[Man]

What free game have given you the most entertainment (hours/fun) ? This includes mods that are dependent on some paid platform.

Personally nothing even comes close to CounterStrike in the years 1999-2000 for me. I had played a few online games before it but this was my big break through.
I'm guessing I played somewhere between 500-1000 hours on 56K/ISDN (which in retro-respect wouldn't make the experience exactly free of charge butwhathaveyou).

[Visualante2]

Tribes: Ascend, no doubt.

Also piracy! might as well get that joke out the way

[kayos90]

I can't speak personally but for my friends it would be Tetris. So many hours that could've been spent on studying wasted on Tetris on facebook. *sigh* college.

[smurfx]

RTCW:Enemy Territory

this is my fav fps game of all time. some of the most fun i've had with videogames.

[Karak]

Enemy Territory and Global Agenda(I think thats what its called) on Steam. Fucking played the hell out of it.

Guilty admittance. I love Adventure Quest. I don't know why but god damned I have thousands of hours in that game.

[Currygan]

[LiquidMetal14]

Some that I can think of........

-Trackmania Nations United
-That free maze build into the Sega Master System
-DayZ (if you want to count that)
-Just Cause 2 MP PC Mod

Just a few.

[Randdalf]

I've been playing it since launch, but since it's now free, I'll go with this. I breached 2000 hours today.

[chickdigger802]

i think i just spend 10 hrs in dungeon fighter online in the past week or so. Not bad stuff. A somewhat inelegant combo of traditional loot based rpgs and arcade style brawler.

[goober]

League of Legends

Before the CS 1.6

[HawksWinStanley]

Doritos Crash Course

[Syril]

Probably League of Legends. I can't count Team Fortress 2 because I got it back when it still cost money.

[Man]

it was a pack-in in yurop

That's not free.

[Taco_Human]

Free as in free to play, or free as in someone gifted it to me?

[emb]

Not sure if they count as "free" or not, but the games that come with various versions of Windows come to mind. Solitaire, FreeCell, Chess Titans, online Checkers and Reversi, and especially Minesweeper have all been cool time killers for me at some point.

Also, the flash games Defend Your Castle and Ginormo Sword. Both pretty addictive.

I've never really jumped into the freemium thing though. If a game requires me to download or install it, I usually shy away. At that point I realize I'm playing a video game, and would prefer to go play some of my collected backlog.

[charsace]

The original America's Army. Some of the best multiplayer maps ever. And rolling a cooked nade through a ajar door on Insurgent Camp was pure, fucking win.

[Man]

Free as in free to play, or free as in someone gifted it to me?

Free to play / download.

[Currygan]

That's not free.

ah well, I'll got with my original TF2 choice then

[sk3]

Probably counterstrike, but that feels like cheating...
Transformice stole a lot of time from me a few years ago. Played it for hours every day for a couple months and then dropped it.

[Tucah]

I bought the Orange Box so technically it wasn't free for me, but Team Fortress 2.

[SMT]

Back when it was in Beta all those years ago, now it's free again, for good! Best Korean Jrpg.

[krae_man]

Triple Town:

[hom3land]

The new Smnc has been great. The first f2p game that I've really invested time in.

[Shinriji]

Treasures of Montezuma Blitz

[djplaeskool]

Man, I played so much KR Mabinogi, even before the localization.
Then JP Mabinogi...then TW Mabinogi...

[Gilby]

TF2 and Spelunky

[Azar]

I played about 1000 games of League of Legends without really spending any of my own money on it, so yeah, that takes the cake.

[daevv]

Donno about all time but Motorstorm on Vita was a good 9 hours of fun!

[Draft]

If CS counts as free then it's CS for sure, with maybe Natural Selection as the dark horse.

[Hylian7]

I'm quickly approaching the number of hours I've put into TF2 on this game.

[DSix]

Dota 2.

[Satchel]

Doritos Crash Course

Yep. This or carcassone.

[RurouniZel]

[Parallax Scroll]

Cave Story

Edit: Counter-Strike is up there too, but you still had to buy Half-Life.

[Karak]

Oh shit. Now I remember what game.

That damn game where you play an RPG character in a webbased world that is all pencil drawings. Christ I can't remember the name. But I must have logged 2000 hours easy.

[jambo]

Definitely CS.

Thousands of hours.

[dragonflys545]

Dota 2.

[Lucid Faia]

I was going to say Tyrian or Scorched Earth, but if we're talking about games that have always been free-to-play, probably some MUD from the mid 90s.

[shintoki]

Though I really don't think you can count games you played for hundreds before it went F2P or paid for later. Heh.

League of Legends is my 2nd most played title of all time, only behind World of Warcraft. 1050 hours clocked in on Raptr, and I even started it a month before I used the service. Got Silver for the first season(Decided to get up to 1400's then just retired), and already got it locked for this season(Got up to 1500's then retired). Haven't spent a cent, but got a free Janna Skin too <3

Next up would be Tribes Ascend. Started in February this year, with a few weeks in the previous. At about 225 hours played, rank 30, and just a few flags shy of 1k capped. Did just hit my 10k kill mark too. Threw 10$ their way for the VIP and that has been it.

[Man]

Oh shit. Now I remember what game. That damn game where you play an RPG character in a webbased world that is all pencil drawings. Christ I can't remember the name. But I must have logged 2000 hours easy.

How can you log 2000 hours and not remember the name!?

[itwasTuesday]

urban terror



rtcw:et

cs

tribes ascend

[SMT]

How can you log 2000 hours and not remember the name!?

He then played Amnesia.

[THACHITS]

Infectonator: World Dominator
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Toge...orld-dominator

Followed closely by Team Fortress 2

[tangmaster96]

VINDICTUS!!!!!

[Megadrive]

Sonic 2 when it came with my Megadrive. PS era, the Official Playstation Mag demo discs. Nowadays, Cave Story and Spelunky. N when it was just a flash game.

Definitely CS. Thousands of hours.

Free game. :p Unless you mean back before Valve made it a proper commercial game.

[BlackJace]

Beaten, but Team fucking Fortress 2.

[specialguy]

words with friends, since its the only free game i've spent appreciable time playing...

[Karak]

How can you log 2000 hours and not remember the name!?

Because it was many moons ago and a webbased game that I had an instant login to on my browser. Also if you see how many hours I spent on the other games in my post...I play a shitton of games hahahaha.

I think league was in the name...KINGDOM OF LOATHING! Boom remember. Yep Kingdom of Loathing.

He then played Amnesia.

Fucking bravo man. hahahahah. That one almost made me spit pop:)

[Lucid Faia]

He then played Amnesia.

Or is overestimating how much time he spent on it. 2000 hours is a hell of a lot.

[Tunavi]

halo 1 demo