how many hours do you spend on a game?

Started by obavijest April 30th, 2011 6:17 PM
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12.4 Years
On an average playthrough, I generally beat the Elite Four in a little over a day (24:00-25:00 on the time recorder).


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15.8 Years
I just checked, and I've spent approximately 45 hours on Pokemon Black. If I remember correctly, I think I beat the E4 in around 35 hours. So yeah, it kind of depends. I'm too lazy to go find my GBA and compile all of the times that I've spent on each Pokemon cartridge. But I think I spend around 20 to 50 hours, just to beat the E4. And I spend some more hours after that.
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Posted May 1st, 2011
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12.1 Years
On average I trample the gyms and E4 within 12 hours. White took a little over 10, I believe. I come to life in the endgame, since the main reason I play this series is for the metagame- which evidently requires rather a lot of chain breeding and grinding. I clocked a full 999 hours on Ruby over a four year span- which is a lot of play time- and I'm into the low 200s in Blue, Gold and HG. Diamond can die in a fire, and I'm still working on White, which currently sits at a little over 40.

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15.9 Years
I'm playing pokemon yellow, and have 2 badges. I'm currently destroying trainers on the SS ANNE, and have 10.5 hours logged already! It seems like this is way too much time this early on, or does this seem right?
That seems about right. Its because the first gym leader is rock/ ground types and Pikachu (and just about every other Pokemon you find before the 1st gym) will not be very effective again it. Of course the second gym is much easier since its a water type gym! :)

For me, to complete the whole game it usually takes me 30-50 hours, depending on the game.


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12.3 Years
let's see. on my emerald i just hit 60:00, in pokemon xd gale of darkness i have about 120:00, in diamond i have 80:00, and in white i have 70:00. so i've played pokemon a little over 300 hours of my life.
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I average 30 hours on a Pokemon game, probably because I tend to just follow the game instead of having to spend so much time on training my Pokemon.
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15.4 Years
I have three hundred hours on Pokemon Blue and Silver - think I had around 150 on Ruby and 100 on Diamond. Have no idea how I wasted it so much time playing the games but I have no regrets.
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12.1 Years
In SoulSilver..I beat the E4 in twenty hours or so, and for the whole game, my logged time is about 43 hours, with me buffing up and picking out a team to beat up Red. Ill probably spend a LOT more time playing, getting my team up to Lv.100, getting my favorite Pokes the medals for each Pokeathlon event, beating Battle Tower, etc etc...And finishing the Nat Dex. Most Poke games though I beat and then reset, start out with a whole new team and different starter. White I rest about 5 times...*shrugs*. Though now I have HeartGold so not resetting my SS XD. For my Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald games I never reset though, I just pretty much got my team to Lv. 80 then beat up the E4 a hella lot of times, then just roamed..
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14.2 Years
It took me 200+ hours to just beat SoulSilver. There were times when I just left the game on for hours and hours, so that's probably why the number is so high.

However, it does take me a very long time to complete the storyline. I grind my Pokemons a lot. I also spend extra times on EV training. Then, I have to make sure that my party doesn't get destroyed by the Pokemon League Champion. So, overall, it'd probably take me... 50 to 100 hours.

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Posted November 22nd, 2012
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12.6 Years
Most of my Hall of Fame times are around 40 hours, but never up to 50. So from that.. 40 hours, give or take is my general play time on most Pokemon games. Platium is my highest, with 80-ish hours, and that's because of the Battle Frontier. I actually spent a fair amount of time there. Though, in general, I tend not to EV train, or breed, because I have no reason to do it for myself, and have no wifi.


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Hall of Fame times are usually in the neighborhood of 40-50 hours, but White was closer to 60 hours. EV training and breeding comes after that, and where the bulk of my play time actually occurs. I'm up to 413 hours in Platinum now.

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Whenever I sit down to play, I usually play until I'm either interrupted or falling asleep. Detrimental, I know, but I just can't seem to care! When it comes to full games though, I enjoy grinding, but it's also hard for me to sit idly. My Yellow had about 50 hours clocked.

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