Ask Lemmy

League of legends, yes I am a toxic person

Souls games.

Warframe, I have more than 3000 hours on it but I haven't touched it in years

Duke Nukem 3D.
Then Quake I and II.
I'm still playing the latter many times a week.

Elden Ring opened up the whole FromSoft catalog for me, im playing Demons Souls now

I've been playing and DMing D&D sessions on Neverwinter Nights for two decades.

The only other game that got me for an extended period of time was Dead by Daylight. (Around 1500 hours)

Monster hunter world, by a long way

Team Fortress 2 and Splatoon

I have probably over 3k hours on Splatoon. I can't stop. I'm S+8 fwiw

Hitman: Codename 47

Skyrim, Demon's Souls

Horizon series

Mass Effect series

Borderlands series

Way back in the day it was Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC), Star Wars The Old Republic, then Guild Wars 2

Spent 4,000 hours on Dota 2. Finally kicked the habit and Valve goes and drops Deadlock 🙄

Unfortunately Fortnite. The Jak series. I guess that's it. I'll edit if I think of more.

Elite. Lode Runner. Castles of Dr. Creep. Boulderdash.

Space Engineers right now. The Scrapyard scenario really gets me.

Lots, chrono trigger, ffvi-x, Mario 64, basically every yakuza game, sekiro, breath of the wild, a ton more. Embarassing ones sometimes like that power washing game because I got it for free and was like “this will be dumb” then kept going and going and going

Some older games that I’d probably power through now but at the time cheating/save states/youtube wasn’t easily accessible (gamefaqs existed but text based walkthroughs hit much different). Like the ps1 survival horror games: resident evil 1-3, silent hill, Dino crisis, parasite eve, etc. when you know what to do most of those can be run through in a few hours but in 1997 on the original hardware (no save states) and at best a txt file faq to guide you if you get stuck it would take some time to figure it out. Then with ones like re2 that had multiple routes and endings you’d play it like 6-7 times at least

Another answer for me is Super Smash Bros. Melee (but could probably apply to many multiplayer games).

Normally I'd always engaged with it in person, at events. But when I started playing online, it was almost too much of a good thing.

On the Internet, your next match is always 15 seconds away. You get beat, you go 'I can do better, just give me another chance'. You win, you're on a high, you don't ever want to stop.

The game has that perfect push and pull (at least when you're playing someone anywhere near your level) that just builds compulsion. You're constantly engaged in decision making or quick button pressing each moment, and it just feels satisfying.

Timberborn is my drug of choice right now. But every few months I have a No Man's Sky relapse.

Anno 1404, Hades, the recent Hitman series, and now also Satisfactory. Help.

Morrowind.

RTS games for me, particularly WarZone-2100 & Earth-2150.

The fact that you get a base of operations to return to & has Picture-in-picture mode is a unique thing