Top 5 most addictive computer games

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narcotic

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You gotta be kidding, you didn't put there Max Payne or FarCry which are by far my favorites.
 

Deeko

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Madden, without a doubt. I've bought every madden game since 1999 (I owned two copies, one for gamecube, one for ps3, last year). I play it religiously, year in, year out.

edit: I justify putting madden on this list, cuz 3 of the copies I owned were for PC (and there is consistantly a PC version)
 

sjwaste

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Civilization, any of them, are really addictive. WOW might have the (perverse) social aspect, but Civ is a game you play ALONE and for days.
 

DefDC

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The games that have sucked an obscene amount of my time would be:

Streetfighter 2 (Home and arcade)
Doom (mulitplayer)
Warcraft 2
Total Annihilation
Unreal Tournament 1
Battlefield 1942 (and the rest)
WoW

I'd shudder to imagine the amount of hours I've put into these games. Maybe more than I've spent sleeping. :)
 

Schadenfroh

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Capitalism 2, Civilization 2, Master of Orion 2, and Baldur's Gate 2 have sucked up the bulk of my life.
 

EvilComputer92

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Unreal
Unreal Tournament
Command and Conquer Red Alert
Total Annihilation

Best games ever made and always will be.
Hundreds of hours spent on each of them.
 

you2

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These days no game but a while ago I used to get addicted to text based diku muds. Only game I ever played 3 days straight without sleeping (when I was in college).
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: TipsyMcStagger
from the article "The number of people who still play ?Doom? today, over 10 years after its launch, bespeaks its addictive qualities." Where did they pull that out of their ass from?

Yes, I'd like to hear from these people who are still playing Doom today.
 

JBT

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Age of Empires, and now Lord of the Rings Online. im starting to have LOTRO in my dreams :(
 

TheVrolok

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: TipsyMcStagger
from the article "The number of people who still play ?Doom? today, over 10 years after its launch, bespeaks its addictive qualities." Where did they pull that out of their ass from?

Yes, I'd like to hear from these people who are still playing Doom today.

I play it on my Mp3 player?
 

Golgatha

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Total Annihilation - First RTS I ever played and only RTS I've played on every major Microsoft OS since Windows 95 (except for ME since I went from 98SE to 2000).
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: TipsyMcStagger
from the article "The number of people who still play ?Doom? today, over 10 years after its launch, bespeaks its addictive qualities." Where did they pull that out of their ass from?

Yes, I'd like to hear from these people who are still playing Doom today.

I play it on my Mp3 player?

I guess that kind of counts.