You should absolutely play Red Dead Redemption. I didn't find myself getting too caught up in the whole "cause GTA-style madness" scheme. The open world activities you can do in this game are fun, but overall I would say they are also less distracting than the open world shenanigans you can do in GTA.
Im just wondering.. Is stuff like this do-able with a controller?
I would say yes. The controls are pretty fluid on the controller. The only times controls can get wonky are when you're trying to blink to a ledge (Patrick pointed this out in the QL) or when you're doing a drop assassination. Overall I would say it's more about getting the timing down right, less about the controls being unresponsive.
The only game I ever was addicted to was Civilization III - an addiction that lasted, more or less, for a whole decade. It started with the vanilla version obviously, but the real addiction started when the expansion packs that allowed competitive online play were released. I didn't just put hours into Civ III. Hell, I didn't just put days into the game. I must have dedicated a combined two or three months' worth of my life over the years to playing it online.
Thankfully the community dying down and my life picking up helped to kick the addiction. I'm sober for about five days - before that, I had gone about four months without playing.
Reading through some of these other replies, I can safely say that my addiction was akin to a meth addiction while most of yours were akin to something much much weaker :P
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