What's your game?

[InCreator]

I mean, most of gamers have this one or two games they occasionally play. New games come and go, but this one, like a ritual, is played on daily basis. Usually multiplayer one.
I'm getting bored of my usual and I'm looking for new long-lasting addictions...

For last few years, I was playing Battlefield 2, then some mods for it, and hoped to switch to Team Fortress 2 now. Which failed, since TF2, despite good looks and interesting concept, proved to be total bulls**t in my opinion. I've tried this and that, but found nothing that could hook me for longer period.

So, what's your game? Please don't say WoW.

[Akatosh]

Kingdom of Loathing and/or stuff like Tron 2.0 (too bad the multiplayer is pretty dead :'() or Baldur's Gate, modded beyond recognizability. But mostly Kingdom of Loathing... I've been around since October 2004 and still log on every single day.

[Galen]

Soldat *shields face and groin*

[[Cameron]]

I have a few. About once a year I play Fallout and Fallout 2, I just love the look of those games and all the stories, so psyched for the new one, hopefully I'll want to play it every year as well. Ultima 7 parts 1 and 2 come out every year as well. There is other games that I'll continue to replay, but these are the ones I never get tired of, and play again and again every year.

[Radiant]

Bubble Bobble!!!

[Tuomas]

Die Siedler/The Settlers/Serf City, what ever you call it. You must know this, a classic, I usually just play the 1st and 2nd part of this 4 game series.

That, and Ultima, all of them before it got 3d... so basically up until what, 8? I know 6 is my favourite.

Ok, I cheated a bit. I haven't played any of these in a year, but still, I might start playing any, at any point, with no problem, and to me, once a 6 months is often. Oh, and I play GTA Vice City with my brother quite often, but we just drive around listening to music

That plus several NES games too

Oh, and I forgot Sensible World of Soccer, or SWOS... hah, all of these are back from my Amiga days

[EldKatt]

I don't really have one of these. My addictions are rarely long-lasting, I tire of most games relatively quickly, and often leave them unfinished even if I enjoy them. The game that best fits this description, I guess, would be Elastomania. I've returned to it now and then since I heard of it. I put on an audiobook or a podcast, and play Elastomania. My mind is occupied by something that's actually meaningful, and my fingers are occupied by mindlessly trying to beat a record by a hundredth of a second, again and again. Even that, though, I seem to have tired of in the recent past.

For a short while I played Battlefield 2 a lot. For a somewhat longer while, and much, much longer ago, I played TFC a lot. Around the same time, I guess, a text-based role-playing game called FiranMUX took a lot of my time. Way before that, I played a MUD called Ancient Anguish. MU*s are basically out of the question nowadays, since they tend to crave more time than I'm willing to invest. Games like BF2 and even Half-Life mods are a fun pastime, I still think, but since my hard drive is rather small, I regularly end up removing large games to make space for more urgent things.

Then of course there are games that are very dear to me that I occasionally feel a desire to replay. It's not entirely on topic, but I'll take the opportunity to give them an honorable mention. Final Fantasy VII, above all, I played when I was very young. Its general awesomeness aside, it is in fact to a fairly large extent responsible for teaching me English! I still remember the exact place in the game where I actually learned what "ladder" means. (Try to guess where!) Also, Beneath a Steel Sky was probably the first adventure game I played, I loved it then, and I still love it. I also play the original Worms game whenever I get the opportunity. With people, that is.

[vertigoaddict]

I don't really think I have these anymore...but I think it used to be battleon 'adventure Quest'.

I'll edit this post to send a link (If I can find it)

[Buckethead]

Unreal Tournament, as you might have noticed on my portfolio. I'm soon going into UT3 when I get a new pc. 

[Fyntax]

World war 2 online..

otherwise, I normally tire of games fairly quickly.

[vict0r]

Erm... Tetris.
It's just one of those games where I can play for some hours if I have nothing to do.

[Ghost]

Pro Pinball TimeShock! 'nuff said- if you do *not* know this, you've not been there. And if you've not been there, you've been... well, somewhere else.

Chuzzles DeLuxe because it has fluffy balls that sneeze. I would say this is my "ritual game" because I usually fire it up when I face writer's block or AGS troubles, and also when I just need somehing to do during screen-time.

Insaniquarium because it is an INSANE game in an AQUARIUM.

UT2004 Gamer's Choice Edition, occasionally Multiplayer but mostly offline, with a lot of bots, all of which are set to "mind-numbingly dumb".

Zanzarah and Diablo 2 for Multiplayer; getting hard to find similar minded gameplay dinosaurs like me these days, though. For a long
time my online game of choice was Battle Realms. It never took off here in Germany, though.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 is also a constant guest on my drive, and there's a park or two I must've spent months on now in Sandbox Mode, to get everything right. Sometimes I just lean back and enjoy the show.

[HillBilly]

I've played Team Fortress 2 since I got it, and it's the first online FPS I've liked. I always found games like CS, BF and CoD to be boring as hell, but this game was both fun and original.

I don't have any games I play on a regular basis, but I have games I return to from time to time, like Manhunt, Gangsters, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Age of Empires or Theme Hospital. I've never managed to finish Gangsters without cheating heavily, but it's been a while.

[Renal Shutdown]

For a year and a half, I was addicted to City of Heroes, the MMO.  Unfortunately, I quit my job and moved to a new town, then my subscription ran out.  Once I've got an income, one of the first things I'll do will be re-sub the two accounts I had, and continue saving the days.

Aside from that, I'm semi-tempted to get a month or two of WoW, just for the slow pace I took on the trial.  Not really worth it in the long run, though, as I don't intend on teaming with other people, unlike CoH.

I fire up the Sims 2 every now and then, usually when there's an expansion, and play that for a week or two, then give up until the next expansion.  I often play Evil Genius for a few days at a time, but always end up restarting each time and only getting halfway through.

Then there's Jagged Alliance 2.  My all time fall back plan.  Whenever I've got nothing else to play, I'll restart this, and play intently, on the hardest level, planning offensives (with several exit strategies, back up plans, reinforcements, etc) and excuting them win pin point accuracy.  If real warfare was turn based, I'd make a fine squad leader.  Until the final 10% or so.  I get distracted, forget my ultimate plan, and end up restarting the game yet again.  I think subconciously there's something stopping me finishing it, so I'll always have something to rely on when other games have bored me.

[InCreator]

It tends to be like that, yes.
There's simply a number of games you wipe dust from, install, have a week or month of playing, and uninstall.
To "discover" them again after few months.

Before my Steam account was banned, I played Counter-strike:Source almost every day, but trying to have some forbidden fun with a hack got me VAC banned and I'm not buying it again. Atleast, not until Valve lets price down a bit. A ban on account for cheating FOREVER is something I find extremely abusive. Also, it applied to all games registered under that account, so - hate Valve. Simply a look at my stats could prove that I wasn't using any hacks for actual gaming. Well, Steam decrypt/installation and need to have an internet connection to install a game is pretty aggressive by itsself.

Right now I reinstalled (god knows which time again) Hitman: Blood Money, and Act of War with expansion, but It's getting tiresome quickly. And Age of Empires 2 might be the oldest, never-uninstalled thing on my hard drive since I got the computer, but I rarely find enough time to have a skirmish: It's way too long game.

Team-based games like BF2 and CS:S frustrate me too much: it's impossible to get recruited to a clan (unless you make one yourself), and playing alone isn't neither fun or getting much out of the game.

I tried to like Unreal Tournament 3, but prefer original UT much more. UT3 gives me messed up vision and pain in the eyes: The way everything's coloured/shaded mixed with the speed of movement is something I find quite dangerous to health. Totally epilleptic!

Despite a number or replies to this thread, I still don't see a game that could be my next hobby. Let's wait...

[Ghost]

I get distracted, forget my ultimate plan, and end up restarting the game yet again.

A fine game indeed, and your trouble sounds familiar to me  I start to lose focus once there are three ot so teams to navigate; I did beat the game two times though and must say: The end game is ridiculously hard... So best take your time 

[Eigen]

InC, have you tried Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory? Great multiplayer game! I know there are servers where downloading all the needed files can be tedious, but after a while you have all the needed stuff so you can just start the game and play.

[radiowaves]

Chess.


And a year and half ago it was this super good fps multyplayer team strategy game Natural Selection.

I have also played Enemy Territory and CS before that, but they were not as interesting as NS.

[Gord10]

Currently playing Mount & Blade whenever I am not working (the game is so addictive that my own game's release got too late).

[Darth Mandarb]

Erm... Tetris.
It's just one of those games where I can play for some hours if I have nothing to do.

Seconded.

Also ... I'm a Dr. Mario fanatic!