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Supermercado

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Counter-Strike and Battlefield 2 on the PC. I've spent quite a bit of time playing Forza 2 on the PC. My roommates and I played a ton of NCAA Football 2004 in college, as well. Quite a bit of GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark on the N64. Super Mario Kart way back when.
 

KaOTiK

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Feb 5, 2001
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Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Originally posted by: KaOTiK
Rainbow Six - I would play it every free moment I had, was rated one of the best in tournaments in solo and clan play.
Tribes - Oh man how I they would just revamp it and release it again

Did you play on Mplayer by chance? I was also hardcore into R6. Played daily for many hours for over a year. My name was River. Also played Tribes.

Anyway my list would be:
Eve-Online: 3 years
Diablo II: 2 years
Rainbow Six: 1yr+

Thats about it. Lots of other games but those are the only ones over a year I think.

Yup, mplayer was pretty cool back in the day. Miss it, never liked the zone though we had to use it for tournament play

I want to say I remember the name River but I honestly can't be sure. You remember what clan you were in?
 

Baked

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Dec 28, 2004
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X-Com, Civ II, then WoW. Only play a few hours of games between PS3, Wii, and DS now.
 

ponyo

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Feb 14, 2002
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Diablo 2. Took about 2 years of my life. I was seriously addicted to this game and it's the reason I won't touch MMO like WoW.
Street Fighter 2 series. Lived at the arcade because of this game.
Madden, NHL, and Live series on Genesis. Classic.
 

mxyzptlk

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Apr 18, 2008
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Myth:TFL and Myth2:Soulblighter.

I mean, I didn't devote my life to it the way wow nerds do, but for sure everyday after school until well past midnight was spent on Bungie.net trying to break into the top8.

highest rank ever achieved was full moon, 4th place.. just a few points shy of the eclipse D:
 

Rage187

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Dec 30, 2000
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Quake2
Oblivion sucked away some life
Vice City
and recently Lego Star Wars took up 40 hours in a week while I grinded out 100% minus the single life trials.
 

Riverhound777

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Aug 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: KaOTiK
Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Originally posted by: KaOTiK
Rainbow Six - I would play it every free moment I had, was rated one of the best in tournaments in solo and clan play.
Tribes - Oh man how I they would just revamp it and release it again

Did you play on Mplayer by chance? I was also hardcore into R6. Played daily for many hours for over a year. My name was River. Also played Tribes.

Anyway my list would be:
Eve-Online: 3 years
Diablo II: 2 years
Rainbow Six: 1yr+

Thats about it. Lots of other games but those are the only ones over a year I think.

Yup, mplayer was pretty cool back in the day. Miss it, never liked the zone though we had to use it for tournament play

I want to say I remember the name River but I honestly can't be sure. You remember what clan you were in?


I know one for sure was SEF, Special Elite Force. We so uber leet yo, lol.

Edit: Oh man I found a link to our old website. http://www.angelfire.com/me2/SEF/

Oh and we were ZEN before that. Forget what that meant.

Oh and if you ever played SEF-BioLabTrippin map, that was us.
 

KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: Naustica
Street Fighter 2 series. Lived at the arcade because of this game.

Haha, same here. Can't believe I didn't say my favourite games of all time SF2 and SF2 CE.

KT
 

KB

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Nov 8, 1999
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Super Mario 3 - beat it almost 100 times on NES, SNES, GBA and emulator
Zelda Links Awakening - have the black/white and color versions
Half-Life - includes CS and other mods
 

Aikouka

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Nov 27, 2001
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Originally posted by: ggnl
WoW...

Everything else pales in comparison to the amount of time I wasted on that game.

Same... and it still occupies quite a bit.
 

JTsyo

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Nov 18, 2007
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Probably in the order of time I spend on them:

1. Guild Wars
2. Counterstrike
3. Warcraft 3
4. Disgaea
 

Imported

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Sep 2, 2000
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If I include arcade games, I'd have to put Initial D up on the list too.. my first two years of college, I think I spent almost every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon+night at the arcade playing that with others. Hurray for 10 Buck Tuesdays and Thursdays at Boomers. :D
 

SnipeMasterJ13

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Oct 20, 2004
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Super Mario Bros when I was little. I actually still fire up the NES every once and awhile for it. More recently, the Halo series has consumed countless hours of my life.
 

Trader05

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Mar 1, 2000
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Team Fortress for Quake1 and TFC for Half-Life for PC...took up a lot of my time in high school

Console:
All the Super Mario Bros and Zelda 1 NES, SuperMarioWorld and Link to the Past SNES.

Last game that took entirely forever i played was Zelda TP for Wii....i think i was over 45 hours.
 

SandEagle

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Aug 4, 2007
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Call of Duty 4 - played that game almost everyday for 10 months straight

2nd place: Final Fantasy X - 80 hours to complete
 
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Counter-Strike by far. I've been playing since beta 4 virtually non-stop (when I went away to college the network was awful for gaming, so I cut way back on CS). I've been playing Source since it was released, and spent about 2 years playing both 1.6 and Source simultaneously. I'd estimate that I play 20+ hours of CS:S a week currently. Hell, I like CS so much I made, not one, but two movies about the game (Clutch and Clutch 2).

I've played thousands of games in my lifetime, many of them for huge number of hours, but I don't think any of them would come within even 1% of the amount of time I've spent on CS.