Your Top 3 Most Played Games

[Inazuma]

1. Phantasy Star Universe - 8,000 hours
2. Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst - 4,000 hours
The online Phantasy Star games consumed 5 years of my life. All of my free time went into playing them and I barely bought or played anything else (or did anything else). I also ended up becoming fluent in Japanese along the way since I was playing the Japanese versions. For a 6 month period, I only slept an average of 4 hours a day, so I could play more PSU. Man, was I addicted as hell.

3. Dance Dance Revolution - 3,500 hours or so
I think I started playing DDR in the year 2000. I would play an average of 2 hours a day for about 4 years, until eventually getting a little bored with it and playing less. I remember my legs were sore for the first 2 years. I'm not exagerating. They were sore for a solid 2 years. Many times I would have trouble just walking around because it was so bad. I shred apart my leg muscles so many times until finally they maxed out and stopped getting sore. I also stopped getting tired. I would be able to play extremely difficult songs nonstop, only taking breaks to eat. There were a few times I went to the arcade and played for 8 hours straight. Ah, those were the days.

I still play DDR a few times a week for exercise, but my stamina is terrible and I end up getting tired after an hour or so.

[dlmvii]

Word of Warcraft was quite a few hours, though I don't remember offhand. It was at least a few months of play time. My first few years of college, a very large amount of my time was spent playing this.

2nd is probably Quake III Arena, But that's over the course of a decade or so of playing.

I can't imagine what else could come in third, certainly nothing close to these two. probably some RPG, but whatever it is, it's probably less than 150 hours or so, nowhere near the other 2.

[emwearz]

Im not really into online gaming. The games I have played through most often would be Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VIII and most likely Duke 3D. In terms of hours of actual play I would not have a clue.

[chupon]

That's ridiculous. Although I believe you logged that much time playing PSO I don't get how. Did you have school, job, girlfriend, wife, kids - or did you just live in a basement for 5 years for free?

SNES - Mario Kart 100's of hours
SNES - Mortal Kombat II 100's of hours
PS1 - Street Fighter Alpha 3 100's of hours

[Limewater]

1. Phantasy Star Universe - 8,000 hours
2. Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst - 4,000 hours
3. Dance Dance Revolution - 3,500 hours or so

Where are you getting your figures?

I knew a guy who, in the first two months Final Fantasy 11 was running, managed to log over a month in-game. He played more hours than he didn't.

[J T]

1. Phantasy Star Universe - 8,000 hours

JESUS!

A full time job is 40 hours per week. You would have to work 200 full time work weeks to equal 8000 hours. There are 52 weeks in a year, so you worked Phantasy Star Universe as a full time job for 3.85 years. Add on another 1.92 for Phantasy Star Online and that is 5.78 years you have been a fulltime employee of Phantasy Star. Wow! Do they have a good retirement plan?

[AmishSamurai]

1. Pokemon- lost track. Longest consecutive file was 230 hours (Gold), second-longest 170-something (Pearl). All the rest besides the ones I created deliberately to have all the starters in one file were pretty ridiculous too.
2. Final Fantasy tactics advance- have done nine files, each one logging in at least 80 hours.
3. Hmm... gonna go with Link's Awakening. In case you haven't noticed a trend, I got a lot of love out of my gameboy.

[fastbilly1]

I dont have even generic hour counts I could probably figure one out for TFC but I dont care to think that much about it.

Team Fortress Classic
My freshman year of college I put in something like 100 hours into TFC most every week (I never missed a class in my entire stay at college). I started playing it in 01 and still play it every once and a while. I think have it installed on six computers right now. Scout, Soldier, Pyro, anything but Spy or Heavy - I always though the Heavy was cheap and I never got the hang of the spy.

Mario Kart 64
This was our go to game for settling grudges within the family for years. My older brother, little brother, and I were all about even (oldest only played it a couple times). I still think it is the most polished of the Mario Karts (DS comes close but battle was to condensed). We played Kart so much I bought another N64 and installed a better heat sync on it so we could overclock it and get the disappearing shell count down (didnt work mind you but we thought it would).

Goldeneye
Like I said Mario Kart was the go to game, Goldeneye was the cause of alot of the grief and grudges. We played alot of this with friends, like everyone else at the time. It was simple to teach so it did, and still does, get alot of play time.

Honorable mentions (atleast 250 hours):
Legend of Zelda
Phantasy Star Online
Planetside
Half Life/Half Life Deathmatch
Natural Selection
Super Mario Brothers 2
Pokemon Red
Civilization 2
Red Alert

[Hatta]

Nethack, Civilization 2, Quest for Glory 2. I played the shit out of QFG2 back in the day. I maxed out characters for QFG2 in all the character classes at least 3 or 4 times.

[Inazuma]

1. Phantasy Star Universe - 8,000 hours
2. Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst - 4,000 hours
3. Dance Dance Revolution - 3,500 hours or so

Where are you getting your figures?

I knew a guy who, in the first two months Final Fantasy 11 was running, managed to log over a month in-game. He played more hours than he didn't.

Well, I played PSU for 3 years. To play 8,000 hours would mean I averaged around 7 hours a day. That sounds about right since I played maybe around 5 or 6 hours on weekdays and like 15 hours on weekends. And during the 6 months of 4 hour sleep, I was able to play a lot more. I worked part time and full time jobs during the 3 years but that's all I did besides play PSU.

The 4,000 hours of PSO was in a 2 year period so that would be 5 and a half hours a day.

DDR I have played from the year 2000 all the way until now so it's over a span of 9 years. However the majority of it was in the first 4 years.