I’m curious what game you guys have sunk the most hours into. Mine has to be RuneScape, I don’t know the total hours because I’ve had so many accounts over the years I don’t even remember half my passwords, but it’s definitely in the thousands of hours now. I’ve played on/off RS2, OSRS, and RS3 since 2004.
I’ve also probably sunk anywhere from hundreds to 1000+ hours into Skyrim and Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, though I don’t know the counts there either since neither were through Steam. Embarrassingly enough I’ve never completed either of those two games - I get sidetracked making so many alt characters.
What about you guys? & What got you hooked on said game?
There’s no way for me to time it out because I got it before Steam existed, but it has to be in the thousands of hours range. SimCity 4. I got the Deluxe Edition just after the Rush Hour expansion came out. Played it everyday for hours on end from then to college. Just over 12 years time. I didn’t stop until Cities Skylines 1 came out. I put 500 hours into that then dropped off because it’s just not the same.
It’s the one game that nobody has ever truly replicated. There’s attempts and successors out there, but none of them hit like SC4 did. The aesthetics, modding community, music, all make that game so fresh yet nostalgic. It really had everything you could want from a modern City Building game. It was so much more than a city painter too. The advisors, policies, taxation, abandoned buildings, all of it conveyed a living city way beyond imaginable. Every attempt of a modern city builder game is missing the soul that SC4 had.