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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 98.7 hrs on record (Singleplayer - 19.0, Multiplayer - 79.7)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 33.8 hrs on record
I know I played a ton of GMOD back in the day, but that was before they counted time I guess. Wonder if things would have changed much if EVERYTHING was counted.
Rift - 961 hours (to be fair, the game counts as open when ANYTHING from the client is running. Even an error window, which I frequently left running after the game would crash. Same thing happened with the third Penny Arcade game, which is at 24 hours.
Some times on my Steam are incorrect for some reason. For example, TF2 only says 4 hours played when I had like 100+ hours on it way back before most of the updates came out. Same with Half-Life 2 and the expansion for it, which I beat all of, along with Portal. Plus I play a ton of time offline, which used to not count toward your total so I probably have 200 hours of Civ IV that I played on my Mac at the lake last summer after I quit my old job. Anywho, here's my current top 5:
Skyrim :152 hours
Civ V : 45 hours (again, Civ IV trumps this by 5 times but because it was offline mode it doesn't count. I don't actually like Civ V very much)
Dead Island : 38 hours (I loved this game. I basically marathoned it on my days off work.)
Saints Row The Third : 35 hours
S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl : 28 hours.
Honourable mentions: BF2: 4 hours (though if you counted my non-Steam time it would be about 400 hours), Oblivion: 2 hours (counting non-Steam time, like 500 hours), Plants Vs. Zombies: 12 hours (I would rate it closer to 100 but I played in offline mode at uni because the wifi blocks Steam). I actually completely beat the Mac version of GTA: San Andreas but it was in offline mode so it only shows 36 minutes.
My average time is probably 10 minutes because I have over 200 games and have only played about 55 of them, and most for only an hour or two at the most. I imagine I will go down a Sins of a Solar Empire k-hole when I start up that one. I already started the tutorial and can already tell I will really like it.
Starcraft 2 trounces all my Steam stuff combined with a time at probably 500-600 hours easily, since I have over 2000 league games that probably average at 12 minutes each, and that doesn't count my practice games where I iron out strategy against AI or no opponent.
I really wish steam tracked offline play time.....i went through Super Meat Boy twice offline trying to 100 percent it, but the first time i my save got deleted towards the end and i did it all over again. Damn it makes me cringe at all the hours i put into that game.
Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II: 55.1 hours (pretty sure I let this one idle for awhile. Only played through it once and it definitely didn't take 55 hours)
Dragon Age: Origins : 79.0 hrs on record Borderlands : 63.4 hrs on record Mass Effect 2 : 59.3 hrs on record Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II : 50.6 hrs on record Assassin's Creed Brotherhood : 45.5 hrs on record
If only there was a way of seeing how many hours I've put into CS before steam started counting, and even before steam. Man, would probably be well over 1000 hours.
No idea. Steams being a cunt right now and it keeps locking up when I try to go to my page.
EDIT:
Team Fortress 2 - 482.3 hrs
Left 4 Dead 2 - 268.3 hrs
Civilization V - 186.1 hrs
Left 4 Dead - 145.6 hrs
Dragon Age: Origins - 109.4
Dragon Age should really be number one as I put in close to 1000 hours with it, but most of that was with my copy that I bought physically before I got it on Steam. I only bought that a year or so later as it was on sale and came with all the DLC.
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