Which game have you played the most non-stop?

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shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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Baldur's Gate series: Remember when it came out, it was the time I bought my first PC with my own money. An awesome Pentium II 400MHz and something like a Diamond Monster 3D GFX! Good times! : 7-8 hours

FF2 on the SNES: I finished this game so many times and each time I tried to beat my time. My first game I finished in a little over 30 hours and the last I can recall was just over 10 hours with everything explored and done. : 7-8 hours

WoW Vanilla: I remember when we would gather, 4 or 5 dudes in the same place, at mine or any other, and we would play from 5pm to 5am the next day, with some breaks here and there to bring the circulation back on lol. We were mainly doing 5-man dungeons and group quests. THAT was awesome! : 12 hours

I don't have this patience anymore lol

Oh yeah, I played the fuck out of Final Fantasy 2.

My best game ever was 8:30. Had to skip a lot of good side areas though.
 

Possessed Freak

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Subspace for me also. 40 hours or so winning high score in chaos Nevada one summer as a 8th grader.
Subspace still holds the largest time sunk in history for me.
Maps I played In:

Zero Annihilation
USD/WLI/WSO Annihilation
Extreme Games
Trenchwars
T3 The Gauntlet
And for a while, I owned/hosted one: PSU Annihilation East

I co-sysoped WLI Annihilation with Lord Tsura (spelling!) for a bit. I learned the dirty behind the scenes world of hacking that game, had my own white hat working with securing my server (but I am sure he kept some info for himself).

But while I logged in an amazing amount of time on the servers, most was idle/chat. For a long time I would very slowly move my ship out of a safe zone once an hour and snipe somebody. People used to flock where I was to see if they could get my bounty. I also learned how to manipulate lag to my benefit (not change my lag, but I knew the affect my ping would have on others).
 

alcoholbob

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May 24, 2005
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Warcraft 3 I've played for 10 hours non-stop I think. Probably clocked 2000 hours in that game. Majority of it was online.

Dragon Age: Origins I played 8-9 hours a day during release I think for almost a month. Ended up clocking 500 hours.
 

Raduque

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Cant put an exact number on it, but Diablo II + LOD and Fallout3, in that order. Fallout3 numbers are in the hundreds of hours.
 

Bateluer

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Dragon Age: Origins I played 8-9 hours a day during release I think for almost a month. Ended up clocking 500 hours.

Jeebus!

Thats enough hours to beat the game as every race, gender, class, with all DLC and hitting on side quests multiple times over.
 

you2

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Apr 2, 2002
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Wizardry 8 and Enemy territory. I remember thinking a free game would probably not be that great and i ended up playing it for a couple of years - mostly in the afternoon for 3 or so hours - was a lot fun while it lasted. Wiz 8 I played a bit less but after 5 or 6 trips it got a bit old.
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I guess the only other game I remember playing super ton was far cry - after finishing the game i loved redoing the boat and a couple of other maps since there were so many different approaches you could take.
 
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KaOTiK

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Currently I've been dumping a lot of time into Planetside 2.

All time, I dunno, an MMO for sure though. Either EQ, DAoC, Eve, or WoW. All three of those sucked up large amounts of my life, I'm not sure which is the the leader though (I think maybe WoW, I made a lot of money in that game)
 

ibex333

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For me it was the original Command and Conquer. I played it literally non-stop, 24/7 stopping only for food, sleep and bathroom. I'd tend to skip two of these very often. It really destroyed my life back then.

The other game I played as obsessively was Diablo II. It was complete and utter nightmare. I played it until I could play no more, and then I'd continue playing. All of my plans, thoughts and desires consisted of how I can collect the necessary ingredients to make the next runeword item or how I can get something I need in trade or how I can hopefully get lucky and get an item I want on my next Mephisto run.

Thank god for a guy who expertly scammed me one day, after doing his homework on how he can pretend to be one of my friends who I trusted completely, into dropping some of my most valuable stuff on the ground....

First I was almost ready to burst in tears, because I literally paid with my LIFE for these items. But then I realized how pathetic I was and how disgusting my life has become, and I used all that grief that guy caused me as a driving force to stop playing Diablo II. I sold my account(what was left of it, which was still quite a bit) on ebay, and got myself a nice printer with that money that served me for many years until it finally died. : ( But even in its death it was still valuable, and I sold it on ebay for a few bucks. ; ) It was Canon Pixma iP 4000.
 

Arkaign

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Way back in the day, I played a head-to-head Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game on a large map, ended up playing from Friday afternoon to Monday morning. Was on a lan with one of my close friends. Totally awesome time, but utterly impossible to do now that I'm grown up and with responsibilities and such now. These days I'm about ready to pass out at 10PM, hah.

I guess that would be about 50 hours or so, non-stop other than bathroom, drinking (wavering between drunk and hung over), eating.
 

spamhunter

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Me and my nephew played World War II online for about 14 hours straight back in the day when that game was still fun. Back then it was well known that the US player base seemed to favor the Axis while the European's played the Allies. So, during the day here in the US we'd push the front until bedtime when the Europeans would start waking up and logging in and push the front back. So, my nephew and I had a tough fight and finally took a town around 12am PST and couldn't stand to see it taken back so we stayed up all night defending it until the US player base logged back on.
 

clok1966

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Everquest the early days.. JBOOT line.. not that anybody cares.. in early EQ the J-Boots where highly prized item.. you camped the spawn.. every 7 (or was it 21) minutes she spawned or a placeholder.. so you waited in a group.. everybody joined and you where in line, you all fried the placeholder or her when she popped... then (it gets better) she had several things she dropped randomly, the J-Boots being the least.. so you waited till she randomly popped, then it was like 20% chance she dropped boots. so when you got in line (i was 6th first and last time I did it) if they dropped, 1st in line got um, you moved up one.. I started sat morning at 6AM, 6th in line, Monday at 6am (48 hours) i was #5.. she dropped them 1 fooging TIME!!!!!! in 48 hours. In those days if you left the line you started over.. but unlike today, people did respect the line and not Ninja and KS.. one upside to the early days of gaming..

No after 48 hours I vowed to never do something that stupid again.. and almost didnt.. 163 Baron runs for that damn undead horse.. never dropped once!!!! at least i never did more then 6-8 hours at time since..and when i read that.. that even seems way to much
 

GSquadron

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Skyrim, Tomb Raider IV
Lord of the Rings The Battle for Middle Earth 9 hours a single stage against a friend
 

smackababy

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Ultima Online. Several 24+ hour sigil corruption defenses, and one painfully long 40 hour corruption when some were stolen and gone long enough we had to start the 24 hours over. =( I miss those days of gaming. 20 vs 20 vs 20 vs 50 (40 were noobs though >_> ). Factions was probably the best PVP I've experienced in a game.
 

Craig234

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Everquest the early days.. JBOOT line.. not that anybody cares.. in early EQ the J-Boots where highly prized item.. you camped the spawn.. every 7 (or was it 21) minutes she spawned or a placeholder.. so you waited in a group.. everybody joined and you where in line, you all fried the placeholder or her when she popped... then (it gets better) she had several things she dropped randomly, the J-Boots being the least.. so you waited till she randomly popped, then it was like 20% chance she dropped boots. so when you got in line (i was 6th first and last time I did it) if they dropped, 1st in line got um, you moved up one.. I started sat morning at 6AM, 6th in line, Monday at 6am (48 hours) i was #5.. she dropped them 1 fooging TIME!!!!!! in 48 hours. In those days if you left the line you started over.. but unlike today, people did respect the line and not Ninja and KS.. one upside to the early days of gaming..

No after 48 hours I vowed to never do something that stupid again.. and almost didnt.. 163 Baron runs for that damn undead horse.. never dropped once!!!! at least i never did more then 6-8 hours at time since..and when i read that.. that even seems way to much

Ya, my EQ story was jboots, right before they stopped dropping. We did have one pair of jerks with top gear come by and take cuts and ninja, people were furious. Prexus.
 
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thejunglegod

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World of Warcraft, vanilla and the when WOTLK came out. I've played hours and hours and I remember a marathon plauthrough involving raiding the Black Citadel downing Arthas. What days. Sigh, the nostalgia. Also, i remember getting up once in the middle of the night and logging on cos I had a gut feeling that the Time-Lost Proto Drake had spawned. I've spent more than 70% of my gaming life on WOW and those were easily some of the best gaming moments of my life.