Longest games you've played?

[Electric Alpaca]

Single file save winner goes to Final Fantasy X , attaining maximum statistics for characters and Aeons alike, with training the original Besaid Aurochs all to level 99 swallowed a vast amount of time. Something in the region of 500+ hours

Final Fantasy VIII across multiple playthroughs is the true winner, compelted that 100% many a time for the fun of it.

I miss the days where I could hemorrhage so much time into fruitless ordeals, but I'm glad I did it when I could.

 

[Dendio]

94 hours in the witcher 1. And I didnt even replay it to see the quests belonging to the faction opposing the one I choose

 

[Ultress]

Between P3FES and Portable somewhere between 250-300 hours(My first play through for each route took about 90 hours)

 

[saucecode]

(seriously, FUCK Bethesda)

*rips out eyes and soaks them in soapy water.

No. No eye-gouging!! Not allowed! Bethesda create fantastic worlds that can be really engrossing and rich, but the fact is, they just fill their data cubes out with too much shite that could really be cut and the craftsmanship of the game itself suffers for it, and people let them off that shit too easily. Thid thread is absolutely rammed with enourmous games from a range of generations, and not a single one of the games mentioned here have anything close to the amount of problems Skyrim is plagued with.

You focus on the bugs too much.
I've had no problems with the game, but I did write my own patches, so my gameplay differs from yours.
If you did buy Skyrim and expected no bugs, thats your own fault.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Persona 3: FES had a good 120+ hour stretch if you did everything in the epilogue and stuff. The answer had a bit more grinding to it but it was great all the same.


Oh and people shouldn't count multiple playthroughs lol, even a 10 minute long game can last hours if someone plays it 500 times. The point here is to show long games, not show how long we played short ones.


Also, things like pokemon or TES should be excluded since the main quest is like 20 hours but you can fuck around for 2000 hours in them both.

 

[predatorpulse7]

Every Bethesda game I've tried and the Witcher 1. I didn't even try a second playthrough with Geralt because, while I enjoyed the story, somewhere in act 4 I started thinking "when the hell does this game end?".

 

[Samus Aran but a man]

The first time I played The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess it took me 50 hours to finish. This is especially phenomenal since Zelda isn't even an RPG. I loved every second of it.

Okami took me over 40 hours to finish also

 

[javelinstark]

lost odessy.
it was a good game but it was just stretched out sooo muuuch

 

[Akimoto]

It was not long at all actually but Half Life felt really long. Others like ME and DA:Origins and Operation Flashpoint I loved the story so much it felt short. But don't get me wrong, HL was great fun.

 

[skywolfblue]

70ish hours in Skyrim.

I don't remember but I had well over 100 days /played in WoW before I left in WotLK.

 

[RevRaptor]

life, 32 years and still counting and if you say life ain't a game then you ain't playing it right.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

a pretty famous dude said that once

Well then... Longest minigame you have played in Life...?

I don't really know to be honest, I play so many games, Morrowind has socked up a pretty large portion of my life that might just be the one or maybe doom I played that so often that the hours has got to be in the thousands somewhere. Yea I'm gona go with doom

 

[Robert Ewing]

hmmm, baldurs gate probably, took me forever to finish the story.

 

[Memoriae]

It's a toss between FF7, with about 110 hours, but that's with *everything* done, and Suikoden 2. 101 stars, most of them pretty damn high up.

Cheating MMOs... Almost 4500 hours of WoW, and I reckon about another 500 of Rift.

Outside of RPGs, Supreme Commander, easily. Probably 80 or so hours sunk into that badboy, and Forged Alliance too.

But then again, the average 8 man skirmish on that takes a couple of hours, especially when the AI decides that your ass needs a new hole.

 

[Deathninja19]

I just put 146 hours into P3P and still haven't finished the male route. I'm currently playing through iDOLM@STER2 and have put in 56 hours and still have 6/9 routes to finish. That isn't even the full list of games with triple digits in the total time played. Games like MonHun Freedom and any of the Disgaea games, I don't think I want to check. In fact, I have over 3000 hours played in WoW as of whenever I stopped playing earlier this year.

I remember the days when I though an 8 hour game was long. Then I discovered Morrowind and JRPGs. Never turned back.

Yeah man I feel ya, 130 hours on a single playthrough of P3P and not once did I feel like I wasting time.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Skyrim, over 168 hours spread over 5 playthroughs, an 80 ish hour one, 2 40 ish hour ones and a 5 hour and a 15 hour one.

And im not done. I think New Vegas is close to 100 hours as well, alongside Mass Effect 2

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

Overall, Minecraft. I have sunk waaaay too many weeks into that game. Longest individual sitting? Probably Total Annihilation, had a 3 day match once.

 

[The Abhorrent]

Not counting endless games like MMORPGs (World of Warcraft) and sandbox games (Oblivion, Skyrim, etc.) because that's not really fair... well, here's the some of the longest ones I can think of for completion time:

Dragon Age: Origins - 45 hours
Many have said DA:O is a 50-60+ hour game for completionists, but my fairly typical first playthrough lasted a respectable 45. This doesn't included the expansion either, largely because I never got around to finishing that for reasons I cannot remember.

Dragon Age II - 44 hours
Interestingly, DA2 actually ended up not being THAT short a game. The endlessly recycled environments and over-abundance of enemies coming at you in waves weren't it's strong points, but there's not an excessive amount of padding in that completion time. Unlike DA:O however, this is closer to a completionist run; very little was passed over in DA2, while there's certainly quite a few things I didn't do in DA:O.

Final Fantasy X - 88 hours
Using FFX here mostly because I can actually remember the time I have on the save file, and it's from a completionist run of the game (worked on clearing the monster arena). I think that I have a save file ready to tackle the final boss at around 65 hours, so the extra 20+ is coming from trying to complete the monster arena and other sidequests. As for other titles in the Final Fantasy series that I can recall? I think I have a finished FFIX game with ~50 hours to defeat the final boss.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 88 hours
After three RPGs, a genre generally known for having longer games than the norm, an action-adventure title comes in to defeat two of them handily (and neck-and-neck with the third). Time just flies by in this game, and a recent (partial) playthrough had me noticing that the first six or so hours of the game is barely the beginning (just reaching the second dungeon)... and it didn't feel like it took anywhere near that long. No real padding either, just quality gameplay.

There could be some other potential candidates, but these are the ones with times I can actually remember.

 

[4RM3D]

Final Fantasy X +100 hours
Fallout 3 close to 100 hours
Fallout: NV close to 100 hours

That is all I can come up with ATM, besides many months of in game playtime in World of Warcraft. Yes, many months, that is like +6000 hours. I dare not watch the in game timer as I might discover I actually have no social life.