What games have you put more hours into than diablo?

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I put about 5000 hours into Diablo 2 over the years, but one of the other games I’ve played more is Skyrim. It’s like my comfort food of video games. The world, the npc voices, the music, it’s just so relaxing when I play it, like a security blanket lol, the imperials walls and towers used to make me feel so safe.

What other games have you sunk a tremendous amount of hours into and what makes you keep going back?

So far I’ve played diablo 4 for about 250 hours.

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Titan quest - Items from leveling are more interesting than from end-game diablo and plenty of more builds to expiremnt with with more mechanics and more variety of mobs by idk… 1200%? 5000? A LOT.

btw @Tazzy if you like D2 check Hero Siege you will feel like in home with itemization and runes system.

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Seeing as D4 has only been out for 2 months

D2 - given
D3 - unfortunately

I will definitely spend more time in D4 than D3. Depending on where they take the game over the next couple of years maybe it becomes 2nd place. No game will ever top time played in D2.

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Anno (1404, 1800 in particular)
X2-4
ESO
WoW
Civilization 1-6 (though combined)

probably some others I can’t think of right now

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Kind of an unfair comparison since D4 has only been out for a month and a half, but definitely D3, Marvel Heroes, Torchlight, TL2, and WoW. I have 130 hours already in D4, which beats Skyrim but not Oblivion. Not much else comes to mind.

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The excitement when you see an enemy holding a shiny item.

Was such a nice touch by TQ Devs.

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Chrono Trigger (still play it to this day), Mario 64, Zelda 64 Ocarina of Time, Borderlands 2, X-com, D2 and D3, Starcraft 1 and 2, Warcraft 1 to 3, LoL, just off the top of my head.

If we’re counting MMORPG’s then it would be EQ, WoW, FFXI, and FFXIV.

Comes down to gameplay, story, and replay-ability for me, depending on the game of course.

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In order of most played:

1- Europa Universalis 4
2- Civ V
3- WoW Classic
4- Elden Ring
5- Skyrim

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Skyrim, without any hesitation :slight_smile:
Still playing (but modded) :slight_smile:

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Skyrim
The Witcher 3

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Phantasy star online
Any of the old NES games i had when I was younger

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Dungeons and Dragons Online, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, Rift, NeverWinter, Marvel Heroes, Twilight 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 (okay only in Beta but…), Star Wars: The Old Republic, EverQuest, RuneQuest, Ultima Online, Apex Legends, League of Legends, Call of Duty (any).

To be fair, many of these games I no longer play for a variety of reasons but that was not the question.

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  • Diablo 2/LoD - I would actually consider myself almost addicted back then.
  • Diablo 3
  • World of Warcraft - honestly a lot there depending on the expansion.

Different Genres but also

  • Stardew valley
  • Staxel - I liked it better than Stardew even. More minecrafty but better sleep/quest mechanics.
  • House Flipper - Power washing, cleaning, painting, gardens, etc. Scratches that itch.

It totally blame a former Community Manger (Nevalistis) for the Stardew and Staxel time sink. I think I lost months.

D4 is going to eat a fair amount of time, esp come winter when it is too cold to garden and do outside projects. Looking forward to see how they address some of the major concerns players have, what they add to the game for QoL, etc. Hopefully Season 2 is a more interesting theme. I am having fun with my druid though and am glad I saved leveling one for the Season.

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WoW and PoE for sure, maybe guild wars 1 too.

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Stardew valley is definitely another comfort food of video games

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Path of Exile (5years+), a lot more than D3 (at 4.5k+ hours), but a lot less than D2 (closing in on 20 years…).
Perfect World International (MMO) (3years+)

There are however some games that are pure gems (maybe not in their entirety, but certain parts of them definitely clicked with me) and have a special place in my memories, games that I didn’t play for that long

  • Age of Empires 1&2
  • Quake 2,3
  • Counter-Strike
  • Heroes of Might & Magic 2, 3
  • Witcher 2,3
  • TES Series: Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
  • Titan Quest
  • Grim Dawn
  • Clive Barker’s Undying
  • Warcraft, Starcraft series
  • Guild Wars series
  • Emperor: Battle for Dune
  • old NFS series
  • Assassin’s Creed series
  • Serious Sam 2
  • Baldur’s Gate series
  • Neverwinter nights and other similar
    …and many others. I have over 500 games in my library.
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I’m not surprised to find lots of W-RPGs or MMO players here, so it’s time for some J-RPG goodness :

  • Final Fantasy Tactics (ps1 1998 / psp War of the Lions versions)
  • The FF series in general (my favs : 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 12 - the series died after that in my humble opinion sadly, FF16 isn’t even a RPG)
  • the Suikoden series
  • Shadow Hearts 1 & 2
  • Star Ocean 2 & 3
  • Brigandine ! (Legend of Forsena / Grand Edition mainly, but even though it’s inferior, Legend of Runersia is ok and I’m glad someone made a new one)
  • Grandia series
    (there are many more worth mentionning but I’ll stop there – not sure if I spent as many hours in all these as in Diablo 1, 2, 3 and 4 though - they are fun to replay but shouldn’t last you thousands of hours even though I’ve been replaying FFT every year for 25+ years now…)

…and even though it’s not a JRPG series (even though the last 2 episodes got quite a few RPG mechanics) let’s not forget the Metal Gear Solid series, I also spent many many hours replaying them.

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btw. Check hero siege now it’s less than 1$ on discount on steam. Soon it will get 2.0 giga update with a lot of reworks and better stylized graphic. also offline mode available.

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Overwatch and Lost Ark. Probably Melee, but since the old games don’t exactly have time tracking it’s hard to say.

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probably close to 10k hours in WoW,
Like 5k in OW,
Tf2 prob like 4k
I have/had a problem with WoW

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