The longest you've spent on a game?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think it would have to be when I was in junior high and I went through a phase of being EXTREMELY HOOKED on "machine" type games. Meaning, computer software that was not in itself a game, but allowed you to make your own games. There was an Arcade Machine, a Pinball Game Machine, and a few others. These things were maddeningly addictive. I'd stay up for hours on the frackin' things.

 

[D Man]

I got hooked on WoW a few months ago, so that game by default takes the cake for the most hours (or most days...)

For single player games, I probably put the most time into Final Fantasy X and Zelda: Ocarina of Time, at least when they first came out. Counting remakes, add more to the latter, and WAY more to various other FF games (especially IV, V, VI, plus Chrono Trigger as an honorable mention.) Damn you, Square ! On the computer gaming side, Civilization IV has sucked up a LOT of my time. That game is remarkably well made, good enough that it remains awesomely fun while I continue to wait for either Mac ports of the expansions, or the money for a new Intel Mac.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Well, I play The Sims. Played The Sims 1 and 2. Still playing The Sims 2.

All together, I've been playing The Sims for about 9 years. 5 years on The Sims 2.

 

[BigFoot]

The first one that comes to mind is Final Fantasy X at 70 hours. I also spent a similar amount of time on FF XII. I've also already spent about 50 hours on Valkyria Chronicles and I know I'll play through it again (awesome game!).

 

[LutherSloan]

Recently it has to be Fallout 3, like others on here. I estimate I spent close to 100 hours playing the game twice (once good, once evil). Sadly, I STILL didn't do everything in the game...

As far a multiplayer online games, probably Team Fortress 2. That was eating up a lot of my time until earlier in the fall. Now I haven't played it in awhile because I am waiting for the next class pack, whenever THAT'S going to come out....

 

[Hermiod]

Oblivion for me, I spent something like 200 hours on it.

I might have spent longer playing various C&C games on Skirmish or multiplayer though. Oh, and Football Manager doesn't count because I run it in a window while I do other things.

 

[unimatrix7]

I have no idea. I play a lot of JRPGs, so I guess a few of them has topped the 100 hour mark. But it wasn't until the last two years or so when it seemed to become fashionable to talk about games in terms of how many hours they take to complete that I really started to give it any thought.

 

[Bluejay]

The longest? Kinda hard to point to one. For online games, the very first one I really spent a lot of time on was Unreal Tournament. The first one (1999 I think), not #2. not #3. I'd fired it up daily and most likely spent like 6-7 hours on it. After that it was Asheron's Call, spent about 5 years in it before I beta for LOTRO and signed on when it went online officially. Most likely to spend more than 5 years in it. I've found an excellent guild of older gamers who're looking into cooperative play and a willingness to help members and other players.

For single player games, it tend to be RPGs. I think Mass Effect is the one that I spent the most time on. Replaying, I think, at least more than 10 times ; using different class for each round, combo of bonus skills for each succeeding round, different dialogue branches, different gender. ME isn't perfect but the story is intriguing and mysterious. I'd say it's akin to Babylon 5. Further more, I like the cinematics, playable char has a voice and a personality (I prefer the female char to the male I thought guy voice actor was kinda stilt). Great music, pretty good combat maneuvers, gd voice actors, good dialogues. Can't helped but be hooked. And like B5, I await developments, for the next installment should have a few fascinating revelations.

 

[backstept]

oblivion . . . I played that game for hours at a time every day for almost a year

also I remember putting over 100 hours on Front Mission 3
other than that I can't remember what I've spent on other games

 

[Jim Steele]

I'd say it's akin to Babylon 5. Further more, I like the cinematics, playable char has a voice and a personality (I prefer the female char to the male I thought guy voice actor was kinda stilt). Great music, pretty good combat maneuvers, gd voice actors, good dialogues. Can't helped but be hooked. And like B5, I await developments, for the next installment should have a few fascinating revelations.

Absolutely agreed. Brilliant game, and the B5 comparison is pretty apt.

 

[Mistral]

I'm old school, so let's start there.

Asteroids-10.5 hours in one sitting.

Ultima IV on NES-139 hours, 43 minutes-and then I lost the balloon and had to start over.

ed.-almost forgot playing Live '95,'96,'97,'98 with my buds religiously, as well as playing so much NFL Blitz on the N64 that I had a tiny dent in my thumb for almost two years straight from the tiny knob on the controller...

Ghost Recon (XBOX)-3+ hours a night for 8 months

Crimson Skies-3+ for a year or so

Halo 2- hmm, at 10 minutes a match, I had over 11,000 Team Deathmatches(didn't really pay attention to Capture the Flag and Free-for-all match #s-Not as many but still, lots)

COD4-25 days, 8hrs(actual game time accumulated)

COD5- 5 days and 16 hrs as of last night-And I can play longer than usual tonight so maybe 6 more hours tonight added to that)

I gotta get a life...

 

[John Clark]

For single player games, it tend to be RPGs. I think Mass Effect is the one that I spent the most time on. Replaying, I think, at least more than 10 times ; using different class for each round, combo of bonus skills for each succeeding round, different dialogue branches, different gender. ME isn't perfect but the story is intriguing and mysterious. I'd say it's akin to Babylon 5. Further more, I like the cinematics, playable char has a voice and a personality (I prefer the female char to the male I thought guy voice actor was kinda stilt). Great music, pretty good combat maneuvers, gd voice actors, good dialogues. Can't helped but be hooked. And like B5, I await developments, for the next installment should have a few fascinating revelations.

I'd concur with that assessment. Haven't had it that long, but I can see me doing the same thing. (Before this, I wasn't really a big RPG player. I tried KOTOR2, but didn't get into it the way I have this)

For longest played games, it's probably either Doom 2 or one of the Wing Commander games

 

[HighteeHeller]

Well, I play The Sims. Played The Sims 1 and 2. Still playing The Sims 2.

All together, I've been playing The Sims for about 9 years. 5 years on The Sims 2.

I've been playing it for..well, maybe not that long, but just about. Now i'm like a little kid in a candy store waiting for Sims 3. Woohoo, one more month!!

 

[DeafPoet]

Don't have an actual number (which is good), but me and my buddies have blown a ridiculous amount of time playing Halo 2. We still play whenever we get together.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Well, I play The Sims. Played The Sims 1 and 2. Still playing The Sims 2.

All together, I've been playing The Sims for about 9 years. 5 years on The Sims 2.

I've been playing it for..well, maybe not that long, but just about. Now i'm like a little kid in a candy store waiting for Sims 3. Woohoo, one more month!!

Good to see another Sims player in this thread. We've always had threads when the EPs came out...but no was turning up here.

It's actually scary how much time and money I've put into Sims.

I try not to think about it.

I don't know if I'm gonna go to TS3 so fast though. My funnest thing is to build. And typically the building doesn't get really good until there are a few EPs out and/or the recolor artists and object creators get to work. I mean, they give you such mis-matched stuff at first - WAY annoying. And shoot...we just recently got spiral stairs in TS2, 'fer cryin out loud!!!! I want to play with my spiral stairs! We got spiral stairs in TS1 in Unleashed - much earlier! And spiral stairs are critical to building good lofts.

Plus, I'm still having a blast building apartment buildings! I've been waiting to build a real live apartment building for NINE years!!!! And I'm gonna damn well get my fill of them - TS3 or no TS3!!!

What do you like to do best?

That's the great thing about this game - so much to do!

 

[Shurik]

Diablo 2 - probably hundreds of hours, playing every possible class, both with and without the expansion, and with 3 or 4 different patches. I finished the game (means all 3 difficulty levels) only with sorceress, but got at least to the fourth act on nightmare difficulty with everyone else.

 

[Kelthaz]

Probably about 2,000 hours or so on Starcraft.

 

[Bluejay]

Absolutely agreed. Brilliant game, and the B5 comparison is pretty apt.

I certainly hope BioWare handle it better than what we got at the end of the conflict in B5 : "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!"

That dialogue with Sovereign sent shivers of peril (this is the 3rd game I've played thus far that has a well written story that elicit empathy for the chars. The other 2 are TLJ and KOTOR) down my spine and I was already piecing all the possible clues, trying to figure out how Shepard is going to find a solution. If I were there, I'd take the coward's way out and yell : where's the nearest exit out of this galaxy!

 

[CorporalClegg]

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.

You finished DQVII in 70 hours? I bow to your awesomeness. Heck the first time I played it, I don't think 70 hours put to where you fight the "Big Cheese" (sorta speak) let alone the last parts of the game and the bonus dungeon. And I hardly did any grinding at all! That game is just stupidly long. Heck, it takes an hour and a half just to get Jack Bauer in your group.

As far as my biggest life-sucker, it have to be one of

The original Final Fantasy Tactics
Ages of Empires II
Dragon Quest III
Tales of the Abyss
Suikoden V

Probably the first one. The last two probably only seem as such because they're newer.

 

[Hitman]

Two months in Star Control II - that's from start to finish. There are games I've been playing for years, but those are either open ended or in multi-player.