Okay, I’m going to be open with you and say that this post is a little bit about information gathering, rather than simply being a fun exercise. Nevertheless it would be interesting and useful if you guys would tell me what games you’ve played for more than a couple of hours in the last three months. Don’t bother including mini-games, free indie stuff that we’ve posted on here unless you’ve played it obsessively for many hours.
I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours. I’m going to include non-PC stuff too. And remember: it was my job to play some of this stuff.
The Rossignol tri-month game spread, roughly in order of how much I’ve played the game:
Eve Online
Age Of Conan
Team Fortress 2
Stronghold Crusader Extreme (Don’t agree with Kieron, thought it was pretty horrible.)
Spore Creature Creator (Not exactly a game, I know.)
GTA IV
Wings Of Honour: Battles Of The Red Baron (Actually not bad)
Crazy Machines 2
Oblivion
GRID
Stalker
Rock Band
Air Rivals (Still meaning to post about that. Kind of an interesting PvP MMO.)
Fallen Empires: Legions Beta
I’ve probably missed something significant, but that’s the basic line up.
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Team Fortress 2
Jagged Alliance 2
Spore: CC
World in Conflict
Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360)
Rise of Nations
recently finished Pyschonauts and Beyond Good< & Evil.
If it’s 3 months ago then I was at the end of my Anno 1701 kick.
Just bought, and likely to spend ages on: Europa Universalis 3
I would have played lots of The Guild 2 but it’s buggy as hell.
Team Fortress 2 – certainly more than 2 hrs!!!
Grid
Been, doing alot of other stuff this month :)
Three months… hrmmm…
In something vaguely approaching a most-to-least recently list:
System Shock
HL2 Ep1 Ep2
Half-Life 1
Team Fortress 2
Portal
Halo 3
Eve Online
Dwarf Fortress
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Baldur’s Gate 2
Warcraft 3 (TFT campaign)
Might and Magic: World of Xeen (IV and V)
Chrono Trigger
Wasteland
Ultima 4
Online games:
PoxNora
Nexus War
Goal Line Blitz
From least played to most played:
Obulis (only the brief demo, unfortunately)
Galactic Civilizations II (fun, but once I got stuck in an all Labs rut I didn’t feel like replaying it till I get Twilight of the Arnor)
Transport Tycoon Deluxe (with TTDPatch of course)
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (just one full game though)
Metal Gear Solid (just started playing it last week)
DotA
I’ve been playing DotA since last August. The reason? I have all these other great games waiting for me, but my desktop’s been in storage since last June. :-( Right now I’m on a laptop with integrated graphics… Oh well, just a couple more weeks before I get to unpack it.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Crysis
HL2.2
Attack of the Killer Swarm (indie)
Trials 2 2nd Edition
Audiosurf
GTA San Andreas (again)
Ouendan 2
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Scrabble DS!
WoW
Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2
Warcraft 3 (Custom maps)
Company of Heroes
Geneforge 3 & 4
last 3 months? lots of
stalker
neverwinter nights
SOASE
oblivion
mass effect
CoD4 MP (mostly for work, believe it or not)
spent a few hours on tf2, but that was only the one session.
spent most of my game time the last month playing old N64 stuff though.
the last few days has been metal gear solid 2 and armoured core, though.
Lord of the Rings Online
TrackMania
Team Fortress 2
Puzzle Quest
Bioshock
Three months? jeez, I can’t recall that far back.
But in no particular order, some things that I’m sure I’ve played:
Mass Effect (PC) (preordered, got it that weekend, beat it this past Sunday)
Sins of a Solar Empire
The World Ends With You (so awesome)
Phoenix Wright 3 (went back to it since it’s pretty inoffensive as a timekiller at work, this also encourages me not to use hints – they’re blocked on my work computer)
Earth Defense Force 2017. (Stupid fun in co-op.)
Grand Theft Auto IV
Assassin’s Creed (PC) (Flawed, but a lot of fun. Beat it. Loved the story.)
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (PC) (Not as bad as it’s made out to be, though it can be frustrating.)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC) (Went back in order to do the main quest, though I added some mods and fucked around a bit on other stuff, too. Then I just barely started Shivering Isles.)
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (the only PSP game I’ve played recently)
Sam and Max: Season 2 (episode 5…4 also if in the right time frame.)
Crackdown (beat. so awesome.)
Eternal Sonata (crazy, crazy game)
Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (surprisingly good, but still not *great*)
The Simpsons Game (360) (Very funny, but I didn’t go completionist – some of the levels I never want to go back to, gameplaywise.)
Penny Arcade Adventures (360) (Much fun.)
Saints Row (No GTA IV, that’s for sure, but fun.)
Samurai Warriors 2 (360) (Deeper than it’s made out to be.)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PC) (I didn’t have IV, but wanted to play GTA and I’d never gotten that far on this one.)
Conan (360) (Kind of a God of War ripoff, but entertainingly dismemberment-heavy nonetheless.)
Stuntman: Ignition (360) (Really fucking hard.)
Baroque (PS2) (Trippy roguelike.)
Shiren the Wanderer (DS) (Just the one run so far, but I got into the 20s.)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (360) (Coop, again.)
Enchanter (yes, the old Infocom game – I got a Palm and have been running the excellent Z-machine interpreter CellarDoor. Another work time-killer.)
ForumWarz (so silly)
The list looks a bit 360 heavy but I promise that I do really tend to game more on my PC – it’s just that I only got my 360 back in February and so experienced a period of obsession with it, much like I do with any new device.
@Malkav11:
Jesus. Where do you find the time?
These months I have been mostly playing:
GRID
Europa Universalis: Rome
TF2
CS:S
Mass Effect
Red Orchestra
Final Fantasy X
Dragon Quest – Journey of the Cursed King
Assassin’s Creed
Dyson
the game where you’re a bear with an umbrella and you’re acting anti-socially
Nanosmiles
Digital Devil Saga (utter tripe, cross street to avoid)
Play The News (search for it, it’s from the guys who made Peacemaker and its brilliant)
Dominate Game (online risk, does not involve leather)
I suspect I’ve probably played for less total hours than some of the other people – I’ve gone significant chunks of this month without playing anything much, for example – but I skip around between games a lot more. Some of those games I only put in the couple of hours that was cited as a minimum. I’ve only beaten a few of them.
I’m also single, and until a month ago I was only working 16 hours a week.
Titan Quest – Immortal Throne
TF2
FlatOut 2
Trackmania Nations Forever
Real life has been stealing all of my time :(
In no particular order
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
TF2
Mass Effect
The Witcher
Fallout
GTA 3
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
Baldurs gate 2
Sims 2
Sam & Max Season 1
Precipice of Darkness
Audiosurf
Stalker
Fallout
Fallout 2
Counter-strike: source
Trials 2
Mass Effect
Assassin’s Creed
Planescape: Torment
Grim Fandango
Civilization 4
World in Conflict
Guitar Hero 3
Mr Driller DS
GTA Vice City
Baldur’s Gate
Slitherlink DS
Nurikabe DS
Trackmania Nations Forever (the free one)
Medieval Total War
Rise of Legends
Deus Ex
Trackmania
Wii Sports
My PC is 5 years old, so newer games are off the menu.
Tf2
Ninja Gaiden 2
GTA IV
:( more console than PC. but I consistently play more Tf2 so…
I’ve played (all on PC):
GRID
Mass Effect
Sam & Max Season 1
Baldur’s Gate (with tutu mod) until it stopped working due to a bug with modern nvidia cards
Sins of a Solar Empire
GalCiv2, Altarian Prophecy
Gumboy Tournament
Trackmania United Forever
Many Faces of Go
Fritz 10
Audiosurf
Unreal Tournament 3 (and no TF2? crikey I have such bad taste!)
Interestingly, I thought I didn’t have much time for games due to having a family, but it looks like my list is longer than a number of people here…
The Football Manager Live Beta (pretty much every day)
Uefa Euro 2008 (with little brother)
World in Conflict
LOTRO
WoW (trying it out)
Lost Odyssey (just a few hours in, but it’s becoming surprisingly compelling)
Guitar Hero 3
Grid
TF2
Spore Creature Creator
In no particular order.
Civ 4 BTS
TF2
PES 2008 (co-op Master League 360)
Beyond Good and Evil
PST (with WIDESCREEN mod, though I only played for 3 hours before being distracted by shiny things)
Only own a PC, I buy very few games. But bought almost every Looking Glass, Troika and Black Isle game. Why does everybody close to me have to go away? :(
But, anyway:
-Mass Effect (I’m not even sure I’m enjoying it yet. The difficulty’s on the highest settings, but it’s still only challenging when the auto-cover sticks me to a wall and I can’t get off it quick enough before somebody runs at me with a shotgun, or when a cutscene ends to place me facing away from three insta-kill snipers, and I have to reload over and over, having to watch the cutscene over and over, until I finally manage to run in crazy zig-zag patterns and avoid being shot in the back. My team mates love to valiantly sacrifice themselves too. /moooan).
-Spore Creature Creator (trial)
PC:
Jade Empire
Sins of a Solar Empire
Mount & Blade
Trials 2
Audiosurf
Vampire: Bloodlines
Dwarf Fortress
GRID
DS:
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Advance Wars: Dark Conflict
Team Fortress 2: I am the Übermensch! Edition
GTA4
Mass Effect (360)
Audiosurf
Hotel Dusk
Spore Creature Creator (trial)
Rez
Call of Duty 4 (360 multiplayer)
Penny Arcade Adventures
Rock Band
A fair bit of 360 stuff there, but Team Fortress 2 play dwarfs the lot of them.
Beyond Good and Evil
God Hand
Earthbound
Thief: Deadly Shadows (Didn’t really play it obsessively, just had a go at it for the Shalebridge Cradle, too bad the rest of it is quite bland)
Galactic Civ 2
Civ IV
Spore Creature Creator
STALKER
GTR2
TDU
Call of Juarez
Richard Burns Rally
Condemned
BF1942
BF2
World in Conflict
Stalker
NOLF2
Sim City 4
Europa Universalis 3
I tend to only stick with a few games at a time, so, in order of how much I’ve played them:
EVE Online
HL2: Garry’s Mod
Space Empires V
Team Fortress 2
Rock Band
Everything else clocks in under two hours.
Metal gear solid 4,
Half life 2 episode 1 (quite late on this one),
Trackmania nations forever,
Planescape torment
Civ 4
Team Fortress 2
Trials 2
Have bought Mass Effect but only played it for about half an hour so far.
Neverwinter Nights 1
Neverwinter Nights 2
Portal
NWN2
Civ4
Sales rep these days, not a great deal of time to myself :(
Stalker (Oblivion Lost)
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 2
Forza 2
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Right, let’s think. In no particular order:
EVE
Sins Of A Solar Empire
C&C 3: Kane’s Wrath
Football Manager
Medieval II
Company of Heroes (both vanilla and opposing fronts)
Civilization 4
Alpha Centauri (mostly Alien Crossfire, a game or two of vanilla)
Black & White 2 (I keep meaning to actually finish it)
GRAW 2 (came free with my vidcard)
Supreme Commander (played one level, absolutely hated it. It has NO HEART.)
HL2
Unreal Tournament 3
Trials 2
Trackmania NF
and on 360…
Sega Rally
Stuntman: Ignition
Guitar Hero III
Skate
Bioshock
Sega Superstars Tennis
Think that’s everything.
1. Team Fortress 2
2. Eve-Online
3. Wii fit
4. Metroid Prime 3
5. Ikaruga on XBLA
6. Galactic Civ 2 Twilight of the Arnor
7. Sins of a Solar Empire
Half-Life 2 Episodes
Deus Ex – Invisible War
Metal Gear Solid 2
GTA
Fallout
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the rain-slick Precipice of Darkness(Finished it 3 times, the combat is just too much fun)
Loads of Quake 3 and Quake Live beta
Roughly in order of how long I’ve played them:
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
Shiren the Wanderer (DS)
Bangai-O Spirits (DS)
Kururin Paradise (GBA)
Ibara (ARC)
Inyou Douji Monogatari (PC)
Acceleration of Suguri (PC)
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA)
Yume Nikki (PC)
Espgaluda II (ARC)
Metal Slug 2 (ARC)
Portal: The Flash Version mappack, LoveGLaDOS and Koumei Satou’s map (PC)
Trouble Witches (PC)
Bomberman Online (PC)
Vacant Ark (PC)
God Hand (PS2)
Pochi & Nyaa (PS2)
So 8 PC games, only 2 of which you guys would ever consider covering.
edit: woah, 2 other people listed Shiren too!
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Portal
Pro Evo
All on PS2 and 3, neither of which I own, neither do I own a PC but I read the site anyway (a smiley face – ed)
In no particular order -
PC:
Planescape Torment
Half Life 2 Epsiode One
Trackmania Nations Forever
Rescue the Beagles (indie)
Civ4
Consoles:
Metal Gear Solid 4
Armored Core 4
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer’s Call
Eve-Online
Nethack
Tf2
Wurm Online
TF2
GMod
Audiosurf
C+C3
Warning Forever
Tunips said: King’s Bounty
Ooh, what’s it like? Waiting for the English version to come out, it looks lovely.
And looking at the other lists realising I forgot:
Culpa Innata
On the rain slick ledge of long and difficult game names.
TF2,
EVE Online,
Mass Effect,
Hellgate London,
NOLF 2 on a co-operative play LAN,
The Movies,
Defcon
CoD4 (PC & 360)
TF2 (PC)
Half-Life 1 (PC, replaying single-player)
Halo 3 (360)
GTA 4 (360)
Age Of Conan
Team Fortress 2
LotRO
Dwarf Fortress
Rogue Galaxy
NWN 2
NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer
KotoR
TF2
STALKER (with the Oblivion Lost mod on)
CoD4
GTA: SA
Grim Fandango (Dug it out for a new run-through)
HL2 and eps
Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3 (Play through these regularly and often)
Hammer (not really a game, but I’ve sunk more time into the Source level design tools than anything else this year)
Eve Online
Mount&Blade
Oblivion
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (mostly the Fall from Heaven II mod)
The Sims 2
City of Villains
Spore Creature Creator
Dwarf Fortress
Team Fortress 2
Crysis
Boom Blox
Wii Fit
Mario Kart Wii
Endless Ocean
Team Fortress 2
Halo 3
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark Zero
Call of Duty 4
TimeSplitters Future Perfect
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Half-Life Generation
Quake 4
Quake II
Viva Pinata
I recently bought all these games from an ultra-cheap shop in Plymouth. Most are XBox 360, since I just bought one of those, but I prefer TF2 on PC for its better server chooser, improved graphics etc.
Diablo 2
Timeshift
STALKER
KoToR
MoHAA + Spearhead
FEAR: Perseus mandate and Extraction point
Roughly in order:
Natural Selection (RTS/FPS mod for HL)
Advance Wars: Dark Conflict (for the DS)
Team Fortress 2
Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (for the DS)
Empires (RTS/FPS mod for HL2)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (for the DS)
Super Puzzle Fighter (for the GBA)
Bioshock (had been waiting for a PC upgrade to play this)
Super Puzzle Fighter (on XBL)
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 (ditto)
Not to mention games in test at work that I’m not allowed to talk about (then again I’m not really ‘playing’ them).
P.S. Clearly if those are the only games Jim has played for more than 2 hours in the last 3 months, the reviewing system in this industry is flawed (almost all games taking more than 2 hours to complete from start to finish – even if using a roadrunner game guide).
In order of obsession:
1. Dystopia (Yay cyberpunk, I’m so addicted)
2. Team Fortress 2 (Yay pyros)
3. The World Ends With You (Yay emos and silly hair, not sure it’s been out 3 months but I’ve been playing it to get 100% for long enough that it must qualify for this list)
There’s tonnes of other stuff that I’ve played briefly or not all the way through, but those 3 are probably what I’ve spent the vast majority of my gaming time on recently.