Last time I really played a multiplayer game and got addicted was Action Quake 2.
I've had episodes with Duke Nukem 3D, Ultima Online and Counter-Strike, but Action Quake 2 really ate up my time.
I'd spend several hours every day, just after 6 until around 10 playing Action. I'd ignore my homework, family, tv, and just play for 2p a minute on Wireplay.
I played like this four about two years, until my 56K modem decided to assign itself a new IRQ address. Nowonly being 14 I thought it had broken, so we sent it off for repairs, and I got knocked down to a 14.4K modem. I spent ages in chat rooms on this, but could never play AQ2, no matter how much I wanted to.
When my 56K came back, and reinstalled itself correctly, I just didn't find AQ2 fun anymore. It was pointless, easy, repetative. I found after I'd collected my thoughts in the few weeks I'd not had my modem, I'd found that the game wasn't so brilliant, and it was just the same thing, over and over and over.
I never played again ever since. I had a similar problem with Ultima Online, until one day I lost my Ostard on a server, got so pissed off I almost cried, and realised what I'd become.
I deleted one of the main files so i could never play it, renamed the executable.DONOTRUN and took the first letter off the directory, to remind myself.
Still, i think its funny enough just looking at Asperger Syndrome. I expect most of us can say somone we know has it. Then again I think some of this is just as much stupidity in justifying life as is saying a child has Hyperativity Disorder. Surly a single swift clout round the head and a stern look is enough to resolve some of these problems?
If you really want to quit one night, do somthing to remind yourself, somthing that actually takes much too long to fix for you to normally be bothered with, and walk away.
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Last time I really played a multiplayer game and got addicted was Action Quake 2. I've had episodes with Duke Nukem 3D, Ultima Online and Counter-Strike, but Action Quake 2 really ate up my time. I'd spend several hours every day, just after 6 until around 10 playing Action. I'd ignore my homework, family, tv, and just play for 2p a minute on Wireplay. I played like this four about two years, until my 56K modem decided to assign itself a new IRQ address. Nowonly being 14 I thought it had broken, so we sent it off for repairs, and I got knocked down to a 14.4K modem. I spent ages in chat rooms on this, but could never play AQ2, no matter how much I wanted to. When my 56K came back, and reinstalled itself correctly, I just didn't find AQ2 fun anymore. It was pointless, easy, repetative. I found after I'd collected my thoughts in the few weeks I'd not had my modem, I'd found that the game wasn't so brilliant, and it was just the same thing, over and over and over. I never played again ever since. I had a similar problem with Ultima Online, until one day I lost my Ostard on a server, got so pissed off I almost cried, and realised what I'd become. I deleted one of the main files so i could never play it, renamed the executable .DONOTRUN and took the first letter off the directory, to remind myself.
Still, i think its funny enough just looking at Asperger Syndrome. I expect most of us can say somone we know has it. Then again I think some of this is just as much stupidity in justifying life as is saying a child has Hyperativity Disorder. Surly a single swift clout round the head and a stern look is enough to resolve some of these problems?
If you really want to quit one night, do somthing to remind yourself, somthing that actually takes much too long to fix for you to normally be bothered with, and walk away.