Random Gaming Thoughts

[Retrogamer0001]

6,000 hours in one year, sheesh, were you going pro or something?

Nah, though I made a decent showing at a few online tournaments. I lived and breathed that game, night and day, before and after work. Very happy that I decided to step away for good though, considering what it was doing to my "social life".

I played SC2 a lot myself, some great times.

Definitely, lots of fun and highly addictive. The best RTS game ever made in my opinion - anyone who has any love for the genre and hasn't tried it is truly missing out.

[BoneSnapDeez]

My brother has over a year's worth of play time logged in WoW.

Essentially he spent 1/5th of every day playing WoW - over a five-year period.

[Violent By Design]

Not really sure what to say to that.

[GSZX1337]

Yeah, I wonder how much time I logged into TFC.

I personally wonder how much time I spent in Half-Life (2): Deathmatch, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike: Source. Steam says I've logged 1, 29, and 13 hours respectively.

All that taught me is that you need less time in Xcom and more in Half Life and Half Life mods.

[Hobie-wan]

I noticed last night I have 99 Steam games. So if anyone wants to gift me that lucky #100...

And now Steam is broken. What did you do sir?

[RCBH928]

Sickeningly enough, I logged over 6000 hours in Starcraft 2 from 2011-2012. I realized I was addicted to it and haven't touched it almost two years.

If my calculations are right, you played 8 hours a day for 2 years?

[BoneSnapDeez]

There's only one occasion in my entire life where I played video games for over 8 hours within a single day. It was about two years ago - I called in sick and rolled through the final sections of Tales of Symphonia. Think I played for about 10-12 hours that day. I regret nothing.

Appropriately enough, my second-longest play session was with the game's sequel, Dawn of the New World. I played for 7.5 hours within a single day. I felt exhausted when I finally turned off my Wii for the evening. I recall commenting to my wife, "I can't believe I played video games for seven and a half hours!" Her reply: "I can't believe you did anything for seven and a half hours!"

[FerretGamer]

There's only one occasion in my entire life where I played video games for over 8 hours within a single day. It was about two years ago - I called in sick and rolled through the final sections of Tales of Symphonia. Think I played for about 10-12 hours that day. I regret nothing.

Appropriately enough, my second-longest play session was with the game's sequel, Dawn of the New World. I played for 7.5 hours within a single day. I felt exhausted when I finally turned off my Wii for the evening. I recall commenting to my wife, "I can't believe I played video games for seven and a half hours!" Her reply: "I can't believe you did anything for seven and a half hours!"

That's pretty funny, I think Takes of Symphonia was one of the few games I've clocked 60 hours into... and I still didn't beat it.

Speaking of long gaming sessions, I managed to beat Wind Waker when it came out on GC in 2 days and I think it's easily a 40 hr game from what I remember. I've never done anything like that since...

[Retrogamer0001]

Sickeningly enough, I logged over 6000 hours in Starcraft 2 from 2011-2012. I realized I was addicted to it and haven't touched it almost two years.

If my calculations are right, you played 8 hours a day for 2 years?

November 2010 is when I started playing, right up until the end of 2012. I would actually say that on many days, I would put 10 -12 hours in. At the time I only worked casually and could afford to sink countless hours into an online game. No longer.

[Luke]

I would actually say that on many days, I would put 10 -12 hours in. At the time I only worked casually and could afford to sink countless hours into an online game. No longer.

If it makes you feel any better, I dropped two college morning courses so I could play FFX, and dropped a graduate Monday night class so I could watch MNF.