I think I was quite lucky with my games but I would love to be able to spend 1/3 of my life on one game, I usually play a single game a lot for max 1 month and then don't think about it at all for at least 3 months
I am on modded minecraft and a few multiplayer games that depend on others being there right now. I mostly get the most out of games with a clear line of progress when playing single player as it stops me from from wandering to where i get lost and bored of the game
Dayz and Rust are the only two that broke this mold for me. If Rust still had Linux support I'd be playing it rn. Instead I'm killing pvpers on the coast and forcing freshies to eat the corpse 😅
Fallout New Vegas (I had a perfect completion with the courier owning New Vegas every special weapon collected and completed dlc that was lost to my last hdd)
Fallout 3 (Same but I ate the baby)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat (Though I probably have as much time in vanilla anomaly at this point)
CounterStrike 1.6 (I kinda hate to admit this)
Team Fortress 2 (Probably more then 50000 hours and I still suck. I took a break after I started team whipping with spy. I played recently and I'm nowhere as good)
Memory is kind of a lame thing because I'm pretty sure there was a year where I only played Dark Cloud 2 but I'm pretty sure that's lost to trama
As awful as the triple a scene has become. Games like Shadows of Doubt and HiFi Rush give me hope that there's still new fun to be had out there. But yeah the games we grew up with were pretty solid even though New Vegas was a snip and ship.
Have you played Call of Pripyat with Misery? It is so good. I would have to call it my favorite gaming experience of all time. I put a ton of time into Shadow of Chernobyl with mods too. It's been a long time though, maybe it was Oblivion Lost?