2008 Game Time

Spurred on by the plethora of 'Best Game of 2008' posts, I thought I'd look back through all the GameLogs to see what I'd been playing over the past year. Here's the list of the top 30 games I played, ranked by how many hours I spent playing it this year:

(Actually I stuck 2 more notable titles down the bottom for comparison)

Football Manager 08	202
Crusader Kings	97
warhammer online	86
TrackMania Nations Forever	72
Guitar hero III	72
Team Fortress 2	70
Dwarf fortress	63
Civilization 4: Beyond the Sword	58
Fallout 3	57
War3:TFT	47
Spore	41
TrackMania Nations	41
Europa Universalis III	41
Little Big Planet	40
Kongai	35
Colonization	35
UnAngband	34
FuryBand	34
Pirates!	33
Battle of Tiles	32
WoW:WotLK	31
Sins of a solar Empire	31
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade	23
Guitar Hero: World Tour	22
Pirates of the Burning Seas	21
Space Rangers 2	20
World of Goo	18
Mount & Blade	17
Kongregate	17
Mythos	16
Metal Gear Solid 4	9
GTA 4	4

Gratz to Football Manager for soaking up an extroardinary amount of time. I'm a bit surprised it's not bigger than 200 hours as my save game has over 20 days played (~500 hours). 

I'm amazed that Crusader Kings turned up so highly. It was an awesome game and I'd pulled it out again recently when talking about AARs. I think AARs are one of the keys to a long time in the game. Both CK and FM08 were the target of AARs, although Fallout 3 didn't get much higher from its logs. I did put nearly 60 hours in one week playing CK though, that was a record right there.  

A few anomalies in the list:

TrackMania comes in second if you count both TMNF and TMN as the same game (which I would). It never was a priority during the year, but kept being played 2-3 hours a week. 

Guitar Hero III and World Tour combined makes it come in at 3rd. Another one that kept ticking over through the weeks. 

World of Warcraft managed only ~50 hours combined. I used to do that in a week back in the beginning.