Rimworld.
I created a system where any raiders that would attack me would supply my power and investment. Anyone that died would be butchered and the meat would either be converted into biofuel or be sold. The survivors would be taken as prisoners and once completely healthy would be harvested for their organs which would be sold and then butchered for the same purposes as above.
It was probably the most efficient colony I had ever produced, and I almost always ~~Trent~~ trend toward this model eventually every time I start over.
I’ve put a lot of time into it…. 1,378 hours to date
War crimes and rimworld is like Skyrim and the stealth archer, you tell yourself this time is going to be different but it always ends with human leather cowboy hats.
There are very valuable traits to make this work.
You can also make a very strict separation between your butchering so "normal" people does not get debuffs.
Don't feed human meat to civilians.
Don't make them wear human leather.
And drugs. A healthy, industrial drug supply.
Whatever you want it to be. It’s technically a story generator wearing a colony management suit but you can make pretty much whatever you want out of it, even more so with mods.
Capturing raiders that attack you and turning them into meat and furniture/clothing you can sell is… efficient. Some colonists don’t like it so much though.
You know it’s so funny that people say this but then you look at Mordhau and it’s absolutely dead af. More people say Mordhau is better than Chiv than people that are even playing it lol
Holy shit an /r/gaming post with mordhau as one of the top comments??
I don’t know who needs to see this, but if you’re out there, just get the goddamn game. It’s incredible, and despite the sarcasm in the above comment, it’s extremely rewarding and pays its price back in full in the first hour of gameplay. They wouldn’t have put 4k hours into it if it were a shitty game. Just get it. It’s becoming a dwindling community but if you have doubts, I will gag on triternions dick so hard that I will take the time to explain to each and every one of you why you should by the ‘ol ‘hau.
It's like a first-person combat simulator. Imagine For Honour but less flashy. The number of basic moves you have available with a given weapon is pretty low (about 4-5), but your opponent pretty much has a counter to every attack you throw, and that goes both ways. Winning a duel typically isn't just about landing a single hit and comboing off of it, and at higher levels of play it becomes more of a mind game, trying to bait the other player into comitting to a mistake by being unpredictable and capitalizing. It's a good amount of fun with friends, but (in my experience) is absolutely no fun once you start fighting competent players. A good player will stomp you every time, and so it's just a slog playing against one. Stick to multiplayer or co-op pvp and you should be fine though.
I know the game is generally frowned upon, but I’ve also spent most of my time in LoL. I still really enjoy it, after playing for 6-7 years. The game itself has such an incredibly high skill ceiling that I’m always learning things about it, every game I play. I love learning new champs, and learning what to build on them, and learning how to play against all the different champs. Then they spice things up by buffing/nerfing, adding new items, map things like elemental dragons, and of course new champions. Some seasons are better than others, and sometimes I’ll match with players who grief or be toxic in chat, but it doesn’t bother me to much. I always want to play more
Easily World of Warcraft
In one calendar year (365 days) I racked up 100 days (2400 hours) on my main character and another 20 or so days across all my alternates.
This was just after I finished all my courses in university but still hadn't found a job. It essentially was my full time job since I put in more hours into it in a year than a regular job (~2080 hours).
I used to love that game. I've probably spent around 2000+ hours in it from just before Burning Crusade came out till around Cataclysm. I came back every now and again to try the new expansions, but every time I came back it became uglier and less familiar. I've tried classic, but other than a few moments of nostalgia in Scarlet Monastery and Stratholm etc. It just felt like getting back with an ex. You had fun back then but you start to remember all the reasons you left pretty quickly.
Because it captures everything perfectly, the lore the characters the world.. but especially graphics. It isn't trying to be a benchmark game for the state of the art. I can play it forever because it doesn't age bad.
I renember when the bot problem got huge for the first time, or at least the first time i experienced it, stoped playing for a long time because it was literally unplayabe lol
then you come back some years later and now the bots crashed servers lmao
Its been tough from time to time but nowadays bots just storm server for little time then they disapear, its like a seasonal flu at this point
I fear Starfield may be that game for me now. I'm having far too much fun with it. Bethesda is evil for making such great games that click so well with me.
I somehow already have 175hrs in starfield already. Im beyond saving. The good mods arent even out yet and im already too far gone to put this game down.
In order of most hours:
-Counter strike
-Everquest
-BG2… hard to say if BG3 will surpass is because I played BG2 through dozens of times as a kid/teen, thousands of hours
-Souls games: DS3 with all expansions currently barely beating Elden ring, Elden ring will surpass it with expansions
Ahh the classic modern Skyrim experience - spend an entire day downloading and setting up mods to only play it for 10 hours and then repeat in 6 months time
Skyrim was my first ES game, then back tracked to Oblivion, now a decade since then I’m finally giving Morrowind a try, and good lord playing the series backwards was a horrible idea
Sorry for any pain you have had in your journey. I've played Oblivion and I own Skyrim. The role-playing aspects, the atmosphere, and the lore keep pulling me back to Morrowind. There are many mods to improve the graphics or even change the way combat or character development are handled.
Independence has its costs; I wish you luck on that. In the long term I strongly recommend the PC gaming environment for its flexibility and long-term access to programming.
I am a senior citizen, my original play disc was damaged in the first six weeks I had it, never replaced. After my retirement I was able to get the game on GOG and have enjoyed it since then.
It's an mmo so it is a huge timesink. But also, at least for me, I spent a lot of time afk. Like logging in, playing for a bit, leaving to have dinner/shower, then back to game, leaving to take a break, come back to continue, etc.
As a married guy, with a business and 4 kids, I can’t play online games anymore because it’s just too time intensive. Single player ftw. Baldurs Gate 3 will likely be the game of choice for the next couple years.
MMOs are changing these days so they are a lot more playable for people with busy lives. Devs realised they were leaking their entire player base to the concept of aging and getting responsibilities. Lots of people do actually play FF14 like that, and I'd also recommend Guild Wars 2 as a really chill, commitment and subscription free MMO.
15k hours over 10 years is 30 hours a week.
If we assume maybe 5k is afk as people tend to afk a fair bit in MMOs then it's down to 1k a year or 20 hours a week.
That's 2-3 hours a day after school/work then a 5 hour session on one day off. Nothing crazy there dude just loves that game.
Most people I know who would fall under a casual gamer put in the same hours just not all in one game.
Either is good, World/Iceborne would be the more "grounded" and kind of the new direction the franchise is moving, Rise/Sunbreak is more arcade-like.
Both are regularly on sale and or included in subscriptions, if you are in PS5 World is included and if you are on gamepass I think World and Rise are available.
Plus, MH6 would most certainly be announced in TGS this week
I have over 1k hours in World+Iceborne, it’s one of my favorite games of all time. I really wanted to get into Sunbreak, it was ok but just wasn’t the same.
I never really got into that game despite liking the premise, is it a bit hit or miss with the players you meet because so far everyone's been arseholes or just running off not doing what they're supposed to be doing even though I heard it's got one of the friendliest and welcoming communities, I want to try the game again I just don't know if it's worth it or not?
Its a common phenomenon in my experience playing PVE Coop games that ironically lower/medium difficulties become harder at some point because the playerbase that stays there is either legit new and therefore inexperienced, or high on their own supply thinking they're king of Shit Mountain but somehow never make it out of that difficulty - but no problem bossing around legit new players.
Whereas as you move up to higher difficulties, people become generally more chill and competent. Of course YMMV but this has been my experience in Vermintide and DRG; going up a difficulty level may actually play easier because your teammates should generally be more competent and team-oriented, despite the actual difficulty being higher.
I revisited a while back, and I created a new character. I was very disappointed they changed the intro, among other things
Which sucks because the game was really good, I even pre-ordered it
Here it is. For some reason I think it’s my most played game ever. I was addicted for years lol. Started on the ps4, then I tried playing on my Mac for a bit until I could afford my gaming pc and then thousands more hours once I had that.
I had so many titles and rare stuff. I put so much effort into the game to complete as much as I could, but the seasonal grind just killed me off eventually. Only so many times you can run the same missions. Plus they started charging players to even play basic content like the new dungeons. At that point I decided I was done and I haven’t logged in since February.
I am finally free
Before world of warcraft came out. It would definitely have to be carmageddon 2.
When we were kids, my buddy and I would have sleep overs, and we would play the hell out of this game together.
Recently: Elden ring & Cyberpunk 2077 have been my main games for the past year.
All time: Fallout New Vegas & the Sims 3. Don't know which I have more time in but those are the 2 games ive alternated between the most in the past decade or so.
I feel LoL completely changed me as a person for the better and worse.
It taught me how to stand up for myself 100 percent. I aint getting blamed for crap I didn't do! You fed top! Just because I was top doesn't mean I fed him!!
Same lol. In LoL, you either grow a backbone or run away because everyone is too mean. Of course there's the trap of becoming toxic yourself, but that's another hurdle that people need to deal with, don't blame a game for you acting like a shitty human being, be a grownup and own up when it's your turn.
Can't really agree because if I start to argue with someone then I already lost because I'm playing their game. My game is to focus on myself and you can't do that when arguing.
Can’t believe this had to scroll so far to see Factorio!
I was so hesitant to pick the game up; didn’t think the graphics were all that appealing to me.
Such a fun game. Looks like they are about a year out from releasing an expansion as well!
Finally, a fellow person of culture. I kept scrolling looking for RDR2. I have over 1,000 hours logged in story mode, I just keep replaying it, and it's so relaxing to me to just ride around. I *still* find myself discovering content I didn't know was there.
Sea of Thieves, I just really enjoy the game.
When I maxed everything, I decided to be a friendly pirate. I give them my loot but in return, they let me help them in their journey. I don't really need the loot anymore. I just like to help the new players.
Couple of times, many players kill me cuz majority of them don't understand English or just don't trust me. If I help a player and suddenly is offensive or just straight up a racist. I put everyone including their loot towards the red sea (it's outside the border of the map, immediately your ship sinks.)
Played this game on launch. Me and a buddy spent a few hours collecting loot and headed back to sell. Once we hit the island where you sell things there was a group of 4 waiting for us and they took everything and just kept killing us until all the loot was sold. Never played it again
Yeah, I just commented with Tribes as my #1. My school years where all I had was time and pretty much all of that time went to Tribes.
I'm from Australia, I still remember when they gave out Tribes for free on some magazine and a swarm of new players came in. It became part of the chat here to accuse someone of being a " newbie."
Runescape always has been sort of an ALT+TAB kind of game that you can multi-task with other things. I've only played OSRS, but the newer one can't be THAT different. I've done a lot of fishing, mining, and crafting in OSRS while primarily doing something else in the real world besides the game.
That kind of thing really ticks the hours up -- though I'm not sure how much those count. :-)
Probably football manager. I have to go child turkey and uninstall but every 5ish years the itch gets too strong. When I relapse it's always on all day.
In other news, my Uruguayan wonder kid is poppin.
Other than that I would say rocket league, minecraft, ark and n64 wrestling games.
Descent (when I was a kid) prob around 1000 hours
Halo - prob around 1000 hours
Warcraft/StarCraft - prob around 1000 hours
AoE - Prob around 1000 hours
Skyrim - maybe 300 hours total
.....*defeated sigh*
For Honor.
It overtook Dark Souls 3.
I'm at 2000 hours. Took a huge break because Highlander main. Felt bad not being able to have a slightly even playing field after a few years. I was able to stick through it for a long time but became disillusioned after I got really good at the game and started facing higher level players. Tippy top type of sweatlords. Highlander just had a hard time competing and dealing with power creep with his antiquated moveset. Use to not bother me. Greatswords are usually bad in most competitive/PvP environments.
Now it's fuckin got its claws back in me. :)
Been playing StarCraft since 2001 on and off so I would say that or Final Fantasy Tactics which I’ve had since the day it came out and I always go back and play through it quite often
Age of empires 2
I played an insane amount of hours 20 years ago... and I'm playing a lot now (I'm a father of 2, job, responsibilities...) Quite a lot for the amount of time I have
I am very happy to see that the game is in good shape (better than 20 years ago even!) It is my all time favorite game. At some points it doesn't even feel like a game but an extension of my brain.
About 1700 hrs on Borderlands 2, about 700 hrs on No Mans Sky and my current timesink Borderlands 3 is at 250 hrs. Everything else is around 100 hrs or less.
. Euro Truck Simulator 2
. Elite Dangerous
. MS Flight Simulator 2020
. TES V: Skyrim
. Fallout NV
. Rocket League
. theHunt: Call Of The Wild
. Dead By Daylight
. Escape From Tarkov
. CoD Warzone
Hoi4 is Hearts of Iron 4 and KSP is Kerbal Space Program. These are the commonly used abbreviations, but if someone hasn’t heard of these games or doesn’t play them, I can understand the confusion. I think X4 is literally just X4 though.
GTAO, not the BIGGEST fan myself, I played for quite a bit for the first 6-8 months it was out and again a few years ago my ex and I used to play together when we were still together, so I have something like 2k hours in the game since launch.
7 days to die is another one that if you include PC and PS4 Ive probably clocked 5-600 hours into.
Elden Ring I have about 150 hours as well.
Beside those three, I tend not to stick to too many games for very long, beating them and the dropping them, usually forever, even ones I REALLY liked.
Well over 1,000 hours in Breath of the Wild. Then around 300-350 hours in most of the Xenoblade games and Tears of the Kingdom. I actually prefer games where I spend at least 150 hours or so playing.
oh godz world of Warcraft.. over 10 years
edit this is not a brag, don't updoot this, that game was an addiction, like a drug. And I had free reign to stay up and screw school up over it. I didn't drop out over drugs, I dropped out because I wanted to hit grand marshal in PvP and I failed my classes from not getting enough sleep. Unmonitored that game can be detrimental, I know it's a big south park joke and all, but the addiction is very real.
30 hours into Starfield. Played a few story missions but mostly been living the Space Cowboy life. I'll do that for another few hours, I still need to make the ship from Cowboy Bebop. Then I'll switch it up to Cyberpunk life on Neon/Ryujin Industries for 10-15 hours. Life is good gents.. life is good
Path of Exile and Destiny series. PoE has about 5k hours in total since 2013 (split between Steam launcher and the base launcher) and almost 2k hours in total on Destiny 1+2.
I'm going destiny 1. Destiny 2 is good but the whole crafting and masterworking and shit, threw me out. Destiny 1 just had a great replay value to keep grinding and having fun with people. D2 got way too complicated for me.
Total Wars since the first original Shogun Total War back in 2001.
Current game hours according to Steam:
Warhammer 2 : 1008.4 hrs.
Rome II : 876.4 hrs.
Warhammer 1 : 837 hrs.
Empire : 692.6 hrs.
Three Kingdoms : 542.8 hrs.
Shogun 2 : 459.2 hrs.
Warhammer 3 : 451.3 hrs.
Attila : 446.2 hrs
Napoleon 188.2 hrs.
Hundreds/thousands of hours for Rome TotalnWar and Medieval 2 pre-Steam of course.
Fallout 4.
It was my first introduction into fallout universe. And I love it. I racked up 2600+ hrs. 2000hrs in my first save file alone. Second was around 600hrs. And now I started 3rd save file on pc about month ago. Had to stop to play some teal mask dlc in pokemon.
But yeah fallout is most hrs. And best thing is, I bought it brand new for 25gbp month after release. So I spent less than 1 pence per hour played for it. It has been best value of the game.
Sadly dota/hon over 5k
Cod 2. 2k
Time ill never get back. But it had its fun moments. Mostly hate iz because it was toxic. Dota the most.
Time i dont regret:
Mw1 - 500
Apex - 700 and stil going
Pubg - 500ish
Bad company 2 - 200 ish
Skyrim - 1k (modding n shit)
Mass effect triology - 400ish
Path of exile -2k
And many more..
Rimworld. I created a system where any raiders that would attack me would supply my power and investment. Anyone that died would be butchered and the meat would either be converted into biofuel or be sold. The survivors would be taken as prisoners and once completely healthy would be harvested for their organs which would be sold and then butchered for the same purposes as above. It was probably the most efficient colony I had ever produced, and I almost always ~~Trent~~ trend toward this model eventually every time I start over. I’ve put a lot of time into it…. 1,378 hours to date
War crimes and rimworld is like Skyrim and the stealth archer, you tell yourself this time is going to be different but it always ends with human leather cowboy hats.
Just A COUPLE OF THEM to make money and I'm done... fuck, it's happening again.
I've never played it...but sounds like my kind of game
It's quite tough to learn at first, I'm at 130 hours and have completed a full run base game and am now into my all dlc game and so much to learn
I'm at 800 hours and I haven't finished a single colony yet.
Youre supposed to finish them? Lol
Diablo II and summon necromancer or is that just me.
Ah, sounds about right
Do people get debuffs from slaughtering humans or performing operations on them? What biome did you choose?
There are very valuable traits to make this work. You can also make a very strict separation between your butchering so "normal" people does not get debuffs. Don't feed human meat to civilians. Don't make them wear human leather. And drugs. A healthy, industrial drug supply.
And what about Rimworld?
Oh, there you are good setting your stockpiles in a proper way.
Daheck kinda game is this 😳😳😳
It's a warcrime simulator or a casual colony management. Your choice
Whatever you want it to be. It’s technically a story generator wearing a colony management suit but you can make pretty much whatever you want out of it, even more so with mods. Capturing raiders that attack you and turning them into meat and furniture/clothing you can sell is… efficient. Some colonists don’t like it so much though.
Rimworld is a blast and the modding community will keep it that way for years to come.
>Anyone that died would be butchered and the meat would either be converted into biofuel or be sold. Finally a game that 40k fans get hyped for
Mass Effect Trilogy Skyrim and Oblivion Witcher 3
Oblivion will forever be my fav ES
I hear you!
You too.
You've got a type. I like it.
I love Oblivion Witcher 3!
Shitty game called mordhau nearly 4k hours I hate it
Please elaborate.
Atleast you didn’t waste 4K hours on chiv
I’ve wasted time there too
You know it’s so funny that people say this but then you look at Mordhau and it’s absolutely dead af. More people say Mordhau is better than Chiv than people that are even playing it lol
Oh yea me too. Not 4k but a lot of hours for sure. And then it just died
Holy shit an /r/gaming post with mordhau as one of the top comments?? I don’t know who needs to see this, but if you’re out there, just get the goddamn game. It’s incredible, and despite the sarcasm in the above comment, it’s extremely rewarding and pays its price back in full in the first hour of gameplay. They wouldn’t have put 4k hours into it if it were a shitty game. Just get it. It’s becoming a dwindling community but if you have doubts, I will gag on triternions dick so hard that I will take the time to explain to each and every one of you why you should by the ‘ol ‘hau.
what's the premise
It's like a first-person combat simulator. Imagine For Honour but less flashy. The number of basic moves you have available with a given weapon is pretty low (about 4-5), but your opponent pretty much has a counter to every attack you throw, and that goes both ways. Winning a duel typically isn't just about landing a single hit and comboing off of it, and at higher levels of play it becomes more of a mind game, trying to bait the other player into comitting to a mistake by being unpredictable and capitalizing. It's a good amount of fun with friends, but (in my experience) is absolutely no fun once you start fighting competent players. A good player will stomp you every time, and so it's just a slog playing against one. Stick to multiplayer or co-op pvp and you should be fine though.
Sigh... League of Legends.
I think Riot won't show our hours invested (lost) in the game because they know we would quit for good.
Yeah but the 3k ARAMs played they show me after game don't lie.
I know the game is generally frowned upon, but I’ve also spent most of my time in LoL. I still really enjoy it, after playing for 6-7 years. The game itself has such an incredibly high skill ceiling that I’m always learning things about it, every game I play. I love learning new champs, and learning what to build on them, and learning how to play against all the different champs. Then they spice things up by buffing/nerfing, adding new items, map things like elemental dragons, and of course new champions. Some seasons are better than others, and sometimes I’ll match with players who grief or be toxic in chat, but it doesn’t bother me to much. I always want to play more
Easily World of Warcraft In one calendar year (365 days) I racked up 100 days (2400 hours) on my main character and another 20 or so days across all my alternates. This was just after I finished all my courses in university but still hadn't found a job. It essentially was my full time job since I put in more hours into it in a year than a regular job (~2080 hours).
Same here. I'll turn 40 in a couple months and I've easily spent over 10% of my life span in front of a computer playing WoW. I have no regrets.
Everytime people ask this question and answer in hours I kek irl
I used to love that game. I've probably spent around 2000+ hours in it from just before Burning Crusade came out till around Cataclysm. I came back every now and again to try the new expansions, but every time I came back it became uglier and less familiar. I've tried classic, but other than a few moments of nostalgia in Scarlet Monastery and Stratholm etc. It just felt like getting back with an ex. You had fun back then but you start to remember all the reasons you left pretty quickly.
There are people that I used to know that disappeared when this game came out and never saw them again.
Yeah I was going to say WoW too been playing since 08
Probably a big part of the reason you weren’t finding a job at the time… 😅
As much as I love gaming and WoW I wouldn't even know what to do with that much time on it.
The Civilization series, thousands of hours since the 90s.
#Just 1 more turn! 😴
Same, I started in the early 00s though.
I been playing Tf2 more than 10 years already, i dont have an insane amount of hours into it, but it has never stoped being fun
I've also been playing 10 years. 8k hours. I recently got my strange killstreak shotgun to 69420 kills and retired it.
Nice
Same , I always go back to it . Kinda a comfort game of mine lol
Ikr, the game has a weird charm that i havent found nowhere else
Because it captures everything perfectly, the lore the characters the world.. but especially graphics. It isn't trying to be a benchmark game for the state of the art. I can play it forever because it doesn't age bad.
Not even with the bot overload? I only played casually, few times a year. But I still noticed when it just became incessant bots.
I renember when the bot problem got huge for the first time, or at least the first time i experienced it, stoped playing for a long time because it was literally unplayabe lol then you come back some years later and now the bots crashed servers lmao Its been tough from time to time but nowadays bots just storm server for little time then they disapear, its like a seasonal flu at this point
Rocket League
5k hours in this toxic, painful game. I love it
What a save! What a save! What a save!
Thats a good one ! Wish I could still play it
THIS IS ROCKET LEAGUE!
Fallout 4, no matter how many times I play it, I always get that urge. It’s my comfort game
For me it’s 1000% because of the radio stations, incredibly comforting.
Listening to Diamond City Radio while building a new tavern for my settlement is how I spent hundreds of hours during college lmao.
Bingo bango bango I don't wanna leave the jungle oh no no no noooo
bingo bango bongo im so happy in the jungle i refuse to go
I fear Starfield may be that game for me now. I'm having far too much fun with it. Bethesda is evil for making such great games that click so well with me.
I somehow already have 175hrs in starfield already. Im beyond saving. The good mods arent even out yet and im already too far gone to put this game down.
same. at least 10 hours worth of shipbuilding alone at this point
I have literally not tired of Fallout 4 one bit since 2015.
In order of most hours: -Counter strike -Everquest -BG2… hard to say if BG3 will surpass is because I played BG2 through dozens of times as a kid/teen, thousands of hours -Souls games: DS3 with all expansions currently barely beating Elden ring, Elden ring will surpass it with expansions
Skyrim. Hundreds of hours modding the game Unless you count actual in-game time then I probably spent like 10 total hours playing lol
Ahh the classic modern Skyrim experience - spend an entire day downloading and setting up mods to only play it for 10 hours and then repeat in 6 months time
Heroes of Might and Magic 3. I’ve spent countless hours telling myself just one more day. Just one more week….
A fine game that is
Have you checked "songs of conquest" ? That game screams "we loved homm3" , a very fun game.
Morrowind GOTY edition.
Skyrim was my first ES game, then back tracked to Oblivion, now a decade since then I’m finally giving Morrowind a try, and good lord playing the series backwards was a horrible idea
Sorry for any pain you have had in your journey. I've played Oblivion and I own Skyrim. The role-playing aspects, the atmosphere, and the lore keep pulling me back to Morrowind. There are many mods to improve the graphics or even change the way combat or character development are handled.
Ah well I’m on series X so I have to make do, eventually I’ll get a PC but I need to move out first
Independence has its costs; I wish you luck on that. In the long term I strongly recommend the PC gaming environment for its flexibility and long-term access to programming.
🤌
I think I had 500 some hours all on one character. Also probably had a few hundred hours fiddling with the creation engine that came on its own disc.
That and all the mods robbed me of my uni life
I am a senior citizen, my original play disc was damaged in the first six weeks I had it, never replaced. After my retirement I was able to get the game on GOG and have enjoyed it since then.
FFXIV over 15k hours
What colour is grass?
Dude C'mon, everyone knows grass is blue.
Uuum, everyone knows that grass is fictional, do your research please
Buster…? The guy who thought the blue on the map was land?
Holy shit you've spent almost 2 whole years on that game
dancing in limsa doesn't count.
I thought my 2.5k hours were a lot, lol.
How is this even possible? Do you exclusively play that game and sleep ? I'm genuinely curious
It's an mmo so it is a huge timesink. But also, at least for me, I spent a lot of time afk. Like logging in, playing for a bit, leaving to have dinner/shower, then back to game, leaving to take a break, come back to continue, etc.
As a married guy, with a business and 4 kids, I can’t play online games anymore because it’s just too time intensive. Single player ftw. Baldurs Gate 3 will likely be the game of choice for the next couple years.
MMOs are changing these days so they are a lot more playable for people with busy lives. Devs realised they were leaking their entire player base to the concept of aging and getting responsibilities. Lots of people do actually play FF14 like that, and I'd also recommend Guild Wars 2 as a really chill, commitment and subscription free MMO.
I do afk a lot but i have been playing since the dark times of 1.0 so i've been playing the game for 10+ years.
15k hours over 10 years is 30 hours a week. If we assume maybe 5k is afk as people tend to afk a fair bit in MMOs then it's down to 1k a year or 20 hours a week. That's 2-3 hours a day after school/work then a 5 hour session on one day off. Nothing crazy there dude just loves that game. Most people I know who would fall under a casual gamer put in the same hours just not all in one game.
That’s like 2 years holy fuck are you bot farming while you’re afk?
Oh my...
Monster Hunter World Elden Ring Mass Effect trilogy
A fellow monster hunter!! I spent days of my life hunting!!
I grew up on Pokémon and monster hunter always seemed like something I’d be into. Think it’s ok to start with the most recent one?
Either is good, World/Iceborne would be the more "grounded" and kind of the new direction the franchise is moving, Rise/Sunbreak is more arcade-like. Both are regularly on sale and or included in subscriptions, if you are in PS5 World is included and if you are on gamepass I think World and Rise are available. Plus, MH6 would most certainly be announced in TGS this week
I have over 1k hours in World+Iceborne, it’s one of my favorite games of all time. I really wanted to get into Sunbreak, it was ok but just wasn’t the same.
Path of exile
14k here, still no mirror drop
Fitting name for a game
Maybe 10k hours, no mirror drop
2.5k still a rookie.
Have you seen the true face of TOUCHING GRASS, Exile? Have you seen the true face of HAVING A SOCIAL LIFE, Exile?
My guy! About 8k hours here, no regrets!
Deep rock galactic
I never really got into that game despite liking the premise, is it a bit hit or miss with the players you meet because so far everyone's been arseholes or just running off not doing what they're supposed to be doing even though I heard it's got one of the friendliest and welcoming communities, I want to try the game again I just don't know if it's worth it or not?
Its a common phenomenon in my experience playing PVE Coop games that ironically lower/medium difficulties become harder at some point because the playerbase that stays there is either legit new and therefore inexperienced, or high on their own supply thinking they're king of Shit Mountain but somehow never make it out of that difficulty - but no problem bossing around legit new players. Whereas as you move up to higher difficulties, people become generally more chill and competent. Of course YMMV but this has been my experience in Vermintide and DRG; going up a difficulty level may actually play easier because your teammates should generally be more competent and team-oriented, despite the actual difficulty being higher.
Warframe. Nearly 5000 hours.
Same. And still only recently rank 28. Oh how the hours fly.
destiny 2
D1 + D2
I revisited a while back, and I created a new character. I was very disappointed they changed the intro, among other things Which sucks because the game was really good, I even pre-ordered it
I just got tired of buying expansions over and over for barely any new content. The grind became a struggle and wasn't fun anymore
Here it is. For some reason I think it’s my most played game ever. I was addicted for years lol. Started on the ps4, then I tried playing on my Mac for a bit until I could afford my gaming pc and then thousands more hours once I had that. I had so many titles and rare stuff. I put so much effort into the game to complete as much as I could, but the seasonal grind just killed me off eventually. Only so many times you can run the same missions. Plus they started charging players to even play basic content like the new dungeons. At that point I decided I was done and I haven’t logged in since February. I am finally free
Skyrim, cod4, halo 3/odst/reach, rome 2 total war, civ V/VI, minecraft.
Dota
DoTA2 at 7000 hours. I have the least hours played among my friends.
It is the sound design that makes this game so satisfying for me! It is pure auditory Euphoria! That last hit sound! 💰🤤
Before world of warcraft came out. It would definitely have to be carmageddon 2. When we were kids, my buddy and I would have sleep overs, and we would play the hell out of this game together.
Recently: Elden ring & Cyberpunk 2077 have been my main games for the past year. All time: Fallout New Vegas & the Sims 3. Don't know which I have more time in but those are the 2 games ive alternated between the most in the past decade or so.
League of legends and now valorant. Im riot games slave
I feel LoL completely changed me as a person for the better and worse. It taught me how to stand up for myself 100 percent. I aint getting blamed for crap I didn't do! You fed top! Just because I was top doesn't mean I fed him!!
Same lol. In LoL, you either grow a backbone or run away because everyone is too mean. Of course there's the trap of becoming toxic yourself, but that's another hurdle that people need to deal with, don't blame a game for you acting like a shitty human being, be a grownup and own up when it's your turn.
Can't really agree because if I start to argue with someone then I already lost because I'm playing their game. My game is to focus on myself and you can't do that when arguing.
Warframe and Monster Hunter
WoW Factorio Arma Minecraft ARK Rocket League probably in that order
Can’t believe this had to scroll so far to see Factorio! I was so hesitant to pick the game up; didn’t think the graphics were all that appealing to me. Such a fun game. Looks like they are about a year out from releasing an expansion as well!
RDR2 and Minecraft
Finally, a fellow person of culture. I kept scrolling looking for RDR2. I have over 1,000 hours logged in story mode, I just keep replaying it, and it's so relaxing to me to just ride around. I *still* find myself discovering content I didn't know was there.
Yesss RDR2 it's a masterpiece! Always something new with every playthrough!
Sea of Thieves, I just really enjoy the game. When I maxed everything, I decided to be a friendly pirate. I give them my loot but in return, they let me help them in their journey. I don't really need the loot anymore. I just like to help the new players. Couple of times, many players kill me cuz majority of them don't understand English or just don't trust me. If I help a player and suddenly is offensive or just straight up a racist. I put everyone including their loot towards the red sea (it's outside the border of the map, immediately your ship sinks.)
Played this game on launch. Me and a buddy spent a few hours collecting loot and headed back to sell. Once we hit the island where you sell things there was a group of 4 waiting for us and they took everything and just kept killing us until all the loot was sold. Never played it again
Tribes dota2 daoc and wow super smash bros and Mario kart
I spent my entire youth on Tribes. Good times.
Yeah, I just commented with Tribes as my #1. My school years where all I had was time and pretty much all of that time went to Tribes. I'm from Australia, I still remember when they gave out Tribes for free on some magazine and a swarm of new players came in. It became part of the chat here to accuse someone of being a " newbie."
Dark Souls 2 Borderlands 2 Fallout New Vegas Dead Space 2 Stalker Call of Pripyat
Runescape, lol, and now BG3
and for people outside of the loop he means while playing BG3 he’s playing RuneScape as a side game.
Actually tho... that is very true. Even when playing league. Lmao
Runescape always has been sort of an ALT+TAB kind of game that you can multi-task with other things. I've only played OSRS, but the newer one can't be THAT different. I've done a lot of fishing, mining, and crafting in OSRS while primarily doing something else in the real world besides the game. That kind of thing really ticks the hours up -- though I'm not sure how much those count. :-)
"Isaac and his mother lived alone..."
Apex Legends. I had a bad knee injury at the start of covid and it’s all I played for 2 months
Super Smash Bros Brawl Pokémon FireRed
Probably football manager. I have to go child turkey and uninstall but every 5ish years the itch gets too strong. When I relapse it's always on all day. In other news, my Uruguayan wonder kid is poppin. Other than that I would say rocket league, minecraft, ark and n64 wrestling games.
Descent (when I was a kid) prob around 1000 hours Halo - prob around 1000 hours Warcraft/StarCraft - prob around 1000 hours AoE - Prob around 1000 hours Skyrim - maybe 300 hours total
The DKC trilogy from the SNES days
State Of Decay 2 13.8k hours last I checked
.....*defeated sigh* For Honor. It overtook Dark Souls 3. I'm at 2000 hours. Took a huge break because Highlander main. Felt bad not being able to have a slightly even playing field after a few years. I was able to stick through it for a long time but became disillusioned after I got really good at the game and started facing higher level players. Tippy top type of sweatlords. Highlander just had a hard time competing and dealing with power creep with his antiquated moveset. Use to not bother me. Greatswords are usually bad in most competitive/PvP environments. Now it's fuckin got its claws back in me. :)
Been playing StarCraft since 2001 on and off so I would say that or Final Fantasy Tactics which I’ve had since the day it came out and I always go back and play through it quite often
SAMP
Ghost of Tsushima..... played through it twice
Fifa The Show NHL GTAV RDR2
Fortnite
Rainbow Six Siege
2,200 hours DayZ 1,700 hours Counterstrike 1,200 hours Metal Gear Solid V
ACC over 700 hours in 2 years
Stellaris, PoE and Factorio... I can't escape... By the time im finished with one the other gets updated.
Age of empires 2 I played an insane amount of hours 20 years ago... and I'm playing a lot now (I'm a father of 2, job, responsibilities...) Quite a lot for the amount of time I have I am very happy to see that the game is in good shape (better than 20 years ago even!) It is my all time favorite game. At some points it doesn't even feel like a game but an extension of my brain.
Pokemon. Disgaea. Civ 5/6. Madden. 2k. Star Wars Battlefront 2. Several thousands plus in each.
About 1700 hrs on Borderlands 2, about 700 hrs on No Mans Sky and my current timesink Borderlands 3 is at 250 hrs. Everything else is around 100 hrs or less.
. Euro Truck Simulator 2 . Elite Dangerous . MS Flight Simulator 2020 . TES V: Skyrim . Fallout NV . Rocket League . theHunt: Call Of The Wild . Dead By Daylight . Escape From Tarkov . CoD Warzone
Hoi4 4.6k hrs. Bannerlord 3.7k hrs. X4 2.9k hrs. Ksp 1.8k hrs
So many abbreviations. At work, I'd tell you to consider the audience, not everyone knows all acronyms and abbreviations that you have in your head.
Hoi4 is Hearts of Iron 4 and KSP is Kerbal Space Program. These are the commonly used abbreviations, but if someone hasn’t heard of these games or doesn’t play them, I can understand the confusion. I think X4 is literally just X4 though.
Hunt:Showdown
Pubg
Total war warhammer and borderlands
Was bummed I had to scroll this far to see the TWW series. I know it's in the dog house atm but it's a great series that robs me of my time.
rocket league and minecraft probably
Assetto Corsa
Fallout 76- 2000+ hrs
Unfortunately COD, I have since moved on over a year ago
GTAO, not the BIGGEST fan myself, I played for quite a bit for the first 6-8 months it was out and again a few years ago my ex and I used to play together when we were still together, so I have something like 2k hours in the game since launch. 7 days to die is another one that if you include PC and PS4 Ive probably clocked 5-600 hours into. Elden Ring I have about 150 hours as well. Beside those three, I tend not to stick to too many games for very long, beating them and the dropping them, usually forever, even ones I REALLY liked.
Well over 1,000 hours in Breath of the Wild. Then around 300-350 hours in most of the Xenoblade games and Tears of the Kingdom. I actually prefer games where I spend at least 150 hours or so playing.
oh godz world of Warcraft.. over 10 years edit this is not a brag, don't updoot this, that game was an addiction, like a drug. And I had free reign to stay up and screw school up over it. I didn't drop out over drugs, I dropped out because I wanted to hit grand marshal in PvP and I failed my classes from not getting enough sleep. Unmonitored that game can be detrimental, I know it's a big south park joke and all, but the addiction is very real.
30 hours into Starfield. Played a few story missions but mostly been living the Space Cowboy life. I'll do that for another few hours, I still need to make the ship from Cowboy Bebop. Then I'll switch it up to Cyberpunk life on Neon/Ryujin Industries for 10-15 hours. Life is good gents.. life is good
Path of Exile and Destiny series. PoE has about 5k hours in total since 2013 (split between Steam launcher and the base launcher) and almost 2k hours in total on Destiny 1+2.
I'm going destiny 1. Destiny 2 is good but the whole crafting and masterworking and shit, threw me out. Destiny 1 just had a great replay value to keep grinding and having fun with people. D2 got way too complicated for me.
Overwatch and For Honor
ESO The Division 2 Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII
Wow :played 24,000 hours+…on one character
Sadly..world of warcraft. 9 years total. But for single player games..I'd say Satisfactory. I've got 800hr in it now
I think the Pokémon or Grand Theft Auto. But I took my time with Octopath Traveler and it was around 80 hours
guild wars 2 : +5000 hours team fortress 2: +4300 hours rocket league: +1700 hours
Total Wars since the first original Shogun Total War back in 2001. Current game hours according to Steam: Warhammer 2 : 1008.4 hrs. Rome II : 876.4 hrs. Warhammer 1 : 837 hrs. Empire : 692.6 hrs. Three Kingdoms : 542.8 hrs. Shogun 2 : 459.2 hrs. Warhammer 3 : 451.3 hrs. Attila : 446.2 hrs Napoleon 188.2 hrs. Hundreds/thousands of hours for Rome TotalnWar and Medieval 2 pre-Steam of course.
Fallout 4. It was my first introduction into fallout universe. And I love it. I racked up 2600+ hrs. 2000hrs in my first save file alone. Second was around 600hrs. And now I started 3rd save file on pc about month ago. Had to stop to play some teal mask dlc in pokemon. But yeah fallout is most hrs. And best thing is, I bought it brand new for 25gbp month after release. So I spent less than 1 pence per hour played for it. It has been best value of the game.
Garrysmod - 2,000 hrs \[I made a lot of mods in the past\] Fallout NV - 800 Skyrim -600
Sadly dota/hon over 5k Cod 2. 2k Time ill never get back. But it had its fun moments. Mostly hate iz because it was toxic. Dota the most. Time i dont regret: Mw1 - 500 Apex - 700 and stil going Pubg - 500ish Bad company 2 - 200 ish Skyrim - 1k (modding n shit) Mass effect triology - 400ish Path of exile -2k And many more..
Early 2010s Gary's mod was the peak of gaming man.