Current Events > Real talk. Is putting more than 100, or 200 hours into a game weird?

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I freely admit, I have some games I've played an awful lot. I can think of 3 games* that I've put about 500 or more hours into. Having said all THAT, is it strange how gamers just play and play some games? I mean, aren't we secretly bored after having played a single-player mode for over 100 hours, or after playing through a single-player mode a bunch of times, just for fun? Even with a mutli-player game, aren't we fed up after hundreds of hours of matches with random online people?

Food for thought. I'd be interested to know what people think. Of course, I personally don't usually enjoy a game as much by the time I do my 150th hour, as with my 10th hour, but I do seem to still quite like it. What does this say about me? Or all of us? Do we actually want to keep playing certain games, or it is just boredom from lack of other games to play, or, general activities to do in our lives? What do you think?

*Red Alert 2; NiGHTS: Into Dreams; Goldeneye

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Some games just tickle our brains in the right way.

I put over 100 hours into RE4 back in the day. I could fire up a version today and dump some time into it because its just that good.

When massive Bethesda games come out I generally scrape them clean. I poured hundreds of hours into Skyrim and the Fallout games. However its rare that Ill go back to them after Ive scraped them. I do still get the itch to play Skyrim every now and then.

I look at it in the same vein as reading an old book or watching an old movie. Its like visiting an old friend you havent seen in years and picking up like you were never apart.
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Some games can take like 100 hours to beat.
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Wow, that's impressive about RE4. I admit, I never even finished it. I *did* have a lot of fun, though.

I like Fallout 3, but wasn't so keen on Fallout: New Vegas. Haven't played Skyrim, but Obvlivion was one the worst games I ever bought.

To each their own, of course...

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There is only one game I know I've hit over 500 hours and that is Nioh. I think I hit around 600 some hours. If you wanted to really delve into all the weapons and gear, you can spend way more than that. Honestly, the game was real addicting and fun to me. So it really feels like the exception when it comes to putting that much time into a game.
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I dont even want to think about the hours Ive put into WoW

For a more traditional game, shit, I just recently put nearly 100 into Hollow Knight. It happens, when you find that game that speaks to you.
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I have around 300 hours on Overwatch
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999 hours on Killing Floor.
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Depends on the game and over what period of time. Multiplayer, open world games, and big RPG's are meant to be played for dozens and hundreds of hours. If you're going for 10 hours a day though you might need to lay off. Also, if you've replayed a 5 hour game dozens and dozens of times you might need to branch out as well.

I've put >950 hours into Forza 7 alone.
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Not at all, I've had dozens of games that I've put well over 200 hours into

i probably have well over a thousand hours into LoL but it was the only video game i played for like 3 or 4 years
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Wow, I hadn't even thought of hardcore Smash fans.

I suppose some of them have 1,000+ hours in just Melee alone...right?

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Have 340+ hours on ac odyssey
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No

300 hours = 12.5 days

Ive done that with several games. I think I have 1000 hours into Overwatch after all these years
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Over 600 hours on DMC3 personally.
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1300 hours into CSGO and still a silver

Not at all.

I don't play that many games, but for those I do play, I easily invest a lot of time into them, learning the ins and outs of everything about them.

Hundreds of hours into a single game? Sure, done that many, many times.
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