How long was your longest gaming session?

[n0e]

16 hours in World of Warcraft during the opening of the Ahn Quraj gates. It was sheer madness on the server when that event took place and my guild shared the front gates with another, completely duopolizing most of what you were supposed to kill for reputation gains. It was a 12 hour long event, and we had been doing our normal raid runs beforehand.

It was a long, long night.

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... hard to say.

I think, when i descovered Mount & Blade i went a bit insane. Something like starting Friday evening, playing until the level-cap in the demo was reached - bBought the game online - Played until saturday evening. (Of course with something to eat and bathroom breaks *G*.

Also i was big into LAN-Parties, half a life ago, but usualy one slept in the car or somewhere on the ground after around 20 hours or so... But i am too old for that now.

I still do play a LOT on weekends, you can maybe call those thongs a 14 hour gaming session sometimes. (But there is too much reading, watching movies etc. inbetween those.)

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Three days straight.
Funny thing is, I don't know what I was playing. I feel like it was Skies of Arcadia or something.

 

[Fractral]

Well, it depends on what constitutes a 'Session'. Because if it's having a game take up all of your attention for an unbroken period of time, then probably no more than 5 hours on something like EU4 or during a Lan Party. If I play for too long I start to feel like I'm wasting time.
However I am a a big Handheld gamer and whenever a new pokemon game comes out will blast through it in a few days in basically one session where I play for a few hours, put the handheld to sleep, do something else, then come back. I can easily get 8 hours in a day doing this and beat a new pokemon game in 3 days or so.

 

[CaitSeith]

I think 10 hours of drums in Rock Band 2. Three words and a number: The Endless Setlist 2. Over 80 consecutive songs of increasing difficulty (from "Eye of the Tiger" to "Painkiller"). Yeah, a painkiller is just what I needed after that...

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

In middle school, I used to sit then entire weekend in one sitting to play Kingdom Hearts 2. Probably took about 20 hours or so. Obviously this included short breaks to go to the restroom and eat something like a sandwich.

My father hated it. He used to tell me to go outside, but then he'd pass out on the couch after being tired from work and I'd just sneak back in and play again.

As I got older though I had less time, even on weekends, and ended up playing a game for maybe 6 hours at a time max.

Today, I'm lucky to get through 3 or 4 hours, even on a day off. The last lengthy gameplay session I had was probably last month when I played through the main Dying Light campaign in about 2 days, most side quests included.

 

[Scarim Coral]

If I remember correctly. I had spend around 8-10 Super Smash Brother Brawl and Phantasy Star Zero.

Super Smash Brother Brawl
I was hyped up for it released and I think this was around the time I couldn't used the internet. So once it was released, I prettty much had a marathon with it, playing the story and doing random match up. By the time I was finished, I had unlocked all of the hidden characters and stages!!

Phantasy Star Zero
There was this challange mode which is basically climbing all the way up of this tower which has 100 floors and every tenth is a boss. I run it in one go cos you cannot save anywhere within the tower but you can keep going back to it when you lost all of your lives (including when you used up your scapgoats). Ok yes you can just close the DS and also have it on a chrager but I figure I can tough it out. Needless to say it was quite an endurance to played it at times (especially when you on the last ten floors and the last mobs or two keep flooring you).

 

[Callate]

Twenty-four solid hours of the original Civilization, baby.

Admittedly, these days, if I were to do that I think I could reasonably expect to drop dead.

 

[ultrabiome]

Probably some 18-24ish hour sessions when I was unemployed during grad school doing raids in City of Heroes, or a push to max level the day/night that City of Villains came out. Not often though as raids were kinda rare in CoH/CoV, and everything else was generally pretty short. Would log on when I woke, play all day (maybe a half hour break for some food, if I didn't microwave something) and continue until I was too tired to play, and repeat all summer.

Civilization and similar 4X games (Alpha Centauri, Endless Legend) have had me up to 3 or 4 am in the past, nowadays maybe 2 or 3 am on occasion. Still rare as I'm married and have a 9 to 5 job. One more turn!!

One memorable moment from childhood was playing Super Metroid until I saw the twilight of dawn and thinking "I need to go to bed or my mom will find out when she got home from work" (she worked graveyard shift).

Though I prefer playing when I'm not so exhausted that I make mistakes or my reaction time has gone to shit.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

60 hours straight.

Done at a usual week-long LAN-Party in my youth.
While the rest of the group played some boring RTS game..Sudden Strike?..something, a buddy and me decided to do a run through Dungeon Siege.
I don't know how long that took but finish it we did.
Immediately after that we played Freelancer the rest of the time.

I remember feeling very, very weird at the finish. Almost like a moment of utterly confusing clairvoyance where it felt great but I didn't even know my name let alone my location.

Nowadays I only manage 24 hours or so. Friday/Saturday night to Saturday/Sunday night. Depends on when I get off work on Fridays and how grueling the day was.
Heavy gaming sessions are not unknown to me since I enjoy playing Builder style games (4X to Dwarf fortress, etc)

 

[yamy]

Probably something like 15-16 hours, when I was trying to 100% complete Dark Souls (which required finishing the game 2.5 times).
But I did that for something like 4 days straight. So over a week I clocked almost 80-100 hours of gametime.

Honestly felt crap after that. Really don't advise people doing that kind of thing. It's so destructive.

 

[zidine100]

It depends if we are including toilet and breaks to go get food (and eating at the computer) Id wadger about 48 -72 hours straigh, it was something along those lines, Dont judge me. Blame the fact that I had a sort of embarrassing condition which made it near impossible for me to leave my room for any length of time without planning it around certian stops or sleep without getting to the point of exhaustion.

its much to my regret I haven't had time to pull a all nighter in a long time.

 

[Longview]

No idea, used to play games from morning all the way to early morning the following day when I was younger.

In the last few years tho I did spend over 10 hours playing Xenoblade back in 2011, those days are long gone for me now

 

[CritialGaming]

I once pulled a 32 hours session with my guild in World of Warcraft. Back when Uludar opened in Wraith, we raided for 32 hours straight to get as far as possible in the raid. We were all pretty insane looking back on it. I don't even remember how far we got that first day because things start to get really blurry on your 5th Redbull.

 

[Sharia]

I think it was around a 36 hour session for the release of The Burning Crusade. I'll never do that again.

 

[Samatas]

About 19 hours with Final Fantasy IX!

 

[Cowabungaa]

Shit, this thread makes me feel like a light weight. I don't think I ever went over the 10 hour mark. Maybe once for a mini-LAN party but that's it. Even hardcore shit like Dwarf Fortress doesn't make me play that long. I got too much other shit to do I guess.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Once, I was at a big (like rented hall with entry fee big) LAN gaming event. Started Friday night, ended Sunday morning/mid afternoon. Didn't sleep, just gamed or leached and played a local singleplayer til the transfers had finished.


What halcyon days they were, before XBox Live killed it.

 

[Fijiman]

Hard to say as I usually don't keep track of such things, but I'd probably say between ten and twelve hours. The game to which that session belongs to was probably Bioshock Infinite. Like I said though, I have no way of being sure about that.