Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I could have probably solved world hunger with the amount of time and brain power I used on Vice City. Awesome game.
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Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (1 Viewer)
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When I was a kid, I had to have pumped like 4000 hours in Tecmo Super Bowl. Once upon a time my friends and I(there were 14 of us) each drew numbers out of a hat to select a team for a season, then had a snake style draft to select your second team. If your two teams played each other, you'd skip the game, so it was unwise to pick teams in the same division. I recall the first two picks were San Francisco and Buffalo. I ended up with Chicago(probably somewhere between picks 5-9, and my favorite team) and San Diego. I ended up winning it with San Diego(who I thought was the lesser of my teams) thanks to a monster game from Marion Butts, and blocking 2 kicks with Leslie O'Neal, to beat the 49ers.OK here is a question for the group.
* Single game ONLY. Not a franchise
* You can think of arcade, computer, console, tablet, phone etc
What is the single game you have played the most hours in your life?
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For me I think it is now Hearthstone. This silly little game chews up a couple of hours a day and I have been playing since May I think
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Corporation
Angry Bovine
Just looked up on Steam. I've played DC Universe Online for 3 years now, and I have 5500+ hours in it 
Maelstrom
Footballguy
It's gotta be LOTRO for me, but if you include franchises, Battlefield is probably close. I know I had about 3 months /played time in LOTRO before I stopped the first time, and then came back for a bit about a year later, so probably 800-1000 hours. Battlefield 2, 2142, BC2, BF3, BF4 @ about probably around 200 hours each comes close.Same for me - LOTRO.
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NewlyRetired
Footballguy
That is................inspiringJust looked up on Steam. I've played DC Universe Online for 3 years now, and I have 5500+ hours in it
Mad Cow
Welshers and Dawdlers Beware!
Also true for me, only add in my hours with BF 1942 and DC mod, including LAN parties with those.It's gotta be LOTRO for me, but if you include franchises, Battlefield is probably close. I know I had about 3 months /played time in LOTRO before I stopped the first time, and then came back for a bit about a year later, so probably 800-1000 hours. Battlefield 2, 2142, BC2, BF3, BF4 @ about probably around 200 hours each comes close.Same for me - LOTRO.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
The year after with Carson Palmer on the cover was the best... WRs actually turned to catch the ball!!
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
Civ 2 and Tribes got me through college. Then WoW. Back in the Nintendo days I played the #### out of Nobunaga's Ambition and L'Empeaur.
flysack
Footballguy
Lode Runner!
I spent my last prepubescent summer playing the living heck out of that game.
flysack
Footballguy
flysack
Footballguy
I have four characters over level 35 each (one level 67) and two others in the teens. I don't know how many hours that adds up to, and I probably don't want to know.
The only thing that stopped me was how terrible the game loads are with my upper level characters. If I walk into a freaking alchemist shop with my level 67 character I face a two minute load time. It's god awful.
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Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Hmmm. game I played the most.
SuperMario on Nintendo obviously. King Fu and Legend of Zelda as well. Mike Tyson's PunchOut obviously. For PC I stil have and still fire up to this day (last save game file from last week) Civ2. Just an awesome game that has more soul to it than Civ3 did even 3 was awesome as well. I used play a PC game called Capitalism where you ran a company and had to manufacture products, pla the stock market, mine for natural materials and whatnot - that game I played way way way too much.
Nothing else really since that taken so much of my time as Vice City which I mentioned and lately Fallout 3 I probably played more than I have most games. Can't count any specific Madden title but combined that's probably a lot too.
Meanwhile, my Jets beat the Redskins last night in the SuperBowl. Then I massively screwed up the entire off season list of events. Completely new menu and job system there that is going to take some getting used to. But now that I know what the game is about I think I'm going to zero out everything, start from scratch and buy a new team to take to eternal glory. Ability to move the team to a new city in something close to reality is required, so that I think limits me to the Raiders and Jaguars I think. Decisions..... decisions....
SuperMario on Nintendo obviously. King Fu and Legend of Zelda as well. Mike Tyson's PunchOut obviously. For PC I stil have and still fire up to this day (last save game file from last week) Civ2. Just an awesome game that has more soul to it than Civ3 did even 3 was awesome as well. I used play a PC game called Capitalism where you ran a company and had to manufacture products, pla the stock market, mine for natural materials and whatnot - that game I played way way way too much.
Nothing else really since that taken so much of my time as Vice City which I mentioned and lately Fallout 3 I probably played more than I have most games. Can't count any specific Madden title but combined that's probably a lot too.
Meanwhile, my Jets beat the Redskins last night in the SuperBowl. Then I massively screwed up the entire off season list of events. Completely new menu and job system there that is going to take some getting used to. But now that I know what the game is about I think I'm going to zero out everything, start from scratch and buy a new team to take to eternal glory. Ability to move the team to a new city in something close to reality is required, so that I think limits me to the Raiders and Jaguars I think. Decisions..... decisions....
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Sorry, memories flooding in. Two other game titles on the PC that I spent too much time playng in my youth - Where in the World is Carmen San Diego - I was the kid with the world almanac at the computer looking up answers that I didn't know frantically while Carmen was on the screen staring at me. Chased her from North America to Jabouti and everywhere in between.
And, Leisure Suit Larry. Still probably, pouond for pound, the funniest game I have ever played. The commands you could give Larry and the responses that you got sometimes were priceless.
And, Leisure Suit Larry. Still probably, pouond for pound, the funniest game I have ever played. The commands you could give Larry and the responses that you got sometimes were priceless.
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
I love reading the variety of games people feel they have played the most of. Very enjoyable side track to the thread.
Thanks to everyone for answering
Thanks to everyone for answering
madshot31
Footballguy
I started and plan to get back to GTA5 in a little bit. I have a GTA clan online with some FBGs, girlfriend & brother, so you welcome to join and also invite your friends to. This is on xbox one and xbox 360. The clan is
Gears and Beers GTA. My GTA social club tag is Madshot31 and live GT is We Goin Sizzler.
Insein
Footballguy
Galileo
Footballguy
For anyone who wants a little throwback to the days of MS-DOS, I recently stumbled upon this emulator... https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I played through the main story line of GTA-V twice. Did some of the other stuff but not everything. Really didn't do a ton of exploring or just walking around like I did in Vice City - some of that is just the shear size of the world to. San Andreas was like that for me too - the world became so big exploring became almost tedious sometimes.
Comparing it to Vice, the overall story of V is quite good and the mechanics of switching between the main characters was awesome. The one thing I had wished for though was instead of simply switching back and forth between them I would have liked an option to choose which one I wanted to do certain missions with. Would have had to stay within the overall story a little but it could have been done I think. And there weren't enough build a heist team together missions. That was possibly the best part of the game - there were 2 or 3 heist missions? I would love for there to be 30-40 of them that don't necessarily have to be within the story arc, let them be side missions like the Vigilanta system in Vice.
Minor complaints if that. Great game. It's a universe better than IV and that russian guy in Liberty City. That game was just awful.
Comparing it to Vice, the overall story of V is quite good and the mechanics of switching between the main characters was awesome. The one thing I had wished for though was instead of simply switching back and forth between them I would have liked an option to choose which one I wanted to do certain missions with. Would have had to stay within the overall story a little but it could have been done I think. And there weren't enough build a heist team together missions. That was possibly the best part of the game - there were 2 or 3 heist missions? I would love for there to be 30-40 of them that don't necessarily have to be within the story arc, let them be side missions like the Vigilanta system in Vice.
Minor complaints if that. Great game. It's a universe better than IV and that russian guy in Liberty City. That game was just awful.
bigmarc27
Footballguy
Yeah I beat the game about a year ago but read that online heists are coming soon so fired it back up.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
For those who haven't gotten it yet, GTAV is only $20 on Xbox live this week
Scoresman
Footballguy
Someone convince me to keep going with FarCry 4. The game is gorgeous, but the first "tower" its having me climb involves some ridiculously frustrating jumping puzzles involving a grappling hook and of course this game has no quicksave option so if you fall you get to start at the beginning. I want to like this game but that #### is just unnecessary and not fun at all.
WampusCat43
Footballguy
That kind of stuff is what made me drop FC3 and never consider FC4. Too many of the 'mini-games' (like hunting) just left me thinking "I don't want to do this".
SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
I know I could enter a 2 day code for Gold and get this purchased but will the game work after the 2 days are up?
Scoresman
Footballguy
FarCry3 didnt have the ridiculously dumb jumping puzzles that FarCry 4 seems to have.
STEADYMOBBIN 22
Footballguy
Absolutely. That 2 day code just gives you access to the sale. Once you purchase it you own it forever.
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Haven't played FC4, but 3 did have radio towers which required some dumb platforming.
Scoresman
Footballguy
Wait until you try 4 then. In 3 you never were really in danger of falling to your death. The towers were kind of annoying to climb, but they were super easy. In 4 you have to use a grappling hook to swing from cliff to cliff and time your jumps perfectly or else you fall and die and then have to start over at a spot 10 minutes or so prior. And this was the first (supposedly the easiest) tower.
Drifter
Footballguy
I've played Fallout 1 and 2 through at from start to end around 5 times each so that's up there but all of the CIV games when added up probably take the prize.
Spent an unreal number of hours playing Warhawk online (RIP DPRugby). I also played an old text based MMORPG on America Online - Gemstone - that sucked a ton of hours and AOL pre-unlimited time minutes.
Spent an unreal number of hours playing Warhawk online (RIP DPRugby). I also played an old text based MMORPG on America Online - Gemstone - that sucked a ton of hours and AOL pre-unlimited time minutes.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
what was the draw? I barely can remember this one. I played for a bit.Same for me - LOTRO.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
For PS, the info was stored with your save file. The next time you load your game, look at the save file info, it might be there on XB.
flysack
Footballguy
Most played games? Despite being a gamer for 30+ years now (my dad owned an Amiga store in the late 80s, so I had access to every game, with documentation, and the best hardware available), I'd still say that -
1. Skyrim. I detailed this a few posts above.
2. Guild Wars. I bought this during its launch back in 2004? and played consistently with friends for three or four years. They've all left for greener pastures now, but I still fire it up every few months and play the hell out of it for a few weeks. Such a beautifully designed game, and Arenanet keeps it relevant and fun for dedicated users.
3. Bard's Tale. I ran through it three times back in the day (mapping with graph paper!), then again last year on a tablet.
1. Skyrim. I detailed this a few posts above.
2. Guild Wars. I bought this during its launch back in 2004? and played consistently with friends for three or four years. They've all left for greener pastures now, but I still fire it up every few months and play the hell out of it for a few weeks. Such a beautifully designed game, and Arenanet keeps it relevant and fun for dedicated users.
3. Bard's Tale. I ran through it three times back in the day (mapping with graph paper!), then again last year on a tablet.
BroadwayG
Footballguy
It is/was a fantastic rendition of the people and places of Middle Earth. I got a lifetime sub so I still pop in now and then.what was the draw? I barely can remember this one. I played for a bit.Same for me - LOTRO.
SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
Most hours for me probably is on an old fashioned MUD called Dragon Swords. Must have spent the better part of 3 years playing it. In total probably 8000-10000 hours.
Basically didn't even have a hope of graduating University because of it.
Basically didn't even have a hope of graduating University because of it.
Frank Drebin
Footballguy
I spent a LOT of time playing Rainbow Six Vegas. Easily my favorite multiplayer game ever, closely followed by Ghost Recon AW 2.
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
the math behind this is frightening/impressive.
To achieve 9000 hours in 3 years, you have to play, on average, over 8 hours a day (365 days a year).
Bogeys
Footballguy
I think I know where you are talking about...not too long after the opening. There is 1 spot you have to cross with the grappling hook (it is actually fairly forgiving I thought, even though I died once) and that is it. I have done probably 10 towers now and that is the only 1 I had to use the hook for; I think it was to introduce the hook to you more than anything else.Scoresman said:
I don't see the gameplay as all that much different than 3. It can be a grind but if you like the style of game it can be fun.
SkyRattlers
Anti-aliai
Although I was enrolled in classes my day usually consisted of me being at the univeristy computer lab around 8am and I got home around 11pm on average. I usually only ate two slices of pizza and a pop on the subway ride home. I weighed about 120 pounds. Addiction isnt pretty.
Corporation
Angry Bovine
I got 100% on it in a short period of time, about 34 hours. There are game breaking issues with the save system. You need to go to options on the Uplay client and turn off the cloud save sync. You can then go to your game folder and copy your save file to a new location. The cloud sync can corrupt your save file and there is no way to roll back if you don't manually save. When I was halfway thru, the game was just a black screen though I could hear stuff around me. After a long time, I finally fast travelled. They shouldn't have allowed that because it skipped an unskippable story part, and there was no way to get back to the prison. Thankfully my manual save fixed it but there are hundreds of players who just got screwed.
I liked the game but thought FC3 had a better story. I didn't have issues with the climbing mechanics.
flysack
Footballguy
madshot31
Footballguy
Yep, still working through, well I haven't touched a console in like two weeks except completing the destiny nightfall last week. Actually my gaming monitor has been recruited for a laptop screen the whole time, thus the xbox is sitting alone, because here in England our Coursework for master's classes is due on Jan 9-12th. Whoever decided that was a great idea and not provide the coursework until the week before Christmas is a ####### ### ####. Seriously, they should be kicked in the nuts.Insein said:
Actually right before i stopped in ME2 I just completed her mission and need to recruit one more person before starting on loyalty missions.
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Todem
Footballguy
I easily sunk hundreds of hours into that one along with Baseball Stars and then Madden 93 and Tony La Russa Baseball for the Sega Genesis.....oh yes...the stoner days.travdogg said:When I was a kid, I had to have pumped like 4000 hours in Tecmo Super Bowl. Once upon a time my friends and I(there were 14 of us) each drew numbers out of a hat to select a team for a season, then had a snake style draft to select your second team. If your two teams played each other, you'd skip the game, so it was unwise to pick teams in the same division. I recall the first two picks were San Francisco and Buffalo. I ended up with Chicago(probably somewhere between picks 5-9, and my favorite team) and San Diego. I ended up winning it with San Diego(who I thought was the lesser of my teams) thanks to a monster game from Marion Butts, and blocking 2 kicks with Leslie O'Neal, to beat the 49ers.OK here is a question for the group.
* Single game ONLY. Not a franchise
* You can think of arcade, computer, console, tablet, phone etc
What is the single game you have played the most hours in your life?
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For me I think it is now Hearthstone. This silly little game chews up a couple of hours a day and I have been playing since May I think
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Dickies
Footballguy
Ahh baseball stars. Spend hours upon hours building your team, get a few max players, pop in the game and it is all erased. Rinse, repeat.I easily sunk hundreds of hours into that one along with Baseball Stars and then Madden 93 and Tony La Russa Baseball for the Sega Genesis.....oh yes...the stoner days.travdogg said:When I was a kid, I had to have pumped like 4000 hours in Tecmo Super Bowl. Once upon a time my friends and I(there were 14 of us) each drew numbers out of a hat to select a team for a season, then had a snake style draft to select your second team. If your two teams played each other, you'd skip the game, so it was unwise to pick teams in the same division. I recall the first two picks were San Francisco and Buffalo. I ended up with Chicago(probably somewhere between picks 5-9, and my favorite team) and San Diego. I ended up winning it with San Diego(who I thought was the lesser of my teams) thanks to a monster game from Marion Butts, and blocking 2 kicks with Leslie O'Neal, to beat the 49ers.OK here is a question for the group.
* Single game ONLY. Not a franchise
* You can think of arcade, computer, console, tablet, phone etc
What is the single game you have played the most hours in your life?
======================================================
For me I think it is now Hearthstone. This silly little game chews up a couple of hours a day and I have been playing since May I think