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[StrawberryViking]

 Is there something wrong with me? 

I remember soon after I got the game, everyday after school I'd come home and play Dragon Age. There was a point where I got up an hour early just to play it. 

This calculation doesn't even include the countless hours I've spent in the character creator. My single longest playthrough was 199 hours, not including Awakening (which added on about 50 more hours). 

This game was my obsession for almost 3 months. So it seems like I've spent the equivilant of an entire month playing Dragon Age (730 hours). 

The sad part- I don't regret any of it . 

What's your playthough time on Dragon Age? I can't be alone in this...can I?

[Zahe]

If you a) are enjoying yourself and aren't sacrificing important parts of your life due to it (education, jobs etc), spending a lot of time on whatever you choose is no problem at all! Whatever floats your boat.

Personally I haven't that much time spent on DA:O, around 100~ hours or so. However there are other games in which I've spent 700-800~ hours at least *cough* GW *cough*.

Modifié par Zahe, 18 juillet 2011 - 09:05 .

[csfteeeer]

nope.
nothing wrong, although i won't lie, when i read that you have played so much, i screamed "Holy F***ing S**t!!!!)
...
but then i remembered how many hours i spend playing Diablo, and i don't think people would wanna know...

[Mountain Man]

StrawberryViking wrote...

This game was my obsession for almost 3 months.

Holy crap... 766 hours in 3-months?  That's almost 9-hours a day!  Or am I misunderstanding you?

At any rate, I do see how this game could be a time-sink.  It's a huge game with tremendous depth and replay value.  I bought the Ultimate Edition earlier this month and already have 30-hours invested in it on my first play through, and I'm already looking forward to my next play through.

[Mordechaisiz]

I have spent so much time playing games like Guild Wars and WoW.. and Diablo when i was a little bit younger...Lol i cant bash you... I used to skip school when i was younger to play wow. It was bad. And i have like 300 hours on DA. So...Its ok. Atleast you dont have 700+ hours on runescape. >

[Toki]

I spent the entire of last summer (July and August) dedicating to just about Origins only. I probably have a few hours logged in, nevermind my playthroughs before and after. x)

[Qwark28]

Mordechaisiz wrote...

. Atleast you dont have 700+ hours on runescape. >

i have double that >.>

[Arthur Cousland]

I haven't done the math, but I've put in quite a bit of time on Dragon Age, myself. It's been my primary game over the past year, and I've played little else, except for when I've taken breaks in between playthroughs.

I remember playing countless hours on Final Fantasy 7, where I'd stay up all night playing it and got my sleep during school. I'd also be up all night playing Everquest, and then Final Fantasy XI. Some games can be addictive, especially when you're having fun and playing with other people. I don't lose sleep or miss work/school anymore for videogames, but when I have a day off from work, or a vacation, I'm busy with Dragon Age.

[OrlySunja]

I'm intrigued...WHY do you choose to play the game for that long? How many times have you finished it? How many characters?

[Time4Tiddy]

I have certainly played my fair share. I have three complete playthroughs at around 50 hours each (actually the first one was more like 80, then 50 for the next two), plus countless characters that I play through Ostagar then discard, twice through Awakenings at ~20 hours each. I think it's the endless variations of the decisions you can make in the game, and discovering new stuff each time.

Even after three playthroughs there are still some random encounters I've never seen, or only seen once. There are over a hundred different epilogue variations and little cutscenes that you can discover for the first time simply by doing something slightly different. (neglible spoiler) I just learned the other day, for example, that Bann Teagan can marry one of two women in Redcliffe based on your decisions there, and he's never married anyone in my playthroughs! (end spoiler) Then there is the party banter which changes every time based on who is in your party and who you are romancing.

If nothing else, I would say that DA:O has a near epic level of replayability, and digging through the wiki just makes me want to play again, when I see other outcomes or events that I still haven't experienced.

[Pseron Wyrd]

Time4Tiddy wrote...
there are still some random encounters I've never seen, or only seen once.

I don't know how many times I've played through the Human Noble Origin. More than twenty times, I'd guess. One of those times I accidently triggered a long-winded story from the cook about Mabari warhounds. It must have lasted for over a minute. I've tried my best to trigger that dialogue a second time and I've never been able to do it. I bet most players have never heard that monologue.

[elven_play]

I was kinda addicted the first play-through, however it peaks at 5 hours one day here/there. I guess I never played a game those many hours in so little time.

[Mordechaisiz]

my first playthrough of DA took 2 days lol.

[StrawberryViking]

Just to clarify, I played obsessively for 3 months, as in, as soon as I got off school, I would play DA, usually at about 5 hours a day, including my morning session (not to mention the 15 hours it got during winter break) not to mention with every new playthrough I spent more than an hour fiddling with the character creator. Dragon Age had been the first actual game I had played after a 7+years gaming hiatus, and I was utterly fascinated.

The 700 hours was what I've accumulated from the point I got the game to the time I posted. Although I did get a little addicted, I kept on making excuses to my friends when they wanted to hang out. As a closet-gamer girl in high school I didn't think they'd be very understanding (they did after some long-winded persuasion).

Like Time4Tiddy, I played through the origins up to Ostagar, and abandoned many characters there countless times. I remember one playthrough, a City Elf that I abandoned at the Landsmeet because I noticed I made the eyebrows the wrong color (I know, I'm vain). A game where I could make decisions was so unheard of to me at that point, I was dissecting every part of the game I could, finding every possible branching path.

However, what really pushed me over the edge was mods. They were foreign and fascinating to me, I downloaded dozens of them. Then it got to a point where the game got so glitchy with so many conflicting mods that I started over vanilla, and made a few more playthroughs.

Surprisingly enough, when I got Awakenings on release day, I didn't even install it on my computer until a month thereafter. In my defense at the time I was sucked into Mass Effect (not sure how many hours on that one, but for sure not as much DA.)

[Mordechaisiz]

I was like you with MMos...I would come home at 5...play till 2 in the morning. wake up at 5 n go again. i understand. Its okay.we love you all the same. lol

[Tirfan]

^Oh jeez, don't even mention Civ II..

One more turn... Well, one more.. This is going to be the last.. Well, okay, really, this is going to be the last. I really don't want to know how many hours I put into that game.

[Tirfan]

^ I never really got into CIV III or IV the same way as Civ II.. I might have my rose-colored glasses on when speaking about that game but, somehow there was just something wrong about 3. At that point I had turned on to grinding the original X Com as I had found it.. Another game where I put ridiculous amounts of time - there was just so many ways to handle the situations (and well, that game was actually so hard that it almost seemed unfair at the times)

I still shudder when I think of the terror (or something like that) missions.

Or the moment the aliens attacked your base and you got totally screwed over if you weren't prepared.

[Mr_Steph]

No idea how many hours etc. but I have completed 17 full playthroughs (DAO with RtO, WK and SP, Awakening, GoA, WH and played LS + DC) and various ones where I started and ended up deleting....usually around Ostagar or after Lothering.

[UnsoundMrBlaze]

.......................................... WoW, thats alot of hours. I mean I usually play rpgs for about 2 days straight without stopping, but dang! I wish I could do that, but I need to get to the rank of Legend in Halo: Reach. If only I didn't buy that game that I would probably have spent about 1000+ hours on DOA.

[ioannisdenton]

along my 3 playthroughs it should be at 300 hours....

[aries1001]

I think I have played DA: Origins, including most of the DLC+ Awakening+Leliana's Song for about 200 hours or so. (maybe a little less, or a little more). And I still am sure I have missed some quests etc.

[Viruel]

722 Hours here you are not alone my friend

[Fallstar]

I have three playthroughs that have gone through the entire game, from Origins, Awakening and all dlcs, that total about 60-70hrs each for everything, then I have two other playthroughs, one got to the landsmeet and one finished Origins. In total I'd estimate that I've put 200-240 hours into Origins.
(for reference, the most hours I have ever played an online game is 1200@runescape and the longest single playthrough is 200+hrs on Monster Hunter Freedom on the PSP)