I’m curious what game you guys have sunk the most hours into. Mine has to be RuneScape, I don’t know the total hours because I’ve had so many accounts over the years I don’t even remember half my passwords, but it’s definitely in the thousands of hours now. I’ve played on/off RS2, OSRS, and RS3 since 2004.
I’ve also probably sunk anywhere from hundreds to 1000+ hours into Skyrim and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, though I don’t know the counts there either since neither were through Steam. Embarrassingly enough I’ve never completed either of those two games - I get sidetracked making so many alt characters.
What about you guys? & What got you hooked on said game?
Well and truly over 10K hours in World of Warcraft, and I last played until midway through Shadowlands.
But I was also playing it pretty consistently since the two week open beta before it first launched - so yeah.
I played maybe 20min of WoW a long time ago when it was free untill level 20 or free weekend or whatever it was, and i didn’t really like it and uninstalled it. But also part of me was really scared that if i keep playing, i get sucked in.
It become a bit of a parody of itself from the 3rd expansion onwards when they fully embraced pop culture references, but the first 6 years (up to the end of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion) it was literally everywhere (have you seen all of all of those celebrity commercials?).
It was a perfectly cromulent game as a single player - though nothing special. The real magic was playing with anywhere from 19-39 other people to co-ordinate through massive dungeons and kill the various end bosses.
For millions of people at one time or another, it was their primary way of socialising - and that was probably the most addictive aspect.
Don’t even want to know how many hours I sank into that one. My team technically qualified for the arena championship back in TBC but that was when the price money wouldn’t have covered the cost of traveling there.
My grandkids will have to listen to me rambling about how good I was at this niche game mode of a particular old video game someday.
Time well spent.