I’m curious what game you guys have sunk the most hours into. Mine has to be RuneScape, I don’t know the total hours because I’ve had so many accounts over the years I don’t even remember half my passwords, but it’s definitely in the thousands of hours now. I’ve played on/off RS2, OSRS, and RS3 since 2004.
I’ve also probably sunk anywhere from hundreds to 1000+ hours into Skyrim and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, though I don’t know the counts there either since neither were through Steam. Embarrassingly enough I’ve never completed either of those two games - I get sidetracked making so many alt characters.
What about you guys? & What got you hooked on said game?
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Borderlands 2, 1200+ hrs. Only game I was comfortable playing multiplayer without getting anxious and the 14 steam friends I have over the years are all BL2 players.
How did you feel about subsequent Borderlands games? I thought the character classes and skill trees only got more interesting as the series went along, generally.
Heh, grumpy old guy rant….imo went downhill after that.
The prequel, AKA Australians in space was ok, but I felt it was DLC.
I did finish BL3 but didn’t like it storywise or the references and humor, even quite annoyed. A lot happened in Tales of the Borderlands (that I did not play, but my son did) and was bummed playing BL3 after having to ask him what happened to missing npc’s or why some annoying npc’s are there. I played mostly Maya in BL2 so yeah, that’s cool.
BL4 and Wonderlands I did not bother to play, although my son bought them on release even preordering BL4, I probably spared me more annoyance.
First two games I 100%ed, played them so much I would literally dream about them.
I’ve heard that a lot as a reaction to BL3’s writing. I only played through this series in the past year, and BL2 was good, but after playing the sequels, I think it would wear thin for me by comparison over extended periods of time. Especially once you get a new computer down the line that can get past the performance problems, I’d recommend trying out BL4. The story won’t be as good as 2, once again, but man, the encounter designs and class designs are so good.
My son talked about that this week, said a new raid boss is coming. I am convinced now to try. What really put me of is the shit Randy was talking after release.
Eh, hundreds of other people worked on the game, too. Borderlands is not Randy. I’ll give you something to look for as you attempt to sink your teeth in: the skills and skill trees are sort of based around a meta game. If you choose to engage with its systems and optimize, you’re not just mindlessly shooting stuff. For instance, I played the Gravitar, who gets feedback loops going around “entangling” enemies; by endgame, my ability was basically never on cooldown, and I had incentives to pick weaker guns because they fed into my gameplan better. My friend that I co-oped the game with played the Siren and had a build where he could loop Kill Skills into one another so they’re all proc-ing all the time. I hope you like it! (The story’s not great though.)
I don’t have an exact number but if I had to guess it’s Minecraft. Over all those years, quite a few hours must have added up. I think that has to be much more than any of my Steam games.
Same. I’ve probably got more than ten thousand hours across multiple versions. When I was sick I used to play it all day, every day. I found mining very Zen.
Minecraft probably rivals Terraria for me in terms of hours played. I bought the game when it was in beta in 2011. The community was very different compared to post release and especially post Microsoft acquisition. In particular I miss the forums.
According to Steam it’s Terraria with over 1200 hours. I bought it in 2012 and have replayed it regularly alone and with friends.
My second place isn’t even close, and it’s not actually a game. I bought Aseprite during the summer sale last year to see if I could stumble my way to something resembling visual art and I have about 250 hours logged, though I think a lot of that is me leaving the app open overnight.
It’s mine with around 750 hours. I was so excited for the game that I pirated an unreleased alpha and played that before it released. I bought it immediately at release and have played it off and on over the years. I just recently did another full playthrough and then some to get all of the new achievements.
I’ve bought the game many times to give away as gifts back when you could buy a 4 pack at a steep discount.
Skullgirls, for sure. Steam has me at over 1800 hours, but I’ve also played at locals and tournaments. It had 14 characters for the longest time, but now it’s got 18, and the ways you can combine them are nearly limitless, so there’s a high chance one of its most powerful strategies hasn’t even been discovered yet even though it’s now 14 years old. Now and then I’ll see a tournament match where someone brought out something brand new that I’ve never seen before, and I love it for that.
No Man’s Sky 1556.5hrs
Final Fantasy XIV and it’s not even close… need to grind to get my girl new outfits
I’ve been playing since mid-2020 now and mostly spend my time either playing the story, doing side-content or making pretty screenshots of new glamours
FFXIV is one of those games that I liked, but wished I could like more. I wasn’t into progression raiding or crafting, so it was always a matter of time before my interest would fizzle out once the current MSQ was done.
Your character looks nice, btw.
I was scrolling down to find someone list the best game and here were are.
I’ve been playing since beta for 2.0, so it certainly is my most played game.
Hell, I played some over lunch today.
No idea. Homm2. Homm3. Disciples 2. Age of Empires. Age of Mythology. Warcraft2/3. Mu online. WoW. Counter-Strike. Rift. Warframe. Neverwinter. Star Trek Online. Apex Legends.
I played them a lot. At least 1k hours each across the years. Why? Some were fun, some were what my friends played and some were addictive.
A game sometimes clicks, not always for the right reasons.Mu online. Damn that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long while. I was never any good at it but remember me and a few school friends played it for a while back in like 2006ish.
Not sure which game individually, but I have about 9600 hrs in SteamVR
What do you like playing in steam VR?
I have 5133 hours in Transformice. It was pretty much the perfect game for me at one time.
It may look like a silly nothing game, but the skill ceiling is almost non-existent. I felt like I was improving for every single hour I put in. Made a lot of international friends, too.
I used to love this one as well. Starting off only knowing how to jump and slowly learning all the skills to clear stages. Going from the back of the pack learning enough to be mid, then leading the charge.
I probably only played for like 100 hours though lol
I just watched the trailer. How often did you screw over your fellow players as the shaman?
You usually try to avoid it because you get rewarded for saving more mice. But, sometimes it’s fun just to troll. So probably a fair bit.
For me it’s Minecraft and Space Engineer (1,600 hrs). Maybe 1/4 of the time it’s AFK while machines are gathering the work.
Most hours were probably EverQuest up to planes, counterstrike around 1.5-1.6, and TF2. I’ve had 200-300 hours in a few other games & series (elder scrolls series, dark souls series, final fantasies, etc) but those would all be well over 500. The first two were as much the community guild/clan as the game, the last was just a time in life where I was able to spend a lot of time on games.
In my lifetime?
Probably Doom.
I never hit even 100 hours in any game until I started elite dangerous. I’m almost at 1000 hours now. It’s so dam good
I have spent around 2000 hours in Gmod. A sizable percentage of those hours involved trolling the people who play TTT. Escapades involve kicking off a detective civil war, provoking people into offing half the server, and spamming admin messages and false reports. The gamemode has fallen out of favor these days, so I only really check out interesting Gmod maps and nextbots now.
The many iterations of Counter-Strike.
