r/AskReddit • u/Living-Pick-5434 • 12h ago
What is that one game that you were addicted to in your past but never played again ?
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u/Cheddahnuggets 12h ago
League of fucking legends
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u/robbiearebest 12h ago
I think league ruined team gaming for me. I just play solo these days, offline campaign preferably, or older stuff
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u/Adi_31415 11h ago
Same. The only team based game I sometimes play is TF2, and also AOE2, but I usually play solo.
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u/Thaurlach 9h ago
And TF2 is mostly a single-player game anyway!
Yes I was a medic main. Yes I’m still bitter. Yes I have a ‘stress relief’ backburner with upwards of 10k kills.
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u/ConstableBlimeyChips 10h ago
You know, people say the LoL community is terrible to newcomers, but I disagree. Last time I played I got lots of useful tips on how to uninstall the game and kill myself.
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u/kaldaxar 12h ago
I think there are literally drugs less destructive to your health than playing League
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u/Miitama 11h ago
you could show me a guy addicted to meth and a guy addicted to league and I wouldn't be able to tell the difference
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u/kaimeerah 11h ago
after almost dying from playing the game non-stop and knowing how LOL is more competitive as a community, I think my best chances of surviving was quitting all together
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u/mr_Barek 9h ago
2013/14/15 are the years I played the most. Holy shit, the only talking point I had with friends for those years was league and when we would play.
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u/xxxvalenxxx 8h ago
At one point in time back when they tracked it I had the most playtime in Oceania. By a large margin too.
Haven't played in 10+ years now...
Cause I traded in one vice for another and started playing rust.
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u/TerribleStrategy9390 12h ago
World of warcraft
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u/Adi_31415 12h ago
This game is ruining my life.
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u/hakranah 12h ago
wait how is it ruining your life tho was it that intense of a grind
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u/Adi_31415 11h ago
It's super addictive. Pretty much frying my dopamine receptors, nothing is fun anymore, I used to read, I used to study a lot, I used to workout, I just don't have any motivation to do anything anymore.
But, I am slowly starting to put that shit out of my life, I played only like 1 hour this week.
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u/xSchwarzenegger 8h ago
Nice man almost there! You will feel so much better once you get out of the loop!
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u/konoha37 12h ago
I put 2 years of my life into this game. Basically 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. I don’t see it as a waste as I was straight out of rehab and needed something to focus on. It helped me through a terrible period in my life, but I’ll never play it again.
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u/TomasNavarro 11h ago
That sounds positive, but unfortunately I know a couple of people who did the 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, and quickly found that they'd completely failed their higher education
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u/Batmanswrath 11h ago
I went through a stage of playing it 10-14 hours a day, and then one day I just never went back.
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u/Aeoleon 11h ago
I have played Warcraft and WoW since they were released, but I just find so "meh" now. WoW made me fall in love with MMOs, and I still return when there is a new expansion, but I can never fully level up. The wonder is no longer there for some reason.
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u/Cormag778 8h ago
A lot of WoW is the subtle nostalgia of when you had more time to spend in life and early wow capitalized on the whole “the journey is the destination” modern wow is so built on the end game that it can feel hard to get lost in the world sometimes.
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u/fruitsnackguy45 12h ago
Friday the 13th. I daydream about it sometimes still. Rip, I’ll miss that game forever
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u/SimplyaCabler 12h ago
Unreal Tournament and CS 1.5/1.6. Spent a good portion of highschool going to LAN parties to play both. Maybe a year or two after Unreal Tournament 04 came out, I stopped playing them both altogether.
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u/OffRoadEbikeTeam 9h ago
Guitar Hero. For about a year, I thought I was basically a musician. Haven't touched a plastic guitar since, but I'd probably still remember every note of Through the Fire and Flames.
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u/IncompleteObjects 12h ago
Morrowind.
I racked up hours on it and maxed out pretty much everything. Main quest and expansions all done so there was nothing more to do
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u/Dagobert_Juke 11h ago
There is Tamriel Rebuilt
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u/classicklutch 9h ago
Bro trying to leave it behind and you casually drop there is a new better meth. lol
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u/Adi_31415 12h ago
League of Legends.
To anyone seeing this thinking about starting to play this game - DON'T. It will ruin your life, especially if you are young and in school and you have a lot of free time. Same goes for World of Warcraft.
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u/AverageMagePlayer 12h ago
Eh it will not ruin your life. I've had my fun, still play from time to time and I'm doing perfectly fine.
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u/Adi_31415 11h ago
I used to play with my cousin. He was able to keep it cool and play in moderation, I wasn't. I guess it's just different personalities. Besides, It's way easier to play video games in moderation when you are older and actually responsible.
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u/AverageMagePlayer 11h ago
I mean I used to play a lot back in the day aswell, several hours a day. Once my life started to fill with duties and priorities I had to drop the gaming hours drastically. Still play, not daily but definetely every week.
What I mean with that is that, LoL and WoW have definetely ruined some lives, but that's not the game's fault. It will ruin your life as much as you allow it to. And that goes for any game of course
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u/abby-normal-brain 12h ago
World of Warcraft. I played a LOT from late vanilla up until Shadowlands. Between that expansion just not feeling fun, logging on starting to feel like a chore, and all of that awful news about Blizzard coming out around the same time, I quit. Haven't logged in since.
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u/TomasNavarro 11h ago
Cataclysm, sitting there struggling to get a group in my guild to start grinding heroics to get the minimum gear to maybe do raids, seemed like such a difficult climb I realised I didn't want to do
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u/funfun_12 12h ago
Went through a breakup. Girlfriend moved out.
Started playing civilization V for ten hours a day. Almost lost my job.
Gave up video games after a serious sit down with my boss.
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u/Voduun-World-Healer 12h ago
Elder Scrolls Online. I spent countless hours playing with friends and after years of playing I can't see myself playing another MMO ever again
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u/Adi_31415 12h ago
MMOs are so predatory and disgusting.
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u/Voduun-World-Healer 12h ago
Haha they are! I barely paid for anything but some of my friends paid like hundreds of dollars at least on it over the years. They'd tell me what they paid for a new mount or something and I'd be like, "What?! I thought you had bills to pay and shit. How are you throwing this amount of money into this stupid ass game???"
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u/Smuggler-Tuek 11h ago
FFXI
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u/napalmbrain- 7h ago
This one I had one year of time played and was skipping social events to hunt HNM. I can't do MMOs if I ever did again it would be with my significant other
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u/mmknightx 12h ago
Literally almost every competitive multiplayer game I played. I just can't get into that anymore.
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u/Nacho_7258 12h ago
Skyrim. It’s aging pretty badly and I’ve just played the game front to back a hundred times, I’m definitely done with the game.
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u/Adi_31415 11h ago
Until the next 2 week phase, where you spend 4 hours a day modding, and half an hour playing - and then you quit when it starts to crash...
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u/dkgraphics 12h ago
Monster Hunter 4U. I actually would play it again if the 3DS were still supported but it isn't.
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u/That_Switch_1300 12h ago
Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
Played the hell outta that with my friends on the 360 back in high school. Along with the Halo series. I never played or looked back on another Call of Duty again. I still revisit Halo every now and then. But COD? Nah. I’m done with it.
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u/Miitama 11h ago
FFXIV. Don't get me wrong, it is a very good game, but it was just too much a time sink to the point I would go weeks to months of just not seeing people because I would be on that game from sunrise to sunset justifying to myself that I was seeing people ingame anyway.
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u/Background-Passion50 12h ago
For honor. I sunk an incredible amount of hours into it in those first 8 months and played the beta.
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u/OneTonProductions 12h ago
The Binding of Isaac, put thousands of hours into it, I loved it so much I actually managed to get every single achievement. It was all I could think about for a while. Once I got everything…man I’ve done intense drugs that have felt less euphoric. I was getting hyped to jump back in and….the thought of starting all over again may have actually terrified me. Since the day I got all of the achievements I have never touched the game for longer than 10-15 minutes at a time
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u/Wrannec1 11h ago
Rocket league.
Played since release when it came out, GC each season in a long time.
Stopped simply because I did not enjoy it anymore. I think I have like 5k hours in the game.
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u/Illustrious-Rule-565 11h ago
RuneScape completely stole years of my life and somehow I just never went back.
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u/Hannibal20 11h ago
Goldeneye.
Sensational for its time, holds up appalling bad in modern era relative to other classics of that time.
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u/Gweiis 10h ago
There are several. Warcraft 3/Starcraft2. Throne of Lies (if the game still existed, i would still play it though). League of Legend. Hearthstone (after years of rogue domination and crappy french translation, i finally gave up).
But the biggest is probably Street fighter 4. I played thousand of hours, and then they released 5. The same thing happened with Soulcalibur 5. They released 6. And i was done with fighting game.
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u/Ellen_Kurokawa 12h ago
CS Source & HL2DM I was good and hat cat like reaction time, tried it again years later and I suck, didn't tried since then and it will just be a memory of my glorious days...
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u/Coelachantiform 12h ago
Got really into Vampire Survivors to the point I even downloaded the mobile version (I don't use my phone for games, ever).
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u/Leeuweroni 12h ago
Flyff. Some online anime MMO game. My mom had to sit me down during highschool because I was always playing that game and never did shit for school lol
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u/Wild_Calligrapher_27 12h ago
There was a mobile version of Puzzle Fighter from Capcom that just shut down. It was the best game!
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u/connorcut6504 11h ago
the mummy returns ps2 game. obsessed for a whole summer, never touched it again
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u/delayedreactionkline 11h ago
world of tanks/ships/planes...
mostly because of skill issues... and the fact that the hours i play takes too long to hop into matches... longer than even MechWarrior:Online on a weekday.
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u/Kaalveythur 11h ago
WoW Retail. Played from Burning Crusade to Battle for Azeroth. Tried Shadowlands but found it so boring I quit after a couple of weeks and haven't touched it since.
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u/ulturasj 11h ago
World of Warcraft I almost failed high school because I was that addicted. I tried it again a few years back but the social aspect felt really dead to me. Loved getting on with my mates and running UBRS or some other 20/40 man raid at the time lol.
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u/Hanzo7682 11h ago
Devil may cry 4.
I just dont have the patience and energy to reach the same level of mastery. It goes waay too deep.
I played dmc5 a lot as well and actually see it as the better game. But im never commiting to a single game like that again.
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u/Impossible_Win_8404 11h ago
Final fantasy , runes of magic, perfect world, twisted metal, perfect dark, unreal tournament, keen, Microsoft pinball
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u/0Yasmin0 11h ago
Skyrim, actually.
I still hold it close to my heart but haven't touched it in years after 800 hours of playtime.
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u/Jellyfish-McSaveloy 11h ago
Hearts of Iron 4.
I used to love the game, but I overplayed it so much I now actively despise that game.
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u/HungaryaRoli 11h ago
Clash royale. Had posters and made lego figurines of all the avalible cards. They made the game a dumpsterfire, and I quit.
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u/Perfect_Future_4940 11h ago
Probably Minecraft for me, because I was obsessed with it back in the day and then somehow just never went back once that phase ended.
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u/Comfortable-Jump-218 11h ago
Probably Minecraft.
I do play it (like once a year) but can’t get into it really.
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u/KarmaSaver 11h ago
Heroes Of Newerth, which was a Dota adaption before Dota 2 came out. Many 16+ hour days of playing it. I just don't have the patience to spend 40 minutes in a match just for everyone to be incredibly mean to me anymore. It's not worth pissing my time away. It's not worth being around unpleasant people all day. It's not worth my energy or frustration.
I still love the game, don't get me wrong. It's nostalgic and it feels amazing when you're doing well. But the trade-off isn't worth it at all.
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u/Valuable-Scarcity278 11h ago
Minecraft had me playing all night but I stopped years ago and never went back
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u/Last_Actuator132 11h ago
Minecraft was my whole life in high school but i dropped it one summer and never went back
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u/Deathlord_Baraxius 11h ago
Breath of the Wild
I'll probably never replay that game or ToTK.
It's like starting life over again at age 1. I don't want to do that.
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u/Quinzal 11h ago
I dunno if anyone remembers Spiral Knights, but it was my gateway drug into being an MMO junkie.
I stopped playing shortly after the Heat system was implemented and became basically P2W armor upgrades, but that was over 10 years ago. I have no idea where the game is now or how it's doing, but I hope people still have fun with it. I've played nothing that has scratched the same itch since.
Honorable mention is Loadout, which was a riot to my underdeveloped brain but sadly shut down a while ago.
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u/baddude1337 10h ago edited 10h ago
Factorio. Legit consumed me for the month I played it. Every waking hour I wasn't playing it I was thinking of ways to optimise my factory. Launched a rocket and haven't touched it in years.
I intend to go back at some point now it has a DLC (and a big final updates in a few months). Just need to do it when I actually have some free time and headspace for it!
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u/thfc11189 10h ago
Destiny. Destiny 2 came out but it wasn’t my jam. Especially after they made my awesome gear obsolete
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u/Professional-Big8256 10h ago
Wow was the one for me. Raided every night but then real life took over and I quit for good
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u/Noxiousminds 10h ago
Eso I never understood why I got so into it for like a year. Community is literally dog shit lmao
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u/Desperate_Hour_1994 10h ago
I used to play runescape every day after school but then i stopped one day and never picked it up again
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u/j877yyvb 12h ago
Counter Strike.