Games that you have lost track of time whilst playing

Pretty much every game that I play/played: cod4, warhead, WoW, Diablo 2, Starcraft (wow 9 hours already! was back in the day, LAN games). I miss playing Killing Fields...

Played 9-12 hours a day of Starcraft back in the day (only in the summer).

WoW... i sometimes will mean to play for 30 minutes and that 30 minutes turns into 2-3 hours.

i wasted hours playing starcraft years ago, sometimes would get into a game that would last 2-3 hours and i've hardly blinked. ah... nothing quite like that adrenaline rush i'd get get from sneaking 2-3 ghosts into an enemy base and simultaneously nuking.

perhaps unusually, splinter cell double agent's multiplayer did this to me... (even if it was a buggy, unsupported POS - the core game was great)

Medieval total war: single stretch of about 16-18hrs
Medieval II total war: single stretch about 14-16 hrs
these games scare me... i generally have to uninstall them or risk some sort of mental disorder or losing my job.

And yeah any rts can take a good few hours...I remember when red alert came out... my younger brother played it so long one saturday(from about 0730 that morning until 2200 that night) he got really sick and wasnt really able to sllep properly, every time he drifted off he would start dreaming about the game lol.
Haha thinking about it, I got sim city 2000 for my birthday one year... i was dreaming about zoning and power plants later that night.. pretty cool

Any Civ game does that Damn the on more turn

Desert Combat a BF1942 mode took most of 2 years every time i got home from work

it became an obsession and nearly ended my marriage..

Starcraft, Warcraft 3 MP, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Titan Quest, and Mass Effect. However I don't hold a candle to some of you guys - these games would have me playing at most 6 hours at a time, usually just 4 or so, which I consider a long time to be sitting and playing a game straight.

The classic Lucasarts adventure games used to have me playing them virtually every hour I was awake until they were finished. I lost half a stone (7lbs) playing Grim Fandango because I could hardly tear myself away to eat.

Not many modern games keep my attention like that. FEAR was one that I played for hours at a time, continuing for an hour or 2 more when I'd just told myself I needed to stop so I could eat. If Portal was a much longer game, I'd be on the list of Game related deaths linked earlier. lol I played through it in one sitting and not once did the thought of stopping cross my mind, and it's the only game I have finished multiple times within a month. I even played through the whole game again with the commentary on immediately after finishing it. Normally I don't replay a game for at least 6 months.

I hear ya. A bunch of kids playing hide and seek....and they missed one....because he was buried toghether with his momy.

God, i think ill never find a RPG as good and as facked up, like sanitarium. Never finished it too.

Civ 1 and Civ 2, Red Alert1, Medeval Total War (the first one), and Morrowind were some of the only games I could play for severl hours and then look at the clock and say Oh crap its 2:00 am. I havent encounted many games lately that cause me to loose track of time the way these ones used to.

psychonauts, I'm not old enough for most of the games noted here but in my short (and not that diverse considering till now I had a radeon 9600) but psychonauts made me sit and play the entire game in about a week. even though I never finished it, I was stuck in the last level and eventually had to uninstall it to save space` but now I'm playing it again on my radeon 4870(!).
In holidays I usually sit on some shooter or RTS game for 5-6 hrs straight. till I got hungry .

Other games that has taken up so much of my time...


Elite . BBC B on tape then disk...

Impossible mission...on the Commodore 64

I played this game contiunously until i completed it... I was at school at the time and was having a sleep over..

I waked my friends up at about 3am in the morning to hear Atombender shout NO NO Nooooooooooooooooooo.

I am starting to get a life, so video games steal less of my life than it used too (still too much though) but play(ed):
Morrowind
Oblivion
COD4 Online
KotOR II
KotOR (never could get into this one much...i played the second one first)
Mass Effect

I think the worst was Morrowind. I would play literally all day, and sometime during the school year i had the stupid idea that I would try and beat the main quest as fast as possible...took me a week (practically straight). Video games...they're my life outside my life. I played video games when I had no social life...now that I actually have one it's hard to play it. Only when I'm supposed to be doing homework..

Oblivion
WoW
Counter Strike Source
COD4
Command and Conquer generals

Suprised no-one has mentioned Everquest yet - the only game I've played for more than 24hours as a grown up )

OH yes.

'Another Visitorrrrr. Stay a while. Stay foreverrrrr!'

Damn, that game is awesome. Wizball Kept me going for a long time too.

And Head over Heals.

Civilization, Civ II, and Civ IV.....so many lost hours....

Civ IV is deceiving....Epic Spaceships are, in fact, epic.

team fortress 2
system shock 2
bioshock and half life2

scarily resembles myself with the first and third civ. Have got the fourth but neer really got into it, will have to get roud to installing it again.

also, i remember feeling so chuffed at figuring out how to use the trireme's in civ1 to cross oceans by only using one of it's moves. Ah to be young again.

I used to be much worse than I am now (probably because I have more bills to pay but I remember losing days on master of orion 1&2 and diablo 2. I remember how I would suddenly wake up and realize I was desperate to go to the toilet or find without warning that I was sitting in a pitch dark house with only the light of the screen and a defeated cigarette to see by. Good times.

The weird thing is that you can zone out on mindless and mindful games equally as long as there's a number rising with every click or an item with a cooler name, or a building still left to be queued at that completely worthless outpost you spitefully decided to spawn 3 cigarettes ago just so the last terrified AI would have NOTHING and you would have EVERYTHING!! HARHARHAR!!! And then when their terror had subsided and you had wiped their little eyes dry with gifts and "trade agreements"....thats when all 10 of your uber-armies descend on them from every direction and deal out the meanest possible death available in the game.

And then you build a base there.