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?
You ok over there?
Don’t worry, I haven’t played in over a year now.
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That’s eight hours a day for five straight years. You sure love those cookies.
Games are short (5 mins). Queues are short (less than 1 min). Cross platform. Runs on Linux. Controller support (preferred). Easy to understand, but high skill ceiling. Amateur leagues are fun. Keeps my reflexes sharp. Can turn chat off. A decent esports scene.
What a save!
I have a couple hundred hours in rocket league from playing with friends around ~2020. Was a ton of fun, even if I never managed to get any good at it. 🤣
This is definitely the answer for me, at least since Steam showed up. I have no way of knowing how many hours I sunk into Quake-Q3 Arena and OG Team Fortress mods though
The progress you make from driving and bumping the ball to rocketing through the air and dunking is amazing.
Then the match making is so good that every match feels challenging but still fun.
One of the great things about rl was there were no cheaters but now with bots and anti cheat not sure where it’s heading next.
Im sure the new EAC anti cheat that was included in the latest patch will help with the botters. It works on Linux too. While its unfortunate some of the mods will no longer work when running in Online mode, you can still use mods in Offline mode. Plus they started working with modders to include some of their features in-game so that those who were used to playing with mods still have similar experience online.
This game really hasn’t been plagued too much with hackers and botters, and I think its good to see the devs are still attempting to keep them out.
Late to the party, but for me Endless Sky: https://github.com/endless-sky
As far as I know, it’s the only open source and crowed developed game out there.
If you remember EV series, it’s basically that. But better and under constant development.
Allow me to introduce you to BAR. (Also open source)
That looks really good and will scratch the ancient Starcraft itch. Thanks!
I’ve played it. It’s much more like Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander.
God I miss the heyday of playing TA online.
TA was great too.
Endless Sky looks cool. Definitely going to give it a try.
My two favorite open source games are Thrive and Cataclysm DDA
Thrive is an evolutionary survival game. Similar to Spore, you start as a single-cell microbe. You gather nutrients, evade dangers, and evolve adaptations. Eventually, you can progress to the multicellular stage, then macroscopic, etc. up to spacefaring. Currently everything after multicellular is placeholder, but the cellular gameplay is fun and has enough viable strategies to make replaying interesting. https://github.com/Revolutionary-Games/Thrive
Cataclysm DDA is a zombie-survival rogue-like simulation game. You start as a single survivor and need to scavenge for food, shelter, and protection. If you like games that focus on system/simulation complexity over visuals (e.g. dwarf fortress) I’d recommend this one. For example, the vehicle system allows you to build custom vehicles, which can be anything from a dinky wooden bicycle to a monstrous RV-turned deathdozer+mobile base-on-wheels. https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
I bought Spore for my kids when it came out but wound up playing it far more than them!
Spode demanding tribute to their religion again? Oh no! I destroyed all your cities and turned your planet into a nature preserve so you can never come back.
I had mixed reactions about Spore. The ambition/breadth of gameplay was impressive. The creature creator was impressive, and it was fun to see other people’s creatures show up in-game. I was disappointed at the shallowness of individual stages, how little earlier stages affected later stages, and the tediousness of space. I think without the pre-game hype, the balance would have been more positive feeling than negative for me, but I mostly remember it as few gems wrapped in disappointment.
My eldest son shares your views entirely.
Did not care much for the expansion, just didn’t like the game play. Didn’t even finish it, so it is almost all base game and mods.
I really should try this game.
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I I keep getting stuck once I get to blue science packs. I usually play without enemy spawns.
What didn’t you like about the expansion?
Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.
I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.
I didn’t like all the back and forth between planets. Just not my play style I guess.
I don’t think the expansion is bad, and I support the factorio devs in making a really good game. I just personally didn’t get sucked into it.
Yeah, fair. I dont do a ton of that, myself.
I build a heavy cargo ship with a bunch of raw supplies, assemblers, roboports, and ingredients for a rocket, go to the planet, slap down a rocket, some solar, a roboport, and logistics chests, and leave.
If I have to return in person, I have failed my challenge.
Team Fortress 2
Same, i haven’t touched it in 10 years but it’s all my top played game from my college days. Poetically followed by Sims 4 but my hours are skewed since my spouse and i both play it on the same account.
I had about 700 hours played in high school, I picked the game back up ~2021 and am now up to 2,000 hours. Working from home helped with that alot, although I haven’t played in 2 or so months.
I have been playing Unreal Tournament (1999) since 2000. It is impossible for me to tally up those hours.
great game
Trackable? Terraria at just over 1,350 hours plus another 147 in tmodloader since it moved to steam 7 Days to Die at 711 Binding of Isaac at 572
Untrackable? Probably Breath of Fire 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, or maybe Secret of Mana I play a randomizer of one of them almost every night before I go to bed or when I’m bored.
World of Warcraft, split between a vanilla private server and official Classic. I have a character on each with over 150 days of playtime (although significant chunks of that are leaving the game open while doing other things, and also programming addons while otherwise afk at the bank).
A man of culture
Rimworld
I’m sure when I last checked GTA5 on PS4 was sitting at around 1500 hours.
MW2 back on 360 was sitting at around 35 days according to the multiplayer leaderboards.
Factorio! 2k hours :)
I wish I had a total hours count for all the combined Pokemon games; I got Pokemon Blue when I was in middle school and spent just an unfathomable number of hours in it. I’m not sure if that, plus all the time I spent later in Gold, Sapphire, HeartGold, Black, Black 2, screwing around with romhacks, comes to more than my highest known amount of time logged in a video game, which is around 2,600 hours in Dota 2.
I’ve got over 2500 hours in Civ VI, and probably double that or more for all previous versions of Civ
The Binding Of Isaac, around 1700 or something
Same. I usually come back for 40+ hours each year. I only stopped playing because my save file corrupted
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
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.
I just quit last year. Been at it since ARR. Don’t have time for it anymore. It is easily my top hours too.
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.
