If a game is robust you can keep circling back to it for years or even decades, especially if it has some inherent randomness, roguelike elements or a deep content well that makes campaigns feel a little fresh or novel. I boot up Sword of the Stars every couple of years to play again and since each campaign is easily a hundred hours + whatever time spent afk with the app running it's easy to compound thousands over a long period of time.
As said, a lot of time built up in strategy games is just having the game running paused while you tab out and do other stuff, or leave your pc entirely. Old games have such a small performance footprint that they often eat fewer pc resources and power draw than a modern browser. You can literally forget you left a game running while it sits running for days in the background
I have 3400 hours in RimWorld. I haven't even got to the end credit even once. I spent most of my time making mods and testing. I haven't started a single proper game ever since Biotech released.
Strategy games are time consuming in the first place, and if a game finds special a place in your soul, you might as well end up playing it indefinitely. Maybe you'll play it every day, maybe it'll be your fallback game that you never uninstall and always come back to. In any case, time flies when you're having fun.
You can play them online which drastically improves replayability, whether it's with friends or against strangers.
Certain games have custom scenes where you get to try out mods or make your own content.
SP-oriented titles can have a lot of content to work with: unlockables, achievements, rare random events, multiple difficulty settings - that stuff may take some time to clear - while some are super simple which means you can pick them up whenever you have spare time.
All this is kind of a double-edged sword, though. On one hand, you as a player don't get to play as many games as you like, if you intend to play each to completion. On the other, the market is a bit on the slow side when players stick to playing their favorites and have little incentive to check out new games.
grand strat shit and total war games are pretty fricking casual so you can run them in the background while watching anime with your friends or some shit. OP doesn't have friends so he would not understand this.
>he thinks anyone using steam "has to use it"
I also pirate sometimes, homosexual. Steam just has some QOL shit I am more than happy to sometimes spend money on
How do you find the time or energy anymore? After all day with my gf and kid and my job, I can barely muster enough for an hour of Battle Brothers maybe.
There are some turn based games I often just keep running in the background and play a turn or few along the day amidst working.
If a game is robust you can keep circling back to it for years or even decades, especially if it has some inherent randomness, roguelike elements or a deep content well that makes campaigns feel a little fresh or novel. I boot up Sword of the Stars every couple of years to play again and since each campaign is easily a hundred hours + whatever time spent afk with the app running it's easy to compound thousands over a long period of time.
As said, a lot of time built up in strategy games is just having the game running paused while you tab out and do other stuff, or leave your pc entirely. Old games have such a small performance footprint that they often eat fewer pc resources and power draw than a modern browser. You can literally forget you left a game running while it sits running for days in the background
>each campaign is easily a hundred hours
>How do people play one game for 14000 hours?
Most of that time is spent in their own heads while the game idles.
Extra chromosome
High IQ
I have nearly 3k hours in MGS5.
80% of it was just running truck loops to refine resources, while I wasn't even at home, not to mention play it
How can you play life for 876,000 hours?
Why did you post this here, fricktard? Frick off to Ganker with your pointless shitposting threads.
I have 3400 hours in RimWorld. I haven't even got to the end credit even once. I spent most of my time making mods and testing. I haven't started a single proper game ever since Biotech released.
Strategy games are time consuming in the first place, and if a game finds special a place in your soul, you might as well end up playing it indefinitely. Maybe you'll play it every day, maybe it'll be your fallback game that you never uninstall and always come back to. In any case, time flies when you're having fun.
You can play them online which drastically improves replayability, whether it's with friends or against strangers.
Certain games have custom scenes where you get to try out mods or make your own content.
SP-oriented titles can have a lot of content to work with: unlockables, achievements, rare random events, multiple difficulty settings - that stuff may take some time to clear - while some are super simple which means you can pick them up whenever you have spare time.
All this is kind of a double-edged sword, though. On one hand, you as a player don't get to play as many games as you like, if you intend to play each to completion. On the other, the market is a bit on the slow side when players stick to playing their favorites and have little incentive to check out new games.
I would not want to even lowball how much time I have spent playing sim city 4 over the last 20 years.
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i know you looked at my profile just before making this post
who are you?
grand strat shit and total war games are pretty fricking casual so you can run them in the background while watching anime with your friends or some shit. OP doesn't have friends so he would not understand this.
I'm sure glad I'm not a tech illiterate zoomer who has to use Steam to play games. I have no idea how many hours I've played any game, ever
>he thinks anyone using steam "has to use it"
I also pirate sometimes, homosexual. Steam just has some QOL shit I am more than happy to sometimes spend money on
How the frick is "autism" not the first reply?
It's fun
I've easily spent 20000 hours on Dwarf Fortress since 2008, suck my dick OP
I'm 33 now and married with kids. I don't know how it happened based on the previous statement kek
How do you find the time or energy anymore? After all day with my gf and kid and my job, I can barely muster enough for an hour of Battle Brothers maybe.
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>How do people play one game for 14000 hours?
I drank the vodka.