Longest Gaming Session

[thenumberthirteen]

I don't know. I don't really do long uninterrupted gaming sessions. My friend and I used to play the Smackdown Wrestling games for ages back in Middle school, but I'd say about 6 hours maybe as a maximum?

You know I really don't play that many games. It is bizarre. I think that I've played fewer games since I joined the escapist. I spend most of my computer time just browsing the web.I also blame my PS3 being in the family room so I can only play that for a short while before someone comes and disturbs me. My problem is I can't play games when other people are around, or late at night. I can play when my friends are about, but if a family member is in the house, even if I'm in my room I can't relax and get into a game. Therefore I can only comfortably game if:

A) I'm not at work
B) Everyone else is out or away
C) I have a long stretch of free time
D) There is nothing good on TV or Online that day

Things are worse at the minute because my PS3 is broken and my mother made me plug my PC into the living room TV so she can watch shows on BBC iPlayer. This sucks because the games I want to play like Civ V won't run in the resolution I have to put the PC in to work with the TV (which has black bars around the screen as well) and there is no desk to rest my mouse and keyboard on in a comfortable position so even typing this is a massive pain in the wrist (I am using my stomach as a mousemat). Plus everyone wants to watch TV.

/moaning

 

[blankedboy]

Erm, probably 7:30am breakfast until 1-1:30am, all of the time playing Sauerbraten, stopping for dinner.

Owning a clan takes up a shitload of time. I know, I've made 4...

 

[Koroviev]

Around 10 hours, one time Kingdom Hearts 2, and on several other occasions, Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. I don't have the patience for that anymore. Now my longer sessions are only around 3 or 4 hours, though I might have devoted a little more time to finishing Bioshock 2 on rental.

 

[aether-x3]

10 hours of Persona 3 FES. I think I had a few breaks.

 

[Tomster595]

Hmm.. Probably doing the endless setlist on Rock Band 1.. Good times =)

 

[Ashhearth]

Probably close to 10 hours. This goes multiple times when I did a straight run of Dead Space in a single night to prove to my friend I could do it. The other time was for Bioshock because I straight up couldn't put the controller down.

 

[drbarno]

with bathroom breaks and all that, I did spend a day playing on mario kart ds, ended up hitting the points cap on it.

 

[Phoenix09215]

I remember when me and a friend had the luxury of two tv's > I completed resident evil 4 on proffesional while he completed MGS 3 on hard I think (he didn't kill anyone and only got seen once or twice). We only stopped for bathroom and we had come prepared so there was no need for snack breaks! After that we swappped over...

 

[Koroviev]

10 hours of Persona 3 FES. I think I had a few breaks.

Persona is a crack addiction.

 

[Volafortis]

52 hours, pausing only for about 6 hours of sleep in the middle.

First time I played Dragon Age.

Also did it again for ME1 & ME2 when ME2 came out, don't know exactly how long that took me, though.

 

[zeke_the_meek]

Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster. 'Sup.

Longest for me was just over 24 hours on Guitar Hero for a charity-raisin' world record. I thought the lack of sleep or repetitive strain injury would have been the worst bit, it was actually the motion sickness and bladder issues that nearly killed me. There's a vid of the highlights here: http://www.warlockmedia.com/gh-video.html

Thing is, I thought that was hardcore - I couldn't imagine some of the other comments (particularly SomeLameStuff's 70ish hour Mass Effect run). And they're not trying to prove anything either... just playing for fun, I rarely run past 8 hours.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

About a month ago, I had a friend bring his laptop to my house and we had some mad 2v2 matches on Starcraft 2 for about 7-8 hours. However, I did have to take a few breaks in order to eat, piss, and go for a walk.

 

[moose_man]

I played Risk for three straight days once. I didn't sleep, and didn't stop except for pizza.

 

[Crapster]

Eight hours, when my friends and I first got Super Smash Brothers Brawl.

Though according to my Wii, my longest stretch is 24 hours exactly on Super Mario Bros. 3, but that was because I forgot to turn the system off and didn't touch it for like... A day.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

22 hours of Guild Wars for me, back when I used to play almost obsessively.

 

[cooljc9]

16 Hours On Age Of Empires Two ... By the end of it the map was devoid of all life.

 

[Proteus214]

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King launch. 60 hours straight only with bathroom breaks or to grab food or drinks from the kitchen eating it at my desk; no sleep, no leaving the house. I still didn't get realm first level 80 character in my race or class (fucker beat me by 90 minutes), but I did end the week with the Obsidian Slayer, Conquer of Naxxramas, and Magic Seeker titles.

 

[Iwata]

I am a huge fan of auto racing (PROPER auto racing, none of that hillbilly, maybe-I'll-turn-left-then-speed-then-turn-left-again NASCAR bullshit) and so is my closest childhood friend.

As such, we were excited when the official 24 Hours of Le Mans game came out. We went to his place with another friend of ours, shut ourselves off from the outside world, and did the full 24 hour racing session, taking it in turns as the pilots do. It was pretty damn fun, but never again.

Solo, I may have broken the 12 hour limit once or twice with the Total War games. But that was a few years ago. Now, I rarely play for more than 3-4 hours straight.

Well i think it was about 6 1/2 hours on bioshock 2, but i'm one of those odd balls that liked that game.

Fear not, you're not alone.

Me and my friend played through all of MGS4 in about 16 hours. There were two stops for food, though.

So I take it it was a speed run then?

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What the fuck is that supposed to be, for all us, poor, ignorant, non-weeaboo, stupid gaijin?

 

[Fusioncode9]

First time I played Oblivion I was up about 9 hours straight before going to sleep. Also when I got God of War 3 I stayed up all night beating it in one session.

 

[Commander Jack Rankin]

I had a couple long sessions with Dragon Warrior in my NES days. The longest was close to seven hours as I recall. That's alot of dead Slimes.