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

[Le Ham]

Animal Crossing kinda fades in and out with me, same with this forum. Some may notice that I can disappear for months at a time.
When I was like 6, Spyro was love Spyro was life... and after watching walkthroughs of the classic Spyros about 6 months ago I had this intense nostalgia trip
I used to play this game called "Go Vacation" on the (original) Wii a ton... played it for several years. Now I've unlocked almost everything in it although I still love it, and I'm still trying to create something with the characters and their villas. Also the theme song is catchy.
My dad got me into Phoenix Wright for awhile... until I stopped playing because the stuff I had to figure out was too complex for my little brain to handle, like rly with the constant pressing and the receipt after Mia's death? Was that even necessary?

Spoiler: some other pointless babbling

Also as much as I don't like admitting it, I was secretly a Sonic-furry for a brief period of time, like I had Mobian OCs and I had a crush on Shadow and all that weeaboo nonsense... which is weird because I never really played any Sonic games, I just watched the cutscenes on YouTube and read dA fanfics heheh...heh...he
A similar phase happened with me and Mario characters. I had an OC there too, loved Bowser Jr., and started a fanfic with it. I plan to flesh it out and make it really deep to include some of those things people think about when playing Mario.

 

[Trio4meo]

Animal Crossing
I loved playing with my friends hitting each other with axes XD I loved meeting so many people in NL it was great fun, having some many people visit your town and I remember on the bff chat it just kept coming in! Ahhh the good times ('▽'〃)

Minecraft
Me nd me bro both playing it, made a giant tree house and we would go into the desert hunting mobs for their loot └(^o^)┘

 

[uwuzumakii]

Here is my list of gaming addictions:

Minecraft: Like THIS hasn't been said a whole lot... A good memory... Let's see... Ah, yes! I remember, It was Beta 1.8.1 and I had found out about this dupe glitch (doesn't work anymore, duh,) and after about 5 minutes, I had a large chest filled with diamond blocks.

Terraria: Terraria, in my opinion, is a lot like Minecraft, but a whole lot better. I have over 1,500 hours logged on it. My first world was my best world. I was decked out if full Beetle Shell Armor, had all the NPCs (except the Stylist,) had killed every single boss, multiple times, I was having the time of my life! Until the update... IT GOT RID OF MY SAVE! Everything was gone! I was devastated, now I'm working on a new world that will be even better.

Animal Crossing: Yeah, I'm sure this one has been said a whole lot, too. I'm pretty sure you can guess this one, so let's just move on.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door: This game... is so friggin' amazing, I almost wore out the disc for it. I LOVE this game, I've played every single Paper Mario, except the first one, I'm still working on it. Sticker Star is an ABOMINATION to society! I wasted 40 bucks on that thing...

Earthbound: Oh dear god... I had found out about this game in 2012. It was Christmas morning and I had opened a gift. It was underwear... But hidden under the folded underpants lay the most awesome game in history! (Besides Animal Crossing, of course.) I had immediately left the room, even though half my presents weren't open and I immediately booted up the game and, it was so awesome.

Well, those are all the games I can think of as of right now.

 

[ams]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door: This game... is so friggin' amazing, I almost wore out the disc for it. I LOVE this game, I've played every single Paper Mario, except the first one, I'm still working on it. Sticker Star is an ABOMINATION to society! I wasted 40 bucks on that thing...

Yes!!! This might be my favourite game of all time! Also I highly encourage you to play the first - not as good as TYD but very cute with a lot of the RPG elements that made the second one so great!

The games that were the most addictive for me were:
- any Pokemon games (X was the biggest culprit)
- Sims (1-3)
- ACNL of course XD

I find personally that the more customization options in a game, the more I get addicted to it. I'm just such a perfectionist, I'll lay awake at night trying to figure out exactly how I want everything.

My favourite games (eg. Link to the Past, Paper Mario 2) I wouldn't necessarily call addictive since my overall playtime wasn't huge, I just really enjoyed playing them.

 

[Lmaze]

The sims 4 and Animal crossing are my two games that I get addicted to!

 

[Dunquixote]

I always got addicted and "un-addicted" to all of the Sims games, except the fourth one, which my computer can't handle (it no longer can handle the Sims 3 :/) and I don't want. So much fun! hehe

 

[Bradski]

Supersonic-Acrobatic-Rocket-Powered-Battle-Cars. I played that game CONSISTENTLY for 5 years on my ps3. Best game on ps3 and the sequel Rocket League comes out July 7th on ps4.

 

[addictedtocars]

Gran Turismo 1-4: I got my first GT game back in 2005 and I still play it and the others still up to this day.

Forza Horizon: got it a year ago with my Xbox 360 and I played the **** out of that game until I accidentally deleted my own save (oops!).

Midnight club 3: If you own this game you will already know why I still play it...

 

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Here is my list of gaming addictions:

Minecraft: Like THIS hasn't been said a whole lot... A good memory... Let's see... Ah, yes! I remember, It was Beta 1.8.1 and I had found out about this dupe glitch (doesn't work anymore, duh,) and after about 5 minutes, I had a large chest filled with diamond blocks.

Terraria: Terraria, in my opinion, is a lot like Minecraft, but a whole lot better. I have over 1,500 hours logged on it. My first world was my best world. I was decked out if full Beetle Shell Armor, had all the NPCs (except the Stylist,) had killed every single boss, multiple times, I was having the time of my life! Until the update... IT GOT RID OF MY SAVE! Everything was gone! I was devastated, now I'm working on a new world that will be even better.

Animal Crossing: Yeah, I'm sure this one has been said a whole lot, too. I'm pretty sure you can guess this one, so let's just move on.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door: This game... is so friggin' amazing, I almost wore out the disc for it. I LOVE this game, I've played every single Paper Mario, except the first one, I'm still working on it. Sticker Star is an ABOMINATION to society! I wasted 40 bucks on that thing...

Earthbound: Oh dear god... I had found out about this game in 2012. It was Christmas morning and I had opened a gift. It was underwear... But hidden under the folded underpants lay the most awesome game in history! (Besides Animal Crossing, of course.) I had immediately left the room, even though half my presents weren't open and I immediately booted up the game and, it was so awesome.

Well, those are all the games I can think of as of right now.

I have terarria! I have never played it though, I'm wondering if it is worth starting.

 

[Le Ham]

Also if we're including compooter games, Toontown is still one I like and then I did ROBLOX on and off for years before deciding the community was trash

^Same happened w/ animal jam^

 

[Cirom]

An interesting topic.

I would say that Animal Crossing: Wild World, Sonic Robo Blast 2 and Minecraft would be my main "lifetime" games, so to speak. I remember when I first got AC:WW when I was 10 or 11, I ended up practically playing and being in love with that game for 2 years straight, before I even slightly started to get bored. With SRB2, I found out about the game when I was 9, and mostly played it while I was 11-14 (1.09.4 era) - although I still play it today. I often enjoyed hosting CTF servers and servers with interesting mods on. ;o -- And finally, Minecraft. Started when I was 14 (Minecraft Alpha 1.1.2_01).. and still play it today, 5 years into the future. Sure, the game's overpopulated to death now - but I can't deny that this game has brought me so much fun over the years. And still does!

I would argue that all these games I've probably played over 3,000 hours on EACH. At LEAST. Heh. Although there's no way I can tell.. I should probably be thankful for that.

 

[Jarrad]

habbo hotel takes the crown

 

[xiaonu]

Well, before mmorpgs, I played gameboy games as my first handheld.
Usually donkey kong and Mario.

My first mmorpg was over 10 years ago! It was
Toontown Online
From disney. Of course I loved it because the graphics were appealing, the game style involved teamwork, it had character customization, and the cute Disney npcs. It had combat that involved skill rather than DPS. I liked the community too. I made most of my online friends through this game. It also had mini games, and many ways to collect things, and wasn't too grindy. The tasks were simple and to the point. Sadly the game was shut down, but I still play Toontown Rewritten time to time. I love that they've kept my childhood game alive while still adding new content and enhancements that Disney never did.

Shortly after I played TTO, my friend from toontown introduced me to
Maplestory
I played this game since the beta stages. I played on and off over the years. Even private servers when I got frustrated with the grind. It was such an enchanting game. The music. The background art. The simplicity and cuteness. The community especially. There used to be alot of socialization and teamwork. Once they introduced more ways to buy into enhancing your equipment, the game became too time consuming and too expensive as well as competitive. Over hundreds of dollars for pixelated gear. I still have trouble fathoming it. The only reason its so expensive is because the entire game is not skill based. It's all a gamble. The community slowly quit and most people AFK and don't seem as outgoing anymore.

Lastly, I played
Secondlife
This game was a ton of fun because I love character customization and socializing. (Notice a pattern with all these games having those qualities).
This game has no purpose other than to build freely, chat, customize your character and even some combat pvp for fun. It was different from IMVU, sims, etc or those other shabby games. The graphics were really nice because everything was user-created content. People could make money off their photoshop skills, scripting, and building knowledge in this game. I just really liked the creative expression and making new friends. I stopped playing this game out of boredom and it seems most MMO's are becoming less populated in general.

I've tried other games like League, Tera, FLYFF,etc but they're all too heavily quest based and lack of customization or socialization to take breaks from grinding.

On my 3DS, I played
-Animal Crossing New Leaf
-Mario Kart
-Disney's Magical World
-Miku Project Mirai
and alot more common ones c:

For my ipad, I play games on there often.
I'm currently addicted to
Love Live! School idol festival, an anime based rhythm game.
Line Play, where you create a cute character and buy stuff or chat.
Pucca's restaurant where you create your own restaurant and level up with recipes and decorating.

Well that's all
I still currently play Maplestory time to time, and 3DS/IOS games.

 

[goatling]

Animal Crossing! I've been playing it for most of my life! The same goes for Pok?mon, I've been playing it for just a little longer than Animal Crossing. FireRed was one of my first video games!

More recently, I've spent hundreds of hours playing Skyrim and I still feel like I could play it over and over without getting bored!

 

[Quagsire.]

I have a disorder, and part of it is getting addicted to things so it's very hard to find out, but I think it would be minecraft, animal crossing, pokemon, terraria, mario kart Wii, school idol festival and dogz. I normally keep playing a game until I finished it, then get kind of bored, that's why most of the above are on of those games without a proper goal.

Oh, I forgot the sims and harvest moon.

 

[Zulehan]

Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Retaliation on the PS1 soaked up numerous afternoons for me as a kid. I would play Skirmish mode for hours, and hours, and hours. And if there was online multiplayer for that game, oh man.... I'd probably still be playing it.

Besides that, Final Fantasy X was, if memory serves, the first non-RTS game I played for an entire afternoon.

 

[DarkDesertFox]

Graal and New Leaf. I hate Graal now though so... If I had to choose a second game I got addicted to I'd probably pick Halo 3.

 

[abbydoll]

Animal Crossing ~ I first became addicted to Wild World and it grew from there. c:

Pok?mon ~ I started out collecting the cards, and one of my friends let me borrow Sapphire and I was hooked. Not into it as much, nowadays though...

RuneScape ~ I played for 7+ years with one of my good friends, but after EoC it slowly lost its appeal. :c It used to be a really great game.

GTA ~ I first started getting into GTA when I played GTA III with my dad and I've played all of them since then. I wouldn't say I've gotten addicted to the games, but I sure did put a lot of time into them.

World of Warcraft ~ I've spent way too much money on this game... But I still play to this day, and I've been addicited for years.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 ~ I remember staying up until 6 AM playing this game.

Zoo Tycoon 2 ~ If I still had the disc, I'd probably still be playing.

The Sims ~ Who isn't addicted to The Sims? I can go hours creating just a single house or family.

 

[jobby47]

Animal crossing, Super Mario bros., Mario kart, and more.

 

[abbydoll]

habbo hotel takes the crown

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