For me:
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Breath of the Wild: 400 hours in, have done only 50% of the game. But now that TotK is out, I’m not sure if I’ll ever complete BotW. Perhaps if I’m stuck on a deserted island with my Switch and have nothing better to do, I may pick it up again.
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Skyrim: Countless hours, never really done much of the main storyline, always get lost in modding and optimising the game. Own it on practically all platforms too. But one of these days, I’ll get to the main quest…
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Dangerous Dave: Been playing this DOS game on and off since 1990 but still haven’t managed to beat it. I always die around level 6/7, blasted sun keeps killing me.
Does EVE online count? 1k+ hours, only dipped my toes into null sec a few times. Mostly spent in low sec blowing up expensive things.
I loved that game pre family, will never have time to go back to any game in that way until retirement. I also low key miss Dust 514.
Yeeees… I wish something more came out of Dust 414, such a neat idea.
Terraria. I am like 100 hours in and I don’t even know where all that time went. Also Factorio. That game had me waking up after late night sessions being like “who built all this?” :P
Edit: Oh and also Subnautica. Love subnautica, but after I got the cyclops and did some exploring I felt satisfied and haven’t looked back. And Satisfactory, very fun. Got the little dune buggy and was just like “Welp, I’m gonna go play something else!”
I had to stop playing factorio, biggest time sink I’ve ever seen, I swear I’d look up from the screen and a week past before I noticed
Factorio legitimately puts me into a factory building fugue state where I’m questioning whether or not someone hacked my computer last night and put a bunch of solar panels on my base O_O
Does Terraria even have a quest or ending?
I don’t think there’s any quest or ending, but I still managed to spend a ton of time in the game while only scratching the surface in terms of the game’s content. It was still fun though 🙂
yeah. that’s what i meant too. Terraria is like Minecraft, you can spend an eternity there :D
Rimworld. The game has an end, but it really isn’t worth getting to. The journey is the best part.
Only gotten the archo ending once. Never ever have gotten either the ship or royalty endings. Almost 3k hours in.
Another World. Since it was released I keep coming back to it. Next time I’ll finish it!
I loved that (and Flashback) as a kid but always got stuck in the maze-ish bit under the water. Luckily, the 20th Anniversary Edition came on PS Plus so it gave me the push I needed to pick it up again.
I don’t think I finished Flashback either, I wonder if that’s also got a new version…
Got stuck in the same spot. I eventually got through that I’m sure. I wonder if I finished flash back? I’m going to have to play it again now.
It looks like you can play Flashback (without emulators) nowadays; a quick search shows it available on Steam, Switch, PS4 disc. There’s also a sequel announced, but this doesn’t seem like the place to discuss it ;)
I have purchased Another World again from GOG, so I legitimately own it (again). I’ve purchased it many times over the years. It runs just fine on linux, so all is happy here. Flashback, I’ll find another legal source. Always happy to pay, if fair priced and accessible.
Witcher 3, Oblivion and Skyrim. I always get caught up doing the sidequests. And I don’t even play around with mods (yet).
I have kids and am middle aged, so I can only do main quests in the limited free time I have. It has its pluses and minuses, but I miss that period between 15 and 22 when I could dedicate all my weekends and evenings to gaming
Yeah, I miss that period too. But I’m a completionist, so even without having the time on weekends and evenings, I still go out exploring the map and doing sidequests. That’s why I don’t finish those games…
Dota 2
Rimworld and Skyrim.
Skyrim, same reason as everyone, I’ve finished most guilds though (yeah, not you, Companions).
Rimworld I just can’t be arsed to work towards any of the endings, playing thematic colonies with mods is where it’s at for me.
Minecraft i beat the ender dragon plenty of times sure but a lot of my world i just get sidetracked with doing something else instead oh and hyper light drifter ive started playthroughs plenty of times but always leave them off around the first boss for whatever reason
I’ve been playing off and on for a decade and never even seen the ender dragon! I’m always too busy building cool bases and then just sitting in them like a hermit.
Sonic 1. I got it as a kid when it came out, and still go back and play it occasionally. But I’ve never played through the whole game in a sitting.
I have for sonic 2 and 3 many times, though. For some reason never 1.
Honourable mention: skyrim
Dangerous Dave is a classic as well, though I never gave it a good effort. Looks like you can play it in-browser on archive.org. What a world.
I’ve played every historical Total War game up to Attila, and I’ve only ever beaten the campaign on Shogun 2 and it’s DLC Fall of the Samurai. I always get tired of the faction I’m using and restart as another one in the early-mid campaign of the other games.
Stellaris because I keep getting wiped out.
Chrono Trigger
You’ve never beaten it? In what sense, like never seen the ending or haven’t seen any of the 21 endings?
Yes
I’ve got around 1000hrs combined in the Big Ant cricket games (Don Bradman, Ashes, Cricket 19, etc) and I know they can’t strictly be completed I have almost no trophies from any of them. I just fucking love batting for days and days.
Skyrim for the same reasons.
Satisfactory 1200+ hours, and I usually end up rethinking my setup around the time I get to Aluminum production and never stay to finish things. I much prefer the beginning and middle of the game. I’m weird, though, I do the one big base thing.
Quake I have no way knowing how many hours I played LAN Quake after work with coworkers. Started with the alpha release. Eventually I did Quake World. I’ve sunk a lot of hours into the single player game, too, but not nearly as many.
#OxygenNotIncluded, I’ve got 1500 hours in it and I still haven’t gotten to oil, let alone launched a rocket.
