Video Games That Are Like Crack To You.

[Luesa Tora]

once upon a time. It would have been World of Warcraft for me. But that time has past. Besides that, I do not really have any one game that I get hooked on indefinitely. I will find a good game (or series) that I will get hooked on for a while. And then for a few weeks, or sometimes months, I will spend 6-10 hours most days playing that game. But eventually I will inevitably move on to something else. Though I do keep going back to Borderlands...

Currently though, I am hooked on the Hyperdimension Neptunia series.

[aileron]

Most Civilization games. Most Elder Scrolls games. If they didn't exist, I could get years of life back

[zehcoutinho]

just... one... more... turn...

[Jill Sandwich]

World of Warcraft - holy shit that game is all consuming!
I haven't played WoW for years, although i have started to crave playing it again! I really would like to return to it soon. That game, I would say, is the game I have put the most time into, especially in single sittings.

On the other hand, the games which have me hooked in the sense that I always return to them/ routinely revist for yet another playthrough are: Resident Evil 1 & 2, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 and a chronicly underrated gem named Sled Storm. These are the games which rarely leave my list of most frequently revisted titles.

[Fexel]

I've been trying to hide away from the new WoW content expansion for BFA

[Ryan]

Can I ask for details as to what/why/how you were cozy for D1 but D2 made you quit?

Destiny was an unusual case for me. The last time I ever invested so much time into a video game was with Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. That was because I was involved with a clan and the modding scene. I KNOW I put more hours into that than I did with Destiny. I was also a teenager with the largest responsibility of going to school during the week. I think what got me with the Destiny the first time is the community. I had made a circle of friends playing it, the 'go-to' group whenever I got online. We did all the raids, nightfalls, etc together. Because of that, when someone I knew got a cool exotic weapon that tended to make me grind because I wanted it too. Or I would get something someone wanted and I would help them acquire it, etc. I was addicted to the community more than anything.

Destiny was never a stellar product in the beginning. It was certainly hollow. But hanging with friends is what made the experience good. I stuck with it through every update - at which point the game got progressively better. By the time Age of Triumph came along, Destiny was at it's prime and we all believed Destiny 2 had nowhere to go but up. With all the great work Bungie put into making Destiny what it was that day, there is no way - we thought - the sequel could be worse than the game was two years prior. Boy were we wrong. The murmurs started bubbling around December/January before D2 was revealed that Activision was going to force Bungie to make Destiny 2 "accessible" (ie, try and woo the 'filthy casuals' that left Destiny in the dust years prior instead of appease the hardcore base that stuck with the franchise and kept it going when nobody else believed in it). That the game would become far more PVP focused because Activision wanted to add Destiny to their stable of competitive titles like COD. When the game was revealed and the first art was shown with the 'diverse' nobodies in place of the vanguard we all know -- the murmurs and speculation became truth. This was not going to be the same Destiny - in a bad way.

By the time D2 dropped, my friend circle started shrinking because they were turned off by what was being promoted. Then when those that remained played it, they dropped off completely - as did I. It was not Destiny. It was, as you said, a glorified, re-skinned Halo - but even then, not nearly as good. It was casual. There was no more grind of any kind. Everything was handed to us as participation trophies rather than a golden carrot to chase after. It was heavily focused on PVP, and even then - it lacked modes the original had. The armor was garbage, the weapons were garbage, the strikes were uninspired -- and the raid was a disaster that most never played, not even me, after we saw what it was and those that participated were bored by it and the raid rewards (which are the poster child loot we would grind for) was trash. The community backlash was severe. Of course, Bungie promised the moon and stars when they FINALLY responded to the community, but it only got worse. They made Xur useless. They implemented an artificial grind in the XP to encourage people to buy stuff from Eververse rather than utilize the in-game engrams you got from leveling up by playing. Weapons were nerfed all over the place. It was just a disaster. I finally gave up and left for a while.

Today, over a year later, Bungie finally got D2 back to about where it should have been at launch. But it's too late. My friends are gone, the community is now plagued with trolls and egoists from the other franchise. But above all, I've changed - I've completely lost my desire to grind in their playground. I wasted way too much time in the first game, and for nothing. I don't care to go through it again - because D2 is now a grind worse than it's ever been, for rewards that are still mostly uninspired. And Bungie is STILL pissing off the community. They just had more controversy with the latest DLC drop. Hell, I paid for the Forsaken expansion (which is pretty solid) with the year pass, and I have no desire to jump back in. D2 is essentially dead to me at this point. I find it hard to see myself getting excited for D3.

[Scott Knightley]

World of Warcraft and it's always the same: I start playing, notice I don't really want to do anything else anymore and want to avoid other responsibilities, quit, see new expansion and get the urge to play again, rinse and repeat.

[jumppogo]

Destiny was used to be my go to... spent over 1000 hours in it, though it wasn't for the community as I'd always get kicked for being low light/power level. Or gatekeeping would have people not accept me unless I had certain criteria met or weapons.

so I spent the a majority of the game playing solo, with the occasional time I was able to do raids with people I met through twitch.

At this moment in time I'd have to say it's the Saints Row games, more specifically Saints Row 3 and 4. Purely for goofy fun and nonsense plots.

[Flubbbs]

old school Ultima Online.

I put so much time into that game as a kid and I still play on player ran servers a few hours a week to this day

[Mike]

Oldschool Runescape


You can play it on your Android phone now.

No thanks! (I do have a phone in case you're wondering!) Games on phone are just not for me not least a game like Runescape or any other such MMORPG... to be fair, the only game I've really played on a phone is snooker (I can't even remember the name, but its the most popular snooker game out there) -- I guess the shape of a phone is well suited for a top down snooker table view, and you can wrap up a game in around 15 minutes usually... Talking of addictive games, that is certainly one of them...

[drizzy1]

League of legends I have over 4,000 hours and mutiple accounts. Nowadays I just try to get 2 of my accounts in diamond rank each season and just sit there.

[Neferteri]

I think what got me with the Destiny the first time is the community. <-- This is GW2 for me. I love my community and will spend time just helping people new to the game by teaching them. Or if they show up during my streams I teach them/help them and offer to aid them in game and not just some Q/A.

Bungie to make Destiny 2 "accessible" (ie, try and woo the 'filthy casuals' that left Destiny in the dust years prior instead of appease the hardcore base that stuck with the franchise and kept it going when nobody else believed in it). That the game would become far more PVP focused <---- This I agree with even just from only playing through the base game. Everything in the story was SO easy and I'm not an awesome shot imo. Granted some bosses here an there did pawn me an my 3 man group but..we still won it with little more than rolled deaths. I suck at fps from a pvp standpoint more than pve so my one time in pvp I can also agree XD Yes they really did make PvP a crown jewel. Its what I felt like our direction was suppose to be to earn gear. But without owning the Xpacs PvP was rendered useless to base game owners...which I get but is also stupid.

Well I'm really sorry they ruined the game for you and those of us that couldn't afford D1 but could sample D2 and only get to experience the sadness and disappointment. I wish I could have afforded to play D1 and have seen it in its hayday. I was truly interested in it. But when they were liek "Oh PC? Pfftt nahhh." I was liek "Fine. No purchases will be made." =\

[Ryan]

Meh -- gave me time to enjoy bigger, better games.

[Mafia Penguin]

The Monster Hunter series, or a good few 4X games as well. I really get too lost in them

[Garrett]

Fallout New Vegas. Though I'm not sure if it's like "crack" or if it's more like "definition of insanity". You replay with a different build and lie to yourself that you're going to do things differently, but it ends up being the same every time, and you still enjoy it. 1160 hours, with the only mods ever being unofficial bugfixes and a lock/hack minigame remover.

[JMC]

Lol, I do this too, w/ various games. "OK, this time I'm gonna play (entirely opposite to how I've played whatever before)!"...& rarely do I stick with it, but you're right, I will still end up having a great time! Currently, I'm replaying the Dishonored series & swore I was gonna go non-lethal, & to be fair I was less lethal, but only by like a factor of one

[Shade]

World of Warcraft, Fallout, Witcher.... but almost all Total War games are most like crack. One more turn, one more turn and its morning.

[NorthernNikki]

I bounce around between a few current favourites, but The Long Dark always sucks me back in. I got it way back in 2014 when it was just beginning in early access and have since amassed about 1500 hours in it. It's been fun watching it grow and expand. It's lost a wee bit of the magic it once had - wandering lost in a blizzard and not knowing where the hell I was or what I'd find - but new maps get added from time to time and it calls to me.

[DeathJester76]

World of Warcraft for sure, i think when i stopped played i had over a year of played time...not played it for a year...actual time played...crazy!