Most addicting game genres
Posted: March 25th, 2007, 10:17 pm
So every once in a while you hear a news story about some poor, pathetic soul who drops dead after a full week of nonstop online gaming. Some people obviously get super addicted. I only get addicted once in a while and not to any great extent, but I thought I would make this topic anyway.
Anyway, my worst genre for addiction is real time strategy, and my RTS game collection consist of but one title, Age of Empires, which I picked up for $5. It's sad how this kind of game drives you, how you have to multitask and click, click, click all over the map to keep your world going. But it sucks me in and I will play for like 3 hours straight, until I feel like crap and start to feel disgusted with myself. Ussually, if I play a game for a half an hour, that is enough for a day or a sitting.
I started playing the computer one on one on a small map on hardest difficulty, and he really blitzed me with like dozens of priests. I tried to pick them of with archers and catapults, but gradually he wore me down on 2 fronts and started converting my top of the line guard towers and infantry and the end was nigh. I really enjoyed it when my last tower shot a retreating priest in the back and dropped him seconds before one of his brethran 'converted' my last hold out. What a weird game. I created a scenerio that disabled temples because I couldn't take it anymore. I was beaten in more ways than one.
Anyway, my worst genre for addiction is real time strategy, and my RTS game collection consist of but one title, Age of Empires, which I picked up for $5. It's sad how this kind of game drives you, how you have to multitask and click, click, click all over the map to keep your world going. But it sucks me in and I will play for like 3 hours straight, until I feel like crap and start to feel disgusted with myself. Ussually, if I play a game for a half an hour, that is enough for a day or a sitting.
I started playing the computer one on one on a small map on hardest difficulty, and he really blitzed me with like dozens of priests. I tried to pick them of with archers and catapults, but gradually he wore me down on 2 fronts and started converting my top of the line guard towers and infantry and the end was nigh. I really enjoyed it when my last tower shot a retreating priest in the back and dropped him seconds before one of his brethran 'converted' my last hold out. What a weird game. I created a scenerio that disabled temples because I couldn't take it anymore. I was beaten in more ways than one.