What are your 100%?
Now I don't mean games that you beat to completion, I mean games that you played to a CRAZY extent, playing more than you had to, or just grinding away to get extra amounts of items or just because you liked it, or maybe you didn't like it! but you were addicted and just kept playing it endlessly to practice, even though the overall experience wasn't the best ever.
I'm suggesting this as an alterative to "what are your top 10 games!" whatever lists, so this may end up being entirely different from what you would think to list for that.
I'm just going to do it by date so it's easier to sort out
1.
Super Mario Bros.This was the first game I ever owned, and I didn't get a new game for a long time after this, and when I did it was crap like the NES Simpsons games or TNMT1 D: I played SMB obsessively, because as I found out recently when I tried to beat it again it was really freaking hard if you didn't cheat and use the warp pipes, I was so happy when I finally beat it back then
2.
Super Street Fighter III didn't own a SNES until after the big SF2 boom, which is why I played my NES still so damn much, so SSF2 was the first one I owned, but I of course was playing it in the arcades and at friends houses the whole time. I played every single character through the grueling and HARD arcade mode (you had to fight every single character) and watched every single ending even though it was so difficult for me at the time and it was really freaking annoying.
3.
Final Fantasy VIII have probably never played a game for as long as I've played this, this was really insane, I must of finished it several times, I have 2 whole memory cards full of save files just to get all the save file pictures (but they're all legit different saves) I have a save file with Aeris levelled up as high as she could go before she died (limit break maxed out) I have about 5 master materias of EACH type, it really is ridiculous all the chocobos, etc etc. PERFECT save file. I really loved this game.
(Honorable mention goes to VIII, while I played it almost as much, I messed up and missed the Squall Tetra card, lol)
4.
Phantasy Star Online 1 & 2Possibly 1000+ hours played, haha. Even though the first game had that annoying thing where you'd lose your character if the memory card fell out of the controller, I'd still keep playing, despite losing 100s of hours of hard work and not having that many levels to play on.
5.
Shenmue 1 & 2Long story short, I obsessively played both games, got everything, collected everything, spent tons of extra days playing for no reason apart from I really liked driving the forklift (LOL) or hanging out in the arcade beating the top scores obviously, haha. Also I must mention I did this in both English & Japanese because I had them both and ended up playing 4 games just to hear the different dialogue.
6.
Resident Evil CODE: VeronicaI played this game so much I have the whole thing memorized to this day, I also have over 7 copies of it in various different formats, I have an entire 3 hour speed run handwritten out by myself (no cheating reading a FAQ, because there wasn't any made yet when I got it, anyway lol)
7.
Pokemon PearlI have played lots of Pokemon games in the past but Pearl is still the game I played the most! 800+ hours of breeding, levelling, and holding Pokemon from my other DS games, every single type of Unown, 2 shiny Pokemon, on and on and on.
It's my base for all the Pokemon from my GBA too!
8.
Animal Crossing: Wild WorldI played this game a ridiculous amount, partly because, it never ends!! I have 3 characters all with completely filled inventories, a maximum size house, 5 super cool rooms filled to the brim with items, I was so addicted to it I had to stop playing, filling up my mailbox so no animals could leave, then stop playing since 2009
9.
The Sims 2I played this game for YEARS literally years, I spent so much time playing, but what I really ended up doing was writing stories for all my sims2 screenshots and that kept me crazy busy for so long. Honestly the only reason I stopped playing with my town was that the lot was getting really full and it was very hard to manage (I didn't like characters getting old before others who were older, lol) and I tried to end the story, with yeah, more screencaps videos and stories I wrote.
10.
Dead RisingThis game was one of the reasons why I bought an xbox 360! really I wanted one for SF4, but this game had something that the sequels are lacking, I can't quite explain it. The difficultly, the challenge, the story, all the endings and pictures you could take.
It's also the first game that I played that contained any achievements, added to that, this game actually made getting them really fun & rewarding and actually part of the game itself! No other game has really done that for me since. of course I got 1000/1000
11.
Street Fighter IVAnd Super Street Fighter IV, AE, AE 2012.. the list goes on! while this is not a perfect game, it's addictive as hell and was my first chance to play Street Fighter online decently! I still play it to this day and have uncountable hours poured into it, while the online play can be variable and is mostly full of assholes, I need to keep practicing! (I'm garbage, lol)
12.
Resident Evil 5I can't count how many times I've played this game through, mostly because of people knowing I've played this a hell of a lot so I end up playing it with them, haha. Meowchi and I played this a hell of a lot together too!
13.
Yakuza 3 & 4This is the most recent one! playing them back to back might not have been the best idea, since they have a lot of similar elements, but I really really enjoyed playing these, and both games are my only platinum trophies on PS3, and were the reason I even bought the system. new one coming soon :3