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?
Borderlands 2, 1200+ hrs. Only game I was comfortable playing multiplayer without getting anxious and the 14 steam friends I have over the years are all BL2 players.
How did you feel about subsequent Borderlands games? I thought the character classes and skill trees only got more interesting as the series went along, generally.
Heh, grumpy old guy rant….imo went downhill after that.
The prequel, AKA Australians in space was ok, but I felt it was DLC.
I did finish BL3 but didn’t like it storywise or the references and humor, even quite annoyed. A lot happened in Tales of the Borderlands (that I did not play, but my son did) and was bummed playing BL3 after having to ask him what happened to missing npc’s or why some annoying npc’s are there. I played mostly Maya in BL2 so yeah, that’s cool.
BL4 and Wonderlands I did not bother to play, although my son bought them on release even preordering BL4, I probably spared me more annoyance.
First two games I 100%ed, played them so much I would literally dream about them.
I’ve heard that a lot as a reaction to BL3’s writing. I only played through this series in the past year, and BL2 was good, but after playing the sequels, I think it would wear thin for me by comparison over extended periods of time. Especially once you get a new computer down the line that can get past the performance problems, I’d recommend trying out BL4. The story won’t be as good as 2, once again, but man, the encounter designs and class designs are so good.
My son talked about that this week, said a new raid boss is coming. I am convinced now to try. What really put me of is the shit Randy was talking after release.
Eh, hundreds of other people worked on the game, too. Borderlands is not Randy. I’ll give you something to look for as you attempt to sink your teeth in: the skills and skill trees are sort of based around a meta game. If you choose to engage with its systems and optimize, you’re not just mindlessly shooting stuff. For instance, I played the Gravitar, who gets feedback loops going around “entangling” enemies; by endgame, my ability was basically never on cooldown, and I had incentives to pick weaker guns because they fed into my gameplan better. My friend that I co-oped the game with played the Siren and had a build where he could loop Kill Skills into one another so they’re all proc-ing all the time. I hope you like it! (The story’s not great though.)