For me:

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Raineacha@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • SpoolCron@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • dirtmayor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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!”

      • dirtmayor@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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

  • h3rm17@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • karce@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Rimworld. The game has an end, but it really isn’t worth getting to. The journey is the best part.

    • Moonguide@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Only gotten the archo ending once. Never ever have gotten either the ship or royalty endings. Almost 3k hours in.

  • andreibosco@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Witcher 3, Oblivion and Skyrim. I always get caught up doing the sidequests. And I don’t even play around with mods (yet).

    • jmsw22@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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

      • andreibosco@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        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…

  • Dasnap@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Steam tells me I’ve played ~100 hours of Monster Hunter World and I didn’t even finish the story of that.

  • ck4523@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • bundes_sheep@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Dathknight@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Until last week it was BotW. Like my switch I bought it on the release day and had a blast. But somehow I never finished it, there were always some “only this one thing before I go beat the boss”. It took TotK to finally push me to finish it.

    My second big game is Space Engineers. I currently sitting at around 2500h and still having fun, still having ideas. I’m just to easily entertained by “space ship go boom” But technically one can’t even finish the game, because of it’s sandbox nature.

    • Deebster@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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…

      • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • Deebster@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          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 ;)

          • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            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.