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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Last three months: All PC, singleplayer (’campaign’ or equivalent) with atleast 4 hours of gameplay:
Starcraft & SC: Broodwar (Umpteenth playthrough)
Beyond Good and Evil (Playing, RPS induced enthusiasm)
Fear (2nd playthrough, finished)
Crysis (Finished)
Stalker (Playing)
KOTOR (Finished)
KOTOR 2 (Playing)
Deus Ex: IW (Playing)
Gears of War (Too buggy, aborted)
Farcry mods (Playing)
The Longest Journey (Lost interest, aborted)
Dawn of War: Dark crusade (Aborted)
MDK2 (Too puzzling, aborted)
System Shock 2 (Too buggy on XP, aborted)
Clive Barker’s Undying (Lost interest when Crysis arrived)
And some Indie games featured on TIG-Source & RPS.
Kudos to RPS for the contagious enthusiasm for BG&E.
TF2
GRID
Xcom – ufo defense
Armageddon empires
Team Fortress 2
GRID
Europa Universalis Rome
Oblivion + Shivering Isles
TF2
Age of Conan
Gary’s Mod
The Ship
Yeah. Thats it.
TF2 (I’m very much a recent n00b latecomer – but it is utter genius)
FM2008
Company of Heroes
Audiosurf
Trackmania (the recent free one – probably only just about qualifies for the two hour rule)
I might have misjudged slightly as I’m not 100% on whether everything here has been played more than two hours within the last three months (although I’m pretty sure it is):
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2, the episodes and mods
Half-Life 1 mods
Sin (first play)
Sin Episodes (replay)
Peggle Deluxe
Audiosurf
Fear and Extraction point (replay)
Tomb Raider 2 (speedrun)
Tomb Raider custom levels
Doom custom levels and Skulltag multiplayer
God of War 1
God of War 2 (both replays)
Marathon: Durandal (First play)
Marathon: Infinity (First play)
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (first play)
Megaman (first play)
Resident Evil 4 (replay)
Unreal Tournament (with Unreal 1 SP modded in)
Silent Hill 2 (first play)
And probably a bunch of stuff I missed.
Overclocked: A History of Violence – just finished (PC)
Act of Misdirection (short IF game, played yesterday) (PC)
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
Live For Speed (PC)
Grid (X360)
Condemned 2 (X360)
Grand Theft Auto (X360)
Age of Conan; initial binge, now I’ve stopped playing it
TF2
Cabal Online
Civ IV
GRID
GTA3
Sins of a Solar Empire
Bioshock
GTA – Vice City
Spore Creature Creator
Not a good three months for free time –
Super Mario Galaxy
Armageddon Empires
Doublewires.swf (free Flash which hasn’t been posted)
Ants, by Miroslav Nemecek (freeware which hasn’t been posted – I’ve almost convinced myself that it’s a game)
Frid Fars Fwo
Puzzle Quest
World of Goo Chapter 1
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Outcast
Trackmania Forever
Spore Creature Creator
Vampire : The Masquerade : Bloodlines
Half-Life 2 : Synergy Mod
GTA : San Andreas
We should set up a RPS group on http://wakoopa.com/ to track the games *we* play ;p
Far as I remember… three months is a long time in games.
PC:
Gears of War
Quake 4
Starcraft
N
FEAR
UT2004
UT3
TF2
Off Road Velociraptor Safari
Resident Evil 4
Company of Heroes
Outrun 2006
STALKER
Portal (the flash version mod for it)
Trackmania Nations Forever
Half-Life: Uplink (demo)
Sins of a Solar Empire (demo)
Spore Creature Creator (demo)
Trials 2 (demo)
Windows Solitaire/Freecell/Spider Solitaire
DS:
Geometry Wars
Puzzle Quest
PS2:
FIFA 07
Tekken 5
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2
oh, and Team Fortress 2
(and then there was silence…)
Audiosurf
Bioshock
Tracmania Nations Forever
Everyday Shooter
Also
PC:
ET: Quake Wars
PS2:
Guitar Hero 2
Let’s see.. (all PC, btw)
replayed:
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
HL2: Ep1
HL2: Ep2
bunch of mods for both HL and HL2
bunch of FMs for Thief 2
Star Wars: Republic Commando
first time playthroughs:
Jade Empire
currently:
SWAT 4
Mass Effect
replaying CoD4
In rough order of play (highest at top) – oh, and a word of warning: I’m predominantly a 360 gamer due to lack of modern PC
Rock Band
Mass Effect (ironically, as above, mostly through /multi/player – I have a friend obsessed with the game, who unfortunately lacks the skills [or machine] to play it alone. Even after completing it twice, now playing through a third time)
Portal
Armageddon Empires
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Abe’s Exoddus (another ‘multiplayer’ title)
Dinorun
Gemcraft (my shame is nearly palpable)
That’s pretty much all of the major titles, I think.
STALKER – 30 hrs
Team Fortress 2 – 30
Beyond Good & Evil (steam) – 10
Okami – 15
Wii Fit – 10
Metroid Prime – 20?
Project Snowblind – 10
Shadowgrounds: Survivor – 10
Steam sales and the availability (now passed) of my Ma’s Wii explain most of what’s going on. I actually played BGE a week before the announcement.
World Of Warcraft
Warcraft 3
Mass Effect
Lavra Mortus
And additionally I’m going for Lego Indiana Jones, CoD 4 and Bioshock during the holidays. I haven’t had much time to play lately :s
TF2
Deus Ex
Civ4
TF2
Everquest ¬_¬
Mass Effect PC
Mari Kart Wii (with other people)
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (DS)
Is pretty much all I’ve played recently, although FFTA2 has only been out a few days I’ve clocked a surprising amount of time playing it so far, I had just started another epic playthrough of BG1+2 but that is on hold till I am done with Mass Effect.
TF2
Episode 2
Deus Ex
Aquaria
GTA IV (360)
Ninja Gaiden II (360)
Fallout 2 (re-installed it two weeks ago for the umpteenth time dammit)
Neverwinter Nights 2
Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)
Battlefield Heroes Beta
Far Cry 2 (at work)
TF2
Spore creature creator full
GTA4 (360)
Sup Com forged alliance
Super Mario Galaxy
LocoRoco
Gears of war (pc)
Peggle
Defcon
Call of duty 4 (pc)
GTA IV (360)
COD4 (360)
Spore – Creature Creator (Mac)
..The first two of which I ended up writing short texts on. I’m obsessed with GTA IV multiplayer, and am starting to spend a bit of time looking into the Spore creature creator.
Obviously I’m very boring:
TF2 (lots of hours! – about 20 or so, plus, to judge from my total times on each class)
Audiosurf (but only just qualifying – perhaps 2 or 3 hours?)
ET:QW (but only for about 6 hours, total, before I gave it up in disgust)
Quake + Mission Packs (for long enough to beat them all once)
Quake II (for long enough to decide it wasn’t as fun as Quake – perhaps 3 hours?)
Mount&Blade
GTA IV (360)
X-Wing vs Tie Fighter (with Balance of Power)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (What? It’s actually quite fun in coop with a custom team.)
Hitman Contracts
Spore Creature Creator
Perfect Dark Zero (360) (I regret every minute of this one)
TrackMania Nations Forever (easily my biggest timesink the last few months)
Mass Effect
Deus Ex (on my cheap ‘n cheerful laptop)
Crysis
Portal (another playthrough + the Flash version level pack)
Nothing on PC, I’m afraid.
Xbox 360:
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life: Episode One and Episode Two
Halo 3
Grand Theft Auto IV
Call of Duty 4
Wii:
Boom Blox
Zack & Wiki
DS:
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Picross
The World Ends With You
Puzzle Quest
Nintendo 64 (yes, really):
Perfect Dark
Mario Kart
And in the background my housemate is watching Metal Gear Solid 4 har har har.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
The Sims 2 (no add-ons)
Team Fortress 2
Unreal 1
Deus Ex
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Unreal Tournament
Mario Kart Wii
World of WarCraft
Defcon Demo
Spore Creature Creator Demo
I don’t have too many “new” games in my possession, sadly.
EVE
Pathologic
Sins of a Solar Empire
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Age of Wonders II
Team Fortress 2
Red Orchestra: Ostfront
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Unreal Tournament 2004
Alien Swarm
Trials 2
Peggle
Mount & Blade
Dreamfall
Half Life 2: Episode One
Darwinia
Wierd Worlds
Anno 1701 – Dawn of Discovery (DS)
Grid
COD4
TF2
ET:QW
I’ve put about 110 hours into ETQW and I’ve hardly played anything else in the last three months. Actually I think I upgraded the PC within that period so I must’ve clocked Bioshock, COD4 and STALKER too. Other stuff:
Spore Creature Creator
Fairway Solitaire
Bowling Buddies (Facebook)
Id back catalogue
Oblivion mods
Ghost Squad (Wii)
Lostwinds (Wii)
Wii Quake
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Lego Indiana Jones
Resident Evil 4 (again)
Unreal II (still sucks)
Black & White (sucks harder than I remembered)
Making StuffTM in Pygame
RANDY BALMA MUNICIPAL ABORTIONIST
TF2
Civ4
Football Manager 2008
Dwarf Fortress
Fight Night Round 3 (360)
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Oblivion
Dwarf Fortress
True Combat: Elite
Assassins Creed
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
TF2
Mass Effect PC
Planescape: Torment
Medieval 2: Total War
Dreamfall
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Everyday Shooter
Team Fortress 2
Spore Creature Creator
Boom Blox
Slay, on my Palm
DarkStar One
Civ 4
Rfactor
GTR 2
Lock-On Modern Air Combat
Microsoft FSX
Battle For Middle Earth 1
Overclocked
Half Life 2
Mass Effect
Crysis
Rainbow Six Vegas 1 + 2
Baldurs Gate 1 + 2
Planescape : Torment
Hitman Blood Money
DiRt
Medal Of Honor Airborne
Frontlines : Fuel Of War
Armed Assault
Battlefield 2 + 1942
Imperium Romanum
Jagged Alliance 2
Civcity Rome
Blue Force
Vietcong 1 + 2
X3 : The Threat
Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield
Call Of Duty 4
Bus Driver
Doom 1
Morrowind
Oblivion
Gothic 3
First Eagles
Fallout 1 + 2
Outcast
Star Wars X-Wing: Alliance
That is all I can remember.
WoW
TF2
Mystery PI: The Vegas Heist
Syberia II
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Mafia
Peggle
Lego Indiana Jones
DS Picross
Phoenix Wright: Justice For All
Fate
Republic Commando
Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King
Lost Odyssey
GTA4
Assassin’s Creed
Orange Box
Civilization 4 – Fall from Heaven mod
Galactic Civilizations 2
Dwarf Fortress
TF2
Rock Band
Guitar Hero 3
Fallout 1
Fallout 2
Boom Blox
Mario Kart Wii
TF2
GRID
Trials 2
COD4 sp (again…)
true combat elite (wolf et mod)
splinter cell chaos theory
TMUN
R6 vegas 2
spore cc
i think thats it…
In the absence of anything decent and new, this quarter has been a bit retro, tbh…
Jade Empire
KotOR (the first one)
Hellgate London
Nethack
Monsters’ Den
DROD
Depths of Peril
Portal
Team Fortress 2
GRID
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Geometry Wars
And a special mention for Tomb Raider Anniversary. Just a splendid game. I had never played a single TR game before that… Clearly I was denying myself something grand.
Portal
Obulis (beat the demo in two hours but WANT to play it more)
Pathologic
Insaniquarium
The Endless Forest (Tale of Tales?)
Cloud
Zoo Tycoon 2
Crayon Physics (http://www.kloonigames.com/blog/games/crayon)
Overclocked: A History of Violence (wish I hadn’t though, one of the worst games I’ve ever played)
Various versions of Grow (eyemaze.com)
…I’m an atypical gamer.
“Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2, the episodes and mods
Half-Life 1 mods
Sin (first play)
Sin Episodes (replay)
Peggle Deluxe
Audiosurf
Fear and Extraction point (replay)
Tomb Raider 2 (speedrun)
Tomb Raider custom levels
Doom custom levels and Skulltag multiplayer
God of War 1
God of War 2 (both replays)
Marathon: Durandal (First play)
Marathon: Infinity (First play)
Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 (first play)
Megaman (first play)
Resident Evil 4 (replay)
Unreal Tournament (with Unreal 1 SP modded in)
Silent Hill 2 (first play)”
Crap, I forgot:
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Black Plague
The Simpsons Game
Do I win :P ?
I can’t remember what I was playing last month let alone 2 months ago. Fallout 2 (high resolution mod, nice but it crashes every time I use stimpacks in combat) but I couldn’t stay into it long enough to finish a play through. Dwarf Fortress, always sucks me in for massive amounts of time. Last couple days been fooling around with Dead Frontier, online actiony game with zombies; was turned off at first by the overpriced Shop, but once I started traveling far enough I started scavenging all sorts of nice things and the forums are a very active market for buying/selling stuff(so the shop is more like a donation option for those who want to support development).
Dystopia (total conversion multiplayer mod for HL2)
TF2
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (with friends mostly)
Guitar Hero III
TF2
Lego Indiana Jones
On the Rain Slicked Precipice of Darkness
Baldur’s Gate (for the millionth time)
Guitar Hero 3 (Wii)
Hitman 2 Silent Assassin (again)
Sam and Max Season 2
Trials 2 SE
C&C 3 Kane’s Wrath
Assassin’s Creed
Max Payne (again)
Simpsons Game (Wii)
No More Heroes (Wii)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
All PC ver. (if applicable):
Team Fortress 2
X3
Morrowind
SWAT3
CoD4 MP(HC FF-on only, to filter out the most annoying people)
SimCity 4k
Guild Wars (just for pretty sceneries)
Nytt(sp?) Stories
DiRT
Turok (waste of money)
Pirates! (new one)
about it…
Mass Effect
GRID Demo
Spore Creature Creator Demo
Team Fortress 2
Company of Heroes
Audiosurf
Trackmania Nations United
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden
Mafia
Freedom Fighters
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
Warcraft III (DotA)
Crysis
Sins of a Solar Empire Demo
Day of Defeat: Source
Day of Defeat: Source Beta
Red Orchestra
Carpathian Crosses
Darkest Hour
Mare Nostrum
Forgotten Hope 2
Natural Selection
DIPRIP
Ballmen