Final Fantasy XI, Skyrim, Minecraft, Civilization IV, World of Warcraft, Football Manager, whatever floats your boat. There are some very, very time-consuming games out there. So I have three questions for you all!

What game have you wasted most of your time on?
For me, it's probably Football Manager 2011. I don't dare to double check the amount of time I've spent playing my most recent playthrough of it, but I'm sure I managed about twelve seasons as manager of Nottingham Forest. It would probably have been FFXI if more people I knew were playing alongside me aside from Danielle and Shawtiie. At the start there were loads of EoFFers here, there and everywhere... and then slowly we all stopped playing at the same time and so forth and it just got a little less interesting, and then the grind really hit in, and... yeah. D=

If you had to play 1,000 hours of a game, which game would it be?
Not Football Manager, oddly. Probably an MMO, as when extremely bored I could still socialise somehow. For single player games, though, I think Dwarf Fortress would be my preference. Although I'd need a pretty damned good PC to run a game for 1,000 hours. I think it'd crash. Hmm, maybe Sims would be interesting enough, too, since I could keep adding in new people? I don't know, single player games can only go so far before I want to do something different.

Of the many time-consuming single-player games there are in the world, which ones do you think are actually not a waste of time?
I have no idea. xD I mean, there's entertainment value, there's the argument of 'culturing' yourself with stories or whatever, there's limited educational value and there are mind-challenging exercises, but eventually a game will always be limited in how many hours it will provide you with such things.