Topic: What are your most-played Wii games?

[Stratos]

I'll report how it fares for me with the classic controller. I'm hoping the CC will make it more enjoyable for me.

How I wish the CC Pro was coming out here.

[BeautifulShy]

Have you tried the C control scheme. That is what I use and it works for me with the GC controller.

[Stratos]

I'll give it a try if the CC doesn't solve my issues with the game.

[Mop it up]

I noticed a few things recently so I thought I'd post them here:

1. If you play the same game more than once during one day, it will likely be recorded as just 1 time played.
2. Any play time accumulated when the Wii is not set to the correct date and time will not be added to the total.
3. The WiiWare demos are not recorded by the channel.
4. The Mario Kart Channel time is combined with the game itself.

[vudu]

I'm not kidding when I say that is fascinating.

Also, you have too much time on your hands.

[Mop it up]

I can't really argue with you on that one.

Number 1 I just happened to notice with New Super Mario Brothers Wii. It said that I had played it two times, but I had actually played five. However, it was three on one day and two on the next day. The total time still added up correctly.

Number 2 I noticed when I set my clock back to play Animal Crossing without missing a day. Thinking back, I believe I did this some back when games like Little King's Story and Excite Truck weren't always getting added to the time.

Number 3 I was curious about after playing a couple of demos, because I didn't think they'd show up in the Today's Accomplishments letter. They are there as "[game title] demo" but don't appear in the Nintendo Channel as anything. I guess it is possible the time might be combined with the full game if you bought it, but I can't test that.

Number 4 I've always known but forgot to post it sooner.

[Stratos]

I got the new Nintendo Channel just now. Pretty snazzy. I'm not too surprised by my results.

Top 11
1)Animal Crossing 104h 10m 52x
2)Conduit 65h 50m 19x
3)Fire Emblem 62h 51m 21x
4)Okami 56h 49m 13x
5)Brawl 55h 11m 39x
6)Harvest Moon (SNES) 48h 4m 23x
7)Guitar Hero WT 44h 32m 27x
8)The Godfather 43h 56m 13x
9)Mario Kart Wii 43h 18m 32x
10)Guitar Hero 3 38h 13m 32x
11)Rock Band 2 34h 12m 34x

Bottom 10
69)Wii Speak Channel 3m 1x
68)Super Empire Strikes Back 7m 1x
67)NyxQuest 9m 1x
66)Everybody Votes Channel 11m 4x
65)SMB: Lost Levels 15m 6x
64)Check Mii Out Channel 19m 2x
63)Forecast Channel 19m 17x
62)DKC3 20m 2x
61)Endless Ocean 24m 1x
60)Sin & Punnishment 25m 5x

Not sure why I made it a top 11 instead of 10 but I guess I'll roll with it.

 1)MH Tri 162h 38m 42t
 2)AC CF 158h 58m 78t
 3)Conduit 71h 16m 24t
 4)Fire Emblem 62h 51m 21t
 5)Okami 56h 49m 13t
 6)Brawl 56h 15m 41t
 7)GH: World Tour 49h 16m 31t
 8)Harvest Moon (SNES) 48h 4m 23t
 9)Mario Kart Wii 44h 32m 37t
10)Godfather 44h 11m 14t
11)GH3 38h 13m 32t


92) Everybody Votes 11m 4t
93) NyxQuest 10m 2t
94) FFCC MLaaDL 9m 1t
95) Empire Strikes Back 7m 1t
96)WiiSpeak Channel 3m 1t

Some of these games on the bottom I know I played more of. I blame the Harvest Moon VC being up there because my sister and I have both been addicted to it in the past. And when we were all living together last year she claimed it was 'maternity/nesting instincts' that drove her to play it since she was preggers at the time.

[Chozo Ghost]

Rune Factory Frontier is undeniably the game I've spent the most time on, which is over 150 hours last time I checked. I haven't played it in months and haven't beat it... I just got bored of the endless daily chores in it...

[Mop it up]

You can "beat" Rune Factory Frontier? I thought the game was endless.

1)MH Tri 162h 38m 42t
 2)AC CF 158h 58m 78t

In two short months, you've already played Monster Hunter Tri more than Animal Crossing, which you've had for over a year? Now that's just sad. Even worse, I'm pretty sure my own records are the same by now, I'll have to check them. Although, to be fair, I've played Animal Crossing a lot when my Wii clock wasn't set correctly, and this means that play time wasn't recorded. So there's no way to tell how long I've actually played it.

[Stratos]

You can "beat" Rune Factory Frontier? I thought the game was endless.

1)MH Tri 162h 38m 42t
 2)AC CF 158h 58m 78t

In two short months, you've already played Monster Hunter Tri more than Animal Crossing, which you've had for over a year? Now that's just sad. Even worse, I'm pretty sure my own records are the same by now, I'll have to check them. Although, to be fair, I've played Animal Crossing a lot when my Wii clock wasn't set correctly, and this means that play time wasn't recorded. So there's no way to tell how long I've actually played it.

Remember when I was time warping as well and screwed up both my Wii and AC clocks? It was like my town was in a time-warp. Kinda like Groundhogs Day, Sliders, Butterfly Effect and those DuckTales time machine episodes all rolled into a collective cacophany of chaos. I even lost track of the time and date it was in real life at one point because of the mess. (not really but it did cause me to not go to sleep properly, plus it sounder cooler to say it that way )

I'm sure that my AC time has been stunted as well due to it. I think some other games I played at the time were also thrown off because of it.

AC was more of a bit here and a bit there. Look at the number of times/days I played it: 78. Versus Tri which has just under half the times/days AC has. Tri's average play time was 3.86 hours. AC's was only at 2 hours. I think part of it was the non-linear nature of AC as Tri forces you to play in 50-60 minute increments at the least. If I want to play 3 quests that is easily 3+ hours in a single sitting. AC I can hop on and play a bit each day or night.

RFF Is one that could have easily been a big time sink but I think the original sucked most of my HM energy before RFF could come on the scene and also the difficulty of dividing up time between too many games. I'm sure I will go back to it and sink plenty of time into it.

[Sarail]

Here's my top 10.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn	105 Hrs. 45 Min.	38 Times
#2	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	74 Hrs. 58 Min.	33 Times
#3	Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	66 Hrs. 47 Min.	33 Times
#4	Wii Sports	61 Hrs. 20 Min.	67 Times
#5	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption	58 Hrs. 56 Min.	22 Times
#6	Okami	58 Hrs. 46 Min.	30 Times
#7	Monster Hunter Tri	37 Hrs. 56 Min.	15 Times
#8	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock	35 Hrs. 20 Min.	30 Times
#9	Mario Kart Wii	34 Hrs. 2 Min.	33 Times
#10	Super Mario Galaxy	32 Hrs. 12 Min.	19 Times
.....
Last	NPC: Donkey Kong Jungle Beat	0 Hrs. 32 Min.	1 Times

And now my top 5 VC games.

Rank	Game Title	Length of Time Played	Number of Times Played
#1	Donkey Kong Country	12 Hrs. 21 Min.	11 Times
#2	Super Castlevania IV	11 Hrs. 34 Min.	4 Times
#3	Paper Mario	8 Hrs. 18 Min.	4 Times
#4	Super Mario World	6 Hrs. 32 Min.	11 Times
#5	Sim City	5 Hrs. 58 Min.	6 Times

Oh, how I long for another console Fire Emblem.  I really hope Intelligent Systems is working on another one for Nintendo's next console. I'm also really surprised I logged that many hours into Mario Kart Wii.  I just don't play it that often... and I didn't think that the times I did play it with friends over, that it wasn't for that long either.  Oh well.

[Stratos]

Ooohh. VC ranked list. That's a good idea. I'ma do a WiiWare one as well.

[vudu]

Ooohh. VC ranked list. That's a good idea.

Good idea?  I did it in the very first post!

[Kytim89]

I have logged in about thirty hours for Monster Hunter 3.

[Stratos]

Have you even played online, Kytim? I don't think you have joined us for hunts yet.

Ooohh. VC ranked list. That's a good idea.

Good idea?  I did it in the very first post!

Ah, so you did. It was so long ago I forgot I suppose.

[DAaaMan64]

Yeah this is terribly inaccurate, it says I played De Blob only 3 times, but did it over 36 hours >.> (A game which I don't like)  This seems to be common to many of my top games.

[Mop it up]

Interesting. I haven't really heard of people having more play time than they should; most people have less than what they actually played. Are you certain that you didn't accidentally leave the game on unattended?

[DAaaMan64]

Interesting. I haven't really heard of people having more play time than they should; most people have less than what they actually played. Are you certain that you didn't accidentally leave the game on unattended?

It seems to be a reoccurring theme with all my stats. 

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

Looked at my list for the first time in a long while. Here's my 10 most played games, apparently:


1. Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- 228 hours 31 mins -- 99 times
2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- 120 hours 18 mins -- 48 times
3. Mario Kart Wii -- 98 hours 43 mins -- 59 times
4. Super Mario Galaxy -- 88 hours 42 mins -- 50 times
5. Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City -- 78 hours 38 mins -- 28 times
6. Okami -- 50 hours 57 mins -- 13 times
7. Wario Land: The Shake Dimension -- 49 hours 38 mins -- 22 times
8. Swords & Soldiers -- 46 hours 12 mins -- 28 times
9. Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure -- 43 hours 15 mins -- 28 times
10. Sam and Max: Season One -- 37 hours 38 mins -- 18 times


Results are mostly what I expected, although there are a couple that are higher than my estimates. In fact, games 7-10 all have more hours invested than I would have thought. I've heard many people comment on how inaccurate the Nintendo Channel can be, but while I can think of circumstances that might prevent it from logging time, I can't see how it could log too much time. Perhaps I really did spend all those hours on these games without realising how the time was flying by.

[DAaaMan64]

46 hours of Swords & Soldiers!? What did you do in the game?

[Killer_Man_Jaro]

46 hours of Swords & Soldiers!? What did you do in the game?

Completed 100%, plus a fair bit of multiplayer. In spite of that, I'm not convinced I've played it for that long. Maybe 30 to 35 hours, but 46? Unless someone else played it without me knowing, though I have my doubts about that.

[Caliban]

2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess -- 120 hours 18 mins -- 48 times

Wow.

[Mop it up]

Completed 100%, plus a fair bit of multiplayer. In spite of that, I'm not convinced I've played it for that long. Maybe 30 to 35 hours, but 46? Unless someone else played it without me knowing, though I have my doubts about that.

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.

[Crimm]

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

[Sarail]

None at 60 hours, James? Sheesh...

James Jones ...aka... the Nintendo slacker.