6th March 2010, 5:36 PM
You've never gotten into a multiplayer PC game then, have you. Starcraft and Warcraft III are for sure by a huge margin my most played games ever, and Guild Wars is third... multiplayer online games on the PC are playable for longer than any other kind of game because of the near-infinite variety of the great multiplayer games.
But yeah, when I'm playing hundreds of hours of Guild Wars, I'm not playing other things. And that is why MMOs have played a role in destroying the variety of PC gaming... all those hours are going into single games instead of a wide variety of titles. It's partially good and partially bad, but GW is such an amazing, amazing game... it's definitely one of the best games ever (and not really an MMO, but it's close of course).
I'm not sure what would be next, but it could be Netstorm or something for all I know (Netstorm wouldn't be a bad guess for fourth, but I'm not sure if it's next or not because it'd be way behind the top three...). Most-played console game is probably still San Francisco Rush 2049, at only like 150-200 hours played, to make a rough estimate that may be too high or too low.
But yeah, when I'm playing hundreds of hours of Guild Wars, I'm not playing other things. And that is why MMOs have played a role in destroying the variety of PC gaming... all those hours are going into single games instead of a wide variety of titles. It's partially good and partially bad, but GW is such an amazing, amazing game... it's definitely one of the best games ever (and not really an MMO, but it's close of course).
I'm not sure what would be next, but it could be Netstorm or something for all I know (Netstorm wouldn't be a bad guess for fourth, but I'm not sure if it's next or not because it'd be way behind the top three...). Most-played console game is probably still San Francisco Rush 2049, at only like 150-200 hours played, to make a rough estimate that may be too high or too low.