Hey Thane, do you happen to remember where John Green talked about the notion? I’m interested in what you were talking about it but I’m having a hard time finding anything about it.
@@BuletPrufe I read all my comments! Thanks for the support. The bit from John Green is from his book, 'The Anthropocene Reviewed', where he attributes the idea to Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I've never known Rosenthal or her work, so I personally attributed the notion to Green, but that's the full list, as far as I'm aware.
A niche that's unfortunately a dead genre: Real Time Strategy games. Age of Empires 2 and 3 Age of Mythology Titans Warcraft 3 (i hate WoW solely because Warcraft 4 does not exist because of it)
@@saurabhkodre9426 I loved age of mythology titans and age of empires 1 and 2 as a kid, but now that I've tried it as an adult I realize how much I used the cheats as a kid to just summon a whole bunch of random things to fight, and with age of empires I used the car summon cheat and had a horde of cars killing everything lol.. I tried getting into age of empires 4 and got to a certain level that I just couldn't finish..
My proudest moment in my time playing KSP was Project DITBE (Dolly Isn't Thinking Big Enough), I achieved hypersonic velocity (Mach 5) at give or take about 8600 meters above sea level The entire craft overheated from atmospheric friction and exploded about a second after reaching that point, but hey the pilot survived.
Finally, a place where my 700 hours in Cyberpunk is acceptable to mention! But jokes aside (the hours are not a joke, 5 playthroughs deep does a thing to a person), I love getting to hear about the games that people have invested in. When they hit, they hit. Been very much enjoying watching your videos. Your essays are well written, enjoyable, and it's like hearing a friend talk about shared niche interests. Or even when the interest isn't shared, I still want to hear your thoughts about it. So thank you for sharing your high hour investment games (mine include Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, BG3, and Stardew Valley).
Damn, I only have that many hours in multiplayer games. Really need to go back through and beat the Witcher 3. Played it around the time it came out before any of the DLC’s and beat it with around 150 hours. Have put around 80 hours into it on Steam since, on two different runs due to long pauses. Will have to go back through and fully complete an alchemy build. So fun.
2:49 one of the best cut-away-jokes I've seen recently, as you released the SRBs too early and they all clearly will collide with the "open air" capsule on a rocket clearly built to do nothing less. Great line delivery too, added the perfect runway for the joke.
Rocket League, 3600h and counting. Always been a fan of sports and cars, so it was a perfect match for me. The community keeps discovering new mechanics, pushing the skill ceiling ever higher. I got hooked on feeling that growth of mastering a new skill even if my rank hasn't really improved in years. Also watching freestylers or the esport is mesmerizingly beautiful.
RS3 player here; more than 200 days spent Recently started OSRS and am almost reaching 1500 total level. Loved your approach about the game, I've been enjoying it quite a bit and I really understand the peak game design about having all classes!
I feel the same way you do when you mentioned that you can’t really gush to people about your love for cyberpunk. I watched a few hours straight of your content and all the 2077 videos and I was so hype I wanted to tell someone but felt nobody around would understand.
I need to try and get invested into the game, but my rig sucks at running it. Hard bottlenecked by my i7-7700K. Having a 3080ti doesn’t mean anything with an old CPU. Doing a full PC upgrade when the 5090 launches and will buy a 480hz 1440p OLED. Will play it then.
Found your channel through your Vampire the Masquerade Battle Royal video and going through your backlog now! Also that statement about OSRS is too true, like it's uncanny how true it is lol. I played in middle school and i still play despite "quitting" and i'm 30 lol. At first i thought it was purely nostalgia, whether it's hearing the login theme, to Lumbridge, doing Dragon Slayer, getting members etc etc but no, we just take breaks, we never truly quit! So many fond memories as well growing up with the game, be it Varrock East and West Bank - selling stuff, the colored texts, Zezima lol, "trimming" Rune Armor, etc etc! I "quit" for about 5-6 months now but i'm dying to continue my Ironman again! Great video Thane!
I I quit osrs because I was bored of it, I used to play with a friend when I was younger but it just wasn't my thing.. Also I never had a paid account so I was gated off of "member only" stuff so that's probably part of why I never really liked it..
aw man, i always think of how hard overwatch fell off. such a shame, i remember playing it with my friends, and even making online ones through it, and it being so much fun! can't tell you how much hours i put into the game back when it came out lol
I absolutely cannot understand how OW got mishandled so drastically. The jump from OW to OW2 was already basically done for no reason, and then they just kept cutting things and letting it fall apart. Completely insane. I don't know for certain my time in OW, but I'd put it at around 1-200 hours. Bummed to see what it's become.
I dont know if rainbow6siege is comparable but even when it was a buggy mess for the first 3 years of its existence the latter 2 of them were some of the most fun i ever had playing a shooter
I have over 3500 hours in OW. Played comp a little up until season 5 of OW1, hit like 3200. Rarely played comp after, but kept up with quick play. Now I’ve found a game I’m addicted to that fills that gap. Deadlock. And coming from OW only, no mobas, it is awesome.
Back when I started playing it in 2014 it was just an easy way to stay connected to people I wouldn't see at school every day. I don't think any of us really expected it to be this big of a deal at all.
A combined 4k (minimum, might be 5k) hours in Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, and nearly 7k (no idea exactly how many hours that is, just what the average time games last) games in League of Legends, with 6k-ish of them in ARAM. And thousands of hours on other games. All that gameplay, yet it's the stories and lore that keeps me interested. I'm so into the lore of Fromsoftware games that I could spend hours talking about it! That's not to say I don't have fun actually playing these games, I prefer to explore them alone at first but, I love playing with friends and randoms.
Hey! I love your videos, I have been watching for a while now. I just wanted to share that I never realized before how gaming can still feel so wrong even in adult life. Even when my wife became a gamer that spends hours and hours playing on her switch while I'll game beside her. Telling any other person about any amount of time playing any kind of game always feels like something that has to be calculated. It's funny, as a pianist, if I say that have practice for a lot of hours my piano, people get happy. It's really just a cultural thing, isn't it? Anyway, I'm very happy that your channel is one of those corners of the internet (John Green is another btw), where I feel safe and I feel like I understand what you're saying. And maybe you would understand what I could say as well. So thank you for that! I know I love anything cyberpunk, I now I love games, and that very specific hopeful kind of story that values humanity and connection. And I now I'm not alone. And it's okay to be like that.
My favorite game of all time has to be Skyrim, and it's the game that I can't let go. I'm on my ??? playthrough since 2012 when my parents first bought the Legendary Edition for me, and it's probably helped me through more good times and terrible times than any other media out there. Skyrim is my universal constant
I always find it weird when people talk about classless systems being their favorite, or even objectively better than class based RPGs. I grew up playing diablo 2/3 and borderlands 1/2 with my dad so I've yearned for good class systems and really only found them in CRPGs and MMOs.
I have had several gaming obsessions over the years, but none of them really got higher than about 100+ hours. I would get really into a game for about a week or two, playing basically nothing but that, before changing. Destiny 2, Mount & Blade 2, PowerWash Sim, World of Warcraft, Total War: Warhammer 2 and 3. Most recently though, it's been Final Fantasy 14, the MMO. It's my first game to reach 500+ hours, and before i picked it up again at the end of April, I had about 100 hours. My steam playtime has consistently shown 100+ hours in the past 2 weeks since then, as I've been slowly progressing through the main story and getting constantly side-tracked with all the things to do in Eorzea, and even getting side-tracked from my side-tracking. This obsession likely won't stop for a while longer.
I didn't first play OSRS until it was ported to mobile in like 2018? As a kid I played Asheron's call, and graduated to WoW in college, and it never hit my radar until then. Early game runescape is PERFECT for mobile. Once I got higher, I moved over to PC and went harder. It's a great casual numbers go up game, or a high skill prayer flick adventure. I like the flexibility.
That just means you either don't really have a life, or other hobbies. There's always a sacrifice when you play a game, there always could be something else you to do or learn. Unfortunately, these days, I can't get rid of that voice that keeps telling me that I could be more productive with my life. So I can't really put more than 5 hours into games in a week. Sigh.
@@nomindseye This is facts. When I game, I can only enjoy it for a couple of hours before that nagging "you should be doing something productive with your life" feeling comes. That realization that if you put half the effort into self improvement as you do in completing digital fetch quests and level grinding, you'd actually be somebody you're proud of. You know, instead of an obese , terminally online neckbeard lol.
Over 1000 hours in both destiny 2 and Escape from Tarkov and i genuinely dont regret either, despite the fact that ive decided to quit both, my realization was basically "these games will never be what i want them to be" or at least "destiny 2 will never be the game it used to be" for me
I can't touch 3600 hrs., but I have almost 850 hours in Cyberpunk 2077. I think CP2077 is the greatest video game ever made, hands down. I have 300 hours in Baldur's Gate 3. Although much of it isn't recorded anywhere, I probably have 600-700 hours into Fallout 4 (or more... owned the game on disk a long time ago. Lots of play then was offline... own it now on Steam and have 360 hours), and 500+ hours into Baldurs Gate 2, Sword of Amn/Throne of Bhall, none of which I get credit for anywhere. But every hour of the 850 I have into Cyberpunk 2077 is recorded on Steam. For me, 200+ hours into a game that I like is kind of standard. I never play a fast style, and I'm a completionist. The depths to which I search, for example, drives some people crazy in multiplayer. No stone unturned, as they say.
I have almost 1300 hours in Civ 6, and I have not stopped play Skyrim on SOME platform since it was released. I literally just picked it up on PC because it was on sale with Morrowind and Oblivion and started playing it there instead of console, and have finally got to experience modding. I don't think I'll ever drop it.
Oh my gosh and how could I forget to mention Minecraft? It's a game that never dies for me. Of course the constant updates help ahhaa. But it's truly a game that is only as limited as the player's imagination, and there's nothing else like it. I can get even my non-gamer friends into it and it's helped me stay connected with all my gaming friends even as we've grown up and moved to new states or countries. Also, can't believe you play league too hahaha. I was very into it, joined in 2014 and stopped playing for good earlier this year. League brought me a majority of my online friends, and for that I'll always be grateful, but I just don't enjoy it anymore. I do feel like part of that is the community, which is hard to ignore when I like to use chat to.. ya know, talk with the ppl playing the same game as me? Now people are so quick to have an absolute meltdown in the chat, it took away one of my favorite things about playing this social game. Someday I might return. TFT was pretty fun and I'm sure I'll miss it eventually. But between the tilters, feeders, insane item changes, champ reworks, and what feels like an overabundance of champions, I just got tired of it. The chokehold it had on me for those 10 years was insane tho.
My mate roped me into playin' RS when I was younger. Decided to level prayer by findin' an' buryin' bones to take the mickey out of him levellin' mining as his main. Flash forward a month, an' I had a premium subscription to do quests which would allow me to get a bag of bones. Flash forward another month, and I was doin' the agi course to get the skills up needed to do the quest I'd need for the bag of bones. Flash forward yet another month, and I realised there was no RP in RS an' I dropped my subscription to go back to buryin' bones. One month later and I realised that my mate was a scrub, and was never gonna cape. Lost the interest in buryin' bones to take the mick and left the game. Never went back, but I do think aboot that bag o' bones on occasion.
started with the C64 and then early Apogee games and other indies on the 286 , moved on to the Ultima series with 5/6/7/8/UW 1&2 , and basically everything from Origin Systems ; the 90s were an amazing time for videogames , BBS MUDs , Wolfenstein/DOOM , Mechwarrior , Diablo , Baldurs Gate , the TSR DnD games , C&C , Warcraft 1&2 , etc ; ending the millenium with spending a lot of time with Ultima Online , then got into arguably the best MMORPG in 2004 , City of Heroes , and imho nothing else compared ; eventually NCSoft betrayed the community and the developers and shut down the game servers and refused to sell the IP to the original dev studio ; since then i have adopted Warframe and SMITE , which are basically polar opposites , and ofc City of Heroes is now back forever [being open-sourced and decentralized] with several private servers ; but truly i spend more time with video essays like this than i do playing games these days XD
I used to play league way back in the day. I"m talking like... season 2 back in the day. I was... slightly above average at it, too. Was in the middle tier ranked for a while without really pushing myself too hard for it. But the community got too toxic for me, so I backed out. I've heard how much it's changed since then, and I actually tried to poke at it last year and... yeah, no. It's basically a completely different game now. All of my mains are effectively completely new characters, and most of the builds are different, and some of the items aren't even the same thing anymore... and I just don't have the... drive I did when I was in my late 20's anymore. Not for something like that, at least.
I have 300 hours in Pokémon Soulsilver. I don't know what it is about the game that keeps me hooked, but i play for 30-60 minutes, I'm trying to get as many Pokémon as possible in the base game because that and HeartGold is all I've got. Although, I have played Pokémon: Blue, and Crystal, Pearl and FireRed. Though I didn't finish the games, I just stopped playing them.
I highly recommend playing RuneScape 3 when you don't like how the current gameplay of OSRS is obsessed with tick manipulation. You can really easily play both RuneScapes at once since your membership works for both, and RS3 is both much less tryhard/more chill, and not based around ticks as the primary mechanic. To me, OSRS is for challenge runs and self imposed restrictions, but RS3 is for actually having normal old-school runescapey fun. Ironic, since it's OSRS that claims to be old-school, but it's what I've experienced.
So uh, 1,600 hours in Europa Universalis 4? Though I will freely admit, the last couple hundred of that has been the Anbennar total conversion mod. Next closest for steam games (probably way too much in WoW and old playstation games) is Stellaris at 431 hours.
I have like 500-700 hours in each of the mainline ES games (except Arena. Also I’ve played Daggerfall a fair bit less than the big 3 games). …And I have about 1,500 hours in Garry’s Mod lol
Ark Survival Evolved. More than 6000 hours. That game was like a 2nd life...untill I stoped playing, to join some friends in Fallout 76...where I already have more than 1000 hours...yeah, those are not games that I would put in a list of the best ever...or why not?! I mean, metal gear solid, gta, shadow of the colossus, etc, those seems to me like the games I would naturaly choose to that list, but...as much glitches it has, how much problems and all that, if I spend 6000 hours in a game...is because something pulls me back in...I had around 3000 hours on gta v, but that is comprehensible...but Ark?! Fallout 76?! I would never believe if someone said tell me "you will live in those games..." But here I am, playing F76, with an ich allways saying to me "cummon...put Ark back on...do it!..." Well, one thing is for sure, for me 200 hours is not that much, and in an online game is nothing
I have almost 2000 hours in both Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron 4. I don't even particularly like the latter, they just scratch a certain part of my brain in ways no other piece of entertainment ever has. My personal "10/10, I hate it, don't play" game would be Counter-Strike (which I have around 1100 hours in), except unlike you and League, I'm not very good at it lol. Can't stand the playerbase and the update to CS2 has ruined it entirely, but damn if it isn't rewarding when everything goes right.
The frequently changing oil thing is a holdover from ye olden days where engines would experience much more wear afaik. If you're not a car person, just bring the car to a mechanic at the interval it asks you to and you'll be fine. (Low use can actually cause damage to mechanical systems tho. You'll need more of a car person to answer how long of standing still is too long for your average car tho)
Im a recovering runescape addict. 2 years sober lol. Lost a girlfriend and failed several classes in college because of OSRS 🤣 (edit:not upset at all about the gf loss, got an infinitly better one now)
all of us have played league, all of us loved it, all of us hated it few times winning in league felt good for me, mostly the fun conversations in all chat are what sold the game to me.... too bad now everybody is a pussy crystal skin loser, can't have any banter anymore. Not only league, just the internet in general BUT... but your social skills point does make sense and (same as you) this game really made me strong socially in some regards..... game still sucks, riot balance team is far too incompetent, new champions literally require no skill, people mental goes boom even before turn on their PCs, plus game looks as a chinese mobile game knockoff of itself, overall 4/10 play aram or uninstall, thank me later
I want to know about your obsessions, too. You got any games that totally command your time like these?
Hey Thane, do you happen to remember where John Green talked about the notion? I’m interested in what you were talking about it but I’m having a hard time finding anything about it.
Also in case you read this I super love your videos. I’m really looking forward to seeing more people start recognizing your work.
@@BuletPrufe I read all my comments! Thanks for the support. The bit from John Green is from his book, 'The Anthropocene Reviewed', where he attributes the idea to Amy Krouse Rosenthal. I've never known Rosenthal or her work, so I personally attributed the notion to Green, but that's the full list, as far as I'm aware.
A niche that's unfortunately a dead genre: Real Time Strategy games.
Age of Empires 2 and 3
Age of Mythology Titans
Warcraft 3 (i hate WoW solely because Warcraft 4 does not exist because of it)
@@saurabhkodre9426 I loved age of mythology titans and age of empires 1 and 2 as a kid, but now that I've tried it as an adult I realize how much I used the cheats as a kid to just summon a whole bunch of random things to fight, and with age of empires I used the car summon cheat and had a horde of cars killing everything lol.. I tried getting into age of empires 4 and got to a certain level that I just couldn't finish..
My proudest moment in my time playing KSP was Project DITBE (Dolly Isn't Thinking Big Enough), I achieved hypersonic velocity (Mach 5) at give or take about 8600 meters above sea level
The entire craft overheated from atmospheric friction and exploded about a second after reaching that point, but hey the pilot survived.
Finally, a place where my 700 hours in Cyberpunk is acceptable to mention! But jokes aside (the hours are not a joke, 5 playthroughs deep does a thing to a person), I love getting to hear about the games that people have invested in. When they hit, they hit. Been very much enjoying watching your videos. Your essays are well written, enjoyable, and it's like hearing a friend talk about shared niche interests. Or even when the interest isn't shared, I still want to hear your thoughts about it. So thank you for sharing your high hour investment games (mine include Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 3, BG3, and Stardew Valley).
Damn, I only have that many hours in multiplayer games.
Really need to go back through and beat the Witcher 3.
Played it around the time it came out before any of the DLC’s and beat it with around 150 hours.
Have put around 80 hours into it on Steam since, on two different runs due to long pauses.
Will have to go back through and fully complete an alchemy build. So fun.
I just discovered your channel today, and it has been amazing. You really get me. Thank you from a kindred spirit.
2:49 one of the best cut-away-jokes I've seen recently, as you released the SRBs too early and they all clearly will collide with the "open air" capsule on a rocket clearly built to do nothing less. Great line delivery too, added the perfect runway for the joke.
Rocket League, 3600h and counting. Always been a fan of sports and cars, so it was a perfect match for me. The community keeps discovering new mechanics, pushing the skill ceiling ever higher. I got hooked on feeling that growth of mastering a new skill even if my rank hasn't really improved in years. Also watching freestylers or the esport is mesmerizingly beautiful.
RS3 player here; more than 200 days spent
Recently started OSRS and am almost reaching 1500 total level. Loved your approach about the game, I've been enjoying it quite a bit and I really understand the peak game design about having all classes!
Also heard a FFXIV song at the end of the video; really nice!
I feel the same way you do when you mentioned that you can’t really gush to people about your love for cyberpunk.
I watched a few hours straight of your content and all the 2077 videos and I was so hype I wanted to tell someone but felt nobody around would understand.
I need to try and get invested into the game, but my rig sucks at running it. Hard bottlenecked by my i7-7700K.
Having a 3080ti doesn’t mean anything with an old CPU.
Doing a full PC upgrade when the 5090 launches and will buy a 480hz 1440p OLED.
Will play it then.
Found your channel through your Vampire the Masquerade Battle Royal video and going through your backlog now!
Also that statement about OSRS is too true, like it's uncanny how true it is lol. I played in middle school and i still play despite "quitting" and i'm 30 lol. At first i thought it was purely nostalgia, whether it's hearing the login theme, to Lumbridge, doing Dragon Slayer, getting members etc etc but no, we just take breaks, we never truly quit!
So many fond memories as well growing up with the game, be it Varrock East and West Bank - selling stuff, the colored texts, Zezima lol, "trimming" Rune Armor, etc etc!
I "quit" for about 5-6 months now but i'm dying to continue my Ironman again! Great video Thane!
I I quit osrs because I was bored of it, I used to play with a friend when I was younger but it just wasn't my thing.. Also I never had a paid account so I was gated off of "member only" stuff so that's probably part of why I never really liked it..
I'm not a league player (maybe
aw man, i always think of how hard overwatch fell off. such a shame, i remember playing it with my friends, and even making online ones through it, and it being so much fun! can't tell you how much hours i put into the game back when it came out lol
I absolutely cannot understand how OW got mishandled so drastically. The jump from OW to OW2 was already basically done for no reason, and then they just kept cutting things and letting it fall apart. Completely insane. I don't know for certain my time in OW, but I'd put it at around 1-200 hours. Bummed to see what it's become.
I dont know if rainbow6siege is comparable but even when it was a buggy mess for the first 3 years of its existence the latter 2 of them were some of the most fun i ever had playing a shooter
I have over 3500 hours in OW. Played comp a little up until season 5 of OW1, hit like 3200. Rarely played comp after, but kept up with quick play.
Now I’ve found a game I’m addicted to that fills that gap.
Deadlock.
And coming from OW only, no mobas, it is awesome.
Ngl it really surprised me that even Thane played so much league, I knew League but goddamn it's so big
Back when I started playing it in 2014 it was just an easy way to stay connected to people I wouldn't see at school every day. I don't think any of us really expected it to be this big of a deal at all.
A combined 4k (minimum, might be 5k) hours in Dark Souls 1-3, Bloodborne and Elden Ring, and nearly 7k (no idea exactly how many hours that is, just what the average time games last) games in League of Legends, with 6k-ish of them in ARAM. And thousands of hours on other games. All that gameplay, yet it's the stories and lore that keeps me interested. I'm so into the lore of Fromsoftware games that I could spend hours talking about it! That's not to say I don't have fun actually playing these games, I prefer to explore them alone at first but, I love playing with friends and randoms.
Hey! I love your videos, I have been watching for a while now. I just wanted to share that I never realized before how gaming can still feel so wrong even in adult life. Even when my wife became a gamer that spends hours and hours playing on her switch while I'll game beside her. Telling any other person about any amount of time playing any kind of game always feels like something that has to be calculated. It's funny, as a pianist, if I say that have practice for a lot of hours my piano, people get happy. It's really just a cultural thing, isn't it? Anyway, I'm very happy that your channel is one of those corners of the internet (John Green is another btw), where I feel safe and I feel like I understand what you're saying. And maybe you would understand what I could say as well. So thank you for that! I know I love anything cyberpunk, I now I love games, and that very specific hopeful kind of story that values humanity and connection. And I now I'm not alone. And it's okay to be like that.
I don't know if you ever played Eastshade, but I feel like you would enjoy it!
My favorite game of all time has to be Skyrim, and it's the game that I can't let go. I'm on my ??? playthrough since 2012 when my parents first bought the Legendary Edition for me, and it's probably helped me through more good times and terrible times than any other media out there. Skyrim is my universal constant
I always find it weird when people talk about classless systems being their favorite, or even objectively better than class based RPGs. I grew up playing diablo 2/3 and borderlands 1/2 with my dad so I've yearned for good class systems and really only found them in CRPGs and MMOs.
I have had several gaming obsessions over the years, but none of them really got higher than about 100+ hours. I would get really into a game for about a week or two, playing basically nothing but that, before changing. Destiny 2, Mount & Blade 2, PowerWash Sim, World of Warcraft, Total War: Warhammer 2 and 3. Most recently though, it's been Final Fantasy 14, the MMO. It's my first game to reach 500+ hours, and before i picked it up again at the end of April, I had about 100 hours. My steam playtime has consistently shown 100+ hours in the past 2 weeks since then, as I've been slowly progressing through the main story and getting constantly side-tracked with all the things to do in Eorzea, and even getting side-tracked from my side-tracking. This obsession likely won't stop for a while longer.
I didn't first play OSRS until it was ported to mobile in like 2018? As a kid I played Asheron's call, and graduated to WoW in college, and it never hit my radar until then. Early game runescape is PERFECT for mobile. Once I got higher, I moved over to PC and went harder. It's a great casual numbers go up game, or a high skill prayer flick adventure. I like the flexibility.
5,600ish hours in Rimworld.
Over a literal year of playtime in World of Warcrack.
Thousands of hours of KSP as well.
200hrs gets weird looks? damn, i have over 900 days in WoW
people think you shouldn’t be allowed to have an opinion on game balance in tf2 if you don’t have more than 1000 hours lol
That just means you either don't really have a life, or other hobbies. There's always a sacrifice when you play a game, there always could be something else you to do or learn. Unfortunately, these days, I can't get rid of that voice that keeps telling me that I could be more productive with my life. So I can't really put more than 5 hours into games in a week. Sigh.
@@nomindseye cool story, didnt ask
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@@nomindseye This is facts. When I game, I can only enjoy it for a couple of hours before that nagging "you should be doing something productive with your life" feeling comes. That realization that if you put half the effort into self improvement as you do in completing digital fetch quests and level grinding, you'd actually be somebody you're proud of. You know, instead of an obese , terminally online neckbeard lol.
00:18 i had one for Franklin, shit was gas
Over 1000 hours in both destiny 2 and Escape from Tarkov and i genuinely dont regret either, despite the fact that ive decided to quit both, my realization was basically "these games will never be what i want them to be" or at least "destiny 2 will never be the game it used to be" for me
I can't touch 3600 hrs., but I have almost 850 hours in Cyberpunk 2077. I think CP2077 is the greatest video game ever made, hands down.
I have 300 hours in Baldur's Gate 3. Although much of it isn't recorded anywhere, I probably have 600-700 hours into Fallout 4 (or more... owned the game on disk a long time ago. Lots of play then was offline... own it now on Steam and have 360 hours), and 500+ hours into Baldurs Gate 2, Sword of Amn/Throne of Bhall, none of which I get credit for anywhere.
But every hour of the 850 I have into Cyberpunk 2077 is recorded on Steam.
For me, 200+ hours into a game that I like is kind of standard. I never play a fast style, and I'm a completionist. The depths to which I search, for example, drives some people crazy in multiplayer. No stone unturned, as they say.
Your KSP story is literally me. Like, word for word. Down to the Star Wars Lego and Scott Manley videos.
Space works like star wars space in star wars because it's not a "vacuum" as we understand but a vacuum + luminous aether.
I have almost 1300 hours in Civ 6, and I have not stopped play Skyrim on SOME platform since it was released. I literally just picked it up on PC because it was on sale with Morrowind and Oblivion and started playing it there instead of console, and have finally got to experience modding. I don't think I'll ever drop it.
Oh my gosh and how could I forget to mention Minecraft? It's a game that never dies for me. Of course the constant updates help ahhaa. But it's truly a game that is only as limited as the player's imagination, and there's nothing else like it. I can get even my non-gamer friends into it and it's helped me stay connected with all my gaming friends even as we've grown up and moved to new states or countries.
Also, can't believe you play league too hahaha. I was very into it, joined in 2014 and stopped playing for good earlier this year. League brought me a majority of my online friends, and for that I'll always be grateful, but I just don't enjoy it anymore. I do feel like part of that is the community, which is hard to ignore when I like to use chat to.. ya know, talk with the ppl playing the same game as me? Now people are so quick to have an absolute meltdown in the chat, it took away one of my favorite things about playing this social game.
Someday I might return. TFT was pretty fun and I'm sure I'll miss it eventually. But between the tilters, feeders, insane item changes, champ reworks, and what feels like an overabundance of champions, I just got tired of it.
The chokehold it had on me for those 10 years was insane tho.
My mate roped me into playin' RS when I was younger. Decided to level prayer by findin' an' buryin' bones to take the mickey out of him levellin' mining as his main. Flash forward a month, an' I had a premium subscription to do quests which would allow me to get a bag of bones. Flash forward another month, and I was doin' the agi course to get the skills up needed to do the quest I'd need for the bag of bones. Flash forward yet another month, and I realised there was no RP in RS an' I dropped my subscription to go back to buryin' bones. One month later and I realised that my mate was a scrub, and was never gonna cape. Lost the interest in buryin' bones to take the mick and left the game.
Never went back, but I do think aboot that bag o' bones on occasion.
started with the C64 and then early Apogee games and other indies on the 286 , moved on to the Ultima series with 5/6/7/8/UW 1&2 , and basically everything from Origin Systems ; the 90s were an amazing time for videogames , BBS MUDs , Wolfenstein/DOOM , Mechwarrior , Diablo , Baldurs Gate , the TSR DnD games , C&C , Warcraft 1&2 , etc ; ending the millenium with spending a lot of time with Ultima Online , then got into arguably the best MMORPG in 2004 , City of Heroes , and imho nothing else compared ; eventually NCSoft betrayed the community and the developers and shut down the game servers and refused to sell the IP to the original dev studio ; since then i have adopted Warframe and SMITE , which are basically polar opposites , and ofc City of Heroes is now back forever [being open-sourced and decentralized] with several private servers ; but truly i spend more time with video essays like this than i do playing games these days XD
I used to play league way back in the day. I"m talking like... season 2 back in the day. I was... slightly above average at it, too. Was in the middle tier ranked for a while without really pushing myself too hard for it. But the community got too toxic for me, so I backed out. I've heard how much it's changed since then, and I actually tried to poke at it last year and... yeah, no. It's basically a completely different game now. All of my mains are effectively completely new characters, and most of the builds are different, and some of the items aren't even the same thing anymore... and I just don't have the... drive I did when I was in my late 20's anymore. Not for something like that, at least.
crying tears of joy b/c i've finally found someone else besides me who has more than 1100 hours in KSP
I have 300 hours in Pokémon Soulsilver. I don't know what it is about the game that keeps me hooked, but i play for 30-60 minutes, I'm trying to get as many Pokémon as possible in the base game because that and HeartGold is all I've got.
Although, I have played Pokémon: Blue, and Crystal, Pearl and FireRed. Though I didn't finish the games, I just stopped playing them.
1120+ hours in KSP in 4 or so months is my personal sin. Ofc a good bit of it is in loading screens but god damn do I have some good screenshots.
I highly recommend playing RuneScape 3 when you don't like how the current gameplay of OSRS is obsessed with tick manipulation. You can really easily play both RuneScapes at once since your membership works for both, and RS3 is both much less tryhard/more chill, and not based around ticks as the primary mechanic.
To me, OSRS is for challenge runs and self imposed restrictions, but RS3 is for actually having normal old-school runescapey fun. Ironic, since it's OSRS that claims to be old-school, but it's what I've experienced.
So uh, 1,600 hours in Europa Universalis 4? Though I will freely admit, the last couple hundred of that has been the Anbennar total conversion mod. Next closest for steam games (probably way too much in WoW and old playstation games) is Stellaris at 431 hours.
only 214hrs this year?
I have like 500-700 hours in each of the mainline ES games (except Arena. Also I’ve played Daggerfall a fair bit less than the big 3 games).
…And I have about 1,500 hours in Garry’s Mod lol
Who fed Kayn?
Ark Survival Evolved. More than 6000 hours. That game was like a 2nd life...untill I stoped playing, to join some friends in Fallout 76...where I already have more than 1000 hours...yeah, those are not games that I would put in a list of the best ever...or why not?! I mean, metal gear solid, gta, shadow of the colossus, etc, those seems to me like the games I would naturaly choose to that list, but...as much glitches it has, how much problems and all that, if I spend 6000 hours in a game...is because something pulls me back in...I had around 3000 hours on gta v, but that is comprehensible...but Ark?! Fallout 76?! I would never believe if someone said tell me "you will live in those games..." But here I am, playing F76, with an ich allways saying to me "cummon...put Ark back on...do it!..." Well, one thing is for sure, for me 200 hours is not that much, and in an online game is nothing
200 hours in one save of red dead 2
If you like ksp you should give factorio a try.
I have almost 2000 hours in both Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron 4. I don't even particularly like the latter, they just scratch a certain part of my brain in ways no other piece of entertainment ever has. My personal "10/10, I hate it, don't play" game would be Counter-Strike (which I have around 1100 hours in), except unlike you and League, I'm not very good at it lol. Can't stand the playerbase and the update to CS2 has ruined it entirely, but damn if it isn't rewarding when everything goes right.
I think you need to change oil even if you drive once a week or twice a day
The frequently changing oil thing is a holdover from ye olden days where engines would experience much more wear afaik. If you're not a car person, just bring the car to a mechanic at the interval it asks you to and you'll be fine.
(Low use can actually cause damage to mechanical systems tho. You'll need more of a car person to answer how long of standing still is too long for your average car tho)
I think I have around 400 hours in skyrim
Im a recovering runescape addict. 2 years sober lol. Lost a girlfriend and failed several classes in college because of OSRS 🤣 (edit:not upset at all about the gf loss, got an infinitly better one now)
RuneScape is worth playing just to complete the quest cape. The quests are super fun, goofy and well made.
all of us have played league, all of us loved it, all of us hated it
few times winning in league felt good for me, mostly the fun conversations in all chat are what sold the game to me.... too bad now everybody is a pussy crystal skin loser, can't have any banter anymore. Not only league, just the internet in general
BUT... but your social skills point does make sense and (same as you) this game really made me strong socially in some regards..... game still sucks, riot balance team is far too incompetent, new champions literally require no skill, people mental goes boom even before turn on their PCs, plus game looks as a chinese mobile game knockoff of itself, overall 4/10 play aram or uninstall, thank me later
Who gives a fuck about a game’s “reputation”? If you like a game play it.
I do not get why people like LoL,
honestly man me neither
Me neither
League is so fucking boring tho.....