What game has taken up the most of your time?

trickey · July 28, 2002, 10:33

So, what game has taken up the most of your time? Not neccesarily the best game, but the one you played mos.

For me it was Shining Force 2 for the gennesis.

Rasbelin · July 28, 2002, 10:38

Do I dare to say this embarrasing fact?

Sid Meier's Civilization II

I'm not sure if you have heard about it, but it's a fairly good and nice game. Actually it's more than addictive. Or perhaps I should say to be honest, that my life is dedicated to it.

FrustratedPoet · July 28, 2002, 10:49

Championship Manager - a scary number of hours here.

Final Fantasy 7 - played through 4 times @ approx 50 hours each

International Superstar Soccer (multiple versions for both PSOne and PS2) - more time than I want to admit.

General Ludd · July 28, 2002, 10:58

Europa Universalis 2.

So many times I'll start playing the game in the morning, and before I know it the sun has set, and I haven't even gotten out of my chair since starting the game.

Father Beast · July 28, 2002, 10:59

Back in the old days, The Bard's tale sucked up a lot of my time. since getting a PC, though, no other game has taken so much of my gaming time as some version of Civilization. Civ2 has probably taken the lion's share of that. I'm afraid that since Civ3 has come out, I play little else. I don't have the problems with it that everyone else seems to have, and every patch seems to make it a bit better.

other than that, some version of Diablo and some version of Heroes Of Might and Magic run a close second

Pythagoras · July 28, 2002, 11:12

Probably Civ 1 back in the day.

ColdWizard · July 28, 2002, 11:21

1. Civ2 (by far)
2. Baldur's Gate 2
3. FF7

Space05us · July 28, 2002, 11:41

Civ2 is the game I have played most in my life.
2nd most played game in my life is Sim City 2000.
and I own all the sim and civ games.
sad isn't it, its like Im under some sort of spell

the game I play the most now is WWII Online, but thats only been in the past couple of weeks and could change at any time.

tniem · July 28, 2002, 12:10

Civ I! Far and a way the most amount of time ever on a game. Probably played a good five hundred games always in an effort to tweak my strategy to gain a higher score. Too many times did I play it.

I played SimCity a lot as well. In the last few years I have spent time on all the Blizzard games but nothing to rival the original Civ.

Kyle · July 28, 2002, 15:08

Civ2, for the sheer fact that I've had it for so long. I got it for Christmas of '96 and played it constantly 'till AC came out. Then after a while, I went back to it and played it even more.

moomin · July 28, 2002, 15:32

Moo2. Up and away the most time.

Apocalypse · July 28, 2002, 16:19

If you include forums and a web site, then it is easily Alpha Centauri. Not including them, then I'd have to say Civ 2.

HisMajestyBOB · July 28, 2002, 16:38

EUII.

trickey · July 28, 2002, 18:52

Some other time-sucking games for me were: Diablo 2 LOD, i had that game for a very short time, but i played it from sun-up till sun-down. I discovered civ2 pretty late, but it has been one of the more time consuming games.

Vlad Antlerkov · July 28, 2002, 19:17

Doom
Civ II
SimCity 2000

Currently, Tropico (inasmuch as it was the only game I had that would run on my laptop that I had to use last week).

Space05us · July 28, 2002, 22:11

is tropico a good game? I had intended to buy it when it came out but I completely forgot about it

Apocalypse · July 28, 2002, 22:19

People have mixed opinions about it. It should last you at least 8 or 10 hours though.

General Ludd · July 28, 2002, 22:28

Tropico is good, but can get old quick.

Urban Ranger · July 28, 2002, 23:08

Consider Tropico if you find it selling for $10 or less. Not worth the money otherwise.

What takes up most of my time now is the game of Life.

Haven't really played much computer games lately.

July 28, 2002, 23:13

Way back in the 80s Gunship, F-19, and Red Storm Rising.
In the 90s Civ 1/2/TOT, X-Com 1/2/3, RRTC 1, SC 1/2.
In the 2000s, SC 3, Civ 3, CTP 1/2, AOE/K, EEarth.
Actually I play the Civ series the most.

Mr. President · July 28, 2002, 23:43

Super Mario Brothers. I played it so much I would see Starmen in my dreams.

MosesPresley · July 28, 2002, 23:55

Sim City 3000, Black & White, and Civ 3. I waste entirely too much time on these games. I was going to put Neverwinter Nights in there, but I have already stopped playing it, as the single player mode is kinda good, but not good enough. Maybe when I can find a good online DM or group to hook up with, maybe then it will be the ultimate time killer.

Juggernaut · July 29, 2002, 00:15

Civ2

SnowFire · July 29, 2002, 00:34

For a single game, probably Myth I, from all that time spent doing multiplayer. Heroes of Might & Magic II comes close too, probably.

The Final Fantasy series as a whole has burned quite a bit of time, but the longer the game, the fewer the playthroughts. FF2/4j I have to have gone through at least 10-15 times, but that's only 10-15 hours a playthrough. FF6 probably has been beaten 6-8 times, and that's 25-35 hours. FF1 is a good 50 hours the first, massive levelling up when young- prossibly more, don't have a clock- but that's only 1 and a half playthroughs. FF7, 3 playthroughs and it's 15-20 hours. FF8, 1 and half playthroughs and it's 25-30 hours. FF9, 1 playthrough and that was 30 hours or so. FF10, 1 playthrough and that was another 30 hours.

DinoDoc · July 29, 2002, 00:49

It's a tie between Starcraft and Diablo II.

August Borms · July 29, 2002, 05:03

Civ2, but Europa Universalis is getting close

dunk · July 29, 2002, 14:16

The Ultima series.

The Civilization series.

Other games come and go, but I will always come back and play these. And I can play them for hours on end.

MattyBoy · July 29, 2002, 18:30

Civ 1 or SMAC or MoM - it's all a blur

Honorable mentions:
nethack, Doom I & II, Rygar (80's arcade game).

Old n Slow · July 29, 2002, 18:35

Hmmm Let's see: 4 to 20 hours+ per game times over 600 games of Strategic Conquest on the Mac vs. 2 to 6 hours of Civ 2 per day 5 days a week on the PC for a decade -- you pick.

Grumbold · July 30, 2002, 10:21

Desert Rats on the Spectrum
Bards Tale on the Atari ST
Civ 1,2, Simcity 1,2k Railroad/Transport Tycoon and Xcom 1-3 on the PC
most recently EU II

I play a lot of MMORPG's and RPG's but they normally end or get unbearably repetitive after a couple of hundred hours gameplay. All of the above have easily consumed many hundred (Bards Tale because I replayed it so much since there were so few games available.)