"Has logged 2362.8 hours of playtime — that's 98 days, 10 hours, and 48 minutes, where Team Fortress 2 is their most played game, which accounts for 47.3% of their playtime."
aaand after trying to start it up again, I just don't think I'll ever be able to get into the witcher. The story seems so cool but fuck is the combat stupid.
What didn't you like about it, if you don't mind my asking? I finished The Witcher 1 recently and while the combat was hardly amazing it never really impacted my enjoyment.
Eh, fair enough I guess. I can see how that might sour your enjoyment if it's an area of the game you're invested in. Personally, the story and choices more than made the game worthwhile for me, but different strokes etc.
aaand after trying to start it up again, I just don't think I'll ever be able to get into the witcher. The story seems so cool but fuck is the combat stupid.
What didn't you like about it, if you don't mind my asking? I finished The Witcher 1 recently and while the combat was hardly amazing it never really impacted my enjoyment.
I'm actually interested in hearing this as well, since thanks to @FightTest I own The Witcher, but haven't started it yet (mainly because I need to have a decent chunk of time set aside for an eighty hour RPG).
It's probably closer to 50-60* and only if you're a total pleb like me and do every single sidequest. Definitely worth it, though. It took me even longer than this because I got halfway through it one time and had to reformat, so I ended up investing a significant chunk of my life into that game (it took me longer than Persona 4, for Chrissakes).
*He says, as if this is a reasonable amount of time.
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Oh, snap. @Handgimp just classed shit up by gifting me LA Noire. I'm actually a little surprised I didn't already own it. Thank you, sir.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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I've clocked far fewer hours than I expected.
Though the fact that I don't own Rift on Steam hurts my time at least a little bit.
It's probably closer to 50-60* and only if you're a total pleb like me and do every single sidequest. Definitely worth it, though. It took me even longer than this because I got halfway through it one time and had to reformat, so I ended up investing a significant chunk of my life into that game (it took me longer than Persona 4, for Chrissakes).
*He says, as if this is a reasonable amount of time.
This makes me never want to discuss my Nocturne or Persona 3 playtimes ~_~
It's probably closer to 50-60* and only if you're a total pleb like me and do every single sidequest. Definitely worth it, though. It took me even longer than this because I got halfway through it one time and had to reformat, so I ended up investing a significant chunk of my life into that game (it took me longer than Persona 4, for Chrissakes).
*He says, as if this is a reasonable amount of time.
RPGs take me forever because I'm that gamer who has to explore every single thing. 3D open world RPGs just destroy my freetime. Back when I had my PS3 I drove around for hours before I started doing races in Burnout Paradise, and it took me forever to actually start story missions in Fallout 3 because I was running all over the wasteland just exploring stuff.
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Though the fact that I don't own Rift on Steam hurts my time at least a little bit.
I've been considering Rift for a long time, and it's currently on sale on amazon for like 5 bucks, but I'm confused. Didn't it just go free to play, at least until level 20? So couldn't that potentially be a waste of 5 bucks?
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Though the fact that I don't own Rift on Steam hurts my time at least a little bit.
I've been considering Rift for a long time, and it's currently on sale on amazon for like 5 bucks, but I'm confused. Didn't it just go free to play, at least until level 20? So couldn't that potentially be a waste of 5 bucks?
I'm not totally sure how the free to play bit works
But it would definitely be a waste of five bucks because I have a couple extra copies, so you know, lemme know if you're interested
Jolly Rover beaten. Not a bad game overall, was expecting far worse. Voice acting was surprisingly good for a game of this "caliber". The humour was light but fun, puzzles range from easy to tricky to "wiggle-mouse-like-crazy-until-you-find-blue-text" but the game has its own personalized UHS included which was a nice detail.
I was sorta expecting a Monkey Island rip-off... while there are plenty of references and a more than obvious influence, the game ended up having its own nice little personality.
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Though the fact that I don't own Rift on Steam hurts my time at least a little bit.
I've been considering Rift for a long time, and it's currently on sale on amazon for like 5 bucks, but I'm confused. Didn't it just go free to play, at least until level 20? So couldn't that potentially be a waste of 5 bucks?
I'm not totally sure how the free to play bit works
But it would definitely be a waste of five bucks because I have a couple extra copies, so you know, lemme know if you're interested
Ok, I've been under a rock (camping) all weekend, and I see that GOG.com has Interplay for 50% off!
My list so far:
Fallout 2
Descent 3 + Expansion
Freespace 2
Freespace + Expansion
What else should I pick up?
I already own Freespace and Freespace 2, but to have it available to download instead of tracking down the CD would be nice. Never played Fallout2 much, maybe demo or a friend's copy? Grabbed Fallout 1 during free giveaway.
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Ok, I've been under a rock (camping) all weekend, and I see that GOG.com has Interplay for 50% off!
My list so far:
Fallout 2
Descent 3 + Expansion
Freespace 2
Freespace + Expansion
What else should I pick up?
I already own Freespace and Freespace 2, but to have it available to download instead of tracking down the CD would be nice. Never played Fallout2 much, maybe demo or a friend's copy? Grabbed Fallout 1 during free giveaway.
Heard Giants was good too, but never played it. Maybe I should pick up a couple too.
What kind of game is Sacrifice?
An Overlord-ish (Or pikmin..i guess? never played it) half RTS half actiony strategy game.
You command and give general directions to your units, managing the souls needed to summon them and such, while fulfilling objectives and able to control your avatar directly.
It is a great game, at the time it was virtually unique in what it was attempting to do.
But I'm a fairly newly resurgent member of the PC gaming scene. I do not look forward to that stat in a years time. (I also echo the above re: wow account.)
Has logged 1654.5 hours of playtime — that's 68 days, 22 hours, and 30 minutes, where Football Manager 2010 is their most played game, which accounts for 35.9% of their playtime
I honestly don't know how I feel about this.
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Has logged 1654.5 hours of playtime — that's 68 days, 22 hours, and 30 minutes, where Football Manager 2010 is their most played game, which accounts for 35.9% of their playtime
I honestly don't know how I feel about this.
I don't know how I would feel if I had spent nearly a full February of my life playing one video game.
Proud? That's the word I'm looking for.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Yeah I found out that I had my most hours played in Rift? That came as a surprise.
Same here, but FM2012 is only like 120 hours behind so give it a month.
Actually most of my Top came as semi surprise:
Rift
BFBC2
STO
Skyrim(not a surprise but sorta since I had CTD issues that caused many hours not being counted and system lock ups)
BB
Bordlands(never did finish Knoxx)
Fun fact: There are no games I hate above the six hour mark. Blocks That Matter, a title I grew to loathe, lasted 5.9 hours before rage quitting and uninstallation occurred.
Also, Champions Online ran at like 5 FPS; I'm pretty sure there's no way I played it for four and a half hours.
Has logged 1654.5 hours of playtime — that's 68 days, 22 hours, and 30 minutes, where Football Manager 2010 is their most played game, which accounts for 35.9% of their playtime
I honestly don't know how I feel about this.
I don't know how I would feel if I had spent nearly a full February of my life playing one video game.
Proud? That's the word I'm looking for.
I checked my top five, and Football Manager games in various forms account for 1349 of my hours spent on Steam.
I have 259 games, how can one series soak up so much of my time? I must have psychological problems.
The only saving grace I can think of is that I spent a lot of time without internet, so my stats won't be counted from that time running Steam in offline mode...
aaand after trying to start it up again, I just don't think I'll ever be able to get into the witcher. The story seems so cool but fuck is the combat stupid.
What didn't you like about it, if you don't mind my asking? I finished The Witcher 1 recently and while the combat was hardly amazing it never really impacted my enjoyment.
I'm actually interested in hearing this as well, since thanks to @FightTest I own The Witcher, but haven't started it yet (mainly because I need to have a decent chunk of time set aside for an eighty hour RPG).
I liked the first Witcher's combat quite a lot, you are clicking to a rhythm to set up longer and more viscerally satisfying combos and I found that I felt more involved in the game as a result of having to think about what I was fighting and select a stance and sword type appropriately. I actually haven't started the second game yet because I hear that they altered the combat substantially based on complaints from the first.
You can't play it like a Diablo clone where you hold down the left mouse button mindlessly, and I think that's what puts a lot of people off.
Just wanted to thank two classy crabs for having a discussion about HMM6. Helped me decide to buy it.
I'm glad our unnecessary petty bickering could help you decide!
Seriously, though, enjoy it.
We now need a discussion about how fantastic a full fledged HOMM game would be using the Clash of Heroes battle system. Seriously. I don't know how a weird match 3 game is more fun* than the HOMM 3 battles, but it is. The map screen kinda lacks the awesome that kept me obsessively clicking in 3, though. I'm not sure about loosing the story/emotional attachments to my heroes, though. Maybe if there was a set town I could slowly level up in story mode, kinda Bastion-ish-ly.
I probably shouldn't be trying to figure out how to make a game I'm playing at two am more addictive, though.**
Just wanted to thank two classy crabs for having a discussion about HMM6. Helped me decide to buy it.
I'm glad our unnecessary petty bickering could help you decide!
Seriously, though, enjoy it.
We now need a discussion about how fantastic a full fledged HOMM game would be using the Clash of Heroes battle system. Seriously. I don't know how a weird match 3 game is more fun* than the HOMM 3 battles, but it is. The map screen kinda lacks the awesome that kept me obsessively clicking in 3, though. I'm not sure about loosing the story/emotional attachments to my heroes, though. Maybe if there was a set town I could slowly level up in story mode, kinda Bastion-ish-ly.
I probably shouldn't be trying to figure out how to make a game I'm playing at two am more addictive, though.**
Ranked 13558th with 1024.2 hours played. Skyrim accounts for 24% of my playtime.
Has played 53/100 games.
Owns 100 games for a total worth of $1217.30.
Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $1.19 ---> Bargain-hunters unite! (I'm doing it right, right?)
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Says I've played about 59 days worth of games and spent about two grand on games for about 1.4 dollars per hours of playtime.
Which is a pretty great tradeoff, unless you look at the fact that the vast majority of the games I've purchased have always been on sale so that cost figure is probably at least 25% too high.
Which means I've basically spent something more like a dollar per hour for 1500 hours of entertainment, so it turns out I've gotten some fantastic entertainment value for my dollar from Steam, not just pretty great.
And I would feel bad about not playing something like 60 out of the 140-something games I own, but the majority of the unplayed games are ones that I got from packages, as bonuses I was never going to play anyway, duplicate games (somehow), or stuff I've played elsewhere but wanted to make sure I had on PC, so I don't even feel bad about that.
Also, PM me if there's any interest in Gamersgate copies of the Grand Theft Autos, I don't know how redemption would work on GTA IV since I think I may have already activated that one. However, Episodes of Liberty City, San Andreas, Vice City, and the first two games are all up for grabs if you're interested.
Origin is the exact same as my Steam, in case you're needing a Support or Assault in BF3.
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Yes, I used to play quite a bit of TF2.
(eyes dart side to side nervously)
Anytime
Eh, fair enough I guess. I can see how that might sour your enjoyment if it's an area of the game you're invested in. Personally, the story and choices more than made the game worthwhile for me, but different strokes etc.
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It's probably closer to 50-60* and only if you're a total pleb like me and do every single sidequest. Definitely worth it, though. It took me even longer than this because I got halfway through it one time and had to reformat, so I ended up investing a significant chunk of my life into that game (it took me longer than Persona 4, for Chrissakes).
*He says, as if this is a reasonable amount of time.
Though the fact that I don't own Rift on Steam hurts my time at least a little bit.
This makes me never want to discuss my Nocturne or Persona 3 playtimes ~_~
RPGs take me forever because I'm that gamer who has to explore every single thing. 3D open world RPGs just destroy my freetime. Back when I had my PS3 I drove around for hours before I started doing races in Burnout Paradise, and it took me forever to actually start story missions in Fallout 3 because I was running all over the wasteland just exploring stuff.
I've been considering Rift for a long time, and it's currently on sale on amazon for like 5 bucks, but I'm confused. Didn't it just go free to play, at least until level 20? So couldn't that potentially be a waste of 5 bucks?
I'm not totally sure how the free to play bit works
But it would definitely be a waste of five bucks because I have a couple extra copies, so you know, lemme know if you're interested
Just wanted to thank two classy crabs for having a discussion about HMM6. Helped me decide to buy it.
I'm glad our unnecessary petty bickering could help you decide!
Seriously, though, enjoy it.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Jolly Rover beaten. Not a bad game overall, was expecting far worse. Voice acting was surprisingly good for a game of this "caliber". The humour was light but fun, puzzles range from easy to tricky to "wiggle-mouse-like-crazy-until-you-find-blue-text" but the game has its own personalized UHS included which was a nice detail.
I was sorta expecting a Monkey Island rip-off... while there are plenty of references and a more than obvious influence, the game ended up having its own nice little personality.
I'm def. interested.
Much more civil than the other chats I've been in.
My list so far:
Fallout 2
Descent 3 + Expansion
Freespace 2
Freespace + Expansion
What else should I pick up?
I already own Freespace and Freespace 2, but to have it available to download instead of tracking down the CD would be nice. Never played Fallout2 much, maybe demo or a friend's copy? Grabbed Fallout 1 during free giveaway.
MDK 2.
Heard Giants was good too, but never played it. Maybe I should pick up a couple too.
What kind of game is Sacrifice?
An Overlord-ish (Or pikmin..i guess? never played it) half RTS half actiony strategy game.
You command and give general directions to your units, managing the souls needed to summon them and such, while fulfilling objectives and able to control your avatar directly.
It is a great game, at the time it was virtually unique in what it was attempting to do.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
But I'm a fairly newly resurgent member of the PC gaming scene. I do not look forward to that stat in a years time. (I also echo the above re: wow account.)
I don't know how I would feel if I had spent nearly a full February of my life playing one video game.
Proud? That's the word I'm looking for.
Same here, but FM2012 is only like 120 hours behind so give it a month.
Actually most of my Top came as semi surprise:
Rift
BFBC2
STO
Skyrim(not a surprise but sorta since I had CTD issues that caused many hours not being counted and system lock ups)
BB
Bordlands(never did finish Knoxx)
Also, Champions Online ran at like 5 FPS; I'm pretty sure there's no way I played it for four and a half hours.
I checked my top five, and Football Manager games in various forms account for 1349 of my hours spent on Steam.
I have 259 games, how can one series soak up so much of my time? I must have psychological problems.
The only saving grace I can think of is that I spent a lot of time without internet, so my stats won't be counted from that time running Steam in offline mode...
Ranked 32105th with 121.0 hours played.
Has played 102/400 games.
Owns 400 games for a total worth of $4401.17.
Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $36.37
Hmmm...looks like I need to bring up my ratios...more games is the answer right? I was always bad at math.
In my defense, I don't think I've ever purchased a game at full price.
I liked the first Witcher's combat quite a lot, you are clicking to a rhythm to set up longer and more viscerally satisfying combos and I found that I felt more involved in the game as a result of having to think about what I was fighting and select a stance and sword type appropriately. I actually haven't started the second game yet because I hear that they altered the combat substantially based on complaints from the first.
You can't play it like a Diablo clone where you hold down the left mouse button mindlessly, and I think that's what puts a lot of people off.
We now need a discussion about how fantastic a full fledged HOMM game would be using the Clash of Heroes battle system. Seriously. I don't know how a weird match 3 game is more fun* than the HOMM 3 battles, but it is. The map screen kinda lacks the awesome that kept me obsessively clicking in 3, though. I'm not sure about loosing the story/emotional attachments to my heroes, though. Maybe if there was a set town I could slowly level up in story mode, kinda Bastion-ish-ly.
I probably shouldn't be trying to figure out how to make a game I'm playing at two am more addictive, though.**
* Fun is clearly an objective measure.
** Help.
This would be amazing.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Ranked 13558th with 1024.2 hours played. Skyrim accounts for 24% of my playtime.
Has played 53/100 games.
Owns 100 games for a total worth of $1217.30.
Overall account cost/hour for gametime is $1.19 ---> Bargain-hunters unite! (I'm doing it right, right?)
Which is a pretty great tradeoff, unless you look at the fact that the vast majority of the games I've purchased have always been on sale so that cost figure is probably at least 25% too high.
Which means I've basically spent something more like a dollar per hour for 1500 hours of entertainment, so it turns out I've gotten some fantastic entertainment value for my dollar from Steam, not just pretty great.
And I would feel bad about not playing something like 60 out of the 140-something games I own, but the majority of the unplayed games are ones that I got from packages, as bonuses I was never going to play anyway, duplicate games (somehow), or stuff I've played elsewhere but wanted to make sure I had on PC, so I don't even feel bad about that.
I really want to vent my life's recent frustrations on digital police while acquiring currency and disregarding bitches.
Payday games can be arranged if necessary good sir. Friend me or join the Steam chat to organize a few.
Origin is the exact same as my Steam, in case you're needing a Support or Assault in BF3.
Origin is the exact same as my Steam, in case you're needing a Support or Assault in BF3.