What's longest you played for in one sitting

dre_jspeed

After reading the thread about the guy in England who died after play for 12 hour straight.
I thought I'd ask what was the longest poeple have ever played in one go and what game.

GTA IV single player : 8 hour

DaveDaRave

Not sure,. but out of Heroes of Newerth, Guild Wars, Eve and Oblivion there must be at least one 12 hour stint.

RedXIV

I'd guess I've done over 10 hours on a final fantasy....couldn't tell ya when though

docdolittle

Pretty sure I've spent whole days on some Final Fantasy games

J. Marston

About 8-9 hours, when GTA: San Andreas came out I played it all night.

BrerWolf

maybe 15-16 hours.... not sure as when I do that everything gets kindof blurry

YouSavedMyLife

About 20 Hours when i used to play World of Warcraft. A new server opened and i kinda wanted to level fast and be among one of the first the hit max level. I think it was close on 20 Hours in one stint with short breaks for food and stuff. You know you played to much when you see the sun rising the next morning and birds chirping.

I did similiar times with the two expansions that followed, although not near 20 hours...

ShadowHearth

8-9 hours. thought i would still go for peepee, some tea/beer, burnt pizza or sandwich.

dre_jspeed

BrerWolf wrote: »

maybe 15-16 hours.... not sure as when I do that everything gets kindof blurry

Get the boat
Thats some hardcore gaming man

Retr0gamer

I'd always take a break and I find I get very bored of any game if I play it too long. I have to do something else with my day or else I just feel horrible afterwards. I'd have the odd all day hangover session but sure I'd break to eat and get outside during it.

theteal

I received gears 2 the day before official release (kudos gamesnash) and I just happened to have the day off work. 10-11 straight hours of awesomeness!

Other than that sole example, its 2-3 hours max

dre_jspeed

I just remember xmas 2 years, myself and lads were playing mw2 over the break. I had played and smoked that much over a four day period. I actually turned grey in colour was a bit scary. We were doing mad hours. (never again do i want too turn grey).

Kiith

Played Oblivion for about 16 hours the day it was released. My flatmate also played it through the night, and when we talked about it the next day we both had completely different things happen to us. Was brilliant to have another viewpoint on it.

jaykhunter

I think the absolute max was one day a few months ago where i beat Portal 1 & 2 back to back, it was about 8 hours. (that said I'd get up and walk around every so often, toilet, drinks etc). Generally 3 hours would be my max.

Dr Bob

Back when I was playing WoW a lot (and had no kids )there's the odd day off I may have managed 12+ hours , but that would involve popping off for a few mins to grab a cup of tea/dinner etc.
I used to maybe hit the 5-6 hour mark a fair bit a lot of nights .
Before I quit wow there recently I was at about the 3 hour mark , maybe less.

Think I managed an all morning/afternoon /evening/nighter playing a game called Rings of Power on the megadrive years back .I'd rented it and wanted to finish it before I returned it. Renting RPGs which saved to cartridge from video libraries was a bad idea back then;)

Lanaier

I think I played Final Fantasy 12 for 30 hours or so once.
Not proud of it, but there it is.
Cant remember if it was really that long, may have been 24 hours.
I didn't even end up liking that game story wise ( the reason I bought those games) but the combat system was really great, spent well over 100 hours total on that game.

I definitely played FF7 for 18 hours straight when it came out though, and an 8 hour gaming session (while not something I can do anymore) is not really something I find all that amazing when I hear about it.

I must have had some 12 hour Fallout3 sessions when it came out....I definitely played that game till dawn a few times...who knows?

Believe it or not I have a hot wife and I'm not fat as fatass. :pac:

cherryghost

I think I clocked up to 16 hours with food and drink by my side as I played COD4 for the first time.

chrislad

Longest was probably about 10 hours with FFIX. Started and next thing I know I was getting called for breakfast!

penev10

10 years ago I was doing 8-10 hour sessions almost every weekend! Now I keep it to 1-3 hours.

Bar RPGs I find most games are best played in short bursts. The action gets repetitive and you're not really appreciating what you're playing any longer.

Harps

Played Civ IV all night many a time but generally 5-6 hours would be my absolute max, typically a long session for me is 4 hours. I find that playing a game for too long just makes me depressed in thinking that I've wasted my entire day on it

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This thread has made me feel much better about myself.

martineatworld

Played FM during the study week before my leaving for serious amounts. Think I racked up ~33 hours in 3 days.

ShadowHearth

the most important question lads: could you repeat that again?

i know i couldnt... i cant stick with one game for more then 1-2h

Wetai

Summer of either 3rd year/4th year (Finished LC last summer), some days I'd be on RuneScape until 6am (even other people on IRC were like GO TO BED [I got kicked from a channel as a way of saying it :9]), go to bed & play FF7 on my PSP, get up at like 7-10am when mam & dad were gone to work and go back on until 6am again and go to sleep that night till like 5/6pm. That summer's probably the reason I need glasses to read stuff on the TV..

It wasnt complete stints (the whole time without getting up), but there'd be very little, only a few minutes for food (I'd usually eat at midnight)/bathroom, while I wouldn't be playing. IRC got MUCH better at like 5AM due to people from the US being more active then.

Br4tPr1nc3

about 13 or 14 hours on final fantasy 10 when it first came out.

I got home at about 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and started playin until i litterally passed out. (I was sitting on my bed playing it)

I woke up and the boss fight i fell asleep durin was still waiting for me to take my turn.
I started playin again for about a half hour then got food.

Mr E

For me, about 8 hours on Zelda:LTTP on the SNES on the day I got it.
8pm until about 4am.

What a game.

Manach

Civ IV for roughly 11pm-6am, after I initially installed it.

Potential-Monke

I remember getting a loan of a load of PS1 games back in around 97/98, parents went off for the weekend so i had the house to myself. Was in school until 3.30pm on the Friday, bought 8 litres of coke, 6 boxes of green pringles, and about £40 of ****e food. Got home around 4pm, put everything in a nice circle around me, and aside from going to the jacks every now and again, i played straight through until 7am Monday. So whats that, ah, 63 hours? And i'm not lieing. Bit stupid to lie about something like that! That was some weekend though! I was sick for a week after it.

Nowadays, if herself goes off working/visiting family in another county for the weekend, i'll probably get up around 10am, play until about 2am. Actually, used to do 24 hours stints on MW2 when it first came out. It was my first online game, and i was living by myself. Bad combination. Would still do long enough stints if i could, but actual life gets in the way. I think i'm an addict :eek: Done 14 hours on Fallout 3 there a few weekends back.

Lanaier

Potential-Monke wrote: »

... played straight through until 7am Monday. So whats that, ah, 63 hours?.....

63 hours with zero sleep?
Respect.

What games were you playing as a matter of interest?

Br4tPr1nc3 wrote: »

I woke up and the boss fight i fell asleep durin was still waiting for me to take my turn.
I started playin again for about a half hour then got food.

LOL yeah that happened to me often, in fact now that I think of it I liked FFX much more than most games and finished it through a good 4 or 5 times so I must have had a few mammoth sessions with it.

These days the wife would never stand for a 12 hour gaming session though.

Lanaier

Manach wrote: »

Civ IV for roughly 11pm-6am, after I initially installed it.

Never got caught up in CIV IV but I played Civ V once since I bought it, that game was 8 hours long.
Same problem with Sins of a Solar Empire, wish I could just pause time to play some games, even a short game of Sins on a "small" map could be 6 hours.

zenno

23 hours is the longest I ever played straight but that was on the ps1 back in the day playing resident evil 1. great game it was and I slept well thereafter.

Overheal

Not sure what my longest is but certainly my most memorable was Final Fantasy 7. I didn't even realise what it was supposed to be when I put it in the drive, but I played it from 9PM to 11AM: Just long enough to get out of Midgar and realise this game is immense and theres still 2 more discs.

Penn

13 hours, Metal Gear Solid 3. Jenna Jameson couldn't have distracted me from that game once I got into it.

Nerdkiller1991

Oh lets see...back in my Gran Turismo 4 days, I would play the game for 12 hours straight...daily.

War Machine 539

27 Hours, at a charity thing a year or so ago. Slept like the dead after it!

cherryghost

Oh wait hold on now! I forgot about LoZ: Four Swords on the GC. I took 2 days off college to play it with 3 friends. Was up for more than 24 hours straight playing through it, twice if I recall. Not sure how much longer we played it after that, kinda hazy vision...

Mr Freeze

Mass Effect, 6 - 8 hours.

I did make tea and get some food and go to the toilet throughout the gaming session, like most normal people I suppose, 12hrs without moving a muscle but your thumbs and trigger fingers would be difficult if not impossible for me.

Potential-Monke

Lanaier wrote: »

63 hours with zero sleep?
Respect.

What games were you playing as a matter of interest?

I know Re-Loaded was one. Possibly the first 2 Tomb Raiders. Can't quite remember the rest. There was about 6 games. I know for a fact one of those games was actually crap but you couldn't put it down. I would love to give it a try again.

I've 2 1/2 weeks booked off at the start of November to allow me time to play MW3, Skyrim and others.

SdoowSirhc

dre_jspeed wrote: »

After reading the thread about the guy in England who died after play for 12 hour straight.
I thought I'd ask what was the longest poeple have ever played in one go and what game.

GTA IV single player : 8 hour

My friends and I have played for 10 or 11 hours and were fine after it :eek:

moonboy52

I would say maybe 24hrs when i played LOTRO when it first came out.

The next game which might match that madness will probably be SW:TOR

Raze_them_all

4-5 days without sleep, food/pissing doesn't count as taking a break right?

Varik

136 hours over 10 days, was falling asleep at my desk and was not in my actual bed for 4 nights but i'm not sure how long i was actual playing straight after that first 5 days.

_Godot_

Recently? About five and a half hours

I can't actually remember my longest gaming session.

Kirby

Depends on your interpretation of "one sitting".

For example I probably went about 24 hours in a session with World of Warcraft a few years back. But with breaks for food and chatting etc. would mean leaving the computer for a bit several times. So technically it's broken up.

The longest I've ever gone without even getting up was years ago when I was about 13. It was a turn-based strategy game called Fallen Empire.

It was pretty basic but i sat down and got completely enthralled with it. You fight the A.I. for territory on a map and I got totally sucked in. Before I knew it, I had played for 15 hours straight without moving and hadn't even realised how hungry I was.

Hasn't happened since. I mean I've had marathon sessions of WoW, GTA4, Final Fantasy etc. But nothing to the extent of that Fallen Empire session. The Madness of youth

tonydude

max for me would be about 12 hours came home from school one day (years ago) popped in the classic Medevil for the ps1. Finished the game in one sitting. I regularly have long sessions though especially with rpg's (final fantasy, star ocean ) for about 7/8 hours

Mr. K

Jeepers, some serious sessions here! I actually have no idea how long my longest session was for; I do remember extended sessions of Ocarina of Time and Resident Evil 2.

There's been nothing like those recently, real life tends to get in the way these days!

Sierra Oscar

When I was younger I would quite happily spend 4-5 hours in one sitting at times, I used to get very irritable after three hours at one sitting! These days I would play for maybe two hours max before I go off and do something else to clear my head.

I reckon the longest I have ever sat in one sitting is six hours. My group of friends went through a "gaming phase" where all we would do is sit down and play games such as Duke Nukem, Quake, Witchhaven (lol!) and so on all day.

In saying that though I could easily clock up 10 hours gameplay in a day with breaks in between and the like.

Funglegunk

Probably about 13 hours playing Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. I've sunk about 350 hours into that game.

When living with mates in college though, we used to have epic Tekken 5 sessions, 5 or 6 hours a night a few nights a week. I estimate that, over the entire series (every PS1, 2 and 3 title to date), I've played about 35,000 rounds of Tekken. I'm still ****e at it though...

aperture_nuig

about 3 hours. I'll get bored of the game otherwise!