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Burr		2012-03-05 03:03:42 PM

I would safely assume that Tie Fighter is the game I racked the most hours into.

also:

"Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you."

SmellsLikePoo		2012-03-05 03:07:58 PM

CONGRATULATIONS, FOR YOUR ACHIEVEMENT YOU HAVE UNLOCKED:

DIABEETUS

blog.game-resources.com

/hot, but not

Theaetetus		2012-03-05 03:08:13 PM

Wayne 985: Theaetetus: Wayne 985: Not to mention the money factor. 3,000 or so for wiping them out. 20,000 for the final assassination, by contrast.

Yeah, because money is so important after level 5 or so...

/I think I ended Skyrim with close to a million gold in my pants. Have 1.2 million in Amalur at the moment, and I only just got to Mel Senshir.

Sorry. I'm not Scrooge McDuck, hording my gold to swim in it. I typically spend as I go. Potions, alchemical ingredients, arrows, home stations, etc. The most gold I've ever held at once was roughly 41,000.

The interface for drinking potions sucked so bad that I almost never remembered to drink them, except for long battles when I needed a health or mana potion. And by the end, I was one-shotting everything from stealth with two-handed incinerates and never needed to drink, period.
And I bought every home station I could.

In Amalur, I don't even sell anything if I can help it, just salvage for blacksmithing parts. But even still, with the gold boosts from detect hidden and selling non-salvagable rares, I'm richer than god.
At least in Amalur, vendors never run out of money. It's not realistic, but frankly, that was the most obnoxious thing about Skyrim.

liverpoolumd		2012-03-05 03:08:30 PM

I'm sorry, I was too busy collecting hats to read this hatless article.

media.giantbomb.com

/But if I did read it, id probably say the writer is a bit of a douche... and I didn't even play that game (yet!)

Caeldan		2012-03-05 03:11:04 PM

Cat With Two Heads: Honest Bender: 3 part amulet quest (totally not worth it, btw)

Gauldar's? It ups the big 3 stats by 30 points each. I lost a follower in that final battle and it was still worth it.

Man, I don't get people who power through Skyrim. I'm at over 100 hours and have only completed main & thieves guild quests. I just started exploring Blackreach, haven't reached level 40.

Personally i prefer my crafted piece.... 24% bow damage and 12% magic resist. But its a good amulet to give a companion follower.

I think I'm around 80 hours with companions questline done, and mage guild started. Been doing an argonian who has no love for humans really. So a fair number of murders though never a bounty.

Main story is so easy to just not get around doing. Plus there are the daedric quests and the thieves guild and the assassins guild which I have yet to touch.

I already have plans for a second run with a more mage focused player. Maybe not even do any smithing and rely on what I find in the wild.

Really the trick to repeat playthroughs I think is trying to establish character motivations and go stick to them.

Considering as well a nord who will refuse to disturb the burial grounds and only enter to set spirits to rest and take nothing from the tombs themselves.

DamnYankees		2012-03-05 03:12:21 PM

Caeldan: Main story is so easy to just not get around doing.

It gets tougher after you meeting Odahviing.

ryant123		2012-03-05 03:12:48 PM

scottydoesntknow: Don't wanna ruin for you (even through you already read the SPOILER! which doesn't do it justice) but it really was my favorite moment from the game.

I think my favorite was killing the bride at her wedding.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-05 03:15:56 PM

liverpoolumd: I'm sorry, I was too busy collecting hats to read this hatless article.

[media.giantbomb.com image 640x640]

/But if I did read it, id probably say the writer is a bit of a douche... and I didn't even play that game (yet!)

I have a hat available for trade.

/just sayin'
//really want that Made Man

Mike_LowELL		2012-03-05 03:16:54 PM

Another person completely misunderstanding the point of an interactive medium while attempting to apply the lessons of a non-interactive medium, fitting circle pegs in square holes, another person completely misunderstanding the point of difficulty in video games and how high difficulty levels, when correctly used, almost always creates a better game experience. Nothing interesting to see here.

Caeldan		2012-03-05 03:17:05 PM

Honest Bender: ryarger: Does this mean you played with the Wiki or forums open next to you? Otherwise, how would you know that's how to become a werewolf?

I look up some things but I try really hard not to abuse it. In the case of the werewolf thing, I was reading up on how werewolves work in general and accidentally read that you become one through the companions.

ryarger: As for Galudor's Amulet? What amulet is better?

Cat With Two Heads: It's the best amulet I've found so far, and is far better than anything I could make myself.

It's nowhere near as good as one you can make yourself. And just for the record, I don't like to abuse the alchemy tricks to make retard gear. If I remember off the top of my head, my amulet was +40ish % to archery and +32% magic resistance. Keep in mind that magic resistance applies to all 3 elements as well.

Did you do the potion stack loop to get that high?

I figure eventually I will get around to doing 5/5 on the first alchemy and enchanting skills but I am happy where I am at now. Debating working up the daedric side of the smithing tree still. Went to glass to get to dragonscale.

Wayne 985		2012-03-05 03:18:55 PM

SmellsLikePoo: The interface for drinking potions sucked so bad that I almost never remembered to drink them, except for long battles when I needed a health or mana potion. And by the end, I was one-shotting everything from stealth with two-handed incinerates and never needed to drink, period.
And I bought every home station I could.

In Amalur, I don't even sell anything if I can help it, just salvage for blacksmithing parts. But even still, with the gold boosts from detect hidden and selling non-salvagable rares, I'm richer than god.
At least in Amalur, vendors never run out of money. It's not realistic, but frankly, that was the most obnoxious thing about Skyrim.

I actually enjoyed it, to the point that I no longer use Restoration to heal. I prefer pausing combat and drinking or eating the appropriate stuff. Healing in real time is too risky with tougher opponents. I played a standard warrior/knight character so I was taking a lot of hits on occasion. Heavy armor and block only protect so much.

fightingnewfoundlander		2012-03-05 03:19:55 PM

Millennium: The Persona series says yes.

I'm at hour 126 on P3 FES.

Wayne 985		2012-03-05 03:21:59 PM

Wayne 985: SmellsLikePoo: The interface for drinking potions sucked so bad that I almost never remembered to drink them, except for long battles when I needed a health or mana potion. And by the end, I was one-shotting everything from stealth with two-handed incinerates and never needed to drink, period.
And I bought every home station I could.

In Amalur, I don't even sell anything if I can help it, just salvage for blacksmithing parts. But even still, with the gold boosts from detect hidden and selling non-salvagable rares, I'm richer than god.
At least in Amalur, vendors never run out of money. It's not realistic, but frankly, that was the most obnoxious thing about Skyrim.

I actually enjoyed it, to the point that I no longer use Restoration to heal. I prefer pausing combat and drinking or eating the appropriate stuff. Healing in real time is too risky with tougher opponents. I played a standard warrior/knight character so I was taking a lot of hits on occasion. Heavy armor and block only protect so much.

Well, that was odd. Theaetetus should be the author of that quote.

rpm		2012-03-05 03:23:39 PM

Theaetetus: Now Skyrim or Amalur? Those are long games.

Skyrim main quest can be finished in a touch more than two hours.

Theaetetus		2012-03-05 03:28:25 PM

rpm: Skyrim main quest

lol

kab		2012-03-05 03:31:46 PM

Wayne 985: I actually enjoyed it, to the point that I no longer use Restoration to heal. I prefer pausing combat and drinking or eating the appropriate stuff. Healing in real time is too risky with tougher opponents. I played a standard warrior/knight character so I was taking a lot of hits on occasion. Heavy armor and block only protect so much.

This is the one aspect of this game that I absolutely HATED when starting to play it. I'm used to it now, but how multiple skills are dealt with in combat is easily the weakest part of the experience.

kab		2012-03-05 03:32:35 PM

rpm:
Skyrim main quest can be finished in a touch more than two hours.

Is that the one where you find out who stole your sweet roll?

bc2297		2012-03-05 03:33:05 PM

Sounds like the author couldn't beat the Capra demon

Passive Aggressive Larry		2012-03-05 03:35:11 PM

I know I have over 200 hours on the following games:

Elder Scrolls III
Elder Scrolls IV
Elder Scrolls V
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Mass Effect
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 3 (I'll just go ahead and put this on here now, I usually play these about 6 times)
Red Dead Redemption
Halo: Reach

There are probably a dozen more that have crossed at least the 100 hour mark. Obviously I like the current trend of huge, open-ended games. You feel like you get your money's worth. If a game gives me a 2 to 1, hours of entertainment to dollars spent, return on my investment, I don't feel like I've wasted that money. Compared with going to the movies, going to restaurants, drinking alcohol, or several other activities, I think playing long video games is a pretty good value. And crazy as it seems, it's possible to play games AND find time to read books.

PanicMan		2012-03-05 03:40:36 PM

Theaetetus: The interface for drinking potions sucked so bad that I almost never remembered to drink them

Did you add them to your favorites? It's not just for weapons.

Cat With Two Heads		2012-03-05 03:46:20 PM

Honest Bender: There are far more possible levels than there are useful perks. I usually had 2-3 perk points saved up so keeping my enchanting perks up to date was a non-issue. And I really only worked on crafting skills as a means of level progression. And yes, water breathing is enchantable :-) Not sure where you can get it easily. Just keep looking. One thing that really disappointed me was that the 2x backstab buff can be "learned" but can't be enchanted onto anything :-(

The hell? I have used every single perk point immediately and the only max-level perk I have is Dragon smithing. I also have never had this abundance of gold everyone's talking about. Guess it's time for another playthrough.

And adding another sneak dagger multiplier is overkill. With the Sneak perk, that's what, 30x damage?

MisterPickles		2012-03-05 03:47:36 PM

I have over 3000 hours in TF2. Noobs.

MugzyBrown: I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week available for playing a game.

/old
//new baby

Me too. *sigh*

Jim from Saint Paul		2012-03-05 04:08:06 PM

whizbangthedirtfarmer: If there is an appropriate goal and a great atmosphere to the game, I don't worry about the hours. I just hit 55 on Final Fantasy XIII. Even though some of the characters are really irritating, and the plot is a little nonsensical, it does have a great "feel" to the game.

CSB;

I got to chapter 11 (first actual open world part of the story) of that on my first play through at about 35 hours. Quit playing because I simply didn't CARE about most of the characters.

Story made no sense, yet the gameplay was fun. Didn't touch it for months. Recently picked it up again and decided to go through one more time. Story actually makes sense this time. Couple that with the solid gameplay and I'll be playing it throught this time for sure.

[/csb]

This game's biggest failures are due to pacing of the story and explanation of what is going on. No other Final Fantasy has made me question what the hell is going on, much less for 5-10 hours. Also, on my first play through I couldn't even choose my party till 25 hours into the game. I understand the story they were trying to tell dictated that. It's still just not a whole lot of fun when I am used to my own pary within no more then 5 hours of the game starting at MOST.

They do a terrible job of explaining the l'Cie and such till later in the game. Again, now that I have been off of Pulse and got to Grand Pulse the story DOES make sense on my playthrough. I know what the hell they are talking about now.

Hopefully 13-2 and 14 will not repeat these same mistakes.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-05 04:11:23 PM

MisterPickles: I have over 3000 hours in TF2. Noobs.

MugzyBrown: I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week available for playing a game.

/old
//new baby

Me too. *sigh*

That's why you create a local server on a CP map and idle a few hours. You'll get your weekly item drop limit and you won't end up with a ridiculously high Longest Life time.

rustypouch		2012-03-05 04:25:20 PM

I don't have an over abundance of monies in Skyrim.

I just got so sick of trying to sell everything to vendors with limited gold, after having bought every house and all the upgrades, so now I only pick up expensive or pretty things to decorate my houses.

Much of the stuff I just leave lying around, hoarder style.

Because of this, I have one room filled with dragon bones and scales, a table piled with gems and jewelery, a pile of human skulls, and shiny weapons randomly strewn about.

I Like Bread		2012-03-05 04:26:34 PM

yves0010: Counting MMOs...
WoW over 5 years of playing at a minimum of 50 hours a week... I would say about 13000 hours minimum.

Just started playing Star Trek Online and have already clocked about 60 hours in a week. Something about exploring the Alpha quadrant is to fun.

Aeon was about 100 hours over a month.

Battlefield 1942 has to be in the 10000s easily.
Battlefield 2 also in the 10000s with no problems.

Guild Wars is high up there too. Not as high as WoW but I would wager about 2000-5000 hours over a few years.

Exaggerate much?
BF2 launched in June, 2005 which was 2449 days from now. You claim to have spent at least 10000 hours playing it, or 416 days. That means you spent 4 hours EVERY DAY playing BF2 since launch. Considering what you've claimed to log in all these other games, I call bullshiat.

Tentacle		2012-03-05 04:28:44 PM

I used to play Skyrim like you, but then I took a frying pan to the head.

Jim from Saint Paul		2012-03-05 04:29:39 PM

Guestimating on my completeions of any of these games..

FF4 - 35 hours
F5 - 20 hours (never could get myself to complete it)
FF6 - 250+ hours
FF7 - 150+ hours
FF8 - 75+ hours
FF9 - 100 hours (I LIKE THIS GAME AND F U FOR NOT DOING THE SAME)
FF10 - 125+ hours.
FF12 - 40+ hours. (one of the best games I have never completed)
FF13 - 40+ hours (not beaten, trying another run-through)
FF Tactics - (80 hours gameplay before I MADE myself complete the game)
FF Tactics Advance - 70+

That's just the Final Fantasy Series.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-05 04:31:35 PM

Tentacle: I used to play Skyrim like you, but then I took a frying pan to the head.

You just reminded my of this gem on woot!

Click it!

Jedekai		2012-03-05 04:34:06 PM

Game it took me the longest to beat:

478 hours. 30 minutes. Exactly.

Wizardry 8 - Hardcore (As in, 'Ye Olde Schoole Wixardrie' Mode)

From 2004-2006. The occasional break and the occasional grind.

MMOs? I had over 1500 hours logged into WoW before I committed Azerothian suicide.

meyerkev		2012-03-05 04:35:46 PM

Dorf11: Anyone with a Total War passion/addiction knows it can take an hour just to hit the 'end turn' button.

And then 3 more hours to get back to your turn.

/Especially in Rome: BI. Once had the Sarmatians and the Goths go banging into the same army in the same turn, then the Vandals came down in the next one. That's the only time I failed to hold the Danube.

//Currently playing an H:H Gondor campaign in TATW. God, that start sucks with Mordor popping a stack out every turn, Harad popping up and down the coast, and crusades ensuring that Rohan can't survive without massive subsidies.

HallsOfMandos		2012-03-05 04:50:40 PM

Wayne 985: Geotpf: Barricaded Gunman: FTFA: Dark Souls takes so long to play because it refuses to tell you its basic ground rules, then kills you over and over again for failing to understand them. As a player, you proceed not by thinking through problems but by randomly trying anything and everything until something haphazard sticks

And this is one of the best-reviewed games of the year? No effing thanks.

I've never heard of it. I thought the best reviewed games of 2011 were Portal 2 and Skyrim.

Checking Metascores...

Yup, Portal 2 has a 95, Skyrim has a 94. Dark Souls's Metascore is an 89 (not bad) and doesn't appear to have been released for the PC.

In fact, if you check out lifetime Metascrores, there are only 7 PC games with scores of 95 and above.

4 of those 7 were made by Valve (Half Life 2, The Orange Box (which is really a five game bundle), Half Life 1, and Portal 2). The other 3 were Out of the Park Baseball 2007 (WTF), BioShock, and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

Here's a glowing review of Dark Souls:

Link (new window)

Sounds like it is intentionally hard and provides minimal instruction at the start.

I've only played a bit of Dark Souls, but it has a great atmosphere and minimalist (but entertaining) story. The gameplay is actually not that hard so far. A little tough, but if you're patient, it pans out.

Wait until you get to the area where you literally cannot see the floor it is so dark. There are lights in a few select places so you can inch your way forward, but combat in there sucks. I gave up when I got there but prob spent at least ~40 hours across a couple chars in that game.

Honest Bender		2012-03-05 04:55:34 PM

Caeldan: Did you do the potion stack loop to get that high?

Honest Bender: And just for the record, I don't like to abuse the alchemy tricks to make retard gear.

Cat With Two Heads: The hell? I have used every single perk point immediately and the only max-level perk I have is Dragon smithing. I also have never had this abundance of gold everyone's talking about. Guess it's time for another playthrough.

And adding another sneak dagger multiplier is overkill. With the Sneak perk, that's what, 30x damage?

Any of the lockpick perks are a waste. Pickpocketing perks are iffy, but I go high enough to get the extra pockets one. I'm an archer, so no need to invest in any of the weapon trees except archery. And many of the archery perks are of dubious quality. 1 level of steady hand is plenty, hunter's discipline and ranger are worthless, power shot is iffy, but I take it because I love quick shot. Bull's Eye is crap.

I put the needed 2 points into smithing to be able to improve enchanted items. I did invest heavily into enchanting, minus soul squeezer and siphon. Didn't bother with Alchemy. I wear light armor, but I never felt the need to invest in it at all. I had some points into illusion (for quiet cast) and conjuration (for the bound weapon bonuses). Other than that, I started to invest more into lockpicking and pickpocketing when I started to have a bunch of unused points.

After conquering the thieve's guild, money was never an issue. I had around 150k when I quit. There's never anything to buy, either.

And yes, double backstab enchant + all relevant perks = 30X damage sneak attacks. It's terribly over powered. I was starting to think about getting into single handed weapons to use daggers more, but fighting dragons with melee is suicide at any level (they have instant kill attacks) and bows just rock.

mason4300		2012-03-05 05:02:31 PM

"You can accomplish a lot in 100 hours....complete 20 weeks of training and then run a marathon."

Does this require a time machine, by any chance?

Geotpf		2012-03-05 05:03:07 PM

MoronLessOff: MisterPickles: I have over 3000 hours in TF2. Noobs.

MugzyBrown: I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week available for playing a game.

/old
//new baby

Me too. *sigh*

That's why you create a local server on a CP map and idle a few hours. You'll get your weekly item drop limit and you won't end up with a ridiculously high Longest Life time.

I manage to hit the 11 hour drop cap every week on my main account.

Now, I do idle my other three accounts...

Cat With Two Heads		2012-03-05 05:06:42 PM

Honest Bender: After conquering the thieve's guild, money was never an issue. I had around 150k when I quit. There's never anything to buy, either.

I completed the Guild quest and have a tenth of that. Screw this, I'ma go roll through Dark Brotherhood before making a new Redguard/melee character.

MoronLessOff		2012-03-05 05:08:28 PM

Geotpf: MoronLessOff: MisterPickles: I have over 3000 hours in TF2. Noobs.

MugzyBrown: I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week available for playing a game.

/old
//new baby

Me too. *sigh*

That's why you create a local server on a CP map and idle a few hours. You'll get your weekly item drop limit and you won't end up with a ridiculously high Longest Life time.

I manage to hit the 11 hour drop cap every week on my main account.

Now, I do idle my other three accounts...

I've thought about doing this and gifting it all to one account. Is that possible? It would make my crafting go by so much quicker. I need reclaimed for all the moon man business. Eventually I'll go for the accessories, but I'll need extra items and lots of metal.

hammer85		2012-03-05 05:10:02 PM

Kaeishiwaza: Dark Souls was awesome and easily deserved all the hours I put into the game. I beat it before they put the patch in to make it easier. I wish they had left the difficulty the same but fixed the blocking attack bug for spear and rapier users. I really wanted to stick to my +15 Ricard's Rapier, but eventually I had to give up.

My Sunbro died (I believe I accidentally triggered the auto death thing by going to far past the centipede demons room before heading back to the secret entrence).

I donned his outfit and became Little Sunbro, spreading his message throughout the world with my divine +10 sunlight sword, max sunbro shield, armor, and helm.

Man I was so happy at the non-lightning weapon buff, lightning weapon nerf patch, even though you're right the reduction in difficulty was lame.

casual disregard		2012-03-05 05:16:19 PM

I think I just barely clocked 100 hours in Skyrim. I haven't even reached Whiterun yet. Gonna be a good seven years before I make my way to Riften.

Shakes999		2012-03-05 05:16:33 PM

faptown: I'm pretty close to 100 hours logged in Dark Souls at the moment.

Im at 60 and still at first play through. Still have to beat 4 kings and nito but Im having trouble finding the will to even turn the damn game on at this point. Too beaten down. Having to take a week or 2 break.

I May Be Crazy But...		2012-03-05 05:16:43 PM

scottydoesntknow: Honest Bender: Misplaced yat: I don't even want to contemplate the sheer number of hours my roommates and I logged just playing Smash Bros. It would probably make this author vomit.

... Did I room with you in college? Because my friends and I used to play, like, 6-8 hours of Smash. Bros. nearly every day for 3 years.

I will challenge and beat anyone at any version of that game.

/Samus on smash bros.

Was gonna say I would take that challenge, then saw who you wanted to play with (Samus is my girl too). She wrecked everybody. I had that charge-up shot timed perfectly, could hit you across the map no matter what. And her throw whip just pissed people off.

/Smash Bros is one of the best fighting games ever
//They nerfed her in Brawl.

Nah, it's Shiek for the win. You can charge up your shot as long as you want, it only takes one needle to end it. And there's always the satisfaction of juggling someone up to high damage, then switching back to Zelda and ending them with a princess.

/99 life matches between 4 people are a marathon of suffering.

Honest Bender		2012-03-05 05:20:22 PM

Cat With Two Heads: Honest Bender: After conquering the thieve's guild, money was never an issue. I had around 150k when I quit. There's never anything to buy, either.

I completed the Guild quest and have a tenth of that. Screw this, I'ma go roll through Dark Brotherhood before making a new Redguard/melee character.

Do some side quests for the two lackies. Super quick easy money.

Shakes999		2012-03-05 05:24:44 PM

hammer85: Kaeishiwaza: Dark Souls was awesome and easily deserved all the hours I put into the game. I beat it before they put the patch in to make it easier. I wish they had left the difficulty the same but fixed the blocking attack bug for spear and rapier users. I really wanted to stick to my +15 Ricard's Rapier, but eventually I had to give up.

My Sunbro died (I believe I accidentally triggered the auto death thing by going to far past the centipede demons room before heading back to the secret entrence).

I donned his outfit and became Little Sunbro, spreading his message throughout the world with my divine +10 sunlight sword, max sunbro shield, armor, and helm.

Man I was so happy at the non-lightning weapon buff, lightning weapon nerf patch, even though you're right the reduction in difficulty was lame.

I for one appriciate it. I just picked it up last month and I dont know if I would have stuck through if they hadn't of dropped the difficulty ever so slightly. Im stuck at catacombs cause the lantern is useless and I forgot to pick up the maggot helm in Izalith. I know where to get it but I just cant force myself to boot the game up.

Cat With Two Heads		2012-03-05 05:25:32 PM

Honest Bender: Do some side quests for the two lackies. Super quick easy money.

F that, I'm gonna shoot the Emperor with an arrow to the face.

Geotpf		2012-03-05 05:27:15 PM

MoronLessOff: Geotpf: MoronLessOff: MisterPickles: I have over 3000 hours in TF2. Noobs.

MugzyBrown: I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week available for playing a game.

/old
//new baby

Me too. *sigh*

That's why you create a local server on a CP map and idle a few hours. You'll get your weekly item drop limit and you won't end up with a ridiculously high Longest Life time.

I manage to hit the 11 hour drop cap every week on my main account.

Now, I do idle my other three accounts...

I've thought about doing this and gifting it all to one account. Is that possible? It would make my crafting go by so much quicker. I need reclaimed for all the moon man business. Eventually I'll go for the accessories, but I'll need extra items and lots of metal.

Each account makes about half a Refined per week, not counting hat drops (my main account never gets hat drops for whatever reason, although my alts get them on a semi-regular basis). You can certainly trade items between accounts freely. For it to work easily, you need two computers though (there are ways to do it with just one computer, but they are more complicated). I just use my old computer-the second computer needs to merely be able to run the game, it doesn't need to be really be playable.

TheSelphie		2012-03-05 05:53:15 PM

Electromax: TheSelphie: Got over 160 hours on the clock for Xenoblade Chronicles, single playthrough, still didn't do absolutely everything. I left the machine on a lot while I was doing other things, but I'd estimate that at least 140 of those hours were actually playing. The game is just fantastic. I've played other games over 100 hours if you count multiple playthroughs, but I believe that's the only non-online game I've played more than 100 hours in a single playthrough.

I'm at around 30 hours and I just hit Prison Island (after getting the little Riki dude and getting to the high-tech city). Do you remember about how far into the game that is?

A bit under halfway. So yeah, you still got at least 30 more hours to go. Have fun. I think the game takes at least 50 hours even if you don't do any side things.

randomjsa		2012-03-05 06:00:46 PM

"Is it ever worthwhile to spend 100 hours..."

Now insert activity that is deemed "good" by the media.

Playing baseball, hanging out in bars, and all that other crap the people playing the same video game for 100 hours don't have any interest in.

1derful		2012-03-05 06:29:01 PM

Tolstoy played chess throughout his lifetime. That time he spent pushing wood could have gone to writing. Just imagine what he could have accomplished if he didn't spend hundreds of hours of his life farting around with some stupid game! Chess is also misogynistic. The only piece with a female designation causes the most damage and is the one that a player wants to eliminate the most. The highest designated male piece can't even be removed from the board during play....

Kornchex		2012-03-05 06:32:50 PM

qorkfiend: With almost 2 years of play time in WoW, I'm getting a kick etc.

I was over 750 days in EQ.

/yikes
//at least 100 of that was afk smoking and making drinks.

muck4doo		2012-03-05 06:33:42 PM

Did one char on Skyrim(Male Nord/Light armor/Storm Cloak/lvl 48 currently), then started on another ( Female Imperial/Heavy Armor/Imperial Legion lvl 56 currently). I don't even want to think about how much time I've spent on this.

I envision a time coming when all the lands of Tamriel will be open in one massive game. MMO?

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