What video game have you wasted the most of you life on?

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-03-11 12:21am

Probably XWA. Damn, that was a fun game.

Vicious · Post by **Vicious** » 2005-03-11 10:27am

EverQuest from December 1999 to December 2004...so 5 solid years, give or take? Played StarCraft alot, especially online. FFX has eaten a good 300 hours of my time. Civ III has consumed days, but the game I've played the most...Diablo. My God, has that game stolen more of my life than any other, except maybe EQ. Both online and offline, I've played it more times than I can count. I've beaten it 30+ times with a single-player warrior (same one), 12+ with a single-player sorcerer and at least 6+ times with a rogue. Online, I played a rogue everyday for hours for nearly a year before some PK bitch tricked me into getting killed by a horde of balrogs and made off with my gear.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2005-03-11 12:07pm

Monster Rancher 1-3

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2005-03-11 12:16pm

LadyTevar wrote:Monster Rancher 1-3

They made a 3?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2005-03-11 12:22pm

Captain Cyran wrote:
LadyTevar wrote:Monster Rancher 1-3
They made a 3?

They made a four, but we haven't found a copy yet.

Communists are involved.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-03-11 12:24pm

in chronological order:

(late 80's) Starflight
(early 90's) Wing Commander:Privateer
(mid 90's) Master of Orion
(late 90's) Master of Orion II
(early 00's) Starcraft
(mid 00's) GTA series

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-03-11 08:23pm

Using the above format

(late 80's) This is a tough call - but I was a compulsive Zaxxon player on the Apple ][e
(early 90's) Civ 1
(mid 90's) Privateer (finally got it)/TIE Fighter
(late 90's) GTA 1 & 2/Civ 2
(early 00's) Civ 2 & Civ:CTP/Arcanum
(mid 00's) Total War games - there is no competition for how much time I've spent in Shogun, Rome and to a lesser extent Medieval...

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2005-03-11 10:04pm

Diablo
MOO2
Deus Ex
Unreal Tournament
TIE Fighter
Syndicate
Quake

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2005-03-11 10:13pm

I've wasted roughly 105235026204725029072 billion hours playing Half Life mods.

Assassin X · Post by **Assassin X** » 2005-03-12 01:27am

Id have to say any of the Unreal (More so Unreal) or Half Life games. I waisted an insane amount of time on those and still do.

Mostly because those games have more stuff to do like mods, maps, skins...etc. Every day theres always something new and every day you "Gotta try that...oh and then that". It never stops.

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2005-03-12 03:08pm

I'm amazed no-one wasted time playing X-Com.

Games that stole my life.

Civ I+II+III (and CTP)
SMAC
X-Com
MOO I+II
Master of Magic (flying, invisible, fire-breathing cavaly OF DOOM!)
Shogun + Medieval Total War.

Diablo II (that hardcore multiplayer LAN goodness)
Starcraft (More LAN multiplayer goodness)

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-03-12 06:16pm

Nethack by far

considering I still play it at least once a month and have been playing it for a quarter of a century.....

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you have hit troll for 17 points of damage
wall of ignorance restores 23 points to troll
troll inflicts 6 points of damage
bozon fields have left you confused

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2005-03-13 07:49am

Zelda: Ocarina of Time, without a doubt. I finished it countless times, but I still keep my original savefile for some reason. Even today, like six years after I got the game, I still play it. I'm that weird. I also play Majora's Mask a lot...

Snowboard Kids probably comes in second. I don't know why, but this has to be the most fun multiplayer game on the N64, second only to SSB. It might actually be funner than it. Oh the hours wasted on this game! It's the Devil!! No, actually, Nintendo of Europe is the devil for not releasing the sequel here!!

The Super Smash Bros. games comes third, I would guess. SSB has some 100 hours or so, SSBM about 300.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-03-13 08:09am

Probably Diablo 2.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-03-13 08:20am

bubble bobble

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-03-13 09:18am

It's a tossup between Civ II and various incarnations of Sim City.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-03-13 10:00am

Star Control 2 I still remember spending sleepless night during highschool, being immersed in the universe trying to solve the difference between Pkunk and Yehat, searching for the evidence of Mycon fucking-up Syreen's homeworld, and of course, getting a bang with commander Talana (too bad the screen went black)

TIE Fighter Hunting (former) Admiral Zaarin is difficult, but it's harder to discover and achieve the secret objectives in order to advance through the Secret Order of the Emperor.

Gunship 2000 I was pretty late playing this one game, waiting for my friend to bring the Thrustmaster FCS/WCSII/RCS combo from US. But oh, so rewarding!

F-19 Stealth Fighter Probably the last sim I've ever played with keyboard. This is my third flightsim after F-15 Strike Eagle II and Electronic Arts' F-16 Combat Pilot. The flight model is simplistic but the gameplay! Oh the gameplay! What more should I say? Avoiding the Pulse and Doppler Radars, having my score actually *deducted* for scoring hits in Limited War, landing on some secret airstips at midnight while avoiding detection, taking photograph of enemy installation. All give me the feeling of really flying a stealh fighter. Now THAT's realism! No amount of "realistic flight model" *cough*LOMAC*cough* could ever compare to such immersive, realistic feelings of "being there" offered by F-19 Stealth Fighter.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2005-03-13 12:26pm

Super Robot Wars series of games
Command & Conquer Red Alert
TIE Fighter
Sonic the Hedgehog series

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-03-13 05:03pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Total Annihilation probably still holds the record for me even a couple years after I stopped playing regularly.

I'd forgotten how much time I'd spent playing that game. I think it's because I just loved having an impregnable base with rows and rows of the various kinds of stationary defence repelling any large-scale invasion by multiple computer opponents. Then I'd gradually make a load of ARM dreadnoughts and send them one or two at a time gradually devastating more and more of their base.

For some reason, I get the need to drag the battle out as much as possible so I can win it with the largest possible army (I'm sad and pretend that the army's going to need to be large enough to dominate the area in future

, i plan on one day incorporating this into a strategy game, with movable units left over from the end of a previous battle being able to be called upon for new invasions) . So a good strategy game like the lotr game or TA or RA2 will take up vast amounts of time.

RA2 and TA have probably taken up the largest amount of time of any games I own. Sonic and Knuckles + Sonic 3 I played an absolute asston of, too. And of course, FF7, which is so thoroughly completed it's quite sick. The only other things that needed doing on it were getting some characters to level 100, Aeris' level 4 limit break, and Cid's level 4 limit break, which for some buggy reason was impossible to give it to him.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 2005-03-13 05:08pm

January 1997 - June 1997: X-Com UFO Defense
Has to be one of the most fun games ever. It's hard to imagine a turn-based strategy game having as much or more atmosphere than many FPS's or RPG's. I used to have an old P1 machine set aside for random word processing, and more importantly, X-Com.

July 1997 - September 1997: Rise of the Triad
I could never figure out how to beat the last boss. Of course I cheated all the way through the game.

October 1997 - January 1998: Warcraft 1

February 1998 - August 1998: Cyberstorm/Cyberstorm 2
Woot, hexes!

June 1998 - September 1998: TIE Fighter
Love the TIE Defender. Death to the Rebel scum.

September 1998 - March 1999: X-Com Apocalypse
Not quite like the original, but fun nonetheless, enough so that I can forgive the 50's retro look. Burning your city to the ground with 10 Annihilators is great. Take THAT, flying police cars. Like FF, I spent a lot of time trying to "get" everything: Dimension Missile Launcher, Personal Teleporter, etc.

May 1999 - August 1999: Pokemon Blue
I never did manage to catch them all.

October 1999 - February 2000: 007 Goldeneye
Most fun console shooter until Halo. Proximity Mines are win.

December 2000 - February 2000: Birth of the Federation
Horrendously buggy game. I got it for Christmas, gave it a try because it was Star Trek, ouch. It wasn't as bad as it was buggy.

March 2000 - September August: Super Smash Bros.
Golden-what?

January 2001 - April 2001: Starcraft
KEKE

November 2001 - January 2002: FF8
I didn't get everything.

February 2002 - May 2002: FF9
I got everything.

June 2002 - November 2002: FFX
I got everything, and then some. 200+ hours, not counting the save that got deleted.

January 2003 - June 2003: Warcraft 3

April 2003 - June 2003: America's Army

July 2003 - November 2004: Halo

August 2003 - December 2003: Runescape
Got suckered into it by a friend. Ended up selling all my stuff on Ebay for like $400, yay!

August 2003 - June 2004: Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne
Custom maps are fun.

January 2004 - September 2004: Diablo 2
Made a fair bit of cash here too. Almost $100 from Annihilus's and runewords. (Started cashing in on and exploiting the D-Clone spawns.)

November 9 2004 - Present: Halo 2
Still don't have X-Box live yet.

November 22 2004 - Present: World of Warcraft
This says it all...

With Battlegrounds coming soon (by Blizzard standards), it looks like my ~800 hours isn't even close to being done yet

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2005-03-13 10:05pm

SMAC, Civ III, Halo 2, and the mother of all time-wasters, Morrowind.

Case in point: I had a bad day, so I went around Vvardenfell and killed everyone, even Vivec. Then came the GOTY edition and my head imploded.

Speaking of which, I still need to sell the original version of the game or do something with it.

Styphon · Post by **Styphon** » 2005-03-14 01:56am

Seiken Densetsu 3...

if any of you knows what that is, then you probably know why I've played it so much... aside from the fact that I suck as a gamer and keep dying...

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2005-03-14 02:51am

Street Fighter II (Amiga), Super Mario Brothers (NES), Master of Orion 2, Civilization series and Alpha Centauri have all taken up quite a lot of my time, but the king of time consumption by a wide marging is Angband and it's various versions.

namdoolb · Post by **namdoolb** » 2005-03-14 10:56am

Super Street fighter 2 Turbo on the megadrive, without a doubt.

As a conservative estimate, I probably wasted about 500-600 hours playing it over a span of five years.

Not quite sure what comes in second, I've dumped 80-100 hours into KOTOR2, but that's tailing off now.

Assassin X · Post by **Assassin X** » 2005-03-14 11:23am

Wait i thought of another few games we...or maybe just me.

Solitare, Minesweeper....CHips Challenge.