Gaming

While I'm no completionist, it takes me a LONG time for me to finish games. Whether it be because I bounce between multiple games (Street Fighter 6 and Tears of the Kingdom currently), I do nearly everything in a game, or I set a stupid challenge for myself. I like to kneecap myself for no discernible reason in video games and TTRPGs. I'm attempting a 4 (but might be 3 soon) heart run in Tears of the Kingdom on my first run through. Why? Shrug

Most games I play are single-player. And even then, I hardly play videogames anymore these days. I'd probably average about 8-10 hours on a game over the course of a few years, with some outliers like Killing Floor 2 and Dawn of War (this is by far the most time I've ever spent playing a game, without 300ish hours across the expansions and mods).

I just generally don't have the time or energy to invest in playing something. Maybe I'll play for about 30 minutes before I have the sinking feeling of needing to be more productive.

Ideally I will look for games that will keep me interested for hundreds or potentially thousands of hours such as Path of Exile or modded Minecraft. While I do enjoy a good singleplayer story as well, that sort of stuff is usually something I'll do every couple of years. I enjoy having multiple high time sink games to come back to and and cycle through in periods. Also a big reason why I used to play so many MMORPGs.

I end up gravitating towards favorite games that I play tons of, as well as additional games that I play through once for the experience.

The "core game" I keep coming back to these days has been XCOM 2, which I never really got tired of.

I find when I get a "fever" for a game I spend 20 to 80 hours on it. (Exception being AoE, I've played that game for 15 years and I'm not stopping) The reason I have clocked more than 300 hours in some games is that I come back to that game many times, like Civ 6, Satisfactory, Cities Skylines, Transport Fever, etc.

All over the map here. As of late I tend to be more focused and am putting in many hours to fewer games. If you look at my trophy list or anything else that keeps track, I have an extensive list of games I have only played a few hours of.

Honestly, neither makes you a “gamer.” Enjoying gaming is what makes you a gamer. Doesn’t matter if that is one game or a hundred games.

It depends really, for MP games I usually put in 300 hours or so, Ultra Street Fighter 4 and Monster Hunter World I have 300 hours, but I have like 692 hours on a more reliable game like Skyrim if you combine the playtime I have on the normal and Special edition.

There are a handful of games that I've logged more than 100 hours in. I tend to get bored. Right now, I am enjoying Tears of the Kingdom and approaching that burnout period. There are enough side quests to maybe keep me going for another week or two, but I am getting ready to just complete the main quest and stop playing. I almost never replay games because I'd much rather be exploring something new.