What game did you put the most time into?

[Curlypaul]

I put what seems like half of my life into Sim City and Theme Park. I stay away from managment games lately, my life is too busy

[grittykitty]

final fantasy x and zelda: ocarina of time, about 60 hours apiece. ffx was boring though, but the zelda was the best 60 hours of my gaming life perhaps

[baphomet_irl]

probably Rocket Arena 3, Freelancer and Battlefield 1942

[Gamerforlife]

RPGs by nature, seem to be the games I put the most time into. They're designed that way, and it's actually why I'm pulling away from them these days.

I put tons of hours into FF X stat maxing and dominating the monster arena. I've put tons of hours into other FF games too. The number of hours I've put into Disgaea 2 is...well....unhealthy

Viva Pinata is another game I seem to have dropped tons of hours into. Most of it was fun and relaxing, unlike the tedious hours I put into level grinding and powering up in rpgs.

Honestly, rpgs feel more like work than gaming sometimes. I play less and less of them these days

[Curlypaul]

I agree with you there, I bought a PS1 solely to own FFIX and me and my wife proceded to explore every inch of it, put hours and hours into powering up our chocobos and were pretty dissapointed when we had finished it. I recently got FFIII on the DS, which was initially pretty exciting but all the grinding just got too much. I'm at the crystal tower, fought the end boss once and discovered that I need to level up a little more but I just havnt got the heart to do it. I know I ought to finish it since I'm so close but I'd rather play something thats actually fun

[wyatt]

Everquest, ~2500 hours
Warcraft, ~2000 hours
PSO on DC, 1500 hours (per counter)

Non-online games,
FF6 ~300 hours
FF10, ~250 hours
a few others between 150 and 200 that I can't recall easily.

Haven't spent more than 100 on a game in a year or so.

EDIT: Wow, I underestimated my MMO time... EQ and WoW measure the days so I had to adjust the hours.

[aaron]

60 hrs on ffx. a good 30-40 on wind waker. fun stuff.

i have also probably played about 10000000 hours of tetris in my lifetime in various forms.

[Bev]

By the way, let me ask you something: did you ever looked back and thought that you could have done better things with that time? I mean, were talking of massive amounts of time here: 40, 60, 80, 100 hours. One can do a lot with that amount of time, besides sitting in the sofa with a gamepad in hand.

Not with any game but Warcraft. At the moment it's not too bad, but I know the second I give up I'm going to totally regret all those spent hours.

I feel in other games generally I'm developing a skill or at least something I can show people which is impressive. I know that with something like RPGs this isn't the case but they don't consume enough of my time for me to regret it. Warcraft however, is more equipment based than anything else and sucks up time like nothing else.

[Ivo]

I was thinking that I wasn't going to know, but then I read someone mentioning Diablo and I instantly knew that it was certainly D2+LoD (if expansions count for the same game).

For sure, hands-down.

After that, probably Alpha Centauri or something like that. Replayability is the key for me to put heavy time in, and not the fact that some RPG is really long (due to random battles or whatever). No offense to those who do enjoy that.

Ivo.

[fastbilly1]

Team Fortress Classic - I use to spend every weekend mostly playing TFC, easily 24 hours of it from 5pm Friday till 10pm Sunday. Sometimes it was the entire weekend.

Planetside - three months, 250 some odd hours - enough for my name to be known by most of the CR6s for the NC as a crazy Cloaker and his crew.

Pokemon Red - Really that should say Pocket Monsters Red but I got extra credit in a Japanese language class for translating words per class, lets just say that I ended up with well over a 100 and still could not catch them all (then Red came out and I could and since I knew others who played I kept playing the daggum game).

Legend of Zelda and FF1 - both I have played through to many times for me to count, I still like just exploring the worlds. I mean just last year I found another gambling game in the first world of Zelda.

Super Mario Bros 2 - I use to be able to draw you a map of the stages, enemy placement, and the best path for Princess, back when I was gunning for the record. I gave up on that about six years ago, maybe I should start practicing again and give it a shot. If I remember correctly I could beat it in about 9 minutes, the record is 9:15.