Games that put your social life on pause?

Or at least made you loose track of time? I can name about 3 or 4 over different periods of time where I put in longer than my usual 1 - 3 hour sessions just being totally immersed, taking my mind off the day to day bullshit.

Metal Gear Solid 1 back when it 1st came out (self explanatory)

Mass Effect 2 (hated the demo, fell in love with the actual game the more I got into it)

Bioshock 1 (my 1st FPS game, never knew an FPS could be so creative)

and most recently, Dragon's Dogma (story sucks but gameplay and combat mechanics are the best I've seen in a JRPG in a long time) 

I don't have a social life with or without games.Legolas_Katarn

far cry 3

tomb raider

doom 3

I have a few close friends and that is ok.

[QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"]I don't have a social life with or without games.Lulekani

[QUOTE="Lulekani"][QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"]I don't have a social life with or without games.da_illest101

Social life is overated. I am quite happy with having a few close friends and family and playing my computer games to relax me.STB1001

I agree. That' s how things are in my life right now and I like it this way.

On topic, probably Skyrim.

Borderlands did it for me last summer. Very addictive. GOTY edition was awesome.

Grand Theft Auto and Batman games. The latest game that had me lose track of time was Far Cry 3.

Arma 2: OA, I can spend hours playing with the editor.

Nowadays none. 

Some years ago, World of Warcraft.

Fallout 3. That game just swallowed my entire life.

[QUOTE="da_illest101"][QUOTE="Lulekani"] Me Too. gpuFX16

Dark Souls, Wind Waker, Skyrim, and all the Super Smash Bros. games are all games I played obsessively at one point or another. I'm still playing Dark Souls.

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[QUOTE="da_illest101"] me threespeedfreak48t5p

Any really deep fighting game. Virtua Fighter 5, The King of Fighters XIII, and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus are the three deepest fighting games of this console generation by a country mile, and I probably spent the first two weeks after each game's release doing nothing but learning how to play them.famicommander

That's how I was back when arcades were still prominent.  Today you just lose online.  Back then there was a sense of embarrassement to go along with that.

Just fighting games in general. They also make me forget about all my other games

Oh, almost forgot. Killzone 2 online also took a chunk of out of daily life :P It was just super addictive.

Nothing really nowdays for me. I used to be able to sit down and play a game for 4+ hours easily. Now I have trouble remaining entertained for more than 2 hours, sometimes less.

Back in middle school I used to play Runescape like crazy, and I knew a lot of people who played WoW constantly, MMOs seem to be the genre that can really suck you in if you're into them. 

Nothing really nowdays for me. I used to be able to sit down and play a game for 4+ hours easily. Now I have trouble remaining entertained for more than 2 hours, sometimes less.

Back in middle school I used to play Runescape like crazy, and I knew a lot of people who played WoW constantly, MMOs seem to be the genre that can really suck you in if you're into them. 

Vari3ty

RPGs in general can do that... I find it very easy to lose myself in a good RPG, especially ones on the longer side.

Mass Effect 1, Battlefield Bad Company 2, Shinobi (PS2) & Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow.

Grand Theft Auto and Batman games. The latest game that had me lose track of time was Far Cry 3.

Amster_G

yeah u cant go wrong with far cry 3 its very immersive.

My social life stopped when I played P4. It happened again when I played P4 golden.

I'm probably not going to have much of a social life during this summer vacation, but if I was that game would be Fire Emblem Awakening.

The Fallout series for sure. Bioshock and Metro series...Skyrim to a certain extend.

Social life is overated. I am quite happy with having a few close friends and family and playing my computer games to relax me.STB1001

Every game because I'm wasting time just playing a game. Hell I'm wasting time right now replying to this topic.

Gamespot and console reveals.

I keep clicking refresh non stop waiting to see what new information is coming out....E3 is like an eternity away.

ANY dead space game, I don't care who you are, don't talk to me when i'm playing a new dead space game.

I don't have much of a social life to begin with, but Yakuza 4 and Fallout 3 were two games in recent years that consumed a very large portion of my time when I played them.

SimCity currently has me by the balls right now. 

Games that put your social life on pause?...Or at least made you loose track of time?  

HipHopBeats

What social life?

Lots, and lots and lots of games over the years.

Most recently it's Bayonetta.