Your most played games and why (might help this universe)

Seizewell Warrior

Seizewell Warrior
In the last couple of years, would mainly have to say Fallout 4 with and without mods. I enjoy the role playing despite the fact it is a bit nerfed compared to previous games and each playthrough you can work towards a different ending. I like the NPC companion system and the settlement building, with the Far Harbor DLC being (IMHO) best of the add-ons for the game.

Deus Ex HR got a fair old workout, again experimenting with various play styles (stealthy vs. psychotic etc) but didn't gell at all with Mankind Divided.

X games (naturally) with Terran Conflict probably best of the series (I never saw much point in Albion Prelude once I'd maxed out TC) and I did get *some* pleasure out of Rebirth once Ego sorted most of the bugs.

Going back even further, GTA San Andreas saw several playthroughs, sadly it is now a bit twitchy on modern hardware and, for a SP game, I hate the lack of being able to save during a mission. Few of the missions even had a checkpoint. It remains a classic IMHO. GTA V also a blast though only ever done the SP game, not really bothered about the MP.

I also spend a fair bit of time on the train and flight sims though since starting ED contributions to the virtual airline I belong to have tanked, probably to the point of getting booted soon...

Edit: Must chuck in Mass Effect including at least two mega runs starting out in ME1 finishing the story to the end of ME3!
 
Last edited:

Deleted member 110222

D
My most played games? The PS2 Ace Combat titles.

Why? Well, forgive me for being a downer, but growing up I was living under constant fear of a very abusive individual, and I was not allowed an Internet connection.

I was allowed to have a completely offline system, however. Thank the Maker. It's the only thing that kept me going.
 

askavir

askavir
Now that the script extender, enb and nearly all the top notch graphic mods have been finally ported over to Skyrim Special Edition, I just can't stop playing it again.
 

JonnyC0mbat

JonnyC0mbat
Mount and Blade Warband
Total War (all of 'em are life suckers)
Falcon 4
NHL Games
Monkey Island
Elite Dangermouse (although I don't play anymore as I find it tedious. Never thought I'd say that)
Counterstrike (played them for years, and I keep coming back)
Tie Fighter (one of my all time faves along with Monkey Island)
 
Last edited:

ZeeWolf

ZeeWolf
I suppose if you completely break a few things in ED you could make it more like Frontier and then you guys saying you play Frontier more than Elite would play ED more right?

Make ED more like Frontier:


  • Break asteroid mining so it only works in the first system you hyperspace into (seriously)
  • Removing exploration mechanics completely. No system scanning, no repair drones, no making credits.
  • Allow players to deploy mining machines on planets but not have them do very much
  • Unbalance ships and have loads of ships that were completely and utterly pointless
  • Have a policeman randomly ask you to answer questions from the manual
  • Require that the player obtain fuel from the commodities market
  • Vastly simplify trading
  • Vastly simplify galaxy map and remove pretty nebulas etc.
  • Vastly simplify ship customisation
  • Allow players to land on atmospheric planets (hooray) by making them exactly like the non-atmospheric planets but with a blue/purple sky and two Bezian curved clouds and a few rows of low polygon houses and the odd bridge/church.
  • Remove SRV/Fighter play
  • Remove power play and factions
  • Remove scanning/hacking
  • Remove Thargoids completely (apart from that one Thargoid that doesn't do anything)
  • Completely remove multiplayer and all advances of modern online play (no more updated content/news)
  • Completely remove all the advances of VR
  • Remove modern controller support and replace with Quickshot joystick support.
  • Remove bad non-Newtonian combat and replace with combat that involves freezing time, saving game in case you die from a bug, bringing your ship to a complete halt etc. because it's sooo much more realistic and everyone else is stupid and MUST think that space would be like ED when it should be like Frontier even though you've never been to space but you feel like a space hipster talking about school level stuff like Newtonian physics feeling like you have some insights like you actually went to space but it was on your Amiga A500 than ran Frontier at 5 FPS.

yeah...no. FE2 was a good achievement and a triumph for what could fit onto a single low density floppy back in '94 and it's great for the one off play through and occasional mess with now, but I think that many of these statements affirming it as being a vastly better contemporary gaming experience to ED are somewhat rose tinted in sentiment.
 
Last edited:

Cmdr Eagleboy

Cmdr Eagleboy
Team Fortress 2 (because it helped me with depression, dark humour and quite solid gameplay, and ohh it runs on Linux)
Civ series (tons of hours sunk, CivV, CivVI recently...it just pulls in)
ED (because I love it)
I played Saints Row IV extensively...it was fun

ZeeWolf said:
I suppose if you completely break a few things in ED you could make it more like Frontier and then you guys saying you play Frontier more than Elite would play ED more right?

Make ED more like Frontier:


  • Break asteroid mining so it only works in the first system you hyperspace into (seriously)
  • Removing exploration mechanics completely. No system scanning, no repair drones, no making credits.
  • Allow players to deploy mining machines on planets but not have them do very much
  • Unbalance ships and have loads of ships that were completely and utterly pointless
  • Have a policeman randomly ask you to answer questions from the manual
  • Require that the player obtain fuel from the commodities market
  • Vastly simplify trading
  • Vastly simplify galaxy map and remove pretty nebulas etc.
  • Vastly simplify ship customisation
  • Allow players to land on atmospheric planets (hooray) by making them exactly like the non-atmospheric planets but with a blue/purple sky and two Bezian curved clouds and a few rows of low polygon houses and the odd bridge/church.
  • Remove SRV/Fighter play
  • Remove power play and factions
  • Remove scanning/hacking
  • Remove Thargoids completely (apart from that one Thargoid that doesn't do anything)
  • Completely remove multiplayer and all advances of modern online play (no more updated content/news)
  • Completely remove all the advances of VR
  • Remove modern controller support and replace with Quickshot joystick support.
  • Remove bad non-Newtonian combat and replace with combat that involves freezing time, saving game in case you die from a bug, bringing your ship to a complete halt etc. because it's sooo much more realistic and everyone else is stupid and MUST think that space would be like ED when it should be like Frontier even though you've never been to space but you feel like a space hipster talking about school level stuff like Newtonian physics feeling like you have some insights like you actually went to space but it was on your Amiga A500 than ran Frontier at 5 FPS.

yeah...no. FE2 was a good achievement and a triumph for what could fit onto a single low density floppy back in '94 and it's great for the one off play through and occasional mess with now, but I think that many of these statements affirming it as being a vastly better contemporary gaming experience to ED are somewhat rose tinted in sentiment.
Click to expand...

FE2/FFE were awesome games, but clearly unfinished. Saying they were better is pure nostalgia. That's not something bad, but that's very subjective and can't be even directly compared.
 

Steph

Steph
Crikey, this one is a bit of a memory test but if I think back and try to order games by time most spent on them then...

Repton 3
Elite Dangerous
Elite (Acorn Electron)
Skyrim
Sphinx Adventure
Civilisation III
Civilisation V
Citadel
Doom
Arcadians or maybe it was Galaforce - or both!
Stryker's Run
Football Manager (or whatever it was called) on ZX81 and Acorn Electron

I might have time spent on the above a little out of the correct order - I was much younger when I had a ZX81! ;-)

I think that probably covers most of the time. I saw "Shadow of Mordor" in this thread but I can't get the hang of it - too many buttons so I die in seconds each time. The same seems to happen with Witcher III. I can play Skyrim because I hide behind a wall and shoot arrows a lot - I don't even attempt close combat!
 

Jenner

I wish I was English like my hero Tj.
Jenner
Star Control II
Wing Commander series and Privateer
X-Wing/TIE fighter
Doom
Master of Orion
X-COM
Quest for Glory series
Elite 2 and Elite: Dangerous
Mechwarrior 2/3/4 and Mech Commander
Most Bethesda RPGs (Skyrim especially)
Mass Effects
 

Backer42

B
GTR and SimBin's follow-up games. During the last decade I was into car racing simulators all with steering wheel, shifter, pedals, TrackIR. I spend hundreds of hours in GTR driving the virtual Porsche 911 on the Nordschleife mod (later added by SimBin to their latest iteration of GTR) to properly learn the track. Each lap took about 10 minutes (with I drove down to just below 7), so young me spent quite some hours for racing thousands of laps.

Nowadays I don't spend more than 30-50 hours on a single game and then move on to the next.
 

[VR] optimal_909

[VR] optimal_909
The most played only:

New PC (Master Race) gaming era (2015-):
Elite Dangerous by far
Civilization V
Tropico
Bit of silly stuff like Stick Man Fighting and My Summer Car

Playstation era (2001-2015):
GTA series
Gran Turismo series
XCOM Enemy Unknown/Within

'90s with various machines, weak PC and Sega consoles
Main Sega titles (Virtua Figher, Daytona USA, etc.)
Civilization series
Settlers
Lucasarts point-n-click stuff (Sam&Max, etc.)

'80s C64 era
Bruce Lee
Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders
Archon
Power at Sea
Outrun
Summer/Winter Games (Caveman Ugh-olimpics :) )
Test Drive series

Yes, tried Elite, but it was too difficult for me at the time. :)
The '90s Frontier stuff, I didn't know about them and anyway I never had good PCs - when I stumbled upon Elite Dangerous in 2015, it came out of the blue, I thought I will refund within 2 hours... now I'm at 2000+. :D
 

lysan

lysan
Assassin's creed origins (awesome game world)
Homeworld remastered edition
Homeworld Deserts of kharak
IL-2 (all editions)
Prey
Stellaris
Total war Warhammer 2
Xcom 2
Elite Dangerous

and in that order.
 

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Most recent most played games, is.....



ED. Lol

Then XCOM 2012. Brilliant game, very replayable, and the challenge scales well. XCOM 2 is even better, but I haven't owned it long enough for it to actually come high on a list of most played. So it's combined with XCOM.

Skyrim also comes high on my list, it's highly moddable, replayable, full of so much stuff you'll likely not see it all.

Arma 2&3, combined they come high on my list too. Good single player, great Multiplayer (co-op). Realism is good, not too "simmy", but no arcade at all.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. Because I like building things.

Total War games, good fun, very replayable, highly addictive.

7 Days To Die is good, still in alpha, but is quite deep already, has Multiplayer (not my cup of tea), replayable, and moddable. Has random map generation.

Plus loads of older games, like Transport Tycoon Deluxe (openTTD), Original XCOM (OpenXcom), they're all good fun.

MechWarrior 3. Love it.

Battlezone 1&2, brilliant FPS RTS'. Still reckon that'd fit right in to EDs universe. Lol

Dungeon Keeper 2. Again, because I like building things, and being evil, and listening to disco music. Lol

Aliens Vs Predator (1+2+remake). Because biting off heads from above never gets old. Love the Multiplayer. RIP servers. Lol

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom