List the games you cannot believe how many hours you put in them:

Jemcrystal

Never thought I would play these games for as long as I did, truly raked up the hours -

Ark Survival Evolved
Ylands
Conan Exiles
Elder Scrolls Online

WhiteLantern

World of Warcraft: wasnt interested in sub-based games at the time, but I tried the trial and was hooked for several years.

DCUO: didn't like the look of the game initially, but I got a beta invite and loved how it played.

Breath of the Wild: It's a Zelda game, how much time could it take? (120 hours later, I decided to take on Ganon. And there is still stuff to do.)

Dattelis

In terms of not being able to believe, probably Warframe and Path of Exile. Steam says I have almost 3k hours in Warframe and Path of Exile a little over 2k.

cameltosis

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Theocritus

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

I saw a write up not long ago that said if you own all the DLCs for ARK that there is over 400 gigs of content....That is just insane.

Tokken

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Scorchien

After 25 years in UO , its well over 20,000

cameltosis

Theocritus said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

I saw a write up not long ago that said if you own all the DLCs for ARK that there is over 400 gigs of content....That is just insane.

I just checked my install, 244 gigs!

And I only have the base game plus 2 of the free DLC maps, so yeh, its a pretty huge install!

Sovrath

Darkest Dungeon. 526 hours. And I originally didn't even want to buy the game as I just had no initial interest.

Rungar

valheim and eso are my top games. 

ConstantineMerus

EVE Online and I am too afraid to find out. 

eoloe

Mechwarrior Online 975 hours. I am pretty done with this one.

Minion Masters 763 hours and counting. I am still not done with this one...

kitarad

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

AlBQuirky

Minecraft for me. I first heard about it around 2013 or so. I never followed it or had any interest in it. Then I watched some YogsCast videos and saw the fun they had in the game and gave it a try.

I've yet to "finish" a run, or even come close to the Ender Dragon. I still have fun when I log in when I do feel  the desire to play some more. As for hours played, I have no clue how many I've put in

Tokken

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

For me, I played on unofficial / private servers, and on my own machine.... but I played more with friends / guildmates.

cameltosis

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

I play ARK single player on PC

No hosting required, game runs just fine on my machine.

Added bonus is that on single player, there are a ton of options that you can tweak, plus you can install whatever mods you want.

For example, playing on an official server, you can never have enough engram points to unlock everything in the game. You can respec, but it can be a bit long winded. Playing single player, I just tweaked it so I can unlock everything. I've got a bunch of cool mods installed that give me more building options (castles, keeps and forts iirc), a mod that gives me a bunch of automation options (so i don't have to manually collect dino poop to create fertilizer). I've got some kind of dino tracker, so if I lose a tamed pet (which is more common than it should be!) I can easily track it down.

Likewise, the inbuilt options are pretty great. Taming a high level dino on an official server can take literal hours, but there are options to reduce that time. You can tweak damage, resource respawn rates, harvesting rates, food/drink drain etc.

On my latest playthrough, I treated the game like a building sandbox. There is a creative mode that allows you to build everything, no resources required. I'd turn on creative mode, build for a few hours, then turn it off and go exploring/hunting/collecting. Still took me like 40 hours to build my main base!

Tokken

At first I played on official but I soon realized that I hated playing on official. Took forever to grind out the lvls and engram pts. I wanted to get deep into the game sooner so I went unofficial.

kitarad

cameltosis said:

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

I play ARK single player on PC

No hosting required, game runs just fine on my machine.

Added bonus is that on single player, there are a ton of options that you can tweak, plus you can install whatever mods you want.

For example, playing on an official server, you can never have enough engram points to unlock everything in the game. You can respec, but it can be a bit long winded. Playing single player, I just tweaked it so I can unlock everything. I've got a bunch of cool mods installed that give me more building options (castles, keeps and forts iirc), a mod that gives me a bunch of automation options (so i don't have to manually collect dino poop to create fertilizer). I've got some kind of dino tracker, so if I lose a tamed pet (which is more common than it should be!) I can easily track it down.

Likewise, the inbuilt options are pretty great. Taming a high level dino on an official server can take literal hours, but there are options to reduce that time. You can tweak damage, resource respawn rates, harvesting rates, food/drink drain etc.

On my latest playthrough, I treated the game like a building sandbox. There is a creative mode that allows you to build everything, no resources required. I'd turn on creative mode, build for a few hours, then turn it off and go exploring/hunting/collecting. Still took me like 40 hours to build my main base!

Oh nice this sounds real nice. I should buckle down and play this, thanks.

Oh one more thing is it very action oriented  the combat?

cameltosis

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

I play ARK single player on PC

No hosting required, game runs just fine on my machine.

Added bonus is that on single player, there are a ton of options that you can tweak, plus you can install whatever mods you want.

For example, playing on an official server, you can never have enough engram points to unlock everything in the game. You can respec, but it can be a bit long winded. Playing single player, I just tweaked it so I can unlock everything. I've got a bunch of cool mods installed that give me more building options (castles, keeps and forts iirc), a mod that gives me a bunch of automation options (so i don't have to manually collect dino poop to create fertilizer). I've got some kind of dino tracker, so if I lose a tamed pet (which is more common than it should be!) I can easily track it down.

Likewise, the inbuilt options are pretty great. Taming a high level dino on an official server can take literal hours, but there are options to reduce that time. You can tweak damage, resource respawn rates, harvesting rates, food/drink drain etc.

On my latest playthrough, I treated the game like a building sandbox. There is a creative mode that allows you to build everything, no resources required. I'd turn on creative mode, build for a few hours, then turn it off and go exploring/hunting/collecting. Still took me like 40 hours to build my main base!

Oh nice this sounds real nice. I should buckle down and play this, thanks.

Oh one more thing is it very action oriented  the combat?

The combat is about as basic as you can get. It is action combat, but not the sort of action combat u find in RPGs.

Everything is basically aim + click. Melee weapons dont have any power attacks or special move, just clicking. With bows and arrows, or firearms, its just aim and shoot.

That said, most of the time im out in the world, im riding a dinosaur. Nearly all dinos can be tamed and ridden (and u can breed them too!) and the dinos are way stronger than u are.

My max level character has 450 health. My t-rex has 20,000 health, and he isn't maxed out. My giant eagle (which is my main workhorse) has 15,000 health and can carry 5 times more stuff than I can. Each dino has 1-3 attacks, and they're usually more powerful than my spear or my assault rifle.

So, I don't think you'll struggle with the combat. It can get a bit hectic if you're on foot and get jumped by something, but that's usually pretty rare for me. The only time when u are really forced to fight on foot is if you are going into some of the caves. Caves hold some decent resources, some loot crates and artificats, but if ur playing single player u simply dont need to go there.

olepi

Civ4 and Colonization: 2,200 hours.

Theocritus

olepi said:

Civ4 and Colonization: 2,200 hours.

I know some Civ players that dont measure playtime in hours, but in years......

AlBQuirky

olepi said:

Civ4 and Colonization: 2,200 hours.

The original Civ game on my friend's Apple was the first game I stayed up all night playing

kitarad

cameltosis said:

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

kitarad said:

cameltosis said:

I'll agree with Ark Survival Evolved.

I had no real interest in playing a survival game, the few I had tried in the past just sucked. But, then my brother discovered it had couch coop on the xbox so we gave it a go.

Turned out, the survival mechanics were absolutely trivial and didn't get in the way of the rest of the game. The combat was terrible, but I totally fell in love with the tropical island and all the dinosaurs! Definitely the closest I have ever come to being able to have my own Jurassic Park adventure!

Racked up 400 hours on PC, plus another 70-80 playing coop with my brother.

Tokken said:

Ark Survival Evolved - currently 2671.2 hours - I couldn't pass up a survival / dinosaur game.

WOW - No way to measure how many hours, but it was alot!

UO - 20 years on and off playing.

Are you two playing it on a private server or on your own machine only, in the sense that you're not playing on the public servers. I have always wanted to play this and I have it both on Steam and Epic games. I wondered would it take a toll on your machine hosting it and what you set your parameters at because it always overwhelmed me when I saw the settings being in such detail.

As for me the 1,800 in Path of Exile.

I play ARK single player on PC

No hosting required, game runs just fine on my machine.

Added bonus is that on single player, there are a ton of options that you can tweak, plus you can install whatever mods you want.

For example, playing on an official server, you can never have enough engram points to unlock everything in the game. You can respec, but it can be a bit long winded. Playing single player, I just tweaked it so I can unlock everything. I've got a bunch of cool mods installed that give me more building options (castles, keeps and forts iirc), a mod that gives me a bunch of automation options (so i don't have to manually collect dino poop to create fertilizer). I've got some kind of dino tracker, so if I lose a tamed pet (which is more common than it should be!) I can easily track it down.

Likewise, the inbuilt options are pretty great. Taming a high level dino on an official server can take literal hours, but there are options to reduce that time. You can tweak damage, resource respawn rates, harvesting rates, food/drink drain etc.

On my latest playthrough, I treated the game like a building sandbox. There is a creative mode that allows you to build everything, no resources required. I'd turn on creative mode, build for a few hours, then turn it off and go exploring/hunting/collecting. Still took me like 40 hours to build my main base!

Oh nice this sounds real nice. I should buckle down and play this, thanks.

Oh one more thing is it very action oriented  the combat?

The combat is about as basic as you can get. It is action combat, but not the sort of action combat u find in RPGs.

Everything is basically aim + click. Melee weapons dont have any power attacks or special move, just clicking. With bows and arrows, or firearms, its just aim and shoot.

That said, most of the time im out in the world, im riding a dinosaur. Nearly all dinos can be tamed and ridden (and u can breed them too!) and the dinos are way stronger than u are.

My max level character has 450 health. My t-rex has 20,000 health, and he isn't maxed out. My giant eagle (which is my main workhorse) has 15,000 health and can carry 5 times more stuff than I can. Each dino has 1-3 attacks, and they're usually more powerful than my spear or my assault rifle.

So, I don't think you'll struggle with the combat. It can get a bit hectic if you're on foot and get jumped by something, but that's usually pretty rare for me. The only time when u are really forced to fight on foot is if you are going into some of the caves. Caves hold some decent resources, some loot crates and artificats, but if ur playing single player u simply dont need to go there.

You've definitely convinced me to play this, 125GB download whoopie and I am glad the combat isn't too hard. I cannot do action combat I am more a turn based player.

Roin

Skyrim SE - 2000+
Skyrim LE - 2000+
FFXI - Don't even want to guess
Granado Espada - Around 1400+
Baldurs Gate 3 EA - Close to 300 hours

Mendel

I've got thousands of hours in just about each of the Civilization games, from Civ I through Civ VI.  Probably another 300 or so hours in Win Civ, even!

But the most embarrassing game I've played is Fallout Shelter.  Steam says I've logged 537 hours in that game, but that doesn't count the time out-of-game doing something else while waiting for my guys to come back, or get to a mission.  I've even picked it up again this year to run some Survival mode attempts.  Thirty minute sessions played over 8 hours really keeps you at your keyboard.

Scorchien

Mendel said:

I've got thousands of hours in just about each of the Civilization games, from Civ I through Civ VI.  Probably another 300 or so hours in Win Civ, even!

But the most embarrassing game I've played is Fallout Shelter.  Steam says I've logged 537 hours in that game, but that doesn't count the time out-of-game doing something else while waiting for my guys to come back, or get to a mission.  I've even picked it up again this year to run some Survival mode attempts.  Thirty minute sessions played over 8 hours really keeps you at your keyboard.

Have you been following BOC I'm really looking forward to that one ..

Birth of Civilization...


When it hits EA I'm gonna do a giveaway for it so keep an eye out