What Series Have You Spent the Most Time In?

Either Elder Scrolls or X-Universe, I'm not sure which.

The "Souls" series people are referring to I believe is Dark Souls.

fangblackbone wrote:

The "Souls" series people are referring to I believe is Dark Souls.

Wrong.

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I forgot about Destiny. Close to 700 hours or so there.

Demyx wrote:

Super Smash Bros. is a likely contender, given how much I played it in college, and I spent a fair amount of time playing Brawl, Wii U and 3DS as well.

Oh yeah, I probably have close to 1000 hours in Smash Melee alone. So much multiplayer in college.

fangblackbone wrote:

The "Souls" series people are referring to I believe is Dark Souls.

Indeed. Demon's Souls, Dark Souls 1, 2, 3, and Bloodborne.

Warriorpoet897 wrote:

I enjoy games a lot more when I spend more free time doing other things besides gaming.

I'm not sure how this is germane? I guess it's a way of saying "I don't spend a lot of time on any particular series?"

Anyway, for me, it's Final Fantasy. The series has been around for a long time, so I've played a lot of entries, and each entry is going to suck away 100-200 hours. That adds up over the course of a few decades.

beeporama wrote:

Anyway, for me, it's Final Fantasy. The series has been around for a long time, so I've played a lot of entries, and each entry is going to suck away 100-200 hours. That adds up over the course of a few decades.

I would have to agree with that. Mostly because I have played FF7 through a couple times as well as FF10 so just those two push the series over.

I am not sure it is the series I have enjoyed the most but that is a different question.

I figure I probably have about two thousand hours in the various incarnations of Dawn of War 1, running the Dawn of Skirmish AI mod. I loved that game, and played it an hour or two a night for more than a decade. It was hard enough to be challenging without being ridiculously difficult, and it became sort of my 'comfort food' gaming.

Until it went all weird, I had more than nine hundred hours in Team Fortress 2, which might exceed my total for the entire Civilization franchise. (and DoW1 must be way ahead.)

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I think the series I've spent the most time on is Quake - primarily Quake I, followed by Quake III. I ran clans and tournaments for Q1 and participated in them in Q3. I was introduced to Q1 during my 1st quarter of college. Combine lots of free time, being indefinitely unsupervised, and having the future of gaming along with the world wide web at my fingertips....and a four year obsession took hold. Let's not forget the limitless potential of downloadable mods, the ability to create, and the origins of machinima as well!

Closely related to this is another series I've spent huge amounts of time in - Unreal Tournament - primarily 2004, followed by 99. I've easily put in 1000 hours over the years - mostly in bot matches with good friends.

The same good friends have been part of 1000+ hours of Rise of Nations. Technically it's only one game plus its expansion (I never got into Rise of Legends), but if we can agree that spiritually, it's the true sequel to Age of Empires/Age of Kings, then we might be approaching 2000 hours total.

I couldn't tell you exactly how many hours, but I'm guessing Sid Meier's Pirates! (and to a much lesser degree the remake), probably tally around 500 hours. The original was my first obsession.

I was on the Europa Universalis bandwagon long before it was cool. Hundreds of hours were spent in EU 1, 2 and 3 (mostly 2, followed by 1). I admit that I cheated at times, simply because I love taking over the world (in games).

...and take over the "world" I did, numerous times, in Koei's early Historical Simulation series of games, especially Bandit Kings of Ancient China, Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, and Genghis Khan.

Of course there are the RPGs as well. I've seen the credits in Dragon Quest/Warrior 1 (multiple times), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. The same has been done in Final Fantasy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and I have made it more than halfway through 7 and 9. I seem to enjoy Dragon Quest significantly more, but in both cases, I seem to like the older, 2d style games.

PoderOmega wrote:

One that hasn't been mentioned - Castlevania is probably up there thanks to the long run of quality handheld games on GBA and DS plus all the time I spent on the three NES games and SotN on PSX.

I was just going to write....basically the same thing, except add a few hours for the SNES and Genesis iterations as well.

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Is it because you haven't played Skyrim in half a year?

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Without question for me it's GTA. It's such a guilty pleasure. Thanks to backward compatibility I've started another GTAIV run. I have to guess that I've finished it 4 times, and had several other incomplete runs.

So janky. So good.

Somewhere between the Souls series, Half-Life universe if you include CS, portal, and the like, or GTA.

According to Steam, I have 171 hours into The Division. It's funny because I only have 1 character and she isn't even Lvl 30 yet. There's something about walking around NYC in the winter, exploring buildings, & shooting vermin*. I find it very relaxing.

Spoiler:

*Both the 2 and 4 leg versions

But never dogs. That's just mean spirited.

sr_malo wrote:

According to Steam, I have 171 hours into The Division. It's funny because I only have 1 character and she isn't even Lvl 30 yet. There's something about walking around NYC in the winter, exploring buildings, & shooting vermin*. I find it very relaxing.

Spoiler:

*Both the 2 and 4 leg versions

But never dogs. That's just mean spirited.

I shot every dog I saw in The Division, horrifying many of my fellow players. I patiently explained that packs of wild dogs would be a massive threat to public health, as, while they wouldn't be susceptible to any disease themselves, it's likely they would wind up eating things discarded by plague victims or the victims themselves, and pass the virus out through their waste. Also, if they did tear apart dead victims while feeding, that's another vector of contamination.

Everyone still thought I was a bastard, but I still feel I was a bastard with a very logical viewpoint. So there.

Both Diablo and Civilization are thousands of hours for me. Nothing else comes remotely close (unless you count WoW as part of a Warcraft series, then WoW takes the throne all on its own, with a tiny bit of help from the RTS games).
With Diablo the hours are fairly spread out between D2 and D3, at least a thousand hours in each, and a decent amount in D1, while with Civilization is is something like 100-500 hours each in Civ4, 5 and 6, but probably thousands of hours in Civ 2.

Don't think any other series manages to break the 1000 hour mark. Dark Souls, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Final Fantasy, Elders Scroll, Fallout would be the next tier.

try not to think about this, try not think about this, try not to think about this

FAIL.

Pretty sure The Kingdom of Loathing is tops for me. Got into that late in college, continued playing daily for a few years past graduation. And recently started playing again but less regularly. So that's easily the highest without question.

Second would be Final Fantasy, largely due to multiple replays of IV and VI on the SNES in grade/high school, then V, VII, VIII, IX, Tactics in high school/college on the PS1. Some replays of IV, VI on PS1, more replays of IV and V on the GBA/DS. And XIII / XIV / XV / World more recently. Plus Theatrythm.

Third would be Unreal which was my jam in all forms throughout college. Started with Unreal Tournament on the campus LAN, played through Unreal Gold, then Unreal II, then UT2003/2004 on the LAN and Internet once I moved off campus.

Hobear wrote:

Somewhere between the Souls series, Half-Life universe if you include CS, portal, and the like, or GTA.

After reading through everyones comments I see I forgot a couple
Mario
Star Wars all the games over the years, even bad ones.
Zelda

Hobear wrote:
Hobear wrote:

Somewhere between the Souls series, Half-Life universe if you include CS, portal, and the like, or GTA.

After reading through everyones comments I see I forgot a couple
Mario
Star Wars all the games over the years, even bad ones.
Zelda

What's interesting to me about this is that even if you spent 50 hours playing each of the 18 Zelda games (900 hours), there are people here who have put more than 1000 hours into a single game.

Asheron's Call. You don't even have to count the second one, which was honestly quite terrible. I probably sunk 1,000, if not 2,000+ hours into that game. Never before or again have I been so hopelessly in-addicted-love with a game.

series? oof, probably diablo, mostly in diablo 2, so very much diablo 2.

Souls.

Madden.

Halo.

I'm pretty lightweight compared to most of you guys. I started gaming late and tend to wander between games rather than going deep. I do have some series I've spent a good amount of time in though.

Guild Wars
GW1 539
GW2 238
Total 777

Witcher
W1 - 2 playthrough +-50 each
W2 - 2 playthrough +- 35 each
W3 - 137 and counting
Total +- 307

Dragon Age
DA:O +-75 hours (1 playthrough, all origins and awakening)
DA2 45 hours (2 playthrough)
DA:I 104 hours (1 playthrough and started a couple of others)
Total +- 224

Mass Effect
ME1 - 2 playthroughs +- 35 each
ME2 - 3 playthroughs +- 30 each
ME3 - 2 playthroughs +- 35 each
Total +- 200

Good topic!

In terms of single player games, I suspect that it's Grand Theft Auto. I've completed Vice City (PS2), San Andreas (PS2), IV (PS3), V (PS3), and Liberty City Stories (PSP) and Vice City Stories (PSP). Even without Red Dead Redemption, that's the series I've given over most time too. (I'd imagine that Souls Games come a surprisingly distant second, because my overall play time is likely to be lower.)

In terms of multiplayer, I think Call of Duty has eaten up the largest chunk of my time. I only played Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, and Black Ops... but I played them a lot and I played them at a time when I'd happily play almost every evening.

Actually, given that I now play only on weekends (and that my next gaming task is to delve into indie-land), I suspect that my personal records for GTA and CoD will never be broken.

huh I was expecting more mmo damage in here; Everquest series, maybe FF series (due to FFXI mostly), and of course the Warcraft series due to WoW, where some have added up years of total /played.

If you're talking raw Hours With Game On, it's got to be Eve Online for me.

If you're talking about actually playing and not just chatting and mouse-fiddling, then it's probably Final Fantasy.

For me it would definitely be the Souls games. I've easily spent over a hundred hours on DS 1 and DS 2, another forty or so on DS 3, probably close to sixty on Bloodborne, and then another forty to fifty on Scholars of the First Sin.

Probably Asheron's Call, but that was mainly due to the first game since the second wasn't that great and only held my attention for a month or two. For a series where I truly got into two or more of the games... It's gotta be Elder Scrolls.

For individual games, my Top 5 would probably go Asheron's Call, World of Warcraft, Destiny, Star Trek Online, and Creativerse - in that order.

Edit: lol. Didn't realize I had already made a similar comment on this thread several months ago.

Missed this topic earlier this year.

I'm sure I've put more time into Mario titles than anything else. I love me some Mario platformers, but prefer the 2D ones.

My second most played series is Front Office Football. Been playing that series only 7 or 8 years now, but it's always running on my PC. A text based (American) football sim? I'm all over that. (OOTP baseball comes in second for text sims, but I play way more FOF.)

Other than that, I'm honestly not sure.

Great idea for a topic! Let's see...

If we're talking individual games, for me it's Jumpgate. I've likely got 3-5,000 hours over the life of the original game, though sadly nowhere near as much as the resurrected version.

For series, it'd have to be:

  • Starflight - I've finished the original Starflight four times, and the sequel twice. Each of these games are easily 200-300 hours in length to do everything (which if course I have to do.
  • X-Wing - Mostly due to finishing TIE Fighter three or four times over the last few decades. I've only finished X-Wing and Alliance once each. Still need to finish the campaigns in X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter.
  • Wing Commander - Finished each game at least once. Finished Wing Commander IV three times, and Wing Commander II twice. Played so many hours of Privateer I've no idea the tally, but it's a lot.
  • SimCity - If you include SimCopter (which I do because I'd make SimCity 2000 cities just for it) I at least have several hundred hours in this series, mostly in the aforementioned SimCity 2000.
  • Honorable Mentions - This needs to go to the Freespace and Independence War games, of which I've spent a lot of time, but given their relatively young ages, comparatively, nowhere near as much as the above games.

To anyone who knows me, this list should be horribly unsurprising.

With all the games in the series I've played, Final Fantasy is probably pretty high up there. After that would be Assassin's Creed, since I've played every main game in the series now, plus a couple of the spin offs. The Elder Scrolls is somewhere around there too. Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim all have full playthroughs, will multiple partial playthroughs with new characters, mods, etcs.