Re: Most Addictive Games
Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday
I simply don't know how many times I'll be playing, look at the clock, and think I'll go to sleep after this "tech achievment, offensives, consolidation, etc" and two hours later only go to sleep because I'm having trouble staying awake.
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
Four stage strategy from Yes, Minister:
Stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do.
Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.
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I've got to put a vote in for the original 3 X:COM games.
They share the same fundamental mechanic that makes the TW games so great, the mix of tactical level and strategic level. These are the only other games I can think of that get the balance just right.
Plus, I got Apocalypse for a pound. Probably the best hours played/price payed ratio of any game I own.
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I have to agree with placenik, Tetris is the most addictive game I´ve ever come across. Yes, there are games I´ve spent hours and hours playing for months, but after a couple of months I put them aside for a while. Not so with Tetris, that´s good for the relaxing few hours of playing anywhere, any time.
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Not in any order:
Rome Total War
Medieval Total War
Conflict: Desert Storm 2
Dynasty warriors 5: Xtreme legends
Solitaire
Chess
...much more...
TosaInu shall never be forgotten.
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Dungeons & Dragons.
As for the PC, Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 (plus expansion and fan-made patches).
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I've not played in over 3 years now. Ever since I moved to Minneapolis, I've been unable to find a group to play with.Originally Posted by Kekvit Irae
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
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Games don't cause addiction, people do. Yeah yeah, laugh it off, but it's true.
Now bear with me.
I suppose that the reason why we all play games is that we all have a tendency toward addiction in the first place. I further suppose that the type of game we are addicted to reflects our personality. Thirdly, I suppose that the operative part of our personality is a profound desire to control our surroundings, something that is more easily achieved in fantasy worlds than in the real one.
Finally, I suppose that I'm talking out of my rear aperture and that someone else may have a far better explanation. In which case, let's hear it.
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
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