One More Turn

[*Laurelindo*]

I was literally obsessed with Star Ocean - The Second Story about 5 years ago, I spent several summer nights in a row and finished the game from start to finish every time - and I even managed to get 8 characters each night!
My motive was pretty lame, I just wanted to unmark how many endings I had seen, but that was a good enough excuse to restart the game over and over.

I felt that time passed incredibly quickly during those playthroughs, I could be like "hm, it's probably 3 AM or something-but-whoops it's 7 AM".

By the way, I personally think it's a pretty pleasant feeling to become completely absorbed into a game and just sit back and enjoy the moment - it's almost a bit like becoming absorbed into a book.

[TrollHunter]

Dark souls
Good god dark souls

Also, pokemon nuzlockes
Fire emblem nuzlockes
Disgaea games

[Del Murder]

Final Fantasy XI: come on, just one more level!

[Bolivar]

Oblivion was the last game to really get me into that mindset.

Crusader Kings II before that had this mystical ability to remove time as a force in the universe. The very first play session I had ended with the sun coming up. Haven't had that in a while.

[*Laurelindo*]

I often set "goals" when I play RPGs, when I decide to reach a certain point before I stop playing.
In Final Fantasy 10 I normally take my first 10-minute break right after Tidus is knocked off the Al Bhed ship, because this gives me the feeling that the ship accident actually did happen some time ago; then I keep playing until I reach the Mi'ihen Highroad, at which point I quit playing for the rest of the day.
You could think of them as "checkpoints" that I feel like I have to reach before I am satisfied.

[Pete for President]

Dark souls
Good god dark souls

Agreed.

Just one more invasion. Didn't go too well? Heck, let's do another one. Did it go really well? Can't stop now, can I?

[Quindiana Jones]

"I wonder what the next area/boss will be!"

...10 hours later...

"How about the next one?"

...10 hours later...

"Maybe one more..."

...1 minute later...

"smurf you, Blighttown." *ragequit*

[Flaming Ice]

Fire emblem
Disgaea games

`specially fire emblem....that game is hard to stop playing!


for some reason I hardly ever beat games but I beat all the fire emblem games i`ve played.

[escobert]

Any Civ game will do this to me.

[Denmark]

well, I recently played through Metroid Prime in one sitting, but that was only about 14 hours. towards the end my thought process was "ok i'm almost done just finish" and then it was like 7am when I finished

[I Took the Red Pill]

I am guilty of this with FFTA and also with The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap. And obviously Civ IV.

[Mercen-X]

Games that purpose a point. I by no means have to continue playing games like GTA over and over again, because it's sandbox and the point is usually part of the story. Whereas in games like RPGs or maybe the recent New Super Mario Bros where the point seems to be get a "perfect" (in the latter case THREE FRICKING STARS! BOOYAH! Thank you very much) I tend to play them again and again until I've reached perfection. If there's no perfect endgame purposed, then I don't have to devote a troutload of time to it.

[Rantz]

Civ IV. So much Civ IV.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Civ IV, but of course!

IV and V...omfg it is a sink hole T_T

[qwertysaur]

Echoing Civ 4. Watching Montezuma and Isabella having a catfight never gets old.