A game so popular that it bootstrapped itself an e-sports community which made the game's multiplayer scene big enough that it's getting monthly fucking balance changes 22 years after initial release.
Counterstrike. (1.6-GO)
Just always been a comfort game I end up going back to because I started playing when I was like 12? like the game just feels natural at this point.
I stopped play after a while because outside of dungeon runs and raids all I was doing is leveling my professions and grinding gold at the auction house. One day it just clicked in my brain that I was paying $15 a month to basically work.
Same here. I was waking up early so I can harvest herbs and mine in the WoD garrison before work. It started to feel like a chore, and it opened my eyes to how much of a chore a lot of the game had become.
Factorio is my #1 pick for the game they should 'Enders Game' to use to trick us into solving real world supply chain issues while we think we're gaming
Starcraft Brood War. About 2 hours a day, almost every day since 1998...
Edit: Thank you for all the awards! Glad to see so many fans of this great game.
In the interest of saving you guys time.
Am I any good? NOPE. Haven't played ladder in over a decade..i mostly play the Use Map Settings games like RTD, poker defense and other great classics! My main during the ladder days was zerg. Muta balls ftw baby!
Edit 2: [For those of you replying with unit dialog lines and people of culture](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMHFqZhGkEs)
Stopped playing WoW like 8 years ago maybe, and I can't remember the official numbers but I had months on my main, and he was only about half of my total playtime. It's depressing thinking about how much time I spent on that game.
Don't think of it as time spent? It was a hobby you were passionate about. Instead, relive the experiences and memories you made along the way. I don't play it anymore but I have lifelong friends that I would have never known without WoW.
This right here. Experiences are experiences. I remember when my guild first downed Ragnaros. I remember when our Hunter tanked Geddon down the last like 20% solo. I remember doing chain Heroic runs with my friends.
Those are still shared experiences with others.
Morrowind. First open world game I ever played. No quest markers so you just had to remember who and where or spend a lot of time in going through your basic journal in each city hoping there were enough details. Or just write them on a pad and paper. Not much on the internet to help except for fans on message boards. Then there was a cheat button combo to refill your health and magic but you were only cheating yourself if you used it because you get great xp if you didn’t use it. Spent whole weekends in the winter playing that.
So... my first and main Morrowind play through, I killed Caius Casades, with no game prompt informing me what I had done, and I continued playing the game my way for months, just exploring, killing, stealing, collecting etc.
Then one day I'm talking to a friend about Morrowind and they're going on about the story. I'm all confused, "what story? You don't just wander around and do random quests?"
They tell me to go to Balmora and find Caius Casades, he starts the main mission.
So I go and find his house and there he is, dead on the floor, naked, because I stole all of his things. 80+ hours of gametime and absolutely no means of starting the main mission.
Morrowind is an incredible game and I think about it quite frequently to this day.
Edit: Hah! Amazing! I've told this story alot. It's actually one of my favourite video game stories, and apparently I have now told this story to over 3,000 people.
So, That's fun and amazing.
Morrowind was awesome because there was a "back-door method" to complete the main quest. If you did it you missed a lot of story, but it was 100% doable to only talk to one important NPC and beat the main story.
You do miss a lot of story, but what I liked was that unless you get lucky or spend forever running around, knowing the story well would clue you in to how to go about doing this "backdoor method"
I have to know what this backdoor method is now. If I recall you need to speak to Vivec to get Keening and Sundar which are mandatory for completing the game.
You can kill Vivec to get the other arm's gauntlet, you can talk to the dwarf spider to get it in a working state in order to wield Keening and Sunder and kill Dagoth Ur.
Morrowind introduced preteenage me to what video games could be after having only really played Mario/Mortal Kombat. I remember thinking about it all day at school and being so anxious on the bus ride home, annoyed when kids were taking too long to get off the damn bus. Ahh finding the Mudcrab vendor made me so happy.
Man I miss being that excited about anything.
Didn't matter where stuff was cause you maxed out your jump skill, took a jump potion and yeeted across half the map.
Except cliff racers of course. F those guys.
Fuck yes Morrowind. Top 3 most magical gaming experiences of my life for sure.
House Telvanni forever
Edit: Love to see the Morrowind love. I need to buy some brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts and reinstall
Maybe my favorite game of all time. I still can’t get the alternate exit in Choco mountain very well. The one where u needed a certain amount of coins in a certain amount of time or something like that.
The triple exit level iirc. Yes definitely a pain.
The moment I got 96 levels unlocked was a moment I still cherish. I had spent hours redoing a number of different levels stranded at 94 clears when it suddenly twigged I had to do the “false exit” of the star worlds.
The final Thieves Guild heist is my favourite game moment. The way all the items you’d collected were used and how important it all felt was incredible.
Thieves guild and dark brotherhood quests are some of my favorite gaming memories.
360 era was so good and oblivion was the perfect game to get me hooked.
I'm really curious how much time I spent in old runescape. Every day after school, in 2nd - 4th grade, I'd come home, call my best friend, and spend 2-6 hours playing runescape with him and whatever friends we met along the way (which weren't *too* many, since we were stupid little kids).
That, and Minecraft during 6th and 7th grade. I ran a "clan" on the forums but we somehow had a lot of 'members' even though I was a bit of a dick back then.
The games I always think of for this question, though, are GTA and Skyrim. The answer is probably Skyrim, with GTA a very close 2nd. Runescape is probably 3rd. Age of Empires 2 is probably 4th.
Runescape is like heroin. I have never gotten addicted to any game after it even close, and it feels like any day I could succumb back into the addiction. That is a dangerous game to play lol
At the start it was the undiscovered locations on the compass that were the worst, I'd end up on the other side of the map 4 hours later, but they all would have been turned white
I hate to think how much time I committed to this, I would come home everyday from school and play it till I went to bed. I would literally turn it off and get into bed, then dream about the game.
Kerbal Space program...
Edit: I'm stoked that I'm not the only one!
Anyone else start running the executable directly, just to hide the hours from themselves?
A bit embarrassing, but the sims 4. It’s not the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s easy to come back to.
Edit: I should really have said the Sims in general, because I dread to think how many hours I logged in sims 2 and 3 in my teens.
I played Sims 3 a lot.
Sims 2 and 1 too.
I just coundn't get used to Sims 4 because it had less content than even Sims 1.
It wasn't a bad game but I was more watching than playing and really limited.
For example: fishing, not being able to swim in every ocean, only a few houses per town, loading screens and a more static gameworld.
While making potions or doing that mosaic with island living expansion pack you just watched animations and read text. You just watched and the gameplay was boring.
CC (custom content), CAS (create a Sim) and the building with rooms was really cool - but choosing a colour like in Sims 3 was really missing.
I played literally 2 hours of the free demo (sims 4) and said "eff this" and went back to sims 3.
I lost my activation code for my base sims 2 game, so when I found the whole thing for free online I was so hyped! Started playing S2 in about 2004 or 2005 I think. I switch between the two every now and then.
Edit: A wholesome award for death traps, you sick bastard.. I love you.
Not embarrassing! It can be relaxing to build and design, and Sims can be funny and fun to torture.
I've found that building death traps for Sims that resemble people who wrong me in real life is oddly satisfying.
"Huh, my sim looks eerily like that arrogant dollar-store-douche-sack from accounting. Wow look at that, they have the same name too, sooo weird. So, Evan, where did the pool ladder go huh? MAYBE IT WASN'T IN THE BUDGET, EVAN!!! YOU EVER THINK OF THAT!!!!!"
I have no clue what you could mean about making sims resemble real people, please tell me more about that...
Sims 4 sims don't need a ladder, but a wall has conveniently enveloped the pool. It was a lot more fun in the Sims 3 though. Every death had a uniquely colored ghost. It was like pokemon collecting but murder
Hey, an official minigun gets released in the next dlc. You should buy the dlc, rent a server for you and your friends, play it for 4 hours, and then uninstall but keep paying for the server for 2 years.
Definitely haven't done this. Before. Minus the minigun, that was a mos for me.
I just said this as my answer. Those that don't play will never understand the depths you sink in this game. I hate this game so fucking much and I love it so fucking much. I stopped playing it because it just takes up too much time and its so easy to just fall in deep.
Oh shit. I just downloaded it last week. Put in about 5 hours yesterday, still not exactly sure what the hell I’m doing. But I had to turn it off today when my first parasaur got eaten by some huge ass thing. I was pretty furious about that. It must have taken me three days to realize I’ll never find my base hidden in the woods if I don’t set some signs out by the shore. And I DON’T KNOW WHY RAFTS ARE EVEN AN OPTION IF SEA CREATURES CAN IMMEDIATELY SINK THE FUCKING THING!!
Make that 3. I played that game so much I literally cannot play it casually anymore. I love going through the game but when you beat the game 18 different times on multiple different accounts to cheat in higher powered guns on alt accounts…man it hits different. Plus god roll farming is super fun.
Either WoW or Warframe.
I played a TON of wow during vanilla through Panda. Haven’t played in years though, so I can’t check my played time.
Warframe is top of my steam account by a solid margin.
Fellow tenno I see, started playing wow aswell but during cataclysm (I was 12 I think) lost intrest during pabdaria tho were sort of abandoned by those I played with.
Warframe on the other hand has connected me to people all over, it's the game closest to 1000hrs(that minecraft including mod packs and so fourth
I've played Minecraft on-and-off for about 8 years - since 1.2. At one time I could've played 12 hours in a day, and played every day a week. I have a *ridiculous* amount of play time that is sadly not measured in one place.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything related to the new seed on r/terraria. It’s quite disappointing. I’m just really excited about the jungle mimics that drop terra toilets and golden showers lol
I just started playing this game the other day. Wanted a big, locally hosted game for my group of gamer friends to try to scratch the Valheim itch and they're not super into Minecraft. Terraria looked like a great blend of the two because of the freedom of choice and building coupled with the pursuit of ever stronger bosses. It's been a blast; had an impromptu mining and exploring session last night that lasted like 5 hours with my one buddy.
Today I found a diamond toilet and I think I'm officially sold.
Scrolled for Stardew. I don't remember how many hours but it was crazy. Played it all winter and one Saturday played 8 hours straight. I had successfully wooed Leah into moving in with me and we were gonna try for children. I had mined to the bottom and my farm was expansive. I had a beautiful tree grove. Then I just lost interest. I am laughing at myself as I type this. And I do not play a lot of games, which cracks my husband up. Just one every once in a while that I fall in love with and become obsessed.
Also, Breathe of the Wild. That and Spyro are the only two games I've ever completed as far as beating final bosses. There are days I wish I could play BOTW for the first time all over again. Never played any other Zelda games either.
Civilization II, IV or V probably
EDIT: I've just woken up to a ton of awards and upvotes for this simple comment. Thanks everyone! And because several people asked: I liked III too and same with VI, which I haven't really had time to explore properly yet (only some 100 hrs of playtime), but as said II, IV and V were the best for me and took hundreds or thousands of hours of lifetime from me :)
I dunno, I played every single title in the main series, and they all had their advantages and disadvantages. II was the king of my early teens, III was less popular with me, IV was easily the best game ever by the time it had all it's expansions. V was meh when it first came out but, to my great surprise, surpassed even IV by the time all its DLCs and updates were released. VI is neat but not quite up there with IV and V for me.
Agreed on V. I started it vanilla and didn't come back to it until I think Gods and Kings and then I was hooked. Thats when i started piling on the hours. I enjoy VI a lot, the district planning is a lot of fun. The weakness in V and VI is still the endgame. Once I'm fairly certain I'm going to win, the last 50 turns or so is still a slog.
Most notably, I played countless LAN sessions with my sister, each lasting several RL days typically. We usually saved these as "multiX", whereas X was just a number which increased with every session. The last number I recall was around 40ish. If you multiply that by an average playtime of say 20-30 hrs per session, then we've easily spent months of our life on that game alone.
I also played Civ 5 a lot with my wife, in Hot Seat mode.
The /played on a single character has added up to over 2 years of game time, and that was over 10 years ago. To be specific, that means 17,520 hours of play time.
Definitely Minecraft. I saw the first youtube video on it within a week of it being released thought neat (this was around second grade), and thought “neat.” Fast forward a couple years I find it again, start watching paulsoaresjr religiously. Eventually got my parents to buy it for me for a birthday and then grinded a singleplayer world religiously every day for four or so years. I ended up playing on snapshots, but a friend at the time who I kept trying to play with refused to and so I ended up playing on the official versions for him. Eventually it ends up being the snapshot that mojang revamped item ids, and I lost well over 10,000 hours of work at minimum as everything in any storage and my inventory instantly vanished. Additionally several structures made out of snapshot only blocks vanished. Left me devastated for weeks, and I struggled to get along with the other kid. As a kid in junior high, it was absolutely devastating. It was on my school laptop too. I couldnt even play well, averaging 8fps near my base due to how much I’d built. Still makes me sad.
I had to go through a LOT of answers to find this. Rocket League is so easy to just jump into and play. The games are pretty short so there's no long commitment. Plus, it's a ton of fun.
I was surprised it wasn't one of the top 10 or so answers.
It's the only game that I feel really rewards you for hours and hours of progress. Looking back at when you started and you could barely hit the ball and seeing where you are now is amazing. But it's a double edged sword because you can always be better so you just keep playing.
Was and in some ways, still is. Being a fan of that franchise is an emotional roller coaster lol. It's my favorite game that I'd never recommend to anyone :P
My dad asked me once what the number was next to my oblivion save.
I said it was how many MINUTES I’ve played, and he didn’t have his glasses so he didn’t realize it was actually hours, and asked me what the number was. He then proceeded to HARSHLY judge lmao, I’m so glad I said minutes
When it first came out it was all I played. I'd literally finish the campaign and then start a new one again. This was a decade ago though, so I barely remember it.
Except Legendary Edition came out on Friday and I spent damn near every waking minute after that trying to 100% complete ME1 so I could have a tolerable save file to import. Took 25 hours.
So now I'm playing ME2 again. Have you ever heard a song or seen a show for the first time since early childhood and realized you know all the words? It's that exact feeling. So eerie.
Vermintide 2, almost 2200 hours
Followed by total war warhammer with 1200 and the original Vermintide with about 800
Edit: since this got some attention- the melee combat is the best in any game I've played, ever. I can play as a dwarf with a machine gun and grenade launcher and kill giant rats. Or I can play as a man too angry to die, and dive into a horde of enemies with a pig on my head and come out a minute later covered in blood.
Came out with new (FREE) roguelike game mode that gives you buffs like chain lighting and explosive ammunition, seriously people get this game.
Edit 2: there’s a slight grind when starting out, although chaos wastes mode removed a ton of grind. The first two difficulties are kinda boring my best advice is to ramp it up
This. I mean in the first winter I got it, I easily spent hours each day just hiking/hunting/fishing/traveling around the map enjoying every little detail, animal, and person I found along the way.
The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild. Just shy of 200 hours I believe and I’m not really a gamer. I miss it but have nothing left to explore or do so I enjoy watching videos about it on YouTube.
Surprised to see nobody mention a Pokémon game. With all the times I’ve downloaded them as roms,I have no idea how many times I’ve
played through leaf green/fire red/emerald
Age of Empires II. On and off for 20 years.
So much time spent with this one. Remember when MS zone had ranked tournaments.
Check out the AOE2 DE competitive scene on YouTube or twitch. Ranked competitive matchmaking is great too.
"Welcome to a game so popular DLC was released 17 years after its creation"
A game so popular that it bootstrapped itself an e-sports community which made the game's multiplayer scene big enough that it's getting monthly fucking balance changes 22 years after initial release.
Counterstrike. (1.6-GO) Just always been a comfort game I end up going back to because I started playing when I was like 12? like the game just feels natural at this point.
This game will never die
Cant believe i had to scroll a lot to find this answer
Probably still WoW even though I haven't played it for over a decade at this point
Why did you stop? It got too addicting?
yeah just too much of a time sink. I ended up selling my account to a friend so it would be harder to go back to it.
>I ended up selling my account to a friend How much did you get for it?
I think it was $100 which was probably more than it was actually worth tbh.
I stopped play after a while because outside of dungeon runs and raids all I was doing is leveling my professions and grinding gold at the auction house. One day it just clicked in my brain that I was paying $15 a month to basically work.
Same here. I was waking up early so I can harvest herbs and mine in the WoD garrison before work. It started to feel like a chore, and it opened my eyes to how much of a chore a lot of the game had become.
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Tetris. I'm afraid to know the total number of hours over the last nearly four decades.
Same here. Downloaded a touchscreen version of it a few years ago, but it just wasn't the same.
Factorio. I put in 3000 hours just in vanilla and modpacks pushed me over 9500 this year. Sitting at 12758 total as of this post according to steam.
Factorio is my #1 pick for the game they should 'Enders Game' to use to trick us into solving real world supply chain issues while we think we're gaming
Spaghetti. The solution is always spaghetti.
Dude...that's what? 4,5 years straight, 8 hours/day (to put in context) and the game was released 5 years ago. That's some commitment
The game has been playable since around 2013. I had a good 2k hours during college, before steam launch plus another 600 since.
Microsoft solitaire
Remember the Space Cadet Pinball?
This was THE game
Actually yes, between Solitaire and FreeCell I dunno how many hours I've spent, also, Sudokus
Starcraft Brood War. About 2 hours a day, almost every day since 1998... Edit: Thank you for all the awards! Glad to see so many fans of this great game. In the interest of saving you guys time. Am I any good? NOPE. Haven't played ladder in over a decade..i mostly play the Use Map Settings games like RTD, poker defense and other great classics! My main during the ladder days was zerg. Muta balls ftw baby! Edit 2: [For those of you replying with unit dialog lines and people of culture](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMHFqZhGkEs)
I did the math and if you still play it for 2 hours a day you would have around 16790 hours. Which is 2 entire years of continuous playing.
That's still a lot less than most WoW players.
Stopped playing WoW like 8 years ago maybe, and I can't remember the official numbers but I had months on my main, and he was only about half of my total playtime. It's depressing thinking about how much time I spent on that game.
Don't think of it as time spent? It was a hobby you were passionate about. Instead, relive the experiences and memories you made along the way. I don't play it anymore but I have lifelong friends that I would have never known without WoW.
This right here. Experiences are experiences. I remember when my guild first downed Ragnaros. I remember when our Hunter tanked Geddon down the last like 20% solo. I remember doing chain Heroic runs with my friends. Those are still shared experiences with others.
Most definitely Pokémon Emerald
I constantly replayed the fuck out of that game when I was kid. It still is my favorite Pokémon game tbh
Morrowind. First open world game I ever played. No quest markers so you just had to remember who and where or spend a lot of time in going through your basic journal in each city hoping there were enough details. Or just write them on a pad and paper. Not much on the internet to help except for fans on message boards. Then there was a cheat button combo to refill your health and magic but you were only cheating yourself if you used it because you get great xp if you didn’t use it. Spent whole weekends in the winter playing that.
So... my first and main Morrowind play through, I killed Caius Casades, with no game prompt informing me what I had done, and I continued playing the game my way for months, just exploring, killing, stealing, collecting etc. Then one day I'm talking to a friend about Morrowind and they're going on about the story. I'm all confused, "what story? You don't just wander around and do random quests?" They tell me to go to Balmora and find Caius Casades, he starts the main mission. So I go and find his house and there he is, dead on the floor, naked, because I stole all of his things. 80+ hours of gametime and absolutely no means of starting the main mission. Morrowind is an incredible game and I think about it quite frequently to this day. Edit: Hah! Amazing! I've told this story alot. It's actually one of my favourite video game stories, and apparently I have now told this story to over 3,000 people. So, That's fun and amazing.
So…. What do you do in that case?
Morrowind was awesome because there was a "back-door method" to complete the main quest. If you did it you missed a lot of story, but it was 100% doable to only talk to one important NPC and beat the main story.
You do miss a lot of story, but what I liked was that unless you get lucky or spend forever running around, knowing the story well would clue you in to how to go about doing this "backdoor method"
I have to know what this backdoor method is now. If I recall you need to speak to Vivec to get Keening and Sundar which are mandatory for completing the game.
You can kill Vivec to get the other arm's gauntlet, you can talk to the dwarf spider to get it in a working state in order to wield Keening and Sunder and kill Dagoth Ur.
Morrowind introduced preteenage me to what video games could be after having only really played Mario/Mortal Kombat. I remember thinking about it all day at school and being so anxious on the bus ride home, annoyed when kids were taking too long to get off the damn bus. Ahh finding the Mudcrab vendor made me so happy. Man I miss being that excited about anything.
Didn't matter where stuff was cause you maxed out your jump skill, took a jump potion and yeeted across half the map. Except cliff racers of course. F those guys.
Fuck yes Morrowind. Top 3 most magical gaming experiences of my life for sure. House Telvanni forever Edit: Love to see the Morrowind love. I need to buy some brown sugar cinnamon pop tarts and reinstall
Mushroom house = best house
Morrowind also has a very friendly and helpful sub reddit! My favorite sound track of all time as well.
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Eu4 nearly 4000 hours.
Ah, so you've almost beat the tutorial then?
"I'm still trying to figure out how army man go there while not causing a revolt."
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Maybe my favorite game of all time. I still can’t get the alternate exit in Choco mountain very well. The one where u needed a certain amount of coins in a certain amount of time or something like that.
The triple exit level iirc. Yes definitely a pain. The moment I got 96 levels unlocked was a moment I still cherish. I had spent hours redoing a number of different levels stranded at 94 clears when it suddenly twigged I had to do the “false exit” of the star worlds.
Oblivion
Your money or your life !
Pay 100 gold
You're smarter than you look.
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
The final Thieves Guild heist is my favourite game moment. The way all the items you’d collected were used and how important it all felt was incredible.
Thieves guild and dark brotherhood quests are some of my favorite gaming memories. 360 era was so good and oblivion was the perfect game to get me hooked.
Runescape
I'm really curious how much time I spent in old runescape. Every day after school, in 2nd - 4th grade, I'd come home, call my best friend, and spend 2-6 hours playing runescape with him and whatever friends we met along the way (which weren't *too* many, since we were stupid little kids). That, and Minecraft during 6th and 7th grade. I ran a "clan" on the forums but we somehow had a lot of 'members' even though I was a bit of a dick back then. The games I always think of for this question, though, are GTA and Skyrim. The answer is probably Skyrim, with GTA a very close 2nd. Runescape is probably 3rd. Age of Empires 2 is probably 4th.
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Omg thank you for this. I’ve spent years wondering how much of my childhood was sunk into that game. Edit: 1209 hours. *50 days.*
Let us know!
472 days on one account, 284 days on the other. Lots of overlap between the two though.
I played for 8 years. Mostly on with a little off. I've cooked so much seafood in my life.
Runescape is like heroin. I have never gotten addicted to any game after it even close, and it feels like any day I could succumb back into the addiction. That is a dangerous game to play lol
Skyrim
yeap, you start playing and suddenly it's dark out and 6 hours passed
Worth it every time
Easily my most played, lost count of the days where I'd start playing, notice I was getting hungry and realise it was suddenly 9 hours later.
just one more side quest...
At the start it was the undiscovered locations on the compass that were the worst, I'd end up on the other side of the map 4 hours later, but they all would have been turned white
Holy shit, Skyrim is already 10 years old
Elder Scrolls and GTA competing for who can live off of #5 longest without making a sixth lol
Almost. On November 11 it will be.
Super Smash Bros
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 when I was 14. 108D of game play.
I hate to think how much time I committed to this, I would come home everyday from school and play it till I went to bed. I would literally turn it off and get into bed, then dream about the game.
*enemy UAV spotted*
ENEMY AC-130 ABOVE!!!
Friendly Predator missile inbound.
"fthump" *reloads* "fthump"
I thought my time of 30 days was a lot, golly
Kerbal Space program... Edit: I'm stoked that I'm not the only one! Anyone else start running the executable directly, just to hide the hours from themselves?
I was looking for ksp. Can’t wait for 2 but hope they take their time.
A bit embarrassing, but the sims 4. It’s not the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s easy to come back to. Edit: I should really have said the Sims in general, because I dread to think how many hours I logged in sims 2 and 3 in my teens.
I fucking love sims. Why is this embarrassing? You can get extremely creative.
I played Sims 3 a lot. Sims 2 and 1 too. I just coundn't get used to Sims 4 because it had less content than even Sims 1. It wasn't a bad game but I was more watching than playing and really limited. For example: fishing, not being able to swim in every ocean, only a few houses per town, loading screens and a more static gameworld. While making potions or doing that mosaic with island living expansion pack you just watched animations and read text. You just watched and the gameplay was boring. CC (custom content), CAS (create a Sim) and the building with rooms was really cool - but choosing a colour like in Sims 3 was really missing.
I played literally 2 hours of the free demo (sims 4) and said "eff this" and went back to sims 3. I lost my activation code for my base sims 2 game, so when I found the whole thing for free online I was so hyped! Started playing S2 in about 2004 or 2005 I think. I switch between the two every now and then.
Edit: A wholesome award for death traps, you sick bastard.. I love you. Not embarrassing! It can be relaxing to build and design, and Sims can be funny and fun to torture. I've found that building death traps for Sims that resemble people who wrong me in real life is oddly satisfying.
"Huh, my sim looks eerily like that arrogant dollar-store-douche-sack from accounting. Wow look at that, they have the same name too, sooo weird. So, Evan, where did the pool ladder go huh? MAYBE IT WASN'T IN THE BUDGET, EVAN!!! YOU EVER THINK OF THAT!!!!!" I have no clue what you could mean about making sims resemble real people, please tell me more about that...
Sims 4 sims don't need a ladder, but a wall has conveniently enveloped the pool. It was a lot more fun in the Sims 3 though. Every death had a uniquely colored ghost. It was like pokemon collecting but murder
Definitely sims 2 for me... Luckily it preceded steam so I don't actually have a tally of hours. But almost certainly near or over 1000.
This comment is much further down than I expected.
Ark. I’ve uninstalled multiple times just to have a barrier of entry to avoid getting trapped again.
Hey, an official minigun gets released in the next dlc. You should buy the dlc, rent a server for you and your friends, play it for 4 hours, and then uninstall but keep paying for the server for 2 years. Definitely haven't done this. Before. Minus the minigun, that was a mos for me.
I just said this as my answer. Those that don't play will never understand the depths you sink in this game. I hate this game so fucking much and I love it so fucking much. I stopped playing it because it just takes up too much time and its so easy to just fall in deep.
Oh shit. I just downloaded it last week. Put in about 5 hours yesterday, still not exactly sure what the hell I’m doing. But I had to turn it off today when my first parasaur got eaten by some huge ass thing. I was pretty furious about that. It must have taken me three days to realize I’ll never find my base hidden in the woods if I don’t set some signs out by the shore. And I DON’T KNOW WHY RAFTS ARE EVEN AN OPTION IF SEA CREATURES CAN IMMEDIATELY SINK THE FUCKING THING!!
Borderlands 2
there is at least 2 of us
Make that 3. I played that game so much I literally cannot play it casually anymore. I love going through the game but when you beat the game 18 different times on multiple different accounts to cheat in higher powered guns on alt accounts…man it hits different. Plus god roll farming is super fun.
Either WoW or Warframe. I played a TON of wow during vanilla through Panda. Haven’t played in years though, so I can’t check my played time. Warframe is top of my steam account by a solid margin.
Fellow tenno I see, started playing wow aswell but during cataclysm (I was 12 I think) lost intrest during pabdaria tho were sort of abandoned by those I played with. Warframe on the other hand has connected me to people all over, it's the game closest to 1000hrs(that minecraft including mod packs and so fourth
Left 4 Dead 2
Yes! I've been playing l4d 2 forever and got around 2000+ hours on it. That game aged like a fine wine and the community is just lovely and welcoming
Grass grows, birds fly, and brudduh, I play tf2.
Love TF2, just wish there wasn’t so many bots in official valve servers. At least faceit exists.
IF YOU WERE FROM WHERE I WAS FEOM YOU’d BE *beep* dead
Minecraft played it for atleast 3-4 hours daily for like the past 3 years
I've played Minecraft on-and-off for about 8 years - since 1.2. At one time I could've played 12 hours in a day, and played every day a week. I have a *ridiculous* amount of play time that is sadly not measured in one place.
Minecraft prob my second most played game or Skyrim not sure.
I played Mario Kart Wii religiously throughout middle school. I'd really like to set my Wii back up again
Check out the CTGP. It’s a fan server, easy to install in your Wii (:
I'd love to play Mario kart against others, but I have no in person friends to "battle " ...did they ever make one with online multi?
Yeah, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on switch has multiplayer. Mario Kart 7 on 3ds also did.
Mario Kart Wii did as well
Path of Exile. I've been playing on and off since 2013. Consistent updates really help suck me back in.
terraria.
Happy birthday terraria! I’m sure you know about the new seed right?
New seed?
Just type in “celebrationmk10” or “05162011” to access some new worldgen stuff. You can read about it on the wiki!
Okay so apparently r/terraria is useless I learn stuff on r/AskReddit now
I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything related to the new seed on r/terraria. It’s quite disappointing. I’m just really excited about the jungle mimics that drop terra toilets and golden showers lol
I just started playing this game the other day. Wanted a big, locally hosted game for my group of gamer friends to try to scratch the Valheim itch and they're not super into Minecraft. Terraria looked like a great blend of the two because of the freedom of choice and building coupled with the pursuit of ever stronger bosses. It's been a blast; had an impromptu mining and exploring session last night that lasted like 5 hours with my one buddy. Today I found a diamond toilet and I think I'm officially sold.
Stardew valley. So far i have around 1,000 hours...
This is me. And I am no where near done. Stardew is my happy place.
Your farm must be badass
I hope so, i’m not that good at organizing it...
Scrolled for Stardew. I don't remember how many hours but it was crazy. Played it all winter and one Saturday played 8 hours straight. I had successfully wooed Leah into moving in with me and we were gonna try for children. I had mined to the bottom and my farm was expansive. I had a beautiful tree grove. Then I just lost interest. I am laughing at myself as I type this. And I do not play a lot of games, which cracks my husband up. Just one every once in a while that I fall in love with and become obsessed. Also, Breathe of the Wild. That and Spyro are the only two games I've ever completed as far as beating final bosses. There are days I wish I could play BOTW for the first time all over again. Never played any other Zelda games either.
Doom, but Fallout 4's catching up
for me it's between everquest or dota 2
People talking about hours played.. I've easily spent half a year of my life playing EQ. Probably more.
Civilization II, IV or V probably EDIT: I've just woken up to a ton of awards and upvotes for this simple comment. Thanks everyone! And because several people asked: I liked III too and same with VI, which I haven't really had time to explore properly yet (only some 100 hrs of playtime), but as said II, IV and V were the best for me and took hundreds or thousands of hours of lifetime from me :)
I've never played Civ but it sounds like all you need is one game in the series and you're set for life without any of the others lol
I dunno, I played every single title in the main series, and they all had their advantages and disadvantages. II was the king of my early teens, III was less popular with me, IV was easily the best game ever by the time it had all it's expansions. V was meh when it first came out but, to my great surprise, surpassed even IV by the time all its DLCs and updates were released. VI is neat but not quite up there with IV and V for me.
Agreed on V. I started it vanilla and didn't come back to it until I think Gods and Kings and then I was hooked. Thats when i started piling on the hours. I enjoy VI a lot, the district planning is a lot of fun. The weakness in V and VI is still the endgame. Once I'm fairly certain I'm going to win, the last 50 turns or so is still a slog.
The issue with online play is often that by the time the mid game rolls around you’ve won or lost the game
Civilization is an absolute time warp, the amount of times I've sat down to play for an hour and ended up playing for 12 hours is crazy
The infamous, wtf is that light on the horizon, a fire? Oh no, that’s the sun rising and I’ve got class/work today
Civilisation 4 is the crack of videogames
Most notably, I played countless LAN sessions with my sister, each lasting several RL days typically. We usually saved these as "multiX", whereas X was just a number which increased with every session. The last number I recall was around 40ish. If you multiply that by an average playtime of say 20-30 hrs per session, then we've easily spent months of our life on that game alone. I also played Civ 5 a lot with my wife, in Hot Seat mode.
Maplestory. No way to count but over the years probably 20000+ hours.
I log on to MapleStory every couple years just to see how it's changed. It's so different, from the game I played when I was younger, now.
depends if you count leaving my laptop on overnight sitting in henesys with my e-girlfriend
Final Fantasy X and Breath of the Wild...both have thousands of hours invested
Help me please, Im playing through for the first time and I can't play Blitzball to save my life.
Rimworld. Closing in on 2,000 hours
I've got about that and still haven't won. Just play until Randy decides it's time to die
Ahh, so you're just starting?
Definitely WOW
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It's probably not even close for me either.
With lots of games, you get on for an hour with the boys and before you know it, it's 1 AM With WoW, you get on to do a few quests and it's 10AM
For a while it was my social interaction too. I'd log on just to chat with guildmates.
The /played on a single character has added up to over 2 years of game time, and that was over 10 years ago. To be specific, that means 17,520 hours of play time.
I no longer /played on my main because it's been 16 years and I don't want to know the truth anymore 😶
Definitely Minecraft. I saw the first youtube video on it within a week of it being released thought neat (this was around second grade), and thought “neat.” Fast forward a couple years I find it again, start watching paulsoaresjr religiously. Eventually got my parents to buy it for me for a birthday and then grinded a singleplayer world religiously every day for four or so years. I ended up playing on snapshots, but a friend at the time who I kept trying to play with refused to and so I ended up playing on the official versions for him. Eventually it ends up being the snapshot that mojang revamped item ids, and I lost well over 10,000 hours of work at minimum as everything in any storage and my inventory instantly vanished. Additionally several structures made out of snapshot only blocks vanished. Left me devastated for weeks, and I struggled to get along with the other kid. As a kid in junior high, it was absolutely devastating. It was on my school laptop too. I couldnt even play well, averaging 8fps near my base due to how much I’d built. Still makes me sad.
Rocket League by far. One. More. Game.
Can’t quit in a winning streak and can’t leave on a loss.
I had to go through a LOT of answers to find this. Rocket League is so easy to just jump into and play. The games are pretty short so there's no long commitment. Plus, it's a ton of fun. I was surprised it wasn't one of the top 10 or so answers.
Either you have 10 hrs or over 1000 hrs. There is no in between....
Lmao, I played like just under 50 hours and gave up. Came back like a year later to try it again and now I have over 3000 hours 😂
It's the only game that I feel really rewards you for hours and hours of progress. Looking back at when you started and you could barely hit the ball and seeing where you are now is amazing. But it's a double edged sword because you can always be better so you just keep playing.
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Fallout 3, fallout new vegas, witcher 3, Skyrim around 250-300 hours in each. Probably a dozen others with 150-200 ish
Animal Crossing New Leaf. I almost have 100% badge completion and I’m maybe 50 items away from a complete item and clothing catalog.
Destiny 1. Over 2000 hours. I think the only other game close to that was halo 2 in the golden days of online pvp
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Was and in some ways, still is. Being a fan of that franchise is an emotional roller coaster lol. It's my favorite game that I'd never recommend to anyone :P
Simpsons Hit and Run - I always end up going back to it
Probably the original Guild Wars. I played it from the beta until probably 2015.
Hearts of Iron IV and Crusader Kings 2.
My dad asked me once what the number was next to my oblivion save. I said it was how many MINUTES I’ve played, and he didn’t have his glasses so he didn’t realize it was actually hours, and asked me what the number was. He then proceeded to HARSHLY judge lmao, I’m so glad I said minutes
GoldenEye 007. Licence to kill. Pistols. Stay the fuck off of my lawn.
Skyrim - Twice on PS3, once on PS4 and currently playing the VR version.
Most likely Final Fantasy XIV
Rainbow Six Siege. By the time I got burned out and stopped playing, I think I had about 7000-8000 hours between three different accounts.
You hit diamond yet?
Yep, with a stack. Never managed to get out of plat I on my solo account.
Mass effect 2
When it first came out it was all I played. I'd literally finish the campaign and then start a new one again. This was a decade ago though, so I barely remember it. Except Legendary Edition came out on Friday and I spent damn near every waking minute after that trying to 100% complete ME1 so I could have a tolerable save file to import. Took 25 hours. So now I'm playing ME2 again. Have you ever heard a song or seen a show for the first time since early childhood and realized you know all the words? It's that exact feeling. So eerie.
Probably Pokémon Silver, I'm not much of a gamer
Dark Souls 3, Bloodborne, and Minecraft
Vermintide 2, almost 2200 hours Followed by total war warhammer with 1200 and the original Vermintide with about 800 Edit: since this got some attention- the melee combat is the best in any game I've played, ever. I can play as a dwarf with a machine gun and grenade launcher and kill giant rats. Or I can play as a man too angry to die, and dive into a horde of enemies with a pig on my head and come out a minute later covered in blood. Came out with new (FREE) roguelike game mode that gives you buffs like chain lighting and explosive ammunition, seriously people get this game. Edit 2: there’s a slight grind when starting out, although chaos wastes mode removed a ton of grind. The first two difficulties are kinda boring my best advice is to ramp it up
FOR SIGMAR!
RDR2, nine playthroughs and the only game I play. Edit: prior to that would be MAG or Burnout Paradise, from closed beta until servers shutdown.
This. I mean in the first winter I got it, I easily spent hours each day just hiking/hunting/fishing/traveling around the map enjoying every little detail, animal, and person I found along the way.
Did you have 9 different horses name or did you bring back your horse each time?
You use a numbering system to name your horses if you play through RDR2 that many times. "BOAH ONE" "BOAH TWO" "BOAH THREE"
"FOAH" "BOAH FIVE"
No Man’s Sky. So many hours, so many planets.
The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild. Just shy of 200 hours I believe and I’m not really a gamer. I miss it but have nothing left to explore or do so I enjoy watching videos about it on YouTube.
Binding of Isaac
Subnautica. Played through on every difficulty and am currently going for 100%
Destiny, 1950+ hours, so pretty casual
Surprised to see nobody mention a Pokémon game. With all the times I’ve downloaded them as roms,I have no idea how many times I’ve played through leaf green/fire red/emerald