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February 24th, 2020, 6:14 AM
#1
Which games have sucked up your time?
As the title suggests, tell us which games you think you've wasted the most hours playing. Obviously don't need specific numbers although if you do happen to know then good for you. A few of mine as follows:
1. Championship Manager 01/02 - between 2001 and 2006 (when I next bought a FM game) I'd be amazed if I put in less than 500 hours. Totally addictive, could easily spend an entire weekend playing it. Recently started it up again and have probably done close to 100 hours in the last year alone.
2. Morrowind - Despite clocking up for sure several hundred hours of play, I never even completed the main quest which is ridiculous looking back. I just loved walking around the world getting into scrapes and doing some of the guild questlines. It came out at the perfect time and in fact I remember buying it because I wanted to find an open world LOTR game which didn't exist at the time (and ridiculously still doesn't). It felt like the closest thing and it absolutely was. I loved how weird it was compared to traditional high fantasy with all these bizarre creatures like the Netches, Guars and Clannfears although I was a massive coward when it came to video games back then so I would quite often avoid fights where possible.
3. Skyrim - Unsurprisingly, I also played Skyrim to death, definitely put in around 700-800 hours on this with multiple playthroughs and different styles. Looking back I think Skyrim is massively overrated; an amazing world but pretty shallow stuff in terms of the story, quests and combat. But the big open fantasy world is pretty hard to resist, evidently, and giving someone the old FUS RO DAH off a cliff never seems to get old.
4. Super Smash Bros. Melee - for a couple of years this was basically all I played. I haven't checked in a while but I distinctly remember passing the 1000 hour mark. Helps that I've had it since 2003.
I'm sure that in time Red Dead 2 will join this list, I've already done two full playthroughs and one of them I took incredibly slowly by comparison. Terraria and Fallout 4 I've also put a fair bit of time into, and Super Mario 64 of course.
Ok, go for it!
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February 24th, 2020, 6:32 AM
#2
Champ Manager for sure. Think my first one was 95/96 and think up to 01/02 I just lived on them.
Sensible World of Soccer was another.
Others:-
Street Fighter 2
Streets of Rage
NBA Jam
Super Bomberman
Speed Freaks
Time Splitters
Grand Theft Auto (too many to mention)
Arkam Asylum
Cannon Fodder
Lemmings
General Chaos
Syndicate
Streets of Rage
Tekken (numerous)
Dynasty Warriors (numerous)
Fifa
Pro Evo
Road Rash
Desert Strike
Command and Conquer
Call of Duty
Not many recently though...
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February 24th, 2020, 8:18 AM
#3
Pokemon: Red/Blue/Yellow
The Sims
CM 00/01 and 01/02
Pro Ev - all of them from the first one through to 2010.
Extreme Warfare: Revenge
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Skyrim
Fallout 4
GTA V: Online
I played the utter shit out of many, many other games like the Zeldas, Marios, Sonics etc but the above games I would play for 6 hours easily and wouldn't notice.
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February 24th, 2020, 9:46 AM
#4
I forgot about the Sims. Very, very addictive. Sim City too, I even had that on the Amstrad. Theme Park is another. I have never played Theme Hospital, is it good anyone?
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February 24th, 2020, 9:49 AM
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