What is the most mileage that you've ever gotten out of a PC game?

[dud]

Consider the comparison of the car tire to a PC game. When your car needs new tires you might tend towards ones that will provide a lot of mileage.

of all the games that you have ever purchased/bought/owned/whatever ... which has given you the most mileage?


My personal best:

1) COD (at least 10 years ... still playing it regularly)
2) Battlefield 1942 with mods (at least 10 years and still playing it regularly)
3) Homeworld ... occasionally playing it 12 years after purchase.


What's yours?

 

[VulgarDisplay]

I usually don't go back to old games but from time to time I still go back to xwing or tie fighter. I think those were released in 1996.

Overall play time. I think I had close to 2000 hours into cod 2.

 

[Snock514]

I stole my fathers copy many year ago of diablo 2 and that puppy has some freakin' miles on it, along with the expansion that I purchased myself.

 

[thespyder]

That would be tough.

Baldur's gate is one of my all time favorites and I have played it more times than I can count. I would rate my hours invested in the thousands (or close to it) over the last 12 years.

Neverwinter Nights 2 has a prolific custom content community which is always coming up with new stuff to play. Add to that the Persistent world content and that can add up as well for me.

Galactic Civilizations 2 is just an endless time sink in my book. If I am between games or just want a break from whatever I am playing, I will fire up this game and play for a few hours. On Gigantic maps against Tough opponents, I can drop 10+ hours into a single play through. And given that it is like a board game, playing through more than once is never the same game twice.

 

[Zenoth]

I have a couple although most of them aren't PC games, but console games especially original copies of some NES, SNES, Genesis, N64 and PS1 games (none of the consoles I currently own were my original ones, however).

But as far as PC games goes they'd be:

º Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. It's the one single game that I've played the most in my entire video gaming "life" to this day (it represents about seven years of my gaming life). I don't play it anymore today, however. It's currently uninstalled and I don't think I'm going to play it again for quite some time, but I might dust it off eventually for another go at it.

º Command & Conquer 2 (Tiberian Sun + Firestorm). I still own my original retail copy, it still works well, installs perfectly, works flawlessly under Windows 7 and I still play a random skirmish once every month or two.

º WH40K Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. To this day and excluding the C&C franchise I'd say that the original DoW with the DC expansion pack offers me tons of fun and I still play it occasionally. I don't think there's been a single month during which I've skipped playing at least one skirmish ever since I've bought it, great value for the money spent.

º Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots. I found out about the game only sometime in 2007 or so (can't recall the exact time but it was about the same time as STALKER SoC came out), even though it was released in 2003. But ever since I bought it (used copy) I still play it occasionally to this day, superb game, great A.I., and overall just one of the best RTS games ever made.

º Half-Life (original), still own my original copy from the Half-Life Platinum Collection retail box (five games included). I haven't played the entire campaign from A to Z in years, but every few months I play specific levels again, and I still have fun. I'm still surprised by the Marines' A.I. to this day, especially for such an old game. You really have to see them in action to realize how ahead of its time it was back then.

º Rome: Total War. It's currently installed and I have two games in-progress which I occasionally play. I don't play the vanilla game anymore (haven't touched vanilla Rome in years) but I play community mods instead. I have to say that if there's one thing that "aged" well to this day about RTW is its soundtrack, what a truly amazing, fitting OST it is, just superb.

And a few others, but I'll stop here for now.

 

[Kadarin]

Lately I'd say Civ IV BTS, but for my all time record EVE Online. I started playing that in '04, and stopped in '09. I went back briefly in '11, but now am idle.

 

[blackened23]

Definitely quake/quakeworld. Played that game for like 5 years, and to this day remains my favorite multiplayer shooter of all time.

It's too bad id abandoned their multiplayer roots...they were the first with MP modem play (doom), first with internet MP (quake), yet the studio that were the forefathers of multiplayer FPS games don't even bother with MP anymore. I miss the old id software.

 

[homebrew2ny]

Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed, I think I played through that 10 or so times.

 

[lilrayray69]

Even though I don't play anymore, WoW.

 

[Pocatello]

Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2. I still play both of these games at least once a year.

 

[pontifex]

Steam shows I have 243 hours into Bejeweled 3. I'd say that's the most I have played a game, except for possibly a MMO.

I played a lot of SoF2 MP also, but no idea how much.

For SP games, once I finish I rarely go back and play through a 2nd time, even on games like Diablo 2.

 

[sash1]

Diablo II and Broodwar

spent far too much time over many years with both.

 

[TheSlamma]

Thief 2 and 3.

 

[werepossum]

Fallout New Vegas - Steam informs me I have over 550 hours playing it.

 

[Bateluer]

Steam shows I've logged about 800 hours in Medievel 2 Total War and its expansion; 550 hours in Civ4 BTS, but I bought Civ4 retail when it was released and didn't buy the Steam versions until years later, so it's likely significantly higher than that 550 hours.

I've replayed BG2 many many times, but I've no way to guess how many hours I've logged into it. And its dropped off significantly after I got a wide screen LCD in 2005, lot of work to get it running on modern, high res panels.

 

[orbster556]

Off the top of my head, here are some of the games into which I've sunk the most time:

1) Civ IV: 600~700 hours
2) BF3: 350 hours
3) Modern Warfare 2: 240 hours
4) TW: Medieval II: 200 hours
5) Borderlands 1: 120 hours

 

[MetalMat]

Solitaire and minesweeper

 

[Craig234]

Might want to make two groups, one for MMO.

For non-MMO, I barely get to any games I have, so rarely one for a long time.

Off the top of my head, one of the best for long-time replay is rogue.

Hard to think of many more I've replayed. I've put some surprising grinding into some games, not that much though, like some casual games - 4 elements, governor of poker...

 

[Edgy]

angband.

 

[Via]

I would guess Baldur's Gate, Gothic 1&2, or Alpha Centauri.

I've also played through FEAR more times than I can count, but I don't think it would beat those three.

I can't think of any modern game that would be on the list.

 

[looper]

Games most played...

Doom/Quake
Total Annihilation
Links 2003 (golf sim)
Grand Prix Legends
COD4
COD5
Battlefield 3
C & C: Tiberium Alliances

 

[guskline]

All of the COD series.

 

[moonbogg]

C&C Tiberian Sun and C&C General/Zero hour. Ridiculous obsession with those.
1,132 hours in BF3 currently isn't anything to sneeze at.

 

[stahlhart]

The Half-Life franchise.

 

[Hinda65]

Return to Castle Wofenstein - don't remember exactly but I played the MP for at least 3 years (5 years if you include ET)

Borderlands 2 - just hit 288hrs on steam and not even close to being bored yet.