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?
Probably LoL or Rocket League. LoL keeps getting worse tho barely any play time recently. GunZ the duel had a lot of playtime back in the day and came back recently in my heart. fgunz.net
Dont have the information to hand, but Rappelz (f2p MMO that may or may not still exist), Halo (if a whole series counts) and Slay the Spire are all contenders for the top spot.
Islands of Myth.
What got me hooked is really the essence of the game itself. A multiplayer fantasy RPG with a global player base. It’s a really cool concept that I’ve enjoyed in many iterations. EQ, WoW, GW2 etc.
I just never really stopped playing this one. One of the things I love about MUDs is that it’s so easy to just have it running in another window. Killing a monster every 4 minutes during the work day. Chatting with folks and organizing groups while literally playing other MMOs.
I don’t think that I could play WoW on one screen and GW2 on another with any efficacy and I almost certainly wouldn’t enjoy it.
I’ve also really enjoyed the classes the game offers, the ability to multi class, and the reincarnation system which is similar to modern “prestige” systems. Except I can keep most of my earned exp while choosing an entirely different race and class combination.
MUD communities tend to be pretty great and this one has been no exception.
In regards to the screenshot “Mud age” is the same thing as /played or /age in MMOs. The amount of time spent logged in to the game.
For me it’s Minecraft and Space Engineer (1,600 hrs). Maybe 1/4 of the time it’s AFK while machines are gathering the work.
mmmm. I mean that would be tough. When I was doing mmo’s I would be logging in in the morning and evening doing event grinds plus taking time to play more extensively and I did that for years. I take forever to play games though so I put in plenty with cyberpunk and elden ring and final fantasy and baldurs gate. oh and that harry potter. You know though it has to be the mmos because again that was like years and really it was a rare day I did not at least log in to touch base on some sort of grind thing. So either champions online or star trek online.
Fallout New Vegas at 200 hours
World of Warcraft with over 11k hours. Guild wars 2 is probably 2nd with over 6k. The highest on Steam is Warframe with 2329.
For WoW and GW2, it’s basically the same reason. I loved MMO games and the huge world you can explore. I found guilds in both that I vibed with, and still talk with some of those folks today.
For Warframe, the gameplay is top notch IMO. I didn’t mind the grind (I was a MMO player, after all) and the selection of warframes and loadouts kept things from getting too stale. I mainly played with one of my friends I met through WoW, and we roped some friends into playing with us from time to time.
I still get the itch from time to time to get into a new MMO to try and relive the experiences I had from previous games, but those days are most likely behind me.
Morrowind, Skyrim, Minecraft and Final Fantasy Tactics (different modded PS1 Versions mostly) must be the games with the most hours for me. I must have 1000+ hours in each of those, well maybe only 600ish in Tactics.
Final Fantasy XIV and it’s not even close… need to grind to get my girl new outfits
I’ve been playing since mid-2020 now and mostly spend my time either playing the story, doing side-content or making pretty screenshots of new glamours
FFXIV is one of those games that I liked, but wished I could like more. I wasn’t into progression raiding or crafting, so it was always a matter of time before my interest would fizzle out once the current MSQ was done.
Your character looks nice, btw.
Somewhere between 10,000 and 15,000 hours of EQ2 since 2008, across all the characters i made there.
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I actually just started playing it again after a nearly 2 year long break too, so that can’t possibly turn out to be a bad life decision.
Oh fuck me I managed to exorcise Dota from my memory like the cancerous tumor it is. Yeah that might be my most played game overall actually, across Dota 1&2.
Not that I’m suggesting you starting to play again is a bad decision or anything. I’m sure you’ll have a great time.
If the 10,000hrs is correct then your Dota expert now.
More than 800 in Dark Souls 1
GTA Online is my most-played game according to Steam, but that time is largely skewed from how rough the game was upon its original launch. Rather than put up with nearly hour-long loading times whenever I wanted to play, I used to simply leave the game running overnight. And as a result, I’ve got a few thousand hours in that game.
Project Zomboid is a distant second according to playtime, currently around 900 hours, but I think I’m catching up to it in terms of time I’ve spent actually playing the game.
Something about sandboxes with cars and guns that just scratches a certain itch for me.
I’ve also got at least a few hundred hours on iRacing, but because I haven’t linked that to my Steam account, I don’t know the exact amount of time. And I’m not going to look back through my race history to add up every minute of virtual track time.
Easily Kerbal Space Program. I gotta start posting some of my stuff. Got real into SSTOs after a couple thousand hours, now I have a damn fleet of the things. My latest achievement is an SSTO with both a full suite of scientific equipment (including Breaking Ground deployables) and ISRU, and with enough dV to make it almost everywhere in the kerbolar system, refueling and collecting science along the way.
My current goal is to send recovery crafts to bring every space probe back to Kerbin intact. These are dinky little disposable landers thay were meant to transmit science and then be deleted, but now I wanna play an interplanetary crane game and get them back. Clean up my tracking station without destroying any existing crafts.
My top nine, according to steam
Most are so high because I lucked into finding a group of players I could really hang with.
DoD Source and TF2 with a good community server was the best of times :(
