For me:

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

    •  DrQuint   ( @DrQuint@lemmy.ml ) 
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      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.

  • 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.

    • 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.
  •  dirtmayor   ( @dirtmayor@beehaw.org ) 
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    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 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.

    • 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…