I was looking at my playtime for some games and realized I have over 450 hours in PlanetSide 2.
I’ve been wanting to find a new game to sink some hours into so I’m curious what Lemmy plays the most.
Finally! Someone with over 1000 hours in a game. I think I have over 3000 hours in Stellaris alone. Granted I’ve definitely walked away from that game in the endgame for over an hour and come back with practically nothing changing. It’s a very slow game.
After not playing for years I have a hard time getting back in. Any tips?
Play smaller and taller. Playing a wide game is tougher but not impossible. Also don’t do what I do, do not have a custom built species for every origin. There’s a lot of origins now and it’s a little cluttered. Just build a race you like and get playing.
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Rimworld, way too much Rimworld. A big part of it is that I’ll often have it one a second computer during the workday just on pause to pop in during downtime but I guess that still counts as playtime just being loaded.
Ive got 2.2k hours in RimWorld and I’ve only ever tried to launch a spaceship once(spoiler I died).
Such a good game, such good modding scene.
I’ve tried the game a few times and it doesn’t click with me. What’s is it that you find so appealing?
For me a lot of it is in trying to maximize efficiencies. Setting up task duties and resources where you have plenty enough but not overloading your storage. Defensive position designs to counter any possible situation. Layouts to the base to allow free movement.
Lot of others try for specific artistic ideas or scenario goals, but I’m something of engineer minded player.
Emergent gameplay is what appeals to me
I like that each pawn builds up a personality overtime and grows as a character. I pretty much just play Rimworld as a doll house simulator
I feel this way about XCOM. I’ll give this a shot.
When someone does a heroic move I elevate them to hero status in the colony and they get a better bedroom, better armour and the best weapon.
Dangit you’re making me want to play. Can you build an army with laser guns?
Look for the “vanilla expanded” mods.
It is a dedicated and organized team of modders that has output a stunning amount of content, all of it cohesive, and what many would consider required “base game” content.
They have literally put out dozens of mods that could be standalone DLC, all for free.
Literally thousands of hours in stellaris and space engineers. Recently satisfactory as well.
When I was younger I also played a metric fuckton of world of Warcraft, though that thankfully is a lot less addictive nowadays.
Considering you enjoyed these games, take a peak at factorio. It’s good stuff.
Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Civ 5. Those two took over my life for a while.
Factorio for me. Steam has 3000 hours logged, but I played it for ages before getting Steam version so really no idea. Estimating 4000 hours total.
I feel like I would love this game, but I already have plenty of other games to enjoy I’m trying to hold off.
Lots of rimworld time though.
Rimworld! For me it is right after Factorio in playtime list if I filter out idle or semi-idle games.
Satisfactory for me. 2000 hours and counting
Still alive, are we?
Just reached my 300th hour in Deep Rock Galactic, so far I’m loving it :)
According to Steam:
- Rocket League: 2038 hours
- GTA V: 260 hours
- Project Cars 2: 234 hours
I haven’t seriously played any of them over the last year though. RL has been run into the ground by greed. GTA V was always greedy, but was still some fun to fck around in. However it isn’t really relevant anymore. PC2 was replaced for me by Assetto Corsa (5th place, 170 hours) which has great mods and better physics.
Also, this is only Steam. Combining Steam and Uplay numbers, Trackmania 2020 probably 2nd place with just over 300 hours. And LoL may also be top 3 even though I haven’t played in years. Likewise Beyond All Reason may be getting close to the top 3, but I have no way of knowing since it doesn’t track the playtime afaik.
It’s Skullgirls by a mile, at over 1600 hours. There’s always some way to push your game to the next level, and there’s always a strategy and combination of characters you can put together that’s effective and no one has tried before. Next is Guilty Gear Strive, at over 700 hours, and the Roman Cancel system is so deep that there’s always room to be clever with it.
Looking at some other games I’ve played a ton, besides fighting games, I could probably sink hundreds more hours into Baldur’s Gate 3 and Mercenary Kings if they ever got expansions or sequels, but I don’t think those things are going to happen.
Rocket League over a thousand, then Crusader Kings III about 600, then CS 1.6 and Monster Hunter World with 400.
CS 1.6 must‘ve started logging those stats after my „prime“ though, I basically played nothing else way back when lol
Rocket league. 8000 hours. Haven’t played in about two years.
Second would be HOMM3.
Probably most hours I’ve spend where with Conquer Online back in the days before mysteryboxes where introduced. After that probably puzzle and dragons.
Luckily after those games I learned to question my time spent in these games. (Basically just one day after grinding tower of gods for umpteenth time to spend my 1k stamina/energy, I asked myself wtf am I doing with my life, was I having fun?)
After that my most played games have been Grim dawn, Sacred2, Monster hunter world, No Man sky, Incredible adventures of van helsing then various 2d fighters like Blazblue, undernight inbirth and Granblue fantasy versus that I play on locals.
here are my timesinks.
there are slight caveats to that data. first of all, i actually have more time spent within Terraria, since i have about 144 hours recorded in tModLoader.
and second of all, i do estimate about 250 hours spent in Fallout: New Vegas as well. but since i own it on GOG and not Steam, i do not know for sure.
I’ve spent a lot of time on the XCOM games. Installed 2 recently and having almost as much fun as the first time (this is like the 10th).
I’ve tried Risk of Rain 2 a few times. Like the comment I left about Rim World below, it just doesn’t click with me and I love shooters. Wondering what I’m missing that everyone else sees.
Yeah XCOM 2 is one of my top games by playtime. That game has stolen so many nights with “one more mission”. Then they went and did that kickass expansion.
