What games have you wasted the the most time with?

I would assume that we all have spent countless hours playing the Total War games, but I thought it might be worth a thread to see what other big time wasters we all have been involved with.

Most of my time has been spent playing off-line single player, but I have done a bit of on-line flight combat.

Anyway here is my list in no particular order.

Red Baron 3D

Silent Hunter

Panzer Commander

European Air War

Shogun Total War

Medieval Total War


Only EAW and MTW are still on my hard drive, but I when I buy my next PC upgrade, I plan on keeping my current rig as a legacy system, so STW, Red Baron 3D, and maybe even PzC will be re-installed.

God, the hours I spent playing those games. I still play MTW almost weekly if not daily.

cheers

After MTW it would have to be Civilization II/III and Caesar III.

HoMM 2 I think was the biggest. MTW would be the second. Also,
Pirates and War in the Middle Earth on C64
EU2
Pharaoh
AoE 2
MoO 2
Space Empires 4

I usually have a good memory, and never replay games such as adventures or RPGs, which significantly reduces their time on my HD, however good that time may be. And in turn, that's why I love random map generators, open-ended freeform games, etc.

TIE Fighter and Diablo 2 wasted a good amount of my life.

The game that wasted the majority of my time:
Medieval Total War, when making mods.

The game that the most time spent (and enjoyed) playing:
Daggerfall

Civ and Civ2 lead the way: endless, endless hours of the one more turn, one more bloody turn syndrome. I've missed countless dates, got the sack by half a dozen gfs, almost got sacked from a job, came on bad terms with my best mate - all due to my affection to that extremely devastating game http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

I've played for many, many hours (and enjoyed) Master of Orion 2, HOMM 2&3, STW, MTW, Civ3, BG&BG2.

I would have to say CivII (III was simply... ick) and Master of Magic would tie as second in the most time spent playing

Champ Manager 00/01

Alpha Centauri

Baldurs Gate (finished it 2 and a half times)

Baldurs Gate 2 (finshed it 1 and a half times)

MTW

NHL series - from NHL 94 right through till NHL 2004 I've played dozens & dozens of seasons.

Both Total war games ,and it's nice to see another Red Baron 3d fan.Loved that game.When are we going to get a new version?
Gettys Burg was another classic.
Wasting quite a lot of time with Spartan ,at the moment.Really got the one more turn thing going for it.

When i was younger alot of the games for N64, Mario being one of them. I remember when my little brother erased my game when i needed one more star, i think i had 119/120http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...speechless.gif

All the total war games, all enjoyable though.

I always use to suck at the resident evil games and some dinosaur game like it on the Playstation but the name evades me at present

Games that I have played obsesively

Thief series, still can't put these down.
Medieval total war
All the rainbow six series {only multiplay, single player game is bleh}

Some hot romances that didn't work out

Unreal Tournament
Civilization 3
Alpha Centauri

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Quote[/b] (The Blind King of Bohemia @ April 05 2004,08:00)]I always use to suck at the resident evil games and some dinosaur game like it on the Playstation but the name evades me at present

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Dino Crisis

In no particular order:
MTW
STW
GTA2
Panzer General II
Lords of the Realm II
Caeser II (a lotta II's aye?)
Panzer Commander
Command & Conquer (the original NOT red alert)
Jane's WWII Fighters
CFS3
DoD
X-Wing

And then way way back to consoles before I discovered the beauty of PCs:
Super Mario Brothers
Super Mario World
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
007: Goldeneye http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gif
Quackshot http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/cool.gif

Morrowind, Simcity 4 + Rush Hour, Civilisation III, America's Army, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate II (I once went from start to finish in one sitting - getting all the special items etc.), Medieval Total War, inh fact - just about any game I've played.

Baldur's Gate 1+2
Diablo 2
MTW
STW
HOMM 3
Star Wars: Rebellion (far from perfect but for some reason I liked it)
Tie Fighter

A couple I forgot.
The Great Battles of Alexander,was what got me into gaming.
Crashed a lot ,but I thought it was great.
Age of Empires.Crap game by todays standards ,but I played it to death at the time.

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Quote[/b] (The Scourge @ April 05 2004,04:51)]Both Total war games ,and it's nice to see another Red Baron 3d fan.Loved that game.When are we going to get a new version?

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Scourge,

You may not be aware, but a dedicated Red Baron Community still exists, and they have done quite a bit for the old game.

New planes
Improved wire frame models
New cockpits
New terrain
New Skins
New maps and campaigns

and best of all a glide wrapper' that allows one to enjoy graphics of the old glide based Voodoo cards but using the newer NVidia and ATI graphics cards.

Check out these links over at SimHQ;

Red Baron forum


Sadly, I doubt there will ever be a Sierra sequel to RB,
but there is hope on the horizon.

A new WW 1 flight sim called Knights over Europe is due out by the end of this year.

Check it out here

Knights Over Europe

Cheers

I played Red Baron II, but it wasnt all that great compared to the original.

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Lessee...

Lotus III (best car racing ever made)...

WorldEmpire III (or II, IV...) I remember playing it overnight with a friend and bro. (Turn based mp on single machine.)

Duke Nukem 3D

Sea Dogs http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/gc-blush.gif

MTW, vanilla and VI http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif
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Thanks a lot for the tip Forward.I know a place where you can pick Red Baron up for next to nothing ,so I'll definitely check it out.

After the obligatory TW series, in no particular order, these games took away many hours that could have been usefully spent:

Fallout 2
X Wing
TIE Fighter
Master of Orion 2

-Battle of Britain: really, really old flight combat sim , from Lucasarts I think. Could have 16 aircrafts in the air at any time and had a mission builder, a revolution back then
-Air War over Europe(think it was called that): Slightly newer than BoB, more aircrafts in the air and a great dynamic campaign with some historical missions and heroes included. Fun to dogfight aces like Josef Priller, Hermann Graf etc in campaign.
Spent an awful lot of time on these two...

Others...
-Championship Manager
-Tie Fighter
-Master of orion II
-Panzer General
-Shogun/MTW of course...

Wow, Norseman's list more or less..

-Championship Manager (probably most addictive game in history)
- Tie Fighter (damn I finished it, like.. duh I dont remember)
-MTW.. (especially the time it took to train myself on units, one on one customs battles for who does what to which unit kind of scenarios)
-THIEFFF (Show thyself)
-Aaaand... Winning Eleven (Hettoodee, Kiipaa bammbürüüü) http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif

-Medieval:Total War
-Civilization(all 3 games)
-Starcraft(multiplayer, mostly online)
I think for 2 years I spent most of my nights playing Starcraft.

I've played the following games for dozens if not hundreds of hours:

- Shogun TW and MI (by far, the game I've played the most)
- Medieval TW and VI (SP only)
- Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II and expansions
- Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and expansion
- Diablo and Diablo II with expansions
- Myth II and expansions
- Planescape Torment
- Star Fleet Command I and II
- System Shock I and II
- Starcraft and expansions
- Command and Conquer Red Alert and expansions
- Masters of Orion I and II
- Quake, Quake II
- Doom, Doom II
- Master of Magic

On Sega Dreamcast, Playstation II, Xbox:

- Soul Caliber and Soul Calibur II
- Metal Gear Solid
- Ace Combat
- Morrowind, the Elder Scrolls
- Max Payne
- Virtua Fighter series

Championship Manager, beyond any doubt. That game is addictive like crack.

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Quote[/b] ]Championship Manager, beyond any doubt. That game is addictive like crack.

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Ooooh, yeah.. I remember training Casillas into a SC but he couldnt score any goals.. How unexpected. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/wacko.gif

Right then, in no particular order

MTW (including VI) http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...s/bigthumb.gif

Panzer General 2 - another modders' paradise http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...icons/wink.gif

Civ 2

Sid Meier's Gettysburg

Blitzkrieg

Sudden Strike 1 & 2

The 'Great Battles' trilogy

Age of Sail - that's the first version folks http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif

Mechcommander

Flying Corps

Terror from the Deep

my fav playlist of the last few years:

Lord of the Realm II
Civ II and III
Caesar III and Pharaoh
AoE I and II
SimCity series
Tropico
Railroad Tycoon III
Port Royale
and, recently, MTW-VI http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/wacko.gif

Sonic 1
Rogue Spear
Championship Manager 2

I have found 2 games that I can't seem get enough of, no matter how much I play.
1. MTW tops my list by a huge margin. The time I've spent on it is extreme, but far from wasted. Strangely, although I loved STW, I couldn't play it as much as MTW and always needed breaks from it.
2. Counter-Strike is the second. I can go whole days in one sitting while hardly tiring of it. After a good night's sleep I'm hungry for it again and I've been playing it for 4 years now.

Honourable mentions would be:
Civilization II
Alpha Centauri
Master of Orion II
The Manager (on ZX Spectrum)
Capitalism II
X-COM: UFO Defense
MUDs (online text based RPGs)

These honourable mentions have each received hundreds of hours from me (literally, Capitalism II logs the time on each game and there are several hundred hours there) but still are nowhere near MTW or Counter-Strike in time spent. Life is great.

Counter Strike and Day of Defeat for online play, but my Call of Duty playing is reaching new hieghts http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...cons/smile.gif

MTW
Civilisation Series
Command and Conquer and Red Alert (old style)
XCOM Apocalyse
Frontier Elite 2
Sid Meyers Colonisation
Morrowind
Quake (old serial lead multiplay http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cg...ns/biggrin.gif)
Pirates

And so many that i cant remember

5 years of my life: Strategic Conquest v. 2.0, for the Mac. 1987-1992.
another few years spent on Civ and Civ II and MOO2.
Several thousand hours on MTW
at least there's no going back...

I can't really recall from when I was still playing on the SNES, but on the PC (of which I can remember it a bit better) I played the following games for a lot of hours:

- Warcraft II + first expansionpack.
- Diablo II + LOD expansionpack.
- Starcraft + Broodwar expansionpack.
- Delta Force 2.
- Delta Force: Landwarrior.
- Medieval: Total War (Although I started with STW, STW didn't work properly on my old machine. So I couldn't play it all that much. When I got a new PC MTW already came out and by the way I had bought it before upgrading).
- The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind + Tribunal & Bloodmoon expansionpacks.
- Counterstrike.
- Jagged Alliance 2.
- Close Combat IV.

Can't really remember any others I've extensively played, but there must be some others, especially SNES games.

This one is the most recent. Then BGII (roughly 5 games finished), X-Wing Alliance, and ,probably the big hitter, Heroes of Might and Magic III.