Most Addictive Games

[Sarathos]

Hey all

The other day I was playing World in Conflict, I found it again and have been playing none stop. But apart from being a great game, I could stop playing it because I am hooked. The gameplay, the storyline, the battle it is still as great as when I first played it.

So I put the question out to the Arena, what is the most addictive games?
Btw, they don't have to be good, just endless amounts of fun.

[Martok]

In (approximate) descending order of addictiveness:

1.) Star Trek The Next Generation: Birth of the Federation
2.) Medieval Total War
3.) Shogun Total War
4.) Galactic Civilizations 2
5.) Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2


Objectively speaking, #1 and #5 maybe aren't that great a game overall, but they never come off my hard drive, either -- I can't stop playing them.

[YellowMelon]

I have probably played RTW more than any other game...

though I can't really tell.

I was also hugely addicted to Dark Age of Camelot before I shed myself of that mmorpg plague. Also Wolfenstein ET in sheer hours played...hmmm tough question...lol...If you combine every NHL game that might get up there ;)

[Crandaeolon]

Nethack, of course. I've been playing it for about 15 years now, and it's always found a place on every PC hard drive. I try to complete it once a year, playing it in bits and pieces whenever there's time to kill.

[Fragony]

I can never get enough of Thief. Screw Thief 3 by the way, Shadows of the metal age is the true succesor, made by fans for fans. I don't know how many times I finished them and the absolutily brilliant fan-missions.

[naut]

Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday - SO addictive!! Must not play as Soviets anymore, eyes burning! No must take England! :grrrrrrr:
Dawn of War + Expansions - Does get a bit boring every now and then.
World of Warcraft - For obvious reasons, but having other stuff to do means I don't get to play much.
Medieval: Total War - Mods! Mods I say!

[frogbeastegg]

The PC suspects have been mentioned. I won't repeat.

I've found a couple of PSP games devastatingly addictive. The PSP as a platform has both benefits and weaknesses when it comes to addictive games. On the one hand you can take them anywhere, meaning there's no escape. On the other the battery dies after 5 hours. Saved!

Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness. Predominantly thanks to the item world and character system. If I buy this item and run through 10 floors of the item world I'll subdue a level 8 statistician, meaning I can move it to my amulet and merge it with my other statisticians for an extra 18% boost to the XP gained by the character wearing it. That will enable me to level my fighter up to level 12 much quicker, so I can transmigrate him to the more powerful 3rd rank of his class. That drops him back to level 1, so I'll then need to run through some levels to bump him back up to level 12, however he'll gain the levels far faster thanks to the fact he's more powerful. But wait! There's a level 9 statistician on that gun in the shop! If I buy that then I can run through the item world, subdue him, and move him to the amulet and bring the total experience gain up to 153% ...

It's endless. I'm now trying to level up my basic weaponry a bit. That entails finding and subduing 5 gladiators, moving them onto the weapon, then reaching and defeating the item general on floor 10. This gives the maximum stat boost. Once I've done that I want to get my 3 prinnies leveled up so I can transmigrate them into something useful. The plan is ninja, samurai, rune knight. Each prinny needs to gain another 7 levels, and finish 3 promotion exams in the dark assembly before the option opens up. Once they've swapped classes I'll have to level them back up so they're useful.

You begin to see how it goes?



Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. Combines RPG character growth with bejeweled puzzling, and allows you to train your own giant rat. Nuff said. There's going to be a sequel.

[Sarathos]

1) Civilization Series (Civ 1, 2, Alpha Centauri, 3, and 4) - I have put in massive amounts of hours on every single one of them. Easily the top time consuming game series for me.
2) Baldur's Gate Series. I've probably played both BG1 and BG2 half a dozen times each. Possibly more for BG2. I doubt I'm done with them either.

Definitely agree, but not so much Baldur's Gate...

[FesterShinetop]

Civilization IV:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=Br1BWPWEdlQ

Best game "trailer" ever... and so true...

[Viking]

Played RTW pretty much six months non-stop. Of course, MMORPGS are also addicting.

But hey, the more rewarding a game is to play, the more addicting it is. So the more addicting, the better...within certain limits.

[placenik]

Tetris
Morhuhn

Fallout 1 and 2
Jagged Alliance 1 and 2