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What are some games that you can't seem to let go? Games that no matter how many times you've beaten them, how old they are, or whatever.. you just have to jump back in long after its time came and went.

TMNT: Turtles in Time is my first game I still go back to. I've beaten this game more times than I can count, tho that's not hard when it only takes like 20-30 minutes to beat. To me this game is 2D brawler perfection. I really wish they would release the original SNES version on PSN. That re-shelled remake is awful.

Demon Souls isn't that old, but I've beaten it 5 times and obtained the platinum trophy. By all accounts, I should be done with this game, but I still dream about this game.. think about playing it when I'm at work.. and wish i were playing it when I'm playing other games. When I first played it, I really didn't like it. I got to the bridge in 1-1 with the Red dragon and said "Done! This game is not for me." But almost a month later I went back, died more times than I care to admit, and beat that first @#$#!& level. I then played that game almost exclusively for about 6 months and I still put it in on occasion even though I have nothing left to do in that game.

Gundemonium Recollection is a shooter on PSN (and PC) that similar to Demon Souls in that its damn hard yet not really unfairly so. Actually, most of the baddies and bosses have pretty predictable patterns, yet I still die all the time. I am not good at shmups, but I do love a good one and not since Lifeforce on the NES have I played one this good. I have yet to beat this one, but I keep coming back after trying over and over mainly because this game feels fun. I'll pick up gradius every once in a blue moon and that game feels like work. I play this one 20-30 minutes almost every day. Also, I love the the sound direction in GR.

What are yours?
 
I forced myself to put down demons souls. It took discipline, but I managed it.
I'll probably play Gothic II a third time in the near future... wanting to fire up Thiefs and System Shock 2.
I am addicted to L4D in all its varieties.
DotA still calls me for Warcraft III...
Oh, and I think I might just have a fast enough system now to replay Ultima IX.
 
Resident Evil games. I'm contemplating on firing up the GameCube remake of the first game. RE4 I've played through close to dozen times.
 
Diablo II and LOD sucked about 5 years off my life.

Took me forever to put it down... and keep it DOWN.

I'm dreading the day D3 comes out. Both anticipating, and dreading.
 
Command and Conquer Renegade is the game I constantly go back to. Not really addicted or anything but its 8 years old and I still play on occassion. Been a while since I really put some time into it though.

Now Mechwarrior 4 Vengence is a game I was addicted to at one point. It only lasted about 2 weeks but its basically all I did for 2 weeks and then every once in a while for a few months. Only played a few times since then but I did just play through the free release of MW4 Mercs a couple months ago.
 
I'm amazed WoW isn't dominating this thread and I don't even play the thing.
 
Deus Ex. I play through at least part of it three or four times a year. Have since it came out. One of the best games I have ever played.
 
I have not let go of any of these... seriously

CS:S (moved on from CS 1.6)
UT 99 and OG Unreal (never really graduated to the other Unreal games... UT3 served as eye-candy, and I skipped UT2004)
Quake 3 (Had a precise feel)... Quake 4 is garbage... I own it... and I regret paying full price - last game for which I paid over $40.
All the DOOM games, modified (even Doom 3 series) - I don't regret buying Doom-3, although certain parts were boring...
Rise of the Triad - just for the nostalgia and to see some eyeballs flying

NFS:SE (the original was cool)

Wizardry 7 (non-gold) - Yea... I tend to keep a lot of "nostalgia" games just for the memories, even if I don't play through them... I would cheat my way through this one quickly to save time (just to get an idea of the gaming concepts - and it's usually worthwhile to at least speed-read through the storyline)
Dark Sun - nostalgia, again
Wizardry 8 - HUGE overhaul on the Wizardry series, but a good one... that was the last of them
Betrayal at Krondor (and Betrayal series): great RPG


Warhammer 40K series (I like 40K tabletop, but it's unrealistic for me to play it on anything but paper)
Homeworld series (I guess I could replace this with Sins of a Solar Empire)
Enemy Nations - nostalgia again... just load it up to "feel something"
Dune 2

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

I never got into Baldur's Gate series, NWN series, Planescape, Deus Ex, KOTOR, Arcanum, Gothic, Elder Scrolls series, Fallout series, Thief, System Shock, Arx Fatalis, or D.Seige or any of the other games likely to make the list... Although I own or have access to nearly ALL of them...

There seems to be an FPS/RPG bias, but here is a fair portion of my PC-gaming heyday.

I think most of the newer games are noobish and require less brainpower. I learned to read from these old games - I wouldn't allow a child to do that with today's games... but fortunately there are still several worth playing (and perhaps my impression is incomplete because I... just haven't been gaming)
 
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Variety is my crack, you couldn't pay me to play 1 or 2 games over and over.
 
Borderlands.

Fallout 3.

Oblivion.

Diablo 2.

The Godfather on the Wii.
 
theNoid said:
Variety is my crack, you couldn't pay me to play 1 or 2 games over and over.
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mine too, but I also think that a game only worth playing once, or just for a few hours can't really be that good to begin with.

never really had a game good enough that I couldn't put down, but I've played through stronghold about 5 times by now. this one is nearly 10 years old, with those kind of ugly sprite based 2d graphics that would be terrible by today's standards, and a couple of mediocre expansions and sequels, but I always go back to the original. the campaign was very well done, it never gets old even with whatever mechanical flaws it has, just the perfect combination of casual sp rts/builder sim that you can kill a whole lot of time on.

now playing it again before stronghold3 gets released, hopefully this time there will be some better mp to keep it going for good. the idea of building up a castle just to be sieged by hordes of troops is one of the most fun concepts in this sort of game, like an oldschool medieval turtle type rts.
 
TFC
Counter-Strike (the real one not source bs)
BF2

That's about it. Haven't come across any other games since then that were that good, or were so sustainable. Back in the PS1/2 days there were much more; GT2, AC2, Doom, etc.
 
I wasted a semester break each on Warhammer Online, COD4 and Live for Speed... that's about it, I dont like playing single player games over and over or single player grind fests and avoid most grinding multiplayer games (with the exception of Warhammer Online), so I dont really get addicted to games very often.
 
Unfortunately my crack is Call of Duty. I try to get into other games but eh. I think I have ADD or something which makes it so that I can't get into any games that take more than a few minutes to get anything out of.

I have run through Dawn of War 2 a few times but other than that... I wanna get into Dragon Age but again it takes too long. For example I loaded up a new game as the elf. I didn't even make it past the first house you start out in. Yeah, made it through the first conversation with that elf chick and I was already bored.
 
serious sam:se mp
painkiller
oblivion
gothic 3
stalker
fallout 3
left 4 dead
Borderlands
BF:BC2
fallout 3:NV
 
I've played through the godfather 2 5 times but other than that I usually beat a game and put it away. The game I've played the most is hands down Rockband. I still play it pretty much daily.
 
My crack addiction is strong... I have lots.

Oblivion
Killer Instinct
Counterstrike
Mortal Kombat
Revenant
Zelda II The Adventures of Link
Super Mario World
F-Zero
Diablo 2

& More.
 
Q-BZ said:
I'm amazed WoW isn't dominating this thread and I don't even play the thing.
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They are too busy playing. If not that, they they are too busy checking the WoW forums and maybe checking Hardforum for any WoW threads before going back to playing. ;)
 
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with the nameless mod and a few add-ons it quite nice..
 
I'll be the first to say it

WORLD OF WARCRAFT, and I was there on launch day. Got my preorder about 3 months before the game came out, hung out at the local EB Games (yes it was that long ago) waiting for the midnight launch. Got home installed all 6 CDs it came on (or I think it was 6) and that's all she wrote. For about 4 years WoW and CS:S were the only things I did with my life. School and job were sorta only there as fillers for patch time. I have since stopped playing WoW and have no intention of going back. Not that it isn't a fun game, and I still keep in touch with my guild mates, but that game consumed my soul and.......yea its just bad.

Other then that

TF2
CS:S
Defcon
Gran Turismo 5
Forza 3
CoD 4 (The good modern warfare)
UT2k4 (Low grav, quad jump, instagib, c'mon is there a better way to play?)
 
I have a minor Starcraft 2 addiction, but I'm down from two packs a day to about half a pack a day. Even if I don't play, which I hardly play very much any more, I'll watch a tournament or something for an hour maybe.

But if I do sit down to play again I'll probably have a nice 4 hour session one weekend and have to struggle not to look at the icon on my computer :D.
 
Used to be Quake 2 for me...then UT2004...then Gears of War multi on the 360...

For a while also...CnC Generals Zero Hour was my addiction...then LOTR:BFME.

You know you have been playing a game too much when you start dreaming about it...that happened with me and Generals ZH...

Civ is always a big offender also. Civ 2 for years, then Civ 4. Master of Magic, Master of Orion 1/2...still great fun.

Console wise, I regularly run through Dragon Quest (warrior) 4, Chrono Trigger, and re-start Baldur's Gate II.
 
Just kicked my WoW habit a month ago so I haven't been playing too much of any one game a whole lot. Been going through Etrian Odyssey on DS during my work hours (muwhahaha) and playing some GT5 on PS3 when I am at home.

What I am really waiting for is the Fallout: New Vegas patch to finally hit so I can hopefully play the game without crashing every hour.
 
Rock Band
TF2
Rise of Nations with the Thrones and Patriots expansion
 
1. Counter-Strike betas through 1.6
2. Day of Defeat betas through source

Nothing has come close for me compared to those two games, regardless of platform.

Kungfu on NES

Tenchu on PS1

Nothing on PS2

Nothing on Wii
 
Wizardry 8.

Beat vanilla like 3 times and tried some user-made mods too.
Character development is really solid for multiple runs.

My multiplayer game crack is Valve FPSs.
 
Call of Duty and Call of Duty United Offensive mutliplayer was my first crack game. I played that thing religiously after school. Easily put in 4-5 hours a day. I was on our home computer so much that my parents decided to buy me my own computer so my sisters could play/use the computer. They bought me the 9300 in my sig, and refuse to fund for a desktop since they think it'll fuel anti-social behavior (and judging by my game playing habits, they were kinda right. Having a laptop made it easy to just move my gaming rig to the den when they complained). Really that game got me into computers and computer gaming. I had always been a console kid before that.

After that it was Oblivion. I was a year late to the Oblivion crowd and bought it the thanksgiving of 2007. I had Wednesday-Sunday off for break and logged a total of 80 hours played time. This was all actual play time, since I don't like to let my system idle with a game loaded. At one point, my sister had forgot that I came home for break, since she had only seen me briefly at the beginning.

WoW was pretty unhealthy for me. I started playing in February of 2005, when 1.2 was still live. Played it off and on with some friends (though I never stopped paying for the game), I didn't become really addicted until my second character and I was involved in my server's top raid guild somewhere circa patch 1.6. Became pretty burnt out around patch 1.11. I've been going back to play each expansion when I have time in the summer, but I just can't afford to play during the school year. Nor do I really want to, though, since I'm kind of a purist and loved the game that was WoW 1.10-1.11. It had it's problems, but getting a good/great group together and tackling content that was challenging was fun and PVP really meant something. None of this purple-pinata stuff that exists now.

But I still get the urge to fire up these games, and I normally give in and will play for a solid week (there's still decently strong community playing CoD/UO) with the exception of WoW. I don't really feel that call anymore, especially with the new expansion out. I think Cata firmly severed my ties from the game by destroying much of what I really loved about it (vanilla WoW).
 
Doom 1 and 2. I've been clean of Quake 3 for a year now, but that will always bring me back. Also, pokemon /shame
 
DoTA, LoL, X:3 Terran Conflict, Gears of War multi, Galactic Civ II, Warhammer 40k DoW, SC2
 
mas said:
I've played through stronghold about 5 times by now. this one is nearly 10 years old, with those kind of ugly sprite based 2d graphics that would be terrible by today's standards, and a couple of mediocre expansions and sequels, but I always go back to the original. the campaign was very well done, it never gets old even with whatever mechanical flaws it has, just the perfect combination of casual sp rts/builder sim that you can kill a whole lot of time on.

now playing it again before stronghold3 gets released, hopefully this time there will be some better mp to keep it going for good. the idea of building up a castle just to be sieged by hordes of troops is one of the most fun concepts in this sort of game, like an oldschool medieval turtle type rts.
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Yes, Stronghold! I'm also super psyched about Stronghold 3.
 
Everquest was very much Evercrack for me, mainly because I kept making new friends for perma-groups / raiding that kept me going. Eventually gave up the game but have actually kept in touch those friends... still hope to meet some of them face-to-face some day, lol.
 
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