Most played games of all time

[ukbob]

Mine would be TFC (team fortress, an online half life mod). Played it for years, and thousands of hours online, without ever getting bored. Only stopped when the last of the 2000 servers dried up, as players moved on to other games. Cost to buy/play probably worked out at less than 1p per hour. RIP TFC.

[jezza l]

pgr1, i must have spent 300+hours playing
pgr2, 400 odd hours
pgr3, Don't actually know but i suspect already over 100 hours and i've only had it four months.

Halo/halo2 many many hours spent playing online.

[steve_evil]

I would say probably World of Warcraft, last time I checked online I had spent 14 whole days of my life on there. Played TFC for a fair bit too. PGR2 has to rank up there, time spent chasing those platinums.

[trooperiziz]

I'm up to about 400 hours in the past year on World of Warcraft, which is quite worrying considering I'm a very casual player compared to most!

[remal]

counter strike. got to be 400 hours plus over 4 years

[ukbob]

satch said:

am I juvenile?

You posted on the same page of the same thread that Steve Evil and I contriubted to, so quite possible yes

[wolves_wanderer]

Civilisation I/II/III - not got IV yet as I don't want to be unemployed
Championship Manager (various) I used to play this at Uni and would frequently sit down after Neighbours (well I was a student!) and next look at the clock at about midnight.

[r988]

Super EF2000, only stopped playing it a year ago, got it in 1998, now the IL2 series has taken over all my time.

[FourWheelDrift]

Grand Prix Legends - 1998 - present day.

[tim2100]

Warzone2100 a nice easy RTS, just find oil and researd & build tank armys!! Great game! Spend way to much time in this for the past 6 years

Most of the Champmanager Games,

[lockstock2sb]

Quake, Unreal Tournament, Command And Conquer and Counterstrike have to be the most played IMO

[Hanslow]

Mine would easily be Angband

Probably followed by Final Fantasy VII

[d-man]

TFC, simply awesome prior to TF1.5 and probably still the definitive team based FPS for me.
DAoC was also very very good, but I've never really managed to get that into other MMORPGS. Don't really have the time so much anymore I suppose

[ukbob]

d-man said:

TFC, simply awesome prior to TF1.5 and probably still the definitive team based FPS for me.

Post 1.5, it was still possible to straff jump, and if you put in the hours practising, you could get the HW guy up to any speed (except medic/scout) Oh the memories

[Steve_evil]

Valve keep letting out rumours about Team Fortress 2, when I last read about it (about 5 years ago now) it resembled something like Battlefield 2, but 90% of the ideas that were supposed to be in TF2 have already appeared in BF2 so I guess they've gone back to the drawing board and are thinking up some other direction to take it in.

[simonrockman]

Who let the kids in..

Blood Money
Elite
Manic Miner
Starglider
Knight Lore
Essex MUD


I gave up on-line multi-player games 15 years before most people started.

[ukbob]

Steve_evil said:

Valve keep letting out rumours about Team Fortress 2, when I last read about it (about 5 years ago now) it resembled something like Battlefield 2, but 90% of the ideas that were supposed to be in TF2 have already appeared in BF2 so I guess they've gone back to the drawing board and are thinking up some other direction to take it in.

Yup, there were some cool videos floating about at the time though, it looked good. It just never came out

My two most played Atari ST games were Barbarian...


And super sprint


And commando on the C64.


Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga!


Also on the Amiga, Iron Man's Super off Road


Note the automotive theme

[d-man]

ukbob said:

Post 1.5, it was still possible to straff jump, and if you put in the hours practising, you could get the HW guy up to any speed (except medic/scout) Oh the memories

Conc jumps ruled prior to 1.5 though... battlement to battlement on 2Fort in the blink of a eye Things slowed down so much after that it just wasn't the same game and that's before you even get into the rampant cheating in the immediate aftermath (fakeloss cheat anyone!) or the fact that Valve forced a change to the min specs and some of the people I used to play with couldn't anymore... All a long time ago now though

[roop]

ukbob said:

Also on the Amiga, Iron Man's Super off Road

I used to have this Ironman Ivan Stewart's Super Off Road...! Cool.

Most played for me must be the following... :

Indianapolis 500 on the PC (30+fps even on my i286-12 and cool AdLib soundcard support)
4D Sports Driving on the PC (only went well when I got my i486DX2-66)
Indycar Racing "I'm Paul Page, from Papyrus. This is Indycar Racing"...
Rally Trophy. Ran great on my GeForce2 powered PII-400.
Now it's Gran Turismo (all of them) on PSX and PS2.
GTA Vice City and San Andreas although the latter harder to get into due to lack of 80's cheese.

[ukbob]

d-man said:

Things slowed down so much after that it just wasn't the same game and that's before you even get into the rampant cheating in the immediate aftermath

The cheating was awful! [brag mode]I was accused of cheating in most games, not that I ever cheated, I just played far too much [/brag] Its only a game, but it felt bloody good getting into your groove after 8 hours play for the umpteenth night in a row and being able to jump round any corner playing any class, and waste 3-4 players plus a few sentries, grab the flag, and kill the same 3-4 players as they respawned on my way back to base

I miss those servers. It has a lot to do with age, the fact that I spend my time doing other things now, but it'll never be the same. And I'll never enjoy a game again as much as I enjoyed TFC. My hard core gaming days are.. snivel, sob, cry... over.