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What has been the most addictive game you have ever played?

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glen

Lifer
Apr 28, 2000
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Just about anyone that has ever played EQ will tell you it is by far the most addictive "thing" they have ever done be it sex, drugs, gambing, or anything else.
 

Lord Gwynz

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Quake 2 pretty much has a permanent spot on my harddrive now. Everquest sounds a lot like a graphical version of those multiplayer text-based MUDs I used to play on, ie form a party, kill monsters, gain levels, skills, spells, gold, hoard and auction eq. etc. MUDs were insanely addictive, I'd spend countless hours at a time playing them, and being in a bad mood all week if my character died and lost all his eq. It got to the point where I was literally planning my life around that game, that's how crazy it was :D
 

Kueay

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Apr 15, 2001
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Quake 2
Starcraft
Everquest
and Counterstrike.

All very good games, havent seen an addictive game for awhile though.
 

Helpless

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>Just about anyone that has ever played EQ will tell you it is by far the most addictive &quot;thing&quot; they have ever done be it sex, drugs, gambing, or anything else. <


...I was addicted to having sex and doing drugs while playing EQ :) ...had to do something constructive while I waited for my mana to regen. :)
 

d33pt

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Jan 12, 2001
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i haven't played any games in a while. played a lil q3a but wasn't addicted. but i rem in HS my friends and i would spend countless hours playing C&amp;C and redalert and worms!!
 

azdevil

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May 5, 2001
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EVER played
I have to tetris or mrs. pacman.
Oldschool games were cool, you could memorize every move the computer made.
My 4 roomates can't stop fragging these days, though.
 

Basse

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Oct 11, 1999
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The game I have played most hours must be Mari Carts for SuperNES. Used to play 24 hours strait many times vs my friends.

The latest addiction must be UT. Still play it almost every day.

/B
 

Mungla

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Dec 23, 2000
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That would be Ultima Online. Dang, I was addicted to that game for three years! Ahh, after two tries, I was finally able to quit.
 

Possessed Freak

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Nov 4, 1999
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another for Subspace,

One week I racked up 80 hrs playing subspace, ACTVELY playing it. And this was while in college... that semester GPA was bad.


I was:
Host of USD Annihilation
Sysop of WLI Annihilation
Host of The Gauntlet
Owner/Host of PSU Annihilation

cold turkeyed the game for a year, came back to it a month ago and now play only late at night and on weekends, EG Elims.
 

Anghang

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Apr 30, 2001
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Starcraft, Age of Empires, Quake I-III, UT

back in the day in the arcades:pac-man, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Double Dragon, Punch Out
 

duragezic

Lifer
Oct 11, 1999
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Where's all the EQ freaks? :)

Probably Diablo 2 for me. Definitely not the game that I've logged the most hours on but the one that I played the most at a time and keep coming back to it. Highest char is only a 62 barb but that's since I've started playing again for a month or so. Actually my highest char when I played it a while ago was only about 55 heh but I restarted and had so many. Not to mention I leveled VERY SLOW when I didn't know anything about the game.
 

fitzhue

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Sep 24, 2000
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Probaly counterstike, although Black &amp; White is almost as addictive.