Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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.