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    What games have you invested the most time in?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HTWingNut, Oct 9, 2010.

  1. HTWingNut

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    What games have you invested the most time in and how much time?

    For me, I think it's:

    Descent / Descent 2: >300 hours
    Operation Flashpoint (original) + expansions: >300 hours
    Command and Conquer Generals + Zero Hour >200 hours
    Falcon 4 & Allied Force >400 hours
    Battlefield 2 + expansions >600 hours
    Bad Company 2 >200 hours

    Here's the tally so far from all those games noted here. Surprised there's not only a handful. Lots of variety:

    Age of Empires series - 6
    Batman Arkham Asylum
    Battlefield 2 - 2
    Battlefield Bad Company 2 - 4
    Betrayal at Krondor
    Bioshock 1
    Bioshock 2
    Borderlands
    Call of Duty
    Call of Duty 2
    Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare - 8
    Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - 10
    Civilization series - 2
    Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour - 2
    Command & COnquer 3
    Company of Heroes
    Counter-Strike - 4
    Counter-Strike Source - 2
    Crysis
    Crysis Warhead
    Dawn of War II - 2
    Day of Defeat Source
    Descent
    Descent 2
    Diablo 2 - 5
    DoD
    Dragon Age Origins - 4
    Dragon Warrior Monsters 2
    Elite
    Everquest
    Falcon 4 & Allied Force
    Fallout 3 - 5
    Final Fantasy series - 2
    Freelancer
    Ghost Recon
    Grand Theft Auto Series - 3
    Guild Wars
    Half-Life series
    Halo series - 4
    Just Cause 2
    Killing Floor - 2
    Left 4 Dead
    Left 4 Dead 2 - 3
    Lineage II
    Mass Effect
    Mass Effect 2 - 2
    Oblivion - 5
    Operation Flashpoint
    Persona 3 FES
    Runescape
    Starcraft - 3
    Starcraft 2 - 2
    Star Wars Galaxies
    Team Fortress 2 - 2
    Torchlight - 2
    Warcraft 3 (with or without DotA) - 2
    World of Warcraft - 8
    X-Com Series
    zelda series
     
  2. Rodster

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    Persona 3 FES >200 hours :eek:
     
  3. Audiophil92

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    WoW and Oblivion :)
     
  4. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    dragon age 187hrs
    dod s 121hrs
    me2 90 something hrs, same for bad company 2
     
  5. maksin01

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    According to my xfire it's... :eek:

    Dawn of War II (SP & MP): 455 hours
    Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (mostly MP): 438 hours
    Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare (mostly MP): 186 hours
    Dragon Age Origins: 125 hours
    Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (mostly SP & replays): 118 hours
     
  6. xTank Jones16x

    xTank Jones16x PC Elitist

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    Alright, no laughing because this was a few years ago.

    Runescape - I played it every day for almost 5 years.

    Other games from most to least (I don't know how much time for each)

    Call of Duty 4
    Halo 3
    Team Fortress 2

    Those are probably my top 3. All the other games I have are close to the same, with some being more than others.
     
  7. Element

    Element Notebook Evangelist

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    Counter-Strike: Source: 638 hours
    Counter-Strike 1.6: 235 hours
    Call of Duty Multiplayer: 189 hours
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer: 174 hours
    Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer: 136 hours
    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer: 133 hours
     
  8. Vaath

    Vaath Notebook Deity

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    Left 4 Dead: 200 hours
    Left 4 Dead 2: 275 hours
    COD 4: 300 hours
    TF 2: 120 hours
    World of Warcraft: Honestly 2000+ hours (pretty sure bout that, played since beta)
    Killing floor: 200 hours
    COD MW2: 15 hours lol (biggest waste of money)
    Torchlight: 30 hours
     
  9. Laeadern

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    Fallout 3: 465 hours
    Oblivion: 388 hours
    Diablo 2: um....somewhere over 1000
    Torchlight 40 hours
     
  10. lewdvig

    lewdvig Notebook Virtuoso

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    Mass Effect 200 hours
    Fallout 3 200 hours
    Oblivion 300 hours
    Elite 1000 hours :) was the only game I played on my apple for about three years.
     
  11. SoundOf1HandClapping

    SoundOf1HandClapping Was once a Forge

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    Left 4 Dead 2: 250 hours.
    Killing Floor 275 hours. Still need to level up my firebug and berserker.
     
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    I guess it would be:
    Halo:combat evolved- 200+
    Oblivion- 200hrs
    COD 4- 150+
    COD 4: MW2- 150+
     
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    Counter Strike: Source: 317 Hours
    Day of Defeat: Source: 89 Hours
    Bad Company 2: 75 Hours
    Left 4 Dead 2: 61 Hours

    I played Halo 2 and 3 more than any of these games, but that was before I got into pc gaming. ;)
     
  14. lloose

    lloose Notebook Guru

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    World of Warcraft
    Final Fantasy Series (pre-playstation 2.)
    Zelda Series
     
  15. Baka

    Baka (・ω・)

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    Definitely maplestory for me :p

    And then there's...

    DoW2 - 120 Hours
    DA: Origins - 71 hours
    Starcraft 2 - God knows how many hours
     
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    Wow, you people spend a lot of time playing games. :eek:

    Mine:

    Grand Theft Auto IV (IDK, this was back on the Xbox 360 before I got my Toshiba for. With that combined with my GTA IV PC copy, I'm guessing it would be well over 100 hours. This game is by a wide margin what I have spent the most time on).

    Next would be Crysis and Crysis Warhead - I don't have this on Steam either, so I can't tell you the exact details, but with all the modding and other stuff I did to it, it would probably come to around 60 hours, maybe a little more.

    Just Cause 2 - 38 hours. It takes a LOOOONG time to complete everything, I'm still only at about 30%, lol.

    Call of Duty MW2 - 37 hours with multiplayer and singleplayer combined. No regrets about purchasing it, since I got it for less than half the retail price at the time. I'm not buying any of the DLC's though.

    STALKER SoC - 7 hours. Only just started it recently.

    Portal - 7 hours. Did two play throughs, and some advanced maps.

    As you can see, I don't have very many games. Mainly because I have no time for them these days. :(

    EDIT: Only factoring in games that I have played within the last two years or so. That's about the time I've been really into PC gaming anyway.
     
  17. DraXxus1549

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    Ghost Recon (the original) - Unknown, but higher than I care to admint.
    Battlefield 2 - 500+ hours
    Guild Wars 500+ hours
    CoD4 400+ hours
    MW2 300ish.

    With many others sprinkled in between these haha.
     
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    Well, this is just for WoW, pretty much the only game Ive played seriously for the past 4 years.

    302 DAYS

    7248 Hours

    This is fairly accurate. I went on to every toon on my account, and found the /played on that toon and added it up. I play WoW too much.
     
  19. Voodooi

    Voodooi AFK for a while...

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    My WoW /played is about 300 days, but that's since release.

    Yes, I used to be addicted :p lol

    Luckily WoW isn't appealing anymore. It's basically free loot just for logging in. No challenge whatsoever, sadly.

    (I haven't played it in months)

    Second place would probably be:
    Command & Conquer 3 (w/KW xpack). I use to play every day for 1-2hrs.
     
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    lloose Notebook Guru

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    Did you play on any ladders? I didn't put it on my list, but I spent about as much time on GR as I did on wow.
     
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    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    Halo <--2 years on a Dell X200 :p
    CnC Generals <--3 months... nonstop (litterally)
    AoE2 <-- all of childhood
    Starcraft <--shared childhood with AoE2
    Freelancer <--somewhat.
     
  22. mtness

    mtness loitering

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    umm for me

    BC2: 450hrs
    MW2: 422hrs
    Diablo 2: 350hrs
    then a whole heap in the 100-200 hr range
     
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    World of Warcraft (2005-2010) over 2,000 hours (on a break now for over two months waiting for Cata)
    Starcraft (1998-2010) estimated 500 hours
    Diablo2 (2000 - 2003) estimated 350 hours

    I have tried dozens of other games like Star Trek Online, Ages of Empires, Counterstrike, Starwars Battlegrounds and many sports simulations like Diamond Mind Baseball and OOTP1-11, but they all pale in comparison to games made by Blizzard...
     
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    Counter strike -> countless hours
    Lineage II -> years of gameplay
    DotA on WC3 platform -> since 4 years, playing everyday
     
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    rschauby Superfluously Redundant

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    EverQuest: 465 days played (1 day = 24 hours)

    Yeah, that was my life 2000-2004.
     
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    Batman Arkham Asylum for a month beat the game twice.
    Bioshock 1 for two weeks
    Bioshock 2 for two weeks
    COD 4: MW one week
    COD 6: MW2 played it since it was released till now, beat the game 4 times on all levels and since that i am playing it online.
     
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    Lately (last 2 years, PC only)
    Most Time devoted to gaming has been on...
    BFBC2 (no idea of hours Level 27)
    ME2
    Dragons Age
    DDO
    Tried Champions and AOC
     
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    Diablo 2 - ive lost track at this point, ive played it since release, but on and off since 05
    Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 (gbc) - i believe my save is over 400 hours
     
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    Call of Duty MW2 everything... about 200+ hours..
    Call of Duty MW1: For 200+ hours also for sure...
     
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    FFXI ate up about 4 years of my life. Won't be making that mistake again any time soon...
     
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    Heh. WoW, not challenging? Hardly the case, I think. It is more like... there are easy sections of WoW and there are hard ones. And the problem lies in the easy sections giving loot that looks just as pretty and shiny as the hard bits.

    Anyways, the games I've spent the most amount of time on? Mmmmmm. WoW, certainly. Betrayal At Krondor I've finished about 20 times, now. X-COM: Enemy Unknown, for sure. Plus Civilization - all of them XD
     
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    Civilization 2
    Age of Empires 2
    Fallout 3
    COD:MW2 (PS3)
    GTA: San Andreas (PS2)
     
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    as per Xfire:

    Call of Duty 4 : 2100+ hours. Played in CAL, XPL, CEVO, TWL leagues, so I was playing pretty religiously for 3 years.
     
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    Just beat Darksiders today, took a lot longer than I expected. Was also a very different game than I expected.

    I thought it was going to be prototype/devil may cry

    But it was actually Zelda / Devil May Cry with some other small extras like Portal :D

    Closest thing to Zelda I have played since Zelda so it made me happy.

    May load up some of my mid game saves and make a little review/gameplay video for youtube.
     
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    EVER?

    probably Wow and counterstrike. dunno which one was more tho.
     
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    Fallout 3: 300+ hours
    Call of Duty 4: 24 days(Online)
    GTA3+Vice City+San Andreas+GTA4=???? It has to be hundreds of days.
     
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    Original Starcraft: well over 300 hours
    CoD Modern Warfare 2: around 100+ hours

    Becoming a dad......lucky to play any games at all ha ha!
     
  38. HTWingNut

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    Congrats! You'll still play. Look at Vicious and I. Vicious has a bunch of kids and I have two, and I still find time to play. I don't play nearly as much as I used to but I'm much more particular about what I play.
     
  39. Thund3rball

    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    Some of you need to go outside, lol.

    Borderlands ~150 hrs all together
    HL Series (play them once/year)
     
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    well, im dying lonely
    SC2: since 27th july 300 hours and counting
    EDIT: FAIL!! i played a lot more
    AOEi:100 hours
    AOEii:50 hours
    AOEiii:200 hours
    lame FPSMMO's for free:100 hours
    Halo and Halo 2 (xbox) A LOT OF TIME(probably 1000 hours; it was before i had a computer, was like 5 years old)
     
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    Oblivion easily, 866 hours between 3 characters. Most of that was on the bus in college.
     
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    WC3, star wars galaxies, Diablo II, counter strike, AoE II. I think those were the most addicting games I've ever had.
     
  43. HTWingNut

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    Just added the tally of all the games to the first post if you're interested.
     
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    Team Fortress 2 - 229 hours
    Diablo 2 - a lot
    Left 4 Dead 2 - 167 hours
    Plants vs. Zombies - 99 hours
    Left 4 Dead 1 - 86 hours
    Borderlands - 85 hours
    Counter Strike Source - 39 hours
    Torchlight - 33 hours
    Company of Heroes - 28 hours
    Killing Floor - 14 hours
    Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 - 12 hours
    Grand theft auto san andreas - 12 hours
    COD4 MW1 - 10 hours
    Heroes of Might and Magic V - 10 hours
    Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - 9 hours
    Half Life 2 - 9 hours
    MW2 - 8 hours
    Chrome - 8 hours
    Brothers in Arms: Earned in blood - 8 hours
    Max Payne 2 - 8 hours
    HL2-Episode 2 - 6 hours
    Half Life: Source - 5 hours
    Max Payne - 5 hours
    Portal - 4 hours
    Mirror's Edge - 4 hours
    Overlord - 4 hours
    Half Life 2 episode 1 - 4 hours
     
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    Aikimox Weihenstephaner!

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    Diablo I - ~1000+ hrs
    Warcraft II - ~500+ hrs
    Diablo II -~500-700hrs
    Baldur's Gate II - ~5000+ hrs :eek:
    NeverWinter Nights I - ~700+ hrs
    America's Army 2.x -~800+ hrs
    King's Bounty - The Armored Princess - ~500+ hrs
    Dragon Age - ~300+ hrs


    And a buncha games below 200hrs each.
     
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    Holy... I thought i was spending too much time gaming.. until I saw this thread.
     
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    MidnightSun Emodicon

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    Probably the single game I've spent the most time on total is Halo 2 - back in middle school, I used to play that for hours. No time for games now, though, so I haven't gamed for the last couple months.
     
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    So you're a high school freshman?
     
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    From most to least

    FIFA series (I play almost everyday.)
    Warcraft III (dota)
    Final Fantasy series (especially X and X-2)
    Counter Strike (not playing anymore though)
    Heroes of Newerth
    Dragon Age
    Starcraft II
    Mass Effect I and II
    and many more...
     
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    CSS: 300hrs
    Team Fortress 2: 200 hrs

    Its amazing how much time we waste on games...years even.
     
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