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[Esca]

Can't remember which ones in these series for these games.
Total War
Civilization
X Com
Freelancer
Neverwinter nights
Final Fantasy Tactics
And others I can't remember but know I'm forgetting.

Mods give games on the pc so much more content a lot. Total War i remember playing conversions for it to be Warhammer 40k and another fire lord of the rings. Great stuff.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Persona 5 Royal. Started in December last year, platinumed it late last month, lmao.

 

[Holammer]

That would probably be Civilization on PC, the first game, that and Master of Magic.
Nowadays I try to mix it up, but I can still laser focus a week or two if the game is good. I fell off the wagon and started playing Noita again and racked up 60h in no time.

 

[DavidGzz]

Street fighter 2 when I was young and had a lot of friends and I was broke so I couldn't afford another game. Lmao

 

[simpatico]

I wish I could say the same. I skipped DS2 because people said it dont respect your time and the bonfire thing works different (less of them, making it more frustrating ?) Im absolutely gonna play bloodborne if it ever gets a PC release. D1 I think is easer than people made it out to be. but maybe its just down to me having fighting game player reactions in combat.



hey....did you used to walk up the black knights real slow like a real bad ass before engaging them? or invading somebody's world and standing still until they get close enough to parry their strikes? I could feel their hearts sink, everytime I sapped a big chunk of their health....... The fighting is so satisfying in DS games ! Im a parrying god on them too, if I dont mind saying so, myself!

I think DS2 is underrated. I replayed it right before Elden Ring and it might be the most replayable Souls game just because the builds are so fun. Give it a shot if you haven't.

 

[poodaddy]

Nah. I tend to get pretty infatuated with games and I definitely prioritize, but there's generally at least two to three games that I'm also checking out occasionally while focusing on one.

 

[salva]

Probably Arma 3 with the endless SP mods and MCC achievement hunting through all the campaigns.

 

[Generic]

The Sims and Age of Empires II

 

[Metalman96]

Yup. WoW got me a couple times.

Edit: missed the single player part. Mass effect and elden ring.

 

[Sleepwalker]

From 2011 to 2015 i basically only played fifa online. Then I had a period of mostly playing siege before going back to fifa (with some other games sprinkled in)

 

[Shifty1897]

Sit down, young one, and let me tell you about a little game called Tactics Ogre.

 

[Havoc2049]

Probably Arma 3 with the endless SP mods and MCC achievement hunting through all the campaigns.

With 700 achievements, achievement hunting in MCC is a full time job.

Back when I was young, Sid Meier’s Pirates on my C64 and then my Atari ST was in my constant rotation of games played for several years strait.

 

[mortal]

Yes, Bloodborne & Red Dead Redemption 2.

With Bloodborne, I was obsessed with the challenge and uncovering more secrets and lore.
With RDR2, it was just the beauty of the open world and the NPCs. Most of my hours were spent just roaming the wilderness and messing with the AI. Great game for decompressing from work too.

 

[SEGA_2012]

Yes. For many years of my life 70% of my free time i spent playing the Yakuza franchise, especially 4 and 5.

 

[SegaManAU]

Gears 3 online. Never been so addicted to anything like it!

 

[Laptop1991]

Yeah, Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and The Witcher 3, also Assassin's Creed Origin's,Odyssey and Valhalla, GTA Vice City and more so San Andreas as well.

 

[Gobjuduck]

Halo 3, fallout 3, skyrim, zelda, red dead 2, xenoblade 2, cyberpunk, borderlands, diablo 2/3, and starcraft 2. All fantastic games

 

[reezoo]

TLOU (didn’t play anything for a month even after finishing as everything else felt boring) and BOTW (300 hours, I still boot it up just to feel that soothing, calming world, away from guardians )

 

[Celcius]

Oblivion, Borderlands 1 and 2, Tetris attack, gta3, Gran Turismo (the series)

 

[Happosai]

Oh Yeah. I'm playing BotW to be followed by TotK right now. Those 2 will take a couple of months. After those games I'll be playing Starfield probably until the end of the year if it's as good as FO3. All Bethesda Games I play for ages and I don't even bother with mods. I just do EVERYTHING in the game and get all the DLC.

EDIT: I left out Halo. I've played through the entire series (except 2) numerous times.

BotW or Ocarina of Time Master Quest. I complain about open world and then get drawn in. By the way, sorry for acting like a jerk a few months back.

Halo 3 was pretty big when I was in college and about 6 friends and myself had our 360s all connected in one large room. I recall playing an entire weekend with sleeping.

TotK will be the next biggie I take on though.

 

[Poordevil]

I get stuck on a game, that is I will get into it where I play it exclusively for weeks or months. Dark Souls, Nioh 1, Dragon's Dogma, are some examples. Currently it's Monster Hunter World. When I find a game I really like I'll stick with it, until I come across something that pries me away.

 

[LakeOf9]

There was this 6 month time where I didnt find anything except botw interesting

 

[Efren is G.O.A.T.]

I much prefer to immerse myself in a long game and breathe int the world than a on-the-rails 8 hour game. I'm not saying that fun can't be had with short games but I prefer massive games so to answer your question, absolutely.

We also have to remember that most of these games I played as a kid and when you're a kid everything feels grandiose and many of these games I can probably beat in 20 hours now but also....english isn't my first language so there was a little bit of a barrier at the time with that.

Final Fantasy 1-4-6-7-8-9
Legend of Zelda: Original, Zelda 2, Link to the Past, Breath of the Wild
Metroid: Original, Super Metroid
Chrono Trigger
Soul Blazer
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Earthbound SNES
Donkey Kong Country 1-2-3
Mario 64

etc

 

[Cattlyst]

Witcher 3 hooked me for best part of a year. I was only playing sporadically during that year, but the only disc in my PS4 was Witcher 3 and I’d play it in bursts over the course of the year. Doing a few quests, doing a few side missions, exploring the landscape and having a few fights with random enemies I encountered. It was actually the first Witcher game I played and I was given it by a friend so I fired it up one weekend and I was hooked. I had no real interest in the series before or since that game, couldn’t give a shit about the TV series or the books. But that one game really hooked me good. Don’t think I’ve been so engrossed in a game since Witcher 3 and this was probably 5 years ago now.

 

[mrmustard]

Grounded
Terraria
Hitman Trilogy

 

[Soodanim]

I would say more of my adult gaming life has been a single game for months on end than hasn't. Especially in recent years where I buy less games, so it's big releases I really want. The exceptions to the month rule have mostly been the Resident Evil remakes as they're shorter. But Skyrim has taken up 3+ month stretches, no doubt there.

 

[drganon]

A month is usually the most I'll spend on a game.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Recently, this happened with me for Monster Hunter Rise and Elden Ring.

Can happen with Fortnite as well but am being careful with it. Some cool games are coming up that I wanna play as well.

 

[Rayven_king]

Arkham Origins (without fail I dust off my console every christmas to play)
MGS4

I wish these games werent stuck on ps3 for me

 

[nemiroff]

My 400 hours of Elden Ring didn't leave room for much else.

 

[Kumomeme]

over thousand hours for Dragons Dogma.

that game is really fun and addicting.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

For months I think only Skyrim, and it was like 2.5 months.

 

[Ammogeddon]

World of Warcraft

That game was like crack for me and I played it far too much. It had all the elements that sucked me in, fantasy setting, vast open world, questing with others, loot, levelling up.

Even then, I wasn’t half as bad as some I played with. The work colleague who got me into it had a combined playtime of something like 1 year over a 5 year period.

 

[Emedan]

Europa universalis 4, months on end

 

[Kev Kev]

Oh yeah, for sure. That's why I love RPGs; I can get 120 hours out of one really good RPG and play it for 2 or 3 months.

I love trying to 100% them (although I usually only like 95% them some challenges/unlocks just aren't worth the time). Leveling up to 99, getting all the abilities, weapons, armor and accessories, finding any other items so I have one of everything in the game, finding all the hidden areas, beating all the optional bosses, exhausting all the NPC dialogue, and of course beating the final boss. I love the adventure of all of it all and easily find myself getting lost in those games for months at a time.

 

[Schmendrick]

Single player, no. Multiplayer, yes.

The last game that really kept me from even looking at another game for months was Monster Hunter World.

 

[nush]

Fallout 3, played that for months, I only had time to play at the weekends though. Grab some beers load up FO3 on the Xbox 360 and just spend all weekend on it uninterrupted. Huge map, loads to do and more importantly always clear what you had to do.

 

[Black_Stride]

Forza Motorsport 4 - Trying to get every offline achievement, and of course trying to beat Drivatars in timeattack, I could loop a single track for literal hours.
Bayonetta - Trying to get Pure Platinum.......then trying to beat Father Rodin.
Oblivion - I had a bunch of X360 games when this launched, but pretty much once I started this....it was over for every other game.

 

[Zeypher]

Skyrim, Borderlands 2 are the two games with which that happened for me.

 

[mdkirby]

Well, ofcourse. Whenever a good single player game that lasts 100+ hr, it’ll get a good 2-3 months play time. On average I’d say that happens once or twice a year, with smaller 2-3 week games or “done in a weekend” games filling the time in between. I’m 40+ now, so it’s happened many many times. The main one this year has been hogwartz, which I clocked about 80h in, and my wife about 70hr, alternating profiles on ps5. I think I was still wrapping up cyberpunk in early Jan too, cyberpunk and Elden ring were the big ones last year that ticked that box.

 

[DevilMayFlyForAWhiteGuy]

When I was in middle school I was obsessed with the OG RE4 on GameCube, and it was one of the few times I blew off school work to play it all the time. I ended up ignoring a paper I had to write and my parents took my games away for like 3 months. Learned my lesson and never shirked my school work again.

 

[Goalus]

It usually takes more than one month for me to complete (bigger) games.
The last game I remember that I played "excessively" was Gears Tactics due to its veteran missions. I love the Gears universe, and I love the gameplay, so I played the veteran missions which is kind of an endless mode that unlocks after the campaign is finished.
I would very much like to have a part 2 where the locust are fully playable and two human players can play against each other. And then maybe a part 3 where the humans can build DeeBees or with the UIR as a second human party.

 

[pasterpl]

Oblivion and Skyrim are the only games that hooked me up like this.

 

[killatopak]

Sims, Crusader Kings etc.

usually simulation games.

 

[RoadHazard]

That's what I usually do whenever a big game that I want to play is released. I typically don't play more than one of those at a time. Right now I'm still only playing Hogwarts. I do mix it up with a little Rocket League though.

 

[AV]

Probably as a kid, and it was probably MGS2.

 

[DelireMan7]

A lot when I was a teenage.

I replayed again and again games like Half-Life and Warcraft 3.

Also Metal Gear Solid blew my mind and played it like 7-8 times in row. I couldn't get enough from it. I had no clue what this game was about and well... I was completely blown away by it.

Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 did the same but I played them like 2-3 times in a row.

Final Fantasy X was also one. When I first finished it, I just went to new game immediately. Did it 3 times I think. Just loved the story and characters.

In recent memory : Dark Souls. (You know the deal : "best game ever made" bla bla...) For 2 years, I just played this game (basically till Dark Souls 2 came out, I got it only in 2012). After each run, my first reflex : New game, new character.
The freedom in builds and characters customization completely blew my mind. I had dozen of build ideas I wanted to test. Add to that the cryptic story telling, the perfect world design, the art design, the lore, the NPCs.... Did like 15 characters in a row.

To an extend every Soulsborne since then did it for me. Played all of them several times in a row.

 

[fran.fernandez]

 

[Winter John]

Dark Souls. I didn't know anything about it and only bought it because it came out a month before Skyrim, so I thought it would keep me distracted until then. I couldn't have been more wrong. I bought Skyrim on release day. Played around 20 minutes and went back to DS. I ended up playing DS solidly for 8/9 months. By the end I'd played through so many times there wasn't any challenge to it. I knew every enemy, every boss movement pattern, trick, shortcut, item location. I'd start a new game and get Witch Beatrice's hat within maybe 20 minutes just because I liked the way it looked. I never did any of the crazy shit like play one handed or use a dance mat, but no game has ever grabbed me like that before or since.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

Diablo II (incl. the Resurrected version)

Played nothing else for months in 2001 and 2021/2022.

Also played WoW for months as if it was a single player game.