The game you play to death..
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 - 12:27pm
..literally.
If you could imagine yourself playing to the point where you lose that last 1up what would it be? Released or not, exists or not.. choose your poison.
- Diablo 3
(Please keep in mind this has nothing to do with korean Starcraft / WoW cybercafés)
Your friendly neighbourhood hair splitting singularity.
Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
Cyberpunk MMORPG
or
Fallout MMORPG not done by Interplay
Somebody told me how frightening it was how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.
Recent releases that qualify (both played to death, and always come back to):
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
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Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (PSP)
Upcoming:
GTA IV
Resident Evil 4. Beat it 7 times, started it closer to 20. It's probably the only reason I still own my Gamecube.
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Baldur's Gate 2. I've probably spent 100 hours just building different characters, never mind actually playing.
Oblivion: Played through twice, the second time including all major expansions and explorable dlc. I'll go back to it a 3rd time on the pc to mess around with mods and indie content.
Gears of War Coop: My son and I have played through the campaign 6 times together, twice on each difficulty. The teamwork to clear rooms and enemies is just a blast.
Earth Defense Force 2017: Just hours and hours and hours of simple co-op fun. I had a compulsion to get every weapon, clear every level and beat every difficulty. I got terribly addicted to the red armor, green weapon and health drops. It was kinda like the lottery to see if a missing weapon would drop when I finally got to the end of mission summary screen.
When I lived in Japan, I was terribly addicted to the first "Torneko's Mysterious Dungeon" on the Super famicom. Simple, graphic rogue-like. It was just a thing of beauty to see how far you might survive on a particular run through the dungeon. I've bought most of the other Torneko and Fuurai no Shiren followups(A new one is coming in March for the DS!), but the original Torneko was magical. I'll never give up that cart!
My childhood played to death games were Tunnels of Doom (TI) and Colonial Conquest (Atari 800)
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World of Warcraft. If any game can physically kill me, it will be this one.
"If Blizzard announces a subscription fee for Diablo III we will have to build a second Internet to make room for all the complaining." - muttonchop
Dwarf Fortress. It's crazy, I know.
Good news is that Isengard is almost finished!
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Civ 5. Civ 4 is just softening me up for the killing blow.
MrDeVil909: I feel it necessary to point out that there are drug resistant strains of most STDs. Especially in developing nations.
Funkenpants: Great. Yet another area in which we're losing our lead to foreigners.
Nothing anymore really, but a few years back I played the Thief series, both original missions and the Fan missions, again and again and again.
The "good"news is that with the Dark Mod I might soon be falling back into my obsessive Thief behavior. The alpha demo they recently put out sure looks promising.
WoW... It keeps dragging me back in with its beautiful siren song, and loot tables.
"Uranus is positioned for summer surprises." - from Tarot.com's mailing list
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Freespace 3 - The MMO.
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I'd say the same if I weren't going through some horrible connectivity issues at the present. Until I get that worked out, no WoW for me.
Hmm... there's a couple games I can think of here:
Homeworld 1/Cataclysm/2 - I've beaten them all, but every so often I load them back up and beat them again.
KotOR I/II - Beaten the first one a few times now, and beat the second once. Another group of games I load up every so often to play when I'm bored.
Jedi Academy - There's just something to be said about hacking up stormtroopers and evil force users. It gets a little boring after a while, but then a few months down the road I reinstall and beat it again.
IronClad Online: PurEvil
Wow
Oblivion
*Legion* wrote:
Starcraft and BF2 for me. I just started playing the Broodwar campaigns again the other day and I still love it.
The Legacy of Kain series...all of them from start to finish. The story line is just so well laid out and the character development and voice work so outstanding I can live with the sometimes mediocre gameplay just for the cutscenes. The loss of Tony Jay still pangs my heart too.
WoW has my attention too at the moment, so Kain and his ilk haven't seen much love lately.
"And thus I clothe my naked villany with odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ, and seem a saint when most I play the devil." ~ William Shakespeare
Oh god. I...I just installed it again. Maybe this time will be the one that actually does me in, but I couldn't stop myself.
I never can.
*sob*
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
I'm kind of glad Sony messed up Galaxies, or it WOULD have killed me!!
And for some reason, the sims and sim city games have never lost their charm to me. I could still pick one up and thoroughly enjoy the experience.
Fallout 3 done by Troika, the dream that Bethesda killed.
XCOM: UFO Defense, updated to modern production levels.
If ever there was a game that caught me in the "just one more . . " loop, it would be the original XCOM. My wife (then girlfriend) would have to remind me that I hadn't eaten in quite a long time (i.e. over 24 hours).
Grenn wrote:
Recently it would have to be Team Fortress 2 which I've played for more than almost 7 days total. Oh God, my life!
I've also finished Metal Gear Solid 2 4 times...
Addams Family pinball.
MaxShrek .. looks like Jake.. drives like Elwood.
Deus Ex 3: Same gameplay as the original with updated graphics
STALKER: Clear Sky (Coming in March to take all my time away)
Team Fortress 2: with Valve's additional map pack and new Medic achievements
Freelancer 2: This time we finished making the game!
*Legion* wrote:
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I have a recurring nightmare that SquareEnix combines every single Final Fantasy together for one SuperUltiMaxi Final Fantasy: Finale made up of 14 discs, 104 main/playable characters, 203 plotlines, 108,237 sub-plots, a multi-faceted(sp?) job system, over 50 classes to play, and more cut-scenes than I can shake a stick at, not to mention the Brady Games stratagy guide that offers the first two volumes free with the promise to buy the other twenty for four easy installments of $19.95 along with the free ginsu knives.
Man that was excessive.
I'm an Uncle!!! -8/20/07
I buy even though I have 2 of them. I likey the Snakey. - Scrub
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Or you could just play Disgaea 2 and never have to swap a disk!
My answer is Disgaea 3.
Looking at the jump in depth from 1 to 2, 3 will come with an IV drip to keep me alive as I sink hour after hour into levelling my troops/items/specialists/abilities/dna and it will have cute little penguin demons that blow up if you throw them.
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 with head tracking. (much improved performance than RCT3; design your own coasters and ride them from any seat with a head tracking camera)
Flight Sim Aircraft Designer: Flight Sim X where you can build your own planes in any 3d program and import them into a windtunnel program to test basic flight characteristics. Also includes a prop builder where your custom prop designs will be tested for thrust and drag. The prop builder will support helicopter rotors and gyroprops.
Diablo 3 - keep the main story short and atmospheric, add junk item recycling and item upgrades ala hellgate london, add a weapons skill tree to all classes, with experience gained on damage with that weapon, so that 2 players of the same class, similarly speced in spells, can play differently with different leveled up weapon selection
World of Starcraft - anything from reskinned WoW to a more intuitive and polished Anarchy Online to a more polished next gen Planetside
Civ 5 with small squad rts battles
Asheron's Call 3 - released complete and polished, with balanced and fixed classes, and content rich
Mechwarrior 5 - in the vein of Mechwarrior 2 (which I solved several dozen times with both clans)
A hybrid of WoW or LOTRO with EQ - so I can choose if I want to grind camp some monsters that take 2-3 minutes to kill but I only need to kill 50 of them to level, or if I want to jump from quest to quest to quest
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Diablo 3
"I learned 2 things today - first, I've got to use Mariano as my closer and second, I suck". - Francona after the AllStar parade in NYC
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Honestly, I avoided Disgaea for that reason.
I'm an Uncle!!! -8/20/07
I buy even though I have 2 of them. I likey the Snakey. - Scrub
ICO: General Fancypants l Steam: Grenn[GWJ] l WoW: Goquelyrslf, Grendwar l XBLA: GWJ Grenn
Elite/Spelljammer/Diablo - elite 4x universe, spelljammer ships and art direction, diablo atmosphere skill/class system and combat
Diablo with Spore character/class development
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
If one day I keel over dead from deep vein thrombosis, WoW will be the cause.
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