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Which game is it?

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Which game is it?

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Any game where you fight by picking stuff out of menus

All I see are awesome game recommendations, thanks everyone! Except for Stardew Valley.. that's my game. I love it but I hate it for reasons mentioned already.

Battlefield 2042. 5k hours.
- Impressive. I didn’t know people exist with that many hours in this game but today I learned. As long as you had fun, that’s nice

For me, HC WoW
- I know right like regular WoW wasn't already enough of a timesuck

Stardew Valley.

Second Life. If you could call it a game.
I started "playing" it in 2006. Went through long periods of not playing it.. but I always come back.. and it's always worse

So I'm not autistic and these aren't necessarily bad games, but for my partner this is definitely Dragon Age. She has put an insane number of hours into the first 3 games. She knew The Veilguard was going to be bad. She KNEW, she told me multiple times even the second before she told me she bought the game. She got 3/4 of the way through before having a crying, screaming meltdown over how bad it was.

Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. I have at least 10k hours between both.
- Stardew Valley is not a bad game.
  
  It is a good came I just got tired of it due to the constant inventory management and the rapid day night cycle making me feel like I had to speed run everything.
  Besides that the art, music, controls, and, aesthetic are all wonderful.
- I want to play AC so badly. Every time I pick it up my brain is hit with nostalgia from when I played it as a kid on my N64 and GC but now as an adult I enjoy it more watching my kids play it and talk to me about their villagers.

This is unironically one of my favorite memes because it fits me SO WELL:
On Minecraft I have ~150 days playtime on PC, after switching to Prismlauncher (after some development drama) I have another ~22 days playtime. Along with my 1300 hours on switch it's a total of 234.5 DAYS looking at pixelated blocks in a children's game.
that's not even including my time in PE edition from when I was little or the multiple years I spent in Lunar client which doesn't track playtime. In total it's probably WELL over a whole year of JUST Minecraft.
I ALSO have 9154 hours in other steam games and 1500 MORE in animal crossing. In total this is 16,000 hours, 670 days or
1.8 YEARS
I do also have minor autism.
edit: also 2-300 hours in oldschool RuneScape lol

I’ve been playing the Monster Hunter series since 2004 and have logged well over 10k hours.

Nethack. 100% this is Nethack.

- I am so glad I bought that game before the steam release, which means most of my hours are untracked.
- The factory must expand so the factory can expand so the factory can expand so the factory can expand so the factory..
- The factory must grow
- Good choice !

ITT: people listing good games they played a bunch.
The answer is clearly world of warcraft.
- Having grown up on the MUDs and MMOs that release before WoW I think I was thankfully inoculated against its more gamified, addictive formula.

I honestly loved Forspoken. I even bought a second physical copy in case something happens to the original.
- Finished playing through it just recently, seriously underrated imo.
- Forspoken is one of the only 9th generation games I'm actually interested in.
  
  It's legit brilliant, and I unironically love it.

EVE Online?
- EXCUSE ME! Spreadsheet simulator clearly DOES NOT fall under the category of 'worst game' in any way whatsoever! Now hold on for a second while I log into my 7th account...

Modded minecraft isnt the worst ever
I started making games to make sure its not
- One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.
  I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.
  I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.
  Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.

Dota 2. Almost 10k hours. I got matched against s4 and had to face him in the mid lane. I got wrecked and I uninstalled the game, that was a few years ago now. I figured if I just matched against one of the best players in the world then I actually completed dota and it's time to stop.

I just spent 20 hours on the demo for the new game roadcraft. I'm just pushing dirt around in a tractor like I'm playing with Tonka trucks back when I was 5. I haven't really done anything interesting, just leveled dirt. Anyway, ill probably put in another 6 hours today after work.

Did y'all hear about Rain World ?

Factorio. Do i need to say more?
- Why aren't you tending to your factory?
  
  My factory is paused. I found Derail Valley Simulator, and have been absolutely loving driving trains

Growing up playing osu! forever scarred my taste in music. Now I have a $300 SDVX controller at home and I need help
Also honorable mention for the 500+ hrs I have in Skyrim (with additional difficulty mods), Slay the Spire, Binding of Issac, ...
- What's the deal with osu? I work in a computer shop and see that icon on customer machines all the time but never looked into it.

Outer Worlds. Not exactly a bad game but fell just a tad short of being F:NV spiritual successor.
- You could tell what was constraining it was mostly budget. I have high hopes for the sequel.
- It's an amazing game. The sprat rescue...
- Is this a personal spiritual successor, or is this there some thread connecting these two games that I'm missing?
  They do both rule.
  
  Both made by Obsidian

Garry's Mod back when spacebuild still existed. Fun stuff especially all the Stargate add-ons.

It’s not a bad game but Rimworld is destroying my life right now.
- Is it about rimming?
- same
  
  unrelated but i just noticed that the playtime was 1234, that's neat
  
  I should get tested or something.
  
  That's more hours per week than I have to work.
  But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.
  Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That's over the game's full lifespan though.
- Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x.. which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.
- I had to ban myself from that game as I'd fall off the face of the earth for weeks at a time

I have the most hours in Warframe, but Factorio is on a different level. If you're anywhere on the spectrum, it is pure crack cocaine. The only reason I haven't bought the DLC is because I know it'll consume a month of my free time.
By the way, Warframe 1999's soundtrack fucking slaps.
- After playing with trains in factorio, then just staring at them go in pure ecstasy for 10s of minutes. I am now convinced I'm much further on the spectrum than I thought.
- Space Age is totally worth it though
- Can confirm. It's the only game I play at this point.
  Finally got to Fulgora. I want that mech suit.
  
  I'm currently avoiding fixing Gleba, so I'm making an Epic Mech Suit.
- A month? That is not enough :(
  
  When they say a month of free time, the really mean a month of neglecting the laundry, dishes, vacuuming, showering, and cooking at home. And probably also a month of being late to work too.
- Ignore the expansion and just free base Space Exploration

Terraria currently. Satisfactory and DRG before.
- They said worst games, not best!

There was a shitty f2p MMO called GunZ online once upon a time. It was so badly programmed that glitches literally became the primary gameplay loop.
I loved it. For those few that could get into it, it was a unique heaven of fps and fighting game that filled a void an over caffeinated teen with nothing but hyper focus and time didn't know they had.
Also just ridiculously horny people.
- Also just ridiculously horny people.
  So, average MMO player
- Don't call GunZ shitty! I'll double butterfly your face, or something. It's been a while.
- Fuuuuuuck dude haven't thought about that game in a decade
- I remember that, Nexon?

Elite Dangerous, Rimworld
- Came here to also say Elite. They're actually doing updates now, but I still would never recommend to anyone despite devoting so much time to it.
  
  What kind of updates?

Payday 2

Man, I'm into Sword of Convalaria. I've finished it once, then twice, and am now on my third play.

Teals of Maj'Eyal. Nothing like a real fucking rouge like

subjective
- Is it?
  Also it's just a meme.

I'm split between Factorio and Dwarf Fortress.
- Give Songs of Syx a try. One guy, who developed the game in a shed in Poland so he could get away from his family. You can try the "demo" which is the full game just one version behind. Once he gets tired of developing it he said he'll make it open source. Think dwarf fortress but you're capable of having a population of thousands. Oh, and nevermind the race riots or cannibalism.
  
  I went ahead and grabbed the demo and I will give a try, thanks for the info!

I should probably take a picture, but at least 1500 hours on Project Cars 2 on PS4 / 5.
Edit: I just looked and it's actually 2,897 hours.
- At least you you can probably drive better than 3/4 of the tech bros at a track day now.
  
  Haha I did volunteer at a track for a bit and they paid me in rally car lessons, driving one of their WRXs through the woods, which was a blast.
  They were convinced I'd done it before because before they taught me how, I was already good at left foot braking and could smoothly heel-toe while shifting, but in reality I hadn't driven an IRL stick shift for more than a few hours at most. That's not to say I didn't make some silly mistakes though lol
  Bought an FR-S recently and once I get some new tires on it, I'm gonna see how I do on a not-dirt track!
  Anyway I've switched to PC now, if anyone wants to race...

Rimworld, Vicky 2, Ck2, Hoi4, Eu4, Fallout 1 2 3 and New Vegas, Morrowind, Skyrim, and currently Vintage Story. My tastes are damned good profligates can you say the same?!
Edit: Also Total Warhammer.
- I have the same list but Caves of Qud also sucked some life out of me. Damn good RPG though.
- Currently on my 3rd run of FO4 after finishing my 3rd of Skyrim, with some NMS in between

cookie clicker
fucking useless, highly addictive
- Oh god, all the clicker games were like fucking methamphetamine to me. I remember there was this 'city' clicker one where you built roads, and I straight up played nothing else for three weeks, every moment I could when I wasn't working. I'm glad I don't even look in their direction now, because I know I could get sucked back in.
- my phones version is about as old as my cousin lol
- Have you tried Stimulation?
  
  My eyes started hurting and my phone got very hot.
  
  This was fun. Then my phone started acting up.

Oxygen not included. I spent so much brain beating that game, then wanted to play more.
- I keep going back to ONI to try and get into its endgame. But I quickly start getting kicked around in a back alley by the temperature stuff. Like trying to figure out colony-wide temperature control.
  
  Heat control is definitely the toughest boss of the game. Satisfying as fuck to be constantly pumping in cool O2 into the main colony block though once you get a handle on it. The steam turbine aqua tuner loop is key to fully nailing mid to late game temperature control, and needs to be implemented later on to actually get liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
  You can easily go hundreds of cycles though without needing a steam turbine as long as you are properly planning your base. There are a lot of aspects though that need to be considered. Most of which boil down to (heh) just not building your temperature sensitive things next to hot or heat producing things.
  One neat trick is to create a vacuum with liquid locks on either side so that heat is not conducted from one side to another. Another more basic trick is finding a cold biome or cool salt water geyser and pumping liquid through it then insulating the pipe ( p-water best because it's high specific heat capacity and low freezing temperature) and then running it through your base with some radiant/normal piping at picked spots to release that coolness.
  The two focuses you need before you get to creating coolness are to try not to let heat in from outside (don't dig into hot biomes without insulated tile or liquid locks) and try not to unnecessarily generate heat on the inside of your colony block. You also want to try to just largerly separate where your plants are from where your cooking/machines are until you can actively control the heat generated.
  Even without a steam turbine room you can just plop down an aqua tuner next to a pool of water outside your base and radiate that now cool water into the base for quite awhile before the system would break down.
  Hope that helps!

I kind of miss when No Man's Sky was an endless, empty expanse. That sense of loneliness and futility was an emotional experience that it doesn't have now. It's become a much better game, no doubt, but putting time and careful planning into that long crawl towards the galactic centre felt right.
- Oh don’t worry it still is that
- It has an empty universe mode in one of the updates

Spelunky 2
- Honorable mentions Noita and The Binding of Isaac
  (Thats about 3/3 of my life)

Quest 64 is my favorite "bad" game. It was a meme for like a week around here, I miss those days.
- As a kid I was so thirsty for RPGs without fully realising it that I made way too much of an attempt to like Quest.

Eve online took a lot from me , but it gave back a lot more .. i think everyone who plays it is on the spectrum, no other explanation tbh

<Insert any Zachtronics game here>
- love Zachtronics games. Got the solitaire collection on Mobile. One of the few games I play on my phone.

PlanetSide 2 for me, easily 8k hours into that game. Around 5k on my steam account alone.
So sad to see it's still slowly collapsing, but I've not been on since the AU servers shut down years ago and the hackers took over the Asia server.
- Ah, I have fond memories of PS2. I slowly stopped playing when I started finding less and less coherent platoons working together. I'd join squads that were spread all over the map. It had so many fun things with it too, but somewhere along the way I started losing interest.

When I was in college it was WOW. I have soooo many hours in that game. But it also helped fix a lot of issues I had with social anxiety. I went from basically never interacting with people in that game to being elected to run a 60 person guild. I didn't even campaign they just nominated me for it when the previous GM left. It did a lot to help me feel like I could be normal. Then I got a job and a GF and didn't have time to play as much anymore.
These days it's Warframe but I don't have enough free time to really get into video games like I used to anymore.

There was this spreadsheet masquerading as a space conquest 4X game called Stars!
- I just looked this up and I’m definitely gonna try it out.

I will not stand for this Robot Unicorn Attack slander.
sits carefully
...that's better.
- That game and one scene from Scrubs revived Erasure's synth pop briefly in the 2000s
- 🎵And live in harmony harmony oh Lord!🎵

Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts and Sword of the Stars 2.
part of Sword of the stars 2 is even now it sometimes gets so laggy that you can't finish a game. You just at some point declare that you've snowballed enough and can't be beat anymore.
Hundreds of hours.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts is at least getting better now that the devs have abandoned it and modders are taking over.

Me being in love with Hellgate: London, Fate (WildTangent), and Warframe be like
- Oh man, Hellgate: London. That's a blast from the past.
  
  I still fire it up from time to time, runs great for me
- Hellgate London was such fun, unique hybrid twist on ARPG and looter shooter, I was sad when I heard it was shutdown.
  I woulda played it more if I had known it was about to be shutdown. There were some crash bugs and sudden difficulty spikes that made me quit, thinking Id come back to it later. That later never happened.
  
  Yeah it's a shame the official multiplayer didn't last long. There's some fan projects with that but none of them scratched the same itch for me. There were a few patches for the game and they're still available, but the difficulty spikes are still there, it gets grindy in the last couple sections of the game.

My last words will be “Just one… more… turn”
- Followed by Ghandi cackling as he unleashes a nuke on your Civ.

I remember when I stumbled into the serious world of 100% Orange Juice players on steam/twitch
- Oh man that games so fun, haven't played it in an while tho
  Star Breaker forever

This one particular rp server on San Andreas Multiplayer

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