Video-Game Addictiveness

[Blue the Thief]

I am addicted to The Orange Box now, and I can't play anything else without getting bored and running back to it (Not even my trusty Conker Live and Reloaded can drag me away from it).

Which is bad, because I already had and finished (multiple times) Half Life 2, I had Half Life 2 Episode 1 done quicker then you say 'I hate the Zombie-que Achievement', and I finished Half Life 2 Episode 2 the day after (What the hell is it with short games these days? It took me 6 years to get 100% on Super Mario 64, and I still have not beaten Grunty in Banjo Kazooie!)

Portal? Pah, I did that without even finishing my Sandvich. Speaking of Sandvich's, I can't play Team Fortress 2 due to the fact that the company that controls my Internet doesn’t have true Broadband here, and we're stuck in the contract until April next year (Which is when they will be getting Broadband, so go figure) making this all the more worse for me is that I have a 1 month free gold membership (Which I got when my Xbox was fixed) two separate 48 hours free membership (One from my copy of Viva Piñata, the other from my copy of Fable 2, which the stores I bought them from had pre-ordered), and I can get Banjo Kazooie free off Xbox live (Same deal as the free 96 hours, only from my copy of Banjo Kazooie: Nuts 'n' Bolts)

Don't get me wrong, I love the Half Life 2 games, Portal is awesome (She's still alive! Damnit!) and I've messed around with TF2 and I like it so far (My favorites so far are the Demoman, the Pryo and the Spy [Who have’d guessed that! What’s next? Nintendo making a game where you eat mushrooms and kill turtles?], so beware ) and I can't wait to play it online and start burning, backstabbing and ker-spolding .



Rant over: My sincere apology for taking this off topic after the first paragraph, cake?

[theJman]

Oblivion was my first real addiction.

[scribbane]

im usually addicted to any game that I am currently playing. Usually, I get a game and play through it until I beat it. I then move on to other games, and then may go back and just replay a game because it was fun, and stay with it until I beat it. the thing with Oblivion, is that it cannot be beaten, so it consumes me until I decide I need to do anything else, its not that I get bored exactly, I just have done everything I want for that play through.

[AEthriel]

whew....games ive been addicted to

CoD4, i played thru the campaign about 3 times before i uninstalled
Far Cry 2
Oblivion
Mass Effect (amazing game)
KOTOR, never played the 2nd cuz i heard it sucked
SPORE
Age of Empires 2
Starcraft
World of Warcraft (i was a CRAZY addict, even now i have a lvl 80 troll hunter gathering dust)
Red Alert 3

Games i WANT to be addicted to:
Fallout 3
Mass Effect 2
TESV (god willing)
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (looks AMAZING)
CoD: Modern Warfare 2

[irstupid]

CoD Modern Warfare 2 looks incredible i CANNOT wait for it.

World at war was a small disapoinment and i am now addicted to CoD 4 again along with Oblivion.

[the argonian clan]

civ 3 was my addiction
past that ive gone through a long list of strategy games that i dont feel like writing out
when i got oblivion this september i got way addicted i have been playing whenever i could since then with a short break for spore(probably get back addicted once i get that gallactic adventures thing)

[AEthriel]

CoD Modern Warfare 2 looks incredible i CANNOT wait for it.

World at war was a small disapoinment and i am now addicted to CoD 4 again along with Oblivion.

i didn't really get my hopes up for WaW; seeing as it's Treyarch, world war II, and using nearly the EXACT same engine as CoD4.

[nyk45]

Civilization IV
Age of Empires II
Age of Mythology trial version (lawl)
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Oblivion
Pokemon Cristal
and runescape

[The Raven]

Currently: Sims 3.

Why: Because this game is beyond-goshlike(the word "god", oh my gosh I just said it, offends Americans). 'Nuff said.

[randomfrog]

Currently: Sims 3.

Why: Because this game is beyond-goshlike(the word "god", oh my gosh I just said it, offends Americans). 'Nuff said.

Since when? That, members of UESP, is called stereotyping.

[The Raven]

Currently: Sims 3.

Why: Because this game is beyond-goshlike(the word "god", oh my gosh I just said it, offends Americans). 'Nuff said.

Since when? That, members of UESP, is called stereotyping.

Since when is sterotyping = truth?

My cousin (Oh wait, she doesn't exist...) lived in U.S.A for a year. She told me that it offended some.
Maybe that was at her school only, but still...

[alowe]

i think gaming is addictive because it's an effective form of escapism. it's like the psychological equivalent of alcoholism.

[randomfrog]

I meant no offense, Raven. I personally don't say it, but I know a lot of people that do.It does get downright annoying, because they say it all the time.