[Naveed]

Civilization 3

[AFGNCAAP]

I don't think anything caused me as many sleepless nights as Heroes of Might and Magic games.

Especially part III, no doubt the best of the series!

The Sims come pretty close second, although for some reason I hate myself for liking this game.

[LeChimp]

Lumines, probably the best puzzle game since Tetris
GTA 2
Morrowind
Counterstrike, UT 2004, Battlefield 1942, Smash Bros Melee and The Sims used to be addicting

[JoeX111]

Civilization 2 (Haven't played 3 yet, though I've started seeing it for $10 at CompUSA....)
Pirates!
Alpha Centauri
Tetris

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Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP

some reason I hate myself for liking this game.

i respect you for that

[Phantom]

Asheron's Call. But MMORPG's are unfair competition to all other types of games, so not taking that genre into account I think the most addictive games I've ever played were Diablo 1/2, Warcraft 3 and Quake 3.

[Tiareth]

From single player games:

civ 2-i was playing it for 3 years+, 5+ hours at times civ 3 wasn't that great imo apart from finally setting frontiers!

championship manager 00/01-played this game a lot for 1-2 years, i think i had done more than 10 seasons on one game with Nott. Forest :p

Might and Magic 6- It was huge, took me 6+ months to finish!

Diablo-Enough said about it really, just addictive.

Bubble Bobble or whatever it was called, played it for hours at uni.

Various rpg's (planescape/baldur's gate comes to mind) that i played intensively for quite some time.

But most of all:


The Legend of Kyrandia 3! For some reason i was stuck at island with the cat statues and i couldn't solve the riddle with the statues and the gems. I couldn't find the hint for the correct combination. I was so obsessed with it that after doing trial and error for 3 consecutive days i sat down and wrote all possible 725 combinations of gems & statues and it was only the 19th...It was my first adventure game on my own pc and even if i have finished it only once i have found a gazillion alternate routes to get towards the end. I have found 5 ways to get to cat island and without any walkthrough i have reached pretty close to final score (860/911 if i remember correct). I wanted to finish it again, but unfortunately every pc i bought since 1996 refuses to run it

I was obsessed with the LoK series, i finished 1 lots of time & 3 once , but if i feel bad for one thing as long as i am playing games is that i never found the second one on stores


As for mmorpg's, daoc and wow have given me a new definition of addiction, especially daoc, wow is more casual friendly.

[100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja]

Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP

I don't think anything caused me as many sleepless nights as Heroes of Might and Magic games.

Especially part III, no doubt the best of the series!

Absolutely true, especially in hot seat. Also Winning 11 (Pro Evolution Soccer) series and Arkanoid.

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Originally Posted by 100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja

Absolutely true, especially in hot seat. Also Winning 11 (Pro Evolution Soccer) series and Arkanoid.

and wheel of fortune

[Manhunter71]

I originally opted for Civ 3, but after thinking about it further I think I have been addicted to pretty much every game I have played.
Ones that stand out though, are FF8 (the in-game timer showed 200+ hrs when I finally finished this game - my girlfriend was not impressed!), also Neverwinter Nights, all the GK games, Anachronox, Deus Ex, TLJ, Planescape:Torment - these are all games that I remember having to play at every opportunity, but basically, once I have become immersed in a storyline I find it very difficult to stop until the whole thing has been played out

[Risingson]

Add Darwinia to this list. I've spent two whole days playing it sleeping four hours. Inmersive and alive.

[hooter]

Freecell

[Ninth]

I think it was Worlds of Xeen (Might and Magic 4 and 5).
Or maybe Jagged Alliance.

[remixor]

Tetris, Tetris, Tetris, holy crap.

Also every game Blizzard has made since WarCraft 1 except for WarCraft III for some reason. StarCraft, Diablo II, and World of Warcraft in particular hold top honors. Good lord.

Civilizatoin 1 is probably the first game I really remember being totally addicted to. (I haven't played any of the games in the series past 1.) I beat it so many times, both ways, with a bunch of different nations. What a blast.

There was also TIE Fighter, which I was really looking forward to because I enjoyed X-Wing. The former was an improvement over the latter, already an excellent game, by a factor of about a million. TIE Fighter was amazing. I had a poster in my room from an old PC Gamer listing their top 15 PC games of all time. I think almost a third of them were LucasArts games IIRC, and TIE Fighter was #1. I cannot in good faith disagree. Sam and Max was somewhere in the top 10 as well, but I can't recall the other LEC titles at the moment.

Minesweeper and Spider Solitaire for Windows never seem to go away. I'm not as good at either as I was a few years ago, though. I was a friggin fiend.

Halo 1 makes a strong case but since I enjoyed it most with friends on split screen or system link there simply isn't enough time available to put it in the same leagues as the above games.

Fire Emblem owned me for a while. What a solid game.

EDIT: I forgot about Heroes of Might and Magic. I played a WHOLE LOT of HOMM2.

[bigjko]

SimGolf. One addicting piece of game.

[Isak]

Suikoden 2/Final Fantasy VII/Burnout 3/Broken Sword 1/Tetris/Zelda series

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Originally Posted by Isak

Suikoden 2/Final Fantasy VII/Burnout 3/Broken Sword 1/Tetris/Zelda series

i admit to playing ocarina of time through about a dozen times...riding epona makes me happy

[RLacey]

Lemmings. 'Nuff said.

[100ja a.k.a. mr_mitja]

I forgot a bunch, here are some:

Worms 1

Cannon Fodder 1

Paperboy 1

Syndicate

Pang

[insane_cobra]

Originally Posted by remixor

There was also TIE Fighter, which I was really looking forward to because I enjoyed X-Wing. The former was an improvement over the latter, already an excellent game, by a factor of about a million. TIE Fighter was amazing. I had a poster in my room from an old PC Gamer listing their top 15 PC games of all time. I think almost a third of them were LucasArts games IIRC, and TIE Fighter was #1. I cannot in good faith disagree.

Oh yes, TIE Fighter was the best! I have X-Wing Alliance sitting near the top of my "to play" list for some time now, gotta get me a decent joystick so I can finally sink my teeth into it.

I forgot about Heroes of Might and Magic. I played a WHOLE LOT of HOMM2.

I have a friend who got woken up by some gypsy women trying to steal something from his house once. He'd spent the whole night playing HOMM2 so seeing them standing in the middle of his room, at first he confused them for Sprites. Later he claimed they even had little rectangles with hit points above their heads