FFT is one of those games that is hard for all but about 10% of people who are good at such games, and yeah, can screw you.

Once you know the game and what's coming, it's really really easy to pwn with minimal extra leveling.

-Joshua

That explains it. I think I'm just bad at those kind of games. Then again, it seems the same people who kicked ass at FFT totally owned Vagrant Story and that's another game I found extremely difficult...

World of Warcraft ~200 days /played on all my characters, split 140/60/20 or so.   Before that, nothing really, maybe FFT.  I leveled up and grinding levels a lot in the game (monk chakra spam was a pretty easy way to level skills) but I got to the very end of the game with those 3 Ultima dudes in the tiny tiny sarcophagus room and they pretty much decimated me (monsters that level up with your characters are NOT fun!).

Some of my family members are feverishly addicted to Disgaea, to the point where they are maxing everything out and doing that super long level thing, I don't remember the name.  That can take some SERIOUS time dedications too.

FFT was a nice challenge, which is one reason I loved it!  However, once you get that swordmaster (Cid, I believe) it's over...he's too powerful!  Have a tough enemy? Cid will kick it's ass.  He's kinda like a one-man army!  Seriously, after you make it past that 3 in a row boss battle, you're pretty much home free (with minimal challenge here and there).  A game similar to FFT, arguably nearly as difficult, is Tactics Ogre.  Great game, and the storyline was much more polished than FFT.

cheers,

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Even though probably 95% of the games I've ever played were on consoles, the ones I've sunk the most time into, by far, are on the PC. The one I've spent the most time with is not really a game, but a MUD (sort of like WoW, except text-based and free). I spent a ludicrous amount of time playing it which I'm not going to reveal, because it's scary.

As for actual games, I've probably put no less than 2000 hours into Heroes of Might and Magic I-IV and their expansions and tons of player-made maps, with III taking probably 80% of the time there. Also, I've played each of Might and Magic VI-VIII multiple times, probably racking up hundreds of hours there.

Consoles - I've never been too OCD about getting perfect games and whatnot, so on a single playthrough I don't think I've ever gone above 100 hrs on any game. Combined playthroughs probably put Xenogears at the top of the list, with FFT somewhere closeby.

Isn't Might and Magic divine!!  Might and Magic III and VI are my favorite!  M&M VII was dissapointing after the masterpiece that is VI.  I haven't played VIII yet, but it looks like it could be good, but I doubt it's of the same caliber as VI (but who knows)?  Heroes of M&M is also AMAZING!  I finisheed Heroes I and II, and have not yet finished the expansion of II.  Then I shall be off to III   Have you played Heroes V or Might and Magic IX?  A new M&M game is coming out in October, but as far as I can tell it is an Elder Scrolls clone with Might and Magic written across the box... what can you expect now that New World Computing no longer exists?  Gone are the glory days, and with them Origin, Sir-Tech, Interplay, and New World Computing...
*SIGH*

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I really find the Hitman games quite addicting.

That, and Kagero Deception.

i once went two and a half hours nonstop on my elliptical while playing katamari...