Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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I'm not an addictive personality, so not really. I'll go on binges of video gaming, but never become addicted. PSO itself got about ~400 hours, but I had nothing else to do, and eventually became disgusted with how repetitive it became to the extent I can't even look at other MMORPGs without having flashbacks to useless runs through the Caves and futilely telepiping for rares, and then ultimately just getting free hacked items that made my character able to beat Ultimate Olga Flow almost alone.

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Fellow ex-PSO player here. This was the most repetitive MMO ever. It got better when they released new Episodes (expansions) but I stopped playing just after the first one. By then, my brother and I were transitioned to EverQuest.

I've never had an addiction to a game to the point I can't quit it if I want. But with certain MMOs, I've had severe infatuations you might call it. I'll start from the beginning.

I think my first RPG was Final Fantasy 2 (FF4) on the SNES. I don't think I ever finished it the first time I played it because I was only 7 or 8 and my brother had priority on the game system. From then on, we had mostly fighting games (Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct) which were fun for a while but not very addictive.

We finally got a Playstation and Final Fantasy 7. This reignited my passion for RPG games. My brother and I played this through non-stop for a while. I had to play 2nd but I usually watched him play so I already knew what to do. Shortly after that, Final Fantasy Tactics came out and we got it a few months after release. That is still my favorite game ever. I really miss having a PSP so that I can play it anywhere, and I'm so close to switch to AT&T to get an iPhone since they're releasing "War of the Lions" on it next month. It would be about $40 more per month than what we have with Sprint. Thats the only draw back.

So anyway, I played Final Fantasy Tactics start to end several times over the next year. My brother didn't like it as much so he didn't care. Then obviously we moved on to Final Fantasy 8 and then 9. These didn't carry the same obsession as I had with Tactics, but I played 8 through. 9 I just couldn't get that interested in but I watched my brother play it.

After that we started getting in to PC games, such as Quake 3, Diablo II and StarCraft. We would have LAN parties with our friends that would last 8-10 hours into the night. We played Diablo II with a friend of ours only through LAN, although my brother played a little on Battle.net. I never got in to it. Shortly after Diablo II, I got a Dreamcast and played PSO. The only reason I got one was because a forum member from FFLegend.com (my first FF message board) played it. This was all I played, on and off, for about a year.

Then my brother started going to ITT and met some friends that played EverQuest. He got me hooked and we played that together for about 2 years. We switched to Star Wars Galaxies when that came out, and over the next 1-2 years we switched back and forth between the two. Then in 2004, World of WarCraft came out. Since then, I've been playing on and off since the beta. We briefly went back to SWG for a few months but then started up WoW again because of all the forced changed in SWG. It had been completely changed and we didn't like the new combat system.

My brother met a girl (now his wife) and stopped playing WoW but I pressed on. I eventually stopped for a while as well when I met a girl (also now my wife). But shortly after we got married, I got her hooked and now we play together. Its a lot more fun when you have someone to share the experience with. We're not addicted to the point of not being able to give it up or not knowing when to stop. We have stopped for about 3-4 months when both of our children were born. After they got settled in to life, we've been able to play moderately again. So now we have some time on certain nights where we get to raid or quest or whatever. We enjoy playing it together.

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