What Games are You Addicted To? 153
Anonymous Coward from Gamers Anonymous asks: "Recently I have found myself highly addicted to Freecell, as I cannot go near a computer without just playing a quick game or two, I even have one going at the moment. In the past I have also had problems with Minesweeper and Tetris, both of which I overcame when I had to delete them around exam
time. Is there anyone else out there with this problem, I can imagine it would be quite common. What are the most addictive games out there? Is there a support group?" I don't know about PC games, but I've been playing an awful lot of Frequency on the PS2. I just can't seem to help myself even though the game can be frustrating as hell at times. Anyone else have a game that, once under the skin, you can't get enough of it?
Quake III Arena (Score:1)
Its a great way to pass hours of otherwise boring time.
And who doesnt like to blow away a few people to relieve some stress and continue with your day.
Urban Terror (Q3 mod) (Score:3, Interesting)
I used to play a ton of Q3 then after I tried UT I totally switched to it completely. UT definitely sets me more on edge than Q3. It's an extremely well done mod and its fans are desperately waiting for 2.4 which is coming Real Soon Now to provide a variety of improvements and enhancements. Don't wait for 2.4 to try it, it's ready to play NOW.
Re:Urban Terror (Q3 mod) (Score:1)
elite (Score:1)
I used to go home from school at lunch time to play for 20 minutes.
Still addicted to EverQuest (Score:1)
Verant has recently started shaping up, and making the game alot more like what it should and could be.
How to cure your addiction... (Score:1)
Re:How to cure your addiction... (Score:1)
Final Fantasy VI and X (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Final Fantasy VI and X (Score:1)
Alpha Centauri (Score:1)
Re:Alpha Centauri (Score:1)
There is nothing like wasting a complete Sunday for a game of Alpha Centauri. The only problem is that it is hard to find somebody with the same amount of time on his hands to do a multiplayer game.
Dirk
SMB (Score:1)
Re:SMB (Score:3, Funny)
Can't get enough of browsing all those open shares in our internal network...
Re:SMB (Score:1)
Re:SMB (Score:1)
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Re:SMB (Score:1)
Grand Theft Auto 3 (Score:2, Interesting)
What other game does this:
Ride around find a hooker. Stop, and let her in. Drive to a secluted spot and when ya stop for a little bit, the car starts bouncing up and down. You look at your money...and the money is going down, but the health is going up, hehe.
Then, if you didn't feel like wasting that money, when the chick gets out the car, you can run her over then pick the money up off the ground.
You can also run over cops, get all sorts of guns and blow em up. You can shoot the helicopters down, and get tanks on ya.
Not to mention, steal someones car and go listen to the talk radio stations on the radio.
Addiction (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Addiction (Score:1)
Well, some games you play for kills, some for points, still others you play for "money".
Slashdot you play for karma, so yup, sounds like a game. First one to 51 wins!
Tribes 2 (Score:1)
I'd say... (Score:1, Offtopic)
What do you mean this is not a poll?
No CowboyNeal option? Can't be!
SlashDot: The addiction.
THIS SID IS DEAD! (Score:1, Funny)
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Nethack, Advent, and anything by Infocom (Score:1)
now what do I do with this parrot?
UT does it for me... (Score:1)
-Vic
Re:UT does it for me... (Score:1)
Soon my wife will divorce me, and I will probably loose my house, but if I can score a geforce 3 and play UT2, i'll be ok.
Re:UT does it for me... (Score:1)
Bejewelled (Score:3, Interesting)
Other things that have had the same effect for shorter periods are: SSX, Wipeout (all three), Cannon Fodder, Mr Do!
Re:Bejewelled (Score:2, Informative)
All my friends are currently killing brain cells to Frequency at the moment. I-Qube is a personal favorite for the PS1.
Civilization (Score:1)
Civilization is like Sex because... (Score:2)
Make your strategic moves in the beginning but always remember the end-game is what's really important
Even though you might be on top right now, you might end up on bottom
Talk doesn't cut it; you have to bring the goods to the table
You've been late for work/school/appointments because of it
If you have enough money it will compensate for your other flaws
When you're done, you can't wait to do it again
Re:Civilization (Score:1)
Just writing about it is making me look at the clock in anticipation for the minute I can run home and finish the game. Man, I need a life!
Re:Civilization (Score:1)
SMAC (Score:2)
Starcraft (Score:2, Informative)
Generalize (Score:1)
games i've been addicted to (Score:2)
Most of the games I became addicted to had a timeless quality to them but had different aspects I got addicted to.
In the case of Zork and Leather Goddesses of Phobos, they were well thought out puzzle games.
In the case of WarCraft II and Age of Empires, it was the network play that was addicting--my roommates and I would play until the wee hours of the morning.
In the case of mudding--it's the immersive world. I know people there and I'm familiar with the places, and I can log in from wherever. I even got into writing my own mudclient and started a few mudserver projects. The problem domains involved in mudding and mud-building are just fascinating.
Half-Life and it's Mods (Score:2)
Re:Half-Life and it's Mods (Score:1)
Re:Half-Life and it's Mods (Score:1)
Counter-Strike! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Counter-Strike! (Score:1)
Re:Counter-Strike! (Score:1)
biggest fag boy cheaterz game ever!
Try a real game like Tribes or Tribes 2.
Xboing (Score:1)
Half-Life and it's Spawn (Score:1)
most addictive (Score:1)
Return to Castle Wolfenstien (Score:1)
XPilot (Score:1)
At my peak I played every day... I wonder why my masters took so long hmm....
Gyruss! (Score:1)
One of the best soundtracks to any of the old
80's arcade games!
These days, I'm playing it thanks to MAME [mame.net] and XMAME [mame.net]
the SuperBowl (Score:1)
Two (Score:1)
Roller Coaster Tycoon [rollercoastertycoon.com]. This sim-style game where you build a theme park and design your own coasters is probably the most addictive game I've ever played. Hours go by without me even realizing it. Lots of fun.
my addictions... (Score:1)
joust
pole position
tempest
ms pac man
dig dug
robotron 2084
galaga
some people smoke crack. I fire up mame.
Re:my addictions... (Score:1)
All hail the Finnish!
Dating (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dating (Score:1)
Pontifex, toothpick bridgebuilding on crack (Score:1)
A few other good ones on the same puzzle theme are The Incredible Machine series of games...if you like Rube Goldberg contraptions, you'll love these games.
Addictive personality (Score:1)
Klines, glTron (Score:1)
UT (Score:1)
NetHack (Score:1)
Games 'n stuff (Score:1)
Descent 3 is always good. My rank seems to be going down despite the fact that I seem to be doing better. Go figure.
Finally, my Nethack addiction seems to be tapering off, since I fought my way right to the tower of the Wizard of Yendor, and found myself terribly short of resources. I haven't had the heart to go and play that charactor to the bitter end.
No current addictions. (Score:2)
I played starcraft for a bit, but the most I could play it was 2-3 hours a day before getting bored with it. Now, I get my gaming in 15 minute spurts and go on with my life.
Subspace, Halflife, sometimes a little starcraft, and doom 2. Thats all I really mess around with anymore.
-Restil
Lots of addictions... (Score:1)
My current addictions are:
Combining racing, shooting, dark humor and wonton viloence in one game. Plus, you get to be the bad guy for once
Practice at home to play Tekken 4 [namcoarcade.com] in arcades and provide maximum pain to my adversaries.
Ooooo... pretty...
No one else in my family plays, so I play with complete strangers.
Team Deathmatch and Domination with 3+ teams is good. Mods like Jailbreak [planetjailbreak.com] and FragBall [planetunreal.com] are also highly time-consuming.
Great little Shockwave game. I play this constantly at work
Wow, looking at the list, it's amazing that I'm bored all the time...
Rez (Score:1)
Freeciv is amazingly addictive. (Score:3, Informative)
Freeciv is a Civ/Civ2 clone, released under the GPL, running on Linux (also Windoze, and a lot of other operating systems). It plays just like Civ/Civ2, with only very minor differences in gameplay, and with a huge one: the interface is much superior to that of Civ2, so you don't end up frustrated and bored by it.
I can't recommend this game enough.
go (Score:2, Interesting)
played in high resolution real 3d space (with little black and white counters on a grid board). This game is utterly addictive and one of the interesting things about it is that, although it follows a very simple set of rules, no program has ever been created that could beat a vaguely good go player. (unlike chess
Not that there hasn't been any incentive either, a Taiwanese businessman wagered $1,000,000 that noone could build a go program that could beat a professional go player.
I suggest not trying this game, as it is far too addictive
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 and 3 (Score:1)
Great sound track, and decent graphics too. Part 3 is being released on PC next month. Damn, no sleep for me.
Tetrinet! (Score:2)
Tetrinet is a multiplayer version of tetris. You get special blocks, can attack other players, all the usual plus more! I find it very addictive, and often go on for a game but stay on for 2 hours. [tetrinet.org]
As a bonus, there is a GTK client gtetrinet [sourceforge.net] and also a commandline one (needs 80x50 though, so either console framebuffer or SVGAConsole is needed), so I can happilly play away the hours from linux :)
Re:Tetrinet! (Score:1)
Umm, wtf? Why did the first </a> suddenly jump into the second paragraph like that? And why the hell did it display fine in preview? Something odd going on here...
The Blood, the blood, Counter-Strike (Score:1)
Nethack (Score:1)
It has gotten so bad that I've started posting my SDs to the newsgroup. I've tried savescumming, I've nearly cried when my super-duper level 24 samurai was killed by disease in Hell, I've hacked the source code to give my wizards a +6 quarterstaff and Cloak of MR. Every day I tell myself, "I'm not going to play today". And every day I fire up those little ASCII characters for my fix. It's not NetHack, it's NetCrack. And I love it.
- shane.
Nethack, Civ, Xboing - In that order (Score:2, Interesting)
So in order of addiction,
1) Nethack mostly for nostalgia. I still fondly remember playing "Collosal Cave" on a 370 running MVS.
2) Civ. WOW what a game. Unfortunately, the time commitment is a little heavy. You just can't play for 15 minutes at a time.
3) Xboing. Pure mindless escapism, who can ask for more.
Agendaroids and Bomberman (Score:1)
Old NES games (Score:1)
Ghost Recon! (Score:1)
Most addictive arcade game ever (Score:2)
Anyway. I also enjoyed Deus Ex, SimCity3000 [the fact that I don't have to reboot into Windows is a relief], as well as all the Myst games out. Just my 2c.
Re:Most addictive arcade game ever (Score:2)
the best games aren't on your computer (Score:2)
Throw in the all night Counter Strike sessions and is it any wonder I'm getting divorced? ;)
Yahoo! Games (Score:2)
Typically, my attraction to a game will build to a peak then quickly drop off. Few games really can build a long-term addiction, at least for me.
xkobo (Score:1)
tarball here [ibiblio.org]
tetris, puzzle bobble / bust-a-move 2 & 4 (Score:2)
even better is bust-a-move 2 & 4 [its name for the PS1] (also known as puzzle bobble or bubble bobble in the arcade standup versions)
Phantasy Star online! (Score:1)
It's the simple ones that're the most addictive... (Score:1)
Phantasy Star ! (Score:1)
I played Phantasy Star [phantasy-star.net] on the Sega Master System back in the late 80s. It was, and still is one of the best RPGs ever. I played during the summer of '88 for 14 days straight, 20 hours a day.
That's right, only 4 hours a day for food, sleep and toilet breaks.
I finished the damn game, killing Lassic and Darkfalz and I hadn't even reached full levels on Myau, Odin and Noah when I did it.
I still play the game once in a while using a SMS emulator. The music, graphics and story line bring me back to that summer everytime I play it...
Gotta be TA (Score:1)
Re:Gotta be TA (Score:1)
Oh yeaaah ! TA forever !! I've been playing it for years now...
Two words: Chrono Trigger (Score:1)
Mr. Driller (Score:2)
I played in the arcade and decided I MUST have a version to play at home, so I got BoycottAdvance (decent GBA emulator) and the Japanese ROM for Mr. Driller 2, and now every time I sit down to do some "work", I end up 980 feet underground with no oxygen, on my last life.
Tactical-Operations (Tacops) (Score:1)
They are going commercial though so I dont know how long it will stay my fav
It's always the simple games (Score:1)
Tetris, minesweeper etc. etc.
I my self am total hooked on Sega Swirl [segaswirl.com] The worst thing about that game is the fact that is't avialable for so many platforms...
Gauntlet (Score:2)
Gauntlet is possibly the only single and multiplayer party-type game that's just as fun with one person as it is with more.
Mind you, I'm quite enjoying Crazy Taxi at the moment, so I did also find and power up Space Taxi from the C64 collection, just to see...
quick games (Score:1)
Ms. Pac Man and Galaga (Score:1)
Haven't found any newer games that are that addicting.
There's always Evercrack
PANZER GENERAL (Score:1)
Magic: The Gathering (Score:1)
c'mon...hands down Everquest (Score:1)
Risk II (Score:1)
TEQ (Score:2)
Tribes2 (Score:1)
In Tribes2 I found great elements of skill required by individuals to be able to execute tactics, yet elements of RTS for a complete team strategy.
Panzer General II (Score:2)
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