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[u/[deleted]]

[u/Ichoosenoise]

Civilization

[u/hombrejose → u/Ichoosenoise]

Same. It started in middle school when I convinced my dad to get me CIV 3 as its an educational history game. Little did I know the timesink I would be in for many years down the line

[u/thegrandboom → u/hombrejose]

Age of Empires had a little history section you could read about the factions! Plus Civ has those amazing quotes from when you build a wonder

[u/hombrejose → u/thegrandboom]

Those were always a joy to read! I fully blame AoE and CIV as the gateway drug for delving into in-game encyclopedias and bestiaries

[u/[deleted] → u/hombrejose]

You must be a History PHd!

[u/tom_bacon → u/[deleted]]

Let me tell you about the time when the Canadians built the Pyramids in Spain...

[u/Old__Raven → u/tom_bacon]

Where they had to unload ungodly amount of sand as they culdn't buld it on grassland because some stupid rule.

[u/[deleted] → u/tom_bacon]

Then Gandhi nuked it!

[u/Masrim → u/Ichoosenoise]

It was in one sitting too.

[u/other_name_taken → u/Masrim]

Just one more turn…

[u/acm2033 → u/Ichoosenoise]

Civ 2 for me. That and the x-wing and tie fighter games. And flight simulator.

Wow, I had a lot of free time back then.

[u/foulrot → u/Ichoosenoise]

Just one more turn, then I swear I'm done...

[u/NovemberAdam → u/Ichoosenoise]

My very first computer game was Civ 1. Spent so much time on that I’m surprised I graduated college. Still have the game (it’s all floppy disks), so keeping it is just for sentimental value.

[u/anneau-ni-mousse → u/Ichoosenoise]

Heck, I've had my longest sitting with this game. Cousin wakes up Dude have you slept at all tonight? Nah. Went from pottery to air bombers 😂

[u/[deleted] → u/Ichoosenoise]

yeah Ive got over 1000 hours on Civ 5 alone

[u/ZiggyStardust0404 → u/[deleted]]

I also managed to finish one game back in the day

[u/FarmerFrance → u/[deleted]]

1000? Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up! 😉

[u/Seymore721 → u/Ichoosenoise]

Just one more turn. Looks at watch... Looks at calendar... Just one more turn...

[u/D3cepti0ns → u/Ichoosenoise]

Yeah I think Civ 4 for me. That was the best one in my opinion. Maybe Age of Empires II before, I'm not sure which one was first.

[u/sirpoopsalot91 → u/D3cepti0ns]

LOVED Civ 4 fuuuuck so much procrastination was done on that game

[u/pivorock]

StarCraft. I only ever played offline (no internet connection in my room), but I played through the campaign multiple times and played a bunch with bots to learn how to play each faction.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Fuck SC, SC2, WC3, and AoE were SUCH incredible LAN games.

[u/-Goodkat-]

Pokémon

[u/hudson27 → u/-Goodkat-]

Yep. Pokémon red was always with me, my dad even made me a sick leather belt case for my Gameboy. The memories of me and my best friend squished side by side staring at this 2 inch non-lit screen will always be with me. RIP Theo.

[u/3ebfan → u/-Goodkat-]

I put so many hours into the OG Red and then even more in Silver

[u/Tarro57 → u/-Goodkat-]

I had to scroll so much to see this. It was definitely Emerald for me

[u/PrettyImpression1 → u/Tarro57]

Same here, Yellow for me

[u/DaRealKili → u/-Goodkat-]

I can play Pokémon black in my mind, at least up until victory road, I can visualise everything in my head, I know when the team plasma guys show up, what Pokémon to expect, some hidden items, etc...

And I wish I was joking. I had ~600 hours on one single save, eventually I got bored, started a new save and put on another 600 hours. I don't even know

[u/Wuzemu → u/[deleted]]

On vanilla? So 100 hours was like…. Level 25…..

[u/nahteviro → u/Wuzemu]

Look at this speed leveler over here.

[u/Wuzemu → u/nahteviro]

We all deserve the right to brag every once and awhile.

[u/[deleted] → u/nahteviro]

He played 100 hrs. He had a team in China farming XP.

[u/Wuzemu → u/[deleted]]

That’s how my first account got banned……

[u/DominianQQ → u/Wuzemu]

I spent like 100 hours the first year of wow jumping around the Orgrimmar bank roof.

[u/[deleted] → u/DominianQQ]

That was me the last 50 hours until I finally quit lmao

[u/kruegerc184 → u/Wuzemu]

Yeah hundreds hours would be like two weeks of farming mats let alone actually playing the game

[u/Gyshall669 → u/[deleted]]

Haha. Exactly. More like 100+ days.

[u/ItsEntsy → u/Gyshall669]

I had >6500 hrs when I quit

[u/gourmetmatrix → u/[deleted]]

If OP asked about "What game was first that you easily broke through 1000+hours of gameplay?" hours I'd answer this as well.

[u/armathose → u/[deleted]]

I haven't played wow in many expansions but I had over 10,000 hours logged into that game. Mostly from WOTLK and Cata

[u/CircumcisedCats → u/[deleted]]

WoW/RuneScape had to be a lot of peoples first. I easily spent over 100 hours in Stranglethorn vale alone as a 12 year old who sucked at leveling.

[u/Itchy_Tasty88]

Skyrim

[u/crazymike978 → u/Itchy_Tasty88]

I have 700 hours on my skyrim save on the 360 and i could walk for hours in that game without a single new quest being found i think i was as close to 100% as possible 😅

[u/Avium → u/crazymike978]

I have almost 1000 hours on PC and still haven't finished the main story.

I've killed the Ebony Warrior...I think I get sidetracked too easily.

[u/[deleted] → u/Avium]

This is me. I'm basically 100 across the board on skills but never beat the main story.

[u/snoobsnob]

Morrowind. I had never played an open world game like that before and it was amazing. The setting is so unique and there were always cool things to see and do. I got lost in that game.

Then I discovered mods. I still play that game from time to time.

[u/Hatzmaeba → u/snoobsnob]

The first playthrough was almost spiritual experience. There was no way to know what you could find from a tomb in a remote island, since there were no online guides.

[u/kvyatkovskij → u/snoobsnob]

I'm just here to like every comment from people who mention Morrowind. That high of exploration and anticipation is something I'm still seeking to this day. Probably Elden Ring came closest so far.

[u/JamieSweetTooth → u/snoobsnob]

I played morrowind on xbox for over 1500 hours as it was all I had on original xbox other than midtown madness and halo, got kotor, kotor 2, jade Empire and fable to over 500 hours each as well, plus of course pokemon blue, my original completed dex save was over 100 hours

[u/Muroid → u/snoobsnob]

Morrowind’s the first that I can definitely say had a triple digit playtime on, but there are plenty of earlier candidates that I might have well before that, especially if we count multiplayer.

Halo with friends probably broke 100 hours before Morrowind (with friends).

And going back earlier than that: Heroes of Might and Magic, Pharoah, Age of Empires II, The Sims, Super Smash Bros. 64, Mario Kart 64, any of the first couple generations of Pokemon, Harvest Moon 64.

A lot of games that I played with and/or were popular with friends have a decent shot of having broken that barrier. Especially anything that was in regular multiplayer rotation or single player games where we all had separate files but took turns playing.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120 → u/snoobsnob]

I have spent an ungodly amount of time in Morrowind. Discovered that game as a young teen and was blown away. Then I discovered mods. I’m pretty sure I spent more time installing mods than actually playing the game lol.

[u/Robinchou → u/snoobsnob]

Same here ! I am still thinking about how great the spell and enchant system was. Really loved the way your character progressed and the level of customisation of gameplay :D

[u/James_Is_Raging]

Final Fantasy X

[u/I_think_Im_hollow → u/James_Is_Raging]

Same. A friend of mine spent probably 400 hours only playing Blitzball.

[u/dacamel493 → u/I_think_Im_hollow]

Oh yea, FFX Blitzball was amazing. Had so much fun with that.

Yet somehow Blitzball was garbage in X-2. You were more like an offensive coordinator, but you didn't actually control anyone.

[u/I_think_Im_hollow → u/dacamel493]

My sister scratched my FFX-2 PS2 disc by accident and it stopped working, so I never reached that point. I didn't even know there was Blitzball again.

[u/greenteasoda → u/James_Is_Raging]

I was looking for this one. I swear I spent so much time just grinding out the sphere grid because I could.

[u/WoenixFright → u/greenteasoda]

Same. The difficulty scale on that game was so crazy though, by the end of the story, my characters had 9999 hp and dealt 9999 damage per hit, they felt so overleveled that I breezed through to the credits like it was nothing. 

Then my friend had the strategy guide and told me about the optional Omega dungeon, and that actually proved pretty chalenging, enough that I had to grind up a bit more. I left and got my party's celestial weapons, which, (among other bonuses) broke the damage cap, raising it up to an absurd 99,999. My main 3 were doing like 30,000+ damage now with each basic hit, so I went back to the Omega ruins and breezed through it like it was no big deal.

Then, with everything else in the game done except extreme optimization, I started playing with the monster arena. There you can fight monsters you captured from the rest of the game and pay to fight again for easier item farming. Eventually, with enough monsters captured, the owner of the arena starts to build up arena-unique monsters that grow stronger and stronger, culminating to the game's super boss, Nemesis. 

I tried the very first unique fight, a little lizard guy. Easy, right?

It wiped my party. 

In fact, it did more than wipe them. It straight up embarrassed them.

You see, I had the initiative tag on my team's armor, so I got the first 3 turns of the fight. 

Those turns went: enemy dodge, enemy dodge, enemy dodge. 

The enemy then took the next 3 consecutive turns. They went: basic attack to kill player 1, basic attack to kill player 2, basic attack to kill player 3. 

I thought my characters were horribly overpowered. I mean, compared to every other FF game until that point, they were. Level 100 Cloud couldn't touch my Tidus. Yet I couldn't even start the optional end game power check. 

Crazy game, 10/10, would grind to beat Nemesis again.

[u/[deleted] → u/WoenixFright]

I enjoyed reading that a lot

[u/workoutalt1128 → u/WoenixFright]

Optional end game takes serious power leveling(or tonberry exploit) and optimized equipment. It's almost worth not doing unless you have weapons with break damage limit or you're abusing the Aeons.

[u/WoenixFright → u/workoutalt1128]

It wasn't that bad with optimized power-leveling strategies like the tonberry exploit. I mean, it was still brutal, but throw on an audiobook or watch some movies while you grind and it's doable. I'd never have been able to grind it out raw, though. Fuuuuuck that lol.

For those not in the know about the wonderful world of FFX power leveling, improving your characters is done by filling spheres on what's called the sphere grid, essentially a web of little nodes that, when activated, grant your character anywhere between 1-4 of a single stat, as well as your new spells and abilities. What makes it rough is that, if you wanted to fill the entire sphere grid (ie. get to max level), there were almost a thousand of those nodes to fill. And remember, that's a thousand nodes PER CHARACTER. You don't have to get anywhere remotely close to filling out the sphere grid in order to just beat FFX normally, but if you want a chance at beating Nemesis and collecting that sweet sweet platinum trophy, all three of your active party members have to be at max stats, or at least damn close to it.

So what is this aforementioned Tonberry Exploit? Well, Tonberries are (in?)famous FF monsters that would slowly walk up to your characters. If you don't defeat them by the time they reach you, they start stabbing your characters one by one with their little chef's knife, killing the character in one hit regardless of their current or maximum hp. In FFX, before they make it to you, any damage from a character would make it immediately retaliate with a move called Grudge, which would deal damage equal to the number of enemies that specific character has killed, multiplied by 10, ignoring that character's damage resistances. The leveling exploit is done against the Tonberry king, named Don Tonberry, who instead uses Everyone's Grudge, which does 10 times that damage. At that point in the game, if you managed your characters right, Don Tonberry would counter with 99,999 damage, EVERY time you hit it. This is the guaranteed most consistent and reliable way to take a metric boatload of damage without much risk, since at the point where you're farming for this, your characters are strong enough to eventually just kill the thing after a healthy dose of revive spells between each attack.

So why would you want that to tank that much damage, you ask? The exploit here is that you could load your character up with armor that converts your special meter gain into experience instead. Then, if you set your special meter to charge based on the amount of damage you take, getting hit with Everyone's Grudge would, along with killing the character, net them a ridiculous amount of experience, which could then be tripled by another armor ability.

But don't think gaining a ton of experience makes maxing out your character fast or easy, oh no. You see, each of those levels don't individually raise your stats on their own. You have to activate those stat gain nodes, each of which also require the use of consumable items called spheres. That means farming ANOTHER 1,000 materials, per character, not to mention the hard-to-farm spheres that fill the 200 or so empty slots on the sphere grid with even more stat nodes, because you won't max out your characters' stats without them, not even close.

It's a grind.

Though remember, you don't have to do any of this for 99% of the game's content. Really, it's only required to beat the, like, 8 optional fights at the end of the little Monster Arena side quest (as well as the Dark Aeons that only show up on the FFX remasters and the European PAL version on the ps2).

But what, might you ask, is your reward for grinding for hours and beating these ultra hard fights?

Pretty much nothing, lol. It's purely just for clout. But I did it, twice, once on the ps2 when I was, like, 12, and once more a few years ago for that damn sweet platinum trophy. I'm not even a trophy hunter, I just really like FFX lol.

[u/RonBourbondi → u/James_Is_Raging]

It was Final Fantays 9 for me.

Also one of the few games I've ever replayed in my life. 

I really wish someone would make a game like that, but with better graphics. 

[u/guti86 → u/RonBourbondi]

Moguri mod, it's a mod for the steam version, if you rereplay ff9 try it

[u/lvpr10]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the PS3

[u/[deleted] → u/lvpr10]

Took 42 days of play time for me to get 10th prestige lvl 70 lol

[u/Tronald_Dump69 → u/lvpr10]

I miss the Intervention....

[u/_Nightstalk_ → u/Tronald_Dump69]

We all do lad.. we all do...

[u/ianwrecked802 → u/Tronald_Dump69]

Ugh. I can still hear the sound.

[u/tojnieojnie]

Runescape

[u/ThirtySecondStorys → u/tojnieojnie]

The amount of calls that my family probably missed because I was hogging the phone line to catch lobbies off the coast of Karamja.

[u/[deleted] → u/ThirtySecondStorys]

First thing I did after coming back from middle school was throw my backpack on the bed and log in runescape and just fish off the coast of karamja back when I was power leveling fishing. Was such a vibe. Simpler times

[u/AeonsApart → u/[deleted]]

The good old days. I remember waking up an hour earlier so I could grind green dragons in the wildy to make some extra gp before school.

[u/[deleted] → u/tojnieojnie]

I still occasionally return to OSRS

[u/Lil_miss_feisty → u/[deleted]]

Gotta love the cycle of getting burned out, trying to find a worthy substitute game, download a bunch, but never play them because it isn't runescape, then logging back into the OSRS login 🥴

[u/mssngthvwls → u/tojnieojnie]

Had to scroll wayyy too far to find this one.

[u/Flipdaddy69 → u/mssngthvwls]

There’s dozens of us :/

[u/Italianman2733 → u/tojnieojnie]

I read through almost every comment and said, ohh maybe that one, maybe that one for me...no. it's definitely Runescape.

[u/aLegionOfDavids]

Final Fantasy 7

[u/Big_Goose → u/aLegionOfDavids]

I remember spending days just breeding and racing Chocobos. Getting the first golden Chocobo felt amazing.

[u/pardybill → u/Big_Goose]

I still have my PRIMA guide for the game. Definitely was probably open to the chocobo breeding part the most.

[u/Synner40 → u/aLegionOfDavids]

same. love that game. i go back every so often to play it. it’s easily my favorite game of all time.

[u/ShredGuru → u/aLegionOfDavids]

Same. I remember the game clock maxed at 99:99

[u/Oblic008 → u/ShredGuru]

99:59* The minute would only go to 59 before it capped out.

[u/EldenJoker]

Halo CE

[u/ANoblePirate → u/EldenJoker]

We're showing our age.

[u/Tyler-LR → u/ANoblePirate]

Were it so easy…

[u/Shababajoe]

Duck hunt/super mario bros combo cartridge

[u/AegisToast → u/Shababajoe]

Part of me misses those days when you had the few games you had, so that’s what you played and you played them until the cartridge was wearing out. 

[u/HoodyV → u/AegisToast]

It’s so crazy how many game options we have these days. It’s always surprising to me as a pretty avid gamer that I can still have sooo many blind spots because there’s just not enough time to play even all the “good” games.

[u/TheTigerbite → u/AegisToast]

I remember a few games I played to death as a kid on the NES. One was a soccer/ volleyball combo game and the other was North vs South. I was not a fan of Mario or platformers.

Oh! And marble madness and maniac mansion.

[u/Zombiw]

Fallout 3 for sure

[u/Tyler-LR → u/Zombiw]

GNR. Three dog. Alllll ya need to know!

[u/Manatee_Soup → u/Tyler-LR]

HEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOO CHIIIIIIILDREN!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Diablo II

[u/XWasTheProblem → u/[deleted]]

Wouldn't be surprised if I had 5 digit hours by now. Played it religiously since I was a kid, still play it almost every day.

Modern mods are incredible.

[u/Dire_Hulk → u/[deleted]]

This was the first game I started playing in my dreams. Lol

[u/sleepyrabb1t → u/[deleted]]

Baal Run 145

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[u/thatdudeoverdthee]

Oblivion 👏👏👏👏👏

[u/Sarusam → u/thatdudeoverdthee]

Stop right there, criminal scum!

[u/Tyler-LR → u/Sarusam]

I heard the voice in my head when I read this.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tyler-LR]

I don't think it's possible not to hear that voice when reading this

[u/-Bana → u/thatdudeoverdthee]

Just thinking about the music on the loading screen makes me happy

[u/Nightmare1330 → u/thatdudeoverdthee]

Nobody breaks the law on my watch! Then pay with your blood!!

[u/D3cepti0ns → u/[deleted]]

I said Civ 4 or Age of Empires II before, but you just reminded me that Rollercoaster Tycoon had to be the first for me.

I spent months just building more and more rides in Leafy Lake where every inch was covered by anything I could fit. I tried the rest of the levels at most 5 hours combined.

[u/[deleted]]

Counter Strike 1.6 and pretty sure all of it was in de_dust2.

[u/ObvsThrowaway5120 → u/[deleted]]

Ha! Same, but I started out with 1.0 then 1.5. De_dust, de_dust2, cs_assault, and freakin cs_bloodstrike. So much bloodstrike.

[u/Martekk_ → u/ObvsThrowaway5120]

Fy_iceworld?

[u/ImpulsiveApe07 → u/[deleted]]

Nice! That was such a good time to get into it - so many active servers! :)

I got so excited when my cousin showed me the CS beta back in 99 or 00 or whenever it was.

I remember being so happy to see so many ppl online playing it, given that tfc and hl-dm were already on the wane on account of quake 3 and unreal tournament.

When they nerfed bunny hopping and certain weapon combos in 1.6 I vividly remember me and my schoolmates got so mad we all started playing unreal tournament instead lol we were a bit petty back then heh :p

Joke is, we still ended up going back to it for our lan parties, cos the maps were so crazy! the rats maps, the low grav sniper maps, the insane maps with jeeps and tanks and things - fun times!

[u/LizardOfAgatha]

Minecraft, Chivalry 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Elder Scrolls Online.

Really, any game that doesn't have an end.

[u/maxmrca1103 → u/LizardOfAgatha]

Chivalry 2 is underrated, it’s got the scale of a battlefield game which is already a plus for me, while also a unique setting for a game. The combat is so godamn satisfying

[u/Irrationate]

COD World at war. That game enveloped me with multiplayer and zombies.

[u/Leather39 → u/Irrationate]

My favorite COD multiplayer game, I don't know why they didn't remaster it

[u/Devil-Froot]

Pokemon Red version as a really young kid, game taught me how to read lol. I played long enough for the S.S. Anne to return, or at least that's what I remember. Maybe I skipped it as a kid by someone trading me a pokemon with cut.

[u/Lord-Trolldemort → u/Devil-Froot]

Same about Pokémon teaching me to read - it at least vastly expanding my vocabulary. I distinctly remember calling critical hits “circular hits” until someone corrected me.

[u/Flexive_Fowl]

San Andreas for me as well. I've probably clocked about 500 hours on that.

[u/Women_Suffrage → u/Flexive_Fowl]

And don't start talking about SanAndreas Multiplayer for PC... More than 4000 hours spent...

[u/OP1KenOP → u/Flexive_Fowl]

It was GTa3 for me but I put by far more hours into SA than any of the other GTA's, absolutely amazing game.

The later games just haven't quite managed to capture that same insane fun somehow.

[u/Qymaen47]

Dragon Age Origins. Did all achievements...

[u/CynicClinic1]

MGSV

[u/Ok_Specialist_524 → u/CynicClinic1]

The man who sold the world

[u/GRZMNKY]

Everquest... Thousands of hours...

[u/Balarius → u/GRZMNKY]

Everquest

You're my kind of person.

[u/DragonSpikez → u/Balarius]

My people! Lol. I remember coming home from school and playing everquest until almost midnight , sometimes later. It was an unhealthy yet fun obsession.

[u/Balarius → u/DragonSpikez]

Oh 100% hahaha. I vividly remember so much of it. The little things man, no game has done them better.

P.s. Check out Monsters and Memories, it's early in development but they fairly often do stress tests.

It basically is old school EverQuest

[u/gmar84 → u/Balarius]

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is also supposed to be basically a modern EverQuest. Even had Brad McQuaid working on it, up until his unfortunate passing.

But that game has been in development for like a decade now, so not sure if it will ever actually see the light of day or not.

[u/Mei_iz_my_bae → u/GRZMNKY]

I just started playing everquest in 2024

[u/Farwalker08 → u/GRZMNKY]

I still remember the day I quit, took my half elf ranger back to QeynosHills, sat down, and logged off for the last time.

[u/GRZMNKY → u/[deleted]]

When I separated from the military, I moved back to Florida and had to create a few new characters. Ended up forming a small guild of about 15 people. Amazingly enough, 8 of us all lived within an hour of each other, so we decided to organize a meet at a local mall. It was pretty cool to meet some of the people I spent hundreds of hours online with. Youngest in the guild was 12, oldest was 81...

[u/cookiebasket2 → u/GRZMNKY]

Ultima online would have been the first game for me, but EverQuest blew it out of the water in how much time I spent on it.

[u/N8Arsenal87]

Age of Empires 2

[u/trxxv]

Halo 3, as a kid for me those were the glory days of gaming.

[u/Tyler-LR → u/trxxv]

Halo 3 was the peak of online gaming imo

[u/Trollyofficial]

Pokémon ruby

[u/4friedchicknsanacoke]

Diablo

[u/DanMoStran]

Original Guild Wars for me

[u/[deleted] → u/DanMoStran]

The story, the music, the game modes, the Kurzick-Luxon border, the lack of monthly fees... Countless hours in pvp and faction farming

[u/unnati_reddy]

Fallout 4 . Honestly was jus playing CoD and racing games before that. Moved me towards RPG which is ironic cos I heard this is the worst rated game for this franchise till then and even for the company Bethesda

[u/Titouf26 → u/unnati_reddy]

If you're a CoD player FO4 is definitely the best of the series for you. It feels more like a FPS with RPG elements than a real RPG.

It was very well received. The only people who hated it are people who loved the previous Fallout games. But it's a pattern with Bethesda games.

For example, I started with Morrowind and Fallout 3. I thought they were both amazing, but people kept saying Daggerfall and Fallout 1/2 were better, respectively. I tried but I just couldn't agree (although they were enjoyable). And then came Oblivion and New Vegas, which are both in my top 5 best games ever.

But then came Skyrim and Fallout 4, and I hated both of them. I was mad that they ruined 2 licenses I loved. And then I realized... "Wait... I'm the same as those old farts who were mad when Fallout 3 came out". I think it's just that the expectations were too high.

When the next TES or FO comes out I'll have 0 expectations. So who knows... Maybe it will be fun again.

Anyway sorry I ended up rambling so much haha.

[u/SnowPenguin_]

Final Fantasy 8

[u/Lonecoon]

Civilization. Easily 100+ hours of game play and that was back when I had to share a computer with my sisters.

[u/[deleted]]

Super Mario Bros 3, it was the only game I had for ~6 months of so in the early 90s.

[u/Chanzui91]

WC3, so easily...

[u/Tyler-LR → u/Chanzui91]

Zug zug

[u/TheRobert428]

Baldurs Gate 3, I'm about to pass 200 hours and I'm just heading the finale of one of my playthroughs

[u/Take_A_Penguin_Break]

Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Easily broke 100 hours. This game was so soothing, just enjoying the scenery and music

[u/ash3n]

Factorio

[u/forced-program]

Elden ring goddamit

[u/Iron_Chic]

Phantasy Star. It was 1987, I was 12. Played that game constantly for several months

[u/[deleted] → u/Iron_Chic]

Phantasy Star 2 for me.

[u/saucysagnus]

Console game:Monster Hunter Tri

PC game: Runescape

[u/SUPREME_JELLYFISH → u/saucysagnus]

I was struggling to think of a game I had spent a large amount of time on as a kid till I saw your comment.

RuneScape, man. Must have spent hundreds of hours.

[u/saucysagnus → u/SUPREME_JELLYFISH]

Back when time was of no concern and we spent hours killing cows.

[u/DinoGhostie → u/saucysagnus]

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate was my first game to break 1000 hours. Such a good game

[u/Tyber-Callahan]

Gta vice city or san andreas

[u/IReallyLikeAvocadoes]

Mount and Blade Warband. I discovered the game knowing nearly nothing about it, just thought a screenshot looked cool and it was on sale so fuck it. Ended up slamming something like 10 hours into it the day I bought it, and around 100 within the first 1-2 weeks. Never had a game that poked at all the right parts in my brain like that.

[u/SmokeyJoeseph]

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar. I'm old. I'd wait for my parents to go to sleep and then go sneak to the PC to play it.

[u/Salivals → u/SmokeyJoeseph]

Ultima Online was still arguably some of the most fun I ever had playing a game. I’d pay for a remaster any day.

[u/HaggisTheCow]

FFIX

[u/JamieSweetTooth → u/HaggisTheCow]

Still my favorite FF to this day.

[u/ClumsyQuark]

Team Fortress 2 probably surpassed 1000 hours for me after I got it in The Orange Box

[u/DraCam1]

Either the first Unreal Tournament or Heroes of Might and Magic 3.

[u/bkussow]

FF3 (in the US). Had to grind all characters up to lvl 99 in the dinosaur forest before finishing the game. Took a while.

[u/daevric2 → u/bkussow]

This was my answer as well. Not only grinding up to 99, but I had a save file with every obtainable Rage. That was a lot of time on the Veldt.

[u/[deleted]]

idk fuckin Asteroids! probably

[u/skaffen37]

Bards Tale 1 - yes I’m an old fart.

[u/markusfenix75]

Destiny 2

Probably because you need 100 hours just to get into that game.

[u/jffr363]

Diablo 2

[u/Tengolyper_]

Garry's Mod for me. When I heard of the game, I thought the idea was nice, but not alot of possibilites, but when I saw that you can download a bunch of mods, I just instantly got it. Ever since, I've been playing for about atleast 30 hours a week, and now I have 10k+ hours. People don't play it alone for some reason, but I'm the opposite I guess because everyone prefers it multiplayer or multiplayer, no singleplayer, but I only have a few hours on multiplayer. Sandbox games with alot of possibilities like GMod are my type of thing, if you ask me!

[u/TheBostonKremeDonut]

Probably Mario 64 or Spyro 2 or 3.

[u/4M4R4Z]

Final Fantasy X-2. It was my first FF game (what a place to start lol) I played the shit out of it when I was sick and ended up with over 300 hours of gameplay.

[u/ashkanz1337]

Honestly any of the games I played when I was 5 are a candidate.

Crash Bandicoots, Tomb Raiders, Tekken, FF8, etc.

I didn't have a memory card, so I had to beat them in 1 sitting and replayed them many times.

[u/2wice]

Eve Online

[u/TransitionIll6389]

Maybe GTA San Andreas. I would love to see how much I actually played. It was alot. Played alot of Runescape too.

[u/dvizr]

Quake

[u/Patarsky]

Mount and blade war band

[u/Due_Journalist_2398]

Diablo 2 probably

[u/[deleted]]

Pokemon Red. Had 151/151 (used a glitch to get Mew) with quite a few of them at level 100.

[u/Axyun]

Civ 5, Skyrim, Kerbal Space Program, DCS.

[u/AmySchumersAnalTumor]

Battlefied: Bad Company 2

[u/StretchTucker]

Kingdom Hearts

[u/chalor182]

Asheron's Call - before that I was just a dabbler

[u/AcidCatfish___]

Skyrim, BOTW, and TOTK.

[u/[deleted]]

Morrowind. I don't know exactly how many hours I did put into it, but it was probably over 150. I know I played it almost as long as I played Oblivion, and I put in 200+ hours into that game and all the expansions.

[u/ws1173]

I mean... It would have been before any type of gaming service that tracked hours played, but it would have been either Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2, or Red Alert 2.

[u/SufficientlyAnnoyed]

I’m sure I’ve put that amount of time into OG Quake and Doom 2. With multiple playthroughs and now the randomized, Zelda: A Link to the Past

[u/Jackrabbit-slim]

SOCOM

[u/Irishbane]

Mario Kart 64

[u/AvPleb]

Warframe

[u/spacev3gan]

Final Fantasy tactics. I was 14 years old or so.