my friends and i in the army pulled off 48 hour marathons on long weekends of split-screen and system link halo: CE....good times were had by all
How long have you stayed awake gaming?
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I played Super Smash Bros. Brawl for about 19 hours before I would fall sleep at my own house for about 12 hours. It was well worth it; I beat a very skilled Meta Knight and and a very skilled Pit with Lucas.
Not sure about specifics, but I pulled several all-nighters on both Tales of the Abyss and Disgaea 2. It was mostly when my daughter was still a newborn, and I stayed up with her at night so my girlfriend could sleep. She loved TotA. All the flashy phonon attacks had her mesmerized.
Worth mentioning are the many, many consecutive hours Diablo II robbed me of in the 7th/8th grade. Makes me scared for D3 now that I have to exist in the real world.
Worth mentioning are the many, many consecutive hours Diablo II robbed me of in the 7th/8th grade. Makes me scared for D3 now that I have to exist in the real world.
I did a 26 hour HL2DM marathon but that was because I was an admin and the server wasn't finished but we opened it to the public so I had to stay up and moderate it until we could fix it.
72 hour gameathon when I was 13. I basically ran on coke and lunchables the whole time and at the end I got sick. But it was worth it.
76 hours, playing through The Witcher. Didn't finish it though, had to sleep before going back to it.
I've done all nighters before. I did one in the holidays, just a week or two ago. I'd finally finished my assessments, so I rewarded myself with some game marathoning.
If you don't count things like breaks, eating lunch and dinner with my family, briefly going out to the shops or multitasking while gaming, then that was basically a thirty-six hour session (though, again, not an uninterrupted session, but easily thirty-six hours, if not slightly more, without sleep), since I knew it would take at least forty hours to finish the game, and I wanted to get that done before I went back to uni.
Mind you, I don't do this regularly. I usually go to bed early and wake up early, at least these days, and get a good 8-10 hours sleep every single night. Doing all night gaming sessions as a regular thing really isn't healthy. I should know. The sleep problems I had when I was a teenager just caused all sorts of trouble for me, although they were entirely unrelated to gaming, and were just as bad even in the several years where I played no games at all. Now that I actually have normal, regular sleep patterns, I've honestly never felt better. So, yeah, just a word of caution; staying up all night gaming isn't really something we should take pride in, because it's not a particularly positive or healthy habit.
If you don't count things like breaks, eating lunch and dinner with my family, briefly going out to the shops or multitasking while gaming, then that was basically a thirty-six hour session (though, again, not an uninterrupted session, but easily thirty-six hours, if not slightly more, without sleep), since I knew it would take at least forty hours to finish the game, and I wanted to get that done before I went back to uni.
Mind you, I don't do this regularly. I usually go to bed early and wake up early, at least these days, and get a good 8-10 hours sleep every single night. Doing all night gaming sessions as a regular thing really isn't healthy. I should know. The sleep problems I had when I was a teenager just caused all sorts of trouble for me, although they were entirely unrelated to gaming, and were just as bad even in the several years where I played no games at all. Now that I actually have normal, regular sleep patterns, I've honestly never felt better. So, yeah, just a word of caution; staying up all night gaming isn't really something we should take pride in, because it's not a particularly positive or healthy habit.
24 hours straight of Fallout 3. My brother left our house one morning to make a trip out of town and was arriving back to the house the next day. I sat on the couch playing Fallout 3 when he left and to his surprise; I was still sitting on that couch clocking in hours into the wasteland. 'twas a good time.
A whole night at a friend's cottage, playing the Godfather on their Xbox. According to her, it's a good game to watch me play. This was a game I was unable to play for 2 months, and finally, I got to play. Loved it. Started at 9, she then went to sleep around 1, and I was discovered around 4, still awake, still playing.
I then took a nap (first time in my life), woke up at 6, went and sat outside for a while.
I also stayed awake an entire night, playing poker with my friend over LAN.
I find I am able to out-stay-awake all my friends. Not most of you people, judging by the 72 hour marathons I saw. I have to exist still.
I then took a nap (first time in my life), woke up at 6, went and sat outside for a while.
I also stayed awake an entire night, playing poker with my friend over LAN.
I find I am able to out-stay-awake all my friends. Not most of you people, judging by the 72 hour marathons I saw. I have to exist still.
12 hrs straight on Mass Effect 2 then 15 hrs on Fallout 3, needless to say, i had conversation wheels in my mind whenever i spoke to people for days after that
My friends and I did a Rock Band marathon three summers ago that lasted 27 hours. Was awake for all of that, singing most of the time.
The next summer, we attempted the same thing, but had to cancel it at about 30 hours. Was awake for all of that.
Another friend and I stayed up 24 straight hours and beat RE5 the day it was released. Worth it.
And this coming July, my friends and I are doing a Zombiethon. 72-96 hours of zombie based games. This one, however, I intend to sleep a bit during.
So I can generally go 30 hours or so, so long as I've got people with me to keep me company.
The next summer, we attempted the same thing, but had to cancel it at about 30 hours. Was awake for all of that.
Another friend and I stayed up 24 straight hours and beat RE5 the day it was released. Worth it.
And this coming July, my friends and I are doing a Zombiethon. 72-96 hours of zombie based games. This one, however, I intend to sleep a bit during.
So I can generally go 30 hours or so, so long as I've got people with me to keep me company.
back in the day...would do whole "weekenders" with friends, it was so much fun, we would dominate entire games 2-3 times and just move on and enjoy it even more..
now a days, i dont really have the time, but i did roll through a kotor 2 playthrough recently doing it in two sessions of 10 hours a piece, it was glorious and i loved every second of it! (was running 13 mods and only had one crash the whole game! i was pretty impressed)
now a days, i dont really have the time, but i did roll through a kotor 2 playthrough recently doing it in two sessions of 10 hours a piece, it was glorious and i loved every second of it! (was running 13 mods and only had one crash the whole game! i was pretty impressed)
Whenever a new RPG that I likes comes out I tend to play for 10+ hours the first chance I get.
I spent 22 straight hours playing all the way through Mass Effect 2 when it came out. I just had to see the end, I had to find out more about the characters and story before someone spoiled it for me.
I also played straight through Jade Empire twice when I got it. Both runs added up to about 19 hours.
I spent 22 straight hours playing all the way through Mass Effect 2 when it came out. I just had to see the end, I had to find out more about the characters and story before someone spoiled it for me.
I also played straight through Jade Empire twice when I got it. Both runs added up to about 19 hours.
I stayed up all night playing Brawl single-player once. That game has a lot for single-players to enjoy. Good thing for people like me who are, shall we say,
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