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.
You?
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At roughly 200 comments (of which ~10 or so discounted for being comments on other lists or ‘oh and I forgot’ addendums)…
…only 64 didn’t Team Fortress 2 in the list! :o
Considering that some lists were clearly from people who were either not interested in multiplayer games or whose games suggested they cannot run any high-spec games, that’s a pretty solid indication of Team Fortress’ success rate.
Now, I’m measuring success by how many people have returned/remained to play the Pyro and Medic packs. I’m guessing if you asked those players whether they’re entirely happy being Valve’s guinea-pigs-cum-external-unpaid-testers, you might get a different response.
I think since the introduction of the new weapons (and the balance changes they’ve made to other classes), TF2 has actually made me want to turn off prematurely because the Pyro is so ludicrously overpowered and has a hard counter to every single class. Pisses me off to see that the Pyro weapons/buffs fairly obviously haven’t had enough testing time, because testers playing it 6 hours a day would pick up on this fact within a week or two.
What i have been playing in the past three months in no particular order.
Guild Wars (not limited to one campaign or expansion)
Mass Effect
Dystopia Beta (the upcoming 1.2 version of the Cyberpunk HL2 Multiplayer mod, which RPS should talk about sometime)
Team Fortress 2
Eternal Silence (Space/FPS HL2 multiplayer mod)
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty 4
Mass Effect
Fallout
Painkiller
Assassin’s Creed
Crysis
In no particular order.
PC
CoD 4
CS:S
TF 2
HL2 Episode 1
Battlefield 2
Planetside
Dawn of War
Jumpgate
PS3
Metal Gear Solid 4
GTA 4
Burnout Paradise
GT 5 – Prologue
CoD4 – multiplayer (DM only)
Vampire the Masquerade – Bloodlines
Audiosurf
Minesweeper
In no particular order (only PC games):
Mass Effect
No one lives Forever
Trackmania Nations Forever
Trackmania United Forever
Crysis
Half Life 2
Half Life 2 – Ep1
Half Life 2 – Ep2
Portal
Pro Pinball: Fantastic Journey
Colonization
GalCiv2: Twilight of the Arnor
Depths of Peril
Jagged Alliance 2 (v1.13 mod, w/ Wildfire maps). One game has taken me 2 months. Almost done. Mostly before that…
Fallout 2 (Restoration mod)
Twilight 2000
Wasteland
System Shock
Civ IV Beyond the Sword
Peggle
Shiren the Wanderer (DS) when my PC wouldn’t boot
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (DS) when my primary hard drive died for good
Bioshock
All PC games:
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Swat 4
Rome: Total War
Heroes of Might and Magic III
Homeworld 2
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Deus Ex
STALKER
Team Fortress 2
Age of Conan (then took it back. I surpass the recommended specs, and get 4 FPS in any town. Forget that.)
Close Combat 3: The Russian Front
Peggle Extreme
Call of Duty 4 (Single player only. I didn’t like it enough to play again, and the multiplayer requires punkbuster so.. no thanks.)
Deus Ex: Invisible War (Finally purchased and beat it. Not as good as the first one, but a good game of it’s own merit.)
Counter Strike 1.6 (Had a tonne of trouble finding a good server.)
Unreal Tournament 3 (Impossible to find servers for.)
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (great game, I really enjoyed it)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (with my step-son)
Travian (I play it twice a day or so. Just a nice calm game.)
TF2.
PC
TF2 (A whole lot. Got my Medic & Pyro unlocks inside 2 weeks.)
COD4 Singleplayer
Neverwinter Nights 2
STALKER
Spellforce-Order of Dawn
Trackmania United
Prey (Finished it. Thought it was pants.)
The Witcher
C&C Red Alert 2
Halflife 1
Halflife Ep2
Puzzle Quest
Peggle
Company of Heroes
Xbox 1
Jade Empire
Burnout Revenge
Republic Commando
Mercenaries
Armageddon Empires
Mount & Blade
Assassin’s Creed
Decker
Down in Flames – Eastern Front
Empires & Dungeons
Smugglers 3
FlatOut 2
Darkstar One
Beyond Good and Evil
HoMM:V
Rainbow Six Vegas
Silent Hunter 3
Crysis
CoD 4 (single player)
Rogue Trooper
All on PC. A couple of these might have been 4 or so months ago. Who can remember? Great poll, though; gives me more ideas for games.
Forgot
Psychonauts
Portal
Unreal Tournament 2004. Lots of. UT3 broke the teamplay mechanics (especially VCTF) so much that our usual online lot are sticking with the classic.
Other than that: Nethack; OpenTTD; Frets on Fire; Rigs of Rods. All playable in bursts (as with UT2K4), all free to varying degrees. That’s a reflection on my recent free time fragmentation, though: Supreme Commander, Bioshock and Deus Ex (replay…five?) drift just outside the three month gap, and Crysis and the System Shocks are future contenders.
Team Fortress 2
Mass Effect PC
Darwinia
Guitar Hero III PC
Titan Quest
Okami (Wii)
TF2 (PC)
COD4 (PC)
Everyday Shooter (PC)
Grid Demo (PC)
Audio Surf (PC)
M’kay.
-Alone in the Dark [360] (despite what the reviews say, I’m quite enjoying it EDIT: SHITE ENDING THOUGH.)
-BF: Bad Company [360]
-GTA IV [360]
-Mount & Blade
-Beyond Good & Evil [PC] (loverly little game there)
-MGS3 [PS2 natch]
-Silent Hill 3 [also PS2, natch]
-GTA III
-CoD4 [360] (friend-based banter)
-Skate [360] (threw her in while I dled various videos/ demos, what a game)
-Assassin’s Creed [360] (linear story, but good nonetheless, was collecting all the flags before I gave it to a friend along with Mass Effect in exchange for GTA IV)
-N [360] (not really Indy anymore)
-Cooking Mama [DS]
-Doctor K’s Brain Training [DS]
-Ninja Gaiden [DS]
-Ninja Gaiden II Demo [360]
-Hotel Dusk [DS]
-…A few others that I can’t mind.
(If I wasn’t lending Shadow of the Colossus and Ico to friends, they would certainly be in this list)
Yeah, so, PC gaming threw me off it’s back a few years ago, and I never really got bothered enough to climb back on. Bitterness against PC gaming is still rife in my soul. I should be playing Dwarf Fortress though. I definately should. And I feel like some more Thief: Deadly Shadows…
Why’s Crispy here so obsessed with TF2?
Also, when is Rossig gonna reveal his ultimate plan with all this newfound info..?
Rogue
LineRogue
POWDER
Planescape: Torment
Darwinia
Armageddon Empires
Scrabble (the board game. didn’t see it specified anywhere that it had to be a video game.)
also (far more than any of these) the game I’m currently writing.
Record for most posts on one article?
Nexuiz
WoW
Mount & Blade
Diablo II
STALKER
Trackmania Nations: Forever
X-Com 1
Planescape: Torment
Dwarf Fortress
Crysis
Mass Effect [360]
fun post… it’s interesting to see what other readers play…
in order of time spent playing:
Dwarf Fortress
Trackmania Nations Forever
Gal Civ 2: Twilight of the Arnor (just bought it)
NetHack (just re-re-rediscovered it)
GTA4 …
… and the occasional bit of Space Giraffe
Rock Band
GTA IV
Team Fortress 2
Conan (horrible God Of War-lite FunSquareSuperPlus version)
Peggle
Everyday Shooter
Dawn Of War
Audiosurf
Test Drive Unlimited
Aces Of The Galaxy
Dead Rising
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Super Mario Galaxy
I think that’s the lot.
Halo 3
Ace Combat 6
TF2
PGR 4
Brian Lara Cricket
GTA 4
Mario Kart Wii
Pro Evo 2008 (Wii)
SWAT 4
World of Warcraft
Oblivion GOTY Edition
Trials 2 SE
Spore Creature Creator
…and that’s about it. 90% on Oblivion. Yes, I’m sad…
Eve Online
Dwarf Fortress
S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Bioshock
Quake Wars: ET
GTA: SA
Mercenaries (PS2)
Planescape Torment
X-COM TFTD
System Shock 2
Chronotrigger (ZSNES)
Tetris Attack (SNES)
Advance Wars (DS)
Kirbys Canvas (DS)
Donkey Konga (GC)
Rainbow Six Vegas (360)
GTA IV (360)
HL2 (360)
Portal (360)
Bad Company Demo (360)
Super Puzzle Fighter 4: Hyper Combat for Matching Service (DC 2)
Lego Call of Duty (iPhone)
Diablo 3 (Wii HD)
Rock Band: Bioshock OST Edition (N-gage)
Microsoft Minesweeper Xtreme DeluX (Mac)
…just pointing out that we have 230 comments and *all* of them are apparently serious and honest! This is not the internet I know, and I am scared.
Eh, uh…
STALKER
Mind you, have mostly been armed with only my eee PC, which no good for game (BTW, wasn’t there a whole discussion about this a while ago? Did anyone have the answer?).
TEAM FORTRESS 2
TF2
AudioSurf
Stalker
Beyond Good and Evil
Everyday Shooter
Sid Meier’s Pirates
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Dungeon Runners
Warhammer beta
Company of Heroes
Armed Assault
Civ4
In order of time spent playing:
TF2
GTAIV
Diablo 2
Crysis
Painkiller
Yes, I reinstalled D2 over the weekend with a few mates of mine due to the D3 announcement… we’re already around level 15-17 with something like 7 or 8 hours played so far… I think it will soon overtake GTAIV and TF2 within the next 2 weeks… Forgot how much fun D2 is with a group of friends over vent.
In no particular order, though TF2 is taking up most of my time, at least until I purchase Mass Effect.
TF2
Zelda: Twilight Princess
The Longest Journey
Dreamfall
Beyond Good & Evil
Half Life 2 (w/ Ep. 1 & 2)
Portal
Lord of the Rings Online
Mass Effect
Age of Conan (binged & quit disappointed)
Spore Creature Creator
Lego Indiana Jones
Call of Duty 4
Crysis (new hardware = third playthrough)
Bioshock
Silent Hunter 4
HL2: episode 1
Bully (360)
Rock Band (360)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (360)
GTA 4 (360)
Dead Rising
Gladius (Xbox)
Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (DS)
Lord of the Rings Online
Mass Effect
No One Lives Forever
TF2
Sins of a Solar Empire
Assassin’s Creed
The Operational Art of War II
Myth II: Soulblighter
GTR 2
Grim Fandango
Civilization IV: BtS
Company of Heroes
Gabriel Knight II: The Beast Within
Bioshock
Max Payne 2
Trackmania: Nations United
Peggle
Portal
Grand Theft Auto IV
Army of Two
Team Fortress 2
Call of Duty
Full Throttle
TF2 and Diablo (1)
In rough order of play hours:
TF2 (PC)
GTA4 (Xbox)
Peggle (PC)
Audiosurf (PC)
PGR4 (Xbox)
Trackmania Nations Forever (PC)
Crysis (PC) – though not played since I bought GTA4
Oh yeah, I forgot about the Spore Creature Creator.
In rough order, highest to lowest number of hours:
TF2
EVE
GTAIV
Supreme Commander
Diablo 2
Jet Set Radio Future
Spore Creature Creator
On the PC;
Deathworm – I love it sooo much!
Limbo of the lost – I had too know first hand how bad
Terrorist Takedown 2 – Its sooo funny!
also a cartoony FPS that isn’t TF2 and I can’t talk about it
Super Paper Mario
Guild Wars (Prophecies)
Team Fortress 2
The Sims 2 (for a bit one day)
Hitman Blood Money
Pathologic (or at least, I tried, probably got 3 hours in)
Mario Kart DS
Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hour Glass
TF2, like every day, shooting bitches and telling jokes on allchat FTW;
Okami PS2;
Exteel (only got through the tutorial before I decided TF2 is better);
Sacrifice;
The Penny Arcade game demo;
Homeworld 2; and
Curveball (guy’s gotta work);
PS – wishing I could play Love.
Age of Conan
TF2
Europa Universalis 3
.. I think that’s it for many hours-dom. Bit sad really.
Shadowgrounds: Survivor
Alien Shooter: Vengeance
Crimsonland
(a bit of a theme, there. all three are excellent top-down shooters, of various types)
Thief: The Dark Project
System Shock 2
(both looking better than ever before, thanks to the wonders of DDFix and the widescreen patch)
Armed & Dangerous
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Darwinia
Gish
Quake 2 (co-op)
Star Trek Elite Force 2
Half Life 2 Episode 2
FEAR
(and looking through my games, figuring out which ones I’ve put any notable amount of time into over the past quarter of a year, just gives me an overwhelming urge to play about twenty other things as well :)
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Half Life 2
Civ 4
Shadow of the Colossus
Football Manager, erm, 2008.