Which game have you played the most non-stop?

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XiandreX

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I remember when Freelancer came out started early evening on a Friday night and played until sometime the next morning around 10 am slept briefly woke up and continued until similar time Sunday morning then played some more. It helped that I played with about 8-10 of my gaming friends in the same house.
 
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Lorne

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Diablo 2.
Mechworrior & Ghost Bear.
Mechworrior2
Homeworld & 2
Halflife
Diablo 1.
Unreal.

C=64 days
Jetset Willy
Gianna Sisters
Pandimonium
Pool of radiance1 & 2
Syndicate

I used to have hrs of runtime on Star Craft and Homeworld2 just setting up the AI's and watching them kick the crap out of eachother (This shite fascinates me)
 

Wyndru

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Diablo2 or WoW. Diablo2 was over many years, but I think I logged more consecutive hours in a shorter period with WoW, since it relies more heavily on group participation. Diablo2 allowed for more food and sleep breaks, since runs were relatively short.
 

Sixguns

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The worst would be WoW for sure. On the launch of MoP I played something like 14 hours straight. My back and eyes were killing me but that didnt stop me from doing it again the very next day.
 

moonbogg

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C&C Tib Sun & Generals
Team Fortress Classic

15 hour marathons were common, and that is a long time for me. I like to do funny things like sleep, shower, eat etc. Then come back fresh for a new round.
 

clamum

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Those that said like 70 hours, you're saying you played the game for 70 hours... straight?

For me I don't recall which I played the longest straight. Probably Quakeworld or Diablo II, and I'd say maybe 12 hours?
 

werepossum

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Either Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas, probably seven or eight hours at the longest stretch. When I got out of college the only available home video game was Pong, not something anyone would play for long stretches. I did do some marathon pen & paper RPGs like D&D & Dark Conspiracy right after college.
 

aigomorla

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UT2003 i think i sat in a chair in a lanfest for 32 hours b4 i crashed on a 48hour marathon.
My little brother made it to the 48 hour mark... and got a free GPU... i forget what it was... i ended up getting a free hard drive..

This was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back when they were doing stuff like lets see how long we can keep people in there seats with only 10 min bathroom breaks.... :p
 

Possessed Freak

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Diablo. Made a crappy BNC LAN back in the day to run this with friends. Eventually upped it to a 10mbit hub network.

Our sessions were somewhere around 30-40 hours long. Only breaks were bathroom and food.
 

EDUSAN

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probably everygame i liked...

League of legends... with a friend at home ...we played for hours and hours
Heroes of Might and Magic 3... the "one more turn and ill leave" effect
Warlocks... its like CIV, but hey, i like fantasy beasts :p
WoW
Unreal Tournament 2004.... damn i played that game online soooooooo much
Warcraft 3
 

cronos

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WoW, some time during the end of vanilla all the way until the end of BC.

The record was somewhere between 10-12 hours. I could picture me coming home around 2pm on a Friday and played straight until 1 or 2am.
 

Grey!matter

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vanilla wow(day and half on launch)
every expac for wow i've done the level grind in pretty much one sitting
hon was like 16 hours
I dont even want to think about d2/lod
 

Jeffg010

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Everquest hell level 35. I spent over 24 hours non stop at PAW trying to get out of level 35.
 

mistercrabby

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I'm talking non-stop without sleep, nap, going out for a break, whatever. How many hours?

When I was in college, I played some of the Gold Box D&D games for about 16-18 hours non-stop. If I knew I didn't have to work the next day, I'd start about 8pm (after my classes) and would stop around 12-1pm the next day.

Wish I could do that now, but this 43-year old body won't let me. :(

RTCW:Enemy Territory.
 

Craig234

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Everquest hell level 35. I spent over 24 hours non stop at PAW trying to get out of level 35.

I'd forgotten about 35, since they changed how that worked later.

I forget what I did for it, but it might have been gnolls out in a forest area, not in paw.

Or the basement of highkeep.

EXP gold at times, slow from crowding. Rooms used to argue over wandering spawns.
 

abaez

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The longest non-stop session has to be quakeworld, sometime around 1998 or 1999. There were several times I played 18 - 20 hour sessions of QW.

Next would probably be team fortress classic, diablo II and now I am working on left 4 dead 2.

Yup, quakeworld at a lan party years ago. I think we played Friday morning until Saturday noonish before we stopped to take naps. We continued on until Sunday afternoon once we woke up. Those were the days.