No Right Answer: Most Addictive Timesink Ever
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Pretty sure, unless I'm sleep drinking or something. I'm actually pretty White Bread if you get to know me.ischmalud said:
Pity only two games were discussed. Neither of these even compare to WoW in terms of addictiveness, a game which is literally designed to be an addictive time sink. Especially if you're a raider.
If I had to chose out of these two, I'd say Pokemon, I spent way more hours on that. Minecraft is god awful and gets me bored fast.
If I had to chose out of these two, I'd say Pokemon, I spent way more hours on that. Minecraft is god awful and gets me bored fast.
Rubbish. I love Pokemon, but Minecraft is the better time sink. Pokemon may take forever, but Minecraft is endless. Every other point is redundant. And Pokemon isn't even that long anyway. Who really wants to collect every single Pokemon in every single game and train them all up to level 100? No-one really does that. Most people just beat the story. And the last points about Pokemon were completely irrelevant too. Minecraft is also portable, and music and cartoons have nothing to do with how good the game is. Also I'm pretty sure there's a lot of Minecraft music floating around anyway.
Both games are potential time sinks, but in reality you get bored after a while. There are lots of games that can potentially ruin your sleep hours. For me, the champion in this is Silent Hunter 3 which I played for 37 hours straight. What I saw the sunrise creep through the window and looked at the clock, it took me a few minutes to figure out what PM meant (it was actually the sunset, on the following day... yeap).
But over time you get bored with almost every game. Except one. One that is the most addictive game ever made. One that will rob even a casual gamer hundreds upon hundreds of hours per year. Year after year. World of Warcraft will never, ever be beat. Since there are millions of players in this world, at an average of 2 hours of play per day per player (which is a huge underestimation), this game eats up the total life span of about 28 lives of an average of 81 years EVERY DAY.
I wasted 3 years of my life with it and I can't believe just how dumb I've been. Most of my friends still play it, day by day, 7 years and going strong.
But over time you get bored with almost every game. Except one. One that is the most addictive game ever made. One that will rob even a casual gamer hundreds upon hundreds of hours per year. Year after year. World of Warcraft will never, ever be beat. Since there are millions of players in this world, at an average of 2 hours of play per day per player (which is a huge underestimation), this game eats up the total life span of about 28 lives of an average of 81 years EVERY DAY.
I wasted 3 years of my life with it and I can't believe just how dumb I've been. Most of my friends still play it, day by day, 7 years and going strong.
Well I never got into pokemon and played Minecraft for a while but after I stopped I was never bothered to return.
I would add Mount & Blade. You're dropped into an fictional anachronistic Early Middle-Ages and can do whatever you want. It's as sandbox and time-sinky as you can get.
Also Paradox games for those who can get into them, finishing the game as one nation takes ages and there are always more.
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I would add Mount & Blade. You're dropped into an fictional anachronistic Early Middle-Ages and can do whatever you want. It's as sandbox and time-sinky as you can get.
Also Paradox games for those who can get into them, finishing the game as one nation takes ages and there are always more.
TV Tropes outside from gaming.
My biggest timesink has to be Super Smash Brothers Melee, as old as it is I can still have fun playing competitively with friends, pokemon has never really gotten my attention after the first few games even though I know a lot has changed. Minecraft, I'm scared I might enjoy too much so I haven't tried it out yet, maybe one day when I'm ready to face my fears I'll go ahead and give it a go.
For me, it's definitely Pokémon. I've played it a lot more than Minecraft.
However, I have spent countless, countless hours watching Minecraft videos. Perhaps not enough to top the 40-60 hours I've spent on average for each Pokémon game I've played. But it'll probably get there.
However, I have spent countless, countless hours watching Minecraft videos. Perhaps not enough to top the 40-60 hours I've spent on average for each Pokémon game I've played. But it'll probably get there.
Minecraft has two problems that keep it for being the ultimate timesink for me. The first is that how much you can do is tied into how much you want to do, somebody without a project is going to quit relatively quickly. The other is how little Minecraft has to offer. Yes it may be randomly generated and seemingly endless but the problem is the lack of variety. You may get a different forest every time but they're all interchangeable.
