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I tracked down the guy who gave a negative review to Battlezone 98 Redux after playing for over 8,000 hours, and came away convinced he was right (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 45 points 19 hours ago (14 children)

8k hours is a lot.
That's like PhD level, into a game I've never heard of before now.
Sure, It's trust their input.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Those are rookie numbers for strategy games.

Competency starts around 1500 hours.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Can confirm, still suck at every PDX game despite a thousand or hundreds of hours in them.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Yup, I'm still a noob in EU4 after nearly 1000 hours. I'll get the hang of it eventually. 😅

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