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What games have you invested the most time in?

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Stupid amount of time in Starcraft BW. close to 15000 games on record ... still knocking few games a week.

CS 1.6. when i was on break between starcraft games.

Maybe Gran Turismo Series and SF2T on console.
 
At least from 1999:
UT1
Planescape Torment (MANY full playthroughs. About 1 every year or two)
BF 1942
Fallouts
Morrowind
WOW (Ugh.. So much time. Done now. Having a kid killed that... 🙂 )
Oblivion
GTA Series

Everything post 2007 has not been as obsessive. Mostly had to have single player that's pauseable. My only uninterrupted time is late in the evening...
 
CS:S at a whopping 3200 hours
WoW would probably be somewhere after that
Then maybe FFXI
Finally TF2 at around 700
 
I have no attention span so nothing has ever gotten too high. I think NCAA Football 2004 I had about 250 hours. I only made it about 3 days of playtime on WoW before I realized I was grinding ridiculous amounts of hours to make my online barbie doll look prettier.
 
I don't know the amount of hours, but in my gaming history the ones I've spent the most on were for:

Metal of Honor
Rise of Nations
Civilization
Dark Age of Camelot
 
Mine (estimated):

- Escape Velocity series
- Fallout 2
- X-Wing/TIE Fighter
- Halo

I typically play games for 50-100 hours before I get sick of them. That's if I really enjoy them. Those four were probably well above that. I've probably played either COD4 or Halo 3 the most in multiplayer, but likely "only" about 60-70 hours each.
 
It's lonely on my island.

Day of Defeat Source 2500hrs+

EDIT: Check that, 3,082hrs+

I used to love that game, but the server I played on had jerks as admins. One time I did a drive-by nading (I ran past the enemy spawn and tossed a grenade randomly in there for laughs). I wasn't even spawn camping, and there was no rule against spawn camping on that server anyway, but the nade killed an admin and he banned me for it. 🙄 On the only other low-ping server in my area, the admins were slow to ban auto-aim cheaters despite my submitting recorded demos as proof, so I gave up playing there, too.
 
Hard to say which is the most.

RPG's:
Deus Ex and Baldurs Gate 2. Probably thousands of hours total on BG2. Mostly because about 3/4 of the game is optional and can be done several different ways. Also because every so often I find something that makes me go back. Like the Tweak Pack or that patch that lets me choose any resolution, and it actually works.
Probably several hundred hours on Deus Ex. Every level can be done at least two completely different ways.
I've likely played Morrowind for thousands of hours and Oblivion for hundreds. Oblivion might be the better game but Morrowind was ground breaking for me whereas Oblivion was just more of the same but with better physics and fast travel. Actually, fast travel is probably why I spent much less time playing it. Ditto Fallout 3.

RTS:
NOT Starcraft but I did play that a lot. Overall is probably Age of Mythology. I dont know why. Its just so much fun. Probably thousands of hours on that. Ditto Dawn of War, and all its expansions. Several thousand hours total.
Act of War. Again, not special other than its extremely well made and loads of fun. Several hundred hours.
TA, not so much. TA Kingdoms, tons. Probably thousands of hours. Way back when it was popular you could find loads of custom units all over the web. I probably spent just as much time downloading and tweaking custom content as playing the actual game. The only downside was the online match maker stunk and the AI was not adjustable, so when I started I got hammered, and as I got better the game was weak. Got tired eventually.

TBS:
Mostly 4X space games like Master of Orion. But overall most time is probably Heroes 3 Complete. Buttloads of campaigns each with tons of missions, and some missions can go for days. Thousands of hours altogether I'm sure. Disciples 2 is a good one, but I dont think I put nearly as many hours into it.

Racing:
TDU. It takes a long time to get everything and its also a shitload of fun just to drive around and do nothing. Much safer and cheaper than real life. If the online part didnt suck ass I would be spending all my time on it. They wanted it to be the first racing MMO and it never worked. TDU 2 comes out soon and I'm sure I will piss away a thousand hours on it. Assuming the gameplay doesnt stink.

Sports:
None.

Platformers:
Mostly the consoles, but on PC I havent spent too much time on them. Braid mostly, and some Jets N Guns.

Overall number one time sucker has to be Dawn of War. I've done the original and Winter Assault campaigns multiple times, as well as the lame ass campaigns found in Soul Storm and Dark Crusade. And theres no other game I'd rather jump into for skirmish. If the multiplayer worked as well as Battle Net, that game would have been MUCH more popular than Starcraft, and SC2 would have had some real competition to beat.
 
Almost certainly Civilization 2. No idea how many hours, but hundreds.

Other games would be
Civ 4.
Civ 1.
Baldur's Gate 2 .(played it right through three or four times)
Fallout 1/2. (played each about 4 times)
Deus Ex. (played at least 4 times)
Might and Magic 6 (a few times)
Ultima 7 (a few times)
Unreal Tournament 99 (probably a few hundred hours)
 
Oh shit, forgot console.
I probably put more time into Final Fantasy 1 than any other game. Probably because of the ridiculous grinding required to get ahead.
I know Elfland like the back of my hand.
 
Don't know the hours/days played. For me the biggest ones were,
Everquest
Subspace (now called Continnum)
Diablo 1
Team Fortress 2

I spent significant chunks of time in Descent 2, Starcraft and Warcraft 3 as well.
 
Some of the #'s you guys are putting up are quite disgusting. I couldn't imagine the dedication/laziness it takes to put in 100+ days into a game. Over the course of 2 years I had some 200 hours into Oblivion and I felt like I obsessed over it. Different strokes for different folks i guess
 
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Some of the #'s you guys are putting up are quite disgusting. I couldn't imagine the dedication/laziness it takes to put in 100+ days into a game. Over the course of 2 years I had some 200 hours into Oblivion and I felt like I obsessed over it. Different strokes for different folks i guess

If you really love one game and play it exclusively then its not hard to rack up a thousand hours.
And you wouldnt need hundreds of hours in Oblivion if the game play moved along a little more fluidly. Much of time spent is running around and checking boxes. If you just focus on the quests it doesnt take much time at all, same for Fallout 3.
 
Counter Strike
Desert Combat for BF 1942
BF2
Diablo 1 and 2
Final Fantasy Tactics
Chrono Trigger DS
Final Fantasy 6, 7, and 10
Secret of Mana 2
Aion
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Total Annihilation
 
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