Damned video games

[skippy05]

When I was laid up for two months this spring after stomach surgery, I bought the game "God of War." Quite possibly the best game I've ever played. I beat it in four days, in 10-hour bursts each day. Since getting back to work, my PS2's been fucked up and my schedule has been nuts. Yesterday, my schedule was light and my PS2 worked, so I started playing GOW again, even though I beat it already. Just as addictive as before, I played five consecutive hours. My eyes were killing me and, for some reason, my head got stopped up like I had a sinus infection. The question is: What video game have you played to the point it felt like you were risking your health, but just could not stop playing?

[Weird_English_Guy]

Madden, Football/Championship Manager, Grand Theft Auto, Jade Empire, Knights of the Old Republic.

Plus many more I don't remember.

[DBear]

March Madness. I would run through a season in a couple of days. I love the dynasty mode.

[skippy05]

One night, probably five years ago, I ran through TWO entire seasons of NASCAR. As a child, I spent untold hours at a local store playing the stand-up version of Super Mario Bros. I was one of those annoying shits who would hog the game for hours on one quarter...

[DBear]

I never knew there were any loungers that video game'd it.

We ought to have some online tournaments or something. Although I'm only on PS2 and seems like everyone i run into says they have XBox.

[skippy05]

Originally posted by DBear@Sep 4 2005, 10:28 AM
I never knew there were any loungers that video game'd it.

We ought to have some online tournaments or something. Although I'm only on PS2 and seems like everyone i run into says they have XBox.

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Are you kidding? You have a group of people wasting valuable time on a message board and you didn't think they played video games? Hell, this place literally SCREAMS geek on occassion...

[DBear]

Originally posted by skippy05@Sep 4 2005, 10:30 AM
Are you kidding? You have a group of people wasting valuable time on a message board and you didn't think they played video games? Hell, this place literally SCREAMS geek on occassion...

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Yeah...i just figured that we were wasting that time at work though.

I though actual free time was spent with a bottle or can of some kind of frosty cold beverage.

[Glovey]

Christ, where to start...I've had marathon sessions with the following games:

Halo
Halo 2
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Doom III
Call of Duty
NCAA Football 2005
Fable
Knights of the Old Republic
Ghost Recon 2
Diablo II
Age of Empires II

But I'd have to say the longest session was Halo.

[madyaks]

I can't remember the name of the game, it was an old first person shooter, I would get dizzy playing it, I mean DIZZY, throwing up dizzy, but I'd play until I couldn't any more, I'd be sick for an hour or more after I quit.

[Joker]

Halo 1 & 2
KOTOR 1 & 2
Madden
EA's NHL
ESPN Baseball
NCAA Football
Max Payne 1 & 2

[SunuvaNun]

Doom
Quake and Quake II
(I worship at the shrine of John Carnak)

Pirates (the original on Amiga)
Diablo I

[bcruise]

The only game I've ever truly felt was controlling my life was Final Fantasy VII. Not only was it one of the first RPG's I ever played (I credit Earthbound for getting me into that Genre), it was also my first PSX game, and EASILY my most played one. To this date, since I first played the game in 1998, I've beaten it 5 times, 2 of which I did absolutely everything in the game, including beating those friggin' Weapons. I rolled the in-game clock over on those two play-throughs, exceeding 99 hours each.

Don't get me wrong, when I get a new game I'm always playing it almost non-stop, but FF7 was the only one I felt like I couldn't pull myself away from until I had beaten it, no matter what.

Right now I'm still on the Madden '06 kick, but NHL2k6 is days away, and I'll shift over to that soon enough.

[fountain16]

AOE II

Battlefield 1942

starcraft

city of heroes

warhammer 40000 ad

[Razzy]

Civilization III

[Dr.Gonzo]

Oregon Trail