Past/Present Game Addictions

[rockyracoon]

Old:

King's Quest I-V
Space Quest I-III
Police Quest
Codename: Iceman
Tetris(original)
Tetris 64
Legend of Zelda
Legend of Zelda:A Link to the Past(the best of the Zeldas imo)
Metroid
Metal Gear
Mario Kart
Icebreaker(3DO, which I just started playing again)
Quarantine(3DO)

 

[Wishmaster]

Kings Quest I-V
Wing Commander I-IV
Alone In The Dark
Doom I & II
Hexen
Wolfenstein 3D
X-Com
Command & Conquer (all except Generals & Renegade)
WarCraft I-III
StarCraft
StarControl I & II
Total Annihilation
Diablo I & II
Tribes
Grand Theft Auto I-III, Vice City & San Andreas
Roller Coaster Tycoon I-III

Probably a few others I'm forgetting...

--Mike

 

[MetalAges]

Tht's nothing. Look at this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtyYiI5HDk&feature=related

Unfuckingbelievable.

LOL

LOL - I saw that a while back. Definitely would be hard pressed to find someone else as intense as that about a game!

 

[booB]

heh, I realized I didn't mention any of my game addictions.

I'm an old school RPG fanboy; I was obsessed with Ultimas 1, 2, 4, and 6 of the series. Ditto that with Wizardry 6 and 7, and Phantasie 1 and 3 (2 was never ported to IBM, it was a C64 game exclusively). I was also a big fan of several of the AD&D games back in the day -- Pool of Radiance, Secret of the Silver Blades, and Gateway/Treasures of the Savage Frontier. I was an old school Final Fantasy fan (1, 2, and 3 US releases), as well as Dragon Warrior 1-4. I didn't get into the original Zelda as much as most people, but I really loved Zelda II and A Link to the Past. I suppose The Illusion of Gaia counts as an action RPG as well; that was one of my favorite SNES games. More recently were Diablo 1 and 2, which is now replaced by Titan Quest.

Non-RPGs: My favorite game series of all time are the Prince of Persia series (except the horrible Prince of Persia 3D) and the Tomb Raider series. Actraiser, Super Mario World, F-Zero, and Pilotwings from the SNES; Super Mario Bros. 1-3 and Dr. Mario for the NES; Sonic and Shadowrun for the Genesis; countless adventure and shareware games for PC.

Currently, I am addicted to Wii Sports -- my tennis player is a 1100-level pro, and my golfer is a 1000-level pro. Also, I have recently discovered the joys of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin for PC. I killed my two marks in Kirov Park with a single rifle bullet, and immediately came in my underwear.

 

[RiffDaemon]

These were my major addictions - never mind the smaller ones

OLD:

*Final Fantasy I, IV, VI, and TACTICS! <-- #2 greatest RPG ever
*DOOM I and 2
*HERETIC
*HEXEN and (to a lesser extent) Hexen II
*Quake I
*Unreal I
*Age of Empires I & II
*Resident Evil
*MYTH I & 2 .. just amazing
*Diablo II
*Elder Scrolls III: MORROWIND!! and (to a slightly lesser extent) Oblivion
*EverQuest and (to a much, *much* lesser extent) World of Warcraft
***Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn*** <--- #1 greatest RPG ever

NEW:

Ummm ... none. I've completely given up my digital love-affairs so that I can spend that time with my guitar. Everquest still nips at my balls, though

 

[Pellaz]

Is that...Corpsegrinder?

Yes indeedy.


MANY muzos play WoW. Just ask Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult.

On second thought, don't ask him. I made the mistake of saying "Oh, yeah, I heard WoW is almost as big as EverQuest!"........and proceeded to get a lengthy, highly informative and awesome lecture. He couldn't wait to show me his laptop and his WoW t-shirt.

(WoW had already far eclipsed EQ by that point, but, hell, I didn't know. )

 

[sh0kr0k]

Uh... does Second Life count? ... No? ... okay, didn't think so.

 

[rms]

Yes indeedy.


MANY muzos play WoW. Just ask Eric Bloom of Blue Oyster Cult.

On second thought, don't ask him. I made the mistake of saying "Oh, yeah, I heard WoW is almost as big as EverQuest!"........and proceeded to get a lengthy, highly informative and awesome lecture. He couldn't wait to show me his laptop and his WoW t-shirt.

(WoW had already far eclipsed EQ by that point, but, hell, I didn't know. )

Lead singer of Korn plays too

 

[Cheiron]

Trent Reznor was a big Doom player. He would have a computer with him on tour and after shows he'd go and play.

--

Well I won't list all of my favorite games, as some of them I didn't have a massive addiction for, they were just great.

So the games I had an addiction for:

F18a Stealth Fighter : A very old flight sim now. But it was awesome. I was so crazily addicted to it. I'd play over and over and basically had it mastered. I could complete all the missions at the highest point levels. My dad was insanely good at it as welll.

Tetris : Well yes. I tried very hard on the Nintendo one to defeat all levels. But I never did. I believe there were 20 levels. I got to 18 before. But never 20. Dr. Mario was also a crazy addiction for a while. Big time family game. We'd play against each other regularly. Basically the last game that my family did that with.

Mechwarrior IV/Mechwarrior IV: Mercenaries - I spent countless hours in this game. I was extremely competitive in it, and helped build one of the most dominating teams ever. It wasn't odd for me in college days to spend about 12 hours just practicing or playing some kind of league match or another. I still love the game, but I no longer play it. The competition left the scene. The passion I had for conqureing other teams (we had what is called Planetary Leagues, where we used Battletech lore and played factions, had planets and resources and factories, and could launch raids and planetary assaults against other factions). Everytime I think about this game I think about all the great times I had, the times when I would get furious at losses, the hard work I put into the game and into helping a team go from average to great, and I really feel a sense of loss without it in my life. Its weird.

World of Warcraft: While I only have one lvl 70, I've logged plenty of hours on it. I also have many alts around the level 30 range. I just can't get myself to push them further. I get bored of my alts after a couple days of leveling them. I'm in the top end game raiding guild on our server.

Call of Duty : I played this competitive for a bit. I did it during a time when I took a break from Mechwarrior. The mech team I was in was at the top, and beating everybody. I felt like I had done everything there was to do in that game, and was looking for a game that had a larger player base and was a bit more competitive. I joined a team played some matches, but then I ended up going to Mechwarrior because the game and lore were too much for me to pass up. Also, it was at this point that my competitive gaming side started to come to an end. It wasn't that I accepted losing or didn't want to be the best. It was that any new game I'd play I'd compare to Mechwarrior and it would fall short. Also, it was always hard going to any other game and going through the struggle to be good. With Mechwarrior I had such a passionate desire to become really good that I suffered months of mediocrity. I'd go in open servers and get crushed regularly. I'd ask people a billion questions on what ways I should build my mechs. Anyhow, the point is that I finally got to the 'top.' Playing in any other game and not being in the top became hard to take. I didn't like not being the best. And I no longer felt like I had the time to suffer for so long to get to the top. But I was addicted to CoD for a while and played countless hours of Search and Destroy pugs.

Duke Nukem 3D : This was my favorite FPS of the early day FPSes. My friends agreed. We would get together on a weekend and setup a lan and play to all hours of the night. Such great times.

Warcraft II : Loved the single player. Loved the multiplayer with friends and sometimes people from school via modem.

Diablo : I used to play this endlessly. A big game for me freshman year of college. Diablo II didn't hold my attention for as long, though I thought the single player part was genius. I also leveled up my Necromancer fairly high, but I never got into those constant gear runs that others did. Just wasn't my thing.

 

[MetalRose]

My son and I have been jamming to Guitar Hero on the Wii since Christmas. Friday night, we went out and bought the extra controller at Game Stop. FYI- All the big box electronic stores will have no idea what you are talking about and will try and convince you that no such thing exists. (Best Buy, Circuit City, Toys R Us, Target, Walmart, etc.)

-Metal

 

[Pellaz]

If Second Life doesn't count, then Microsoft Train Simulator and Roller Coaster Tycoon II probably don't count either. ("Whew!", I think. )

 

[Wishmaster]

If Second Life doesn't count, then Microsoft Train Simulator and Roller Coaster Tycoon II probably don't count either. ("Whew!", I think. )

Roller Coaster Tycoon has to count! I already listed 1, 2 and 3 in my post!

--Mike

 

[Pellaz]

Ooops, didn't notice.

Ahhh...there's nothing quite like the feeling of building a really great, moneymaking amusement park...and then autodrowning the guests as they exit the rides and watching your park's satisfaction rating plummet.

"Gee, guests don't like the thought of other guests dying off by the dozens? Who'd'a'thunk it?"


Let's not forget the old "build a tunnel underground. Let guests wander in. Seal off the exit. Delete the tunnel" trick.
--And then watch as the guest(s) slowly drift down toward the center of the Earth, apparently forever.
"Guest 563 is hungry."
"Guest 1394 can't find the park exit!"
Ya think?

 

[Yippee38]

Right now I am completely hooked (again) on netHack. For those of you who don't know, netHack is an adventure game that is really basic, but incredibly detailed. The program is so small that it could be run from an old 1.44Mb floppy. The graphics are all ASCII, but the gameplay is awesome.

Some of my recent exploits include:
I had a knight character. I trained my pony to steal from shops. When I died, I had over 20 wands in my possesion. I died because I found a scroll and tried reading it. It teleported me to another room where there was a monster that stunned me. I was then killed by two coyotes.

With that same character, I dipped my starter, +1 long sword into a fountain. A hand reached up and took it from me and handed me Excalibur. Of course, it didn't help me when I was stunned.

My last character attacked a floating eye. Stupid thing to do. It stunned me and I was killed by something incredibly puny (a hobbit, I think).

I tried drinking from a fountain at about level 6. A water demon came out of the fountain and started attacking me. I ran. I used a wand to slow him down. I threw everything I had at him while running, but couldn't kill him. Out of desperation, I started drinking potions. The second I drank turned me invisible. Even though he could detect me, I was still able to get away from him and run away. I later died a stupid death.

NetHack is known for YASD (yet another stupid death). It's a great game. You can get it with Windows interface (it actually has graphics - though very rudimentary). Download it here: http://www.nethack.org/v343/ports/download-win.html If you try it, go to the home page (from that link) and read the guide. It's long, but it will get you started. There are tons of spoilers out there, but try not to read them before trying the game on your own. Try everything in this game, because it is commonly known that the developers think of everything.

 

[booB]

I've never been able to get into the Roguelikes (Rogue, Hack, netHack, etc.). The only one I really played enough to enjoy was Moria, and that was more like a cross between Rogue and Ultima.

 

[DoomsdayZach]

Ok... new addiction: Smash Bros Brawl.

Fucking christ, my hands literally hurt from playing it so much.

 

[dcowboys311]

Lead singer of Korn plays too

haha, so do Robin Williams and the bass player from 311

 

[dcowboys311]

I'm not really a big gamer but recently I've been playing Age of Empires 2 with some of my friends. That game is really fun. I just suck really badly.

 

[Pellaz]

Right now I am completely hooked (again) on netHack. For those of you who don't know, netHack is an adventure game that is really basic, but incredibly detailed. The program is so small that it could be run from an old 1.44Mb floppy. The graphics are all ASCII, but the gameplay is awesome.

Oh, absolutely....further proof that good, tight gameplay doesn't -- and shouldn't -- depend on some bloated software and graphics. I think I used to play the 'hack' variant on our Unix machines at school.



You die. -more-

There are tons of spoilers out there, but try not to read them before trying the game on your own. Try everything in this game, because it is commonly known that the developers think of everything.

It always seemed that everything you picked up, everything you saw, no matter how trivial, made a difference somewhere in that game.

 

[Jibrille]

I used to be really addicted to this game called Federation. It was also a totally text based multiplayer game. I started playing it on AOL but it dated back to 1988 and Compuserve. The whole premise was that you started out doing random jobs and worked your way up through the ranks shipping merchandise and later running a company till you eventually had your own planet. Your planet would randomly be given surplus/deficits of various products and you could setup work to sell your surplus to other planets. There were a few planet owner ranks and the biggest title was duke/duchess where you owned a duchy that you could allow planet owners to join. As I said, the game was available on AOL for some time but eventually left and became it's own subscription game. There's now a Fed II that I guess is free to play. The game was actually quite in depth for being a text based game. You could actually design your planets completely how you wanted them to "look." My mom actually cancelled AOL because I was playing this game so much. However, the game had just left AOL so that wasn't a big deal to me. Though I had my internet time limited. My brothers hated me because I was always using the phone line. I'd leave the game running at night a lot as originally the ranks when you ran your own company, you only had something like 10 days to get the required profit to promote to the next rank. Man do I not miss dial-up (and especially not AOhelL)

Right now? Rock Band & Smashies (aka Super Smash Bros Brawl).
But I don't have as much time to play games as I did when I was in high school/college.