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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TF2
Audiosurf
Half Life
Metal Gear Solid 2
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
FFXII
No One Lives Forever
The Witcher
Bioshock
TF2 (only recently)
Football Manager 2008 (guilty pleasure – I must find something to do with my empty life)
GTAIV
Half Life 2 (replayed)
Deus Ex: IW (replay – it’s still shit)
Planescape: Torment (Cherry popped – or well, I finally finished it. Was exhilarating)
Call of Duty 4 (not online)
Peggle (when I’m supposed to work)
Hmmm. Let’s see:
Oblivion (most recently)
Team Fortress 2 (Lots, obviously)
Red Orchestra
F.E.A.R
SWAT 4 (And expansion)
Spore Creature Creator
UT2004 (In particular, awesome mod Gunreal)
World in Conflict
And in terms of consoles, a friend recently got a 360. I spent much time shamelessly hogging it, playing:
GTA IV
Gears of War
Halo 3
So, yeah. There ye go.
MINERVA: Out of Time. :-P
(The beginnings thereof, anyway. Which mostly look like the inside of Photoshop or Hammer…)
Diablo2
Portal (well, than one in March…but close enough, I think, to include it especially since last year is basically still one big Diablo fest, except for said Portal, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 in January, and HL2 a year ago)
Only the last three months? I don’t know where some of you guys find the time!
Mass Effect PC
Spore Creature Creator Demo
Penumbra: Overture
Penumbra: Black Plague
Portal (mods)
Red Baron Arcade
Syberia 1
Syberia 2
Perry Rhodan
Secret Files Tunguska
Overclocked: A History of Violence
HL2: Ep1
HL2: Ep2
TF2
TFC
World in Conflict
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Counter-Strike Source
Battlefield 1942
The Big Three
TF2
Civ4
HL2 Series
Also:
Beyond Good & Evil (Probably the best $9 I’ve spent on a game)
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Either I’ve gotten really bad at the game, or it’s a lot harder than Vegas 1)
Sam & Max Season 2
Grim Fandango (Great Laptop Game or Greatest Laptop Game Ever?)
Call of Duty 2
Galactic Civilizations II (Probably won’t really get back into this until I get sick of Civ4)
Prey (Fun the first time I ran through it, got bored of it quickly this time though. Can’t complain too much for $5)
I’m going to make a run out to Best Buy today and finally pick up Beyond the Sword, so I’ll probably be stuck to that for a while.
TF2
CoD4
Stalker
ETQW
Dark Messiah
Gear of War co-op
World in Conflict
Silent Hunter IV
Pro Evo 6
Race Driver: Grid
Battlefield 2
Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2
Half-Life 2, all three episodes
Oblivion
ROCK BAND
Burnout Paradise
Civilization IV
TrackMania Nations United
Sins Of A Solar Empire
Spore Creature Creator
Aquaria
Defcon
Audiosurf
No More Heroes
Super Mario Galaxy
Guitar Hero III
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (all 4 games, including Apollo Justice)
Everyday Shooter
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Puzzle Quest
…crap, that’s more than I thought. And I’m sure I’ve missed loads, too.
Stalker (AMK mod)
Stalker (aliVe mod)
Stalker (regular. Seemed informative to split them up. Or wanky. Take your pick)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Battlefield 1942 (reinstalled it for old time’s sake just recently)
Bioshock
Crysis (demo)
Grand Theft Auto 3
Hitman : Codename 47 (these last two are my ‘15 minutes of mayhem’ games)
Maybe COD4 DM around at a mates place just squeaks in.
Team Fortress 2
World of Warcraft
Indigo Prophecy
Call of Duty 4
Rock Band
Viking: Battle for Asgard
FFVI
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Penny Arcade Adventures
The Darkness
Oblivion
TF2
Bioshock
Portal
HL2:E2
GTAIV
Carcassone
TF2
Spore Creature Creator
Dawn of War (with all addons)
Beyond Good and Evil
Cortex Command
COD4
Dino Run
Hrm, not as much as I thought. Still, I am on the verge of an upgrade. Ask me again in a month or two and I’ll have an enormous list of brainless eye-candy FPSs.
EDIT: Oh actually I forgot I played AHL & Sven Coop HLSP for a few hours with my girlfriend!
Pokémon Diamond
Psychonauts
Resident Evil 4
Sonic Rush Adventure
World of Warcraft
Not that much, mainly because I bought a DS and got addicted to it.
Three months? Hm.
TF2
Fate
Space Invaders Extreme (DS)
a little bit of Puzzle Quest
Half Life 2: Episode 2
Baldur’s Gate with Tales of the Sword Coast
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Sins of a Solar Empire
Puzzle Quest
Planescape: Torment
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Spore Creature Creator demo
The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass
Sonic Rush Adventure
The World Ends With You
Several other games kicking around as-yet un- or barely-played. Installed and started playing the Depths of Peril demo this morning, and will probably play it more.
Beyond Good & Evil
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Galactic Civilizations II
… I’ve been on a tear finishing games I left unfinished previously.
TF2
Mario Kart Wii
Boom Blox
GTA4
That’s really it. Not much lately.
More than a couple of hours eh?
Rock Band
Team Fortress 2
GTA 4
C&C 3
C&C 3 – Kane’s Wrath
Football Manager Live (I don’t even like the normal FM games, so that’s somewhat suprising.)
And three games during my work experience that I’m not sure if I can say, so I’ll be safe and not say them. Again, suprisngly low but I suppose for one thing I’ve not had a lot of time to dedicate to games themselves recently. I’ve played a lot of others, but only for very brief periods due to Uni work etc etc.
TF2
Oblivion
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
No More Heroes
Wii Sports
Mario Kart Wii
Football Manager 2008
Portal
Mount and Blade
PS2:
Rock Band
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Madden 08
Gamecube:
Mario Kart: Double Dash
PC:
Team Fortress 2
Spore Creature Creator
WoW
Mount&Blade
Oblivion
Morrowind
Final Fantasy V (SNES emulator)
Planescape: Torment
Portal
Bioshock
DS:
Mario Kart DS
New Super Mario Bros.
Final Fantasy III DS
All platforms:
Tetris (Worlds, DS, Lockjaw)
I bought Mass Effect PC but it’s sitting on the shelf – just not motivated right now for the time commitment. You said not to count small free games, but the collective works of Cactus would rank in the top 5.
It really warms my heart to see so many people listing Doom ports. TF2 just makes me want to play co-op Doom.
All of these are trumped by the tedious skill-grind of Calculus 270 on the TI-92.
I just realized in making this list, that I haven’t even played any of my PS2 games since moving 7 weeks ago. My home console gaming went from about 15-20 hours a week on the PS2 to 2 hours a month on the Gamecube, and I think that’s come to a stop too.
I sold my Wii six months ago last week and there never has been enough reason to justify the cost of a PS3 or 360 – there’s still so much stuff on PC and DS that’s sucking up all my free gaming time, especially the DS since my fiancée finally got one and we’ve been digging up stuff like Kart DS and NSMB and playing each other.
If someone had asked me 3 months ago if I’d give up console games for the DS and PC, I’d have punched them. I was going to get a 360 or PS3 with my tax rebate, but once I got it, I realized I just didn’t want either of them. Makes me feel old.
Three months? Well, about three months ago I finally got a new PC, so I believe my list will reflect that. In no particular order:
Call of Duty 4
STALKER
Mass Effect
Half-Life 2, Episode 2
Company of Heroes
EVE Online
Etrian Odyssey
Those are the games I’ve spent the most time with, I’d say. Since these games (except for EO) reflect the serious gaming I’ve done with my new PC, you may certainly read into the omissions. For example, Bioshock and TF2 are missing because I don’t like them. Yeah, you take that information.
Tetris the Grand Master
Tetris the Grand Master 2
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
Portal (+ the Flash Levels)
Bangai-o Spirits
Tetris the Grand Master DS version
(yes, I am a Tetris-obsessed gamer)
TF2
Penny-Arcade : On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
EVE-Online
Spore Creature Creator
Audiosurf
Nethack
Droid Assault
Democracy 2
The Incredible Hulk (Y’know, if only Marvel would realize that they could make an actual game worth their IP if they’d just take an engine like this and add more heroes…)
Alpha Centauri (for a few days…)
Bioshock (to look at the pretty levels)
Tried the Iron Man game for a day or two… more out of morbid curiosity to see how bad it could be.
Wow, these lists seem excellent for finding people with tastes similar to yours. I’ve already spotted quite a few of those people…
Here’s my list (all on the PC):
EVE Online
Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
Counter-Strike Source
Half-Life 2 and Episode One (both finished, working on Two next)
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars (brief stint since it’s sat on my shelf for ages)
Team Fortress 2
Audiosurf
Garry’s Mod
Test Drive Unlimited
Quake 4 (”unimaginative” shooters are great for killing time, and they’re great fun too!)
Painkiller (because of the shurikens and lightning, no less)
TES IV: Oblivion (my try at getting into RPGs… didn’t like it much)
Games I’m expecting to play soon: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (when I gather up the courage… hopefully before Clear Sky is released) and HL2: Episode Two (see above). Might give Crysis a second chance too.
World of Warcraft (By far the biggest time-sink, and favourite of the lot)
Oblivion. (I love exploring forests in it. I get lost and immersed and)
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (for a while, until it started to push me away with all the irritating bugs and design decisions)
Team Fortress 2
Dawn of War
Instant Action: Fallen Empires
Titan Quest
Spore Creature Creator
Civilization 4
Psychonauts
Beyond Good and Evil
Team Fortress 2
Mount and Blade Demo
Galactic Civilizations II Demo
Company of Heroes
Starcraft Brood War
World in Conflict (cuz I won that contest you ran :P)
Rock Band
Animal Crossing (Gamecube Version)
Well this was both harder and more fun than I expected. This is what I can remember in order of most time played to least:
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Armageddon Empires
GTA IV
Assassin’s Creed
Spore Creature Creator
Mount & Blade
Ikariam
Civilization IV
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness
Sins of a Solar Empire
Ultima Underworld
Fallout
No More Heroes
Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor
Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer
Weird Worlds – Return to Infinite Space
Defcom
FreeCol
And now my laptop GPU has exploded, so no more PC games for me! :(
Somehow I forgot Blade Runner off my list earlier. What an awesome point and click adventure game. And by Westwood of all people!
GTAIV (360)
STALKER
The World Ends with You (DS)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA on DS)
Gears of War
RS:V2 (360)
Total War: Rome
Pathologic
Lego Indiana Jones
Angband
MGS4
GTA4
Ninja Gaiden 2
TF2
Mass Effect
Longest Journey
Yes I’ve been bit of a console whore lately!
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
GTA IV
Mass Effect (360)
Company of Heroes
Call of Duty 4 (PC)
Dawn of War (and all expansions)
TF2
Source SDK (I’m making a map)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Resident Evil 4 (sub-par port, but outstanding game makes up for it)
Lego Star Wars
Jade Empire
All on PC.
I’ve been nursing a horrible case of what I believe to be tendonitis in my right wrist for a while (brought on by too many years of gaming). That’s why I’ve played almost entirely controller games, save STALKER, which I couldn’t wait to play any longer. It’s killing me. I’m still buying as many games as before (maybe more), but I’m not playing them. This is one of the worst ailments for a PC gamer…I wouldn’t wish it on my worst PC gaming enemy.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory represent!
Also, STALKER and TF2. Oh man, I just upgraded my PC, and it eats up STALKER and spits it out…
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
Mass Effect (360)
GTA IV (360)
Trackmania Nations Forever (PC)
TF2
Icewind Dale 1/2, Baldur’s Gate 1 some. Aiming for a full BG1 -> BG2+ expack campaign if I can settle on a damn character class.
WoW
Call of Duty 4
STALKER
Not much at all really – too busy these days.
Pirates of the Burning Sea (until the server merge)
Droid Assault
Spore CC
Tank Universal
Space Invaders Extreme (PSP)
Patapon (PSP)
God of War: CoO (PSP)
GTA IV
GT5: Prologue (rented)
World of Warcraft
Lord of the Rings Online
GTA4(on 360)
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1(on 360)
Ninja Gaiden 2
Civilization 4
Kingdom of Loathing
TF2
Day of Defeat Source
TF2
HL2:EP2
Mass Effect
KotOR (Playing Mass Effect made me realise how much I missed this game :))
Oblivion
Oh, and off-topic, I really didn’t like Oblivion the first time I tried it. After reading the exploration article here on RPS I took it up again, this time treating it like an exploration game, mostly ignoring the story line and disregarding wonky NPCs and whaddya know.. it’s actually fun to just crawl around the map :)
WoW
Audiosurf
Mass Effect
NWN2 & Mask of the Betrayer
Jade Empire
Tomb Raider: anniversary
The Longest Journey
Medieval 2 Gold
Twilight of the Arnor
Sins of a Solar empire
TF2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Company of Heroes + Opposing Forces
Peggle
GTA4 (360)
Burnout Paradise (360)
Golden Sun (GBA)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney – Trials and Tribulations (DS)
Boom Blox (Wii)
Journey into NiGHTS (Wii)
Zack & Wiki (Wii)
Crimson Skies (XBox)
Onimusha: Warlords (PS2)
Team Fortress 2 (PC)
Sins of a Solar Empire (PC)
Garry’s Mod (PC)
Celestial Impact (PC – free)
San Andreas Multiplayer (GTA:SA mod)
Eternal Silence (HL2 mod)
Age of Chivalry (HL2 mod)
Fistful of Frags (HL2 mod)
Portal Flash Version Mappack (Portal mod)
Europe in Ruins (Company of Heroes mod)
TF2
COD 4
Forgotten Hope 2 (BF2 mod)
Age of Chivalry (HL2 mod)
Empires (HL2 mod)
Eternal Silence (HL2 mod)
Fistful of Frags (HL2 mod)
Insurgency (HL2 mod)
TF2 (easily my favourite FPS)
Civ IV with Warlords & BtS (Old Faithful – always come back to this)
Company of Heroes (Too chicken to play multiplayer though)
Oblivion (Second time round – heavily modded)
Audiosurf
Team Fortress 2
Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2
Half Life 2: Ep.2
mmmm, a lot of sequels there lol