Have you ever played a game/series exclusively?

[hanselthecaretaker]

For how long?

I usually bounce around between current favorites from 3 or 4 different genres, mostly as a result of having started too many I still want to finish. I haven't really played one game or series for any longer than a couple months since I was a kid.

One series I could see really sitting down with exclusively for at least a few months though would be Fallout, starting with the original. It's deep, but at the same time you can kind of chill out with it for the most part. At this point in my gaming life that sounds like the bees knees. I've always been big on exploration, customizing, character building, etc. and am a bit disappointed I never tried it earlier. This is mostly due to, again, too many other things to play in recent years but also never really knowing much about it beforehand. I know the early ISO games are much different than the newer 3D ones, but I welcome the contrast actually. Can't complain about having variety.

I've only dabbled with the original for a few hours to get a taste, but before I can really bite into it my backlog of unfinished game series needs some tending to.

*sigh* Damn you, rampant consumerism!!

 

[Zontar]

X3: Reunion. I found the 2.0 version for 10$ Canadian in my local video rental place/electronic store (which are both still open) in the long-long ago of 2006. The game blew my mind as I spend about a dozen hours just getting familiar with the controls (this was 4 years before I upgraded from dial-up so I hadn't thought of going to forums). After I figured out the mechanics after a few days I didn't really do much with it for a few weeks since it was the end of the school year, but when it was over I played it religiously that summer. While I watched plenty of movies and shows on DVD, and went to the aforementioned video rental place once a week (biked 10km each way, they had a great 5 movies 7 days 5$ deal for movies that where more then 6 months on video release), and I think I may have played some of my PS2 games, but during that summer I racked up 347 hours in a single game file. For those doing the math, that's an average of a little over 6 hours per day.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I am competitive in fighters so when a new one comes out that I wish to main I will only play it for a month or so. It's like learning an instrument, you need lots of time and focus to get good and the process in and of itself is most fun.


Last game I did this with as Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator, though Blazblue Central Fiction is a month away as well. I expect to do the same with it too...which means I will only have 3ish weeks to beat Persona 5 lol. Should be enough.

 

[distortedreality]

I normally only play one game at a time.

As for playing games in a series back to back, I would generally only do this with RPG's. Think the last one would have been the Witcher (although I'll admit to skipping the first game this time around, not necessarily due to the game itself, but more due to time constraints).

 

[Dalisclock]

I played the Assasins Creed series from II to IV and all the game in between(plus DLCs) in the space of two months last year. Now I'm kinda done with the series for the foreseeable future, unless by chance the next game ends up being awesome.

And I just came off playing the Witcher 2 and jumped straight into Witcher 3, both for the first time. I played Witcher earlier this year, but that one I stopped for months in the middle and then played Dark Souls in between Witcher and Witcher 2, so I'm not sure I can count that.

But normally I try to jump around in genres and such. Play a shooter, follow up with an adventure, play an RPG, dabble in Kerbal Space Program or Sunless sea(games which have no ending), etc. Keep from getting burnt out. I'm surprised I've managed to stay on the fantasy train for as long as I have. After I finish the Witcher 3(in 8 million years or however long it takes) I'm definitely playing something different.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I've played various games exclusively over the years, mostly because at the time that was the game my friends were playing ,so I had a vested interest in playing those to the exclusion of others. And also because I couldn't afford new games very often yet.

Some examples in chronological order:
[li]Quake[/li]
[li]Team Fortress[/li]
[li]Half-Life and various mods (Team Fortress Classic, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Earth Defense Force, Natural Selection)[/li]
[li]Diablo II[/li]
[li]Team Fortress Classic[/li]
[li]Quake III[/li]

After that I got enough disposable income to buy games more frequently, although these days I spend the majority of my gaming time with TF2, again because I've made a lot of friends there, but I mix things up every few days.

 

[Saelune]

Bethesda games. Morrowind in particular. Weeks went by of waking up, playing Morrowind, going to bed, repeat.

Also Terraria.

As for series, well, I never played Metal Gear Solid until my brother got a PS3 and I got the HD collection, and played the entire MGS series back to back in about a month. 2, 3, Peace Walker, 1, 4. (Sometime in 3 or PW I found a better HD collection that had 1 and 4, hence the weird order). Hell, I beat 4 in one sitting...one long ass sitting.

 

[pookie101]

actually for me its the fallout series, i have all the fallout games apart from that console one installed and ive been going through them one by one over the last few months.

Reached fallout 4 and yeah 1502 hours in it. With a new DLC released its time to try a new character and watch the commonwealth burn.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Knights of the Old Republic. Better part of a week, from dawn till dusk. Same with Final Fantasy 8. Bethesda games, sometimes yes, sometimes no.

 

[Dalisclock]

Hell, I beat 4 in one sitting...one long ass sitting.

That sounds.....I don't want to use the word painful, but a feat of endurance at the very least.

Especially with the sheer amount of cutscnes invovled.

 

[sanquin]

In my early days I played Ragnarok Online and CS 1.6 exclusively. Later on I played WoW exclusively for a while. These days I sometimes play a game exclusively for a few days, maybe a week at most. I usually alternate between 2~3 games though.

The latest game I played exclusively was No Man's Sky. (hate it all you want, I really liked it and still like it.) Lasted about a week and a half.

 

[distortedreality]

Hell, I beat 4 in one sitting...one long ass sitting.

That sounds.....I don't want to use the word painful, but a feat of endurance at the very least.

Especially with the sheer amount of cutscnes invovled.

Cutscenes make it easier to get some sleep.

 

[Fox12]

I typically only play a single game at a time. Bethesda games used to be huge time sinks in highschool, because I could play them for what felt like months before getting bored.

I suppose the record holder for me would be Persona 3, which took me about a year to complete, and the Fromsoft games, which were about all I played for a year and a half.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

actually for me its the fallout series, i have all the fallout games apart from that console one installed and ive been going through them one by one over the last few months.

Reached fallout 4 and yeah 1502 hours in it. With a new DLC released its time to try a new character and watch the commonwealth burn.

Let's see...game's been out about 9 months, so that'd be about 5.5 hours a day...yeah I'd say that's pretty exclusive lol. You and Zontar should have a competition or something.

 

[Saelune]

Hell, I beat 4 in one sitting...one long ass sitting.

That sounds.....I don't want to use the word painful, but a feat of endurance at the very least.

Especially with the sheer amount of cutscnes invovled.

I was actually pretty into it. Only near the end when I was tired, but I was just "I'm almost at the end...might as well finish it..."

Plus I liked all the closure I was getting. 4 may not be the best received, but it really does tie up a lot of loose ends.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I typically only play a single game at a time. Bethesda games used to be huge time sinks in highschool, because I could play them for what felt like months before getting bored.

I suppose the record holder for me would be Persona 3, which took me about a year to complete, and the Fromsoft games, which were about all I played for a year and a half.

A whole year huh. You could do what some people did and play each persona day on the actual real calendar day it happened XD.

Though yeah reading this that puts my lax 3 week window for beating persona 5 in a few days in perspective. Not sure how long 3 took me but I know I cleared The Answer in 2 days lol.

 

[Fox12]

I typically only play a single game at a time. Bethesda games used to be huge time sinks in highschool, because I could play them for what felt like months before getting bored.

I suppose the record holder for me would be Persona 3, which took me about a year to complete, and the Fromsoft games, which were about all I played for a year and a half.

A whole year huh. You could do what some people did and play each persona day on the actual real calendar day it happened XD.

Though yeah reading this that puts my lax 3 week window for beating persona 5 in a few days in perspective. Not sure how long 3 took me but I know I cleared The Answer in 2 days lol.

I had a weird schedule at the time. I didn't get to play games a lot, but when I did I would binge for like 8 hours. For comparisons sake I probably beat Persona 4 in about 3 months. My schedule is getting pretty crowded again, now, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the glut of games being released. FF 15 and Persona 5 both look to be pretty long.