The Time Sink Hall of Shame Thread - Page 2 - Video Games

I think the moral of this thread is, if you value your time avoid strategy games and anything made by Valve. And Skyrim. And apparently Binding of Isaac (how the hell anyone gets more than two hours out of this is blowing my mind).

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06-27-2013 , 02:35 PM

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mashxx

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Binding of Isaac consists of simple and brilliant idea making it really enjoyable to grind.

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06-28-2013 , 02:09 AM

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blackchilli

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Many of us are at least part time poker players and that is quite sad. Whenever I open up pokertracker I tell myself, "maybe I should play a round of dota to warm my brain up." Then I'm stuck in an endless loop of gaming and I have a completely unproductive day.

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06-28-2013 , 09:19 AM

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ahah I wondered if any of u were grinders after seeing some stratospherics hours played on video games.
u guys never sleep or what!

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06-28-2013 , 10:28 AM

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hey, I have a full time job, a wife and I still can manage 4k-5k mtts a year. I'm good thanks.

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06-28-2013 , 10:33 AM

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My 4 most played games over the last 2-3 years aren't in steam, sunk an enormous amount of hours into LoL, EU3, Victoria 2, and Civ 4.

Most on steam:
Crusader kings 2: 127 hours (this seems low)
Sword of the Stars: 106 hours
Victoria 2: 48 hours (another 200+ hours outside of steam)
Civ 5: 40 hours
Darkest Hour: 35 hours
FTL: 27 hours

Paradox games too good.

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06-28-2013 , 11:21 AM

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This thread is making me a little sad. PLAY MORE TF2, it's really the best team based fps ever.

disclaimer: I have thousands of hours of TFC, counterstrike, battlefield, quake, whatever.

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06-28-2013 , 01:11 PM

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I'll be adding Rogue Legacy to this list very soon. It's so addictive.

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And apparently Binding of Isaac (how the hell anyone gets more than two hours out of this is blowing my mind).

Coming from someone who spent 94 hours in a COD campaign, this offends me.

Seriously though Isaac is so addictive because like all good rogue-likes, every run feels different. I was still finding new **** to do 100's of hours in.

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06-28-2013 , 03:14 PM

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Seriously though Isaac is so addictive because like all good rogue-likes, every run feels different. I was still finding new **** to do 100's of hours in.

I played it for 20 minutes with M&K which soured me on it pretty quickly. I'm just surprised because it looks like a gross version of Zelda (yah I know it's procedural), and as much as I love those games, I don't know if I've come close to the number of hours some of you have put into BoI. I have a bunch of games that need a gamepad, probably time to pull that trigger and give it another chance.

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06-28-2013 , 03:27 PM

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reo RMCF

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Football Manager 2010 : 761 hrs
Football Manager 2012 : 451 hrs
Football Manager 2012 : 149 hrs
Football Manager 2009 : 29 hrs(mostly played offline)

I also have Europa Universalis III, Crusader Kings II, and Wow but not on Steam.

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06-28-2013 , 03:37 PM

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I would say that's your mistake. keyboard only or gamepad

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06-28-2013 , 05:05 PM

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I don't like people who are such fans of keyboard only in BoI, I played it with keyboard+mouse and I think 136 hours for platinum is pretty good.

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06-28-2013 , 11:50 PM

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Planetside 2 - 612 hours
Dungeon Defenders - 212 hours
Sacred 2 - 200-215 hours (estimate - total count was wiped in Steam upon release of DRM version)
FTL: Faster Than Light - 174 hours
The Binding of Isaac - 133 hours
Terraria - 88 hours
Killing Floor - 87 hours
Forge - 85 hours
Nation Red - 78 hours
Legend of Grimrock - 68 hours

I'm also above 50 hours on Torchlight, Dead Island, Space Pirates and Zombies, and Orcs Must Die! 2.

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06-29-2013 , 12:01 AM

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Farm Simulator

2780 hours

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06-29-2013 , 12:16 AM

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My Steam games with over 20 hours (actually I'm pretty sure the list would be the same if it was over 10 hours)

Isaac - 234
Orcs Must Die 2 - 85
Plants vs. Zombies (wife tho) - 52
Super Meat Boy - 40
Orcs Must Die 1 - 27
Bastion - 21

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06-29-2013 , 12:43 AM

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Craggoo

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Infantry - ballpark 2000-3000 hours
Delta Force series - in the thousands of hours
Helbreath - in the thousands of hours
Bioshock II - 400+ hours
Quantum of Solace - 400+ hours
Rollercoaster Tycoon series - 200-400 hours
Mario games - 1000-2000 hours

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06-29-2013 , 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Craggoo

Quantum of Solace - 400+ hours

Excuse me?

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06-29-2013 , 12:23 PM

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Infantry - ballpark 2000-3000 hours

what is this game`?

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06-29-2013 , 12:27 PM

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Isn't that like saying, "I should do a line of coke, to clear up my thoughts?" If I want a productive day of grinding, starting a video game is the last thing I do. I'd have a better chance at a productive day by shooting my hand with a nail gun.

The only ones I have that are really notable are Civ 5 (522 hours, with some idle time) and XCom: Enemy Unknown (70 hours). Looking through my list I notice (as usual) that my Steam account is mostly a giant pile of awesome unplayed games.

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06-29-2013 , 12:33 PM

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Only notables on my Steam are:

EU3: 103 hours (plus at least 50 more that weren't tracked)
Skyrim: 74 hours

However, I have at least 2000 hours in SC2, 500 in League of Legends, and 200 in D3. For console, I have about 300 hours in both FFXII and Banjo-Tooie, and nothing else really comes close to that.

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06-29-2013 , 03:06 PM

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yeah better thread would be our list of unplayed steam games

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06-29-2013 , 03:14 PM

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Count Chocula

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you mean longer thread.

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06-29-2013 , 06:11 PM

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Craggoo

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Originally Posted by weeeez

what is this game`?

It was created by a company called Harmless Games which eventually was purchased by Sony Online Entertainment.

It was probably my favorite game when i was in highschool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_%28video_game%29

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

Excuse me?

It's a solid alternative to MW/BF games and has enough active players that you can usually find a game at almost any hour.

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06-29-2013 , 07:20 PM

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Civ V - 307 hrs
Dota 2 - 284 hrs
Saints Row 3 - 30 hrs
Magicka - 10 hrs
CS 1.6 - I probably have close to 5000 hours lifetime...played this game competitively for like 2 years

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