What games have you invested the most time in?

Quick, get off his lawn!

 

Runescape almost all the time every day since 2004.
With some breaks of course.

 

Oblivion - 200+ hrs (back in high school when I had plenty of free time to get lost in this world)
Fallout 3 - 100+ hrs (sophomore and junior yrs of undergrad)
Borderlands - 177 hrs (exact by Steam)
Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2 - 50+ hrs (again, high school)
Supreme Commander - 50+ hrs (due to very long battles across large maps)

Predicted this, my senior year of college (hey, I need to keep myself sane somehow):

Mass Effect 1 & 2 (just started each of these for the first time - awesome games)
Mirror's Edge (heard good things)
Batman Arkham Asylum (ditto)
Bioshock 1 & 2 (started but never finished the first; in preparation for Infinite)
Fallout New Vegas - there goes another 100+ hours of my time
Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 - If they don't screw this up with another lazy port

Also looking forward to maybe dipping into the MMO genre with The Old Republic next year if it turns out to be as good as some of the videos have been.

 

well most of my gaming time was associated with gta sa.It was good and became awesome with mods

 

L4D2 just under 500 hours
BC2 just under 300 hours

 

Oblivion w/mods has to be over 9000!!!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

 

Starcraft 1 - Countless hours. Easily over 1000.
Starcraft 2

 

solitaire - 800+ hours

 

Wow ~ 1000 hours,
Neocron On and off for 5 years,
Age of conan
Anarchy online
Fallen Earth
Warhammer online
Fallout series

 

From most to least:
Flyff- around 3000-5000 if I had to guess. Played a lot everyday. Not anymore though.
Cod4
Combat arms
Oblivion
Fallout 3
MW2 (160 on steam I think)
TF2 (120 on steam but probably another 40 or so on ps3)
Sc2 (watch more replays than actually playing ><)

Just guesses about the order and these are only my recent games, I'm sure pokemon and stuff would be up there

 

Well two games come to mind in which I have played an extreme amount of hours compared to other games. I've been playing Crysis Wars over the course of the last 3 years almost every day, (not sure how many hours in total) and I have also been playing the Civilization series over the course of the last 10 years off and on (again no idea how many hours). Those are definitely the top two games I have played the most, I haven't really played any other game in the extreme as much as I have played those two.

This thread isn't about your opinion on the OP's choice of words, so get on topic or get out.

 

For me, the game I've invested the most time in is undoubtedly Civilization III. I've been playing it since 2003. More heavily towards the beginning, especially the first year, less heavily so later, and with about 1.5 years in the middle where I didn't play it very much. I don't know how much time I've played it, but it's undoubtedly a lot (not 465 days, though ). My longest Civ3 game (played over 11 months) was about 260 hours.

Interestingly all of my Steam friends, without exception, have Civilization III as their most-played Steam game by hour count (I don't as I play the disc version). I don't actually make that a requirement to be a Steam friend, just sorta happened that way.

No other game really comes close. Over the term of a few months, sure, a few games have, but over the long term, none have.

Also, lol at the investment banker. Figures he/she'd be so money-centered as to think the only things worthy of being called an investment are things with financial rewards. Most people, by comparison, would be perfectly happy at the thought of investing a few dollars in a beer every so often, even though that has no potential financial reward, either.

 

Battlefield 2 by far, ~700 some hours.

 

Apart from the last few posts, I am shocked -SHOCKED! by how few of the millions who have had their lives near destroyed by Sid Meier seem to be posting members of this forum.

When I was at university, for 2 years I spent at least 8-10 hours per weekend, plus maybe the same amount spread over the week, playing Civ III. And that was when I was heavily involved in all the democracy games at Apolyton.net, so it wasn't just idle fun, I was obligated to play at least once to twice per week for months at a time, whilst describing what was going on in a chatroom and posting screenshots, polls, responding to threads etc, which probably adds another 6 or 8 hours per week dedicated to the game.

It would be very hard to give a reasonable value for the amount of time I have spent on this game, but say 30 weeks each year of 8-12 hours average per week is 600+ hours. There was some time I played Civ III for fun, too, so probably add at least half that amount again on top (say only 6 hours play spread over a week for at least half the weeks over 2 years - taking us up until Civ IV was released in 2005), but I did that after the demo games were over.

Civ, Civ 2 and cIV... you'd have to add at least the same amount of time again to those combined. Civ has consumed WELL over 1000 hours of my life... but actually that's only the equivalent of 40 all-day sessions, so I get the feeling it should be much higher than that.

Except for Mass Effect and Diablo II, nothing else would come even close to 100 hours. There's only one god I worship.

 

CivAnon can help you! Anyway, recently I've been playing a lot of Company of Heroes, RUSE, Victoria II and Civilization IV and V with my brothers...

 

Fallout 3 - 200+ hrs
Borderlands - 146hrs
Crysis Wars - 100+ hrs
Just Cause 2 - 50+ hrs
Minecraft - 50+ hrs
Plants vs Zombies - 29hrs

Got 5 hours so far in Fallout: New Vegas

 

CS:S - 100+ hrs
DoD:S - 100+ hrs
TF2 - 130+ hrs
WoW - 100+ hrs (quit though)

 

WoW 650 Days (Quitted a month ago, it became to much of the same)
Roller coaster tycoon 40 Days
Borderlands 15 Days
Warcraft 3 25 Days
Starcraft 1 10 Days
Starcraft 2 20 Days
CoD MW 2 10 Days

 

Starcraft 1

300 hours at least.

 

The most hours I have ever invested into a game was 240 hours for Call of Duty 4. I would play, with my friends, for like 5 hours a day trying to get all of the gold weapons. Once I got all of the gold weapons, I pretty much lost interest in all video games...

 

I tried playing Dragon Age before and just didn't get into it. But with DA2 coming and so many RPG fans just ranting how awesome DA:O is, I gave it another try. Have to say after 12 hours, I can see myself putting more hours into this game than any single player game in the past.

 

Counter-Strike! What else!

 

WoW- Played since 60 was Max Level. (stopped recently until Cata Comes out)
Dark Ages of Camelot- good 2 years of fun.
Dragon Age Origins (plus awakening and DLC)- Loved the game. But think it was too short.
City of Heroes- played til level 36...just got bored
Champions Online- Fun but couldn't even get to level 25. Mostly Rubberbanding issues.
Baldur's Gate II (plus ToB)- Many many hours. Still have the game and still an all time favorite!
Baldur's Gate I (plus Tales of Sword Coast)
NWN 1 (plus expansion)- never finished the last expansion though.
Icewindale II
Oblivion- (on xbox 360) Great game but couldn't finish the expansion

Now playing NWN2 and the 2 expansions- although graphics is not great but still a fun game with some stories involved.

Waiting for Star Wars Old Republic to come out... Dragon Age Origins 2.... and WoW Cata.

 

According to xfire i got ~4k Lineage2 gametime. On the other hand I discovered xfire 3 years later after starting to play L2.

 

Yea same for me. I must have accumulated 5000-7000 hours in CS over the many years I played it.

 

Longest I've logged on a single game is probably 60+ hours on Tales of Vesperia (X360). When playing RPGs, I find that I tend to log an average of 50 hours, RTS/strategy games around 20-30, action games can be done with in around 10 hours or so. I like taking things slow and not rushing through stuff.

I only play single player though.

 

I've noticed there are a few great RPGs that I have enjoyed that are designed to be knocked out over a weekend or two, such as ME1/2, KOTOR 1/2, The Witcher, Bioshock 1/2, and a bit longer for DAO/DAA. However, there are open sandbox type RPGs such as Oblivion, where you can enjoy many, many hours of playtime on a single playthrough, just exploring all the locations and completing all the side quests while putting off the main quest as long as possible.

I've put in a few hundred hours into Oblivion (including the DLCs) over a period of a few years without ever having finished the main quest. Fallout:New Vegas is turning out to be a similar level of enjoyable game time (on hardcore + very hard + harder hardcore rates mod), as there are so many different characters and little bits of story that you only encounter if you explore all the locations in the wastes. So far, it seems to be a more rich and complex story compared with FO3, which was another great game. I find it much more enjoyable to not use the fast travel option, which adds to the playing time, but makes the experience a bit more immersive, also you never know what you will encounter as you traverse the wasteland. I'm not as much into playing through the same game several times, I prefer one very long playthrough; however, with FNV there are so many different faction choices that it would be interesting to try again allying with a different faction.

I'm also a huge fan of the Civilization series. In addition to Oblivion and FNV, Civ5 and Civ4 certainly also have a tremendous value, and taking into consideration the cost of these four games for the amount of enjoyable hours of playing time, they are well worth the purchase price.

 

I had 250+ days played in WoW before i quit. Other than that, maybe Counterstrike/CSS. As far as single player games go, probably BG2 or Morrowind.

 

WoW and Guildwars, easy 2500 hours+ each.

 

No idea how many hours.
Definitely spent a lot of time playing morrowind, but starcraft 1 more than anything.

 

Not gaming much now (need to complete my dissertation, and that's really cutting into my gaming), but the games I've played the most are:

Morrowind/Oblivion with many, many mods.
Zelda...the entire series.
Final Fantasy...many games, mostly those released for various Nintedo and PS2.
Solitare.

 

1500+ hours CS 1.6
100+ hours CS:S
1000+ hours Halo Series
650+ hours MW2
500+ hours Starcraft 2
500+ hours Tribes 1
300+ hours Tribes 2

that's most of the major games I remember wasting half my life on... haha I don't think I've overexagerated... maybe... hopefully...

 

Role Playing -
Final Fantasy VII - 250 + hours
Final Fantasy XI - 1+ Year of gameplay
World of Warcraft - 6+ months of gamplay
Diablo and Diablo 2 - 1+ Year of gameplay.
Action -
COD MW - 200+ Hours
Half Life 2 - 200+ Hours
Counter Strike - 1+ Year of gameplay

 

One game that started all MMOs

One game to rule them all
One game to bind them


ULTIMA ONLINE - gajillion hours

anyone who can comment to this or remembers this is a true MMO fan

 

Halo 2 >500+

Yes alot, on Xbox and PC though. Not entirely on PC. I remember starting play it since it was released and almost every weekend go with my cousins to play (interconnection).

best gaming days i think.

 

WoW and Warcraft III Bnet. The rest of the games less than 2 days for each.

 

Ah, memories...

Rivaling the amount of time I've spent in the Descent series (1, 2, and 3) are the '90s Star Wars sims, mainly X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance, though I never got into XWA nearly as much as XvT, probably because my PC at the time struggled to run it. I still play both of those from time to time.

The original Halo for PC (since it supported multiplayer while the xbox version did not) also comes to mind, and it's another one I still play.







Though I'd have to say, the game I've spent the most time ever playing is...


you're gonna laugh...


Pokemon.

 

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Diablo 2
Oblivion

 

X-Com ~200 hours
Master of Orion ~200 hours
Diablo 2 ~100 hours

Cyberball 2072 (Arcade then Genesis then mame) ~300 hours (worse than the time invested was the money invested in the arcade...I'm scared to think of how many quarters I put into that game with my friends...I could probably have retired this year if I would have invested that money...)

 

CS:S ~400 hours
The original Call of Duty PC ~ 200 hours
COD4 PC ~ 160 hours
Halo 1 and 2 for XBox ~ 200 hours
Final Fantasy X PS2 ~ 110 hours

 

call of duty MW2-700 hours

 

Probably Diablo II on Battle.net back in the day. Endless gaming in 03-05 lol. Good thing I wasn't using Xfire back then coz the hours played would be astronomical.

 

Sims 2. Installed them for a girlfriend so she can play while I'm at work. What a mistake that was

 

Knights of the Old republic and Oblivion. There were times when I wondered if Oblivion ever ended, or if it just turned out to be the most aptly titled game ever.