For me:
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Breath of the Wild: 400 hours in, have done only 50% of the game. But now that TotK is out, I’m not sure if I’ll ever complete BotW. Perhaps if I’m stuck on a deserted island with my Switch and have nothing better to do, I may pick it up again.
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Skyrim: Countless hours, never really done much of the main storyline, always get lost in modding and optimising the game. Own it on practically all platforms too. But one of these days, I’ll get to the main quest…
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Dangerous Dave: Been playing this DOS game on and off since 1990 but still haven’t managed to beat it. I always die around level 6/7, blasted sun keeps killing me.
#OxygenNotIncluded, I’ve got 1500 hours in it and I still haven’t gotten to oil, let alone launched a rocket.
Damn, would you post a picture of your base?
^ This. So many hours while doing other things, but still haven’t gotten oil (close though!)
A little over 400 hours for me, I managed to do oil one time and haven’t been able to since. Never launched a rocket. That game is wild and I get caught up doing all kinds of things that don’t actually progress me in any way. I love it
Probably Minecraft. I’ve never legit beaten the Enderdragon.
This is a very common tale, but I find it super understandable.
The anecdote: Me and two friends played Minecraft kinda blind after ignoring it since early beta over the span of a month and made a bunch of cool little project, typical stuff. We had fun both together and aside from each other, from making lighthouses, kelp jungles, bamboo minecart courses and reaching sunken ruins using nothing but a corridor of 400 doors (we didn’t know about milk), to torturing villagers in ways that would make Tears of the Kingdom link proud.
When we finally decided to focus and beat the dragon, we took hours, HOURS, to grind ender eyes. We took another hour to find the portal and we had two too little eyes then due to them popping along the way. We took several more hours dragging chicken and digging straight lines near fissures just to make some sort of automated arrow farm and what we felt was ‘enough’ ammo, only for a friend to tell us we wasted it not instead making a mob spawner. All of it just to go fight one of the most absurdly unfun bosses we had the displeasure of facing in any video game and that still took us several respawns as we tried to bullshit the tower step by climbing them with blocks. We then tried it again with slightly more preparedness and knowledge and the boss was a joke, it provided no challenge and was down in two minutes.
it was like we weren’t playing the same game. So much grinding. So little game feel. The only part of Minecraft that didn’t feel like Minecraft, was the actual progression.
Does EVE online count? 1k+ hours, only dipped my toes into null sec a few times. Mostly spent in low sec blowing up expensive things.
I loved that game pre family, will never have time to go back to any game in that way until retirement. I also low key miss Dust 514.
Yeeees… I wish something more came out of Dust 414, such a neat idea.
- X-COM: UFO Defense: My current run of this I’m finally in the end game. Been playing on and off for about 15 years now and this recent playthrough is the furthest I’ve ever gotten.
- Factorio: Well this one no longer counts because I did ‘beat’ it just a few days ago. I’ve had a thousand hours in the last 6.5 years of playtime and only got around to launching a rocket earlier this week.
- Morrowind: This one is also historical but in high school I played this one a LOT before even starting the main quest. I was just so captured by the world (still am, play it to this day). It took me hundreds of hours over several playthroughs before I finally had a run where I was like ‘okay fine I’ll do the main quest’.
- Baldur’s Gate: I actually have a lot of regret over this one but I’m working to remedy it now. When I was younger I played this for an obsessive amount of time, I got a character up to the final battle, but I couldn’t pull it off. Then I went to college, the game was forgotten about, and I’m only in the last couple years firing up another run to hopefully complete it. I’d estimate with past and current time about 300hr of playtime.
- Terraria (kinda): I’ve definitely defeated the final boss in Terraria, back when that was Wall of Flesh. And I’ve defeated more ‘final’ bosses since then. The most current final boss, Moon Lord, remains undefeated though.
Similar with Terraria. Defeated the 1.1 hardmode bosses and maybe 2 from later patches. Just didn’t have the energy to bother with the new ones.
How many final bosses have come in since wall of flesh?
At least 5-11 depending on how you count them. But some of them were added at the same time so idk.
Oh man, that sounds worth a revisit
That does not even include new optional bosses…
Bit on the weaker side, but I’ve sunk over 100 hours into Factorio and not once have I launched the rocket. I’m something of a perfectionist myself, which makes it tough to not want to start over.
Problem is, when I start over I’ve got a huge wall to climb to get back to where I was.
Perfection is the enemy of
progressFactorio.I’m with you 100%. Only a got a few colours up the science chain.
Factorio is like this. I’m a bit over a thousand hours in. My first rocket was launched earlier this week.
Hollow Knight, I have over 200 hours and am yet to ever beat the Watcher Knights.
These suckers are so hard when doing them for the first time! Did you know you can destroy one of them before the fight? Makes it a bit easier.
Ooo, I didn’t know that, thank you for the tip
I bounced off that game a good 5 times until it absolutely hooked me and became one of my favorites. God that atmosphere and ambiance is amazing.
Rimworld. The game has an end, but it really isn’t worth getting to. The journey is the best part.
Only gotten the archo ending once. Never ever have gotten either the ship or royalty endings. Almost 3k hours in.
Terraria. I am like 100 hours in and I don’t even know where all that time went. Also Factorio. That game had me waking up after late night sessions being like “who built all this?” :P
Edit: Oh and also Subnautica. Love subnautica, but after I got the cyclops and did some exploring I felt satisfied and haven’t looked back. And Satisfactory, very fun. Got the little dune buggy and was just like “Welp, I’m gonna go play something else!”
I had to stop playing factorio, biggest time sink I’ve ever seen, I swear I’d look up from the screen and a week past before I noticed
Factorio legitimately puts me into a factory building fugue state where I’m questioning whether or not someone hacked my computer last night and put a bunch of solar panels on my base O_O
Does Terraria even have a quest or ending?
I don’t think there’s any quest or ending, but I still managed to spend a ton of time in the game while only scratching the surface in terms of the game’s content. It was still fun though 🙂
yeah. that’s what i meant too. Terraria is like Minecraft, you can spend an eternity there :D
Steam tells me I’ve played ~100 hours of Monster Hunter World and I didn’t even finish the story of that.
About 1000 hours in Skyrim and have not gotten past the 10th or so main quest
Another World. Since it was released I keep coming back to it. Next time I’ll finish it!
I loved that (and Flashback) as a kid but always got stuck in the maze-ish bit under the water. Luckily, the 20th Anniversary Edition came on PS Plus so it gave me the push I needed to pick it up again.
I don’t think I finished Flashback either, I wonder if that’s also got a new version…
Got stuck in the same spot. I eventually got through that I’m sure. I wonder if I finished flash back? I’m going to have to play it again now.
It looks like you can play Flashback (without emulators) nowadays; a quick search shows it available on Steam, Switch, PS4 disc. There’s also a sequel announced, but this doesn’t seem like the place to discuss it ;)
I have purchased Another World again from GOG, so I legitimately own it (again). I’ve purchased it many times over the years. It runs just fine on linux, so all is happy here. Flashback, I’ll find another legal source. Always happy to pay, if fair priced and accessible.
I have 1400 hours of play time on my Steam copy of Skyrim LE alone. If I add my hours on Xbox 360 and Skyrim SE to that, I’ve played over 2000 hours total. In those 2000 hours, I’ve completed the main quest line several times, as well as the quest lines for the Companions, College of Winterhold, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Dawnguard and Dragonborn. I’ve also unlocked every Steam achievement for good measure.
So, believe me when I say: Skyrim is never finished. Not with the modding community that game has. There is always more, and it will likely stay that way until Elder Scrolls VI comes out, but we’ll all be dead by then.
Skyrim, hands down. I own that game… Let’s see, 360, PS3, PC, PC Special Edition, 4 times. I own that game 4 times and have been playing it on and off (more on than off) since it came out. Never even gotten halfway through the main questline.
Witcher 3, Oblivion and Skyrim. I always get caught up doing the sidequests. And I don’t even play around with mods (yet).
I have kids and am middle aged, so I can only do main quests in the limited free time I have. It has its pluses and minuses, but I miss that period between 15 and 22 when I could dedicate all my weekends and evenings to gaming
Yeah, I miss that period too. But I’m a completionist, so even without having the time on weekends and evenings, I still go out exploring the map and doing sidequests. That’s why I don’t finish those games…
Rimworld and Skyrim.
Skyrim, same reason as everyone, I’ve finished most guilds though (yeah, not you, Companions).
Rimworld I just can’t be arsed to work towards any of the endings, playing thematic colonies with mods is where it’s at for me.