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What Non MMO Title in Your Gaming History Has Seen The Most Playtime?
Bamelin
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I couldn't think of a great way to word the OP title (it sucks) ... but bottom line I'm curious of the one game you have played in your gaming career that sucked you in and became your longest played game ... and why. It doesn't nessecarily need to be your favorite game ever, just think of a title that hooked you in hard and kept you coming back.
The only rules for this thread are
#1. No MMO's
#2. Only one game per person
#3. I'm not looking for a novel or anything but at least an explanation why the title was your longest played game
My title?
There is no other game that kept me hooked as long as Tribes 1. I played the game for 3 years and still go back occasionally for a round or two on base. The game had so much dynamics to it, learning to ski, the ski routes, airiel combat, disc jumping, learning to snipe, timing mortar shells in a heavy .... I could go on and on.
Tribes 1 became less a game and more a way of life for me, with clan practices twice a week, followed by scrim matches on the weekend. When not practicing we were playing in the pubs, and even when Base got stale we hit the mods with a vengeance. Renegade, Shifter, etc ... I can't begin to explain how much I loved Tribes 1. T
It's worth noting the game is now freeware and is a snap to download. It STILL has regulars that play.
If you never tried Tribes 1 it's well worth the download. It's still the best of the series and better than many games released today.
The only rules for this thread are
#1. No MMO's
#2. Only one game per person
#3. I'm not looking for a novel or anything but at least an explanation why the title was your longest played game
My title?
There is no other game that kept me hooked as long as Tribes 1. I played the game for 3 years and still go back occasionally for a round or two on base. The game had so much dynamics to it, learning to ski, the ski routes, airiel combat, disc jumping, learning to snipe, timing mortar shells in a heavy .... I could go on and on.
Tribes 1 became less a game and more a way of life for me, with clan practices twice a week, followed by scrim matches on the weekend. When not practicing we were playing in the pubs, and even when Base got stale we hit the mods with a vengeance. Renegade, Shifter, etc ... I can't begin to explain how much I loved Tribes 1. T
It's worth noting the game is now freeware and is a snap to download. It STILL has regulars that play.
If you never tried Tribes 1 it's well worth the download. It's still the best of the series and better than many games released today.
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Either this or Starcraft, I dont know how many hours total I spent playing that online...
A few reasons why I played it so many times, and its a huge game. The combat is freaking amazing. I kept trying different party arrangements, different quest pathways and I played it about once a year over 5 years so it didn't really get old.
Also, mods.
I must have played through that at least 8 times all the way through. I guess my imagination just takes hold of it and lets me have a great time inventing stories and whatnot from what happens. No other game, for me mind you, has had the depth and replayablillity of my beloved x-com
Counter-Strike by far.
Started playing in 1999 when I got my first cable modem. Beta 3.1. Played it ever since. May have even spent more time playing it than any individual MMORPG.
First time I logged into a server it was cs_bunker, I spectated the round I joined as dead, then the next round it gave me the officer radio commands. (It used to assign them to one person per round.) I thought that they actually meant something and I had to lead my team, and being a newb, and being afraid of getting yelled at for fucking up, I quickly disconnected.
Oh, memories.
First time through I think was about 45ish hours.
Over the course of a few years, I'd say easily 1000 hours of gametime.
Quickest run through was somewhere under 20 hours.
Halo 2
Oh dear god. I have racked up an unbelievable amount of time into Halo 2. It helps if you have a clan to play with though, I don't know how long one could last as a lone wolf.
Once you have a night where your team 'clicks' and you're winning and losing games because both teams were good are awesome.
I mean, just counting my original gamertag:
http://www.bungie.net/Stats/PlayerStatsHalo2.aspx?player=FyreWulff
6675 games
43,811 kills
48,127 deaths
14,673 assists
BF1942 by far.
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jedi knight 2. multiplayer, i had a fucking reputation of being the best saber duelist
nobody could touch me - i use to go 200/0 in the most "reputed" dueling servers and stuff
i guess being "the best at a game" makes playing a game pretty damn fun. i would literally wake up, play jk2, go to sleep, repeat.
for like, two years.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
However, I think by now Super Robot Wars: Original Generations 2 may have eclipsed it. It came out in the states around November and I've played through it three times and almost am done with a fourth which is exceedingly rare for me in a game with nothing randomly or user generated. I'm a whore for RPGs, turn based strategies, and large machinery tearing into each other with guns, swords, and circular saws.
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You must have missed my reply in the other thread. ;-) I'll happily decimate you with any of the above.
Namely Karin.
Overall playtime, several RPGs... Hoshigami(not fun), FFVII(100+ easy, 99 levels across the board), Nocturne... but as far as replays go, I've replayed Space Channel 5 several times, but that's barely 50 hours.
Consecutively, it'd be hard to beat the arcade game Pump It Up, since I've been playing it since late 99/2000, even if it's had a different version every year. (DDR too, but I play the competition way more.)
It's always fun, always challenging (when playing higher-tier songs), and always in the PS2/360 because it's the game people wanna play whenever they come over.
Lots of people didn't like it, but I found the game and the concept to be huge fun.
And unlike the rest of the pussies, I stuck with my melee character build even after the expansion came out. I got my tank Paladin up to level 90-something before I finally got tired of it.
I ran a Vengeance/Conviction Paladin, and they (and the other skills I used a lot) were like level 28. With the awesome socketed unique mace I wielded (forget the name) I did so many thousands of elemental damage with each hit that I could take down physical immunes by myself.
I had a shield I made myself with socketed gems that gave me max resist to everything even on Hell difficulty. You know that huge red lightning bolt Diablo shoots at you? Yeah it only took like a sixth of my health off. On Hell.
I met most of my friends that I ended up playing with during the times where we teamed up to kill PKing assholes. Let me tell you nothing is quite as sweet in that game as a Charge through three Firewalls some sorceress just laid down, and see that your health drops only like 20 HP, and then OHKO their fucking ass.
I still remember the name of one of them.
Dalth, Lagging Necromancer, I tip my hat to you man.
EDIT:
Close second is Starcraft. I did the multiplayer thing, but my SC folder used to be over 3 gigs in size, all of it made up of single-player campaigns made by people. If you add the time I spent on the websites of the Starcraft mod community, Starcraft beats out D2 easily for time spent.
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I ... I can't even fathom.
Probably CS or Day of Defeat back in the early 2000s
I played that game into the ground.
But I think I'm probably going with the original WarioWare on the GBA. It was my go to game for a loooong time as there was always some high score to beat somewhere. That and Dr. Wario in one delicious shiny package.
Shit. I can't believe how much I've played that game. I wouldn't even call it one of my top 10 of all time.
Almost every day a couple of hours after work.
For three years.
Plus all those late nights building maps - laying out brushes, texturing, lighting, bsping, testing with bots etc etc
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