When did you know you were playing a game way too much?

PC Gamer writes: Many games are designed to be extremely moreish. Civ invites you to click that end-turn button and keep building your empire. Online games like Runescape let you team up with like-minded people from around the globe to go on adventures. Surely you can fit another round of Dota 2 in before bed, and maybe another. But there comes a time when it all has to stop, right? Right??

This week's question: When did you know you were playing a game way too much? Let the confessions begin.

[MrsNesbitt]

Dota 2 the ultimate culprit!

[strayanalog]

Or any one of its sequels, like Xtreme Beach Volleyball.

[ZaWarudo]

When i was basically plugged into the wall with my PSP. I was playing Persona 3 Portable for 14 hours straight.

It was my first Persona game and first SMT game.

[Sam Fisher]

Good choice there, dont worry it happens to all of us

[crazychris4124]

When you hear birds chirping and then you remember you started playing after dinner

[ApocalypseShadow]

When I pressed start after the credits rolle unless I could skip the credits sooner.

Asteroids,defender,pitfall,he ro,Galaga, dig dug, yi are kung fu, gyruss,Mega man,metroid, contra, castlevania, ninja gaiden, Zelda, super Mario,Gunstar heroes, streets of rage, street fighter 2,phantasy star, super monaco gp,syphon filter, Tenchu, tekken,guardian heroes, ready 2 rumble, soul calibur,nfl 2k,nba 2k,ridge racer, gran turismo, ace combat, resident evil,devil may cry, so on and so forth yada yada yada blah blah blah. Yes I've played a lot of games.

Back then up until this point, if a game is FUN,doesn't matter how it looks, how long it is, how many blisters, how many cramped hands throwing hadokens,if it's fun, I just kept playing and hitting start. Only stopping to eat, do homework, sleep(after the sun came up), pee, etc. Then jump right back in.

Now, I feel I don't have the time as I once did. But currently, I have spent many, many hours playing raw data with all the different characters and super hot on psvr among the other games I have. Dual wielding definitely has that Dante feel crossing hands or shooting from behind my head to the side.(yes,you can pull that off in psvr)There's just nothing else like it. And let's not even talk about being the archer. It's like being green arrow for hours on end.

[TheRealHeisenberg]

When I planned my daily schedule to include more gaming time than the other activities combined.

[nucky64]

playing world of tanks - i saw the sun rising and realized i'd been at it for 14 hours.

[letsa_go]

When I noticed my cities skyline game play is over 300 hours. hahahaha

[nowitzki2004]

But you still have so much to accomplish lol

[letsa_go]

I know! haha I want to get a 1,000,000 population city...I am only at 150,000. As I get better at the game and install more mods, I keep refining and redoing parts of my city. It is a lot of fun but such a time suck!

[nowitzki2004]

I do good up until about 100,000 population and then everything just goes out of control lol and end up building a new city instead of spending a lot of time fixing my problems.

[Abnor_Mal]

Final Fantasy10 three years after it first came out I finally decided to play my first FF game. Finally decided it give it a go and got past the opening battle in Zanarkan (or however it is spelled). Got to Spira and fought Sin for the first time and was like, Oh. My. Gawd.
It was so epic, kept playing and really got into the game mechanics and story. Would be at work thing about what I had to do next to progress.

Come home from work and start playing all through the night with hot tears running down my face. Just a little bit more, I would say wanting to see what the next area was going to bring. It became a compulsion of sorts, as everything started to become secondary.

Later my cousin introduced me to Final Fantasy12, and it got even worse. I would play that game and get all the way to the final boss door in the citidel and would turn back to explore and level up more. I did that over ten times and ended up never truly completing the game.

Last year bought the PS4 Final Fantasy12 Zodiac Age and haven't played it yet, for fear of repeating my obsession yet again. Honestly I try not to get that obsorbed into any game that much anymore, as I've realized great games will make you forget about other responsibilities you may have in life.

[strayanalog]

So many times to even bother counting, and because I like to share things with the fun people of N4G, here's a few examples:

Any game in the arcade, but for argument's sake, let's say Mortal Kombat 2: Whether it was turning a few tokens into fifty, or trading tickets for tokens (I didn't care much for prizes), I think me memorizing the music in Mortal Kombat 2 is a nice example. When you heard the Pit 2's music you knew, win or lose, you had a generally good shot at seeing a fatality, because players (and the computer alike) seemed to like knocking someone to the pavement below.

Super Mario Bros 3: How many times can someone make it to Level 8 in a day? Well, I have no idea, but I sure as hell can tell you when the exact moment comes to jump to the next tank, where you need to delay, and where the next cannonball shoots or bomb-omb is going to show.‎

Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64: Started around noon with a group of friends and didn't stop until around 6am the next day. Only reason anyone stopped playing was because if they took a break from playing they fell asleep.

‎High Speed: Starting early in the morning before stopping late in the evening, then realizing I knew how many points certain objects got me when explaining how I was going to beat my dad's score.

Super Mario RPG: "After my next save!" at any point in the game. See, that always turned into more xp leveling and another round down the Midas River, which I had memorized both the sides and caves that had the most coins to cash-in on an eventual frog coin. Not to mention knowing how fast I could tap the 'B' button to get around the last rock after nabbing the coins on the left side before heading over to the right side and getting the handful over there before the screen eventually cut to the river course.

[LinkMaster64X]

When you start hearing the game in your head. Once upon a time, I played COD: Blops Nazi Zombies for 6hrs straight. Once I was done getting that bs 'See Me, Stab Me, Heal Me' trophy for the plat, I turned it off and I kept hearing that damn gunbox jingle in my head. I said to myself never again. Now I only play for an hour at the most now.

[bloop]

This actually happened with me and a friend many years ago playing Doom on the Sega 32x too. We vowed to finish it in one sitting on the hardest difficulty but died near the end and had to restart the level with just the handgun. We ended up playing for about 14 hours straight and started hallucinating after we finally finished it. We kept hearing the sound effects in our head over and over and seeing the enemies in the corner of our eye. It was absolutely fucked up. We both thought we were losing our minds.

[LinkMaster64X]

Yeah, it's a situation I never wanna be in again. It's just way too fucked up experience. When it happened to me I took a long hot shower and that helped a little but it didn't go away until the next day.

Defiantly something that should be in front of the game as a warning.

[Eonjay]

When I did a 22,000 hit combo in Star Ocean.

[GrimDragon]

When my hands and fingers hurt. But also when my eyes are burning out their sockets.

[AuraAbjure]

When my skin underwent nuclear fusion organically with my controller.

[ApocalypseShadow]

Figured I'd check back. See a lot of gamers that got their game on. Good stories.

[bujasem_89]

When there's nothing else to do in an open world game.

When I finally got big bosses face camo in mgs 4.

Also, Skyrim thats just something else.

[HylianMigz]

when i saw my hrs on my playthrough of P5

[Bathyj]

When I hit the ramp of a vehicle mover semi truck at 140 kph.

[dadavis1992]

The first time I /played in WoW

[Derceto]

Never. I have this crazy thing called, self-control.

[Flewid638]

Definitely when I first played Mass Effect 2.

[DaFeelz]

Dragon’s Dogma. At the time, I didn’t even know if I liked the game, but I noticed that I been playing for a while. I checked my time and I was 60+ hours in. Then said to myself “holy shit... I guess I like it.” And continued on to a 320 hour obsession.

[Knightofelemia]

When I run out of smokes and beer