Community MetaSteam | August 2021 - Openness Is Its Superpower

[Stone Ocean]

Not gonna put idle games in because fuck that

FINAL FANTASY XIV Online 8,229 hrs on record
Street Fighter V 151 hrs on record
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 72 hrs on record
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die Edition 54 hrs on record
FINAL FANTASY VII 53 hrs on record
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 52 hrs on record
Yakuza 0 51 hrs on record
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy 47 hrs on record
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 42 hrs on record
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC 42 hrs on record

 

[Panda Pedinte]

So since some people mentioned how much (or how little) they played Skyrim: its my most-played game on Steam (but compared to WOW, its absolutely nothing )

But Im wondering, what are your Top ten on Steam? Mine are:

1​	Skyrim​	291,4​	(Original version: 261, Special Edition: 28, VR Edition: 2,4)​
2​	Deus Ex: Human Revolution​	232,8​	(Original version: 166, Directors Cut: 55, Missing Link DLC: 11,8)​
3​	Rocket League​	188​	​
4​	Hitman 2​	149​	​
5​	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt​	136​	​
6​	Cyberpunk 2077​	136​	​
7​	Terraria​	125​	​
8​	Deus Ex: Mankind Divided​	110​	​
9​	Grand Theft Auto V​	93​	​
10​	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning​	90,8​	(Original version: 90, Re-Reckoning: 0,8)​

1	Warframe	1,030 hours
2	Dungeons & Dragons Online®	338 hours	Only counting the client being open through Steam, it probably is my most played game ever as I actively played it between 2010 - 2013
3	Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms	284 hours
4	Path of Exile	248 hours
5	Marvel Heroes Omega	207 hours	RIP
6	Pathfinder: Kingmaker	194 hours	I'm currently playing it so it will gain some positions
7	Crusader Kings II	133 hours
8	Terraria	129 hours
9	Cyberpunk 2077	122 hours
10	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	101 hours	This is the Yakuza entry where I spent more of my time and I don't regret it.

 

[QFNS]

1	Dota 2	1844 hours	Been a while since I quit this one, but I played an ungodly amount in the past. This is probably 2nd all time to WoW in which I know I have over 800 days /played
2	Sid Meier's Civilization V	156 hours
3	BATTLETECH	138 hours	1 time through the original campaign and a couple different Mercenary campaigns with the DLC. So good. This game is an all timer for me.
4	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV	137 hours	I think I 100%'d this, so no surprise it takes a long time.
5	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	120 hours
6	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	110 hours	Man what a long game, but so much fun stuff in there. I did all the substories here for sure.
7	DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die Edition	105 hours	This is probably 5-6 playthoughs or more.
8	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III	105 hours
9	Sid Meier's Civilization VI	101 hours	I've finally come around on 6 being as good or better than 5. It will eventually overtake several other of these games eventually as I play a random game here or there.
10	Divinity: Original Sin 2	98 hours

 

[Avern]

1	Team Fortress 2	1355 hours
2	Dead by Daylight	534 hours
3	Counter-Strike: Source	505 hours
4	SolForge	460 hours
5	Slay the Spire	422 hours
6	Dirty Bomb	313 hours
7	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege	234 hours
8	Spectromancer	173 hours
9	Terraria	153 hours
10	Dark Souls II	149 hours

Left off clicker games, and Guilty Gear Strive will probably knock Dark Souls II off before the weekend is over. Multiplayer games really are wild timesinks. I think of myself as a mostly single player gamer, and yet...

 

[Blu]

I've been trying for two days now, how do you get the Bethesda Steam items?

You watch this stream. From the look of the schedule it seem to be on. I can't verify since my internet isn't working and I'm working off my phone.

You only have to watch for like 15-20 minutes.

 

[Anteater]

Almost done with Ys IX, just gotta get 1 character to 99 (with items), beat that secret boss and presumably the last boss and wrap things up.

Should I use all my stats items on one single character or spread them across

 

[Routa]

1.	Monster Hunter: World	812 hours
2.	Tabletop Simulator	664 hours
3.	Europa Universalis IV	547 hours
4.	Out of the Park Baseball 18	346 hours
5.	Out of the Park Baseball 16	315 hours
6.	Grim Dawn	291 hours
7.	Destiny 2	263 hours
8.	Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura	253 hours
9.	Hearts of Iron IV	202 hours
10.	Football Manager 2020	139 hours

Mostly Strategy games

 

[didamangi]

Apparently I like roguelikes, roguelites or whatever you call them. And I haven't finished New Vegas.

 

[Digoman]

Well.. let's face the music

1	Dota 2	2730 hrs
2	Destiny 2	801 hrs
3	Assassin's Creed Odyssey	257 hrs
4	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	246 hrs
5	Dragon Age: Origins	228 hrs
6	Fallout 4	210 hrs
7	Borderlands 2	206 hrs
8	Defense Grid: The Awakening	183 hrs
9	Team Fortress 2	176 hrs
10	Mass Effect 2	148 hrs

Removed three entries that I think were "bugged" (program stayed open in the background). Dota 2 was a big problem for me. As was Destiny 2 later, but the approaching "1000" number was a good incentive to stop that one.

Now I'm kind of curious on exactly when Steam started tracking playtime. There are several older games that I played a lot that aren't there, like Day of Defeat (original and source). Even Half-life 2 is showing only 12.7 hs, and I think that was from one of my replays, maybe when they added achievements.

 

[NarohDethan]

I ordered a 8bitdo Switch/PC Arcade Stick, which input mode do I need to toggle on Steam to make it work?

 

[didamangi]

I ordered a 8bitdo Switch/PC Arcade Stick, which input mode do I need to toggle on Steam to make it work?

xinput is the easiest for compatibility. although switch mode will also work with steam input but can't see why you would want that.

 

[Cacher]

Saw this tweet by Tales of series producer Tomizawa:

新規層を増やすなら過去作移植を！とのコメントも頂きますね。 ですが移植『だけ』では新規層は増えません。それで行けば直近のTOVリマスターで新規層どっと増える訳です。 やはりまず新規層に開かれた空気を持った新作。その上での移植展開は勿論やりたい。新作との良いサイクルを作っていきます。

My translation:

I receive comment like "if you aim to expand the player base, remaster old titles!". However, "only" porting can't expand the player base. If this approach had worked, the player base would have been expanded by Tales of Vesperia remaster. Releasing a new title first can attract new players. On this basis, we can start porting which we absolutely want to do. This would create a good cycle with the new title.

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He also mentioned that Tales of Vesperia remaster took three years to complete. Sold 1 million+. And he said future remaster will include localization.

I wonder if he already has a candidate in mind.

 

[Rockin' Ranger]

1.	Dota 2	3,732 hours
2.	Left 4 Dead 2	329 hours
3.	Dragon Age: Origins	240 hours
4.	Monster Train	224 hours
5.	Nioh 2	188 hours
6.	Assassin's Creed Odyssey	166 hours
7.	Terraria	154 hours
8.	Pathfinder: Kingmaker	127 hours
9.	Mass Effect 2	124 hours
10.	Dragon Quest XI: Echos of an Elusive Age	119 hours

Left off Idle Champions and GTA IV which I only played for about 25 hours but RSC stayed open for several days after I closed it.

 

[NarohDethan]

Saw this tweet by Tales of series producer Tomizawa:


My translation:

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He also mentioned that Tales of Vesperia remaster took three years to complete. Sold 1 million+. And he said future remaster will include localization.

I wonder if he already has a candidate in mind.

Haven’t played Vesperia Remaster myself yet but 3 years sounds like an awful lot of time for 1 game.

 

[ZKenir]

I’d love ports of the old games, i cba with emulators, i’d rather a native port even if barebones

 

[fantomena]

Im so weak compared to everyone's playtime here all Im gonna say is that Six Siege is my most played game on Steam with 268 hours.

 

[Parsnip]

Haven’t played Vesperia Remaster myself yet but 3 years sounds like an awful lot of time for 1 game.

Maybe they had one person on it, part time. Possibly an intern.
Actually maybe Vesperia's codebase is a mess and that's why it was the "yeah not that one" for a long time.

Or all of the above.

 

[ZKenir]

even Valve toils to make anime available to everyone

 

[Cacher]

Haven’t played Vesperia Remaster myself yet but 3 years sounds like an awful lot of time for 1 game.

Maybe they had one person on it, part time. Possibly an intern.
Actually maybe Vesperia's codebase is a mess and that's why it was the "yeah not that one" for a long time.

Or all of the above.

Yeah, they also released the game on 4 platforms simultaneously, and the content from PS3 version were never localized so they need to translate those and arrange the original VA (although Yuri's VA was changed) to voice the new scenes and skits. Also planning and administrative stuff.

Give or take, those probably need two to three years to get done by a small team.

 

[Mor]

Saw this tweet by Tales of series producer Tomizawa:


My translation:

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He also mentioned that Tales of Vesperia remaster took three years to complete. Sold 1 million+. And he said future remaster will include localization.

I wonder if he already has a candidate in mind.

I have to agree with him when he says it's the new games the ones that make new fans because, let's be honest, Nier Automata was a success and Replicant was an smaller one made for the fans, not for the general public, so here I must say that yeah, I kind of agree with him, however, I hope they keep porting stuff to newer places (ofc PC included) so we can all enjoy more of this.

 

[Spamlynguist]

I have a vague suspicion that I miiiight like open-world games.

 

[Ganado]

DOAXVV sucks big balls though.

 

[dummmyy]

1.	Grand Theft Auto V	662 hrs
2.	Spelunky	153 hrs
3.	Fallout 4	127 hrs
4.	Yakuza 0	113 hrs
5.	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	110 hrs
6.	Tekken 7	100 hrs
7.	Fallout New Vegas	96 hrs
8.	Apex Legends	96 hrs
9.	Flinthook	93 hrs
10	Binding of Isaac Repentance	85 hrs

I don't remember playing any of 2-7 for that long. hahaha. I was super addicted to flinthook, but I couldn't get the last few achievements and vowed to come back to it, but haven't yet...they will be mine...

 

[Durante]

Saw this tweet by Tales of series producer Tomizawa:

IMHO "Tales of" is one of the best-executed Japanese franchise moves to PC.

They started with a really solid day-and-date port of the latest game (Zestiria) and then continued to release new entries in the series day-and-date with good ports as well. And between those they released some older ports/remasters. The only huge misstep was the atrocious port of Symphonia.

Well, that and not putting co-op in Arise which I'm still very sad about (and it will be the first Tales on PC that I don't buy).

 

[beep boop]

Looking at my play times, I've apparently played Monhun more than the next two games combined.

I really like that game.

 

[fantomena]

Damn, Im really enjoying 12 min.

 

[Li Kao]

And that's Lovecraft Untold Stories dropped. The game is too painfully bad to tolerate, even with all the fanservice.

 

[LEANIJA]

Thinking of other games I played a LOT that arent on Steam and therefore didnt have played time tracked:

SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000 (just hours upon hours upon hours of city building)
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (a relatively short sidescrolling shooter thats also on GOG, its just very replayable to me, and I love it)
GTA 2, GTA San Andreas (I mean those two are on Steam, but I didnt play them there at first)
Tetris (in various versions)
Solitaire (before MS made it shite...but now I play the Win 3.11 version sometimes, also runs fine on Wine/Linux, without even using Dosbox/Windows 3.11)
Duke Nukem 3D
Overwatch (here I have a number, according to the "career profile": 152 hours)

 

[TioChuck]

I got invited to the beta of Riders Republic, apparently I can invite friends, if anyone are interested my uplay:

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[Stevey]

Just checked Battle.net, I have 573 hours in Diablo 3

 

[fspm]

For instance, I have tried most of these games

Tried instead of played, that's pretty accurate.

 

[Mivey]

Yet another RPG releasing this year to add to my list. Kinda sad since my uni classes will start in October and I need to learn for a work exam as well. As if my backlog wasn't big enough...

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Kickstarted this one actually. Looking forward how the final game will look like.

 

[Gelf]

I'd love to remove the playtimes of a few games because in the earlier days Steam didn't yet have family sharing and I would just let my brothers use my account. We eventually shifted to seperate profiles but the huge amount of hours they spent in Football Manager 2009 in particular remain there at the top of "my" playtimes. Also GTA 4 had a bug that made it appear to keep running in the background I believe as there is no way I played it for 199 hours like Steam tells me.

 

[Cacher]

Am I the only one who think MC is kinda quiet lately? Summer break?

I have to agree with him when he says it's the new games the ones that make new fans because, let's be honest, Nier Automata was a success and Replicant was an smaller one made for the fans, not for the general public, so here I must say that yeah, I kind of agree with him, however, I hope they keep porting stuff to newer places (ofc PC included) so we can all enjoy more of this.

I have to agree, too. The vast majority of people regard old games as worthless to play so remaster only appeals to series fans and a small group of new players who don't mind playing older games.

Anyway, I really look forward to Tales of Arise. Already pre-ordered. They are probably making the remaster already, but Tomizawa had to restraint himself from saying too much because the tweet is basically asking people to buy Arise so they can continuing bringing out more games. I think we may be able to see the reveal around late 2022.

 

[beep boop]

Idling has pretty much ruined all my playtimes in games with cards. Would indeed be nice if we could reset the timer.

 

[Lashley]

It's funny seeing people say they enjoy 12 minutes, then their reaction after finishing it

 

[Wok]

It's funny seeing people say they enjoy 12 minutes, then their reaction after finishing it

It is often the case with this kind of game, but "Twelve Minutes" pushes the limits.

Next, I will have to get back to "Call of the Sea" and to start the "Last Stop". And I need to stop playing that Solitaire game.

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[Digoman]

Kinda of scared of starting 12 minutes now....

But maybe trying to force myself to finish Heavy Rain (so boring....) before starting it is a good preparation. I just reached the "romance" scene on this one and almost facepalmed myself out of the chair.

 

[Gelf]

I'm almost tempted by 12 Minutes because of all the reactions to how it ends I've been seeing. I'm curious but I don't want to read spoilers.

 

[lashman]

Am I the only one who think MC is kinda quiet lately? Summer break?

weekends are usually pretty quiet ... it's almost like you people have a life or something ... disgusting!

 

[Cacher]

have a life

 

[sk2k]

It looks like there is no way to get Psychonauts 2 cheaper than 60 Euro.

YES, i know it will be available on Gamepass.

 

[fantomena]

It's funny seeing people say they enjoy 12 minutes, then their reaction after finishing it

Despite not being all that into the twist at the end, Im really glad I bought the game. I'v found it really enjoyable and engaging, been playing it all day. Really fun to disocver new dialogue options.

 

[Lashley]

Despite not being all that into the twist at the end, Im really glad I bought the game. I'v found it really enjoyable and engaging, been playing it all day. Really fun to disocver new dialogue options.

They need to add a way to skip text faster that you've already seen. Clicking to skip 1 line of text is non-sensical in a bloody time loop game

 

[fantomena]

They need to add a way to skip text faster that you've already seen. Clicking to skip 1 line of text is non-sensical in a bloody time loop game

Im just using cheat engine's speedhack, but yeah I agreed.

 

[Lashley]

Im just using cheat engine's speedhack, but yeah I agreed.

shit, I forgot CE had that

 

[fantomena]

shit, I forgot CE had that

Well Im happy Im not playing it on console . Lots of games have been saved or made better due to speedhack.

 

[Lashley]

Well Im happy Im not playing it on console . Lots of games have been saved or made better due to speedhack.

Yeah, cheat engine genuinely is one of my favourite things about PC lol, gets rid of grind etc

 

[Rockin' Ranger]

Also GTA 4 had a bug that made it appear to keep running in the background I believe as there is no way I played it for 199 hours like Steam tells me.

That's what happened to me too. It wasn't exactly a bug, but Steam would launch the Rockstar Social Club which would then launch the game so it would be tracking the time that RSC would be running. I it would then be minimized to the system tray when you exited the game so it would be really easy to miss that it was still running.

 

[Kyougar]

Obviously, an offer to pay $1 for 3 months of access to:

• hundreds of recent and positively rated games, usually on release day,
• including a free option for cloud gaming,
• edit: plus, an access to console exclusives.

makes these games more accessible to many people.

For instance, I have tried most of these games thanks to GamePass, and would have never been able to pay for these on Steam, even on sales:

It is so ridiculous! If I play all of these on GamePass despite great games in my huge Steam backlog, imagine what this means for people who discover gaming.

The thing is:
For longer games: I would never use a service that "deletes" games after a while, I would always feel the time ticking in my head. I play games for years.

For shorter games:
I can do that ("trying" games) on Youtube or Twitch without any time restraints or a heavily curated experience that maybe has 5% to 10% of games that interest me. The times where I would install and play every game regardless of genre are gone for a dozen of years.