What top games in your lifetime have you got addicted to?

[KiloPatches]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
(Self Explanatory)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I have clocked like 200 hours in that game (and counting), made 3 characters, played through all storylines, including the DLC, I NEVER get bored with it.... I play it on the Xbox 360, so no mods, I find it WAY better that way. I have the full collection on the PC, and to speak to what infinikitten said about mods such as Inigo and Elsweyr, they're good (I guess), but I would MUCH rather just play through the game on my TV with Bethesda-made DLC and followers and characters and maps.

Dragon Age: Inquisition
I started a damn thread about it!!!! <3 LOVE it! TOTALLY worth it. I have played maybe 80 hours on one single character. SO MUCH CONTENT! OMG! MASSIVE MAPS! SO MUCH to see and free roam and explore..... I could just free roam for hours.... AND THE SIDE QUESTS JUST ADD UP! SO MUCH TO DO IN THE HINTERLANDS ALONE! Like..... JEEZ! There is just not enough time to do EVERYTHING. Unless you want to. LOL. They JUST announced new DLC.... the party banter between followers is great. The soundtrack is fantastic. Graphically its amazing.... I just get lost in it....

Professor Layton & the Miracle Mask
There were times I would start the game at full battery.... then 6-8 hours would go by and my 3DS would be flashing red that the battery was about to die, lol.... VERY addictive puzzle game.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST:

Pharaoh: PC
A top-down RTS from back in the day where you are a Pharaoh and you build a city, command an army, harvest resources, conduct trades, build monuments, conduct invasions, worship/appease Ancient Egyptian Gods with festivals, etc..... it was a very educational game. It made me obsessed with Ancient Egyptology. And I would play it for HOURS, day after day, EVERYDAY as a kid.

Carmen Sandiego: Great Chase Trough Time (PC)
Also a very old game. You are an ACME secret agent on a mission to catch Carmen who is stealing historical artifacts throughout history. You travel through time and meet historical figures like Motezuma of the Aztecs, William Shakespeare, Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Yuri Gagarian and dozens of others.... Also a VERY educational game I would play as a kid for hours on end. And once I beat it, I would play over again!

Syberia I & II (PC)
Also old games.... point-and-click adventures. You are a lawyer, Kate Walker, settling an inheritance affair after the death of the owner of a toy factory in beautiful Valadelene, France, then you find out their is a surviving heir that you seek out by taking a train to Syberia and following his footsteps on an odd and dangerous adventure.

Zoo Tycoon (PC)
Gosh, the hours I put into this game.... the original, mind you.
That includes Dino Digs and Marine Mania Expansions.
I had it down to a science!

Donkey Kong Country for the SNES, circa 1994.
One of the first games I EVER owned. I was 4 years old. I was hooked! My Dad and I would play. He probably had the sense to stop me before the point of "addiction" but needless to say, I played through those levels so many times at the age of 4.... (particularly my favourite one, Minecart Madness).... that at the age of 24 when I bought an SNES and a copy of Donkey Kong Country, I had that level so permanently memorized that I could LITERALLY play through the entire level with my eyes closed - I knew just when to jump from hearing cues from the background music I have heard a million times before.

 

[EconomicPig]

Animal Crossing New Leaf, Toon Town Online, I currently play Toon Town Rewritten (fanmade), I was addicted to wizard 101 as a child, and i play lots of league of legands

 

[cosmic-latte]

Animal Crossing New Leaf and the Sims 3.

 

[Bowie]

Can an obsession count? When I was a little younger, Garry's Mod was the big new game being talked about on the Internet, and I wanted it so badly, but I had no money and I didn't even know how to create a Steam account. Inappropriate or not, I loved that game and I still do now. Oh, and I actually have it now.

 

[NessCuddles]

TOO MANY

Harvest moon, Pangya, Trickster Online, Mabinogi, Pokemon, Jak and daxter, Animal Crossing (Like right now, is the only time ive ever been addicted to AC), Grand Chase, Aura Kingdom. Probably more that I cant think of atm XD

I DONT HAVE A PROBLEM OK?

Oh yeah... toontown but we wont get into that LOL (I WAS YOUNG OK?)

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

I remember playing Yugioh: Eternal Duelist Soul and Crash Team Racing all the time when I was younger. Some other good games/series were Sonic Adventure, Kingdom Hearts, Sly Cooper, FFVII: Crisis Core, and Ape Escape.

 

[Heartcore]

Runescape, IMVU, Second Life, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Skyrim, and The Sims 2.

 

[Senor Mexicano]

SSB: Melee
Back when I was addicted to my GCN (and b4 SSBM broke) I used to play the heck out of SSBM. I played it with friends, family, and by myself. Probably my first game I got addicted to.

Animal Crossing (GCN)
Like SSBM, I received AC from a friend who had no GCN. When I began playing it, I instantly loved it and got addicted to it.

Pokemon series
Oh boy, this was probably my biggest addiction yet. I would get up from bed and start playing Diamond on my DS. When a new game came out, I bought it at launch. I probably stopped playing it after I bought an Xbox and began playing PC games.

Halo 4
I used to play this so much back in my Xbox Days. The multiplayer mostly, but the campaign was great and I played LASO on it with my friends. Which we ended up failing on.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf
When I bought it on launch day, I knew it was gonna be a good game. I started up my game and found out I became mayor. I was so excited about the new mechanics announced before its release that I started playing it so much. I don't play as much as I used to, but still play from time to time.

Counter-Strike 1.6
CS 1.6 is a great fun game from the 90s, I've spent much of my time playing it. I'm playing it right at this moment.

Team Fortress 2
After waiting 2 days downloading this game with my crap internet, I found it fun. I played with my friends as many of them had it (because it was F2P obviously) I ended my addiction when I found some cool modded servers on CS like Jailbreak, TTT, and Zombie Mod.

These were/are the gaming addictions of my life.

 

[timbo]

Actually a lot of games The Sims 1-4 I love those series!
Also Minecraft you can just build and do whatever you want it's just pretty awesome.
I wierdly enough like Lego games like Lego Racers 1-2.
i also love Spore it's just an awesome game that is all about the Evolution theory.
and i love the Rollercoaster tycoon series 1-3 and World (when it's out)
So that are basically my games that i'm addicted to (still)

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I wrote a huge long paragraph back on the first couple of pages, but I want to add one.

Kirby Air Ride
That game...has taken away so many hours of my life. And I don't want any of them back.
I was obsessed with that game for years on end. Not just a couple months. Years.
It's a game I still have with me and can play it for hours before I realize I'm putting off important things to do. I have no idea what it is about that game, but I don't think I'll ever get tired of it. I don't even know who bought it in my household, but I'm glad they did.

 

[Darumy]

rubs chin

- Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness. My only harvest moon game weeps. I really liked the gameplay and graphical style and am actually a bit disappointed that they're transitioning into a legitimately 3D style. well I generally dislike the 3D trend. but ye.
- Rune Factory 3 that game was lovely
- Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (these games have strangely engaging storylines)
- Rollercoaster Tycoon when I was little HAHA
- AC WW and NL, probably had a greater drive for Wild World although I played alone and without any of the extreme town perfection elements
- LaTale
- Blade & Soul (although this is a more "I-went-to-extreme-lengths-to-play-this-game-because-it-isnt-released-western", but I'm pretty sure it would consume me if it did release for NA audiences)
- Fantasy Earth Zero
- Fire Emblem: Awakening. I usually always do more than a single playthrough of strategic games, but this one is special because I have an immense soft spot for all of the characters h-heh
- Minecraft would count I suppose! I really only enjoyed my first singleplayer world, and afterwards only played in very small servers with a group of close friends.


Civ: BE had the potential to ensnare me so I jumped ship from that series fast HAHA

 

[SuperaDorian]

Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden: I have played both games at least 6 times each on my Vita as well as clocked in a few run throughs on the PS2 versions.

The entire Dragon Age series : I have done every Origin story option at least once. By that I mean that not only have I played as both male and female of all races but also as all class/race combinations available in Origins. The same goes for Awakening and for DA2. I am slowly working my way through my second playthrough of Inquisition but it is hard to find time when I am trying to also graduate from university.

All Professor Layton games: I could play non-stop puzzle games for the rest of my life.

The Myst series from 1-4: More puzzle games whoop whoop.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf: This one is just obvious...

And my guiltiest pleasure of them all...

Style Savvy 1 and 2: Such stupid, pointless games but I love them a lot. Owning a boutique and using your status to make people buy the ugliest outfits and have them love it way too much fun.

 

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Nice list everyone! Recently I've gotten back into runescape lol.

 

[Earth Wolf-Howl]

Definitely Minecraft. Sure, I've only been playing it for about a month now, but once I start playing it, I'll sit there for about five hours mining, or exploring, or dying in the Nether, or something along those lines. I mostly play on a small server, though.

 

[Alienfish]

The Hyperdimension Neptunia games, simply awesome.

Civ V... I have too many hours on this.

Several visual novels game... I love those. Especially Higurashi/Onikakushi, Narcissu 1/2, Planetarian..

 

[Folia]

Huh...

Sims 1-3 definitely. I've spent way too many hours of my life playing them.

I also used to play Minecraft a lot, before the big Adventure update forever ago. I remember using a villager and horse mod before they became officially implemented.

 

[Pharaoh]

The games I got addicted to were/are:

Mario Kart Wii- played every day when I got home from school. I was very focused on the online racing because I wanted to get up to 9999, which I did and was super happy about. Loved the hacked races. Loved the courses. Loved unlocking stuff. Played the heck out of this game and was sad to hear the servers for it were being shut down when Mario Kart 8 came out. Which brings me to-

Mario Kart 8- continued my unhealthy racing addiction here. Wasn't AS into the online aspect of it, the point system was both updated but a little weird. They definitely don't punish you as much for losing. The items aren't as OP either.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution- there was a time I played this every day, I loved the multiple scenarios for it and how you could unlock achievements no matter what you picked. Adam Jensen is Robo Cop and Batman's child.

Animal Crossing New Leaf- never played an Animal Crossing game before this one, so I was super addicted really fast, so fast I think I burned myself out on it. Starting to get back into the idea of playing it again though.

Portal 2- I logged so many hours into this game, mostly co-op with an old friend that had helped me out of a severe period of depression in my life. I have really fond memories and am very attached to this game.

 

[Shimmer]

Animal Crossing Wild World
Pokemon Sapphire
Sonic Adventure 2
Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak

Those are my top four most played games growing up. I played tons of others, of course, but those are the ones I played nonstop. I know they aren't perfect. Of course they aren't. But I hold them to my heart dearly and will treasure them always.

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I also forgot about Harvest Moon DS!! How could I forget that one!? I played that one nonstop as well.

 

[Ashtot]

ive never been addicted but the games i spent most time playing are league of legends with 56 total days played and probably like fire emblem games and pokemon games

 

[Dunquixote]

World of Warcraft; from 2005 to 2012. While my experience overall has been memorable (it would have been really nice if there was no drama <.< but, whatever lol) I will say I overdid it. Also, I admit that it was a (small?) part of the reason some my grades for some classes weren't that great. Still, I don't regret playing it; maybe I regret the addiction.

I don't know if there were any games that I'd say I was addicted to like that; I mean there were games I'd play a couple times in a row, some games/series I'd participate in discussions on tumblr, write long posts on my blog, or discussion one of my favorite characters in a game on the Bioware forums that's dedicated to that character. If that's considered addiction, then they would be:

• Final Fantasy X
• Dragon Age series
• Maybe a bit of the Metal Gear Solid series