The longest you've spent on a game?

[The Great Meech]

I'm writing this partially out of curiosity and partially out of the hope that I'm not the only one who drags video games out--but, really, what is the longest you've spent on a single game?

Of the games I have where the save slot gives you a readout of how long you''ve played, my longest is the GBA version of Final Fantasy V. Its job system seemed custom made for those who tend to grind in RPGs, and, sweet merciful crap, do I grind. By the time I finished, the number that glared at me from my save data was 59:36. Oh fate, would that were 59 *minutes* and not hours.

I may have actually spent longer on SimCity Creator on the DS. Godammit, stop laughing, it's a surprisingly robust sim game and oddly good for the bus, where I may have played it for around 70 hours. I erased some of my saves, so there's no way to be sure.

Before FFV and SimCity Creator, my longest was Jeanne D'Arc on the PSP, another game I ground the hell out of, spending a good 48 hours on it before I beat it. I've also spent 30 hours or more on Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I've spent more than 20 on GTA: Vice City Stories, Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and Lumines. This is beginning to sound like a cry for help.

As you can perhaps tell, I am an avid lover of both wasting my time and fiddly crap. But, enough of me. What about you?

 

[LitmusDragon]

All of that is small potatoes compared to MMORPGs. The last time I executed the /played command on my World of Warcraft main character I had banked over 28 days played. At least that time involves some social interaction so I don't feel too badly about it.

In terms of single-player games, I have 70 hours banked on my first Dragon Warrior VII saved game, and another 100 hours on my second play-through where I only learned the monster professions (much harder to beat the game that way). Yes, I'm pretty hard-core.

 

[The Evil Dead]

I have been playing World of Warcraft off and on for 4 years, there's no ending to the game they just keep adding more content and the different classes feel unique enough that playing through again feels like a different gaming experience.

I'm too scared to look at the combined time between all of my characters these days, but it'd probably be close to 2 full months of my life over the last 4 years spent in that video game... The fact that there is such a strong social aspect to the game, you login and chat with your friends over a headset really adds to the addiction factor.

 

[TemporalFlux]

For me, it's probably Phantasy Star II. When I initially played it, I got stuck early in the game; so I quit. I let the thing lay there about 2 years until I tried again, and that time I played it through to the end.

 

[Jim Steele]

Morrowind.

550+ hours across 3 characters.

Still playing it after 6 years.

Still haven't done everything in the game, barely touched the expansions.

Greatest game ever.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Final Fantasy VII.

I spend over a month at a time playing it to completion, and I've played it to completion over a dozen times.

I would still play it now if it worked on my PS2, but sadly it doesn't...

 

[Lookingglassman]

I've been playing Fallout 3 since the day after Christmas and I still havent gotten anywhwere near completing all the things you can do in it.

 

[mrcoaster]

That would probably be something like Team Fortress 2. I've played that a ton on pc and on the 360, and the hours just blaze on by when I'm playing it. The one or two MMORPGs I played I wasn't into very much. I spent a ton of time on Mass Effect last year, and still am looking to play it again.

In length of time to finish a game (but not actual game time), I'm still working through Bioshock on the 360. I already played it 1.5 times on the pc, but I have it on the 360, so I figured I would play through it there, too. I played it a while, then was playing newer games, then would go back to it for a level. Since I've already played through it, I haven't felt rushed to finish it. Play it for a few days, come back to it two months later. I should finish it by the end of Jan. though. That would be just over a year to play through it, though the actual time playing has obviously been far shorter.

 

[Lonemagpie]

It has to be either Saints Row or Oblivion...

 

[Garrett]

All of that is small potatoes compared to MMORPGs. The last time I executed the /played command on my World of Warcraft main character I had banked over 28 days played. At least that time involves some social interaction so I don't feel too badly about it.

And here I felt like a noob comparing my play time to the others in my raiding guild last summer. I only had 32 days played.

For single player, Morrowind is the probably the one I have the most time in. I must have played it for at least a couple hundred hours.

EDIT - Just checked my old main. He's at 70 days /played.

I'm just shy of 12 days on my new main.

 

[bigdaddy]

Sim City 2000, 15 years going.

Animal Crossing has been a long blast too.

 

[Canadave]

Probably SimCity 4 for me. It doesn't track the time you spend playing, but I have to have logged well over 150 hours playing that game.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Morrowind.

550+ hours across 3 characters.

Still playing it after 6 years.

Still haven't done everything in the game, barely touched the expansions.

Greatest game ever.

Quoted for truth. One of the most overwhelming games I've ever experienced.

 

[Iasius]

Probably Master of Orion 2 overall. I don't play that game as much lately, but I do return to it every once in a while.




Lately I use the Feudalism Mod almost exclusively (Note: For the changelog you'd need to sign up for this forum, basically, feudalism is now the default government making the game much harder combined with other changes (eg lower fuel cell reach)).

This mod provides a challenge for those of us who consider the difficulty level "impossible" to be very inappropriately named.

 

[TheBrew]

Probably WoW. I would guess that I have about 40 days put into it.

 

[Servo]

I'm currently over the 8-day mark on COD5 online - 8 days, 2 hours, 24 minutes (194hrs 24mins).

In the past, I've spent a lot of time on Final Fantasy VII, Spent roughly the better part of three weeks (gaming time) playing it to completion. I couldn't even begin to imagine how much time I spent playing Red Alert 2 and Star Trek Armada online when they first came out.

I just started playing Left 4 Dead too, which my initial impessions lead me to believe could be one that ends up sucking a large portion of my time.

Oh, and I'm also about 6 days into Fallout 3.

 

[JNG]

Over 3,000 hours on just one particular character in City of Heroes.

 

[firehawk12]

Recently, probably Fallout 3 at around 80 hours.

 

[Rii]

World of Warcraft (2005-2008) or Counter-Strike (2000-2004) at a truly embarrassing number (four digits) of hours. As for single-player games, probably Mario 64. Took me forever to get that last blue coin star in Hazy Mazy Cave.

Goldeneye, Age of Empires II, F-Zero GX, and Starcraft would be up there too.

 

[Capt. Vulcan]

Sim City 2000, 15 years going.

Animal Crossing has been a long blast too.

Hey, have you ever gotten the arcologies to launch in to space? Even after making the perfect city, planned from day 1 with prefect landscaping (I made a giant hill of waterfalls so the town could be solely powered by hydroelectricity and wind) and I still couldn't get the arco's to take off.