FWIW ... as someone who's gone from lurking to posting in a few places, and in fact in real life at times ... go for it! ... it's fun and makes the place more fun for you and everyone else!
yeah I can already see myself having a bit more fun with it, and it seems to be a little less toxic here. It is difficult finding existing communities to follow though
Although the game I've played the most over all my years and outside of steam is definitely Deus Ex. I've put a lot of time into it exploring the single player, playing the multiplayer, and messing around with mods since it came out in 2001. The same would go for Unreal Tournament 2004 which I easily had over a thousand hours in back in high school, before steam was a thing.
It’s a toss-up between Richard Burns Rally and Dirt Rally 2. I’ve played a ton of DR2 over the years but since I started playing RBR in 2004 when it came out, it’s quite possible that all my return visits to it add up to more hours overall still…
Yeah! RBR RSF is what I just reinstalled after like a year off due to the death of my elderly Mac Pro tower that I had been using to run windows and play games on lol.
Later, much later. Although I have seen it at launch and was already smitten, I didn't have the hardware for it for the longest time. Only started playing around 2021
aww man i wish i could run that game well, i tried running it when i first got my laptop and had dogshit fps unfortunately and my pc got pretty hot.. might give it another try
It's worth another shot now, they've optimized a bit since launch. It's really such a good game (after all updates) once you get past the initial grind and money becomes basically infinite.
Team Fortress 2 / Left 4 Dead 1 & 2: sub-1000 hours, each.
Subspace/Continuum: over 1000 hours for sure, but nobody counted. Tried jumping back in the game just for fun, i'm back to square one "what's the button to attach?". I was a Trench Wars/Extreme Games pub guy.
EDIT: First post in a two years-old lurking account. Hello, world!
Same here. Just under 1300 hours in Rocket League. Quit after the move to Epic. I'm sure the community is fine, but in my opinion it's on a downward trend now.
There was no real breaking changes since Epic bought Psyonix IMO. Although they quickly retired support for their native Linux and Mac builds after the buyout (that, i'm pissed about. still playing on a virtualized Windows machine with GPU passthrough, but I suspect this is on borrowed time before they ban that). But since then, game went free 2 play with only seasonal cosmetic items you can get. Core gameplay is still fun!
Tf2 too for me. I played almost 5000 hrs. Not counting two side accounts I made for collecting halloween stuff/ playing incognito. Played some etf2l and went to some lans. Was a good time!
There's a mod team that's kind of doing that, last I checked they were still active and had made significant progress, but with this kind of thing it's always a toss-up on whether or not it will ever actually be finished. Fallout 4 NV, @Project_F4NV on Twitter
0 A.D has been very fun, although I play offline because I'm casual af :) Has all the things I liked about Age of Empires and more, and I've been building from source so it gets improvements every week.
Xonotic has had an excellent community whenever I've gone online, so can recommend.
Haha Xonotic is a blast to drop into, and the online community were great (partly because they want new players to stay ;), one even taught me how to properly use the grappling rope in CTF online mid-game. I'm more used to Call of Duty 'run-and-gun' gameplay than Halo or anything with more tactical movement, so someone experienced in this kind of game would have even more fun. It's worth pointing out that all the games I mentioned (and it's only partly coincidence) are Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS") which is community developed rather than commercially developed, similarly to Lemmy, Mastodon and others.
Alright here's a quick rant for you:
The SuperTuxKart situation is a bit annoying, in mid-2019, a large chunk of the core staff stood down or left, including the lead, the co-project leader for 10 years and the social media manager. Two new leaders were elected (Alayan and Benau), and in the next couple of years Alayan has apparently disappeared.
Benau is a good dev, but not a good people person. They often give trollish replies in the main chat room antagonizing people who are reasonably annoyed and then laughing at them, I've seen them call two different volunteers 'trolls' and alienate them, people who very obviously weren't malicious and did nothing but politely suggest actually useful and applicable improvements or contribute amateurish addons and ask why one wasn't approved. Add on top of that randomly posting Musk and Donald Trump reaction stickers constantly in regular conversation. And the icing on the cake is that they're too dismissive of suggestions to accommodate to artist who are less technically experienced. They'll accept merge requests if someone has volunteered and made those technical or documentation improvements ready to add, sure, but it's about a 0 on their priority list. And this isn't trivial, it's probably the critical important task: I've talked to an industry professional 3D artist and teacher who couldn't get the tools working and was unable to contribute after (allegedly, I don't know the details) not getting any help in the chat room. With the improvements later made by someone else to the tool setup process, this person probably would have made the major, much requested improvements they had set out to make (like the redesigned overworld map).
Now, look, Benau is a bit stressed handling more roles than they should have, and that probably doesn't help, but they're the lead decision maker for a lot of things and very active in the chat and feedback channel so they're important when it comes to people's impression and experience. It's toxic to behave like this in a room for a family-oriented game. I mean, it would be toxic for a FPS too, but I'd just expect better from this genre of game. And when you're a volunteer driven project, that can be enough to kill it. There's certainly lost potential when experienced artists leave.
Seems like it's TF2, but I haven't touched it in years. TF2, Garry's Mod, and Payday 2 were probably the only games I played for most of my pre-teen years, but nowadays I've been dipping my toes in a bunch of different stuff, even if it's not for very long. The one with the most recently would probably be Yakuza: Like a Dragon, by virtue of being crazy long.
It's Elite for me as well (though Skyrim is a close second). I'm thinking of taking a peek back in at some point, but it doesn't really have the same appeal anymore.
Minecraft, there are so very many modpacks out there and i have played a lot of them, not to mention multiplayer servers such as hypixel. Really quite a lot to do there. Probably the second game would be League of Legends. and in third place we have Garry's Mod, each of these games probably with 4000+ hrs each.
Persona 5 for me, next is probably BOTW. I have nothing on you guys though. I seldom play any game over 150 hours. I get tired of it by 80 or so, so I'm doing everything I can to wrap it up shortly after that. I wish I didn't get so tired of a game. I'd save a lot of money if I enjoyed playing them longer.
I can't remember 95% of what I did on EVE Online for the like 3 months I feverously played it, but it's sitting as my highest played game. Though I guess there was a lot of afk mining going on. For actually always active gameplay it's terraria. If I logged minecraft hours, it would probably be up there.
Shoutout to the oddball Graveyard Keeper being in my top 5. It's really not a game with enough content to play 200 hours, but I did it anyways. Finished my...5th? full ending + DLC run a few months ago.
Steam claims it is Terraria with 118h, followed by Satisfactory with 78 and Tabletop Simulator with 66. But I've also sunk around 150 into Breath of the Wild on the Switch. And I have no idea about how many I got together playing WoW from 2004 until 2005 before I pulled the plug on it due to conflicts with my studies, but I'm pretty sure it's more than that 😬
Same for me.l, I've played since Alpha 1.1 and put likely thousands of hours in over the years. As for games where I actually have logged hours to look at on Steam, it's Space Engineers.
Yep, I play 3+ hours a day most days when I was really into it. Did that for close to 10 years. Then on and off for the next 10. So ya, it's somewhere in that ballpark
Fallout New Vegas for sure. On Steam I have 467 hours logged and I played probably another 150 hours on Xbox 360 back in the day. If it wasn't so hard getting Vortex working on Linux I'd be starting another 30+ hour save today.
After that is Project Zomboid with 460 hours but I feel that's less shocking in a sandbox game.
Per Steam: 1138 hours in New World, which is surprising only because I thought No Man's Sky was going to crush it. Apparently not! Only 784 hours there, but since I've returned to it as my game of choice lately, there's room to grow.
[edit] oh man, I forgot Pokémon Go. I can't figure out how to get hours on there but probably a bunch.
Steam shows my most hours are in Planetside 2, I did play almost daily for a couple years with a good outfit.
Second most hours is Arma 3, tons of time spent there in single and multiplayer. Recently got back into it with the "JMs Of Order and Peace" Star Wars mod and the Dynamic Recon/Combat Ops missions.
Hard to tell since not a lot of them are tracked. But Steam says I have 1300 hours in Warframe, and 1100 hours in Final Fantasy XIV. Those numbers should probably be higher, since I've played both of those more on other clients. If I had to guess, I'd say Diablo 2, Quake 3, and EVE Online.
aw man finall fantasy tactics a2 on the nintendo ds, i have so many memories with this game, a relative of mine sold it to mom when i was a kid cus he grew out of it (the nds) and she gave it to me, found a bunch of fun stuff packed into the custom flashcart thing and tried all of them, the game at hand i had no idea how to play each time i tried it, until one time i tried a different approach and actually got past the first fight it put me into xD ended up spending weeks upon weeks playing it and it genuinely made my childhood.. until my lil brother deleted one of the files needed for the custom firmware thing. fast forward till present day, bought nintendo ds's like 2 yrs ago and i play it everynow and then :) can confidently say i got at least 1500, maybe 2000 hrs in it, each playthrough can vary from 60-200+
It was. Our clan created a guild, and playing together was great too.
Have you actually looked at it / started it years later again though?
Back then the graphics and stuff were great. And Nostalgia makes you think it still is. But… yeah, it's quite dated. :D
I played with weekly training and scrims which was a lot of fun.
Being able to enjoy good and great teamplay in a class and objective based shooter is great.
We also did various events over the years which was a lot of fun. Like a rifle tournament.
The fast and skilled movement was great too. We had a trickjump server too.
EU4 lol, and by far. At least that's among I have hour counters for. I'd guess I've played more Minecraft because I played that sooo much when I was younger and still sometimes do occasionally.
Probably CS:GO, but maybe TF2. I played a ton of TF2 in my college days both on Xbox 360 and PC. More recently (starting in about 2016 and continuing until this day) I play CS:GO pretty regularly. I was playing Overwatch from 2017-2022 as my main game but OW2 changes made me leave pretty quickly so I'm back to playing mostly CS:GO. Skyrim might be up there as well since I have played it a lot over the years.
Looks like I've got something new to look into. I never really stopped playing them as I've gotten older. They just quit making them like they used to. Times change, unfortunately.
Something around 900+ hours in Stellaris. From playing as a Egalitarian/Xenophile United Nation of Earth, fighting in a federation for justice across the Galaxy to... A race of Xenophobic/Religious Sentient Plants that are enslaving every living being and turned the human species into livestock 😇
I easily have thousands of hours in call of duty 1 for PC. I played scrims a lot through mIRC. My xfire profile tracked most of that, although that doesn't exist anymore. Runner up would probably be Guild Wars 1 with a few thousand hours. Life before responsibilities was a wild time
Understandably not everyone's favorite game. But unlike most MMO's I've played, the game has a fun (enough) game play loop, with the best dungeons I've ever seen. Creative, dynamic bosses.
Probably Minecraft. I have no way of checking, but I've played a LOT of that, just randomly getting the itch over the years and spending a few day here and there I'm sure adds up.
Hollow Knight. There’s just so much to do for a $20 game. Especially if you’re trying to reach 112% completion rate. If you like Metroidvanias, I highly recommend it.
The free DLC they released added content. The added achievements, collectibles etc make up the extra 12%. Why they didn't re-scale everything back to 100% I don't know.
It's been years now since I last logged in, but Eve Online. Thousands upon thousands of hours warping between gates. Sometimes I miss it, but then I remember the times I would set the alarm clock to get me up in the middle of the night so that I could join in on Corp/Alliance ops and I'm like nope. I enjoy the healthy lifestyle I have now.
Untraceable answer, probably World of Warcraft. Between playing TBC and WotLK on release, to revisiting during Legion, and then playing Classic and WotLK Classic I have probably sunk more hours than I would really like to know.
According to Steam my most played game is The Elder Scrolls Online which really surprised me, that's not what I would have guessed. Terraria is second, and that I could have guessed.
EVE Online... I have at least a thousand hours in that game. I haven't played in years, but no game since have satisfied the same depth of mechanics and unique community.
I got 12750 hours on my Old School RuneScape ironman, probably another 10000-15000 hours across all my other accounts the past 20 years :P then I have good 5000 hours on CSGO and 2500 in Final Fantasy 14 online.
In case you were wondering, 12,750 hours is 531 days. About a year and a half straight. If you played as a full time job 40 hours a week that is over 6 years.
Elden Ring, The Division 2, by far. Then probably Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
I couldn't believe I sunk 165 hours into Elden Ring.
*Edit - I forgot about GTAV. I've played it 3 times plus tons of side missions and random stuff, so that's probably up there at 300ish
Silent Hill.
I played it multiple times on the PS1, attempting to get all the endings, continued to play it on PS2 and at least once or twice a year since. I play it on my PS Vita, my laptop or my phone these days.
I sometimes have all 3 going at different stages of the game.
Something just calls me back to Silent Hill...
WoW by a long shot. I’m guessing around 10k hours in total. I’ve mostly quit by now due to time constraints, but I recognize that when I do play, I neglect lots of other things.
For me it was Final Fantasy Tactics (PSone). 300+ hours. All my characters were Lvl 99 and Job level 8 in almost all jobs. I remember seeing the "character" bios and prince Orinas (he was 1 year at the game's begining) was around 15~16 years old.
I have 5500 hours in a little indie game called Altitude. Very fun if you decide to give it a try, although multi-player is really dead if you don't know when people play
In my old gamer life probably Mario Kart 64 in my new gamer life I restarted after working Endless Space 2 or Go/Baduk (if you some up all clients for that game)
Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don't play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.