>be gamer for 25 years
>most played game has 537 hours played
How do you do it? I mean I've always considered myself a loser but a game can very rarely hold my interest for over 200 hours. How can you play a single game for thousands or even more of hours? I mean even casuals can do it nowadays as well.
>self proclaimed lower can barely get 200 hours out of a game
Go be an ironic faggot somewhere else, casual.
fpbp, im flattered to be honest. any other opinions on the subject?
5,279h combined playtime on steam.
22,3h average playtime.
I don't know what that even means.
I have over 2000 hours on Skyrim. This was less because I enjoyed the game and more because there's no other game like it on the market and I was starved for an RPG that wasn't isometric shit
>most played game is 537
that's it? lol
Only game I ever put 1000 hours ,give or take, into was monster hunter
Do you only play games that count your hours?
that is a lot of time you retard
you want to compete with 5000 hours dotatards or something
How is experiencing and enjoying lots of different games not as 'hardcore gamer' as playing just the one game over and over?
It's just a measure of how addicted you can get to something. 2.5K hours in tf2
Yes, and its for cs:go, I've stopped playing it quite awhile ago and I used to be distinguished master guardian at my highest rank.
Well now when I think about it, I bought counter strike source in 2005 and played it quite a bit back then. Steam now shows I've played it 320 hours but because steam started counting play hours not until 2009 the actual playtime could actually be around 600. I'm not sure but I guess thats not a lot either comparatively.
Serious answer, you just have to find the game that makes you keep coming back. For me, that's Terraria. It is probably different for you, so you just have to play games till you find the one you absolutely adore.
I've not been able to play games for a while just for the fun of being good at them or on their own merits. I almost always require there be some sort of progression system, or achievements to go for. Otherwise I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything.
I realize its artificial, but I do enjoy it at least.
>How is experiencing and enjoying lots of different games not as 'hardcore gamer' as playing just the one game over and over?
the casuals think that these things are mutually exclusive to each other.
I couldn't count how many hours I spent playing day of defeat and natural selection because there was no counter or I didn't have xfire running to count it because xfire was pointless but I'm sure I spent 1000+ on both
Me too
I don't play online games
Most I have in a game is probably like 200 hours? Average about 80 hours.
I played terraria for 127 hours. It was fun for awhile but I lost interest at some point, especially when I activated hard mode without knowing the consequences. I had put a lot of work on my world and hard mode basically ruined the fun.
I have about 1500hrs in KSP.
WoW and CSGO are the only games I've spent around 2k hours each on. CSGO because that's pretty much all my friends play and WoW because I'm a whore.
Sell me on this game, I bought it cheaply from a sale and havent touched it yet.
I think I had around 2,000 hours in Counterstrike 1.5 and 1.6
Closest to that is Payday 2 with around 500 hours
>I bought it
that should be reason enough
>sell me on a game I already bought
are you a bad enough dude to land on the Mun?
What I basically meant was asking is how hard
is it to get into it and does it get better as it goes on since he has played it 1500 hours. I think I might try it, build my first shitrocket and crash it immediately and quit forever. So sell me on why not give up on this game.
Habit and accessibility. No game actually stays fun for thousands of hours, but some games manage to hit that sweet spot where you can just boot up and turn off your brain for a few hours every day, even on days you're not feeling particularly motivated to do anything that requires effort. Also helps if the game rewards you for playing daily, or if you can play it with your friends, who will pressure you to keep playing.
>No game actually stays fun for thousands of hours
t. casual and/or MP-only fag
Ive spent about 2k hours in a few games
Leage of legends
World of warcraft
Starcraft 2
Counterstrike GO
no singleplayer game is fun for thousands of hours unless you're fucking autistic
Does anyone else play this game this much?
Also halo 2 and diablo 2
bet PUBG is in your most recently played games.
Play better games and/or genres. Like Liqqy 2
it isn't but I play it sometimes because I actually have friends to play with, you sad pathetic loser. I didn't even pay for it, it was given to me by a friend.
You must live a miserable life.
There's not a singleplayer-only game worth playing for 1,000 hours, not even the best/biggest variety roguelikes are worth it.
25 years huh, let me ask you something what was it like when half life came out? I'm a big fan of it, but I wouldn't know since it came out a year before I was born
>it isn't but I play it sometimes because I actually have friends to play with, you sad pathetic loser.
lmao ok kiddo
are your fingers so fat you don't know how many times you hit the enter key every time you press it?
Spelunky is you dumbass
was literally going to post this word-for-word
you need to be over 18 to shitpost here
>gamer
The game has a significant learning curve, but there are lots of incremental goals to achieve along the way to keep you feeling accomplished and satisfied.
You'll probably have to watch some youtube videos if you're not already familiar with orbital mechanics, and I'd recommend installing basic mods like Kerbal Engineer Redux.
1999 was 18 years ago
>Mike that old
>Still has hair
Bad edit.
It was a time when gaben could step on a boat without flipping it over.
No it's not. If you haven't mastered it after at max 200 hours you are a worthless human that should leave this planet before you pollute the gene pool further.
I have multiple alts with more /played than that in WoW.
great way to refute that, you friendless gremlin
League gets updated every week
Call me crazy, but when I was younger I must have put way more hours into games on my Commodore 64 playing Wasteland and Ultima IV. I don't play vidya much anymore, I have an xbox one, but never had the real urge to buy games for it, but I have RetroPi going on a Pi3 and play a bunch of old arcade and console games on it.
I have a couple hundred hours on multiple different games. I'd rather have that then 3000 hours on Dota2 or something.
>How do you do it?
Video game players of today are not of the same breed as they were in the 90s. Back then the most typical style of player was the guy who would dabble in many genres here and there, trying to play whatever was considered the best games of the time while also looking at famous of the past -and- also taking time to buy oddball used games from yard sales or pawn shops for a few dollars (or simply rent them). The guys who would give Tiger Woods PGA Tour 99 a fair shake even if they had never played a game of golf in their life. It was always about the search for new experiences, new ways to have fun.
Now games are mostly dominated by genre players, or even single series players. They are not "video game players" as much as they are "players of a video game" that they have chosen as their hobby. Someone who puts in 5000 hours in one game is playing that game like you would play Poker, Chess, or Magic: The Gathering. That particular game is their hobby, not video games as a whole. They may still dabble in a few other games from time to time as Poker and Magic players often do, but their heart is with that one game that they will probably play until they die.
>tfw 15000 hours in wow
>tfw stopped playing 2009
I don't think I'll ever reach this level of autism again
>muh 90s
Write again, but with passion next time.
Problem is there's way too much to choose from these days, so you need something to filter by. Ideally you'd look at reviews, but these days reviews tell you fuckall about whether a game is worth your time. So limiting yourself to certain genres or series of games is one of the few ways you can figure out what's playing among the sea of shit that gets released every year.
I'm 35 and your first paragraph is completely wrong.
I have no idea what millennial shits do now but if you're right I just lost even more respect for everyone under about 30. What a waste of genetics.
Pretty sure I clock over 2000 hours in orginal XCOM (mainstay on my hard drive for >12 years) and easily 5000+ hours in Warcraft 3
Why do you think you need to get thousands of hours out of a game? Some people don't mind doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again.
we call those people autists
I'm actually 32 and you are not 35. There is no one on Sup Forums who is in their 30s who writes in the manner you do, particularly using phrases like "millennial shits".
You ate over a 1000 candies over your lifetme. Why? It's the same ball of sugar every time.
I guess it's mainly multiplayer games that people play for so long.
I myself will often spend 60+ hours on RPGs and even more if said RPG has multiple endings/builds/extra content.
>Why do you think you need to get thousands of hours out of a game?
I don't but if you are so against it or you have never in your life found a game you can pour hundreds of hours into, then you are underage or you don't play enough games.
mah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Literally food analogies.
I'd like to know how much time I logged on Halo 2 multiplayer back in high school. I would basically spend at least 12 hours a day all throughout the summer playing. No life and no friends, just one shot and one kill.
I have thousands into morrowind.
Only games I ever put more than a hundred hours into are MP games, which I stopped playing, Jrpgs and the occasional Crpg and Wrpg the game I've played the most is TF2 with around 600 hours.
I've never found any other games that can hold my interest for more than a hundred hours aside from those
congrats you have ADHD and are a casual.
Cool, can I get amphetamines now
>if you don't autistically play by yourself in a dark room, entirely alone, grinding in some boring game you are an ADHD casual
guarantee you have no actual skill in any game that requires quick thinking or mechanical ability and improvisation
do you work for polygon?
>this
Someone really needs to make a competitor to TES/Fallout. Stuff like TW3 is great, but it doesn't have the same sandboxy gameplay.
The reason why I stopped playing TF2 was because after 600 hours I was not any better than someone with 50. I just suck at anything that requieres mechanical skills so that's why I stick to rpgs.
what you just said makes no sense, feel bad about yourself autismo
you have to catch autism from someone
so what's your basis for having actual skill?
1v1 me
People in the 90s only tried stuff out because there really was a new horizon to experience with the shift from 2D to 3D games and rapidly evolving computer processing power. Not to mention that game companies actually offered demos or CDs to promo their material.
Nowadays, there's almost no demos of newer games and the only real way to experience different genres is by forking out your own money to take a chance on a new game or watch streamers play one to get a feel for it.
'Genre loyal' players are probably more of a result of player trust in a company rather than the genre itself (eg:: "Bethesda makes great RPGs so I know what to expect when buying their future products.")
Some games update periodically so there's often a lot to for players to come back to in terms of replay value (eg: playing a game at release vs. updated years later) This could be another reasoning for the constant switching in the 90's, as most games stayed static--the same as they were on release years on.
in?
I rarely do it. But sometimes a game just clicks with me and then I can't help but play a ton of it.
>This could be another reasoning for the constant switching in the 90's,
This isn't even true anyways. You only constantly switched up what you were playing if you were a console player because there was no online multiplayer. You beat a game, you "wrapped" it a couple of times, and you moved onto the next game that your mom bought you. Unless you were a PC gamer, in which case you downloaded and created WADs for all of your favourite 90's fps endlessly.
I've been playing GoldSRC and source engine games for almost 2 decades.
my ass bby
i would come first.
I got like 700 hours in Overwatch but now I get literally ill at the thought of playing it.
How people lock in 1000+ hours in games is beyond me
I'm 31 and you're a millenial shit
Really Snickers your Milkways huh?
I think maybe I've put 1000 hours all up into Soulsborne, as well as 500+ into Dota and Dwarf Fortess
1000 hours on ONE game is retarded though, fuck that
try not playing a game for babies and sjw's
>'Genre loyal' players are probably more of a result of player trust in a company rather than the genre itself (eg:: "Bethesda makes great RPGs so I know what to expect when buying their future products.")
I was lurking until you began posting. Now we're finally starting to scratch the surface ITT. The only thing being a gamer before 20XX that matters is being able to experience the first great gaming depression since video games became an industry upon their creation.
There are archaic computer games as old as the early 80's, then with the soft cold war the states got into with Japan over technology in the 90's, we experienced a surge of Home Entertainment System hardware, amongst the slew of other multi-media products like cassette tape, vhs, and CD/DVD players.
However, as we approached the year 2005 things started to get weird, the economy never really re-stabilized from the y2k crash, followed by 9/11, and the Patriot Act bundling a bunch of weird foreign and domestic policy together, enforcing trade restrictions that hadn't previously existed, putting a further strain on the technology industry. Products from japan became more expensive to trade in, therefore less and less were on the shelves, as more and more American, or its allies, made product began to fill the void.
The loss of G4/Tech TV was the final nail in the coffin, and the "gamer" culture that existed in the various corners of mall arcades and living rooms across the country reached a definitive stopping point. There were less magazines > less demos. Blockbuster and Hollywood franchises were going out of business after gamefly and then redbox moved in. And ultimately, the switch from universal CD-ROMs to specialized discs and patented cartridges was felt in every corner, at the bottom, the consumer suffered most as they became alienated for a more sure market, the casual family.
>tfw you realize your combined /played is over a physical year of time
>babies
Silver badge detected.
it twixes my mounds
I only have 200 hours in OW but 2.5k in TF2. Comparisons of the games aside, I probably wouldn't have played TF2 as much if it didn't have such a strong sense of community for me to keep coming back to.
OW is okay, but it really does get old unless you have a good group of friends/clan members to have a consistent play schedule with. Most of my friends have moved on from OW to play other games so it's gotten hard to play casually and slog through the same old throw or roll matches.
No, I played at Diamond before getting tired of the game and it's shitty dive mechanics. Ult battles are so fucking boring.
>you spent 34% of 5 years playing WoW
>roughly 625 days doing nothing but playing WoW
Jesus Fucking Christ.
>8 hours a day
>sleep for 8 hours
>work/school for 8 hours
its autistic but it's not that autistic
Laundry, cleaning, cooking, feeding yourself, exercising, hanging out with friends, studying.
A short list of things entirely missed by spending 33% of 5 years playing one game
you could spend 14 hours on the weekends playing, and have an extra 2.8 hours per weekday to do those things
I disagree, at least for me growing up there wasn't always a great selection to choose from and I remember putting tons and tons of hours into duke 3d and doom largely because they were the only games I had that could run on my computer