Most hours spent on a game?

[Powermoloch]

WoW 90 days ~ give or take

Oblivion 180 hrs
COD series : 200+
Borderlands: 30 hrs+
FO3: 70 hrs
RTCW: ET : a whole bunch

 

[Dumac]

I know I had over a year of hours on EQ, accumulated over 5 years....I don't know how much were active hours.

I put a ton of hours into D2 over the years...but I have no specific counts.

I know I have at least 400+ hours in Morrowind.

 

[Dumac]

How do you exist? 800 days? are you serious?

Its not that unbelievable. I had just over a year on EQ (365 days) over 5 years, and I wasn't even that "hardcore" (i.e. not in a top raiding guild with top-level gear)

 

[Kristijonas]

Probably Ultima Online. Several months of time spent in it, scattered through 8 years.

 

[jvroig]

Daggerfall - god knows how many hours. At best estimate, ~800 hours. The sequels, I also played, but not quite as long as Daggerfall given I had lots of games (and less time to play) by the time Morrowind and Oblivion came along.

Mount and Blade (original) - over 400 hours.

Mount and Blade: Warband - over 200 hours.

Fallout 2: must have been over 300 hours - I never got tired of replaying it back then, making new characters.
Fallout 1: Probably got to 200 hours.

Eye of the Beholder 3: the first AD&D game I experienced. must have clocked at 200 as well, most of that wandering around the forest and mausoleum and trail endlessly, and experimenting with different party setups.

And way way way back: Steel Thunder, on a green-screen CRT on an XT processors powered PC with no harddisk - first "real" PC game I had. I can't count the hours I spent there. Including obsessing over every page of the manual that explained the tank, weapons, and ammo specs, ST could easily have gobbled up 400 hours of my childhood.

 

[Rifter]

Over 500 hours:
GTA 3
Rainbow 6
UT 99
Oblivion
Minecraft
FF VII
L4D
L4D2

150 - 250 hours:
Civ 4
NWN
GTA 4
CIV 2
D2
Starcraft

 

[greenhawk]

Civ 2 - most of my free time during high school.

TF2 - since beta - not idea exactly as steam only started recording play time a long way after the game was released. Though that timing system did report several weeks in a row of 40+ hours in the game

l4d 1 was pretty high, but I stopped when the right click change occured. By then IIRC I had most of the acheivements including "x" number of enemy kills (16,000+?)and other time based acheivements (1337 tank kills? or was that some other one).

just checked, must have been "ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST ", 53,595 infected killed.

 

[MustangSVT]

Starcraft 2.

before that?

starcraft : BW

 

[Red Storm]

Its not that unbelievable. I had just over a year on EQ (365 days) over 5 years, and I wasn't even that "hardcore" (i.e. not in a top raiding guild with top-level gear)

... That's crazy. Over a 5 year period you spent 1/5 of that time just playing EQ?

 

[NoSoup4You]

For the longest time before games had stat tracking and leaderboards, I never realized people spend that much time playing games. I still can't wrap my head around the idea of spending 40+ hours per week gaming, how family and friends would allow that to occur...etc. I know that not everyone has a stable homelife, but still...

I knew a guy in college that started playing Everquest (this was circa ~2000), I literally never saw him again after he started playing. That was all I needed to know not to ever play an MMO. I'm now just finally allowing myself to try one (Guild Wars) in preparation for a game I must try (Guild Wars 2).

For my own part, I've invested over 150 hours but less than 250 in the following, from most to least -

Oblivion
BF2142
BF2
Team Fortress 2
Dragon Age
Age of Empires 3 (playing competitively online)
Mass Effect

 

[Dumac]

... That's crazy. Over a 5 year period you spent 1/5 of that time just playing EQ?

Sure. Some of that time was probably me afk in the bazaar, but I was a kid at the time and didn't have much else to do but play videogames.

My longest EQ marathon was 28 hours or something.

1/5 of a day is >5 hours if evenly distributed.

The week has 168 hours. 1/5 of that is 33.6 hours. A conservative estimate is that I played 10 hours each on Saturday and Sunday. That leaves only 13.6 hours. Spread over the other 5 days, that is only 2.72 hours a day.

 

[Dumac]

For the longest time before games had stat tracking and leaderboards, I never realized people spend that much time playing games. I still can't wrap my head around the idea of spending 40+ hours per week gaming, how family and friends would allow that to occur...etc. I know that not everyone has a stable homelife, but still...

You act as if playing video games is akin to doing hard drugs

As a kid in a small town, there wasn't much else to do. Nobody liked going outside because the weather was crappy (although I did go outside quite a lot).

40 hours a week is a job. As a kid, you don't have a job, so might as well spend that time playing, right?

Of course now I don't play nearly as much, cause I have actual responsibilities.

 

[n7]

n7 you have my respect for those UT2k4 hours (as long as they were spent playing CTF/DDOM/TDM/DM)

Hmm, i played a lot of different 2k4 over the years.

Tons of ONS + TDM/DM, and pretty huge amounts of CTF/vCTF, as well as lots of Zark/PIG/instagib.

 

[TheAdvocate]

I've got no idea on number of hours, but I can say that the top five time soaks for me are:

NWN1 (Far too many)
NWN2 (too many)
Galactic Civ 2 (Many)
Diablo 2 (more than 500)
Baldur's Gate Series as a whole.

NWN1? On Aol? That was a small community. I probably knew you.

Mine has to be SC:BW. All those ladder matches, etc.

 

[zinfamous]

Guild Wars--4 years of my life there. not sure the total days/hours in the end, but I don't wanna know. i logged in for like, 30 minutes a few weeks ago after 1.5 years away, no desire to go back, it seems. (FML when GW2 comes out).

next is probably Warcraft 2. no idea those hours.

....currently, which I can track: Borderlands: 208 hours...but that's in like 2 months time. FML.

 

[thescreensavers]

verified 6k hours in WoW its probrally a bit more but feelsbadman

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

AoE2. I was much more easily amused back then though. Easily I've spent 10,000 hours on that game.

 

[Via]

If each replay of Gothic is 40 hours, I would say I put maybe 400 hours into that game.

I've played through Baldur's gate+expansion about 5 times; I don't know how long that takes.

Others for me:

Tomb Raider
Alpha Centauri
Gothic 2 (total hours might be as high or higher than Gothic 1 since it takes longer)
Neef for Speed High Stakes

 

[Northern Lawn]

So who regrets spending thousands of hours playing video games knowing you could have got a masters degree instead? ....I wonder if they have courses in video game engineering?

 

[Via]

nah, I don't regret it.

I love PC games (and some console games as well).

It's my hobby and I've had a hell of a lot of fun with it.

And I have two Bachelor's and one Master's degree, so you can do both.

 

[Dumac]

nah, I don't regret it.

I love PC games (and some console games as well).

It's my hobby and I've had a hell of a lot of fun with it.

And I have two Bachelor's and one Master's degree, so you can do both.

exactly

don't know why its so hard for some people to understand

 

[PrayForDeath]

AoE2. I was much more easily amused back then though. Easily I've spent 10,000 hours on that game.

Doubt it.

Dragon Age: Origins - 158 hours
Mass Effect - 135 hours
Mass Effect 2 - 121 hours

None of these games are open world. They're fairly linear, so how did you spend so much time on them?? Did you just replay them over and over?

Though from what I've heard, DA:O does have tons of content buried in the game that you can easily miss on your first playthrough.

 

[Northern Lawn]

None of these games are open world. They're fairly linear, so how did you spend so much time on them?? Did you just replay them over and over?

Though from what I've heard, DA:O does have tons of content buried in the game that you can easily miss on your first playthrough.

Yeah I was going to ask about normal single player games, another thread would probably be better but my record for single player is...harder to calculate but I played about 80 hours of System Shock II in a one week period. It was about 6 years ago and I can't get the game to work anymore but it was superb.

I also must have played at least that much with Rome Total War but it was over a much longer time period.

 

[Northern Lawn]

nah, I don't regret it.

I love PC games (and some console games as well).

It's my hobby and I've had a hell of a lot of fun with it.

And I have two Bachelor's and one Master's degree, so you can do both.

Basically you're a nerd.

But I agree, it's hobby... I swear I'll be 80 years old and playing Bad Company 15... calling everyone noobs and having a great time.

I see no difference between playing video games and playing more accepted types of games like Pool or Chess... when I say video games I really mean PC games... consoles aren't my thing.

 

[KidNiki1]

So who regrets spending thousands of hours playing video games knowing you could have got a masters degree instead? ....I wonder if they have courses in video game engineering?

who regrets the thousands of hours they spend (insert whatever people do for a hobby here)?? ive read a crap ton of books in my life so far...should i feel bad i dont have a masters in literature?

kind of a pointless question imo. its not any different from people spending time reading, or watching tv, or running, or building model train sets, or visiting art galleries, or painting, or bird watching, or kayaking, etc, etc, ad nauseum.