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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n10 fewer hours than last year. Not bad. Still… yikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
59 total games played seems reasonable – but going back through my month end wrap-ups, I only count 41. I must have messed up somehow. After all, how could a robot possibly<\/em> be wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aww, only two Mario games? Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/strong> and Super Mario 3D All-Stars<\/strong>. I guess they didn’t presume that you’d be using NES\/SNES Online to play Marios. Interestingly, Origami King’s release date was July 17, so… I guess I went pretty hard on that one. (I did<\/em> take a vacation day specifically for it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xenoblade Chronicles<\/strong> is absolutely the king here. I mean, the data says so<\/em>, but it’s not like there was ever any question about it. That’s where all the June, July, and November hours came from. At least<\/em> 120 hours of that 689 belong to Xenoblade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m a little surprised -but also proud- that Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong> came in second place. If you asked me, I would have told you that I didn’t spend enough time with it. That still probably has a little truth to it, because exercise is important, but at least I know that I was devoted enough to it that it ranked second in my most-played games of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The games I played via the SNES Online app in 2020 were: Note that clicking through to the website expands the Most-Played Games section to five titles, with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong> placing fourth (see the spike in March) and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/strong> coming in fifth. My in-game timer for Age of Calamity shows 45 hours, which suggests that I spent way<\/em> more time playing Breath of Fire than I’d thought. I’m very surprised that Fitness Boxing<\/strong> didn’t make the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The conclusion that I’ve drawn from this analysis is: holy crap I play a lot of video games. And this breakdown doesn’t even include any of the playtime on games machines that are not my Switch… Yikes<\/em>. At least for 2020 I can blame some of it on COVID lockdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I guess that Nintendo is going to shame me annually about how much time I waste playing video games. I like statistical data, but I was kind of hoping that it was just going to be a fun thing they did in 2019. Nope! Here’s the breakdown from the email they sent me: 10 fewer … Continue reading End of 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,6,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8769,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions\/8769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Breath of Fire<\/strong>
– The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past<\/strong>
– Donkey Kong Country<\/strong>
– Mario’s Super Picross<\/strong>
Fewer than expected, actually. This suggests that there’s a pretty sizable difference in play-hours between my top 3 games. Breath of Fire and Mario’s Super Picross absolutely account for a lot of time between them, but I can’t imagine they’d still get anywhere near Xenoblade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n