This thread is about those games which have defined your love of gaming, (and probably many like-minded people too) and you want to share the love. There are many gems out there which get missed, bypassed by bigger releases, ignored by the masses. I'll set the tape to "Play" by suggesting: 1. Elite - BBC then ZX Speccy. 2. G-Police on PS1 3. Divinity Original Sin 2 - PC What are your defining moments in gaming?
AHH the days of Elite on the speccy! How I wasted my childhood on the game, saying that Elite Dangerous is wasting my midlife now! Other speccy gems: Southern Belle School Daze
Yay, Skool Daze was bloody frustrating lol. Never finished it! I am triggered by the wrong ballast colour in Victoria Station on Southern Belle though...
Any RPG that has a solid story and world to explore and get lost in, titles like Skyrim, in fact any Elder Scrolls game, Dragon Age, Dragons Dogma, The Witcher series to name some and then racing and simulation games, have over 1000 hours in all of them lol
EVE Online but it takes a good group to make something out of it. Also DCS World but I'm not sure if I'm up to 300 hours yet. I mean I have to be. Then there are less significant games like Kerbal Space Program and various Tomb Raider games.
Path of Exile, currently sitting on 1536 hours And Gothic 1, 2, 3, I've loved that franchise ever since discovering it in 2002.
I have just stopped dipping back into EVE, the daily rewards and free skill points CCP throws around makes it seem like they are desperate for players to stay. The new Triglavian area isn't so fun either. DCS really calls to me, I'll need a beefier rig to do it justice though!!
I've sunk well over 1000 hours into GTA Online across previous gen systems (since release) and still pop back into it when something decent is on double money and RP. In my younger years I probably spent many hours playing the Gran Turismo series of games as that was what interested me the most. I probably put most hours into GT1 and 2 though. My first gaming system was an Amiga 600 and my favourite game was Lotus Turbo Challenge 2. I spent years trying to get on the scoreboard. I still return to it sometimes when I'm bored of modern games and systems. On Sega MegaDrive, my most played game was Micro Machines Turbo Tournament 2. It was so much fun racing those tiny cars across pool tables, sinks etc.
From what I can remember I have around 310 hours in World of Tanks & about 350 hours in World of Warships Although this was before I started really getting into TSW.
A long list of games I've played a lot: RuneScape (Old School) Fallout Fallout 2 Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Age of Empires II Age of Empires III Civilization V Civilization VI Theme Hospital Theme Park Inc Planet Zoo Crusader Kings II Cities: Skylines Championship Manager 03/04 Football Manager 2019 Motorsport Manager Out of the Park Baseball 16 Space Invaders Wario Land 3 Mario Kart Pokemon Red Pokemon Gold Pokemon FireRed Pokemon Sapphire Pokemon HeartGold Pokemon Diamond Pokemon Black Pokemon X Pokemon Sun Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee Pokemon Sword Pokemon Go Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Black Ops Call of Duty: Warzone The Sims 2 Microsoft Flight Simulator World of Subways 3: London Underground Densha De Go Hashirou Yamanote Sen Train Simulator 20xx Train Sim World FIFA 2002 (and various others) Madden (09 in particular) NHL (various) MLB the show 16
Football Manager series ETS2/ATS TSW (Combined) NASCAR series (including Heat) FIFA series F1 series in 90s and 00s GTA IV & V LSPDFR
Ones I know for sure that I've invested way too much of my life on: Elite and all the sequels through to Elite Dangerous, because space...the final frontier. (C64 - PS4) B17 Flying Fortress, because Memphis Belle. (Amiga) CFS2 Pacific Theatre, because Tora! Tora! Tora! (Some long since forgotten PC that had 'Intel Inside') Various editions of Silent Service and Silent Hunter (because I'm a sneaky b*****d. (C64 - Various laptops) World of Warships: Legends, because I hate having money (PS4) World of Tanks, because a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on 3 Tigers. (Xbox & PS4) Various editions of Forza, because sometimes you just need to hoon it at speed (Xboxes) DefCon, because if I can't rule the world, I'll sure as hell take it down with me. (Laptop) Some train simulator world thing that probably no one here has heard of, because I like to leave the throttles wide open an mutter to myself about getting some little, bitty spot of dirt that shiny clean. (PS4)
300 hrs or more? Gran Turismo (1 up to 5, dropped it since then) ETS2 ATS Farming simulator 15/17/19 Rock Band 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 TSW (1/2020/2) GTA5 / online Car Mechanic Simulator 2016 / 18 Perhaps Lego games (Star Wars / Harry Potter / LOTR) Ratchet and Clank franchise
The Diablo 2 remake looks amazing, new gfx without blowing the whole feel of the game. Diablo 2 is another for my long play list! I had a look at Path of Exile, is it actually free??
Return to Castle Wolfenstein Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Both fantastic FPS games from the early to mid 2000s. Many games of that age have been consigned to history, but the multiplayer side of these two is still going.
I miss the days of the Intercity Swallow livery. My dad used to take me trainspotting as a kid, and that livery was just being phased out after privatisation. Trainspotting was definitely more interesting when every train passing through had a different loco. Plenty of class 47s and 43s around in the mid 90s making a great racket
For old games Journey's End and Turbo Esprit on the Speccy Mercenary 3 The Dion Crisis on the Atari ST. Looking at Steam. I have player around 300 hours on TSxxx/TSW and only just a little more hours on Skyrim (6,195).
I played R6:Siege competitively which resulted in 4k hours before I came bored of it. Division 1 (one of my all time favourite games) 3800 hours. Division 2 1200 hours. BF3 & 4 combined 6k hours. WarThunder 2k hours. Those are my biggest numbers, but i'm sure there are many more that I have over 300 hours on, these days I don't play too much, I probably put in around 12 hours a week in TSW 2, sometimes more, sometimes non.
You can almost feel the heat coming from the firebox though...or was that the heat from the Spectrum?
My time in Eve Online was measured in years rather than hours (rage quit forever for the 5th time..) as can be said by others in regards to Elder Scrolls, WoWarships and WoWarcraft, R6 etc. It's interesting that we seem to have a fave game/franchise in which we invest deeply, and the rest not as much?! My daughter got a ZX Speccy emulator on her Macbook and is trying to do what I never could, complete Lords of Midnight, Skool Daze and get to Brighton without melting her keyboard literally!
There is a PS2 game that sometimes i have lucid dreams about but have never been able to find out what it's called... Or at least, i think it's a PS2 game?
When Quake was remastered for modern consoles, I spent more than a weeks worth of time on there. Mass Effect trilogy, I’ve spent 3 weeks worth of playtime on there. Took me forever to 100% it.
Lessee, besides TSW2, I've definitely gone over 300 hours on Dark Souls 2, Tales of Vesperia, the Trails of Cold Steel series, and Fallout 3. Possibly Borderlands 2 as well.
I'll get in on this. The Halo series. Everything from Reach (I am talking cannon order) to Halo 3 was where I was at most of high school. The last few games have been a let down though. But I have spent countless hours playing Halo, and even building some Halo cosplay. (where are my Hell Jumpers?) But then I got into sim with Trainz, and eventually Run8. Now most nights I'm playing Flight sim or DCS or Elite.
Game of Thrones Winter is Coming - sadly! Thousands of hours but no real money. I live f2p but p2w games and seeing how far I can get for free. Realm Grinder - an amazing idle game
Microsoft Flight Sim 2020, the most realistic and relaxing game I have ever played, but do you class it as a game or a sim?.
The games I spent a lot of time are: GTA V: 4339 hours ( I don’t know about the PS3 version ) TSW2: 3532 hours Gran Turismo 7: 700 hours I play many other games too but I have a preference for these above. I think at Christmas I’ll spend a lot of times playing Hogwarts Legacy
Adding up the PS5 + PS4 versions together I have spent 1,000+ hours on TSW2. Kinda wish I could get paid for doing so lol
I'm not sure how many hours I've spent on them but over the years my most played games were probably : Revs (Commodore 64) - Spent Weeks trying to shave off tenths of a second around Silverstone. Chuckie Egg (Commodore 64) - My mother got addicted to this and therefore there was a lot of family competition. Gran Turismo (Playstation 1) - Still play this occasionally today just to reminisce about when GT was a good franchise. Forza Horizon 4 (XBOX) - Took me ages to get into this but then started trying to complete all the weekly challenges and soon racked up quite a few hours. Can't get into 5 so much but still have quite a few hours into it. I definitely have over 300 hours in both TSC and TSW2 with TSW2 for certain being my most played game ever. EDIT : I forgot Chaos Engine (Amiga) - Just bought an A500 mini so I can try it again.
On steam, (bear in mind I only started using steam around 4 years ago or so) I've only got three games over 300 hours: War Thunder: 1,018 Hours Hearts of Iron IV: 553 Hours Civilization VI: 308 Hours TSW2 is my 6th most played on steam at 154 Hours, though I have 68 in TSW which is 11th. TSC is 29th at only 23 hours, I just don't really get on with it. In terms of games beyond or that I've played on multiple platforms (ignoring Xbox 360 numbers as that wasn't tracked): Halo MCC, Xbox 247 Hours, Steam 47. I'm not sure if Xbox tracks my steam hours in there but if you add the playtime of all the games included in MCC in their original form I think that would be at least doubled Forza Horizon: 2 145 Hours, 3 128 Hours, 4 265, 5 103 Forza Motosport: 5 380 Hours, 6 269 Hours, 7 140 Hours (this surprises me, 5 was by far my least favourite Forza title ever, but I guess I had fewer games to play back then) Skyrim: 184 Xbox One, 208 Steam plus of course the however many on 360 which probably exceeded that of either Project CARS: 1 Xbox 436 PC 17, 2 Xbox 134 PC 151, 3 PC 53 I think those are all the big ones really for me
Currently for me.. Tower 3D Pro 2,703 hrs Pringles Train Game (TSW2) 168hrs TSW 411hrs TS Classic 1,778hrs
The two that immediately spring to mind are Forza Horizon 3 and Zelda Breath of the Wild. Horizon 4 and Forza 6 may be up there too.
The only game where I've gotten over 300 hours is tsw2, currently at 544 hours. There's always something to do and lots to do when I get bored
The last one to pass the 300 hour mark is Cyberpunk 2077, Farming Sim 22 isn't far off the mark either.
The most played game surprisingly enough is the train Sim World Series. To be honest I didn't even think that was going to happen but it did with over 2929 hours. I also find myself loving another game called Earth Defense Force five for which you would think is for kids but no this is a very insanely addictive game for everyone. And I have about 1100 hours in that game LOL
Cyberpunk 2077 looked intriguing, but the disastrous release condition kept me away from it. If you've put over 300 hours on it, does that mean that the recent patches have made it acceptably playable?
I played it from launch without any serious problems. The amount of software wonkiness didn't detract from what I found to be a lot of fun, but your mileage (and taste) may vary. I'm a big cyberpunk fan and don't tend to play RPGs as I find them restrictive. CP had me feeling like a freakin techno ninja which is exactly what I wanted. It's a not-quite-as-technically-adept Grand Theft Auto set in a cyberpunk future, and was my favourite game of 2020.
CP 2077 is closer to my 'pen & paper' vision of dystopian future presented in the 2020 ancestor than I expected if I forgot about how not 'blue' enough it is. Great game(s).