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My big ones have been, in sequential order:

Red Alert (the first one)
Total Annihilation
Fallout 1/2
Supreme Commander

I don't even want to know how much time I've put into those games. I have over 2000 hours logged into WoW and I only played it for about a year - that means I spent roughly a quarter of that year connected to the server (although I probably wasn't playing all that time).

I know that I've spent more time on the individual games in the list above than WoW, although over a greater span of time. The Baldurs Gate series is another huge one for me but it's over a few games and blurs into the amount of D&D I've played in other forms.

I've got three heavy playthroughs of FFX under my belt which is my heaviest out of the series (my Tactics disk was stolen, which was possibly a mercy), but the disturbing thing is that I've probably spent as much time grinding the Blitzball minigame as I did playing the actual game.

I bought Neverwinter Nights 2 about a week ago... I almost felt nauseous as soon as I started playing and deleted it immediately. Sometimes you just have to man up and flush the drugs!

At the moment it's still Supreme Commander (in combo with TA, Chris Taylor basically owns most of my playtime, to answer the thread question) but I'm hopping between Bad Company 2 and the Total War series a bit too.

I have a very busy social and working life, and have had a lot of vastly different professions in my short time on this dirtball... so I really don't know how I've managed to keep it all up!

Mine would probably be Pokemon Pearl, 168 hours logged at the moment.

On the other hand I've played through Ratchet & Clank over 50 times, and that's probably up there around 150 hours.
It's got to the point on that game that the only thing that slows me down in the game are the loading screens.

No way to know for certain, but I'd have to say either Oblivion or Hell Gate London... which I still play all the time, it's just a great stress reliever.

Most of my time would have to be devoted to the Command and Conquer series. Red Alert 3 on the PS3 is probably the latest one I played and I enjoyed it, but most of my time is actually in shooters. Black Ops to be specific, but that's because my friends and I really enjoy doing some nasty things to some nasty people.

Mass effect 2 greatest game ive ever played so far.

Honestly, I think it's still Halo 2 for me.

Why? Because I had a roommate back then, and we'd play it several hours each day when we both got home from work.

WoW, takes the cake for me..couldnt tell you how much. Started playing the week it came out, played constantly in raiding guild without any breaks in subscription until just before WOLK came out (took 2 months off) then played again until just before Cataclysm came out and just canceled subscription again. Basically we are talking about 5 years of subsription time with maybe 6 months off total??? jesus..i think i hate myself now.

Other than that, non RPG would be Ninja Gaidens debut on the xbox. That was one damn hard game and I spent hours a night for months and months on end, beating it, increasing the difficulty and replaying the game to get all the scarabs...one of the best games ever imo.

I was going to say 'bajillion' on WoW... but aside from that...

80+ hours on Final Fantasy 7... was trying to go for level 99.
My GF at the time got annoyed and told me just to finish it already.

There might be other games where I've played longer (Metal Gear Solid 1-3, Final Fantasy 8, and GTA:VC come to mind)... but Final Fantasy 7 is the only one I can recall where I paid attention to the hours played.

I've got almost... 9000 hours across all the main Pokemon games for handheld. If you count all the pokemon games, it's probably approaching 15,000 hours.

A disgusting amount of time on Final Fantasy games, i've completed all of the nn mmo's at least once and done FF7 8 times. In fact i'm not getting my memory cards out to look I think I would cry

Other than that MGS as a series is another one, multiple playthroughs are required just to get all the fun toys!

WoW, my main has 92days played, and after a quick alt check my total days played is around 204 days.

Thats not as bad as it seems, as most of the time I play WoW I'm not playing anything else, so it's just my normal playtime for the past five years.

Wolfun wrote:I've got almost... 9000 hours across all the main Pokemon games for handheld. If you count all the pokemon games, it's probably approaching 15,000 hours.

That is the worst one on the thread so far
Thats absolutely disgusting

Fallout 3 BY FAR. Over 195 hours of gameplay, and I still play it every once in a while. All of these hours on the same character too.


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I'm getting up there with Oblivion too.

not sure exactly but every night since last christmas for 3 hours at least on halo reach...

and thats justb the forge mode, i go on matchmakking for an extra 2 hours after that!

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:

Wolfun wrote:I've got almost... 9000 hours across all the main Pokemon games for handheld. If you count all the pokemon games, it's probably approaching 15,000 hours.

That is the worst one on the thread so far
Thats absolutely disgusting

>w>

Well, I was told I had to catch'em all, so I did!

Many, many times...

San Andreas Without a Doubt, i was still playng it in 2007. Never got that close to 100% completion (~85 iirc) but that wasnt really the goal of my hideously long play time.....

Medieval 2 Total War. I've logged over 350 hours since I started playing it through Steam, so I guess around three times that. About 1000hrs sounds right. Man, that's chilling.

No where near as much, but second place goes to Left 4 Dead 2. It's mine and my friends go-to game for co-op. Last time I checked I had about 200hrs, but that was a while back.

Way too much time on WoW back in the day.
Honourable mentions go to Morrowind, Operation Flashpoint (the original) and Mariokart (all versions).

Pokemon Gold version... Hundreds and hundreds of hours

I just relizes that I have put around 250 hours in to New Vegas.

I've probably put a lot of hours into new vegas in total especially considering that i have to put up with constantly freezing at least once every hour as I have it on PS3. I know I'm an idiot, I'm getting a new computer this summer probably then I can go back to the world of mods and extra free stuff for years after release... yay!

Rome: Total War
Neocron
WoW
All together still beaten by the amount of time i spent playing tabletop games.

Hm, lets have a look.

*opens Steam*

DoW II Retribution: 44 hours
DoW II Chaos Rising: 114 hours
DoW II: 134 hours
Fallout New Vegas: only 57 hours
Aliens vs. Predator: 197 hours
Battlefront 2: It doesn't tell me, but it's probably over a thousand hours at least.

I won't even list my other games..

A friend of mine has 2,158 hours logged on Team Fortress 2.

The most I have, according to Steam, is 194 hours of Dragon Age: Origins. Pretty sure I trounced that with FFVII back in the day.

I don't keep track of the hours spent but for me it is split between Saints Row 2 and Fallout 3. In both cases so much to see, so much to do, always something new to discover.

Dablo 1 & 2, waaay too much time on them. I couldn't even tell you the houes spent in Tristem.
Homeworld 1 & 2, again way too much time.
Freelancer has 200+ hours online on it, It gets expencive to buy and maintain a battleship.
The Sims 2, that dam game is like crack to me, once I boot it up thats me gone for hours!
Sim City 4, 5 full large regions and counting.
Mech Commander 2, bought it new and still play it even now, time spent unkonwn but its gotten to the point were i know were every enemy mech is on the map now.
X2 and X3, close to 200+ on 2, 100+ on 3.
Morrowind, thats got to be close too 150 hours plus.
Titan Quest Immortal Throne, just hit the 20 day mark last night.
Dungen Seige 80+ I think.
I-War 2 40+ hours of just blasting any thing thats read.
All of the old Silent Hills, god knows how much time.
The FF games 6 to 12 (not counting 11 as that was online only) probably in all 2 years of my life.

I thought I was bad with Star Wars: Battlefront 2 hours, Champions of Norrath hours, and Borderland hours...but I see that's miniscule compared to some. I'd say they all range to be about:

SW-300 hrs
BL-100 hrs
CoN-400 hrs

Some people have more than that in a single game. Of course, I'm rapidly approaching the rate with the new mortal kombat game-that's been on almost non stop

Now I time myself during gaming periods as some games don't tell you how long you've played. Crysis 2 has been doing quite well considering I've only had it a week.

Brink will be the next big hitter as soon as exams are over though.

Supreme Commander 2. Roughly 470 hours logged (In reality I vey likely have hours in the 500-600's but steam reset my hours awhile back for some odd reason)

I'm an old geezer, admittedly. Back when 386DX was all the rage, I used to play "SimCity 2000" constantly, despite the fact that every time I risked the blasted game crashing on me in the least expected moment due to the incompatibility of DOS4/GW extender with the processor. Saving regularly was like a religious obligation to me back then.

Other than that... I had a major problem with my hard drive when I'd been playing "Fallout 2", lost all my saver right before I was supposed to visit the final location of the game. Had do everything all over again. Still, it was no less fun than playing it for the first time.