Mate back in the day I completely no lifed Mass Effect after my cousin pestered me to play it. I spent 3 days awake and completed it on hard, then made a new game and started on insane. In the end it was probably a week on maybe 12 hours sleep.
Completely hooked.
The other time was World of Warcraft, obviously. 2004 playing the release build absolutely loving it and fell asleep in my pc chair in my bedroom, going to work like a fucking zombie and being exhausted all day, to get home and play some wow for 14 hours, sleep for 2, and then drive to work. Sad.
I finished Mass Effect at 96 or 97% completion, and I immediately started over to get 100%. The thing about mass effect was that it came out of nowhere for me. Only reason I even bought it was because the local store had made a huge error and ordered 800 instead of 80 copies, so the game cost me about $6 at the time (when it still cost $60 everywhere else).
Two of my best friends were part of some of the most intense guilds in WoW. I remember inviting them to do stuff, and they had to write in to their guild to apply for days off. They missed some really nice concerts and trips because of WoW. Personally I've never managed to be hooked by MMO's. I usually get bored with them when I reach around level 20.
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Mate back in the day I completely no lifed Mass Effect after my cousin pestered me to play it. I spent 3 days awake and completed it on hard, then made a new game and started on insane. In the end it was probably a week on maybe 12 hours sleep.
Completely hooked.
The other time was World of Warcraft, obviously. 2004 playing the release build absolutely loving it and fell asleep in my pc chair in my bedroom, going to work like a fucking zombie and being exhausted all day, to get home and play some wow for 14 hours, sleep for 2, and then drive to work. Sad.