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How much time in a game is "a lot"?
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That was Persona 4 for me. Put around 72 hours into it, which makes it by far the longest single campaign I've ever played. Was really starting to weary of it by the end, and I say that having enjoyed it a lot overall.
I think that when you're asking over 50 hours for completion of just the main story you're probably asking a bit much, even in an RPG.
Griddlelol
Banned
Did you not have a job? I assume you're a stay-at-home mom/dad.
CaptainGyro
Banned
there are only 2 games that I have played over 100 hours of, so some of these numbers just seem crazy to me. Nowadays I consider 30 hours a lot
BTHR Zero X
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For me
around 50 Hours is average
around 100 is alot
around 200 + is more then a lot
Though some games I have pushed way over 1000 and not noticed it
around 50 Hours is average
around 100 is alot
around 200 + is more then a lot
Though some games I have pushed way over 1000 and not noticed it
Interceptor
Banned
I used to think that everything above 30h is a lot and considered everything above 50h as insane and unhealthy.
Now i am sitting at 1260h in Dota. I feel dirty.
Now i am sitting at 1260h in Dota. I feel dirty.
ferrasvansen
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I'm a stay at home son/uncle. Me and my mum look after my dad and 2 nephews, one of my nephews is sick and requires almost all my mum's attention. So I look after my other nephew and my dad who is bedridden with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis. I would love a job, I went to Uni and studied in microbiology i dreamt of travelling round the world fighting nasty emerging diseases but there is no way in hell I could just now, maybe one day when my circumstances are different I might get that chance.
He may not be drowning in money, choices of games to play, or neither. For many people a new game is still a rare, significant occurence, and they are kind of "stuck" with whatever they picked up for a while, even if they are not satisfied.
You should not give your friend shit for this. Try to relate.
"A lot" begins somewhere between 50 and 100 hours IMO. Depends on the genre and how you play though. E.g. it's much easier to rack up a couple hundred hours in multiplayer games, if they're any fun at all. That may not even feel like much.
On the other end of the spectrum, if you're playing a really short single-player game with like a 2 hour "campaign", 20 hours may already be "a lot" because you've essentially replayed the whole thing 10 times.
When I was a teenager I put hundreds of hours into multiple titles, mostly multiplayer shooters (CS, Quake).
These days I will play a multiplayer game I like for 30 hours and be satisfied (Titanfall was about 35, I think). Longest I put into anything is close to 100 hours in an RPG, and that's slowly going through it over the course of a couple of months.
These days I will play a multiplayer game I like for 30 hours and be satisfied (Titanfall was about 35, I think). Longest I put into anything is close to 100 hours in an RPG, and that's slowly going through it over the course of a couple of months.
sephiroth7x
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I think everyone has nailed it really. I put 900 hours into one of the PES games one year and still felt like I could play it... a game like Uncharted lets say, I felt perfectly happy at it being around 8 hours but if the game had lasted any longer I might have gotten bored and thought... I've played this game way too long now...
For the type of games, you want things like Skyrim to be 100+ but games like Uncharted and others like it, i it starts drifting to the 20+ mark... unless the game is seriously challenging with new mechanics all the time, it tends to get a bit stale.
For the type of games, you want things like Skyrim to be 100+ but games like Uncharted and others like it, i it starts drifting to the 20+ mark... unless the game is seriously challenging with new mechanics all the time, it tends to get a bit stale.
I never really notice. As a console gamer I've never really tracked my time. Now it's more common to see the stat, either in-game or in a companion app. I wonder how many hours I put into OoT or Goldeneye or SM64 etc.
Recently though, I know I'm into 200+ hours on Destiny. Don't think I've hit that many outside of COD multiplayer in its prime.
Recently though, I know I'm into 200+ hours on Destiny. Don't think I've hit that many outside of COD multiplayer in its prime.
Bl@de
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Well I don't know about the past as a kid (before steam showed me the actual number). But in Steam I only have one game over 100h (skyrim) and 90h (arma 3). But those have that number because of modding.
As someone who only plays singleplayer, 50+ is a lot (gta5, assassin creed: black flag, souls games). Most games I have are around 20h. I never stick with one game for a long time because I want to experience new stories, gameplay elements, ...
As someone who only plays singleplayer, 50+ is a lot (gta5, assassin creed: black flag, souls games). Most games I have are around 20h. I never stick with one game for a long time because I want to experience new stories, gameplay elements, ...
I don't actually know the guy, but you're right. I wasn't rude to him, but I was certainly incredulous. That being said, I can still remember how long it took to buy a game on $2.50 a week pocket money back when I was a kid, so I understand the need to play the living crap out of whatever games you have on hand.
aygomyownroad
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500 Hours on Binding of Issac to get the Platinum God Trophy!!!
Due to a glitch I never got it and need to beat ??? with Samson to get a trophy that should've been unlocked with Eve! Due to bugs... I don't regret it but as its Flash I can't run it well now and I am damned if I'm doing the whole cycle again with the new one,,, Ok I will sigh
Griddlelol
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Selfless. Awesome guy.
ferrasvansen
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Thanks, my mum and dad were very good to me when I went through tough times losing my gf in 2002 to illness, so I feel like I owe them a lot. They stuck by me as I fought depression every day and tore my life apart, so I'm determined to stuck by them and my nephews as long as I have to now that I'm much more and besides I can still game a fair bit each day to keep me sane.
I managed to sink around 400+ hours into F1 2010 on the 360, which I would consider a lot. Really struggled with every F1 game since that though, they just didn't feel different enough.
Bearing in mind that approximate stat is from Raptr, I'd hate to think how many hours I've spent on Halo 3 (I didn't use Raptr back then).
Bearing in mind that approximate stat is from Raptr, I'd hate to think how many hours I've spent on Halo 3 (I didn't use Raptr back then).
I used to think 50+ hours was average/good for a game and occasionally cleared 100 on games that I like.
After having a child, my gaming time is down to about 5/6 hours a week most weeks. To say I now like games I can finish quickly is an understatement. If I spend 20 hours in a game now, the game must be a masterpiece.
After having a child, my gaming time is down to about 5/6 hours a week most weeks. To say I now like games I can finish quickly is an understatement. If I spend 20 hours in a game now, the game must be a masterpiece.
toastyToast
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Can't say that joke was half baked
Purple Haze
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For singleplayer game 20 hours and multiplayer game nowdays over 40 hours.
jesus christ.
Aces&Eights
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And this, right here, is why I will never purchase a WoW game. I know for a fact it would consume me.
OT: I think Oblivion has my most hours played clocking in at about 200ish.
It depends on the game really. For example, I played a game with this random person long ago and this was their playtime for some of their games:
Some of these playtime amounts aren't so absurd for games like TF2 and Dota, as they're rich in content and have multiplayer. How are you going to play Limbo for almost 300 hours, or Tomb Raider, with its lackluster multiplayer, for nearly 700?
I think some people just let their games running while they're sleeping...
backflip10019
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It depends on the game really. For example, I played a game with this random person long ago and this was their playtime for some of their games:
Some of these playtime amounts aren't so absurd for games like TF2 and Dota, as they're rich in content and have multiplayer. How are you going to play Limbo for almost 300 hours, or Tomb Raider, with its lackluster multiplayer, for nearly 700?
How do you play 1500 hours of LA Noire?
It depends on the game really. For example, I played a game with this random person long ago and this was their playtime for some of their games:
Some of these playtime amounts aren't so absurd for games like TF2 and Dota, as they're rich in content and have multiplayer. How are you going to play Limbo for almost 300 hours, or Tomb Raider, with its lackluster multiplayer, for nearly 700?
Jesus christ, that's over 30 days of hours for L.A. Noire.
Dude must've kept his PC running with L.A. Noire launched while doing other things, no other explanation.
Ammogeddon
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I wasted a lot of my life on WoW but not nearly as much as my mate. He clocked up a years worth of solid play time within the first 5 years of WoW.
Alcotholic
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The most time I've put in a single video game is 200+ hours for Monster hunter. I know that isn't a lot for most MH die hards, but I find it boggling myself that I played a game for that long. I really do like the game though.
Most of the time I much prefer games that are 10-15 hours. I don't have a lot of time for video games these days.
Most of the time I much prefer games that are 10-15 hours. I don't have a lot of time for video games these days.
ClutchAnderson
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I've put like 700 hours into DOA5 online alone...and don't even get me started on VF5FS ._.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
If he's broke, why is he buying stuff day one rather than checking out all the great deals on games just a few months older? If he hasn't played Borderlands 1 and 2, why not play those? If he has, I highly highly doubt that he's unaware what kind of experience he's going to have with Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.
When someone says they've played a bazillion hours and the game is total garbage, what I think is that they lack the capacity to discern between a basically satisfying but ultimately hollow experience and actual total garbage.
Android18a
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This, for most games. 40+ for an RPG.
But then I spent the last ten years buying every high-scoring game, playing it for ten minutes, realising I didn't like it much and shelving/trading it.
So if I buy a game now I'll put a goodly amount of hours into it, but I buy a tiny fraction of what I used to.
SiKotikJ30
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It was hard for me to believe too. On my main guy that I've had since 2007 (not even the full 10 years!) I have something like 372 days played. Do keep in mind some of that was AFK while I would eat or shower or half play while watching TV or whatever else - I just didn't log out to do other things. Most of it was from when I was younger, had no job or family and basically let it consume me. At one point around 07-09 I was playing probably 18 hours a day and doing literally nothing else. Even after I got a job in 2009, I would still come home and play from 5:00~ to 12 or 1 in the morning. Wasn't healthy, obviously, and probably a wonder I am not dead now.
Depends on the game, really.
For a good single player game with fixed content, even an RPG, more than 60-80 hours is a lot to ask. Persona 3 FES was stretching things when my playtime got up to the 70-hour mark.
Multiplayer games are entirely dependent on how much fun the moment-to-moment gameplay is. I probably have hundreds (if not thousands) of hours between Halo: Reach and Halo 3, and will happily jump back into the Master Chief Collection when I get my Xbox One. Same goes for games like Street Fighter IV: Between practice and online versus, as well as local play, probably over a thousand hours spent playing.
Ditto roguelikes. Lufia 2's Ancient Cave and getting all the Iris Treasures probably took a few hundred hours over the course of a few months, but I consider it worth it.
Something crappy, I'd call more than a couple hours a lot of time. Certainly more than enough time for the devs to have wowed me with the opening enough to want to invest more time in the game. Generally I'll give a game two or three shots to grab me before giving up on it.
For a good single player game with fixed content, even an RPG, more than 60-80 hours is a lot to ask. Persona 3 FES was stretching things when my playtime got up to the 70-hour mark.
Multiplayer games are entirely dependent on how much fun the moment-to-moment gameplay is. I probably have hundreds (if not thousands) of hours between Halo: Reach and Halo 3, and will happily jump back into the Master Chief Collection when I get my Xbox One. Same goes for games like Street Fighter IV: Between practice and online versus, as well as local play, probably over a thousand hours spent playing.
Ditto roguelikes. Lufia 2's Ancient Cave and getting all the Iris Treasures probably took a few hundred hours over the course of a few months, but I consider it worth it.
Something crappy, I'd call more than a couple hours a lot of time. Certainly more than enough time for the devs to have wowed me with the opening enough to want to invest more time in the game. Generally I'll give a game two or three shots to grab me before giving up on it.
Anything in terms of weeks/months in /played time is a lot. Anything that can get done in a day/weekend is not and fairly casual in terms of playtime.
More to the point though, it really doesn't matter how much time is sank into a title so long as it is being enjoyed right? So, if a title gives enjoyment for ~300-500+ hours, why would you bother getting tons of 8-30 hour games and fill the same space with them collectively?
At the end of the the day, time spent is exactly the same and conflating progression/completion with time played is a massive fallacy. Much of the argument in large playtimes revolves around replayability and content as a whole rather than story revelations.
Kssio_Aug
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It really depend on the game. Usually shooter I consider at about 7-10 hours the ideal (for campaing).
RPGs obviously take much longer. But I think the game that got me for the longest time playing were Personona 4 (with more then 100 hours) and Diablo 3 (cant remember the time but it was a lot).
RPGs obviously take much longer. But I think the game that got me for the longest time playing were Personona 4 (with more then 100 hours) and Diablo 3 (cant remember the time but it was a lot).
Shalashaska161
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It's all depends on the game. If someone spent 200 hours on Bayonetta 2 I'd say that's a lot, but that's nothing in a game like WoW.
NEOPARADIGM
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100 hours is a lot