Always nice to find someone else with good taste in games :)
Same here :)
What did you enjoy most about those games ?
DOD for me had some great map designs and the weapons were all unique and fun to get to know and use them. Escape and Charlie were some great maps !
RTCW was of course all about the objectives and the best mode ever: stopwatch. The classes provided some excellent teamplay. It's amazing thinking back how well people worked in team back then, people weren't even constantly rewarded with XP and unlocks back then. It was all about beating that other teams time :D
As you say, DoD was all about the map design and weapons. The best thing about it was the lethality of them, one shot kills from Kar 98k's and Enfield rifles 2 shots from a Garand, if you didn't hit the head or upper body, made the game challenging. The way a couple of skilled players could hold up entire advances with a sniper rifle and a well positioned MG42 (jump and prone was an awesome move for setting up MG's in a window). Careful priming of 'nades so as no one could send them back and knowing where and when to throw them.
It was basically a very hard game to play and even harder to master. I mostly played on the Band of Beavers (UK) server which later became The Left Overs, I think it's still up and running now.
For me RtCW was all about clan play, spent a couple of years playing with The BEER Clan. We were never the best clan going but always had fun and played a hard game with some unorthodox tactics. Playing top tear clans like 4 Kings was always a riot, even if we never won (or even came close to it). We did win a couple of leagues and done fairly well on the Clan Base ladder. I was an absolute RPG magnet in that game though, with a clan mate once stating I was the only person he knew that had been killed by an RPG fired on a different server :D
The worst thing about modern FPS games is the XP and unlocks, there shouldn't be any need to create that kind of incentive to get people to play a game and it makes it incredibly unbalanced. Make a good game and people will play it for years. DoD especially is proof of that.
I have thousands of hours across most SOCOM titles. Plan to do the same for H-Hour World's Elite. sofstudios.com The Alpha is staring soon, then onto closed beta, and then Steam early access in March. Eventually coming to the PS4 as well.
3180 hours in DOTA 2. I try not to think about all of the productive things I could have been doing. Though honestly, I've been playing it since summer of 2012 which is roughly 2 and a half years, 3k hours is not THAT much all things considered (like if not for this game, I would just be playing other games, that you have to pay money for).
The only other games that I've spent significant amounts of time on were Dark Souls and Demon's Souls, both were about 300 hours.
Then there's M&B Warband which I played for roughly 100 hours (such a good game) and Dark Souls 2 is at 80 hours and rising (currently addicted to it).
I dont think i ever spent more than 200 hours in a game. The biggest ones were FF XII with 130h, GT4 and GTA:SA with more than 100h each. Good old times where I had the time to put so much into a game...
If mmos count then my actual playtime in FFXI before quitting back in 2009 was about 600 days if its for normal games then it would be Dragon quest 8 213 hours and WKC II 530ish hours (well the game had some online missions :P)
Here's my question to you, @charizard1605 : how did you sink 200 hours into this game when the main game (and all extra optional content) can be done in about 40-60 hours given on your preferred method of grinding?
I think I dumped 150~ hours into SMT4 and now hitting the 180 hour mark in Persona Q.
I feel the exact same way about COH 2. Put so many hours into it, yet I'm still seeing so many new stuff and every single online battle is different.
Haven't encountered two people that play the same once.
It's a blessing and a curse though. Love the game, but I can't get around to my backlog of SP games xD
Yea i'm at 350 hours on coh2 and still going strong, got a good group of 4-5 guys who play regularly so I can forsee it becoming my most played game on steam within the next couple months. Something about its gameplay just never gets old for me.
Other than that, my most played game is still dawn of war 2 with about 430 hours closely followed by l4d2 with 412 hours
I have just over 150 hours on both Tf2 and Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm although I still play the latter game semi regularly so it will probably pull away from tf2 which i dont think i will return to.
I don't think I can do that again with most newer games, in fact last time I did that was like 2011 or so. Earlier years I do over 200 hours on many games due to free time and enjoying the hell out of it and such.
Here's my question to you, @charizard1605 : how did you sink 200 hours into this game when the main game (and all extra optional content) can be done in about 40-60 hours given on your preferred method of grinding?
I think I dumped 150~ hours into SMT4 and now hitting the 180 hour mark in Persona Q.
Replays. This might be like my third replay of the game (and it's a fresh file entirely).
Probably a lot and not in many games that you'd expect. Mostly single player games that I've played over and over again.
So, basically every 3d Zelda besides Wind Waker, Kingdom Hearts 2, Advance Wars Days of Ruin, Super Smash Bros Melee, Soul Caliber 2, and probably my most played game is Street Fighter 3, mainly Third Strike.
I feel the exact same way about COH 2. Put so many hours into it, yet I'm still seeing so many new stuff and every single online battle is different.
Haven't encountered two people that play the same once.
It's a blessing and a curse though. Love the game, but I can't get around to my backlog of SP games xD
Yea i'm at 350 hours on coh2 and still going strong, got a good group of 4-5 guys who play regularly so I can forsee it becoming my most played game on steam within the next couple months. Something about its gameplay just never gets old for me.
Other than that, my most played game is still dawn of war 2 with about 430 hours closely followed by l4d2 with 412 hours
I have just over 150 hours on both Tf2 and Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm although I still play the latter game semi regularly so it will probably pull away from tf2 which i dont think i will return to.
That's crazy isn't it. In Planetside 2 I am just now, like since last week, learning to be a squad lead (platoon lead maybe). But you have to have all the capture points of all facilities on all maps memorized and all the roads and which bases are easy to cap with what, or easy to defend with what, and how the enemy factions react on our server and I know nothing about ANY of that XD
There is still a TON to learn for me after 480 hours, that is crazy.
So, you know, sometimes, people play games a lot. Like, so much that they end up clocking in an obscene amount of time into their games. There are a lot of games that can lead to such absurdly high play times- games like Skyrim, or Dark Souls, MMOs like World of Warcraft, games like Pokemon or Fire Emblem, MOBAs like DOTA 2 or League of Legends... a lot of them, you know?
So, I made this thread because today, I ended up crossing the 200 hour mark for Persona 4 Golden. Since starting it on October 22, 2013, I have now clocked in 200 hours of play time into the game- notably, this is the time I have spent actually playing the main RPG mode. Time spent in the menus, or in the TV programs, or any of that, none of that is counted (so my total power time for the game is probably closer to 230 hours than 200 hours).
This is also the first game since Pokemon Diamond and Pearl back in 2007 where I have managed to get this much time in.
So, my question to you: have you managed to clock in at least 200 hours into a game recently? And if so, which one?
That's nothing , I have over 2000 hours in skyrim.
even more in mortal kombat and fifa
I looked into that persona game the other day, because I didn't know about this game but the anime graphics are just not for me. I stopped liking cartoony graphics when i was about 10 I think. I do like animated graphics though (like in finding nemo).
The most recent game I clocked that in is either The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword or Ultra Street Fighter 4. Otherwise I believe the only other games to reach that many hours were Pokemon games and Smash bros.
Well i must have more than 2000 hours on KZ2. I know a guy who has over 10000 on KZ2 lolol. The last game i played PES15 i think i must of put over 200 hours. On a single player game its very hard to achieve this. Maybe i put 200 or close to it on FFXII... MGS2 i know i put over. I beat that game so many times.
Yea i'm at 350 hours on coh2 and still going strong, got a good group of 4-5 guys who play regularly so I can forsee it becoming my most played game on steam within the next couple months. Something about its gameplay just never gets old for me.
Other than that, my most played game is still dawn of war 2 with about 430 hours closely followed by l4d2 with 412 hours
I have just over 150 hours on both Tf2 and Red Orchestra 2/Rising Storm although I still play the latter game semi regularly so it will probably pull away from tf2 which i dont think i will return to.
L4D2 ? Red Orchestra 2 you say ? :P
These are my most played games on steam:
Yeah, I also have a good group to play with :) But if you want we can play some COH together. I'm GMT+1 though, you're from the US right ?
That's crazy isn't it. In Planetside 2 I am just now, like since last week, learning to be a squad lead (platoon lead maybe). But you have to have all the capture points of all facilities on all maps memorized and all the roads and which bases are easy to cap with what, or easy to defend with what, and how the enemy factions react on our server and I know nothing about ANY of that XD
There is still a TON to learn for me after 480 hours, that is crazy.
The worst thing about modern FPS games is the XP and unlocks, there shouldn't be any need to create that kind of incentive to get people to play a game and it makes it incredibly unbalanced. Make a good game and people will play it for years. DoD especially is proof of that.
I totally agree. Get those XP, unlocks and perks out of my online FPS please.
I loved games like RTCW, MOHAA or DOD that had a small number of weapons but each was balanced. It especially fitted the WW2 team: bolt action rifles being really powerful, but slow firing and long ranged. While SMGs were pretty low on damage output, but had a high rate of fire and are better short range. Etc...
Don't really care much to have 150 different rifles and 150 different SMGs in a game.
But the thing is, we started playing online FPS with competitive and team games like DOD or RTCW. We started with them or we loved them the most.
A lot of gamers today started playing online FPS with games like COD 4 that they grew used to having unlocks and such. It's a big reason WHY they play online FPS. And it's totally different from our reason to play those games :)
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