Do you ever get addicted to one game at a time or rotate through games?

Cryomatrix · October 2018

I know I have a very addictive personality and I usually can only play one game at a time due to getting very engrossed in it.

So usually it is Path of Exile and the other day it was Divinity 2: Original Sin. However, imo, divinity 2: OS has no replay value for me.

But I very rarely rotate games, the only time i'll rotate games is basically, when i stop playing PoE cuz my char died, and i'll play a bit of Entropia or perhaps Civ 5 or madden 18 on xbox.

There was one time, where my wife and kid were out of town for the weekend and i didn't have work and I rotated between Conan Exiles and Madden but that almost never happens. I think I'd perhaps rotate more if I had more time to play. Also, if I play a new game and I'm not addicted to it, i probably won't keep playing it.

What do you guys do? I'm basically a one game at a time person.

P.S.
My Path of Exile character died at lvl 85 two days ago (1 day and 9 hours of time on him) it was like the dumbest death on the planet, i am hopefully stopping my PoE play this league. I've blown like 240 hours on the game since Sept 1.

AlBQuirky · October 2018

I generally rotate the games I'm playing. There are times, though, when a game just grabs me and when I quit the game for the night, can't wait to start it up again. I play a lot of multiple hour role playing games.

Skyrim has this effect on me. I'll start up a new character and suddenly Skyrim is the game I'm playing. Master of Magic also has this effect on me

MadFrenchie · October 2018

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

Iwaylo · October 2018

When speaking about MMORPGs, i start a MMORPG if it passes my taste test a.k.a. if i like it then i'll play exclusively that game for long time. I don't think i've gone shorter than half a year in a MMORPG that has hooked me in and during that time i have not played anything else.

AlBQuirky · October 2018

Iwaylo said:

When speaking about MMORPGs, i start a MMORPG if it passes my taste test a.k.a. if i like it then i'll play exclusively that game for long time. I don't think i've gone shorter than half a year in a MMORPG that has hooked me in and during that time i have not played anything else.

Wow... I keep forgetting the website I'm visiting!

EQ was an all or nothing MMO for me. I missed a lot of games that came out between 2001-4. I logged off and thought about EQ. I logged on and played for hours on end.

Nothing comes close now. I dabble in Wizard101 on occasion, nothing else

Scorchien · October 2018

Its both for me , been playing UO for 21 years now , but i am always playing at least 2 more MMOs........... Those other 2 get rotated

tomahawk1930 · October 2018

MadFrenchie said:

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

Anyone giving you sideways glances over weed probably isn't worth bothering with in the first place.

Kyleran · October 2018

MadFrenchie said:

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

Man, are we two alike. Suffered through an anxiety breakdown about 3 yrs back which I now keep at bay by turning to anger when I feel it well up.

Also I take ADD meds because somehow at age 60 my neurologist determined I had developed it somehow. I blame too many years of aspertaine addiction.

Still pretty much one game at a time player, though I think it's more due to a combination of training (years of reading very thick novels, one at a time of course), and an OCD like need to "finish" things.

For the most part once I've decided I'm "done" with a game (regardless of where I actually am in it) I set it aside forever, never to return.

I can think of only a small number of games, (under 10 for sure) I've ever gone back for a 2nd chance or replay.

Cryomatrix · October 2018

@Kyleran

Weird. People with ADD usually don't finish things before they move on to the next thing

. I wonder if your neurologist gets kick backs from the drug rep for the medication prescribed to you.

Cryomatrix

MadFrenchie · October 2018

Kyleran said:

MadFrenchie said:

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

Man, are we two alike. Suffered through an anxiety breakdown about 3 yrs back which I now keep at bay by turning to anger when I feel it well up.

Also I take ADD meds because somehow at age 60 my neurologist determined I had developed it somehow. I blame too many years of aspertaine addiction.

Still pretty much one game at a time player, though I think it's more due to a combination of training (years of reading very thick novels, one at a time of course), and an OCD like need to "finish" things.

For the most part once I've decided I'm "done" with a game (regardless of where I actually am in it) I set it aside forever, never to return.

I can think of only a small number of games, (under 10 for sure) I've ever gone back for a 2nd chance or replay.

Thanks for sharing. Like I mentioned, just knowing there are other folks (even if I don't know the "real life" them) who struggle with it makes it easier to deal with. Not in a misery-loves-company way, but a "Hey, he seems to be a successful person in life, and he deals with the same issues."

At its worst, panic attacks and loudly (and obliviously) talking and arguing with myself seems to be consistent symptoms (and I'm well aware of how crazy that last one makes me sound). More normally, it's manifested in an inability to focus on things for substantial periods of time without my mind being flooded with "what if <insert worst case scenario here>"s and "did I forget?"s to the point I forget what I was doing completely.

I also have a habit of up and deciding at random times that I just don't wanna play a game anymore. It can be in the middle of an Act, in the case of cRPGs, or between them; there seems to be no consistent issue I run into. I can be loving every minute of it until one day, I'm sitting in front of my PC and wondering what else I could play, instead. It's funny how that happens. I do attempt to return, though. However, I have found that attempts to go back to these games rarely, if ever, last longer than a week and I don't remember a time I've played one of them to the same point I got the first time around.

@Cryomatrix sorry for the off-topic stuff. I enjoy these kinds of polls, if only for the inevitable discussions that result from them.

Iselin · October 2018

MadFrenchie said:

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

You should move to Canada. We legalized it in the whole country a couple of weeks ago

I don't smoke much weed any more and haven't for years but when I did it had the effect on me of making me concentrate just way too much on small things. If you ever found yourself reading and re-reading the same page in a book for 15 minutes you'd know what I mean.

Back on topic...

I'm typically married to just one game at a time but I do fool around with others.

VengeSunsoar · October 2018

Hmm both. I'll play one game a lot for about 3 weeks and then move on to another and then move on to another and then come back to the first

MadFrenchie · October 2018

Iselin said:

MadFrenchie said:

Brutal honesty: I struggle with anxiety-induced, ADD-like symptoms and am trying to find a medicine that works for me. It's made it hard the past few years to stick with anything. (Before anyone jumps me as an attention-monger: I share this on these forums because it costs me nothing to do so anonymously and there's a chance someone else may read this and go "Wow, so I'm not the only person who struggles with this after all.")

And this may get sideways glances, but the best medicine I've found to help my racing mind has been cannabis. So when I'm stocked up, I can focus long enough on a game to really dive in.

As such, I voted both depending upon other factors.

You should move to Canada. We legalized it in the whole country a couple of weeks ago

I don't smoke much weed any more and haven't for years but when I did it had the effect on me of making me concentrate just way too much on small things. If you ever found yourself reading and re-reading the same page in a book for 15 minutes you'd know what I mean.

Back on topic...

I'm typically married to just one game at a time but I do fool around with others.

Ha, I would be open to it if I had a career opportunity calling my name up that way. I'd like to live in a different country for a significant period of my life, if only for perspective.

And that same concentration effect serves to balance me out where I can't pay attention to those things without some help.

By the way, your response to the OP topic has an interesting phrasing. Does your wife know about your philosophy????

Scot · October 2018

Is it just me or is there some irony in a thread that asks if we are addicted to games and posters then going on about the drugs they take or are prescribed?

immodium · October 2018

Iselin said:

If you ever found yourself reading and re-reading the same page in a book for 15 minutes you'd know what I mean.

Yep, been there.

I don't know if you'd call it rotating but I play multiple games at the same time (not literally), much like a youtuber does.

At present I'm playing Rimworld, Factorio and Project Zomboid on a rotation. One day Rimworld, next couple Project Zomboid. Then back to Rimworld then onto Factorio etc.

AlBQuirky · October 2018

DMKano said:

I got a flashback to good old Tempest! I spent way too many quarters playing that arcade game

JeffSpicoli · October 2018

I'm pretty consistent when it comes to my gaming habits. If its 2 or more new releases I will play them simultaneously , for example I'm playing RDR2 and more then likely FO76 Beta/Retail together, Or I did BFA & Madden together. What i rarely ever end up doing though is playing multiple old titles at the same time. Those random lulls where nothing new is out and you return to a past favorite, I never play more than 1 old favorite or back log game at a time.

Also i will never play more than 1 MMO at a time. Besides the time restraints its just too much mental masturbation and grind.

JeffSpicoli · October 2018

DMKano said:

This looks like when nerds Gary and Wyatt hacked into the government supercomputer to create their own personnel girlfriend with super powers in the 80's classic weird science.

WarEnsemble · October 2018

I voted 1 game at a time, however, it is really 2 games at a time. I grind so hard in my chosen game that I have to have 1 other to switch my grind to every few days so I don't burn out.

WarEnsemble · October 2018

For the most part once I've decided I'm "done" with a game (regardless of where I actually am in it) I set it aside forever, never to return.

^^^This is me. when I have had enough, it is over, like turning off a light switch.

Amathe · October 2018

I tend to play only one game at a time. and in that game, I usually only play once character. I feel like the Dad in the Geico commercials.

Scot · October 2018

thunderC said:

DMKano said:

This looks like when nerds Gary and Wyatt hacked into the government supercomputer to create their own personnel girlfriend with super powers in the 80's classic weird science.

Who could question the morality of hacking government computers to create your girlfriend? We all tried to do it.

Octagon7711 · October 2018

Good poll, as the first thing I thought of was both. I normally jump from game to game unless I find one, new or old, that I get addicted to, then I''ll play it until I reach a point in which I feel like I'm done. Perhaps it's halfway through the game, perhaps it's after I've played the game for the fifth time or more to experience the different endings or classes in the game.

Sovrath · October 2018

If I find a game that captivates me, it's my main game.

At the moment, I don't really have a "new" main game though Red Dead Redemption 2 might very well capture my imagination if it comes out on pc.

Otherwise I'm playing Kingdom's of Amalur mostly to finish it as I never did. Skyrim, a bit of Morrowind and to unwind Darkest Dungeon.

Lord of the Rings Online for my mmo fix and mostly because of the setting.

Panther2103 · October 2018

I have major issues with sticking with one game. If I can consistently log into a game with people I know and it doesn't get interrupted, I will stick with it for a very long time. But the second it gets inconsistent, I usually will get side tracked with other games and hop from game to game. It's a major problem I have with single player games. I'll stick with one for 30% of the game, then a friend will ask me to jump onto a game with them, and I'll never touch the single player game again. I've been considering just stopping multiplayer games entirely to beat my backlog (or part of it at least) but I like multiplayer too much.

Right now I've been jumping between Lineage 2, Runescape, and Black ops 4 for multiplayer, and playing Silent Hill 4, Pathologic HD, and The Silver Case for single player games. But I rotate so much it's hard to stick with anything. I just play until they don't sound fun, then go back when they do.

MadFrenchie · October 2018

Panther2103 said:

I have major issues with sticking with one game. If I can consistently log into a game with people I know and it doesn't get interrupted, I will stick with it for a very long time. But the second it gets inconsistent, I usually will get side tracked with other games and hop from game to game. It's a major problem I have with single player games. I'll stick with one for 30% of the game, then a friend will ask me to jump onto a game with them, and I'll never touch the single player game again. I've been considering just stopping multiplayer games entirely to beat my backlog (or part of it at least) but I like multiplayer too much.

Right now I've been jumping between Lineage 2, Runescape, and Black ops 4 for multiplayer, and playing Silent Hill 4, Pathologic HD, and The Silver Case for single player games. But I rotate so much it's hard to stick with anything. I just play until they don't sound fun, then go back when they do.

Other players actively interacting with me has the same sort of effect. If I'm being engaged and engaging with others while gaming, it's enough mental stimulation to help me shut out other ideas for a while.

Odd how that works. It definitely supports the idea that long-term engagement with a game is best achieved through facilitating some familiarity between players in a group/guild. A tangible connection to other like-minded folks can be a strong motivator.

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