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azuarc posted...

18 years. Good lord, has WoW really been out that long? (Spoilers: it has.)

The scarier part is that I had more hours /played on EverQuest in TWO years than that. And then I moved on to WoW at launch...albeit I played far less than 12 hours per day.

Lolllllll OMG that is a lot. Man, something about EQ seems really dangerous. My brother also had a pretty outrageous amount of EQ hours in the times before WoW, dunno if it was as much as yours though. But indeed a scary amount.

They screwed up all the classes, the starting areas I knew were destroyed from Cataclysm. Maybe it was still good to the people playing it then, but it absolutely ruined my nostalgia.

Yeah I definitely felt like a piece of my soul was taken away, when they reworked my favorite zones in cataclysm. E.g. barrens, silverpine, stv.

Now that I think about it, I half-heartedly played all those mid-era WoW expansions, but I didn't really start loving modern WoW again, until Classic came out. Maybe I was finally able to forgive them after that. (These days I play both classic and modern wow, I'm fully onboard with both.)

DragonGargoyle posted...

I've only played the game a little bit like a decade ago, but I still remember the atmosphere/aesthetics/character designs. I was mostly playing as a Draenei during MoP, idk if that's one the stronger places aesthetically, but I loved it

If you got to the actual Pandaria continent in MoP, yeah that was really popular aesthetically, all the cool east asian architecture and landscape.

I wonder what #2 and #1 games are, that are able to top something like that lol

Yeah it's interesting that my #2 and #1 I haven't played as much. But I bet that's true of most people's lists huh!!

And just for fun, I decided to think about my most-played games and where they are on the list:

I think my 2nd most-played game is Team Fortress 2 (29th on the list), around 2300 hours

I think my 3rd most-played game is probably Minecraft (63rd on the list), but only if we count how much I've watched it on Youtube, which is a LOT.

I think my 4rd most-played is be the #1 game on the list, no idea how many hours though.

I think my 5th most-played game is Overwatch (12th on the list) at around 600 hours. Although hmmmm, I've watched hundreds of hours of streams, and Overwatch League... this might actually add up to more than TF2.

I think my 6th most played game is #2 on the list, at around 300 hours (plus probably ~150 hours of streams watched).

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#2 Zelda: Breath of the Wild

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/9/0/AABIPnAADoca.jpg

We're all sick of talking about Breath of the Wild, so I'll make this brief.

Most of my life, I've fantasized about the idea of 3D Zelda games (or any 3D sword adventure, like Skyrim!!), until I actually sit down to play them, then I despise pretty much everything about them. The slow starts, the hand holding, the dialogue, the chests with only rupees and trash. And #1 most of all, the invisible walls.

Not literally invisible walls, but the exploration blockers. You can't sail over there yet, there's a strange wind. You can't cross that gap, you don't have the hookshot. You can't find anything in that cave yet, you don't have the QUEST. Come back later.

That's the magic of Breath of the Wild, it never tells you to "Come back later". I can finally truly WANDER.

The game design may have been punished in other ways because of this design choice...but this is the only design choice that actually mattered to me. I want to walk in the woods and find cool things, by my own self-direction!!!

BEST PART: The optional underground areas of Hyrule Castle. Lots of rad secrets to find, it's like a little castlevania game down there, complete with crazy good castlevania-worthy music.