:11 am

Even though I probably logged more hours into UT, Quake1/2/3 was what addicted me....and kept me playing into the wee hours of the morning so many times.

My ex-wife hated that!

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 10:16 am

Originally posted by YeOldeStonecat
My ex-wife hated that!

LOL!

my wife hates games too! hopefully she can endure!

Noevo · Post by **Noevo** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 10:53 am

the Diablo series has been the biggie for me.

i think it was Jan. 96 that I started playing diablo. and still play D2, rarely now however. since then I have been sucked into the Baldurs Gate games, Civ3, UT, and Roller Coaster Tycoon. Those are probably my all time addictions...feels like I am missing one though...

Omeg · Post by **Omeg** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 11:48 am

Everquest !!!!!!!!!! that has to be the most time consuming game of all time! i spent 3 years of playing this when i wasnt asleep or at work and 400,000 plus do the same often calling it Evercrack

Set · Post by **Set** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:28 pm

Rogue spear lost a good 3 years on that

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:43 pm

Originally posted by Omeg
Everquest !!!!!!!!!! that has to be the most time consuming game of all time! i spent 3 years of playing this when i wasnt asleep or at work and 400,000 plus do the same often calling it Evercrack

Agreed, even though it was not my favorite game, it was the most addicting game I ever played.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:09 pm

yeah,, I suppose I should have included Everquest in the poll.. just couldn't think of them all at the time. I played Everquest too... for some reason I didn't get into as much. There are certain games that I just can't get into. Tribes, Baldur's Gate series, and Neverwinter Nights are among the other great games that I just can't get addicted too.. weird.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 1:55 pm

everquest is so powerful and addicitng, that people have died from an inderect result. Give you a perfect example:

A father not sure where, was watching his baby at the time, he was so addicted to EQ, I think he played EQ for 48 hours straight, never once getting up from the PC and checking up on his baby. His baby eventually ended up dieing I think from starvation.

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 3:11 pm

Madden 2002. I played the hell outta that thing online, over the lan, offline, in my sleep etc.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:44 pm

Final Fantasy
Diablo
UT

curretnly SOF2 and dungeon siege are working their way up the list.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:53 pm

DOH!!

Final Fantasy!! I forgot all about it... how could I?

I played the hell out of the original and my favorite all time is FFII for superNES. I played III but didn't really get into it that much..

VII I finally played about a year ago, but only got about half way through it and reformatted my hard drive and never put it back on again. I've never played any of the more recent ones.. kinda afraid of the amounts of time it may consume... I'll stick with Morrowind for now... but I should have had Final Fantasy on there for sure... MY BAD!

venem123 · Post by **venem123** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:52 am

Frontline Force http://www.flfmod.com

Used to play all day sometimes.

Its a Half Life Mod.

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 1:24 am

Morrowind was a good, LONG game

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption I played for a while too...that's one of my fav's

Juggernaut · Post by **Juggernaut** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 1:26 am

Originally posted by davy19
everquest is so powerful and addicitng, that people have died from an inderect result. Give you a perfect example:

A father not sure where, was watching his baby at the time, he was so addicted to EQ, I think he played EQ for 48 hours straight, never once getting up from the PC and checking up on his baby. His baby eventually ended up dieing I think from starvation.

I've heard of things like that before with EQ....what is so powerful and addicting about it though? I've never played it but just curious how a game can get people so crazed

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 3:26 am

The Legend of Zelda.

Looking back now, that game is very short, but I spent weeks and weeks playing that thing. I'd get off the bus from school, run into my room and be holed up in there until my mom had to drag me to dinner. Ahh...4th grade.

Most of the time-consuming games I've played have been on consoles. Dragon Warrior series, Final Fantasy series, the other Zeldas.

Mutch · Post by **Mutch** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 4:25 am

Goldeneye for nin64
Counter-strike
Starcraft :Brood war

SICMF · Post by **SICMF** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 6:36 am

Soldier Of Fortune II

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:00 pm

Originally posted by Juggernaut
Morrowind was a good, LONG game

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption I played for a while too...that's one of my fav's

Vampire was good but I was disapointed with the multiplayer

DId you beat Morrowind? I dont know anyone who beat that yet, since it is such a huge game

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:00 pm

Originally posted by Recondite
The Legend of Zelda.

Looking back now, that game is very short, but I spent weeks and weeks playing that thing. I'd get off the bus from school, run into my room and be holed up in there until my mom had to drag me to dinner. Ahh...4th grade.

Most of the time-consuming games I've played have been on consoles. Dragon Warrior series, Final Fantasy series, the other Zeldas.

Legend of Zelda is still a classic, proabbly one of the only adventure games that I might have beaten 20 times. Had great replay value

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 12:02 pm

Originally posted by Juggernaut

I've heard of things like that before with EQ....what is so powerful and addicting about it though? I've never played it but just curious how a game can get people so crazed

It is really hard to describe, it is just you always want something better, whether it be another level, or the next uber loot.

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 1:33 pm

ut ..cant beleive i have to vote other pc game

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 6:28 pm

Originally posted by Juggernaut
Morrowind was a good, LONG game

Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption I played for a while too...that's one of my fav's

vampire is great, but the multiplayer sucks

UnitedWeStand · Post by **UnitedWeStand** » Sat Aug 31, 2002 9:30 pm

Risk
many 24 hours at time hours playing Risk.

koldchillah · Post by **koldchillah** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 5:38 pm

Risk was great, I play Risk II all the time at work (the old "ALT-TAB" when the boss comes around trick!)

I can't believe nobody out there got civ'd out at some point in their lives! No love for Sid Meir's Civilization series? It's definitely a time consuming game, but I suppose you have to be into turn-based strategy games to appreciate it fully..

IranianHobo · Post by **IranianHobo** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 9:25 pm

No Maxis games? SimCity, 2000, 3000, The Sims, Sim Tower, had a love affair with all of them at some point.

Bastid · Post by **Bastid** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 1:41 am

ive logged many hours of UT and QII but the one game that was a bad addiction for me was Gran Tourismo, Playstation...i lost actual days of going in to work because of that game......

TEH WIN · Post by **TEH WIN** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 1:57 am

XSeanX and I used to stay up all freakin night playin Rogue Spear and then Urban Operations... He was up till 5:00 AM one morning his time....

we played that game like 10 hours straight some times, it was incredible. we were so addicted

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 5:13 am

Dragon Warrior (NES)

C-S wanna be · Post by **C-S wanna be** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 4:34 pm

Its pretty close with me between Rogue Spear and Counter-Strike. latetly its CS but before that i played Rogue Spear for about 3 years. but with Rogue Spear i here TEH WIN with the whole stayin up till the sun came up.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 6:16 pm

Originally posted by Recondite
The Legend of Zelda.

Looking back now, that game is very short, but I spent weeks and weeks playing that thing. I'd get off the bus from school, run into my room and be holed up in there until my mom had to drag me to dinner. Ahh...4th grade.

Most of the time-consuming games I've played have been on consoles. Dragon Warrior series, Final Fantasy series, the other Zeldas.

I've spent many, many hours on the Zelda series. The last one that I played and never finished was Final Fantasy VII for the play station. Just don't have the time anymore to sit and play for hours on end. As mentioned, there would be times that I would sit and play all weekend, right up untill I had to go to work on Monday.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:21 pm

Me and some friends would play Rogue Spear for at least 4 hours a day when we got home from work everyday and then play almost all day sat. and sun.

Ahh those were the days.

Indy · Post by **Indy** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 9:03 pm

Axis & Allies, the board game...there would be weekends back when I was in the Navy that me and three other buddies would play for 36 hours straight...

cy · Post by cy » Sun Sep 08, 2002 10:14 pm

Definitely Diablo 2 man! I was so addicted to that game. 24 hrs a day. 4 hours sleep, 5 hours school, 1 hr eating + shower, 13 hours D2

Moridin59 · Post by **Moridin59** » Tue Sep 10, 2002 4:58 pm

Ultima online baby. I've probably built around 15 characters with about 130+ hours MINIMUM into just building them, then tons of time making money by killing stuff on my warriors, tamers, bards, mages, crafting stuff on my crafters, then tons of time socializing, hunting for fun, then my all time favorite Player versus Player (pvp)...so awesome.

its in my opinion more fun then EQ, more stuff to do, more people to interact with in different ways, MUCH better pvp, youve never known an online game unless youve known the rush of absolutely beating the **** out of your openent(s).

i love all aspects of Ultima Online, from being a smith, tailor, miner, alchemist, tinker, pure mage, macer, fencer, swordsman, hybrid mage/fencer, parry macer, tamer/mage, bard/mage...umm...the only thing I havent really played is a jacker (lumberjack) I love to pvp, run vendors, particpate in senairos, guild wars, factions, Chaos and Order wars, Player killing, playing a red, a blue, a trammy, a newbie, EVERYTHING hehehe. Collecting rares, owning houses, decorating my houses, having tons of fun with my guildmates, doing Adam Ant quests, participating in Adam Ant quests, getting together with a bunch of red freinds and going and killing annoying trammys who think they are good at pvp (player versus player) dueling, tournaments, the ability to just kill someone and take all their stuff because you dont like them, killing a dragon, owning a dragon and having it kill stuff/people, DESTROYING YOUR ENEMIES hehe, going to guildmeetings, guild hunts, many many guild events (scavenger hunts, chicken fights, tournaments, monster/dungeon hunts, auctions). Weddings, getting married to my irl girlfreind in game...everything!

whoa i sound like an addict, too bad I cant play at all becuase for some reason I am so laggy that I cant move even though I ping under 100 with 0 packetloss and i download/browse very fast, the game has been unplayable to me for about 3+ weeks.

Lythandesi/Moridin/BrianBoitano of Napa Valley/Chesapeake shards of Ultima Online

PS this is spread out over a course of 2-3 years of playing on and off, so ive experienced a over a long period of time, most often playing an hour or so a day.

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