Most played game...

What is the game that has robbed you of most of your time over the years? (not including online play) I'm now 26 so I don't get a great deal of time for games anymore but am enjoying Fallout 3 and Empire Total at the moment in the time I do have.

As for the games that I spent most time on it has to be close but Ultima 7:The Black Gate wins, it was just so expansive - the 1st game I recall to give you full freedom to move outside the plot. Ultimately I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing because I never completed the game - always getting sidetracked finding new ways to commit crimes without getting caught.

2nd for me is l'emperor which isn't quite in the same field for expansiveness but it was one of those games where you could improve your performance everytime you started a new campaign or set yourself tangetial goals to the main plot. My online game was counterstrike, I poured tonnes of time into this game in online play and LAN competitions. Won a bit of money too but mainly money spent - immensely fun & satisfying though.

Interested to hear on what games other people's time was spent....

 

I'm 17, but the game for me has to be Starcraft: Broodwar. I've played that easily 750+ hours between online and re-playing campaign.

 

for me, I am 30, an immortal game is sim city 4 (but thanks to mods).
Been playing it for ages.

 

Even though I don't have much time to game anymore, Battlefield 2/Project Reality has been the longest game I've ever played. After that it would be Counter Strike Source, way back in the good old days and Call of Duty 4 which I got pretty sick of after finishing all the ranks.

 

Probably a toss up b/w:

Starcraft (my uni grades could have been better!)
Civ III (just. one. more. turn.)
Alpha Centauri (still play it)

 

Either Starcraft or Diablo 2.

 

Offline? I guess FF7 lol, been a while...I'd guess I put at least 20 days into that. The clock I think stopped at 99 hours, and I did more than 1 run through the story, plus completed the whole game. It's not uncommon for me to put a few days of gameplay into one game. Fallout got well over 80 hours before I got bored, but I'll come back to it on the new laptop. I know CoD WaW is online, but I have close to 7 days logged on that. I mean, these aren't even old games and I've played them that much. Still have time to work 40 hours a week too, hah.

 

haha, I think of myself of a gamer...but then I look at you guys and I have to seriously reconsider that title I give myself. I could never really get into one single game to play for countless hours and hours.

However, I have been playing Counterstrike Source on and off for maybe 4 years now. And I've probably sunk a lot of hours into the couple of MMOs I used to play, City of Heroes and Star Wars Galaxies... Then, you've got Rome Total War and Medieval Total War 2. I'm into playing TF2 now just for fun...

 

I'm 39. Online, since 1996 I was a regular for almost ten years in a squadron in Warbirds (MMO WWII Flight Sim).

Offline, I'd say Microsoft Flight Simulator. I'm a user since it was still Sublogic's.

One version only? hmmm... Civ II. Yes, it is 4:30 in the morning, I've been playing 15 hours straight, and my eyes are bleeding. But one-more-turn....

 

I have been playing The counter strike series since ver. 1.3/4. Now playing source...

 

i'm 21. Offline i'd have to say one of the GTAs or Metal Gear Solid games.

Online I have an embarrassing amount of days logged in WoW.

 

Who doesn't?

 

In total it's Halo for me. I played that game only for 4 years straight.

 

halo 2 online

or maybe donkey kong getting all the bannannas on nintendo 64
maybe super mario 64

 

Halo and GTA SA.

 

Either Starcraft or Stronghold: Crusader. I still play both.

 

Pokemon Sapphire version. That game has robbed me for close to 900 hours of my life

 

with me it should be the whole pokemon series since the blue/red one until the newest platinum
Otherwise, Dynasty Warriors series on the PS2, I've opened all the characters, all items and all weapons in all games (included the xtreme legends also)
On lan with my friends = Counter strike

 

COD4 and Rise of Nations is a toss up.

 

I put an unbelievable amount of hours into both Ghost Recon 1 (not advanced warfighter) and Guild Wars easily over a 1000 in both.

 

Resident Evil 4

Finished on GC, PS2, Wii and now playing fully moded(6gb worth) HD PC version.

So much better then 5

 

lol same here!

 

Battlefield 2, followed closely by COD4.

 

Hmm... never much of a games fan...

On the old Asus now dead - it was Age of Empires 2

On the Medion Empire Earth 1 & 2

And on my SZ I only played some computer games in the summer holidays as I had absolutely nothing to do...

(Yes you guessd it, I like those build up and strategy based games)

 

Hmm.. for me the games that took up my time:

Age: 13-15 - Pokemon series (Waiting for the new one to come out for DS), Starcraft series, and random other games

Age: 15-18 - Kalonline (Still play sometimes) and random other MMO's (Never did play WoW)

Age: 18-21 - Xbox 360 (Mostly Forza 2 & Halo Series), ect.

Rough estimates anyway..

Mostly I play Forza 2 atm.

 

1400+ hours logged in call of duty 2

 

Woo, Rise of Nations!

 

Halo 1, I was even in a clan (The Last Snipers aka. TLS), but since my ping went up a lot I can only do xbox live and I dont play that much anymore.

 

Morrowwind definitely, I played that nearly exclusively for a year. Oblivion was going about the same, been playing for a long time now, still haven't finished it. Recently has to be S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, played it 9 times so far, most recent game has been ongoing for at least half a year. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is always the first game I install after a new OS install (every four months). On line I play a lot of Battlefield, mostly 2142, now mostly Left 4 Dead.

 

between bf1942 - rome total war - lineage II

 

i,m 41 and having been playing Tribes since 1998

 

....WHAT?! Lmao this is exactly like me im only thinking about getting the PC version now i heard this game had some sick mods.

 

Single player games? I've beat STALKER SOC 8 times, played it for over 400 hours.

As for multiplayer, has to be CS:S, played it from 2005 to 2007, made over 100 maps for it, ran numerous clans, and probably played it over 2000 hours.

But I really don't know what it is about STALKER, that game just never gets boring, I could sit there.. beat the whole game in one day, then just restart from the beginning in the same day, and it's still not boring.

 

I bought Stalker SOC for $5 when they had that sale i played it one day and quit i thought it was kinda weird that it didn't support gamepad. Then again it wasn't on the consoles so that may have something to do with it. I also had got Fallout 3 the next week so maybe ill start playing it again soon

Anyway, for me its so hard to say but randomly in my brain im going to go with super smash Bros Melee Clocked over 300 hours on that thing.

 

me 2 , it's always just one turn and i'll quit
civ III is the best strategy game IMO and it made me stay at home for an entire summer

 

Oh shi-
I forgot about SSBM. Way to much time invested in that game, even continuing to this very day.

 

Starcraft, Diablo 2, Quake 3 and Heroes 3,4,5 series have taken most of my time ...

 

Got to be FF7 + Diablo 2 + Oblivion + Neverwinter Nights (was a DM on a popular server) for all time hours killed

Latest game is Left4Dead and BF2142 for hours.

 

Im 33 and i dont think ill stop gaming, dont have the time i once had, pre pc ff7 definatly ate away my time, then diablo2 and baldarsgate, i played through it 3 times using different characters completing most quests. Baldarsgate2 got a bit of time but not as much as the 1st.
Recently, CoH, oblivion, and fallout3 have all managed to take my spare time.

 

Diablo 2 + Exp = 7+ years...

Warcraft 3 exp = 3-4yrs...

I got like no social life between 8-13 lol..... just those 2 games where like killing me.....

 

For me, it would be TIE Fighter. I would just never quit. Following that, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds really sucked the life out of me.

In more recent (read: 3D) times, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic I & II; Ibeat the first at least five times, and the second second two or three times; each game took 25-30 hours.

Of course none of these games work on Vista so I don't play them anymore . . .

 

Guild Wars... +1000 hours on my account (stopped following it though... now waiting for GW2 )

 

I'm _*gasp*_ 36. If you're talking now or in the past?

Past (over five years ago), it was definitely Longbow 2, Descent 2, Falcon 4, Starcraft, Quake 3 Arena, Age of Empires 2/3.

Recent past, Half-Life 2 & episodes, Battlefield 2, Falcon 4, Oblivion, C&C Generals / Zero Hour. Nothing recent lately has kept my interest for too long.

 

Counter Strike

 

Chaz, there is ALWAYS a way. Don't let Microsoft defeat you!

Try here:

http://www.old-republic.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=68&func=fileinfo&id=143

Or since KOTOR 1 and 2 are old enough, I'm sure you could Virtual PC and play. Should get decent performance. And of course there's always dual boot! I hate to say it, but just for the tons of backwards compatibility games, XP will be around for some time...

 

quake, starcraft, and Simcity 4 has chewed up the bulk of my computer gaming life.

Recently, it has been Left 4 Dead. This is probably the most addictive team game out. More so than TF2 IMO. It is far more team oriented.

 

Call of Duty World at War multiplayer has taken up hours and hours of my time. It's addicting, and I can't stop when I have a fast internet connection.

 

Counter-Strike; AVP; and Starcraft

I've spent probably months of real time on each of those games.

 

I've never replayed any game more than I did the original System Shock. More recently, I've played through Mass Effect probably six or seven times, which is very rare in these days.

Multiplayer? Dawn Of War, soon to be Dawn Of War II.

 

It is a shame that Vista has compatibility issues with older software but its also to be expected. Will Windows 7 have better compatibility with older software and games?