Games I've spent and/or wasted away more than one hundred hours in.
Won't be adding stuff I don't have on record, such as memory card or (non-idled) Xfire or Raptr from (2006 and forward) even though this list is probably much bigger in reality. WARNING: MAY CONTAIN EMOTIONAL RANTS. Deal with it.
At close to 2000 (yes, thousand) hours (1980 to be exact), this behemoth of a game is the one I've sunk the most time into. I've been a froob, been a subscriber, socialized, had one character of each profession, and yet I've never had a max level character.
Goes to show that I'm "journey-focused" as opposed to "goal focused" when it comes to RPG's. I mean, what's the point in reaching "max level" without knowing how to play your character or the lore of the world or /dancing?
Mostly due to the Zombie Mod. While most people held out and camped, I was part of a mini-clan (2 at first but later 4) of zombie hunters. We used TMP's and absolutely destroyed zombs. Few games have had such an interesting "skill roof" where you can really team with your friends, pop in front of them and keep zombies back, fall back and reload while the other keeps them back... Really satisfying.
VANILLA. You heard me right. Vanilla, and well, also some mods later on. Fantastic game, so much content.
The second MMO I've paid for and one I had a lot of fun in until I realized I was doing the same thing over and over. Not a whole lot of content here.
Fantastic at first but they lost me with the updates. WARNING: RANT INCOMING. I used to play medic exclusively for a while. I bought this game, and I'm not happy with having to spend money on "tickets" so that I can get loot. Pointless game now a days - sorry valve. I've no interest in "Free 2 Pay" games where I wait 50 minutes in "line" to get into a game only to find that the server "is using another version of the game" so I have to wait in line again.
Yeah, so I really liked NGE. I played a Twi'lek entertainer, and this is the only MMO where I've reached max level and still bothered to continue playing.
I own both the EU and US versions of this game. You do the math! I've done pretty much everything you can do in the game (and expansion) and I didn't use walkthroughs to do it.
Mostly thanks to the expansions. What a wonderful experience. I played this with Spotify in the background playing really epic (medival) movie themes and such. Very fond of this game.
By sheer volume of the game. I played through once with a regular character, and a second time with an imported character from Baldur's Gate. What a power fantasy! Most quests seem focused around the main city which makes it feel very alive. Great stuff.
Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Oh god what am I doing click, click, click, click, click. Over the course of many maaaaaaaaany months a small "10 minutes here and there" adds up to an absolutely ridiculous amount of time.
Vanilla did me just fine in breaking the 100 mark. Not much to say - an epic game but I'm kind of sad I used fast travel as much as I did... Feels like I missed out.
I did all the quests except for one. Really liked it, and you can say whatever you want about that, but there's something satisfying about fishing your own fish, chopping wood down and making a fire, cooking the fish on the fire, run into a dungeon where you can fight monsters, healing yourself with the fish you cooked, in order to both level and mine, only to take the ores and smith them into new & better armor and weapons.
I've never felt so self-sufficient in an MMO before and that's something I really liked about this one. It felt like I was playing a single-settler Settler game, if that makes any sense at all.
Most of my time got sunk into the expansion, and I obviously played some multiplayer as well.
Over 100 hours and my highest is currently a level 40 Tauren Warrior. I play on an RP server and like I said on the Anarchy Online entry above, I'm journey-focused, not goal focused so I could /care less about how many level 85/90/1billions's you have or what epic epeen equipment you have. I take my time, explore, ACTUALLY READ THE QUEST TEXT OMG, and generally just solo because of it. Even on an RP server, I've seen like 1 other person not rush through content which I just don't see the point in. Everyone I knew who played it stopped playing but I still get some enjoyment out of it.
I think my first game of Civ took over a week to finish. I played on the time setting which would be the longest. After that I've been playing around with it, trying different civs.
I think I quit after the 1.13(?) patch when I died after having bought a ton of equipment upgrades, couldn't keep playing because I ran out of money to repair my stuff. I got offered free gold in-game by friends but I declined... That's not how the game should be. I shouldn't have to go back to earlier difficulties in order to make enough gold to repair my shit. And I shouldn't have to rely on others or opening my wallet in order to play it. No thanks Blizz. Had fun, but the final difficulty is something I won't be going through.
Multiple playthroughs, done so much in this game... And yet, I've never played a tech character.
My favorite game of all time. Multiple playthroughs (with new game+).
My first Final Fantasy game and the one that got me into FF. Did all optional hunts and espers.
