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Ok, not quite all of f13, more like my Steam friend's list, which is a lot of the regulars. And not quite of all time, since it's just stuff played on steam, since they began keeping track. And hell, they lost about 12 hours of Civ V time I had a couple weeks ago. But what fun is a top ten list if it doesn't have gaping holes to invalidate it completely?

Title - Hours played

Blood Bowl - 3689
TF2 - 3666
Dragon Age 2 - 3254
Rift - 3158 (about half is Nerf!)
Civ IV - 2340 (I mostly played the physical copy, or it'd be much higher!)
Borderlands - 1966
BF:BC2 - 1908
Mass Effect 2 - 1520
Civ V - 1478
Mount & Blade Warband - 1391

Sjofn always skews the Bioware numbers.

My top for a Steam purchase is easily Rift at 188 hours. Not unexpected as it's a MMO and I played two characters to 40+ and 1 to 30+. Dragon Age 1 could be close, but I bought it retail (at Best Buy, I think).

Some games on my Steam list are de-disks or just don't have the stats showing up anymore (like TF2).  

My Rift numbers aren't shown on Steam, since I bought it from Amazon.  Were they added, it may take the top slot.

Sorry for skewing Borderlands.

Are these all time numbers or only starting from a certain date?

I own five of those titles but only one was bought on Steam.

Guess I don't count! :why_so_serious:

I don't even know how to look this up (for individuals that is).

I don't recall if I'm on skys list or not.

Why aren't I on your friends list?!? :-(

Dragon Age 2 3000 hours but no New Vegas? Really?

Also I'd have expected multiplayer games much higher ranked. Does that mean the average F13er is an antisocial bioware-fanboy?

I've put well over 100 hours into Warband and counting.

I dunno, I can't keep track anymore. F:NV is 11th, iirc. As mentioned, Sjofn skews the bioware stuff  :drillf:

Schild, I got in through my profile page, but it officially lives in the Recommended For You area of the Store. Click the "See All" button by Friend's Favorite Games. Then click the Lifetime button at the upper right of the list.

I don't understand how you people have played more DA2 than DAO.

Are you all living in crazy town?

I haven't played DA2 more than DA:O (yet), but I still think DA2 is a better game than DA:O in a lot of ways.

My DA:O is a physical copy, so was Risen. So the list is going to skew toward newer releases as folks give up on physical distribution for the most part.

I'm just happy my copy of TOR is physical, lest I be outed ala Nerf  :grin: My Civ IV alone would've been ridiculous.

At least decidedly uncool. There are about two kinds of people... the console-iphone-bioware crowd and pc-android-betheseda types.

Not saying which, but should be obvious one side is WRONG.

Like mentioned earlier, physical copy.  I wasn't quite buying all my PC games on Steam yet and had a gift card for Best Buy at the time.  :awesome_for_real:

DA2 has 38 hours down for me over one complete game and part of another.  My first game of Dragon Age had around 80 hours in it, and I beat it twice and have a few partially complete games.    

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from our resident Bioware addict:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/82533/da-addict.JPG)

I'm at 281 hours on DA:O (but ~36 or so of that is from when I accidentally left the thing on over a weekend where I was bedridden with a fever) and only 121 hours on DA2, but I expect once more DLC comes out, I finish a couple more playthroughs, etc., it will end up around the same.

My friends list comes in different than Sky's, DA:O is 2nd place there. Maybe he is missing Sjofn.  :awesome_for_real:

...also I have Carnifex, by himself, at 1,869 hours played on something I've never even heard of called SquareLogic.  :ye_gods:

Augh, Rasix, why must you post my SHAME. I would make the excuse that sometimes I left the game open and wandered off for an hour, but that probably accounts for like. Five hours worth at best.



Also I have 232 hours spent on Mass Effect 2.  :why_so_serious:


EDIT: And Ingmar, he's not missing me, but he IS missing my sister, who's put in some decent DA:O and DA2 hours. Although I'm pretty sure she'd make the TF2 hours way higher, so it's probably a wash.

My Team Fortress 2 hours should be more like 1,000 hours but every other game looks normal.

As in, some of you are fucking creepy.

How the heck are you guys getting time played to show up properly?

For example, I've played Batman:AA through twice, and it shows me with only 10 minutes played...

Are you playing it while online with Steam? I don't think it tracks time in offline mode.

I don't think I've ever played offline, to be honest.  I just know that my time played on games seems to reset itself regularly for some reason.

Heh, like DA:O - I catassed this weekend for 12+ hours, and it shows a total of 117 minutes played.

First, the numbers are wacky and not to be trusted.

Second, if my time in every game I ever played was tracked even in this half-ass manner, it would be frightening.  Luckily, most of my time is in consoles or non-Steam PC games.  I think my hours clocked in JRPGs alone would have someone call the authorities.  Ah, wasted youth/young adulthood.

774 hours? I mean, I love that game, but a solid month of DA2? ;)

Yeah, my list has much more of a shooter vibe than Sky's:

TF2 - 10.3k
BFBC2 - 5k (and that's that my copy is through Origin)
Rift - 4k
DA:O - 3.9k
Lumines - 3.9k (all pretty much one guy)
L4D - 3.8k
EVE - 3.3k
L4D2 - 3.1k
Borderlands - 3k
Civ V - 2.6k

Honorable mentions to ME2 and Football Manager 2011 (mostly because OOTP11/12 aren't on Steam) .  My Raptr friends list is just a lot of WoW, LoL, and 360 shooters :awesome_for_real:.

That's DA:O, not DA2. DA2 is a mere 300 hours.  :grin:


Look, when I like a game, I play the fuck out of it. I'm just glad The Sims and the hours I put into it over the years will never be measured.

Or will they.  :-o

DA:O and DA2 would be higher, except I didn't buy either of them on Steam.  I did contribute a good 100+ hours to ME2 though, and I've still got another playthrough or two planned before ME3 drops  (I'm guessing ME3 won't end up on Steam at all).

DA3 won't be either, and I think I might actually be glad now.  :why_so_serious:


EDIT: And Fordel, no one can count that high, so I'm totally safe!

I am missing her for Day #3 of  :drill:  :grin:

I edited out crazy carnifex! Again, makes for a solid list; editorial tampering!

From this list, you'd think I hardly played any games at all. I can't understand how you guys could play a game for a thousand hours. Except, of course WoW. Which Isn't on here.

176 X3: Terran Conflict
135 Dawn of Discovery - Venice
110.8 Battlefield: Bad Company 2
58 TF2 (I've played Way, WAY more than this. This should be 300+ hours)
48 Space Rangers 2: Reboot
40 Left 4 Dead 2
36 Evil Genius
26.9 Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® II

Heh, that's a kenken style puzzle game that has replaced solitaire for me when I'm watching tv shows on line.  I keep it running for that amount of time, but only really play it during the commercial breaks and boring bits.  Then again, it is the only game I've ever completed 100% of the achievements on, so yeah, I might have a problem  :awesome_for_real:

How do I go about joining the F13 Steam Seekret Society?

What's your profile name?

Rendakor, same as here.

Heh, my list is much shorter.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 100 hours
Blood Bowl: 80 hours
Empire 129 hours
TF2 - 72 hours
Mass Effect 2 - 30 hours

But then I also can't replay games like Mass Effect 2. I'm a one and done kind of guy. I just don't have the kind of time another replay would require.

TF2 - 413
Star Trek Online - 133
BadBloodbowl - 128
DAO  - 90
Company 2 - 73
DC Universe - 55
DA2 - 50

Note, I don't have any steam copies of ME 1/2, and for whatever reason my TF2 time is at least 1000 hours short (probably due to choice of servers).

How are you guys getting a sorted list of your own games by time played?

I don't have time for games...

Bloodbowl Legendary Edition: 162.3 hrs
Plants vs Zombies: 98.4 hrs
Mass Effect: 57 hrs
Frozen Synapse: 21.2 hrs
Torchlight: 17.4 hrs
Battlestations: Pacific: 6 hrs
Portal: 5.6 hrs
Dawn of War II: 5.4 hrs
Alien Swarm: 4.3 hrs
Team Fortress 2: 4 hrs

I'm pretty sure that I spend more time on these forums than I do playing games.  Nothing seems to hold my attention anymore.

That's probably true for me simply because of my 40-hour work week.  :awesome_for_real:

You can see your logged in time on f13 by clicking on your name in the thread and then 'general statistics about this user'. Shows you where you post the most, etc.

Most wanted by f13 (wishlists)

Space Marine
Witcher 2
DA:O Ultimate
Fallout New Vegas
CoD Blackops
Dungeon Siege III
Drakensang
Portal 2 (wtf how do you not own this?)
Fallout 3 GotY
DoW 2 Retribution

Waiting for a sale.  I watched it while Vu played as part of a cooperative effort.

Out of that list, I only own DA:O.  Most of those titles don't interest me at all. 

I agree with wha

I thought it was only the kids who don't have attention spans?  :-)

For some reason I'm always drawn back to Total War games eventually.

It is.. Neb's an older adult.  With them it's not attention span, it's inability to process too many things at once so they get frustrated and bored with the whole affair because, damnit, why is that detail important when I'm focused on the bigger long-term picture!  :why_so_serious:

Ok... I deserved that.   :awesome_for_real:

Well played.

Going to also have to call you on the "nothing can keep my attention" bit as well.  Type out for the children how many level 50 Rift characters you have.  :awesome_for_real:

You are just a content devourer. 

Now we know the real reason he's so skeptical about the story/acting in SWTOR, he can't sit through it all.   :why_so_serious:

No comment.  :grin:

ZOMG, Nebu is a content devourer!?

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5Q6bF68cNYfTL8_AYC2Rd1-PTkyhrLB8cc3HvdwwSdzVF3yEO)

He does seem like the brainy type. Shoulda known.

Remember, Nebu is old, you should have gone with the Barrier Peaks illustration:

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u61xWLK7rKg/TaMvVSuCqhI/AAAAAAAAAaI/OygHUrf9jA8/s1600/intellect%2Bdevourer-716644.jpg)

 :heart: Jeff Dee. As a young illustrator, I totally lifted his signature D  :drill:

When I got nothing to play I just load up Bad Company 2 and got into 1000 tickets server...cue 2-3 hours of see-saw battles. It's Alterac Valley-esque length made for very interesting sessions.
I just wish not everyone is a tank whore or sniper campers in Heavy Metal though. That was painful.

I was feeling like that until I took two vacation days to make a four day weekend out of ~40 hours of DXHR.   Hmm, I guess I also took a vacation day when Portal 2 unlocked that I described as "Potato Fool's Day (Observed)".  Other than those two I haven't been terribly gripped by games in the last year or two.  I definitely don't have the energy for MMO's at the moment.

So.... :grin:

If you can get in a vehicle that map has huge fun potential. If you can't fly and just play infantry, is it a repeated punch in the balls. Think Gulf of Oman from BF2.

Until I went back and re-read things, for some reason, I found it funnier when I thought Moses was talking about Minraven with his inability to finish a sentence while attempting to agree. Oh well


I just looked at a few in my library (it shows time played at the top next to the install/play button under the title. Just clicking on Rift showing me without playing it all leads me to believe this list is way too far off to care

Thanka, Sir.  You know it's all in good fun.  :heart:

How embarassing. Only 11 games break the 20 hour mark for me.


Game   Time played (in hours) ▴
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer   244.5
Borderlands    79.3
Dragon Age: Origins   61.5
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Multiplayer    50.3
Titan Quest: Immortal Throne   49.7
Team Fortress 2   45.6
Mass Effect 2   40.9

Yeah, worst of it all, my rig really sucks. So I never really stood a chance against REALLY good players at short range. The scary ones that use those snipers like Counterstrike AWP at close combat? Fucking ball-hacks and one shot M95s. And let's not even talk about the auto-shotguns facerapes. But still, I find the game much tolerable than Counterstrike and most shooters out there. There's plenty of involvement in the game, and I got full value out of the Xmas steam sale. :) That's why I'm waiting for BF3 to drop in price, too. Cause my rig would probably choke and kill me on spawn. Hell, I don't even have Win7 installed.

Funny thing is, I checked my steam and found King Arthur at 173 hours compared to my Bad Company 2 at 130 hours. Hilarious. Well worth that $6.50 purchase.

I believe they're just looking at their profile stats and entering them in order here.  I haven't found a way to get a sorted list of any manner, just a listing by game.

Yeah, I'm bad at this:

SpaceChem - 49
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - 40.5
Portal 2 - 20.1
Sid Meier's Civilization V - 15.1
Dragon Age: Origins - 9.2
Portal - 9.3
Mass Effect - 8.9
Bastion - 7.7
Team Fortress 2 - 6.5
Terraria - 6.3

(my top 10 of  68 steam games by play time)

I think the spacechem time is messed up or I left it on and idle for a day or something there.  I mean I played a LOT of spacechem, but I'm not sure about 50 hours worth...

I used the following site to get these stats, as I couldn't find a way to sort the stats through Steam and I have about 160 Steam games.

http://purianyar.com/steamworthy/index.php?user= (http://purianyar.com/steamworthy/index.php?user=)

To get your stats, just put your user id at the end of the URL.

http://purianyar.com/steamworthy/index.php?user=vaiti

Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale - 45.1 Sword of the Stars - 50.6 Europa Universalis III - 51.9 Global Agenda - 54.1 Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor - 70.6 Men of War: Assault Squad - 71.5 Team Fortress 2 - 86 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - 93.3 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 104.7 Mount & Blade: Warband - 142.6

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword 19.5
Borderlands 24.9
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization 29.6
Street Fighter IV 29.9
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Chaos Rising 31.1
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 32.8
Dragon Age: Origins 50
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year 84.8
Team Fortress 2 157.9
Left 4 Dead 166.7

Most of those I haven't touched in months if not a year+!  :uhrr:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent   11.2
Tomb Raider: Underworld   11.4
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box   11.5
Heroes of Might and Magic V   16.2
Just Cause 2   22.2
Mafia II   26
Sid Meier's Civilization V   28.4
Grand Theft Auto IV   36
Borderlands   36.6
Champions Online: Free For All   42.1
Mass Effect 2   45
Terraria   45.2
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition   55.7
Divinity II - The Dragon Knight Saga   63.7
Fallout: New Vegas   71.4
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword   72.7

GTA4 and Civ4 are de-disc purchases  :ye_gods:

What the Panda said. I know it'll be $5 eventually. Alternately, I might pick the PS3 version up out of the bargain bin and get a free steaming.

I get the feeling Portal 2 will never dip that low in price, within the next couple years, until maybe Portal 3 comes around. 15€ would sell me easily, and is about as low as I expect it to go on sale. I do hope I'm wrong however, it's dropped down to 30€ already, likely hit 20€ at some point, then maybe an additional -50% on some sale.

My top played game is Dragon Age: Origins at 169 hours.

Oh, that sorting thing is neat.
For me:

Team Fortress 2:                        199.1 hours (seems a bit low, my summed total time as each class adds up to more than that)
Brink:                                        139.6 hours
Warhammer 40k DoW Soulstorm: 131.8 hours
Civilization 5:                              102.3 hours
Aion:                                         53.8 hours (weird, I had no idea this would make my top 5)
GTA San Andreas:                       53.7 hours
Blood Bowl                                 Split between 52.1 hours (Legendary) and 29.4 (Dark Elves)

:awesome_for_real:

49 hours on that here.

Oh no you didn't!   :popcorn:

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Is what all that says in Thai. It is helpful to me and many others.

Actually, I love me some 500-1000 ticket games in Heavy Metal. Play as an engy and blow the shit out of some tanks, or go recon and steal the back base repeatedly while everyone is fighting over B.

There is some fun to be had with mines/rockets and C4, but the hike back into the action on foot is punitive.

I didn't expect DA to be #1.  Hrm.

BioShock                                          21.3
The Witcher: Enhanced Edition           21.9
Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year   27.1
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition             28.2
Mass Effect                                         53.6
Dragon Age II                                  68.5
Fallout 3                                         69.6
Mass Effect 2                                 88.4
Sid Meier's Civilization V                  119.3
Dragon Age: Origins                       163.7

Really? I blame Deep Roads and Mage Tower.  :grin:

The day I installed 'Skip the Fade' Mod was the realization that console games can go to hell.

No, I played it through about 4 different characters, I just didn't think it would wind-up #1.  I figured I had more Civ5 time in there than I do.

Then again, Steam also wiped-out my hours played some time ago because it says I've played Half Life 2 and HE: Ep1 and Portal 0 hours and I know I've got at least FA3's # of hours in those.  Witcher is way off, too.

Of course you're wrong. Every other Valve game drops in price then hits $5 sales within 18 months. They know their business model well and how to leverage it for maximum profit.

I end up living la vida loca via the Allied AA gun in the central base (the soviet one is crap). I then destroy all enemy choppers as they come out of their base and rack up the awesome.

Valve really seems to be the only distributor that's clued in on how to utilize the tail end of game sales. There's a lot of gamers out there who are only semi-casual hobbyists, or who stick mainly to certain genres that simply won't buy most titles at 50 or 60 dollars. Even 30. These distributors look at those 50-75% sales as lost money, but the fact is the majority of those purchasers were never going to buy the game otherwise. It's like impulse buys in the checkout aisle of a store. You can't lose profit on something you wouldn't have sold otherwise, it's basically just bonus money.

I am sooooo one of the "only certain genres" types. I like to think this is part of the reason I can sink an embarrassing number of hours into, say, ME2, while someone like Haemish doesn't feel like he has the time to do so partly because there are so many other things for him to play.

But really the main reason is I am a bad person.  :heartbreak:

I'm trying to think if there was ANY game I bought on steam for full price (40+ dollars) that wasn't some indie game for like 10-20.

I bought DA:O at full price. Only game I believe I have bought for full price, save for the indies as well.

Yeah, even Deus Ex 3 I got because there was 15% off or something. Hell that's not even really a reduction as far as I'm concerned but I probably would have waited for a few months until it was on a proper sale otherwise.

I find I can always wait a few months.  Thankfully the Greenman Gaming pre-order made DX3 practically half-price compared to most games.  There's just not that much being produced worthy of a day-one purchase anymore.

The only games I buy in the first 6 months are MMOs.  I enjoy the early arms race more than the game in most cases.  

GW2 is the only MMO that's a day-one purchase for me right now.

SWTOR would only be so if I get into the beta and it wows me.  I'll give it a spin when I can find it for $20 or a free trial.  Nothing else on the near horizon even registers.

Double edged sword there...I love being in the first rush to see and experience everything, but you all get to suffer through all the bugs that didn't get sussed out by the rigorous 'beta test'.

I was already getting away from new purchases anyway, steam just made it easier. I don't have to constantly check amazon or EB's (probably now non-existant) pc stock for $20 deals. Civ V is the last game I paid full price for. I know over time I won't regret it, and I did enjoy my last game.

WAP, you also get the manastone and rubicite (ok, so that was the last game I was in the arms race, hah).

But stuff like Metro 2033? Wouldn't have bought that two years ago, because retail outlets generally wouldn't dump it under $20. You might get more people holding off from the initial price gouge, but I think it's more than made up by people like me that have a third of the games in their library that are titles we're never have bought for $20+ but would jump on for $5-10.

Yeah, the last few games I bought at "full price" were Empire: Total War (pre-ordered that on Steam to get the free copy of Rome: TW), FIFA 11 and Madden 11 and now 12. And with the console games, I'm usually trading in old games, so it's not completely full price. But Steam sales? By comparison to my full price purchases, I spend the shit out of things on Steam.

Tangent for yet another reason to love Steam: Went to Gamestop to buy the new Madden last night - mainly because I had 3 games to trade in and they gave an extra 30% trade-in credit if you bought a new copy of Madden - ended up paying $46 after tax for a $60 game. I felt almost compelled to commit violence on the poor girl behind the counter - and I do not believe in violence against women. No, I don't want to preorder anything. No, I don't want to pay for your Edge card. No, I don't want your free powerup rewards card. Yes, I'm supposed to get an extra 30% on these games even though you tell me that was only for preorders (which you were wrong about but I figured the register would handle it anyway). Ok fine, I will take your goddamn free powerups reward card so long as you just ring up my goddamn purchase and shut the fuck up. Ok, yes, I see where you've highlighted in pink on my receipt that I have a tournament code for Madden, a survey to fill out for a sweepstakes entry and yes I see my activation for the rewards thing. GODDAMNIT JUST GIVE ME MY FUCKING GAME!!!!!!!

She's very lucky that I'm a nice person IN PERSON, because the douchebag in my head would have been all over her.

The hilarious part for me is DA:O is my #1 played game and I've never actually finished any of my playthroughs.

Sjofn did your share Paelos, don't worry.

She did my share too.

TEN TIMES

And like ... four almost-dones.

So, I guess I should start playing that sometime myself. How long does a first-time playthrough take?

40 hours?

I should go back and finish. Problem is I didn't give a shit about anything that was going on. Made it probably 90% of the way through and just couldn't bring myself to finish. And I finished Divinity 2!

I always got to the big fight where you have to go through the city summoning waves of helpers and I just go...why am I doing this?

40 if you breeze though mostly just the main quest.  70 hours is a better estimate, IMO.

I reckon I'm 3/4th of the way done, and Steam says 118 minutes played, so...   :why_so_serious:

That said, I'm NOT going back through DA:O again.  Even if it wasn't crashing every 5 minutes, the "oh, just one TEN more things to get our race's help..." syndrome is past annoying.

You're doing it to kill the archdemon and see the FRUITS of your TREATY ENFORCING LABOR. Plus that section is totally shorter than, say, the fucking deep roads. And it's the VERY END. Do it once, for heaven's sake. Then you get the EPILOGUE.

Im in the f13 group on steam, but what do we need to do to get friended?

Modified to add my Steam games
Dungeon Keeper
Sid Meir's Pirates
Terraria
Torchlight

cheezus. I'll probably never play this game then. I just don't have the time for the shallow mindless crap I play when I'm knees-deep in work, and when the holidays roll around I'll probably end up playing the Warcraft again for a month or so...

Dammit!  I'm in the Deep Roads now!  Please tell me it's not longer than the Mage Tower.   :cry2:

Problem with Deep Roads is that 50% of the combat are just filler crap. And only 25% are required. The other 25% are side quest / loot material.
It's really depressing that there's nothing interesting in there. Just piles and piles of meatbags to farm for exp.

Much, much longer.

Well, we don't know how long he spent in the Fade. It could've been HOURS.

But yeah, it's longer. Orzammar just ... stretches on for an eternity. I like all the dwarfy politics stuff but yeah, they really had a weird amount of filler fighting and it gets pretty irksome, especially if you don't like the combat much.

Heh, I quit playing Fallout 3 at the final assault with the big robot dude.  I know it's pretty much the last thing in the game and I just can't make myself hit, "Let's go" and play out the last 5 minutes or whatever.

I actually never made it past that part in DA, literally made me quit the game.  I finally found whats her name I was looking for because I needed to find her so the other guy would help me back in the city.  ANd then for HER to help me I had to go to do something.  And I just said, you know what, the Darkspawn can have this world.  Quit the game, uninstalled. 

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85916/face.png)

Yeah the dwarves really took the whole plz halp thing to annoying levels.

Dwarves have no king, so you pick a dude.
Help that dude by doing something
Then you go to clearing out Dust Town
Then you start heading to the deep roads
Then you fight past a section.
Then you fight past a spider section.
Then, you fight past yet another section with trenches.
Then, you fight against a section of traps.
Then, you fight against the end boss. Except each THEN takes an hour.

Shamefully my personal list would read:

EVE Online
WoW
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Everything else

Om my 3rd DA playthrough I was much, much faster at things and better at building the team than my 1st where I was the Spellsword mage laying waste to EVERYTHING solo.  I still quit when I got about 1/2 way through the Deep Roads because I was just damn bored and didn't care enough about my human rogue to see her die at the hands of the Archdemon (Which turns out didn't matter for DA2 anyway.  :awesome_for_real:)

That's what SHE said!

I got stuck in the Fade for awhile longer than I should have because I foolishly believed you could solve any of the 5 sides first.  I am currently at the point where I keep crashing during the fight with UltraSpider, so at least it looks like I'm more than halfway through.   :uhrr:

Haha, you're really not.

:uhrr: :ye_gods: :uhrr: :heartbreak:

That's the hell with the deep roads. You thing you're almost there, but then there's 2 more hours of shit.

It's been a while, but I think ultraspider is halfway through the deep roads section. So yes, you are nearly done with the dwarves, it's just ... it still takes a long time.

But yeah, Orzammar is BY FAR the longest damn treaty section by a MILLION MILES. The elves are pretty quick at least!

If you add together the two sections for Redcliffe that's pretty long too.

That at least you can break up and not feel silly about it. Technically you can wander back and forth between Deep Roads sections but it feels stupid to do so.

Catassed the rest of the Deep Roads.  Couple of tough fights near the end, for sure.  And that was WAY more than 2 hours of hell, heh.

Now to wrap up a couple of loose ends and go visit Denerim with some friends.   :awesome_for_real:

I lied about the two hours to make you feel better.  :grin:

Yeah it feels like a BILLION. AND I SAY THAT AS THE RESIDENT DRAGON AGE TARD.

So I got a REALLY warm welcome when I showed up in Denerim with all of my friends.

...followed by a few more hours of slogging through castles and other assorted stone structures before the questline bugged out.   :uhrr:

I found the elves *far* more irritating than the fade or the deep roads.

Possibly because they were elves. Possibly because it is less clear wtf you are supposed to do.

Actually, Denerim may be where my playthrough stalled...some stupid click on a map icon get ambushed for the nth time and I saw something shiny that didn't suck and never went back.

I'm so happy I didn't by Rift via Steam because my hours played would be public!

I'm doubly happy that I didn't buy Rift on Steam and that my true playing hours are covered by NDA. I'm probably in Nerf PLUS Falconeer land, heh.

Be interesting if the game had a /sittinginsanctumwaitingonqueues command instead of /played for Rift.  I bet that I spent more hours sitting idle in sanctum than I did playing the game. 

You leveled like 5 characters to 50, I'd be willing to bet you didn't.  :grin:  :awesome_for_real:

My SWTOR shame will never be public.  It can go in the filing cabinet next to WoW.

You're no fun.   The last two months that I played, my small guild pretty much just chatted in sanctum, though we did run an occasional T2, raid dungeon, or WF when we had the bodies.  I'll bet that I spent more time in the wf's than anything.  I think 4 of my 5 toons were between rank 3 and rank 6 when I quit.

Someone's got to keep you honest!   :why_so_serious:

I'd be interested to see if my sitting on my ass time > leveling time in WoW.  It wasn't in Rift because I didn't do instances and never hit max level.  

edit: However, I really don't know just how fast you level.  You just seem to buzz saw through shit in the same time it takes me to read the quest text and find the shiny x on the map.

Same here. I'm not letting you bastards get even more ammo for "man Sjofn is crazy."

I wonder if we can bribe Ingmar to provide us with a /played.

I guarantee that, while I do get a bit compulsive about leveling in MMO's, I'm an amateur compared to the professional catasses around here.  I'm certain that Draegan had a level 50 long before I did and his /played is at least an order of magnitude greater than mine.

There's a "man Sjofn"?

I bet "he" wears pink underwear.

I bet he totally does, the fruit loop.

Odds are her total /played is more than mine, but I probably have vastly more on my main in WoW.

I was a true catass and hit level 50 on Monday.   :awesome_for_real:

My play time is essentially doing 4-5 hours of raids 3-5 days a week.  If you matched up both of our times played you might beat me on ly because 5 level 50s and all those max pvp ranks. 

I couldn't be bothered with that grind.  Yee-gods.

To be fair, after gearing a toon on each side to T2, there wasn't much else to do without 19 additional people other than warfronts.  That and I enjoy pvp... ok, pvp that's separated from the quest grind.