How many video games do you have?

[Timsup2nothin]

Oh, yeah, Mount & Blade. That's another over a hundred easily.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Oh, yeah, Mount & Blade. That's another over a hundred easily.

I have Mount & Blade. I tried it a few months ago but had a hard time trying to figure out the mechanics. I don't remember why I even got it to begin with but I'm guessing that I thought it'd let me ride horses around pretty landscapes.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Most played according to Steam:

Skyrim: 3,159 hours
Fallout 4: 2,241 hours
FONV: 1,162 hours
CK II: 3,433 hours
Civ V: 1,634 hours
Civ VI: 1,041 hours
Stellaris: 1,309 hours

Of non-Steam games I reckon Civ II & IV, EU I & II, CK I, SMAC, DAO, NWN, Morrowind and Oblivion would all be 1,000+ as well.

 

[Synobun]

I have Mount & Blade. I tried it a few months ago but had a hard time trying to figure out the mechanics. I don't remember why I even got it to begin with but I'm guessing that I thought it'd let me ride horses around pretty landscapes.

While you're being shot at with arrows, crossbows, spears, and axes, sure.

Most played according to Steam:

Skyrim: 3,159 hours
Fallout 4: 2,241 hours
FONV: 1,162 hours
CK II: 3,433 hours
Civ V: 1,634 hours
Civ VI: 1,041
Stellaris: 1,309 hours

Of non-Steam games I reckon Civ II & IV, EU I & II, CK I, SMAC, DAO, NWN, Morrowind and Oblivion would all be 1,000+ as well.

Damn, how do you have so many hours in FPS/RPG games? Even with multiplayer San Andreas + singleplayer over the course of 10+ years I doubt I made it very far past 1000 hours. The next game on my list would be Borderlands 2 at just over 100...

 

[AmazonQueen]

Damn, how do you have so many hours in FPS/RPG games? Even with multiplayer San Andreas + singleplayer over the course of 10+ years I doubt I made it very far past 1000 hours. The next game on my list would be Borderlands 2 at just over 100...

I'm obsessive
I play the same games again and again with different characters.
I also use a lot of mods.
Eventually when I know every blade of grass in a game it gets a bit predictable and I have to play something else for a year or 2 before going back to it.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

While you're being shot at with arrows, crossbows, spears, and axes, sure.

M&B in a nutshell right there.

Damn, how do you have so many hours in FPS/RPG games? Even with multiplayer San Andreas + singleplayer over the course of 10+ years I doubt I made it very far past 1000 hours. The next game on my list would be Borderlands 2 at just over 100...

I'm trying to think of a better measure for the quality of a game because I am not representative with this hundred hour thing. I keep thinking of games where I almost certainly do have a hundred, at least, but I've been retired for closing on twenty years. There are games I don't even particularly like that I sunk a hundred hours into just in the first two week opening binge. Plus I'm old. This has me thinking and I'm sure even though I couldn't specify which ones that some of the Infocom text adventures from the 80s probably took me over a hundred hours to solve. I probably had a hundred hours in Dungeons of Daggorath before most posters here were even born.

Anecdote about my first "a graphics adventure" game:

Spoiler :

My first wife and I played text adventures together. One of us would type while the other fed babies or relaxed on the couch or whatever. We had friends who hung out a lot at our house who played with us too. Whoever was typing would read off the description and people would be shouting out suggestions and someone would keep a pen and paper map. We were multi-player computer game geeks way before it was in fashion. Anyway.

One day I see this ad in a magazine for this game. It's like an adventure game with pictures! I run and show my wife, and she is just "OMG, we must have that!" So we put our heads together and figure out how we can cut corners to come up with thirty whole dollars and we send off for this thing. Yes, there was a time when you mailed people a thing called a check and two or three weeks later your game arrived in this thing called a mailbox. It is totally remarkable that we were able to survive.

So we get this thing, and our friends, who have been hearing about it for weeks and are as eager to see it as we are all come over. First disk in the drive and away we go. Our computer at the time had no internal drive so games had to be played from the floppy disk.

The title screen came and went, with oooohs and ahhhs, and we found ourselves with a picture covering the upper two thirds of the screen. Bands of light blue, darker blue, and yellow. In the light blue there were white blobs, in the dark blue there were white horizontal streaks, and at the bottom there was text that read "You are on a beach." It was AWESOME!!!! Truth be told, the entire game could be played just reading the text, and the pictures took an annoying amount of time to load and frequently required reading the text to identify what they were actually supposed to be. "Oh!!! That's a CAMEL!" But even though the game took two or maybe three disks and was nowhere near as big as the Infocom games that were a single disk I remember it fondly. Whenever we figured out a way to get to a previously undiscovered location everyone would jump off their chairs and couches and gather around to watch the picture appear. The joys of youth.

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[Synobun]

ngl that sounds miserable

 

[Timsup2nothin]

ngl that sounds miserable

You had to be there. Have you ever played Zork?

 

[Arakhor]

For games off Steam: Master of Orion II, Civ II, Civ IV, Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, CK II, EU III, Assassin's Creed: Origins & Odyssey, Mass Effect 1 (probably the entire series), Kingdom Come: Deliverance and SWTOR would all be excellent candidates. On Steam, 894 hours in EU IV, 462 in Stellaris, another 460 in Skyrim, and 236 in Fallout 4.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I have an ungodly amount of hours in Civ IV. Like in the thousands, though I don't know exactly how many. I've been playing nearly constantly since 2008 when I joined CFC. That what modding will do to you, I suppose. You have to test your mod. I still fire it up from time to time for a relaxing stroll around the map.

 

[Arakhor]

I would be offended if the Godmother of BAT herself didn't have an ungodly Civ IV playtime.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh yeah I'm probably 500 hours deep into all my playthroughs of FO4

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have no idea how many hours I put into some of my non-Steam games (except the ones that recorded it in the save file, like the Pokemon ROMs). I imagine there'd probably be at least a few more in the 100-500 hour category.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

What? You don't like cheap video games?

All I ever seem to see people say about their Steam collections is that they contain hundreds of games, 95% of which they have never played and never will play.

 

[Narz]

But you're....on a forum dedicated to a video game....

I used to have Civ 2 but I don't think it's even possible to get a working version on this computer.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I used to have Civ 2 but I don't think it's even possible to get a working version on this computer.

GoG.com

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

GoG.com

Not available on GOG

 

[Broken_Erika]

GoG.com

It's not on GoG.... but it is on myabandonware

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's very difficult to run on 64-bit systems though. Even with winevdm it's pretty glitchy.

 

[AmazonQueen]

All I ever seem to see people say about their Steam collections is that they contain hundreds of games, 95% of which they have never played and never will play.

Well I don't have any games that I haven't played at least some.
You're assuming that its due to Steam and not the buyer.
Games being sold as bundles is probably the biggest cause of unplayed games but if a bundle is cheap and includes one game you really want it can be worth buying.