What Are Your Top 5 Most Played Games This Year So Far?

[Guffe]

No particular order

League of Legends - Online Dota almost level 30 summoner soon so there are some hours spent

Xenoblade Chronicles - Took me a good while to clear the main story (not sure but around 60?) and some of the side quests, migth go back and replay it someday and clear the whole thing which will take far over 100 hours

Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword - Finished main story and some side quests in about 45 hours

Monster Hunter Tri - Now in about 15 hours and I haven't even gone Online yet. Still lot to play and do in this game, really great experience

aaaand... don't have a fifth game?!
Maybe a pokemon game I poured 5 hours into before not wanting to play it anymore.
I don't game too much, another alternative is Fifa with friends, no idea.

 

[sunsetspawn]

Let's see. I've only played 5 games this year to various degrees.

1. Mass Effect. Once upon a time I couldn't get enough of this game, and in January I was replaying it YET AGAIN, this time on insanity, and I was almost finished too, but then I bought...
2. Mass Effect 3. The bad taste in my mouth immediately stopped any replaying of previous titles.
3. Prototype 2. Ahhhhh... the refreshing palate cleanser of rampant destruction after that horrendous abortion called Mass Effcet 3. Please activision take my money because I hate EA.
4. Fallout New Vegas. The gameplay far exceeds Fallout 3, but the atmosphere is somewhat lacking. Still though, the gameplay is WAY MORE GOODER! And to think I swore off of Bethesda after the shit heap of level scaling that was Oblivion, but hey, sometimes and even bigger shit heap (Mass Effect 3) will make you throw money at another company just so EA can't have it. So Bethesda, thank EA for that sale. Well, technically Obsidian made this, but whatever. But, when the EC is released my vitriol may lead to a Skyrim purchase. Oh EA, you make me buy shit from other publishers just to spite you.
5. Deus Ex. Technically I was playing Deus Ex in January along with Mass Effect, but I put it at number 5 because I haven't really played it too much. I was playing it last year and I'm almost done. I know the ultimate outcome because I played IW and HR before playing the original. It's still a great game, but the last level has no magic when you know exactly what's going down. The rest of the game was perfect though.

 

[Conn1496]

In no specific order:
1) Mario Kart 7
2) Mass effect 3
3) Star Fox: Command
4) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
5) Soulcalibur V

Though. I can say, I've probably spent the most time on SSBB trying to literally 100% the game. XD

 

[Terramax]

5. panzer Dragoon Orta (Classic Xbox)

And that's less depressing. Fantastic game! If it were backwards compatible on the 360 past the second level, I would jump at the chance to play through it again.

Yeah, I rebought a classic Xbox just to play this masterful game.

In no specific order:
1) Mario Kart 7
2) Mass effect 3
3) Star Fox: Command
4) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
5) Soulcalibur V

Though. I can say, I've probably spent the most time on SSBB trying to literally 100% the game. XD

Say, what's Star Fox Command like? I was worried about there being a bit of a crappy draw distance. Does it have much of a multiplayer?

 

[Simonoly]

1) Dark Souls
2) Minecraft
3) Skyrim
4) Dragon's Dogma
5) Tribes Ascend

 

[Zydrate]

Pretty much the last few on my Xbox tag that I have in my profile, with varying degrees of accuracy.
The Mass Effect series is way up there, followed by Assassin's Creed stuff.

And yes, the ME3 ending is pretty bad, but I kind of change it mentally. Doesn't ruin the rest of the game for me. I can just play it over and over, replacing the ending with my own personal version like a mental fanfic.

 

[scarecrow350]

In no particular order
Counter Strike source, really got into the warcraft mod
PAYDAY the heist, got it in the steam sales, only problem is that the community is fairly small
Atom Zombie Smasher, love me a bit of zombie RTS
Minecraft, just building shit in creative mode
Max Payne series, again, got them cheap, loved every slow-mo second

 

[deidara]

Fate/Stay Night (This game is loonnnngggggg)
Clannad
Katawa Shoujo
Tsukihime
Final Fantasy XIII

Been getting back to my 360 more now, but it certainly wasn't that way near the start of the year.

 

[bossfight1]

5. Super Meat Boy
4. Skullgirls
3. Mass Effect 3 (Multiplayer)
2. Batman: Arkham City
1. World of Warcraft

 

[Latenz1134]

1. Football Manager 2012
2. Mount and Blade: Warband
3. FIFA 12
4. Mass Effect 3
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

 

[doctorjackal777]

1. Minecraft...its always Minecraft~ I can never quit Minecraft, it's just not possible~ Captain I don't have the power XD~
2. TF2, yes it's hardly a new game. But I got talked into trying it by a friend when it went F2P and it's still the only FPS I like to play. Been clocking some serious hours on it as well apparently without even really realizing it.
3. Pokemon~ W/B, HG/SS, FR/LG. Yeah I play them casually little bits at a time, but that shiz adds up~
4. Batman: Arkham City yeah a game that when I picked it up didn't immediately want to put it down again, so I've been plowing through it. Slowly cause my game playing skillz are the sux0rz but whatever. Made me get off my a$$ and get the first one to, which is also eating hours of my life~
5. I'm not sure, I was playing Ratchet and Clank a huge amount a little while back, and Skyrim took some hours before my frustrations with the game made me switch to KoA, which I sunk even more hours into. I dunno, when I get into a game I usually play for like a 48 hour period straight before moving onto something else, and it's hard to keep track of how long I stick with a single game, unless it's Minecraft which I know is my OTL, or TF2 which is so helpful as to actually give you your playtime on loading screens. So really I have no idea~ Finishing games, is not really something I do, I just play until the new shiny thing comes along.

 

[FallenTraveler]

This year? I'm going to limit mine to spring/summer

1. Firefall (Beta testing, fuck yeah!)

2. Mass effect 2 and 3 (bought 2 before 3 was out and beat it)

3. Left 4 Dead 2, my girlfriend and I have been playing quite a lot.

4. I'm gonna say Infamous 2 and Torchlight are tied.

5. Persona 3 (yay psn rereleases!)

I did get Journey, and that was INCREDIBLE, but I didn't sink too much time in to it.

This list looks odd to me still, I feel like I'm missing a game or two.

 

[feeback06]

Mass Effect 3
Mass Effect
Sonic Generations
The Witcher 2
Harvest Moon 64

 

[mlow44]

1. Skyrim (304 hours)
2. Star Wars: The Old Republic (~200 hours, a lot of which were spent standing around doing nothing while waiting to find a group for something)
3. Counter-Strike (139 hours)
4. DC Universe Online (~50 hours)
5. Mass Effect 3 (35 hours--this would have easily been higher on the list if its ending didn't depress the hell out of me... I replayed Mass Effect 2 eight times with over 200 hours total, for crying out loud... *sobs quietly to self*)

 

[telocaster]

For me,

Xenoblate Chronicles 55hrs
Pokemon Black 100+hrs
Max Payne 3 25hrs
Pokemon Soul Silver 20hrs
No More Heries 15hrs

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Hmmmm lets see. That is hard as I play many different games often.

1. Is probably Skyrim. I really like it much more then both Oblivion and Morrowind. I like the style and feel of the game better, the game mechanics and the perk trees. Sure it isn't a super deep RPG when it comes to stats, but it is one of the best RPG's when it comes to Role Playing and getting into a character is what I like to do. Dragon Age: Origins is another good game for Role Playing, I think I liked it even better.

2. Second is probably Total War: Medieval 2. I love that game. I have put so many time into it and I haven't even beat it once yet...though beating games is a common problem for me that I am trying to fix.

3. Third I would say is Halo: Reach. Probably me favorite multiplayer at the moment. It is just an easy game to jump into, plays great, large amounts of people online. The Halo series has always been my go to online shooter. Love them and I feel they do get better online with every new release. *Not counting ODST*

4. Another go to online shooter I like A LOT. Left 4 Dead. I have been playing this game since the beta. I LOVE this game. There are few games I actually enjoy online, but Left 4 Dead is one that I love online. I recently started playing it a lot in the last few monthes so it belongs on this list. I play as Zoey....and oddly enough I have never played the 2nd game. I plan to though...

5. Hmmmmm I'm not sure what other game I have been playing this year in a large amount, so I'll just play some games I have played through on single player. I am playing through the Metal Gear Solid series, so far I have beat one and two, with the second game being one of my favorite games I have ever played. I beat Heavy Rain for the third time this year AND I finally got the ending where everyone survives! I have been playing a lot of Battlefield 1943, because I lack any other Battlefield game at the moment and it is a decent shooter, but a little to fast paced for me when it comes to military shooters. I prefer Project Reality and Arma series. And lastly, I am currently playing through Lost Odyssey for the first time and it is really good. So yeah...

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

EDIT:

Katawa Shoujo

Huh, didn't expect that to pop up elsewhere.

Now that you mention it, that's probably what I've spent the most time with this year, oddly enough. I was starting to get RSI problems at the beginning of the year, not long after I finished that, and I haven't played any games at all since February, or at least not electronic ones. Second place is probably Titan Quest, followed by enough of DE:HR to discover that I didn't actually like it (the story and world and everything were great, but I just couldn't enjoy the gameplay at all; something is not right when a game starts making me miss the buggy (but wonderful) mess that Alpha Protocol was). And then if I have to pad it out to five, I think I have to resort to board games, like the Catan card game and Rummikub. Heh.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

1. Skyrim: I've made 5 characters and have invested over a hundred of hours especially now that the workshop is out.

2. Star Wars: The Old Republic: I had a level 48 Trooper, a level 36 Imperial Agent and a few other guys in their teens.

3. Mass Effect 3: I've beat the game twice and played a lot of multiplayer.

4. Mount and Blade Warband and Napoleonic Wars: Not much to say, these games are crazy addicting.

5. Napoleon: Total War: This was my go to game to play while listening to Escapist Podcasts and LRRcasts.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

Mass Effect 3(somewhere over 200h)-I've spent a lot of time playing the multiplayer
Super Monday Night Combat(around 140h)-really got into the game for about a month still would play but I moved on to
Civilization 5(around 90h this year)-I started playing again in preparation for the expansion and now I'm playing the expansion and enjoying it as much as I did the first time around
Mass Effect 1 and 2(50-60 hours each)-played through them in preparation for 3 since I had lost my original Shepard to a hard drive failure

Its always hard to get a straight answer to a question like this but seeing as you have a similar length of time with ME2, I was wondering, how long did you spend on the singleplayer of Mass Effect 3? Was it anywhere near half the 200 total you spent?

I'm not sure exactly how long it took me to get through 3's story anymore, but I know it was shockingly less time than it took me for any of my playthoughs of 1 or 2. I'm thinking 3 took 25-30 hours as opposed to the 50-60 my trips through 1 and 2 took. I've only done one pass through ME3 so far and by the time I got through 3 I had basically been playing the ME games for 3 months straight and now I pretty much only do the weekend operations. At least three quarters of my time playing in total is multiplayer.

I've found that in terms of length it goes ME2 > ME3 > ME1.

ME1 is surprisingly short, there's only like five missions and for me, I've played ME1 probably two dozen times, I can beat the game in like 10-20 hours, whereas it takes me around 30 hours to beat ME3 although I've only beat it 3 times, so maybe I could lessen that with practice.

ME2 is quite clearly the longest as I cannot beat the game in less than a day or two.

 

[Sight Unseen]

So far this year I haven't had much time to play a whole lot of games but I'll try:

1. Dota 2
2. Civ V including Gods and Kings
3. RAGE
4. Dead Island
5. the Walking Dead game

Those are pretty much the only games I've played this year so far lol...