Longest Time To Complete A Game?

[ciancon]

At least nine years ago i started playing Final Fantasy VIII, or eight if you don't know Roman Numerals. For about half a year i played it (as a kid i had a limited amount of play time per day). I got up to the third disk and, for anyone who's played the game, got into the Lunatic Pandora. And this is when i got stuck. A bit of a "dick-move" by Squaresoft i have to say because i couldn't beat a boss, couldn't leave the Lunatic Pandora and the monsters in the area gave a pitiful amount of experience. So i went back to my last save file. In disk one. And i worked my way back up to disk three and began grinding but got sick of it because i couldn't find the items for the ultimate weapons.

Between then and now FF8 has been the only game that i've always had the intention of completing but never picked it up again until last month. But then of course my PS2 wouldn't read the disks! SO....i bought FF8 on the PSN and started it all over again. 77 hours of play later, mainly consisting of continous play over the weekends and i'm at the end.

Nine years taken to complete FF8.

So my question is, what's the longest that it's taken you to complete a game? And you're only allowed to say "ongoing" if you have a serious intention of completing it.

 

[SquirrelPants]

For the last few months, I have been working on beating NetHack. I seriously do plan to beat it in the future, and ugh this game. ._.

 

[likalaruku]

Took about 8 hours a day for a month (summer break) to play & heavily modded Morrowind & Neverwinter Nights, with all it's expansions & premium downloads. Too hot to go outside anyways....

 

[Nouw]

Ummm... I don't know. I still have lots of games I have yet to finish

 

[Tallim]

Go and finish Jet Set Willy, I'll wait.

Just stick a post-it on my gravestone when you're done.

 

[DeadMix]

I started playing Diablo II in 2001. I finally managed to beat it in 2008. Mostly due to computer crashes, destroyed or lost discs/code keys, or lack of internet preventing me from downloading the patches that balanced the game.

 

[erbkaiser]

Riven: started it in late 1997 and never could complete it (I completely missed the point of the rotating room puzzle right at the beginning).

Picked it up again in 2004 when I had finished Myst IV, and this time got through it in one go: I finished it in one weekend.

 

[evilengine]

I got Rollercoaster Tycoon for...I think it was my 8th or 9th birthday or something. I played it alot and loved every minute, but some parks were far to hard or tricky to complete for me....around 12 years later I've pulled it out of my nostalgia cupboard, playing it now I've whizzed through all the missions that I hadn't finished, now only a few left. Huh...12 years approx...record do you think?

 

[NLS]

5 years ago I started on Morrowind. This summer, I'm going to finish it.

 

[Omikron009]

It took me 50 hours to get to level 30 in fallout 3 on my first file, completing every quest.

 

[Vhite]

Diggles as I just metioned in another topic. game is probably 10 years old I played it 8 years ago for a first time. I have played it many times from then but I have never finished it. One day...

 

[Fozza]

I think it took about 65 hours of gameplay before I finsihed Dragon Age: Origins. Plus another 15 hours for the expansion.

I know that one of my friends have has spent over 140 hours in Oblivion.

 

[Blackality]

Monster Hunter Freedom 2 is going to win the trophy.
Around 100 hours in and the end seems far away.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Might finish Final Fantasy X one day. Started in 2003ish.

 

[YouShouldDeleteThisAccount]

Don't get me started on Nethack.

 

[crobulator]

350 hours Baldurs Gate 2 (with BG2 Throne of Baal) my keyboard had indentations from the amount of key presses

 

[Shycte]

I am yet to finish Thief 2, after like 6 years.

 

[Flour]

Started Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest in early 1996 and got stuck in the fourth world, always hated myself for not finishing it so I got it on the Wii and I'm currently stuck in Bramble Blast [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ81oTdI01I].
That's 14 years and still trying to complete the game, and I might actually finish it this time.

But for game that didn't have a 10+ year gap: Nethack, I've been playing for three years and still not even close to reaching the quest level.

 

[Ultress]

I've haven't beat it yet but I'm going to go ahead and say I'm 5 years and counting on Dragon Quest 8. I got it when it first came out, then sold because I thought it was to hard(my only excuse for that is I was 14 at the time). Bought it again at a game crazy going out of business sale in March for 8 bucks and did make it to the Black Citadel, and just stopped I 'll probably pick it up and get through the rest some day and by that I mean like maybe 6-7 years from now.

 

[olicon]

I'm a mad grinder, and worst of all is that I get lost really easily. This attribute to me taking extremely long time to finish any game.

Let's see.. I restarted FF7 2 times, first time because of a corrupted save (lost about 20 hours..I just left Midgard, can you believe that?), 2nd time around because I wreaked my disc 1 and changed to playing EU version instead of US version (I live in Asia...if you know what I mean) and the saved files were not compatible. That's another 40 hours down the drain.
Ultimately I gameshark my way through it with another 60 hours for a grand total of 120 hours. Pretty fast by my standard. (The funny thing is I spent a total of 6 hours trying to locate Juno and Fort Condor..)

My Suikoden 3 was by the longest jRPG (that I counted). I did the level 99 trick (took me roughly 40 hours to pull that off..that's a lot of tactical battle and killing myself over and over). I clocked just over 100 hours at the end (never did finish the game though..it would have taken another 60 or so hours for me to do so), so that's a grand total of 140 hours.

Skies of Arcadia also took a while. I was lost..again. There was a part where you have to get a drill on your ship to fly through some whacky barrier. Well, I didn't know that and spent about 20 hours flying into a wall. It's funny because I maxed out all my character's level (and got enough super rare stat improving item to make myself invincible) by the first quarter of the game. Once again, I never finished the game..(I wreaked that disc too)

Star Oceans 2 also took a long time. It took me..a hundred something hours to get off the first planet. I gave up not long after that, but not before I successfully replicated some the best accessory in the game. It only took me a few thousand tries.. And then came SO3, in which I was hopelessly lost again, haha. I was pumping up my heal spell so much that I literally couldn't die. (It also helped that I found enough super rare TP regen items to chain heal myself at any given time). I was getting healed to max HP every 3 seconds or so..it got to be pretty dumb. Naturally, I gave up due to ..getting lost!

My longest time on a single game would be Gran Turismo 3. Those endurance races really are all about endurance. Each one takes 2 and a half hours to finish, and there are...quite a few of them. Not to mention the grind you need to get a car that would even work for those races.
In the end, I burned through 4 copies of the game. You heard that right folks--I actually end up with 5 copies of GT3 because I kept wreaking 'em. I don't even want to start counting how long I spent on the game..but I think it's suffice to say that I have never heard of anyone wreaking a disc just from playing a game so much yet.