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I was looking at my playtime for some games and realized I have over 450 hours in PlanetSide 2.

I've been wanting to find a new game to sink some hours into so I'm curious what Lemmy plays the most.

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[–] Kolossos@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago
[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 45 minutes ago)

Deep Rock Galactic with about 1000 hrs.

Best Co-Op game I've ever played with a marvellous community and its own subculture. It has been my absolute favourite game for a couple of years.

Stopped playing though when they introduced the "flappy boots" minigame. I know it's optional and there are mods to get rid of it, but somehow this has killed the entire game for me. Silly, but can't help the feeling.

In German I would say "die Luft ist raus" about this. Literally translated: "the air is out" and describes situations where something totally lost its appeal and is now just "meh", although it was (very) appealing before.

If you haven't played it before and like co-op shooters: give it a try. You probably won't regret it.

[–] CaJoasca_Baloon@lemm.ee 1 points 55 minutes ago

Well, I'll say the usual, CS2, TF2, and L4D2.. with a combined total playtime this year of 60 hours.. (most on TF2)

Because.. I've been playing this game.. called Wuthering Waves., it doesn't have any hours, only days, but if I had to guess.. around 1200 hours. It's a gacha game. Like Genshin Impact so... yeah, I'm a F2P though, and I've been enjoying it (with a few exceptions)

Aside from that, Honkai Star Rail is second.. with probably around the same hours.. another gacha game. Then Zenless Zone Zero, as another commenter mentioned. Another gacha game.

In my phone, I guess I play Clash of Clans and Pokemon Go occasionally.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's was World of Warcraft before I quit.

What other games had in hours, that had in days. Probably around 500 days, mostly standing around waiting for others.

Now I play FFXIV instead.

Much healthier...

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A nontrivial amount of my gaming time was reset by steam around 2010.... IDK why, but there are games on my steam account that I know I've sunk over 100 hours into that show zero hours.

Right now, one of my highest is satisfactory, sitting around 1500+ hours.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I used to play 1.6 and source. Then my family and job life had me quit playing for a few years. When I came back it said 1.6 hours for both. Cannot say when it happened though.

Never got into GO, but I was probably just too old to compete at that point.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 25 minutes ago

Yeah, I have a ton of time into HL/HL2/CS:GO/Audiosurf/PvZ

Pretty much all of that was lost.

I did a quick Google search and according to some commenters on websites, the great reset was around 2010.

I've been on steam since the early days, I think I installed it around the time that blue shift came out? I forget. But back then, if you had any HL2 title, and you put that into steam, you would get what is now known as "the orange box" (more or less). So, yeah, I got a bunch of valve games basically free and I've only expanded that collection.

Recently I've tapered my spending on games because life/work/family doesn't allow me a lot of time to play. Which is probably why I like satisfactory so much. If I get an hour, I can build my factory, save it half complete and go back and continue building later.

The biggest thing that I feel like SF has going for it, is that they give you all the tools, tell you the objectives and let you figure everything else out. You have 100% control over how you accomplish the task at hand. You can save/quit anytime you would like, and there's no demands to get things done in a particular timeframe.

You can save halfway through a build, and you'll come right back to where you left off. Most games now-a-days are match based, once you're in a match, you feel obligated to finish the match, and there's seasons or limited time objectives that you must play a minimum amount in order to even have a chance of getting... There's just so much pressure, micro-transactions, and effort required.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

just pasted a screen snip so hopefully that worked. Not pictured: League of Legends which CS:GO only wishes it could be, Runescape (either of them) which is counted in months and Minecraft if it counted my hours would be 5 figures at least.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

I've got over a thousand in Space Engineers, although some of that is from leaving it on overnight to refine materials. Or possibly exiting the game, but forgetting to actually leave the main menu. Does Steam track time when the computer is asleep?

But I've likely got close to ten times that number in Dwarf Fortress. I've been playing it off and on for close to a decade and a half now, and when I get into it whole days can just fly by.

[–] Disco_Dougie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

For the longest time, I could never understand how anyone could put more than like 100 hours into a game. The most I've ever gotten is 200ish, but that was from years of drunk Rocket League with friends.

Then, in the same week, I got an adderall prescription and discovered Noita. I'm sitting at around 500 hours since June. That game has my soul.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I saw the OP and I was thinking "those are rookie numbers"

This is more like it.

[–] rbits@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Don't have a number for it since I have it on itch.io, but I've put a lot of time into Celeste. Beating everything twice (including b-sides, c-sides, and farewell) took a while, but I've also put a bunch of time into the amazing mods it has, like Strawberry Jam and Glyph.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 4 points 5 hours ago

I have almost 4000 hours in Factorio and didn't play it for 2 years. I swear this game is some voodoo lifetime stealing curse.

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

4000hrs in Dayz. No game like Dayz has ever been able to give me the same adrenaline rush, it's just so intense.

[–] Fribbtastic@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago
  • Guild Wars 2: 7634 hours
  • Guild Wars: 3776 Hours
  • Oxygen not Included: 1746 hours
  • Terraria: 560 hours
  • Elite Dangerous: 546 hours
[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I have over 6,000 hours in Dota2.

[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Dang, I was feeling real smug looking down on these people with my 4134.1 hours.

[–] specterspectre@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I bet you've been cursed at in every living language. At 600 hours I called it quits. That was maybe 8 years ago. Couldn't hack it. But, godspeed to you, great creep slayer.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"CYKA BLYAT VODKA VODKA VODKA"

~Midlane

[–] specterspectre@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Flashed back to the great war.

[–] specterspectre@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

My most played game over the last few years has been a timer I use to study for my statistics degree. With the steamdeck, I find myself hopping from game to game just to see how my oldies run. I might play 20 hours a week across 20 different games. Then do a 9-5 stint with the pomo timer on to do get projects going.

If you have ADHD The Legend of Pomodoro is not the cure but it makes getting difficult things done manageable. It's pretty much an idler.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Factorio - 1200hrs

TF2 - ??? But lots

Counterstrike source - ??? As above

Satisfactory - 150

Rimworld/hell divers 2 /wargame red dragon / both new xcoms - 100-150hrs

I would have high scores on other titles before steam started tracking playtime / pre-steam

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Only 150 for satisfactory?

You've barely even started playing that game.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

Wurm Online must have been the one I sunk the most time into. Hey! Thanks for reminding me Planetside 2 exists!

[–] Phunter@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

On Steam... CS2 + CS:GO is probably at the top. I used to compete in league play. Practice, scrims, and matches and all that.

2nd is CS:S despite my last real session being 12 years ago, but that may be soon toppled by Elden Ring or 7 Days to Die.

Who knows how much time I've spent in LoL or WoW but I'm sure it's in the "several thousand hours" magnitude for each.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have an exact number but it would have to be at least 5000 hours I've sunk into Minecraft. Been on and off the game since 2013, I'd get bored of the current version and switch to Beta (fairly sizable community on r/goldenageminecraft), I'd do some worlds where I'd obtain stuff in older versions that weren't obtainable later (whole wiki on Discontinued Minecraft items/blocks/structures/entities), of course I'd do modded.

I think the thing with Minecraft for me is that I spent all the time learning the game back in high school when I had more free time than I do as an adult, and I can nowadays play it extremely casually (~3 hours/week).

Its hard for me to get into new games (most recent game I got was Dredge) because I have like 2 hours a session to learn it, and it might be a few days between sessions.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel you man. It's few and far between where there's a game you can easily drop / pick up on a whim with limited time. The only one that comes to mind would be Powerwash Sim but Infully realize that's not for everyone. Wish I wasn't so exhausted I'd go try to pull a list for you. Maybe Cult of the Lamb? Anyway, hardcore Minecraft fan myself. Consider it one of my fave zen games. Enjoy man! Merry Christmas!

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

If you do have any Zen games to recommend that don't have a long learning curve, let me know!

Other than Minecraft, I'll casually play some old iPad games on an iPad 2 I still have.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
  1. gmod 1,800 hrs
  2. Terraria 800 hrs
  3. Factorio 800 hrs
  4. Ksp 600 hrs
  5. Civ V 500 hrs
[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 hours ago

you cannotsimply quit civilization only after the tutorial...

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Fuck yeah Factorio! You should give Satisfactory a shot!

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

This is the first time I've ever come across another PS2 player out in the wild. I played on PS4 so I don't have exact hours but I stuck with it for over 2+ years back in 2017. One of my most played games for sure.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Well, I seem to like first-person shooters:

but realistically, I have like, many dozens of games with like 30-80 hours played, I'm really into variety gaming.

The only exceptions to this are RuneScape (OSRS and RS2 back in the day), World of Warcraft (I played a ton of Cata until maybe a year before Legion), Starcraft 2, League of Legends, and Osu.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] Eww@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I have over 400 hours on Rust which is just 6 months after playing the first time. But there are players with over 10,000 hours in this game.

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