For me Asheron's Call 1, EQ2, WoW (been back multiple times for revisits to the game mostly a year at a time), LoTRO.
Other games I've been somewhat of a tourist. I will happily revisit games to check out new content and to hang around for a bit. Never have played a game past 2-3 years at a stretch though. Things do get stale and I love to try other things.
UO. I dumped most likely.....9,000 hours in that game. Easily.
Of course Sosaria was a different type of world and getting across the sea's could take a ton of time.. Actually I miss that gaming style baddly. Nothing was more fun than finding a new island that some dev made for fun in the shape of a heart way up in the frozen north.
Alright, I'll focus on Mmos (or Multiplayer focus) since I'll be here all day mentioning others (I'd be dipping into NES/Genesis games and up... and there are a lot of games I pours hours on and I'd likely miss many).
Runescape - I still remember me (in middle school at the time) having my mother come downstairs and ask what I was still doing up at 4 in the morning playing with my one friend in the cooking guild. I've done the rare return though not as much lately. It still took up a lot of my time and for some reason the grind itself was never something I noticed much.
Warcraft 3 (Custom Maps) - While Starcraft 1 did take up a lotm of time, Warcraft 3 was the king with its custom maps I spent SOOOO long playing. So many fun maps with different modes. I still remember writing down codes for maps to resume progress on them.
Diablo 2 - Granddaddy ARPG. Played a lot of time at this. Not as much as Ragnarok Online (haven't jumped back into it as much) but its pretty damn high.
Ragnarok Online - Champion of burning my time. Played this game on and off so much I'd be scared to see how many days of playtime this game took of my life. I use to actually make new accounts for the free trial for some time leveling Assassin's until finally actually paying to play it.
Final fantasy 11 - Such a great game at the time, though age wise probably less so. The class system in the game was one of my favorite aspects. Such a great sense of achievement getting a class. I just enjoyed the game a lot in the mechanics side. Now a days probably couldn't get into it much again, but its still something I have no regrets and was my first P2P I did.
World of Warcraft - Since Vanilla. It was a big part of my life. Unfortunately the game has gone pretty crappy so it hasn't taken a huge investment of my time since early cataclysm (flawed expansion but damn I loved the difficulty and the general push they did for the early raids).
Rift - Game that deserved more attention then it did. Had one of my favorite raids of all time (Hammerknell) that blew away any of the raids from wow I played since after WOTLK. Kind of faltered at Storm Legion and is now a lack luster F2P game to me having lost its flare. Shame, the game itself while not perfect had done a lot of stuff right over WoW and was a good step up on many areas.
Final Fantasy 14 - I had actually been part of early testing when it was utter Sh**. I came back after the relaunch, seeing it as a cheap game to try and figured I loved 11 a lot I might as well give it a shot. Hands down is my favorite MMo of that style. I spent a lot of time in it. Its a game I feel that is worth of its praise and I hope does eventually get a bigger team to help make it bigger. It has given me the best raiding expeirnece hands down over anything WoW has provided despite its limitations. Hopefully if it gets a bigger staff it can really make some epic raids and not just bosses that I can feel motivated to stay around full time. As something i dive in and out of, I enjoy it a lot.
Path of Exile - ARPG of choice. Hands down it redeemed a genre that with Diablo 3's original crappy version (though to be fair, reaper made it fun again though it still is trapped with many bad design choices) Jay Wilson's good brother Chris Wilson showed how to innervate the genre while keeping a similiar feel. It did have network issues (dieing last day at 19th place in a week long race on an easy map due to bad latency suuuuuuuucked) its improved those issues a lot. Despite even those issues I've loved the game and the diversity of choice it provides.
Not exactly sure, maybe EQ2. Worked odd hours at the time (back there again) so I did put in a lot of time into a US server, most of my friends were working the time I was free and home so I did play a lot.
Played for 5 years until the game felt a shadow of it's former self.
RPGs on consoles like sega genesis (not cartoony ones) examples like shadowrun, rings of power, might and magic 2, warriors of the eternal sun, buck rogers, etc. Nintendo games like Ultima exodus, cannot remember anymore right now. I spent many hours on each of these games.. easy hundreds each and always was a fan of RPGs because of this.
Also strategy games like Risk, Dune, Command and Conquer, etc.
Playstation multiplayer games like Twisted Metal 2, Battle Arena Toshiden, Ravenloft: Iron and Blood, etc.
Grand Theft Auto games up until the newest
FPS shooters like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Black Ops 2
Elder Scroll Games.. the single-player ones
Mount and Blade
Balder's Gate
Total War: Empire
MMORPGs... played dozens but a few I put the most time into were Vanguard (FFA PVP server infamy farming), Guild Wars, Darkfall. Easily over 1000 hours (10k? possibly?) each for these ones...
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2. TSW 4 years still playing, hardpressed to find a more complete game.
3. Ultima Online 5 years and only quit because of trammel/felucca, I still get urges to go back and play this again.
4. SWG 4 years - The NGE killed it.
5. WOW, once I thought it was going to be more than a themepark. I thought it was a fantasy story simulation. I still want to believe WOW has some redeeming qualities but its just like time frozen lore rollercoaster, like a graphic novel you can coast through and just view, watch while they tell you what's happening.
Just listed the games with the most hours I remember spending on, cause of replayability or simply awesome multiplayer. Still playing them today. MMORPG's actually could never hook me that effectively than the first seven games on my list, even though I spent a lot of time on some.
I have to estimate my hours based on the one game I know them for, namely Skyrim on Steam, which was circa 200.
Guild Wars 1,000 from conception through to the massive fall off of players once GW2 was released. WOW 800 mainly in vanilla, a little in TBC and barely any in WotLK. Fallout 3/ NV 500 I still go back to it on occasion. GTA Vice City 100 Was addicted to this some years ago. Neverwinter 100 almost all of it in the Foundry.
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Other games I've been somewhat of a tourist. I will happily revisit games to check out new content and to hang around for a bit. Never have played a game past 2-3 years at a stretch though. Things do get stale and I love to try other things.
Of course Sosaria was a different type of world and getting across the sea's could take a ton of time..
Actually I miss that gaming style baddly. Nothing was more fun than finding a new island that some dev made for fun in the shape of a heart way up in the frozen north.
Ah UO.
Dragon Encounter
Dark Souls
Vanguard
Runescape - I still remember me (in middle school at the time) having my mother come downstairs and ask what I was still doing up at 4 in the morning playing with my one friend in the cooking guild. I've done the rare return though not as much lately. It still took up a lot of my time and for some reason the grind itself was never something I noticed much.
Warcraft 3 (Custom Maps) - While Starcraft 1 did take up a lotm of time, Warcraft 3 was the king with its custom maps I spent SOOOO long playing. So many fun maps with different modes. I still remember writing down codes for maps to resume progress on them.
Diablo 2 - Granddaddy ARPG. Played a lot of time at this. Not as much as Ragnarok Online (haven't jumped back into it as much) but its pretty damn high.
Ragnarok Online - Champion of burning my time. Played this game on and off so much I'd be scared to see how many days of playtime this game took of my life. I use to actually make new accounts for the free trial for some time leveling Assassin's until finally actually paying to play it.
Final fantasy 11 - Such a great game at the time, though age wise probably less so. The class system in the game was one of my favorite aspects. Such a great sense of achievement getting a class. I just enjoyed the game a lot in the mechanics side. Now a days probably couldn't get into it much again, but its still something I have no regrets and was my first P2P I did.
World of Warcraft - Since Vanilla. It was a big part of my life. Unfortunately the game has gone pretty crappy so it hasn't taken a huge investment of my time since early cataclysm (flawed expansion but damn I loved the difficulty and the general push they did for the early raids).
Rift - Game that deserved more attention then it did. Had one of my favorite raids of all time (Hammerknell) that blew away any of the raids from wow I played since after WOTLK. Kind of faltered at Storm Legion and is now a lack luster F2P game to me having lost its flare. Shame, the game itself while not perfect had done a lot of stuff right over WoW and was a good step up on many areas.
Final Fantasy 14 - I had actually been part of early testing when it was utter Sh**. I came back after the relaunch, seeing it as a cheap game to try and figured I loved 11 a lot I might as well give it a shot. Hands down is my favorite MMo of that style. I spent a lot of time in it. Its a game I feel that is worth of its praise and I hope does eventually get a bigger team to help make it bigger. It has given me the best raiding expeirnece hands down over anything WoW has provided despite its limitations. Hopefully if it gets a bigger staff it can really make some epic raids and not just bosses that I can feel motivated to stay around full time. As something i dive in and out of, I enjoy it a lot.
Path of Exile - ARPG of choice. Hands down it redeemed a genre that with Diablo 3's original crappy version (though to be fair, reaper made it fun again though it still is trapped with many bad design choices) Jay Wilson's good brother Chris Wilson showed how to innervate the genre while keeping a similiar feel. It did have network issues (dieing last day at 19th place in a week long race on an easy map due to bad latency suuuuuuuucked) its improved those issues a lot. Despite even those issues I've loved the game and the diversity of choice it provides.
Played for 5 years until the game felt a shadow of it's former self.
Also strategy games like Risk, Dune, Command and Conquer, etc.
Playstation multiplayer games like Twisted Metal 2, Battle Arena Toshiden, Ravenloft: Iron and Blood, etc.
Grand Theft Auto games up until the newest
FPS shooters like Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and Black Ops 2
Elder Scroll Games.. the single-player ones
Mount and Blade
Balder's Gate
Total War: Empire
MMORPGs... played dozens but a few I put the most time into were Vanguard (FFA PVP server infamy farming), Guild Wars, Darkfall. Easily over 1000 hours (10k? possibly?) each for these ones...
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1. Street Fighter - 25 years and still play.
2. TSW 4 years still playing, hardpressed to find a more complete game.
3. Ultima Online 5 years and only quit because of trammel/felucca, I still get urges to go back and play this again.
4. SWG 4 years - The NGE killed it.
5. WOW, once I thought it was going to be more than a themepark. I thought it was a fantasy story simulation. I still want to believe WOW has some redeeming qualities but its just like time frozen lore rollercoaster, like a graphic novel you can coast through and just view, watch while they tell you what's happening.
Herald of innovation, Vanquisher of the old! - Awake a few hours almost everyday!
Diablo 2
EQ
SWG
VANGUARD
AOC
TESO
MMO: Eve Online and WoW
SP: Skyrim and ME series.
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#2 EverQuest
#3 Dark Age of Camelot
Guild Wars 1,000 from conception through to the massive fall off of players once GW2 was released.
WOW 800 mainly in vanilla, a little in TBC and barely any in WotLK.
Fallout 3/ NV 500 I still go back to it on occasion.
GTA Vice City 100 Was addicted to this some years ago.
Neverwinter 100 almost all of it in the Foundry.