What five games have eaten the most of your life?

[DefDC]

1. WoW (PC) and I didn't even play as hardcore as most addicts
2. Battlefield 1942 (PC)
3. Unreal Tournament 1 (PC)
4. Street Fighter 2 (Arcade, SNES)
5. Alternate Reality City/Dungeon (Atari 800, Commodore 64)


If I could have the time back that spent on these suckers, I'd be MUCH younger!

 

[Frodolives]

Tribes, easily. Best online team sport yet.

 

[Jeeebus]

Diablo II, Diablo II, Diablo II, Diablo II, and... BF1942: Desert Combat

 

[CP5670]

I can think of 7 that are way ahead of anything else in terms of time spent, so I'm going to list them all.

1: Freespace 2, 8 years on and off
2: Descent 2, 3 years
3: C&C: Red Alert, 3 years
4: Deus Ex, 2 years
5: Unreal Tournament, 2 years
6: Lemmings and its expansion, 2 years
7: Infotron (Mac port of Supaplex), 1 year

For many of those games, most of my time was spent in modding them in some way.

 

[gophins72]

Pre-college, M.U.L.E. and the ultima series.
In college, sid meir's civilization
post college, WoW and the madden series.

 

[Vehemence]

* WoW
* Diablo (series, although II was the most)
* Warcraft (series, although II was also the most played)
* Final Fantasy (series, although Tactics was the most played)
* X-com Terror from the Deep

 

[natebigdawg]

Bard's tale
Xwing and Tie Fighter Games - First Main Exposure to PC Gaming
Baldur's Gate Series
Fallout Series
Lord of the Rings Online

 

[FuryofFive]

Rainbow Six, Quake 2, Unreal tournament 2004, WoW(done with that) , Counterstrike Source

 

[AmberClad]

1) Unreal Tournament (the original) + mods
2) Team Fortress 2
3) Battlefield 2
4) Titan Quest + Immortal Throne
5) Tie between [Baldur's Gate + ToTSC + Baldur's Gate II + ToB] and [Morrowind + Tribunal + Bloodmoon]

 

[Linflas]

UO, EQ for online, Sundog, DungeonMaster, and the Ultima's for stand alones.

 

[DSF]

Counter-Strike
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark
Madden
Tie Fighter
Morrowind

Left4Dead is making a strong case, but it hasn't been around enough to declare it a life-eater the way Goldeneye was. It was practically an unwritten rule in middle school that when you went to someone's house you played Goldeneye.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Originally posted by: DefDC

1. WoW (PC) and I didn't even play as hardcore as most addicts
2. Battlefield 1942 (PC)
3. Unreal Tournament 1 (PC)
4. Street Fighter 2 (Arcade, SNES)
5. Alternate Reality City/Dungeon (Atari 800, Commodore 64)


If I could have the time back that spent on these suckers, I'd be MUCH younger!

AustinMUD (oh so much time, I wouldn't be surprised if I actually hit over a year of login time)
StrangeMUD
Diablo I+II
Warcraft III
WoW

 

[zebano]

The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Diable 2
Starcraft
Counterstrike
Final fantasy series (playing FFIV right now)

 

[mindcycle]

Duke Nukem 3d (I made mods for it for a few years)
Unreal Tournament
UT2004
Gothic 2 (played through it probably 3 or 4 times now)
Morrowind

 

[KeithTalent]

Street Fighter 2 and Street Fighter 2 CE hands down, no contest.

KT

 

[Nik]

Descent series
SWG (JTL FTMFW)
CS / CS:S
WoW
Lotro
GuildWars
AvP Mud + others

 

[dougp]

WoW
DAoC
CS & CS:S
Quake 2
Rainbow6
Tie Fighter / X-Wing Series

 

[SpunkyJones]

Civilization II

 

[Martimus]

These are probably my biggest time wasters. Not necessarily my favorite, but the ones i spent the most time doing.

1) Oblivion (I was stupid with how much I played that game. Right after a bad time in my life, and I used this to help me get over it. I doubt I will ever spend so much time on something so pointless as a video game again.)

2) Red Alert (I didn't like it as much as C&C, but it was easier to play multiplayer. Plus it came with an editor. I created two commonly used maps that people still use today: Minefields, and Treasure Island)

3) Counter Strike (I loved playing this game, but was average at best. As it became more popular, I couldn't deal with the massive ammount of annonymous douchebags though.)

4) Doom 2 (first game I got for my parents new Pentium 60. Before this, I had an 8088 that wouldn't play any modern games. I even created at least a half dozen of my own levels.)

5) Command and Conquer (My favorite RTS of all time. So many ways to play, and so many effective strategies to win. You could win in 5 minutes if the opponent isn't paying attention, or you could slug it out and win the old fashioned way.)

 

[Pr0d1gy]

NFL2k1 on Dreamcast
Socom 2 on PS2
CoD4 on PS3
Halo1 on Xbox
Ultima Exodus on Nintendo (yeah the old NES)

honorable mentions - TSR Gold box series, Bard's Tale 3, and about 10 others on IBM compatible Tandy 1000 back in the day...lol

 

[Hugh H]

(PC) The 1st Medal of Honor - this game got me into multiplayer FPS

(PC) Call of Duty 2 - played this for about 2 years after MoH

(PC) Rome: Total War - ex-gf broke up with me over my obsession with this game... nothing like unleashing hundreds of elite Roman soldiers on filthy barbarians and conquering the world

(Xbox360) Gears of War - Man, 10,000 kills seriously achievement FTL

(Xbox360) Oblivion - Loved every bit of it (didn't have a good enough PC at the time)

(PC/Xbox360) Call of Duty 4 - Totally my multiplayer FPS style... sorry CS players

Edit: I know it was supposed to be 5... but I couldn't decide on the last two so I listed all 6.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Doom / Doom 2
Duke Nukem 3D
Command & Conquer/Red Alert
Total Annihilation
Battlefield 1942 & Desert Combat
Battlefield 2 & Desert Conflict

 

[NoCreativity]

I only have 2, both PC.

Medal of Honor Allied Assualt/Spearhead
COD2

I usually only play single player on most games so that ends up being a finite amount of time. I suck at RTS even thoug hI enjoy playing so I only do single player and skirmish and that gets boring pretty quick.

 

[CP5670]

2) Red Alert (I didn't like it as much as C&C, but it was easier to play multiplayer. Plus it came with an editor. I created two commonly used maps that people still use today: Minefields, and Treasure Island)

I also think that the game itself was somewhat inferior to C&C, but its engine was more extendable and there was a lot more scope for mods. It was easy to play around with most of the gameplay parameters, as opposed to C&C where everything was hardcoded in the exe. The built-in map editor was kind of lousy and didn't let you use most of the game's features, but there were some very good fanmade ones available.

 

[Hugh H]

Originally posted by: NoCreativity
I only have 2, both PC.

Medal of Honor Allied Assualt/Spearhead
COD2

I usually only play single player on most games so that ends up being a finite amount of time. I suck at RTS even thoug hI enjoy playing so I only do single player and skirmish and that gets boring pretty quick.

Those are my first two.

I also suck at multiplayer RTS's... I enjoy playing single player on those but, once I switch to multi, merciless RTS veterans always rush me with a whole bunch of crap and obliterate me. I guess I like the aspect of base building and expansion but when playing multi is very difficult to do that.