# I'm gonna play till my eyes bleed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866 "2003-10-22T09:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/1 "2003-10-22T09:15:32Z")
What was the last game that you loved so much you couldn’t stop playing? I don’t mean as in “come home from work and go straight to the computer”. More like “stay up all night, call in sick the next day, and not shower/eat so you can keep playing”. The serious gamers will know what I’m talking about. 🙂 I think the last game to have that effect on me was online Quake 3 during its peak. Starcraft came close but nothing had as much of a hold on me as Quake 3. I remember I started hearing the sound effects in my sleep. It’s probably for the best that I don’t have a cable modem anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/2 "2003-10-22T09:37:02Z")
Back in '97. The original Team Fortress for Quake. I kicked ass. And played too much. I was even in a Clan for a while. Also, the Platoon TC for the original Duke Nukem. Me and a friend would play that over our modems co-op. Good times… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/3 "2003-10-22T12:52:36Z")
NOLF 2. Before that…hmmm…Freelancer. Diablo 2 before that. Usually only about two games a year will catch my attention like that. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/4 "2003-10-22T12:58:47Z")
Doom and Duke Nukem when they first came out…I ignored real life for days until I had fought my way straight through every level. These days, I’ve been playing Soul Calibur II until my eyeballs are bloated, and full of juice. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/5 "2003-10-22T13:04:48Z")
Team Fortress Classic was something I played all the time. Now its Halo Multiplayer. I stay up to all odd hours of the night playing that. ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/6 "2003-10-22T13:50:03Z")
X-Com, Tie Fighter, Betrayal at Krondor, and Civilization 2. These have been the only ones that I’ve been obsessed with to the point of playing till I passed out from exhaustion. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/7 "2003-10-22T13:52:46Z")
NOLF 2 was the last game like that for me. Team Fortress Classic was the last online game like that for me. ESPN NFL Football 2003 for the Playstation 2 does suck up alot of time though-- although I can quit at any time. Yeah, that’s it. Any time I want. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/8 "2003-10-22T15:47:41Z")
Starflight, Civilization 2 and X-Com ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_peril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@yellow\_peril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_peril)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/9 "2003-10-22T15:51:13Z")
Deus Ex a few years back. Doom a while before that. Currently, my mistress is Eve Online. ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_peril](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ee7513/32.png) [@yellow\_peril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_peril)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/10 "2003-10-22T16:04:49Z")
Deus Ex a few years back. Doom a while before that. Currently, my mistress is Eve Online. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/11 "2003-10-22T17:21:04Z")
Ooh, video junkie confession time… The original X-Wing (and both add-ons to it) Tie Fighter (And the add on to _that_, and X-Wing: Alliance really ruined my sleep patterns for a while. X-Com: Ufo Defense kept me at the keyboard for long hours, waiting to see what the latest research would turn up. Thief and its sequel made for some long-ass nights, but then I could _only_ play them after dark, with our PC where it is. Even on maximum gamma (which ruins the picture anyway) it was too damned bright in the computer room/den/office/storage dump\* to play during the day. \*[sub]Why is it that if you’ve actually got a seperate room for your desk, PC, what-have-you, it always ends up as the dumping ground for all that stuff your wife can’t figure out what to do with in the rest of the house? Is this just me?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/12 "2003-10-22T17:23:26Z")
An obsession I’ve been liberated from, thank you. [sub]though I DO understand…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/13 "2003-10-22T20:21:53Z")
Dark Chronical (aka Dark Cloud 2). Must…photograph…more…objects… Diablo 2 was my other weakness. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/14 "2003-10-22T20:26:25Z")
I was a TFC junkie for a while, then moved to Natural Selection. I got Halo PC last weekend, so now I’m discoving the time-warping properties of that game. ("3:30? It can’t be!’) ---
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/15 "2003-10-22T21:19:52Z")
Ah, good old Doom. I remember playing through the entire game in nightmare, including the 2 bonus levels. I don’t think I could do it today though. I’ve grown accustomed to using a mouse to look around. I recently tried playing the Doom demo. I didn’t get very far. ☹ X-Com, a game I just discovered, had a similar hold on me. I loved the battle system to much to quit. Right now I have the sequel sitting here waiting for me. I’m not sure if I want to play it or not. 🙂 The most recent game I’ve been playing obsessively is [ADOM](http://www.adom.de/). However, I haven’t fallen into the old habits of staying up all night and playing for 14 hours at a time like I use to. I guess I’m starting to grow out of it (hopefully). We’ll see once Half Life 2 comes out. BTW **Stonebow** , I can’t seem to get Betrayal at Krondor to work. I think it’s because I’m running Win XP which isn’t very friendly toward old dos games. How did you get it to run? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/16 "2003-10-22T21:39:09Z")
Skeezix wrote: > [@](#): > > \*Why is it that if you’ve actually got a seperate room for your desk, PC, what-have-you, it always ends up as the dumping ground for all that stuff your wife can’t figure out what to do with in the rest of the house? Is this just me? not married, but I HAVE seen this phenomenon in one of my married gamer friends. Now I know who to blame when I can’t move around the stacks of paper in the room 😉 re: Topic? hmmm, haven’t played a game thru the night rather than work/school since Civ I, but I _did_ buy a new computer primarily to play MechWarrior online…does that count? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/17 "2003-10-22T22:40:11Z")
I’m currently hooked on _Hearts of Iron_. Lots of fun. Playing as Germany now. Let me tell you-being a evil dictator is harder than it looks. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/18 "2003-10-22T22:56:32Z")
Duke Nukem (why is this game so great?)… I also used to play with a friend over the modem… we had our own sound effects he made from one of his movies. The Sims. I don’t even like this game that much, but you play, and then suddenly six hours have gone by and it’s dark outside. Final Fantasy X: My S.O played for 24 hours straight (he was unemployed at the time). Ratchet and Clank: for PS2. I don’t know why. Myst: played late into the night more than once in high school. Bust a Move (PS1). Once played for 14 hours. Doesn’t seem possible to shoot bubbles at other bubbles for that long, but I did. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/19 "2003-10-23T00:30:08Z")
Any of the Civ games do it for me (including Alpha C) Galactic Civ Baldur’s Gate System Shock II HalfLife. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866/20 "2003-10-23T00:35:53Z")
Whoop. Forgot another big black hole of productivity: Master of Orion. And the sequel was even worse. Well, once the v1.31 patch finally came out, anyway. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-gonna-play-till-my-eyes-bleed/208866.md?page=2)