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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #75 on: July 12, 2010, 03:33:02 PM »
There are also a few games on my list which have more time than I thought. I checked the play history on the Wii Message Board and added it all up, and it was indeed correct. Unless the system itself has a problem with logging the correct amount of time...

Also, that's a lot of time for Zelda: Twilight Princess. My sister and I have both completed the game, and the time is around 60 hours.

Some of that is because the batteries in my Wii Remote ran out in the middle of the Zant boss fight and I had no others at hand, so I left the game on overnight while the batteries charged and then forgot the Wii was still on until the following evening. Mostly, it is the fact that I tend to take my time (sometimes, I'd just ride around Hyrule Field for no reason) and be very thorough with console Zelda games (got all the Heart Pieces, Poe souls, bugs etc. in Twilight Princess).

It would help if all these games had their own self-contained time logs. With Zelda: TP or Okami, I can verify what the Nintendo Channel says. With the majority of others, it's easy to be dubious. For example, I don't believe that I played Wario Land for 49 hours - I'd have guessed about 25 at the most - but I have no way to check.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #76 on: July 12, 2010, 04:08:35 PM »
Just looked at this for the first time in a while. Brawl is by far my #1 at 105 hours. Kart is a distant second at 56. Twilight Princess is next at 44.

The one that amazed me the most is My Life as a King.  Played it 31 times for a total of 30 hours. That's damn impressive for a WiiWare game.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #77 on: July 12, 2010, 04:35:07 PM »
Or The Nintendo Genius. I burn through games, I don't have time to stop and smell the roses.

Pale, glad to see I'm not the only one with a stupidly large number of hours in My Life is a King...but I think mine is 50 hours...in 18 plays.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #78 on: July 12, 2010, 05:40:37 PM »
Would you if the roses were in HD and came with a smell-o-rama adapter that plugged into the Wii Remote? Huh huh? :P

I just added another 3 hours to my Boom Blox time last week.  Friends love that game for some reason..
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« Reply #79 on: July 12, 2010, 06:14:40 PM »
Mostly, it is the fact that I tend to take my time (sometimes, I'd just ride around Hyrule Field for no reason) and be very thorough with console Zelda games (got all the Heart Pieces, Poe souls, bugs etc. in Twilight Princess).
Yeah, there's a lot of side stuff in the game that neither of us bothered with. I remember going for 100% on Ocarina of Time didn't feel very rewarding, so I didn't want to do so for this game.

There is a way you could check if the time is accurate. On the message board, go back to the date of when you first got the game in question. Then, check every "Today's Accomplishments" letters, add up all the time logged for the game, and see if it adds up to the same number.

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« Reply #80 on: July 12, 2010, 06:41:03 PM »
There is a way you could check if the time is accurate. On the message board, go back to the date of when you first got the game in question. Then, check every "Today's Accomplishments" letters, add up all the time logged for the game, and see if it adds up to the same number.

But if the Nintendo Channel uses those numbers to track your stats then won't those individual numbers be off as well?
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« Reply #81 on: July 12, 2010, 09:29:13 PM »
Not necessarily. That's one thing I want to find out.

The Nintendo Channel must use more values than simply adding up the play history messages on the message board, as games played when the Wii was not set to the correct date and time won't be logged. For example, my playtime for Excite Truck adds up to around 15 hours according to my messages, but the Nintendo Channel shows it at only 1 hour, 20 minutes. I've no idea if this was intentional or not.

So, if it can skip over time, I wonder if it's possible, through maybe a bug, that it could sometimes count a day's log twice.

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« Reply #82 on: July 12, 2010, 10:56:47 PM »
I'll post the full list later, but I just looked at this for the first time on Saturday. I was quite shocked to see My Life as a King was in the 50 hour range, which put it in the top four.

I don't think I had any games hit 60 hours. If I recall (I'll check later) it went something like this:

1. Twilight Princess
2. ToS: Dawn of the New World
3. FF CC: My Life as a King
4. ...
52.  Six Flags Fun Park

I wasn't even freakin' close!

1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princes51 Hrs. 14 Min.15 Times
2. Rune Factory: Frontier42 Hrs 22 Min18 Times
3. Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World40 Hrs. 3 Min.11 Times
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl32 Hrs. 2 Min.18 Times
5. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King30 Hrs. 40 Min.14 Times
6. Bully: Scholarship Edition29 Hrs. 22 Min.13 Times
7. Little King's Story26 Hrs. 22 Min.13 Times
8. Trauma Team25 Hrs. 11 Min.8 Times
9. Super Mario Galaxy 224 Hrs. 55 Min.7 Times
10. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption24 Hrs. 26 Min.8 Times
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #83 on: July 12, 2010, 10:59:31 PM »
Wow, that comes out to about 2 Hrs. 26 Min. a session.

That can't be healthy...
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #84 on: July 12, 2010, 11:44:00 PM »
Wow, that comes out to about 2 Hrs. 26 Min. a session.

That can't be healthy...

It's not that bad. For what number of days did you play the game?

I had 7 days off work, and by the time I came back to work I had finished Mass Effect 2 within 50 hours for maybe a period of 6 days at most. I did the same thing with Twilight Princess.

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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #85 on: July 13, 2010, 12:49:40 AM »
I think I beat Mass Effect in under a week.

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« Reply #86 on: July 13, 2010, 01:42:07 AM »
lol don't forget to leave with a smile.

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« Reply #87 on: July 13, 2010, 04:38:48 AM »
My Life as a King is also pretty high on mine. It is a very huge time sink. But it really got to feel dissatisfying near the end. I didn't actually beat it because my characters stopped being able to make any progress and I ran out of the ability to build more structures.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #88 on: July 13, 2010, 08:49:21 AM »
It means you have to grind them. Where I got into problems is my best three people, all of them forces of nature in their own right, would reject the high level jobs I put out there and would instead take the easy stuff I listed for my green troops.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #89 on: July 13, 2010, 05:59:51 PM »
Wow, that comes out to about 2 Hrs. 26 Min. a session.

That can't be healthy...
The number of times you actually played could be more than what it says, though. The channel seems to have some trouble with keeping that accurate as well.

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« Reply #90 on: July 13, 2010, 10:46:01 PM »
No...those numbers all seem reasonable.

I'm afraid to say...
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #91 on: July 14, 2010, 12:40:30 PM »
No...those numbers all seem reasonable.

I'm afraid to say...

That's nothing to worry about. In fact, I'm surprised you've only got one game above 50 hours; from everything that's been said on RFN, I always had you pegged as someone who played games too much.

Makes me wonder what Jon's play records must look like.  ;)
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« Reply #92 on: July 14, 2010, 12:43:27 PM »
Lindy's never actually turned on his Wii.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #93 on: July 14, 2010, 04:23:14 PM »
Then who's Wii was he using to play Tri?
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #94 on: July 14, 2010, 04:57:44 PM »
I play a lot of games. I beat them. I start the next game. I can clear 40 hours in under a week.
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« Reply #95 on: July 15, 2010, 01:33:45 AM »
Previous statement retracted, in that case. Although I question whether burning through games like that is the most fun way to play them, but hey, that's just me.
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« Reply #96 on: July 15, 2010, 04:29:07 AM »
You are also not a game journalist. Imagine how many games they have to go through on a yearly basis for the site. And most of them they need to play through quickly.
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« Reply #97 on: July 15, 2010, 10:39:37 AM »
For site business (although I'm not a review hound by any means) you do play games differently. I wrote a blog post about it in 2008.

I just have the ability to lock in on a game and go.

I am somewhat driven to complete games quickly and move on to the next because of RFN and New Business. Ideally I'll have a new title every week (last week it was Endless Ocean Blue World and some Sin and Punishment, this week it is Megaman ZX), and for me that means marathon sessions and bargain hunts.

I plan on taking full advantage of the rumored buy 2 get 1 free used game sale at GameStop this weekend. Three weeks of content for the price of two.
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Re: What are your most-played Wii games?
« Reply #98 on: July 15, 2010, 11:52:51 AM »
Wow, that comes out to about 2 Hrs. 26 Min. a session. "

Actually mine is well above that I bet :0.  RPG's for example consume 70+ hours and I tend to beat them in 4-5 days.  I do take breaks to stretch and eat but I can easily blow an entire afternoon off even most of the night.


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« Reply #99 on: July 15, 2010, 07:24:59 PM »
You are also not a game journalist. Imagine how many games they have to go through on a yearly basis for the site. And most of them they need to play through quickly.
Yeah, that's one reason why I could never be one. I have to be able to take my time to enjoy them.