Duffman5
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Post by Duffman5 on Jan 17, 2022 19:26:54 GMT
I wonder how many hours of gears 3 duffman has played? one million. Cheeky 😉👊 I would say around 20'000+ for the first 4 games. As for Gears 4: 3'850 odd hours Gears 5: 1'800+ Also UE,pop and Tactics. ...I'm not addicted, you're addicted 😁🏆👊 As for how many hours I game a week, anywhere from 5-15 depending on my insomnia. |
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Post by crispyxuk on Jan 17, 2022 19:53:24 GMT
Depends what I start playing. Put 8 hours into castlevania lament of innocence on ps2 this week which is a lot for me
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2022 20:51:45 GMT
Due to one of my kids isolating with COVID, the other is sleeping on the sofa bed downstairs, so my gaming has plummeted to zero hours the last couple of days and no sign it's going to improve any time soon.
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Post by Warrender on Jan 17, 2022 21:22:13 GMT
This site is really handy if you want to log the completion times of your games. It's also handy for finding the average completion time of any game you would be interested in. howlongtobeat.com/ |
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Post by britesparc on Jan 17, 2022 21:27:16 GMT
This site is really handy if you want to log the completion times of your games. It's also handy for finding the average completion time of any game you would be interested in. howlongtobeat.com/I like how that site says the "completionist" time for Civ VI is 250 hours or so, approximately one-sixth of the time I've played it for. |
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Post by Danno on Jan 18, 2022 11:05:03 GMT
Due to one of my kids isolating with COVID, the other is sleeping on the sofa bed downstairs, so my gaming has plummeted to zero hours the last couple of days and no sign it's going to improve any time soon. Can't you "temporarily" move into the shed? |
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patrick
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Post by patrick on Jan 18, 2022 12:00:44 GMT
A few hours a week, tops. Really having trouble the last few years with videogames keeping me attention for more than an hour at a time.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2022 12:02:41 GMT
I "could", but moving the 4K TV into the shed might get the family kicking off and I'm not playing Odyssey without 4k. It looks beautiful.
I might have to dig out the Switch and play that in bed.
I want to play it now... I wonder if I have time for a quick mission before my next worky thing.
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Buu
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Post by Buu on Jan 18, 2022 12:20:17 GMT
It varies. Sometimes I'll go weeks without playing anything then a game will get its hooks into me and I'll get maybe 10-15 hours of gameplay in that week.
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lexw
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Post by lexw on Jan 18, 2022 12:34:33 GMT
I think the thing that blows my mind about modern gaming is that a single game can now be your all-consuming hobby, rather than general ‘gaming’ per se. Games like Destiny, WOW, FF14, etc. That's a really interesting point. A lot of games we saw coming as kids - I found a notebook from when I was 11-12 (so 1989-1990) where I'd basically drawn up a Battle Royale with vehicles and stuff (basically PUBG), only missing the shrinking combat zone. I knew where things were headed re: shooters/multiplayer all the way back then, 30+ years ago, before we even really had shooters - I think I was inspired by Midwinter, Damocles and stuff, and somehow we were already sure networked multiplayer would be big. But the whole "one game is your entire hobby" thing, that I totally didn't see coming and nor did gaming mags or the like. It's kind of weird because I played some MUDs on the early internet, and they were cool but didn't hold my attention or inspire me, but when I played EverQuest, it completely blew my mind. I'd played some games "a lot" before that, like QuakeWorld took up a huge amount of my time at one point, but EverQuest was something else, and then Dark Age of Camelot literally became my life when I was supposed to be at uni the second time, I dunno how much I played it, but at one point I was playing 12-16 hours/day a few days, and 8 hours/day a lot of days. My main character had 2000 hours on them, which is like, 8 hours/day for 250 days, and that was only over two years or so (and I had a lot of other characters). |
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gamecat
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Post by gamecat on Jan 18, 2022 13:18:15 GMT
Got stuck in EverQuest too for a while, looking back it was nuts. I was fairly high up in a raiding guild, and basically had a 2nd job that was more hours than my paying job. After a few friends left I just went cold turkey from the whole thing, but went back to their website as few years later (maybe 5) and there were still mostly the same people grinding out the same schedule, it was actually a bit sad.
Like most people I gravitate to shorter games as I get older, anything over 25 hours to complete is rare, I don't really have any more responsibilities, I just have more choice of what games to play.Also, I resent the slow start/ learning phase that comes with every new game, and will just end up playing short bursts of old favourites instead. Maybe 1-2 hours a day, and a bit longer at weekends if the weather is crap is my usual amount played now.
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Post by erekose on Jan 18, 2022 15:12:27 GMT
I think the thing that blows my mind about modern gaming is that a single game can now be your all-consuming hobby, rather than general ‘gaming’ per se. Games like Destiny, WOW, FF14, etc. That's a really interesting point. A lot of games we saw coming as kids - I found a notebook from when I was 11-12 (so 1989-1990) where I'd basically drawn up a Battle Royale with vehicles and stuff (basically PUBG), only missing the shrinking combat zone. I knew where things were headed re: shooters/multiplayer all the way back then, 30+ years ago, before we even really had shooters - I think I was inspired by Midwinter, Damocles and stuff, and somehow we were already sure networked multiplayer would be big. But the whole "one game is your entire hobby" thing, that I totally didn't see coming and nor did gaming mags or the like. It's kind of weird because I played some MUDs on the early internet, and they were cool but didn't hold my attention or inspire me, but when I played EverQuest, it completely blew my mind. I'd played some games "a lot" before that, like QuakeWorld took up a huge amount of my time at one point, but EverQuest was something else, and then Dark Age of Camelot literally became my life when I was supposed to be at uni the second time, I dunno how much I played it, but at one point I was playing 12-16 hours/day a few days, and 8 hours/day a lot of days. My main character had 2000 hours on them, which is like, 8 hours/day for 250 days, and that was only over two years or so (and I had a lot of other characters). About 7 years ago I fell hard into Destiny 1, putting around 2000 hours in. Then I got into Warframe and put about 1500 hours in. Playing those games solidly, for years, really changed how I saw gaming at that time. There’s the compulsive urge to ‘keep up’. A feeling that non-service ‘regular’ games are a waste of time because they don’t constantly update and reward you with ‘new’. The rest of gaming really passed me by and there are a huge number of classic of the era on my ‘one day’ pile as a result. Although I really enjoyed it at the time and made some good friends, I realise I did miss having a broader sense of what was going on in the rest of gaming. I didn’t really *feel* (whatever that means) like a gamer any more, at least not in the way I have become to over the years. After this period I burned out hard on this type of game, helped partly by what a shit-show Destiny 2 was in year 1, and fell head first into rogue-likes and indies, which felt like such a refreshing antidote. I’ve been tempted by FF14 and some others but I’m always a little scared of getting sucked back in again. I also seem to have become less patient as I’ve aged. Less willing to spend hours and hours on tutorials or finishing 50+ hour campaigns so you can ‘get to the good stuff’. |
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lexw
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Post by lexw on Jan 18, 2022 15:37:02 GMT
Less willing to spend hours and hours on tutorials or finishing 50+ hour campaigns so you can ‘get to the good stuff’. Yeah FFXIV unlikely to work for you, because it is a good 30+ hours before the "MSQ" (main sequence quest - i.e. the main story) starts to get like, even okay, and then by about hour 40 it gets good for a few hours, then you're into interminable sequence of content (that used to the endgame campaign) which takes like another 30-50 hours, and which is okay-ish, but not as good as it got previously. Only after that like 80-100 hours do you get into content which is consistently fairly good story-wise. However, FFXIV is way less bad for FOMO stuff than most MMORPGs and MMO games. So once you're past that it's more pleasant. I never felt the desperate urge to log on every day, or even every other day, unlike with WoW or Warframe or the like (I also went through a Warframe phase, but it was earlier on in Warframe's existence, and as Warframe got more and more complicated I just gave up - esp. as the lore actually got less weird and more sane). |
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Buu
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Post by Buu on Jan 18, 2022 16:04:49 GMT
I was a Destiny 1 addict. That game basically felt like a second job. Tuesdays were basically a write off for me as it meant doing 3 nightfalls and raids if I could fit them in.
It was the perfect time to be single
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