Most Addictive Game Ever?

[SUMIRE]

lol that "sword of a thousands truths" springs to mind.

[Mr Fujisawa]

Sf3:3s

[SUMIRE]

Most addictive for me was Star Wars Galaxies getting my Jedi before they ruined the game.

I'd then rank, Phantasy Star Online Ep 1&2, and not far behind that WoW.

Tetris gets an honorable mention for old school addictiveness.

[jezzace]

Got to agree with football manager. I can't understand why its so addictive but I lose whole days playing it. Now the new ones out I can kiss goodbye to this year of uni.

Also, I'm still playing Mario Kart 64 multiplayer almost every day with my housemates.

[MarioMark]

PSO by a mile! Though I used to play alot of Moto GP on Xbox Live. I could not rest until I beat my own PB's on Mugello!

That was when I was at college and I had alot of free time.

What an easy life it once was...

[MattyD]

Addictive games make me feel like a lab rat in some crazy conditioning experiment - press button, get food pellet, press button, get food pellet... Except the food pellets I've been seeking are mahoosive combos in Ninja Gaiden, Resi 4 Mercenaries and P.N.03.

P.N.03 in particular must be pushing the right dopamine-releasing synapses because it's basically the same five or six rooms over and over and over but I still can't stop playing it.

[Concrete donkey]

The Civilization Games are the most addictive games known to me. My entire life is put on hold for months at a time everytime one of these comes out and was responsible for my lack of revision during my A-Level exams (To an extent that I banned all games from my life in my final year of University)

With Story based games there's Deus Ex (PC) and Oblivion (PC) but they in no way compare to Civilization 2.

[Gerry Helmet]

Recently Halo 2 Multiplayer,

Put in about 600 Hours in Matchmade games, But I get addicted to everygame when it comes out, I complete GTASA in a week not 100% but around the 80% mark.

In my younger days it was SWOS, C Fodder and Probotector. At one time I was crazy addicted to Escape Velocity on the Mac...

[1P_King]

Pro Evo Soccer Series for me, no other game keeps me hooked for months and months, god only knows how many hours of my life has been spend playing master league.

[kernow]

tetris, and a game that involves levelling up of any kind

tetris is just SOOO *must have one more go*

[Shoju]

Diablo 1 and 2

[Anpanman]

Galaxians for me.

My all time favourite game, spent far too much pocket money including all my spending money I had been earning in my paper round for hols in Blackpool when I was a kid - had to start saving all over again. Only to spend it on said hols on Galaxians, Asteroids etc.

Spent a ridiculous amount of time playing it when it came out on the NAMCO collection on PlayStation.

Have purposley not bought it in Xbox or PSP as I will probably end up being divorced.

More recent stuff would have been the likes of Ridge and Tekken. Halo does keep me coming back to do certain missions granted but nothing has had the pull of Galaxians for me.

[Ostrog]

Recently, Another Century's Episode 2 has been taking up much of my gaming time. Got the game in May, finished it sometime during the summer, and I'm still playing it.
Played one of the extra missions where I managed to kill almost 900 enemies, (got a chain attack of about 45 minutes too) and would've made it to 1000 if the game hadn't crashed. Ah well.
And of course I have to mention Space Invaders, Galaga and other games of their ilk. I always come back to those.

[Champloo]

No mention for Pokemon? Had me absolutely hooked when the original came out. So, so addictive.

Mind you, I was still in primary school, which might be part of the reason, not to mention it was the only game I had for my gameboy.

[JazzFunk]

Sudoku on Brain Training DS. And Azure Dreams on PS1 had me like the Crack , a hopeless junky, though it's one of the worst-looking PS1 games ever.