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

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What games have you got addicted to and why?
Also list the good memories of the game!

Here's mine

Animal Crossing
Now with animal crossing not all the time I can play hours on end. But it's a series that i've played for so long so I might as well list it

Runescape
(so addicted first started playing in 2006, probably played a lot till around 2009. I've been off and on since then but now when I go back on to rs I usually get quite bored pretty fast. I wish I still had the same addictive mind to it like i used to though. Lots of memories playing with friends.)

Mario Kart Double Dash & Mario Party 6
(played a lot in my childhood around 2004 - 2006 or something? Not sure but so much fun. Good times.....)

Minecraft
(Sort of the same story as runescape but started mid 2011 and played a lot for about a year and half, I find certain things on it to this day quite fun but I do not play it much anymore. Crazy to say it is has been nearly 5 years I've been playing it.)

Halo 3
(Got addicted to this for around a year or so? (2007 or 2008? maybe parts of 2009) Not sure but a lot of good memories playing with friends and doing bunch of random stuff and playing like forge and multiplayer.)

League of Legends
(I kind of put this on the lower list of getting addicted to. I never really got crazily addicted but it's a super fun game. It's really the one of the only games I play these days.)​

 

[Mizu]

I've played so many games, there are so many that I don't think I can remember all of them at this point. The ones I've gotten the most addicted to are:

Maplestory - Mainly because I loved the community I played with (Mainly my friends and my guild) but they all ended up leaving. Though I can't blame them, its just not the same game. I've also spent a large portion of time playing private servers as well, so I'd probably say I've played this game on and off for probably 8 years. The past couple of days I have been tempted to download another private server but I tell myself not to since I'm in school at the moment.

Counter-Strike - Thousands of hours dropped into this game, its simply one of the best games I have played. Graphics aside and probably the terrible registry (not the best, certainly not the worst), I've dropped over 5k hours in this game by now. I still play now here and there, its a lot of fun. Started back when it was on a CD disc, now its on Steam. So probably 10-12 years now.

GunZ Online - Super fun, fast paced action. Though at the end of the day, it really killed my fingers spamming shift all day. I never got to a high level and I mainly re-made characters to play new players so I can stomp and have terrible fun that way.

Runescape - Though I was not as addicted to Runescape as much as I was to other games, I did put a fair amount of time into playing the game. Once I got hacked however, I stopped playing. It was too much to handle and still is today. Despite me bashing the game a lot (I'm not a very nice person), I have to admit. It was a pretty damn good game, especially for being on a browser.

Luna Online - Lots of fun, chibi anime characters. Hosted by gpotato, they closed it down since they were not making enough revenue. I love the game now and even have a private server installed but I can't bring myself to play it at the moment. Played for about 2-3 years.

Rose Online - It was alright, stopped once it went pay to play. Its free once again and I did end up playing it for about a week before I stopped again.

Survival Project - Sooooo much fun. Unfortunately, it has been closed for several years now. A dungeon game that I had so much fun playing, its sad that they closed the game down. It was a unique game to play, can't think of any games that are similar to it at all. Hoping it comes back someday, but I highly doubt it since the last private server for Surival Project that went up got closed relatively quickly. They didn't have a choice, I believe it was the creators or what not who wanted them to close the server.

Drift City - I had cars. I like my cars. That's about it, and I was making virtual money. That's all I can really say.

 

[June]

Harvest Moon - DS Cute. Really important to me because I finally got to marry Kai. That's really it, tbh. Also the other DS version because Mary and the Ellie the nurse lol.

Ace Attorney - Only just before the stuff that comes out before the 3DS as I have yet to buy those and play. I keep replaying this game because I really love the characters, the Fey sisters especially! But everyone is endearing in their own way. Even Oldbag. Sort of.

Zero Escape/999 - The one game I would recommend to people off the bat, probably. It's really good and easily one of my favorites! The narrative is great and the whole atmosphere set up by the music and graphics (however minimal) make for a really good game. The characters are super lovable too and there are just??? So many things about it I could go on forever.

Final Fantasy X - Even if Tidus' outfit was kind of funky (like, y'know, compared to ....literally everyone else's his was just. Really. Weird.) it holds a special place in my heart. Probably because I was in Grade School when I played it and was in awe about literally everything. It all seemed really cool and it kind of still is. It made me cry a lot too, lol. The OST is really good and the lore- though arguably, FF lore is pretty standard/generally "nice"- are just some of the other things I really loved about it.

Kingdom Hearts II - Roxas. That's it. That's all I have to say about it.

 

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I've played so many games, there are so many that I don't think I can remember all of them at this point. The ones I've gotten the most addicted to are:

Maplestory - Mainly because I loved the community I played with (Mainly my friends and my guild) but they all ended up leaving. Though I can't blame them, its just not the same game. I've also spent a large portion of time playing private servers as well, so I'd probably say I've played this game on and off for probably 8 years. The past couple of days I have been tempted to download another private server but I tell myself not to since I'm in school at the moment.

Counter-Strike - Thousands of hours dropped into this game, its simply one of the best games I have played. Graphics aside and probably the terrible registry (not the best, certainly not the worst), I've dropped over 5k hours in this game by now. I still play now here and there, its a lot of fun. Started back when it was on a CD disc, now its on Steam. So probably 10-12 years now.

GunZ Online - Super fun, fast paced action. Though at the end of the day, it really killed my fingers spamming shift all day. I never got to a high level and I mainly re-made characters to play new players so I can stomp and have terrible fun that way.

Runescape - Though I was not as addicted to Runescape as much as I was to other games, I did put a fair amount of time into playing the game. Once I got hacked however, I stopped playing. It was too much to handle and still is today. Despite me bashing the game a lot (I'm not a very nice person), I have to admit. It was a pretty damn good game, especially for being on a browser.

Luna Online - Lots of fun, chibi anime characters. Hosted by gpotato, they closed it down since they were not making enough revenue. I love the game now and even have a private server installed but I can't bring myself to play it at the moment. Played for about 2-3 years.

Rose Online - It was alright, stopped once it went pay to play. Its free once again and I did end up playing it for about a week before I stopped again.

Survival Project - Sooooo much fun. Unfortunately, it has been closed for several years now. A dungeon game that I had so much fun playing, its sad that they closed the game down. It was a unique game to play, can't think of any games that are similar to it at all. Hoping it comes back someday, but I highly doubt it since the last private server for Surival Project that went up got closed relatively quickly. They didn't have a choice, I believe it was the creators or what not who wanted them to close the server.

Drift City - I had cars. I like my cars. That's about it, and I was making virtual money. That's all I can really say.

Nice List. I've debated trying maple story but a bunch of people say the game is a lot different and not as enjoyable as it used to be.

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Harvest Moon - DS Cute. Really important to me because I finally got to marry Kai. That's really it, tbh. Also the other DS version because Mary and the Ellie the nurse lol.

Ace Attorney - Only just before the stuff that comes out before the 3DS as I have yet to buy those and play. I keep replaying this game because I really love the characters, the Fey sisters especially! But everyone is endearing in their own way. Even Oldbag. Sort of.

Zero Escape/999 - The one game I would recommend to people off the bat, probably. It's really good and easily one of my favorites! The narrative is great and the whole atmosphere set up by the music and graphics (however minimal) make for a really good game. The characters are super lovable too and there are just??? So many things about it I could go on forever.

Final Fantasy X - Even if Tidus' outfit was kind of funky (like, y'know, compared to ....literally everyone else's his was just. Really. Weird.) it holds a special place in my heart. Probably because I was in Grade School when I played it and was in awe about literally everything. It all seemed really cool and it kind of still is. It made me cry a lot too, lol. The OST is really good and the lore- though arguably, FF lore is pretty standard/generally "nice"- are just some of the other things I really loved about it.

Kingdom Hearts II - Roxas. That's it. That's all I have to say about it.

Nice list! I have some plans to try out some of those games

 

[Mizu]

Yes, Maplestory is a lot more different from what it previously was. Due to poor management from the host of the game, things are massively inflated and many items were duplicated. There are also many false bans that happen. For instance, I got banned for being inactive for 6 months. I verified my account at the log in screen just to be told that I was banned for advertising. I haven't been on for 6 months so it really doesn't make any sense as to why I was banned and my account wasn't hacked into either. Though they have fixed a lot of problems like item duplication, the game play is very different comparing today to say, version 80s. Classes have been re-adjusted many, many, many times with tons of new skills being added and many old skills being removed. I see the game as pay2win as well since most of the really good gear costs a lot of money which makes sense but when it start costing hundreds of dollars of real life money then it is getting pretty ridiculous.

EDIT: Didn't want to start another post but I also forgot to mention Crash Bandicoot 2, Crash Team Racing and Bomberman Party Edition on the PSX. Played through them many times and it was always fun to re-play them here and there.

 

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Yes, Maplestory is a lot more different from what it previously was. Due to poor management from the host of the game, things are massively inflated and many items were duplicated. There are also many false bans that happen. For instant, I got banned for being inactive for 6 months. I verified my account at the log in screen just to be told that I was banned for advertising. I haven't been on for 6 months so it really doesn't make any sense as to why I was banned and my account wasn't hacked into either. Though they have fixed a lot of problems like item duplication, the game play is very different comparing today to say, version 80s. Classes have been re-adjusted many, many, many times with tons of new skills being added and many old skills being removed. I see the game as pay2win as well since most of the really good gear costs a lot of money which makes sense but when it start costing hundreds of dollars of real life money then it is getting pretty ridiculous.

Ah I see.
On the gameplay topic it reminds me so much how runescape changed. I can still get into runescape but its never the same.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I'll try to keep this kinda short...

Animal Crossing
Not just New Leaf, but the whole franchise. I started with GCN, and it was such a fun game for me as a kid. As I got older and more games came out, I bought all of them and I've loved them all. City Folk wasn't AS fun as the other games I've had from AC, but it was still fun and I spent tons of hours playing.

Pokemon
I started playing Pokemon games at a very young age and I've been a huge fan for basically my whole life. I had Pokemon Yellow very young and I was in love with Pokemon Stadium. But I always pick Pokemon Emerald when I talk about Pokemon. It was my absolute favorite Pokemon game, ever. I still remember the day I bought it in stores. I put the most hours into that game out of any other Pokemon game. I still have my original team from my very first play through, and I would never dream of deleting that file. It was such a great game to me, even at a young age, and I still love opening the game and looking through all the stuff I did and maybe demolish some random trainers that wanna fight me.

Harvest Moon
I think I have about 13 different Harvest Moon games. It all started with Harvest Moon 64 when I was a little kid. Looking back, I have no idea how I even knew what the heck I was doing in that game because I was pretty young. But I just remember spending countless hours playing that game and hanging out with my older sister while we played. And just like Animal Crossing, as I got older I started buying the newer games that came out. The most addicting for me was Friends of Mineral Town. I have one file that I've kept since I first got the game and I have another I started over so many times and did different things each time. The game was just always endless fun to me and I still pick it up from time to time.

As you can see, I'm basically just a Nintedo fan. I was raised with a 64 and kinda grew from there. But Nintendo makes some seriously addicting games.

 

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I'll try to keep this kinda short...

Animal Crossing
Not just New Leaf, but the whole franchise. I started with GCN, and it was such a fun game for me as a kid. As I got older and more games came out, I bought all of them and I've loved them all. City Folk wasn't AS fun as the other games I've had from AC, but it was still fun and I spent tons of hours playing.

Pokemon
I started playing Pokemon games at a very young age and I've been a huge fan for basically my whole life. I had Pokemon Yellow very young and I was in love with Pokemon Stadium. But I always pick Pokemon Emerald when I talk about Pokemon. It was my absolute favorite Pokemon game, ever. I still remember the day I bought it in stores. I put the most hours into that game out of any other Pokemon game. I still have my original team from my very first play through, and I would never dream of deleting that file. It was such a great game to me, even at a young age, and I still love opening the game and looking through all the stuff I did and maybe demolish some random trainers that wanna fight me.

Harvest Moon
I think I have about 13 different Harvest Moon games. It all started with Harvest Moon 64 when I was a little kid. Looking back, I have no idea how I even knew what the heck I was doing in that game because I was pretty young. But I just remember spending countless hours playing that game and hanging out with my older sister while we played. And just like Animal Crossing, as I got older I started buying the newer games that came out. The most addicting for me was Friends of Mineral Town. I have one file that I've kept since I first got the game and I have another I started over so many times and did different things each time. The game was just always endless fun to me and I still pick it up from time to time.

As you can see, I'm basically just a Nintedo fan. I was raised with a 64 and kinda grew from there. But Nintendo makes some seriously addicting games.

That's an awesome list! Pokemon emerald was bae, i put so many hours into that too. I have actually never played harvest moon, but I want to get into it. Is Harvest Moon: A New Beginning worth buying? Also any other harvest moon recommendations?

 

[PK-FIRE]

Animal Crossing
(obviously)

Super Smash Bros
Mostly Melee. My brother and I would play it every day. He'd throw controllers when he lost. Fun times.

Runescape
I had like a solid year/year and a half where I played religiously. Then one day I logged into play and was like, "Screw this. I'm going outside." And went outside. I'm not even kidding. I just like got this weird realization it was dumb and a waste of time.

Roller Coaster Tycoon
I played this so much as a kid. Still one of my favorite games ever.

Those are ones I've been really addicted to.

 

[Yuni]

Pokemon
I remember the first time I played Pokemon Yellow, I played so much that I could still hear the theme song as I was going to sleep. And... yeah my parents stopped me from playing it XD It was my cousin's though, but he wasn't interested in it.

Tetris
Used to play this so much at Buddhist Youth Club so much that no one wanted to play with me because I kept winning.
I do not remember what my max score is, but I played a round for 2 hours straight at one point and lost because my hands started cramping

DJMAX Portable
Best rhythm game ever. It has such a good set amount of songs and a variety of challenges and difficulties so you are always able to improve. The touchscreen games are horrible though.

I think these are the only games that I would count as 'addicting' for me though.
Basically the ones that give me hand cramps or sore fingers for days. Fun times :3

 

[Alienfish]

Civ V - a classmate raved on about it and got me to play it so now it's one of my most played games on Steam.

AQW - a cousin got me into that and I'm glad you can't see the hours there.

Skyrim - One of the best games I've played despite the bugs

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - My childhood game, I still play it every now and then. The Best in the series.

 

[The Peanut Butter Fish]

Animal Crossing- My mom used to play Animal Crossing for the GameCube and playing video games isn't really her thing so I tried it out. I own all of the games in the series except the Japan only one.
Skyrim- I can't express how addicted I am to this game. The Dark Brotherhood questline was my favorite. I wish I could use a keyboard to play games but it gets so annoying for me, I've been using an Xbox 360 controller to play on PC ;-;. This also prevents me from playing Morrowind or Oblivion, both of which I have downloaded on Steam. I could just download Oblivion on Xbox but PC master race. I know a bit about Oblivion from playing it frustratingly to level 6.
Pok?mon-X,Y and Pearl that's all I have to say

 

[June]

Oh! Forgot to mention the JP version of Love Live! School Idol Project LMAO simultaneously ruined my life and enriched it. Sooo much better than the English one (but to the EN one's credit, it's pretty manageable and it's still updating a lot anyway). It's a good way to kill time when you're connected to the net, but it takes up so much space on the phone/tablet ; v ; the SR/UR cards are super pretty too. The dialogue just squicks me because obv it's going to be fanservice-y but it's pretty gender neutral so far when it comes to that.

 

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Animal Crossing
(obviously)

Super Smash Bros
Mostly Melee. My brother and I would play it every day. He'd throw controllers when he lost. Fun times.

Runescape
I had like a solid year/year and a half where I played religiously. Then one day I logged into play and was like, "Screw this. I'm going outside." And went outside. I'm not even kidding. I just like got this weird realization it was dumb and a waste of time.

Roller Coaster Tycoon
I played this so much as a kid. Still one of my favorite games ever.

Those are ones I've been really addicted to.

XD U realy enjoyed reading that.
*My brother and I would play it every day. He'd throw controllers when he lost. Fun times.*

*Then one day I logged into play and was like, "Screw this. I'm going outside." And went outside. I'm not even kidding. I just like got this weird realization it was dumb and a waste of time.
bruh runescape is lyfe fam

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Pokemon
I remember the first time I played Pokemon Yellow, I played so much that I could still hear the theme song as I was going to sleep. And... yeah my parents stopped me from playing it XD It was my cousin's though, but he wasn't interested in it.

Tetris
Used to play this so much at Buddhist Youth Club so much that no one wanted to play with me because I kept winning.
I do not remember what my max score is, but I played a round for 2 hours straight at one point and lost because my hands started cramping

DJMAX Portable
Best rhythm game ever. It has such a good set amount of songs and a variety of challenges and difficulties so you are always able to improve. The touchscreen games are horrible though.

I think these are the only games that I would count as 'addicting' for me though.
Basically the ones that give me hand cramps or sore fingers for days. Fun times :3

2 hours straight tetris! impressive!

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Civ V - a classmate raved on about it and got me to play it so now it's one of my most played games on Steam.

AQW - a cousin got me into that and I'm glad you can't see the hours there.

Skyrim - One of the best games I've played despite the bugs

Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - My childhood game, I still play it every now and then. The Best in the series.

interesting list! i
i've never heard of Civ V!

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Animal Crossing- My mom used to play Animal Crossing for the GameCube and playing video games isn't really her thing so I tried it out. I own all of the games in the series except the Japan only one.
Skyrim- I can't express how addicted I am to this game. The Dark Brotherhood questline was my favorite. I wish I could use a keyboard to play games but it gets so annoying for me, I've been using an Xbox 360 controller to play on PC ;-;. This also prevents me from playing Morrowind or Oblivion, both of which I have downloaded on Steam. I could just download Oblivion on Xbox but PC master race. I know a bit about Oblivion from playing it frustratingly to level 6.
Pok?mon-X,Y and Pearl that's all I have to say

I really need to give skyrim a go. Heard so many good things about it.

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Oh! Forgot to mention the JP version of Love Live! School Idol Project LMAO simultaneously ruined my life and enriched it. Sooo much better than the English one (but to the EN one's credit, it's pretty manageable and it's still updating a lot anyway). It's a good way to kill time when you're connected to the net, but it takes up so much space on the phone/tablet ; v ; the SR/UR cards are super pretty too. The dialogue just squicks me because obv it's going to be fanservice-y but it's pretty gender neutral so far when it comes to that.

I've never heard of it XD I may have to give it a go.

 

[Nerd House]

Final Fantasy XI
World of Warcraft
Final Fantasy X
Shovel Knight
Terraria
Team Fortress 2
Zelda

 

[Zane]

Animal Crossing is probably no 1 just in terms of how many hours straight I've played not just New Leaf but City Folk, Wild World, and the Gamecube version on occasion. Have more cumulative hours through the Pok?mon series though- Sapphire was probably the most addicted to a Pok?mon game I've ever been, even if I put more time on SoulSilver, Black, and Y. Third big offender for zombie-fying me would be the Harvest Moon series.

Other notable mentions would be Smash Bros. Melee, Tales of Symphonia, Amazing Island, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Pok?mon Puzzle League, Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash, and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. These were all incredibly addicting to play with my siblings! I managed to get re-obsessed with Tales of Symphonia doing solo playthroughs trying to get all the items and things haha

 

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Final Fantasy XI
World of Warcraft
Final Fantasy X
Shovel Knight
Terraria
Team Fortress 2
Zelda

Nice list. I have terraria but I have not played much of it. I plan too soon though,.

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Animal Crossing is probably no 1 just in terms of how many hours straight I've played not just New Leaf but City Folk, Wild World, and the Gamecube version on occasion. Have more cumulative hours through the Pok?mon series though- Sapphire was probably the most addicted to a Pok?mon game I've ever been, even if I put more time on SoulSilver, Black, and Y. Third big offender for zombie-fying me would be the Harvest Moon series.

Other notable mentions would be Smash Bros. Melee, Tales of Symphonia, Amazing Island, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Pok?mon Puzzle League, Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash, and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. These were all incredibly addicting to play with my siblings! I managed to get re-obsessed with Tales of Symphonia doing solo playthroughs trying to get all the items and things haha

Nice list
I own tales of symphonia but I have yet to play it. I plan too soon.

 

[Alienfish]

section: if you like strategy games and raging gandhi nuking you, go get it

 

[oranges_ate_you]

I dont seem to purge on one game for ages, Ive always had multiple games going, at least 2. But one time I did overplay tales of Symphonia by doing more than i needed just because i enjoyed it.

 

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section: if you like strategy games and raging gandhi nuking you, go get it

XD I will defo check it out!

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I dont seem to purge on one game for ages, Ive always had multiple games going, at least 2. But one time I did overplay tales of Symphonia by doing more than i needed just because i enjoyed it.

I have tales of symphonia, i haven't played it yet but I plan too! I've heard so many good things about it!