Poll: Time invested into a single game?

[Lev The Red]

my longest is either Falout 3 or New Vegas, with at least 300 hours on each game across all my saves.
runner-up is TF2 (which seems popular...) at around 90 hours.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I know I've played Pokemon for over 500 hours since that game is my constant crack addiction. Diablo 2 I know I have close to a thousand hours put into that game and multiple play throughs only because it's my comfort game.

Any RPG is going to have a lot of time put into it by me and anything else will most likely not have a lot put in just because I tend to faff about in RPGs.

 

[The Night Angel]

I logged over 800 hours on final fantasy x, about 500-600 on oblivion, and an awful lot already on skyrim. I suppose it depends on the type of game people play more than anything.

 

[Soods]

According to steam:
120 in Skyrim
100 in Dragon Age: Origins
60 in Mass Effect 2

But the winner is....
*drums*
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
~3000 HOURS!

EDIT: Found some other games I've played a lot (in steam)
Global Agenda: 80 hours
Civ 5: 109 hours

And around 1000 hours of Warcraft 3 and ~400 hours of Starcraft 2

 

[Fleetfiend]

I think my highest is around 400-500, which I believe is Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, FFX coming close behind if you count all my playthroughs.

But typically I spend less than 40 hours on a game, especially recently because I don't spend time with my games like I used to. When I used to get games, I would play the hell out of them until I knew almost every single thing about the game, then I would fall back and play my older ones some more, since I didn't get new games that often. Now, I can barely even beat the main story of a game before I feel inclined to move onto another, since I have so many in my backlog to play.

It kind of sucks.

EDIT: I forgot about Guild Wars... that is probably up near or past MHFU.

 

[emeraldrafael]

600+ hours in one single game of pokemon, though collectively if you took every pokemon game I've played it would probably be over 9000.

<url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.262950-Shiny-Pokemon?page=4#9945319>Its allowed me to amass my collection of shiny pokemon I have now

 

[Kris015]

Most time is probably Guild Wars with around 500 hours if I remember correctly. Then there are games like Diablo 2 (been playing since i was.. 10 maybe) and Champions Online and Oblivion, which i also invested a lot of time in.

 

[RicoGrey]

Typically less than 50, but there are certain games I have put more than a thousand hours into. Namely the L4D games, and Battlefield games. That not combined hours, but how much time I have put into each separate installment.

Beyond multiplahyer though, I think the max I have put into a single player game is 190ish hours in dragon age origins. 2nd place goes to Skyrim with about 150 hours, but I think I may have left that one running several times overnight.

 

[Triforceformer]

1098 hours into TF2. Close second is DNF at 95 hours. Average not counting those outliers is in the 20-30 hour range.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I've beaten Chrono Cross 13 times IIRC, at between 30-40 hours per playthrough, so roughly it's between 390-520.

I don't tend to play open world games for that drastic a length of time.

 

[DSK-]

Thousands and thousands of hours playing Unreal Tournament 2004. I don't have proof, but I know for a fact that I've spent more time in that game than any other. And I'm still playing it

Easily 1000 hours on FFXII. About 6 playthroughs, while doing all the sidequests and hunts and whatever.

I think GTA Vice City and Rome: Total War come very close to that as well.

I thought some people were lying with their "OvAr 1500 hourz pl4yed rawr!@!" numbers. Until, i saw my TF2 number on steam....I can't believe i spent 502 hours on a game i SWEAR i only played 1 or 2 hours a WEEK, tops.

That said...on games NOT created by the Daedric coven that is Valve, About 150 hours is my ceiling--usually on RPGs: ToV, Skyrim, and FFXII.

HINDSIGHT ENTRY: probably 2 thousand hours on a heavy-modded Tribes 2 , i know played the hell outta that waaaay more than i do TF2 now. Im talking 2 years past the official server shutdown date. Shazbot! with all those hours i coulda learned an instrument or another language!

Well, considering I played Unreal Tournament 2003 online when it first came out (which was for 3 years non stop more or less) then Unreal Tournament 2004 came out, I played it profusely from 2005-2009. I recently started playing it again since August 2011.

But like you were hinting at, the more you enjoy something the more you are likely to play it

 

[Robert Ewing]

I must say, my gaming time has gone down considerably.

It's strange because I gamed more when I was in college than I do now I'm unemployed. Hmm...

 

[LookingGlass]

I'm more of a "play everything" type person these days, and I'm not much for multiplayer unless it's a particularly special game. Don't play MMOs due to pricing. So usually I'll play through a game's campaign, however long that is, and then move on. If it's a good game, I'll replay the campaign from time to time (months or years apart).

The last games I played that just stole all of my time for months on end were Raven Shield (multiplayer) and Morrowind.

 

[brainslurper]

770 hours in gmod, probably more in minecraft. I love building shit..

 

[nsqared]

It's kinda hard to tell, but i've never had the money to buy lots of games, so i would usually just suck as much fun as i could out of something. Probably 200 hrs of Battlefront 2 or Ace Combat 5, but more recently not that much.

And oh, pokemon. Damn, i was addicted. take the number of starting pokemon in all of the versions i've ever owned, add them all together, take the digital root, then set it to the 4th power.
...That's about 1,296 hrs, or 54 days. Yeah. really.

 

[BlueMage]

I'm very picky. I get games I know I'll enjoy, and I stick with them. Gods only know how much time I ended up sinking into Republic Commando, but I could just about play that with my eyes closed. Oblivion probably saw some 500 to 600 hours. Skyrim has had over 230 already. Space Marine is over 150, most of that in multiplayer.

 

[silenttea]

From release date until today as I type this very message (I just paused it) I have been playing The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, for way too long now. It is the game I've played the most for the longest time (other than Okami, which I've played and beaten seven times and counting).

So I do not know, maybe about one-hundred and fifty hours? I once played it for about a six hour straight marathon, and that was when I was just very bored...

Oh but Okami is a close second with about one-hundred and ten hours or so!

EDIT: I actually counted up the hours based on averages, and Skryim would actually be in the three hundreds.

 

[The Pinray]

All of my combined playthroughs of Fallout 3 would make it easily over a thousand hours... Wow.