Which games have you spent the most hours in?

[Prowler]

Video game systems have been keeping track of your playtime for a while now. So do me a favour and go check out how many hours you've logged into some of your most played games, please. If you don't mind it, that is. Or just give me an estimate if you cba to check it out :lol:

Now, obviously I can't know how many hours I've put into some of my favourite childhood games in the last 20+ years in total since older systems didn't keep track of that, so I'm just gonna mention the games I've logged the most hours in on Steam and my 3DS.

Stronghold Kingdoms: 428 hours
Football Manager 2011: 384 hours (16 full days and 51 minutes)
Animal Crossing: A New Leaf: 181:07 hours
Ultra Street Fighter IV: 158 hours

I'm kinda embarrassed to admit I spent so many hours of my life playing Stronghold Kingdoms. As for the rest of my list, not at all.

I'm positive I've put in countless hours into games such as Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past, Street Fighter II, Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros, Banjo-Kazooie, Star Fox 64, Mario Paint, Worms, Sim City, Sim City 2000, etc. when I was a kid, but the SNES; NES; Saturn and N64 didn't keep track of that, so I'll never know. That being said, I'm VERY POSITIVE I've broken the 100 hours barrier in the Sim City games and Worms. Maybe even SMW since I've played that game countless times in my life.

What about you?

[ProphetofGanja]

My top three games with the most logged hours are Peggle, Destiny and Sunless Sea, with well over 600 hours on each.

The closest runner ups (with nowhere near as many hours) are probably Skyrim, Portal I & II, Halo, StarCraft and Roller Coaster Tycoon

[ToTheNines]

Definitely the Jak and Daxter series. Specifically Jak 3.

EA Sports games. Mostly MVP Baseball 2004.

And I've spend too much time playing TMNT games, the first 2003 game probably got the most attention. Maybe Mutant Nightmare.

[Powder]

Animal Crossing New Leaf probably takes the cake with 879 hours, runner up might be Team Fortress 2, with 594 hours, Garry's Mod has 269.

Not sure about Nintendo console titles, but there may be something that fits in between the above. I'd love to know how much time I put into Turtles In Time, Tournament Fighters, Yoshi's Island, DKC, SMW, etc.

[Prowler]

Definitely the Jak and Daxter series. Specifically Jak 3.

EA Sports games. Mostly MVP Baseball 2004.

And I've spend too much time playing TMNT games, the first 2003 game probably got the most attention. Maybe Mutant Nightmare.
Oh I'm positive I must have spent way more hours than I'm willing to admit in games like FIFA 2004, ISS 98 and Pro Evolution Soccer 5 back in the day. If I didn't spend more than 100 hours in each of them it's probably close to that mark. Over 40 hours spent in a game is a lot, imo. I "only" have about 75 hours in Pokémon Omega Ruby... but it feels like I've played it twice as much.

I didn't have the first 2k3 game. I have BattleNexus however. Mediocre game... but I played the **** out of it as a kid.I got it on the first Summer day after finishing 9th grade iirc.

Animal Crossing New Leaf probably takes the cake with 879 hours, runner up might be Team Fortress 2, with 594 hours, Garry's Mod has 269.

Not sure about Nintendo console titles, but there may be something that fits in between the above. I'd love to know how much time I put into Turtles In Time, Tournament Fighters, Yoshi's Island, DKC, SMW, etc.
Man I haven't checked my town since December. I got a bit burnt out form playing it everyday. I already have about 70% of the fish and bugs and have collected every single fossil already.

The only season I haven't played through fully is Winter. Maybe I oughta do that in 2018.

[Ninjinister]

Where can you find this out on 3DS? I don't recall seeing that option.

Even though there's no way to record it though, I'm sure across all platforms the winner would be Streets of Rage 2.

[Candy Kappa]

Skyrim, no doubt skyrim is the game I've clocked most hours in. Or maybe WoW, I was really active between 06-08 before I grew bored of the game

[Prowler]

Where can you find this out on 3DS? I don't recall seeing that option.

Even though there's no way to record it though, I'm sure across all platforms the winner would be Streets of Rage 2.
In the Activity Log? Or is that an exclusive feature of the New 3DS?

[Toitlefan]

I've probably spent most of my time playing Fallout 3. I don't even want to know how many days of my life I've spent on that. I've been putting off starting Fallout 4 because I know I'm going to do the same with that game.

[Prowler]

I forgot about Pokémon Red. I've beaten that game at least 8-9 times. And by beating I mean starting a new file. It was a yearly Summer tradition of mien at some point.

Usually, I'd put in 18 to 25 hours into each playthrough of Pokémon Red. So that means I must have played pretty close to 200 hours of Pokémon Red in my whole life thus far. And if you wanna add Yellow into it, that's another 20 hours or so. So yeah, about 200 hours of my life were spent on Pokémon RBY.

[CyberCubed]

I maxed out the clock in my old Sapphire game at 999:59 hours. My Leaf Green file also has over 600 hours on it.

[IndigoErth]

Provided that MMOs count, that would definitely be WoW. Back when my schedule allowed for it more, a friend (living on the other side of the country) and I would often play much of the evening/night. Not helped by the fact that there as a three hour time difference.

At worst, there was once or twice when I didn't give up and go get a little sleep until after 12 noon, and 9am for her. lol

If I recall it think that one might count the amount of time played... Don't remember what it was though. (Though I do want to check in on it again sometime. Miss my fave characters I played.)

[Prowler]

I maxed out the clock in my old Sapphire game at 999:59 hours. My Leaf Green file also has over 600 hours on it.

Man, how did you get 1600 hours combined out of two Pokémon games? What do you even do after you beat the Elite 4 and do the post game? Do you just try to catch every single pokémon left and grind them to high levels or something? but still... 999 hours?!Do you try to beat the Elite 4 tons of different times with different party combinations or smth? Or are you one of those people who does Nuzlocke challenges when playing Pokémon?

Provided that MMOs count, that would definitely be WoW. Back when my schedule allowed for it more, a friend (living on the other side of the country) and I would often play much of the evening/night. Not helped by the fact that there as a three hour time difference.

Yes, they count. They're video games. Also, I named an MMO in my list(Stronghold Kingdoms). In fact, MMOs and MOBAs are the type of games I expect people to log the most hours in. :)

[FredWolfLeonardo]

On my current Copy of Pokemon Yellow, Red and Crystal, I have a total combined playtime of about 90 hours.

I only fully beat Yellow, and used Red/Crystal to trade with it and complete the Orginal 151 Pokedex.

Now I plan to Complete Crystal and use Gold and the Time Capsule to help me get all 251 Pokemon legitimately, except for Mew through the Mew Glitch in Red/Yellow and Celebi through Gamesharking a GS ball which triggers a hidden Celebi event never utilized outside of Japan.

[Prowler]

On my current Copy of Pokemon Yellow, Red and Crystal, I have a total combined playtime of about 90 hours.

I only fully beat Yellow, and used Red/Crystal to trade with it and complete the Orginal 151 Pokedex.

Now I plan to Complete Crystal and use Gold and the Time Capsule to help me get all 251 Pokemon legitimately, except for Mew through the Mew Glitch in Red/Yellow and Celebi through Gamesharking a GS ball which triggers a hidden Celebi event never utilized outside of Japan.
IIrc I have about... 13 hours in Silver so far? I've beaten 3 or 4 gyms so far., but found myself stuck a bit not knowing what to do next so I haven't played it in about a week or so. I bought it around the time it was released on the 3DS eshop btw.

Dunno if i'll ever get every Pokémon ever. I'm mostly focused on beating the games. As long as I get at least 70% of all the pokémon available I won't complain. Although it seems you can get A LOT of Pokémon in ORAS. Including legendaries from other gens. But still, there's exclusive Pokémon to each version. I got Omega Ruby, so no Kyogre or Lombre. Trying to catch Ho-oH atm but he is a bitch to catch. If I had known I'd have saved my master ball for him instead of using it on Rayquazza. Btw, i caught Deoxys with an Ultra Ball on my 1st try and supposedly he's the hardest pokémon to get in that game. Was I lucky?

[Ninjinister]

In the Activity Log? Or is that an exclusive feature of the New 3DS?

I don't remember seeing one. It's probably there and I'm just blind.

[Prowler]

I don't remember seeing one. It's probably there and I'm just blind.
Maybe you just didn't care enough to check out most of the apps the system came with and thus overlooked it? It can happen.

[Wesley]

I'd say I'd reached around 200 hours each for most Yugioh games mainly for the GBA and DS.

[Prowler]

I'd say I'd reached around 200 hours each for most Yugioh games mainly for the GBA and DS.
Never played a yugioh game. Are they any good?

Yugioh was a strange phenomenon. It came around the time Pokémon seemed to be cooling off a bit(around gen III?), but it didn't last for long. I also remember at the time kids in my school playing with Beyblade toys and Magic the Gathering making a comeback.

[Wesley]

Never played a yugioh game. Are they any good?

Yugioh was a strange phenomenon. It came around the time Pokémon seemed to be cooling off a bit(around gen III?), but it didn't last for long. I also remember at the time kids in my school playing with Beyblade toys and Magic the Gathering making a comeback.

Most of them are good, except Destiny Board Traveler and WCT2004. My favourite is WC2011.

Yugioh was a strange phenomenon alright. I'm not really a fan of the anime anymore, though I still like playing the video games.

[Prowler]

Most of them are good, except Destiny Board Traveler and WCT2004. My favourite is WC2011.

Yugioh was a strange phenomenon alright. I'm not really a fan of the anime anymore, though I still like playing the video games.
Digimon was also a thing for a while. Tamers was a good series.

[Wesley]

Digimon was also a thing for a while. Tamers was a good series.

I liked the first two seasons of Digimon and watched a bit of Tamers, but lost interest in the series after that. Never had an interest in playing the games.

I also spent about 200 hours each on Pokemon Blue, Sapphire, LeafGreen and Platinum.

[Prowler]

I liked the first two seasons of Digimon and watched a bit of Tamers, but lost interest in the series after that. Never had an interest in playing the games.

I also spent about 200 hours each on Pokemon Blue, Sapphire, LeafGreen and Platinum.
A great thing about ORAS is the Exp. All and gaining experience when you catch Pokémon. It makes grinding way more bearable and less time consuming than in other Pokémon games.

[DestronMirage22]

The game I've spent the most time on is probably Marvel Super Heroes on my Saturn.
I've spent countless hours playing it over the years. It's my go to game whenever I'm bored or have nothing else to play. And I never get tired of it. :)

Heck, I've even got Shuma's sprite from it as my sig.

[Ninjinister]

Maybe you just didn't care enough to check out most of the apps the system came with and thus overlooked it? It can happen.

Found it. I'd stashed it away in a folder so I guess I never thought about it.

By and far the longest game played on 3DS was Animal Crossing: New Leaf at 145:32. Played 293 times with an average play time of 29 minutes.

Follow-up is 70:27 in for Smash.

[Prowler]

Found it. I'd stashed it away in a folder so I guess I never thought about it.

By and far the longest game played on 3DS was Animal Crossing: New Leaf at 145:32. Played 293 times with an average play time of 29 minutes.

Follow-up is 70:27 in for Smash.
I got 63:58 in for Smash myself. It's my 3rd most played game on the 3DS.

Ah **** it. Will just make a top 5:

1st - Animal Crossing: New Leaf: 181:07
2nd - Pokémon Omega Ruby: 73:39
3rd - Super Smash Bros: 63:58
4th - Ace Attorney Trilogy: 58:56
5th - Tomodachi Life: 53:19 ... don't judge :lol:

In 6th comes Ocarina of Time 3D with 32:03

[Krutch]

I don't generally put in enough hours to complete a 9-12 hour game, so I'll probably be pulling from my childhood mostly..

Metal Gear Solid (PS1) I played religiously.
Smackdown: Here Comes In The Pain (PS2) definitely got the most hours banked for a wrestling game.
Twisted Metal 2 (PS1) still holds up as a fun challenging multiplayer game.
For that matter, ditto for Twisted Metal: Black (PS2).
Star Wars: Battlefront (PS4) says I have over 80 hours of play since it came out, which is probably the longest lifespan of any current gen game I've played.

I've also played through Life Is Strange (PS4) 3 times, so that's a decent amount of hours.

But by far the grandaddy of'em all in my life has to be Star Craft: Brood War (PC). Played the ever-living-sh*t out of it for years growing up. Still haven't even tried SC2 yet. Don't really feel like going out of my way to try to, either.

[Prowler]

I don't generally put in enough hours to complete a 9-12 hour game, so I'll probably be pulling from my childhood mostly..

Metal Gear Solid (PS1) I played religiously.
Smackdown: Here Comes In The Pain (PS2) definitely got the most hours banked for a wrestling game.
Twisted Metal 2 (PS1) still holds up as a fun challenging multiplayer game.
For that matter, ditto for Twisted Metal: Black (PS2).
Star Wars: Battlefront (PS4) says I have over 80 hours of play since it came out, which is probably the longest lifespan of any current gen game I've played.

I've also played through Life Is Strange (PS4) 3 times, so that's a decent amount of hours.

But by far the grandaddy of'em all in my life has to be Star Craft: Brood War (PC). Played the ever-living-sh*t out of it for years growing up. Still haven't even tried SC2 yet. Don't really feel like going out of my way to try to, either.
9-12 hours games? You can't possibly be referring to modern games. :P

Oh I did play HCTP a lot back in the day. Same for Shut Your Mouth. I also put lots of hours into Day of Reckoning 2(the story mode was hard) and SD vs. Raw 2006.

[Shark_Blade]

Persona 4 Golden : 65 Hours
Persona 5 : Probably around the same time.

[Spike Spiegel]

Metroid: Zero Mission
Super Metroid
Alien: Isolation
Dead Space 1 and 2
Silent Hill 2
X2: Wolverine's Revenge
The Arkham Trilogy
Metroid: Samus Returns
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) on Game Boy Advance
Spider-Man (2000) on PlayStation and PC

[Cure]

Persona 4 Golden : 65 Hours
Persona 5 : Probably around the same time.

That's chump change for Persona games, man.

[Prowler]

I had 181 on New Leaf when I made this thread. nowadays I have 289 hours on it. I also played SSB Melee for the first time in years a few weeks ago and had about 109 hours on it. Also, I checked on Steam recently that I apparently have 104 hours or so on Adventure Capitalist and 190 on Civilization V. ****ing Civ games, man :lol:

[MsMarvelDuckie]

A friend and I once spent a total of 60 hours on a runthrough of the original Final Fantasy. I have also spent around 40-50 hours on Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and around 20-30 on Ff VII and VIII.

[youhavemysupport]

Rockman 2
TMNT
Counter-Strike
Starcraft II
Fallout 3

[Prowler]

Rockman 2
TMNT
Counter-Strike
Starcraft II
Fallout 3

TMNT? What TMNT game?

[Sumac]

World of WarCraft - 3 years and counting.

One single playthrough - Genius of Sappheiros (JRPG) - about 300 hours (took me about 5 months to complete it).

[youhavemysupport]

TMNT? What TMNT game?
The first one.

[Prowler]

The first one.
I played that game often when I was a kid but never for too long because it was so hard, so I usually died pretty early or on the dam level. I revisited the game in my late teens and got past the dam level and made it to the airport.

No idea how many hours I might have on it, but no way do they come close to 100. Maybe 40 at best.

World of WarCraft - 3 years and counting.

One single playthrough - Genius of Sappheiros (JRPG) - about 300 hours (took me about 5 months to complete it).


300 hours?! How big is that RPG in terms of story? Does it have a lot of side-quests and other extra-content or something?

[Ninjinister]

I dunno overall but in MK11 it says that I've run over 400 hours. Most of that may have been in my sleep and running the AI towers, though.

[Candy Kappa]

Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 7, World of Warcraft and Skyrim

[raph27]

Animal Crossing: New Leaf with 149 hours

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with 145 hours

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS with 126 hours

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with 75 hours

[youhavemysupport]

I played that game often when I was a kid but never for too long because it was so hard, so I usually died pretty early or on the dam level. I revisited the game in my late teens and got past the dam level and made it to the airport.

No idea how many hours I might have on it, but no way do they come close to 100. Maybe 40 at best.
I was over 20 when I was finally able to beat it, probably the 2nd hardest game of all time for me. I've been trying to unearth its secrets and training to get better ever since, pretty sure I've sunk over a 100 on glitch hunting alone. :tconfuse:

[turtle1237]

I maxed out the clock in my old Sapphire game at 999:59 hours. My Leaf Green file also has over 600 hours on it.

Because I like hoenn so much I did max out my clock on Sapphire in the early 2000's. Than when I got Alpha Sapphire, I DID it again. :lol: If I had to pick other game with long hours of play, it has to be Skyrim, with the main QUESTSES, and the SIDE QUESTESES and the little things like leveling up armor, skills, ete, building houses, adopting kids, and getting married, and covering the LARGE map, its no real surprise I played Skyrim like 3 months non stop about.

[Prowler]

I was over 20 when I was finally able to beat it, probably the 2nd hardest game of all time for me. I've been trying to unearth its secrets and training to get better ever since, pretty sure I've sunk over a 100 on glitch hunting alone. :tconfuse:
What's the first one to you, out of curiosity?

Because I like hoenn so much I did max out my clock on Sapphire in the early 2000's. Than when I got Alpha Sapphire, I DID it again. :lol: If I had to pick other game with long hours of play, it has to be Skyrim, with the main QUESTSES, and the SIDE QUESTESES and the little things like leveling up armor, skills, ete, building houses, adopting kids, and getting married, and covering the LARGE map, its no real surprise I played Skyrim like 3 months non stop about.
It took me a while to really get into Omega Ruby. I only started to really get into it about 4 gyms in. I got 95 hours on it.

How did you make it to 999+ hours in the original Sapphire game, anyway? Not only did it not have online but ORAS had way more Pokémon, including ones from gen 4 and 5 and also had Dexnav. Did the original Sapphire had the Battle Frontier or was that an Emerald exclusive?

[Utrommaniac]

In order:

Stardew Valley, Portal 2, Undertale

[turtle1237]

What's the first one to you, out of curiosity?


It took me a while to really get into Omega Ruby. I only started to really get into it about 4 gyms in. I got 95 hours on it.

How did you make it to 999+ hours in the original Sapphire game, anyway? Not only did it not have online but ORAS had way more Pokémon, including ones from gen 4 and 5 and also had Dexnav. Did the original Sapphire had the Battle Frontier or was that an Emerald exclusive?


It was a Emerald exclusive, But its was about a full year before Emerald got a release date? RS was 2003, and Emerald around 2005? What got me hook in Sapphire was the battle tower, I would try and lose and try and lose. I make it some were around the 40's or so before I got beaten. I am a lot better today than I was back than. I have beaten both the Maison and the battle tree, were in Sapphire, I didn't know about natures, ivs and evs ete.

[youhavemysupport]

What's the first one to you, out of curiosity?
Holy Diver, that one took a good bit of grit.

[Prowler]

It was a Emerald exclusive, But its was about a full year before Emerald got a release date? RS was 2003, and Emerald around 2005? What got me hook in Sapphire was the battle tower, I would try and lose and try and lose. I make it some were around the 40's or so before I got beaten. I am a lot better today than I was back than. I have beaten both the Maison and the battle tree, were in Sapphire, I didn't know about natures, ivs and evs ete.
Theres 'no Battle Frontier or Battle Tower in ORAS, which is a complaint people have. I personally didn't care for the Battle Maison. 1 point for battle and eventually I lose a match and lose interest. Also, I don't care about IVs and Natures. I play Pokémon to catch Pokémon, collect them, win badges and the journey. So I don't care what sex my Pokémon is or what his nature is. Some people are crazy about that and shinies, though. They'll restart a save file like 16 times until they get the right IV and nature for their starter.

Holy Diver, that one took a good bit of grit.
Ah I see. never played that one. The hardest NES game I've played... Japanese SMB2 or Battle Toads.

[youhavemysupport]

Ah I see. never played that one. The hardest NES game I've played... Japanese SMB2 or Battle Toads.
A wise man once said: "Holy Diver is the game Battletoads wants to be when it grows up"

[turtle1237]

Theres 'no Battle Frontier or Battle Tower in ORAS, which is a complaint people have. I personally didn't care for the Battle Maison. 1 point for battle and eventually I lose a match and lose interest. Also, I don't care about IVs and Natures. I play Pokémon to catch Pokémon, collect them, win badges and the journey. So I don't care what sex my Pokémon is or what his nature is. Some people are crazy about that and shinies, though. They'll restart a save file like 16 times until they get the right IV and nature for their starter.


Ah I see. never played that one. The hardest NES game I've played... Japanese SMB2 or Battle Toads.

I am in order to win. I wont restart for the right nature for my starter though. I beat the game as in, than the real work begins. Breeding for natures and ivs. Than I ev train em. Its pretty much the only way to win vs people online or in a serious battle. The Pokémon in all the battle factories(From gen3 towers to the battle tree in S/M are 6 iv and nature and ev train. So you need to bring one in hopes for more than 3 or 4 wins.

[Prowler]

I am in order to win. I wont restart for the right nature for my starter though. I beat the game as in, than the real work begins. Breeding for natures and ivs. Than I ev train em. Its pretty much the only way to win vs people online or in a serious battle. The Pokémon in all the battle factories(From gen3 towers to the battle tree in S/M are 6 iv and nature and ev train. So you need to bring one in hopes for more than 3 or 4 wins.
Yes, several Pokémon players are like that. The actual game only begins for them after they beat the Elite 4.

I dunno, I just never cared for competitive pokémon play. Maybe because I didn't have that cable link or was allowed to bring my brother's Game Boy to school to battle my classmates when I was a kid, thus 99% of my Pokémon battles have been against the CPU. I did play a few matches online against people in ORAS but I found the thing unbalanced. Kept facing people with Pokémon of level 100 and such, so meh. Plus, I don't feel like getting the right IV and Nature to build a top party.

Occasionally on the 3DS sub-reddit you see someone asking the "which games do you have the most hours in" question, and there's always a few people who claim to have 2000 hours on ORAS or 700 hours on XY. They're usually shiny hunters. I don't see much of an appeal tbh. Sure, it would be cool if I caught a shiny one day, but I'm not actively hunting for them.

[Sumac]

300 hours?! How big is that RPG in terms of story? Does it have a lot of side-quests and other extra-content or something?
It's not big per se. Main part can be completed in about 3 weeks. I spent 2 weeks grinding mats to craft high level weapon to my party and level them up. Another 1,5 months were spent on the DLC story.

There are no side quests - you have some story bits in the beginning and between dungeons. In the dungeon you need to find boss and kill it, but there is no story, until boss battle. Each dungeon is a labyrinth full of respawning enemies, so it takes some time to get through them.

No towns, almost no characters to interact with, aside from few shopkeepers.

But gameplay is hella addicting. You have 12 characters (17 with the DLC) to choose from and your party can consist from 6 characters at the same time - 5 characters on the field and 1 commander with unique abilities. There are multiple types of elemental and physical attacks and battlefields can change alignments, with some spells, making certain elements stronger or weaker.

It's all very complex, but very fun, if you manage to get through initial informational onslaught.

And music is amazing:
Boss 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBf27n7_QU)
Boss 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7Q_STu0f4)
Stage 10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d972IJMYnng)
Stage 21 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0bJltGjwqI)

[Cure]

Probably around 200 hours in Skyrim. Around 150 or so in Witcher 3.

[Andrew NDB]

Quite possibly like 6 months of pure playing time in Final Fantasy XI, eons ago. And I don't mean every day for 6 months I was playing a few hours here or there... I mean 6 months = 186 days = 4,464 hours of playing time spread out over a number of years.

What a colossal waste. Never again. Though I'm curious to return to it sporadically, for nostalgia and fun.

As a kid I do remember spending ungodly hours up at night playing Dragon Warrior II and III until I got everyone to like level 70s or 80s. That took a long time.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

While I never managed to keep track of my total playing time (I don't think the game itself has a tracker either), I believe that my most played game would be the original Counter-Strike.

Despite being a pretty old game at that point, I got it in 2007 and have been playing it ever since, consistently more than any other game that I've picked up over the years.

Its funny because the game doesn't have any progression, everything is unlocked from the start and the gameplay is exactly the same all the time, but its just so fun that I can't get enough of it for the past 12 years.

[Coola Yagami]

Honestly nothing modern, who has the time anymore.

Though the hours I spent on the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 alone would break a calculator.

I'd buy a house with the amount of quarters spent on SF2 World Warrior/Champion Edition/Turbo. And a mansion with the quarters dropped into the King of Fighters series up to KOF 2000.

[PizzaPower]

While I cant keep track of hours on every game,

Pokemon, World of Warcraft, Killzone (all of them), and Borderlands 2.

[Prowler]

It's not big per se. Main part can be completed in about 3 weeks. I spent 2 weeks grinding mats to craft high level weapon to my party and level them up. Another 1,5 months were spent on the DLC story.

There are no side quests - you have some story bits in the beginning and between dungeons. In the dungeon you need to find boss and kill it, but there is no story, until boss battle. Each dungeon is a labyrinth full of respawning enemies, so it takes some time to get through them.

No towns, almost no characters to interact with, aside from few shopkeepers.

But gameplay is hella addicting. You have 12 characters (17 with the DLC) to choose from and your party can consist from 6 characters at the same time - 5 characters on the field and 1 commander with unique abilities. There are multiple types of elemental and physical attacks and battlefields can change alignments, with some spells, making certain elements stronger or weaker.

It's all very complex, but very fun, if you manage to get through initial informational onslaught.

And music is amazing:
Boss 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLBf27n7_QU)
Boss 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7Q_STu0f4)
Stage 10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d972IJMYnng)
Stage 21 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0bJltGjwqI)
Seems interesting, but I'll most likely never play it.Got a backlog to take care of and not enough time for everything.

Quite possibly like 6 months of pure playing time in Final Fantasy XI, eons ago. And I don't mean every day for 6 months I was playing a few hours here or there... I mean 6 months = 186 days = 4,464 hours of playing time spread out over a number of years.

What a colossal waste. Never again. Though I'm curious to return to it sporadically, for nostalgia and fun.

As a kid I do remember spending ungodly hours up at night playing Dragon Warrior II and III until I got everyone to like level 70s or 80s. That took a long time.
I got nearly 100 hours on Dragon Quest VIII on the 3DS. The game is quite bigger than it looks. Plus, there's minigames, sidequests and gotta grind a bit at times. Usually what makes RPGs so big isn't the story per se, since the story and the mandatory dungeons and boss fights usually take like 40-45 hours max. It's the stuff I mentioned above that really adds up to the overall time spent on a game.

Honestly nothing modern, who has the time anymore.

Though the hours I spent on the SNES version of Street Fighter 2 alone would break a calculator.

I'd buy a house with the amount of quarters spent on SF2 World Warrior/Champion Edition/Turbo. And a mansion with the quarters dropped into the King of Fighters series up to KOF 2000.
Well, depends on your hobbies. I never watch TV shows and very rarely watch movies nowadays. I even have barely watched anime and read manga in the last 3-4 years or so. So this means, my only hobby left is playing games. That or listening to music. Also, I'm single and have no kids, so on my days off(weekends), there's not much else to do other than eating, sleeping and cleaning the house or something. That leaves me about 4-5 hours of gaming. I can easily spend a whole weekend or holiday afternoon gaming.

[turtle1237]

Yeah my most proudest moment in my history in playing Pokémon in 20 years.
The hard to get, rare gold trainer card in ORAS.

Beat the game, every does that?
Compete the Hoenn dex? That took a lot of effort. You notice my national dex is 644.
50 victories in a row at the battle maison was the HARDEST thing to do to finally GET gold lol. But I did it lol. When I nab all the stamps in USUM, I had to beat each battle format, not just 1 lol.

And you can see I max out the time to end gen 6 lol.

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[Icebot]

I never really noticed my hours playing certain video games but I can see how many hours I played on the Switch games so I’ll just go by those:

Splatoon 2: 235 hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 215 hours
Super Smash Brothers Ultimate: 125 hours
Super Mario Odyssey: 80 hours

[Andrew NDB]

I got nearly 100 hours on Dragon Quest VIII on the 3DS. The game is quite bigger than it looks. Plus, there's minigames, sidequests and gotta grind a bit at times. Usually what makes RPGs so big isn't the story per se, since the story and the mandatory dungeons and boss fights usually take like 40-45 hours max. It's the stuff I mentioned above that really adds up to the overall time spent on a game.

I beat DQ VIII on PS2 eons ago but I don't think I spent 100 hours doing so. Maybe 30. Did they add a ton of stuff to the 3DS version?

[Prowler]

I beat DQ VIII on PS2 eons ago but I don't think I spent 100 hours doing so. Maybe 30. Did they add a ton of stuff to the 3DS version?

Are you sure? It's a pretty big game: https://howlongtobeat.com/game.php?id=2824

Did you avoid every single side-quest, never used the monster arena, never had to grind before one of the big bosses for a while, never spent time at the casino minigames and put down the controller after beating the main boss, thus completely avoiding the post-game?

[Slade]

Probably San Andreas or Injustice 2.

[frank_one]

Age of empires 2 and Colin mcRae Rally 2.

[Prowler]

And ever since I got a Switch, new games have made it into my top.

Currently, the game I've spent the most hours in my life, afaik, is Animal Crossing New Horizons. I've played for 530 hours according to the Switch.

Super Mario Maker 2 os my 2nd most played Switch game, at about 225 hours. Closely followed by Smash Ultimate at about 200 hours.

BOTW is at 140 hours currently. Still got some shrines and Ganon to beat yet.

Sadly, the Switch doesn't show you the time you've played games you haven't played in a long time. But I'm pretty sure I've spent close to 200 hours in the FFX HD remake.

[Leo656]

I've never kept track, but in messing around with WWE 2K18 off and on the last few months, I noticed I spent quite a few days working in 6-, 8-, or 12-hour blocks creating wrestlers... and I haven't even filled all 100 slots yet, and that's not counting hours spent playing the game, just creating people, doing movesets and entrances, assigning them to tag teams and stables, etc.

I'm not gonna do anything like "precise" math in my head, but if I round it off and multiply it by the number of wrestling games released over the last 20+ years, I've easily spent literally thousands of hours on that. Not even playing the games, just using the Creation modes. Adding in the hours spent playing with said created content and it skyrockets even more. There's definitely nothing that comes close.

I honestly never paid it that much attention before, especially since I'm kinda streaky and sometimes go a few weeks without playing a wrestling game and instead go through the rest of my backlog. But then not long ago I spent like 6 or 8 hours on two or three created guys (it really does take forever nowadays), and I started doing some estimates considering how much time I must've spent on other wrestling games, and it's like, "Yikes". It's amazing I have time to play anything else, but as mentioned I sometimes take a few weeks or a month off from a wrestling game before I go back to it; they just happen to be the most time-consuming.

Probably a big reason why I haven't spent more time on actual "big" games like Elder Scrolls, Witcher, or anything like that though. I love those kinda games, but if I end up taking a break from them I'm realistically probably not gonna go back to it ever again because I'll be lost. Whereas with a wrestling game, I can very easily play nothing but that for a month in 6-hour chunks, then not touch it at all for a month or two, then go right back to it, repeat. The "time sink" sneaks up on you with those, whereas with "Oblivion" or something it's like you know when you're sitting down that this is gonna be a few hundred hours of your life invested into it.

But yeah I don't even really wanna try and figure out how many hours I've spent on gaming. Added all up it's gotta be literally years by now.

[Icebot]

I never really noticed my hours playing certain video games but I can see how many hours I played on the Switch games so I’ll just go by those:

Splatoon 2: 235 hours
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 215 hours
Super Smash Brothers Ultimate: 125 hours
Super Mario Odyssey: 80 hours

I posted this in 2019 so here’s an update:

Splatoon 2 885 hours
Zelda Breath of the Wild 455 hours (I think I had about 5 or 10 hours back then)
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 310 hours
Super Mario Odyssey 220 hours
Super Smash Bros Ultimate 185 hours

[Andrew NDB]

But I'm pretty sure I've spent close to 200 hours in the FFX HD remake.

Good lord, doing what? Playing Blitzball?

[Prowler]

Good lord, doing what? Playing Blitzball?

Of course ;)

[IMJ]

Probably immeasurable hours by aggregate playing PSOne Civilization across 25+ years on and off.

Seriously, but aggregate I've probably devoted a year of life in terms of minutes to that game. Not something I'm proud of, but aggregate measurement works for everything, good and bad.

[The Deadman]

I think Ive spent close to 400 hours in Fire Pro Wrestling World alone.

[Prowler]

I think Ive spent close to 400 hours in Fire Pro Wrestling World alone.

Damn. Is there a lot to do in that game?

[CyberCubed]

I had 999:59 hours on Pokemon Sapphire in the early 2000's. Literally maxed out the clock.

[Prowler]

I had 999:59 hours on Pokemon Sapphire in the early 2000's. Literally maxed out the clock.

How much money did that cost you in batteries? :lol:

[DarkFell]

Okami and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were the main ones that I spent a lot of time on. DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi, Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy, and Rampage World Tour were a few others.

For my Gameboy days, it was Pokemon Blue & Yellow.

For my Genesis, it was Jurassic Park, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

[Prowler]

I've always been curious about the Monster Hunter series, but seeing that most big fans of the series seem to sink about 300 hours into each installment, I've been putting off buying those games for a long time now.

Anyway, you'd be surprised how fast you get to 50 hours of gameplay time in a game. Especially RPGs and series like Football Manager, Civilization, Europa Universalis and Animal Crossing.

I've had Animal Crossing New Horizons for less than 2 years and yet have 500+ hours in it already. And it's not like I have been playing it everyday lately. And when I do I play for like 10 minutes.

And having over 200 hours in Super Mario Maker 2 might look impressive on paper but there's pretty much a growing countless amount of new levels being uploaded onto it on a dialy basis. It's like a never ending 2D Mario game.

[blindturtle02]

Man, for ps1 it was Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, MVC1, Marvel VS Street Fighter, and MK trilogy. MVC2, MK Armageddon, and very recently, Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for PS2. Found BT3 on Ebay a few years ago which got me into the anime. Injustice, UMVC3, and Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 for PS3. The Last of Us II, Injustice 2, Street Fighter V, and Dragon Ball FighterZ for PS4. TLOU has text to speech and audio cues, so I just had to play that one. I believe it's the only single player that does.

[Splinter the boss]

Defiance 2013, a third person shooter game. Not the best game in terms of sever reliability but ey I spent countless hours playing it. Been shut down, will forever miss it.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I have spent at least 1000 hours playing Twisted Metal 2. I have been playing that game since 1997. I have all the other Twisted Metal games except for the 2012 one and TM 2 is the one that I play the most. I have beaten the game with every character on medium without any passwords or codes. I have been doing the same thing on hard mode, but I still have about 5 or 6 characters left.

[Andrew NDB]

I've always been curious about the Monster Hunter series, but seeing that most big fans of the series seem to sink about 300 hours into each installment, I've been putting off buying those games for a long time now.

The wife was playing the last one for weeks/months on end. I never really saw the draw. There doesn't appear to be much of an alluring story or anything... just never-ending quests to fight big dinosaur things that looks mostly frustrating and time-consuming.

[Prowler]

The wife was playing the last one for weeks/months on end. I never really saw the draw. There doesn't appear to be much of an alluring story or anything... just never-ending quests to fight big dinosaur things that looks mostly frustrating and time-consuming.

Would you mind asking her why she likes it so much? I suppose fans of the series all like it for the same reason(s), then. If the games have no alluring stories, then I guess players just like to hunt the monsters. Are there many different types of monsters and do you get certain rewards for each 50 monsters you kill or something?

Plus it's a Capcom game. Capcom games tend to be challenging. So now I'm starting to wonder if the reason why so many people sink tons of hours into those games is because hunting those monsters is hard.

[Leo656]

Not everything is about Story. I appreciate a good one myself but some folks here would be shocked at just how many people - especially younger people but not exclusively - just mash X or A to get through everything and jump right into gameplay. To a lot of people, games are like porn - story only gets in the way of what they actually paid to experience. I personally feel like that's a bit reductive but nevertheless it's how a lot of people roll.

I haven't played any of the Monster Hunter games yet, although I do own one and just haven't gotten to it. I did play some of the Monster Hunter "inspired" levels and bosses in MGS: Peace Walker and that was a ton of fun, albeit very challenging.

[Andrew NDB]

Would you mind asking her why she likes it so much? I suppose fans of the series all like it for the same reason(s), then. If the games have no alluring stories, then I guess players just like to hunt the monsters. Are there many different types of monsters and do you get certain rewards for each 50 monsters you kill or something?

Plus it's a Capcom game. Capcom games tend to be challenging. So now I'm starting to wonder if the reason why so many people sink tons of hours into those games is because hunting those monsters is hard.

Yeah, she seemed perfectly content just getting quests to hunt different giant monsters. First tracking them down then spending maybe an hour killing each of the harder ones.

Hell, maybe there IS a big storyline to be had in the game. If there was, she wasn't doing it.

Then again she spent inordinate hours/days playing Red Dead II just going around hunting animals so maybe that makes sense.

[Prowler]

Yeah, she seemed perfectly content just getting quests to hunt different giant monsters. First tracking them down then spending maybe an hour killing each of the harder ones.

Hell, maybe there IS a big storyline to be had in the game. If there was, she wasn't doing it.

Then again she spent inordinate hours/days playing Red Dead II just going around hunting animals so maybe that makes sense.

I know you have Zelda BOTW since I've seen you discuss it here before. Let me guess, she also spends a lot of time hunting deer, wolves and birds in it? :P

[Prowler]

A new game has joined my list: Football Manager 2023 with 390 hours played.

FM24 is out already but I haven't gotten it yet. Maybe I will for Christmas if it gets a decent discount on Steam. I'm still into my FM23 save and having fun with the game. So I'm sure I will reach 400 hours before 2024.

[Icebot]

Splatoon 3: about 560 hours, and to think the game wasn’t even out the last time someone posted on this until it was recently bumped!

I also have 100 hours of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

[Andrew NDB]

I know you have Zelda BOTW since I've seen you discuss it here before. Let me guess, she also spends a lot of time hunting deer, wolves and birds in it? :P

She doesn't play Nintendo at all. But she's seen me play that and thinks it looks "silly" by comparison (to RDR2).

[Prowler]

Splatoon 3: about 560 hours, and to think the game wasn’t even out the last time someone posted on this until it was recently bumped!

I also have 100 hours of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

I haven't played any of the Splatoon games but damn, are they that addicting or something?

I played TOTK for about a couple of hours at best earlier this year. Will eventually get back into it but not in a rush. It's pretty much BOTW2.

[Andrew NDB]

I played TOTK for about a couple of hours at best earlier this year. Will eventually get back into it but not in a rush. It's pretty much BOTW2.

My Zelda run-through has gotten a little side-tracked. See, I was playing the Wii version of Skyward Sword -- canonically, the FIRST Zelda in the timeline -- about a year ago and got pretty far... then Nintendo dropped the Switch HD version of it. So I stopped what I was doing and went back to the beginning and started playing that version of it. Then TOTK dropped and a dabbled in that a little bit, but I think I want to go back and finish the Switch version of Skyward Sword first, then work my way forward in the timeline until I hit Breath of the Wild again (which is another story in itself... my friend and I would take turns playing it while in each other's company, but I let him borrow it for a few days and he beat large chunks of the story including Zora's kingdom so I just sort of lost interest at that point), then TOTK.

To me, TOTK just seems less BOTW 2 and more like a massive, massive DLC for BOTW.

[Icebot]

I haven't played any of the Splatoon games but damn, are they that addicting or something?

Kind of. Before Splatoon 3 came out, I played about 1,000 hours of Splatoon 2. The Splatoon games have several multiplayer modes and they’re so much fun to me. Splatoon 3 feels like an expanded Splatoon 2. I haven’t played much of Splatoon 1 but I do have the game.

[Prowler]

Kind of. Before Splatoon 3 came out, I played about 1,000 hours of Splatoon 2. The Splatoon games have several multiplayer modes and they’re so much fun to me. Splatoon 3 feels like an expanded Splatoon 2. I haven’t played much of Splatoon 1 but I do have the game.

I never saw the appeal of Splatoon tbh. I'm sure they're fun games and all but can't say I'm too interested. There's plenty of other games out there I'd rather play instead.

[KROW]

I've spent hundreds of hours on Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Clubhouse Games. Probably the same amount on all the WWE games from the N64 onwards. Pretty much anything with a create-a-character feature soaks up way too much of my time.

[Prowler]

I've spent hundreds of hours on Fallout 4, Skyrim, and Clubhouse Games. Probably the same amount on all the WWE games from the N64 onwards. Pretty much anything with a create-a-character feature soaks up way too much of my time.

I usually never used the CAW mode much because back then you had to go to one of those websites where people would show off their caws, write ALL down and then create the whole thing from scratch which took way too long. I'd just make a CAW of myself and maybe a couple of others if I was in the mood for it and that's it. I never felt I was any good at making CAWs and never had the patience to learn it either lol

The best part of the modern WWE games is you can just go to the Creations menu and instantly download CAWs made and uploaded by others onto the online servers.

[KROW]

I usually never used the CAW mode much because back then you had to go to one of those websites where people would show off their caws, write ALL down and then create the whole thing from scratch which took way too long. I'd just make a CAW of myself and maybe a couple of others if I was in the mood for it and that's it. I never felt I was any good at making CAWs and never had the patience to learn it either lol

The best part of the modern WWE games is you can just go to the Creations menu and instantly download CAWs made and uploaded by others onto the online servers.

I remember doing that, but only if I wanted real-life accurate and actual wrestlers. I used to watch video tutorials and was amazed on how some people would get the detail down so well. Wrinkles, blemishes, facial structure; very meticulous. The only problem was having to download a template for the ring attire. Unable to do that, I would just attempt at using what the games gave me. Those videos actually taught me how to make more realistic faces and enhanced my creative drive. Even when making an original character, I would utilize those techniques to make someone that resembled a real person instead of a plastic action figure.

I haven't played a WWE game in almost 10 years but I want to just to see how advanced the CAW mode has gotten.

[Prowler]

I remember doing that, but only if I wanted real-life accurate and actual wrestlers. I used to watch video tutorials and was amazed on how some people would get the detail down so well. Wrinkles, blemishes, facial structure; very meticulous. The only problem was having to download a template for the ring attire. Unable to do that, I would just attempt at using what the games gave me. Those videos actually taught me how to make more realistic faces and enhanced my creative drive. Even when making an original character, I would utilize those techniques to make someone that resembled a real person instead of a plastic action figure.

I haven't played a WWE game in almost 10 years but I want to just to see how advanced the CAW mode has gotten.

Well, I'm even worse than you. WWE 2k23 was the first WWE game I bought since... SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. :lol:

[Prowler]

A new game has joined my list: Football Manager 2023 with 390 hours played.

FM24 is out already but I haven't gotten it yet. Maybe I will for Christmas if it gets a decent discount on Steam. I'm still into my FM23 save and having fun with the game. So I'm sure I will reach 400 hours before 2024.

And since Sports Interactive skipped FM25 and I didn't get FM26 yet due to all the bad reviews it's been getting so far, I still am playing FM24 which came out 2 years ago already. I got it for Christmas in 2023 iirc, as I said in the post of mine I quoted above.

How much time? 924 hours in total. Welp, that's like 400 hours more than I expected. I know it's the game I've been playing the most BY FAR within the last couple of years and I had many weekends where I'd basically eat, shower, play FM and sleep. Not to mention holidays. I didn't travel this summer, so I pretty much spent a whole month playing FM from 6 to 10 hours a day or so... so I guess it does add up, after all :lol:

Keep in mind most of FM is clicking through spreadsheets bassically where you look at players stats, transfers, league tables and read e-mails and the news. The actual football matches don't take that long to play. ;)

[Kold Pizza]

Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Melee, Brawl, the original Super Smash Bros, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Leaf Green, Pokemon Sapphire, Pokemon Pearl, Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, TMNT: The Arcade Game, Turtles in Time, Final Fantasy IX, and The Sims 2.