Hype - What has made you an addict?

So what game, console, accessory... has ever made you an addict before release?

Mine recently was Diablo 3. After waiting from the last game I built an entire new PC before release. Watched every video. Read every article. Then played it for 1 month and that was that.

So what game, console, accessory... has ever made you an addict before release?

Mine recently was Diablo 3. After waiting from the last game I built an entire new PC before release. Watched every video. Read every article. Then played it for 1 month and that was that.

N64, I went mad and now I have a while stack of shitty N64 games.

Dragon Age: Origins for some unknown reason. I had no background about Bioware or anything about the game to get me interested but it just caught my eye and I watched everything on it and got obsessed. Then I played it and fell in love.

GTA 3 got me back into gaming after I stopped for a year and a half .Ever since GTA3 I been gaming every year and almost every month since I got a addictive personality.

video games in general. i got addicted to wow like 6 years ago. i played it until wrath of the lich king came out. i did have some good times playings that game.

I was addicted to Hotline Miami for about 48 hours. I woke up actually feeling sick until I started listening to the soundtrack, and then I was playing the game within a minute after that.

Crusader Kings 2 I got pretty hyped for, as well as Catherine and Witcher 2.

The most hyped I got without liking the game, though? probably civ 5. (I mean it was alright an all but meh)

Currently GTA V. Hopefully it's not just hype.

I remember being really excited for the "Ultra 64". I remember reading in a gaming magazine about Robotron and how the graphics would rival movies. I fully bought the hype and when I played Mario 64 I was fucking floored.

@JasonR86 said:

I remember being really excited for the "Ultra 64". I remember reading in a gaming magazine about Robotron and how the graphics would rival movies. I fully bought the hype and when I played Mario 64 I was fucking floored.

LOL I remember as a kid saying many times how can they beat these graphics. I am amazed where we are now. Started with the Intelivision.

@D_Bones: I think I did the same thing except I had played KOTOR 1 and 2 so I really liked bioware. And I ended up reading the books that were released before Origins came out.

Probably the only game I got drawn into like that before release.

Reading about GTA V made me remember the wait before IV came out, and the dude on GameFAQs who said the game would be delayed and no one believed him, but then it actually got delayed. 
That was fun, except for the part where I had to wait even longer for the game.  
I got really excited for V when I read that article, but somehow I feel like it won't be quite as excruciating a wait as with IV.

Persona 5 is one of the few games that I'd devote my life to so I'm pretty hyped for that game. It used to be half life 3 but I've lost interest.

I was super super into RDR when it was in the hype phase. Watched those "edu-trailers" so many times over.

Force Unleashed. I played the game for a solid year, and it remains my second most played game on the Xbox 360.

I have always gotten hyped for new games, so I can't really think of the first one. It might be the Super Nintendo, or Super Metroid since that's really the first game I obsessed over getting 100% of the items when I was young. Now I almost always try before I buy because I have been burned by so many release date purchases. I'm looking at you Homefront, and Medal of Honor: Warfighter. I used to preorder the Halo games and play them at midnight, but I have been slowly growing more skeptical about games in general.

Street Fighter X Tekken got me into a sickening state of hype, sadly the game only bowled me over for about a month. Ever since then, I try not to get hype anymore, but XCOM was hard not to get excited about.

Guildwars 2. I bought the artbook they put out about 3 years ago, and flipped through it almost daily until release. The best news is that it mostly lived up to my hype, been enjoying it so far.

I remember really looking forward to GTA: San Andreas. So much, in fact, that I waited for hours for a 10 minute gameplay video to download. Bear in mind that I only had 56k at the time, so it took a fair while. That's how dedicated I was to getting anything I could about the game. For me, it was certainly worth the wait. Can't remember the last time I've been that hyped up about a game.

Semi recently? Street Fighter IV was a huge deal for me. Hype was whipped into a frenzy by the release of SF2 HD a few months prior. I used to play SF2 in arcades constantly when I was a kid. The online play in HD hooked me right back in. That lasted a few months, then fizzled. I don't care for fighting games anymore.

@AdzPearson said:

I remember really looking forward to GTA: San Andreas. So much, in fact, that I waited for hours for a 10 minute gameplay video to download. Bear in mind that I only had 56k at the time, so it took a fair while. That's how dedicated I was to getting anything I could about the game. For me, it was certainly worth the wait. Can't remember the last time I've been that hyped up about a game.

And this.

Game Genie, so much so, that when Nintendo blocked Galoob from selling them in the States, I ordered one from Canada. My first in a long string of game related mail order items. Oh the possibilities that thing offered. Unfortunately I wasn't good at finding any codes that didn't much other than made the games unplayable. But it was still a fun little toy.

The original Fable, sad to say. This was before I understood how much Peter Molyneux inflates his vision for the games he made. I followed the development ever since the first details of "Project Ego" was released. I was so pumped up for the game, the way they were describing it sounded like I could play a real effectual role in the game world without being the sole thing that the world existed to serve. They had originally intended the game to be completely open ended with a continuous aging system instead of one that skipped the early years.

The scope of the game seemed huge, even bigger and more realistic than Morrowind's which happened to be my favourite game at the time. Needless to say the game was a huge let down for me and was my first experience of being disenchanted with the video game industry. No video game has yet to achieve the level of immersiveness I had expected out Fable, but I realised back then that the complexity and sheer amount of work to create a world with systems like that would be prohibitive to even the greatest team of game developers ever assembled. Seeing how little this industry has innovated since the release of Fable, I doubt that a game this complex will ever be made.

TLDR: Fable, and it was a huge letdown.

The last one was probably Skyrim. I watched a man play that game for 12 hours on this website because I was so hyped.

@NegativeCero said:

The last one was probably Skyrim. I watched a man play that game for 12 hours on this website because I was so hyped.

I watch live play for a couple of hours but 12 wow you were hyped.

The PSP re-release for Final Fantasy Tactics.

I never played the original but played the hell out of the GBA game, so seeing the gorgeous cel-shaded trailers made me lose my damn mind and buy a PSP.

Really enjoyed it, but probably spent more time in FFTA and eventually Tactics Ogre: LUCT.

I was really hyped up for Dark Souls, and that kept on going for over a year after release. other than that.... Don't know, it's been while since I was really obsessive over something other than DS.

EDIT: I'm not sure it counts, because it didn't really start until after release, "even though I've had an account and played a bit since beta". But I have a League of Legends addiction that stretches faaaar wider than just playing the game.

There have been plenty. I was really hyped for XCOM Enemey Unknown. The videos I saw, the E3 impressions from the crew/input from the guys from fairaxis on the E3 podcast, and general first impressions from multiple sources on the web made it sound like a game that I would love. Sure enough I got it the day it was released and it was everything I imagined. Easily one of the best games this year.

The only one I remember knowing about for awhile and finding myself truly dying to play it was Pokemon Red and getting a Gameboy Colour to play it on. Back then I was a Dye-hard Pokemaniac and knowing that there was a video game I could have been playing to go along with the TV show that I was addicted to and would be the closest I would ever come to getting to be in that world of Pokemon meant I had to have it. The day I came home from school and my mom just out of nowhere gave me a Gameboy colour and a copy of Pokemon Red was the closest I have ever came to just pure endless joy and happiness in my entire life. Still have no idea why she got it other then just because as it was nowhere near my birthday or a Holiday. I don't think the smile left my face for days once I started playing that game. It also helped that the game was amazing and is easily one of the best RPG's ever made.

What I wouldn't give to be able to feel the joy I felt on that day one more time. I don't think I ever will feel like that again in my life.

I think Mass Effect 3 was the game I was the most excited for before release. Thankfully I wasn't as disappointed by it as many were.

@RollingZeppelin said:

The original Fable, sad to say. This was before I understood how much Peter Molyneux inflates his vision for the games he made. I followed the development ever since the first details of "Project Ego" was released. I was so pumped up for the game, the way they were describing it sounded like I could play a real effectual role in the game world without being the sole thing that the world existed to serve. They had originally intended the game to be completely open ended with a continuous aging system instead of one that skipped the early years.

The scope of the game seemed huge, even bigger and more realistic than Morrowind's which happened to be my favourite game at the time. Needless to say the game was a huge let down for me and was my first experience of being disenchanted with the video game industry. No video game has yet to achieve the level of immersiveness I had expected out Fable, but I realised back then that the complexity and sheer amount of work to create a world with systems like that would be prohibitive to even the greatest team of game developers ever assembled. Seeing how little this industry has innovated since the release of Fable, I doubt that a game this complex will ever be made.

TLDR: Fable, and it was a huge letdown.

Yeah I remember this well. I wasn't following the development especially closely, but the little I did read was like the game was going to be Morrowind open world size, with top tier action game combat, and sustained affect on the world with every decision you made reflected somehow. I thought that sounded a little too good to be true, and it was, hilariously too good in fact, so I wasn't in the camp of the horribly betrayed. Still bought and played that game. It was fun RPG-lite but astronomical distance away from what Molyneux had made it sound like pre-release.

@Hizang: Seconded. I wanted to get a controller even before I could get the console, just so I could practice with it. I was reading N64 Magazine (UK publication) for months and months before I finally got the N64 itself.

The preview build of heroin made me an addict.

I actually booked time off work so I could play Mass Effect 3. That was an anticlimax.

Borderlands. I don't even understand why but I was dying to get that game, watching all content and preordering it months in advance.

@themartyr said:

@Hizang: Seconded. I wanted to get a controller even before I could get the console, just so I could practice with it. I was reading N64 Magazine (UK publication) for months and months before I finally got the N64 itself.

LOL now that is some major hypeness.