Video games! They're happening, and we're playing them. Patrick is checking out Kena: Bridge of Spirits and finds a game that's been ripped from the early aughts in everything but art style, and that might be ok? Cado has been playing Eastward and learns that maybe his taste in pacing has changed. Rob's learning everything he needs to be his most productive self with a new tech purchase. After the break, we discuss next month's project: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Which game are we playing? What mods are we using? Listen in and let us know you're thoughts!
Hereās my guess of why the devs pronounce Kena the way they do. The game is based on Balinese + Japanese cultures, the main voice actress is Balinese, āKenaā is an Indonesian word (Bali is in Indonesia obv) and the voice actress basically would have naturally pronounced Kena how itās pronounced in Indonesian and the devs just adopted that.
end of the pod, theyāre talking about their most played Games, so I got curious. to be fair, this is only steam, but Iām wondering what everyoneās top 3 looks like.
But also I have maybe 2000 hours in StarCraft 2, and over 1000 hours in Splatoon 2
The Squadrons one is scary since that game is only less than a year old haha.
This is actually a dramatic underestimate of the number of hours Iāve spent playing LOTRO. I started playing before it showed up on Steam and then switched back to their non-Steam client a while ago.
Not surprising really! I played a lot of those games! After those three the playtime drops precipitously. The next highest is like 50 hours. Basically, I donāt normally play a single game for a long time, and when I do, itās something I can pop in for an hour or so while main lining another game. I like to dip my toe into all sorts of different games and genres!
I donāt want to be the Microsoft Edge defender but if youāre not going to use Firefox I would recommend it over Chrome. Itās not a bad web browser and I would rather see it more in business environments so we can all finally drop support for IE.
Note: Zombie Panic and TF2 are basically all from 2008 - 2012 (highschool/college) and are sadly probably accurate because I never got into the idling for hats thing. XCOM2 I have definitely accidentally left running for days at a time due to the mod launcher being open.
Pokemon Emerald. I have no way of knowing how many hours of various Pokemon games Iāve played over the years because of how many save files Iāve restarted, but itās safe to say my Top 5 if not Top 10 are exclusively Pokemon games.
I also probably have more hours in Overwatch than TF2, and Breath of the Wild has about 140 hours on my Switch.
So, I included a fourth game here in the Steam list, because probably at least 30 hours of the SHENZHEN I/O playtime is just in the solitaire game, which I feel bad about counting completelyā¦
This is also super unreflective of my actual playtime in games - not only did I play a ton of games before Steam even existed, but I also still play a bunch of games outside of Steam. (Iām not a big console gamer, so thatās less of an issue - although I am sure my R-Type Final playtime is up somewhere high-ish, just because there were playtime unlocks.)
So, for example - none of my recent (or historical!) Quake playtime is in there, which probably also adds up to an easy Top-4 place.
Itās also very ironic to me that Hades is in the top spot here, given that - I still didnāt finish the full plot after 89hrs, and I really donāt want to play it again, ever, given how I felt about it towards the end (itās not in my GoTY).
Iām shocked no one at Waypoint got into The Long Dark because I played several hours of that while in early access and thought it had a lot of really cool ideas for a solo survival game that was focused on a nature aspect. Also the atmosphere of that game has just got a mood to it that I can really feel sometimes. Probably going to go back and play that one this winter now that itās fully out.
Also Iām there with @diglett I had several Pokemon games (notably Gold and Sapphire) where I maxed out the clock.
Well, at least for Steam games, my top list is moderately shameful. I donāt often stick with a game past the 40 hour mark, so whatās up here is mostly RPG and Strategy Tactics games, and Warframe. (If Iām honest about warframe, thereās probably another 600 hours on my Switch accountā¦)
Sanctus reach is a bug. I have only played a few hours of it, but apparently it doesnāt close properly so Steam kept counting hours for weeks? So hereās the #4 to compensate.
Iām always staggered I put so many hours into The Long Dark. Like I understand how I got that many out of Total War, but The Long Dark? I guess itās just because Iāve revisited it many times over many years since it first hit Early Access (I was a Kickstarter backer). Itās a great game, and Iām really looking forward to playing through the completed story mode - which still isnāt quite out yet - but itās also kind of fascinating as an example of a long-running early access continuous development game that is really creaking against the limits of the engine and basic systems from the original design.
TF2 is the only āendlessly replayableā game Iāve invested a lot of time into, so the playtimes fall down quickly after it. I was amused to find pretty much the anti-Waypoint game at #5:
