Fallout 3 or Saints row 2 For Fall out 3 I played almost non stop when I first got it also I just got the still addicted to the row achievement (play for 50 hours) so then I stopped and went out to get myself a life.
Longest Singleplayer Game?
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Tales of Symphonia on the GameCube kept me playing the story (i.e. non grind random encounter battles for the sake of it) for 117hours before I finally completed it. Great game that unfolded one of the most intricate plots I've every played through, and when you think it's about to wrap itself up it gives you an entire new world to explore!
Flight simulator is (if you into flight sims) because you can add additional scenery's, missions and aircraft. Couple that with the *option* for online flying and you can fly just about anywhere. The downside is that unless you like to sit and stare at a panel for 8 hours, it gets sorta old unless you have a great imagination and like to put yourself in inventive situations. Flight simulator X (FSX) and the subsequent series have racked up a huge following as well so outside source add-ons is nearly endless.
Far Cry 2 was pretty decent. Again, a little repetitive but it killed time. I beat it in 2 weeks, playing an average of 8-10 hours a week.
Far Cry 2 was pretty decent. Again, a little repetitive but it killed time. I beat it in 2 weeks, playing an average of 8-10 hours a week.
Neverwinter Nights. 100 hours of a single-player campaign, plus literally thousands of hours in user-created modules, (that are worth playing. If you just picked up every module, you'd never be able to finish.)
KotOR is very strongly based on NWN, so if you liked KotOR, you will probably like NWN.
KotOR is very strongly based on NWN, so if you liked KotOR, you will probably like NWN.
Elite 2 Froniter, because there is no definitive "ending" to the game.
I think the best you can do as far as completing it is to get Elite Ranking, as well as get the highest ranking in each of the factions to get the Thargoid Mission.
Then on-top of that there are a number of missions that are spread across the colonised portion of the galaxy, some of which are difficult to find or require special permissions to enter the system which military institutes don't provide only black market operators do.
Plus once you do them all there is no "game over" credits screen, but instead you can still trade, get new ships, do more missions, etc. it's a simple case of you personally achieving them. For one of the original "sandbox" style games, it frankly is the only one with truely no ending. Even GTA games you eventually have nothing to do because you've done everything, where-as Elite keeps randomly generating new missions for you to take on.
I suppose it does lack any in-depth storyline, but as far as it goes the Single Player is technically infinite. Just a case of how long it takes to get bored of, nowadays I think the graphics would put most gamers off it; but back in 1993 when it was released I wouldn't see friends for weeks at a time after school when they said they just wanted to try getting an Imperial Courier for some contract jobs. Plus it was possible once you have a fuel scoop on a hydrogen-based engine to skim suns to never run out of fuel. Let you explore the whole galaxy provided you were a damn skilled pilot not to die doing so. I got about 100,000 lightyears round before my Amiga 500+ died on me.
As far as heavily storybased single players go, I think one of the longest you'll find is probably the original Fallout. The new Fallout 3 has quite a similar storyline, but in terms of depth it's like Fallout 3 is the abridged 3D cliffnotes.
Most of the Final Fantasy games generally are long but as a rule tend to be only about 30hours of gameplay if you just go from story area to story area. It's the overworld that expands the game as well as small side missions and the want to complete everything.
Longest RPG I've played was the original Grandia, my brother told me it has 80hours of basic storyline in it; I think it took me around 140hours in all to complete it. I'm not so good at RPGs.
There are so many games people could choose for this but the problem is games like say Fallout 3, personally I have a game that has ~200 hours of gameplay on it; but the first play through where I did nothing but the main storyline was closer to 14hours.
I think if you're going to compare lengths of games it should be for the adverage gamer who will play just the basic storyline. GTA4 is a good one because even going through just the basic storyline missions it is extremely difficult to keep under 30hours of gameplay hense why there is an achievement for it.
I think the best you can do as far as completing it is to get Elite Ranking, as well as get the highest ranking in each of the factions to get the Thargoid Mission.
Then on-top of that there are a number of missions that are spread across the colonised portion of the galaxy, some of which are difficult to find or require special permissions to enter the system which military institutes don't provide only black market operators do.
Plus once you do them all there is no "game over" credits screen, but instead you can still trade, get new ships, do more missions, etc. it's a simple case of you personally achieving them. For one of the original "sandbox" style games, it frankly is the only one with truely no ending. Even GTA games you eventually have nothing to do because you've done everything, where-as Elite keeps randomly generating new missions for you to take on.
I suppose it does lack any in-depth storyline, but as far as it goes the Single Player is technically infinite. Just a case of how long it takes to get bored of, nowadays I think the graphics would put most gamers off it; but back in 1993 when it was released I wouldn't see friends for weeks at a time after school when they said they just wanted to try getting an Imperial Courier for some contract jobs. Plus it was possible once you have a fuel scoop on a hydrogen-based engine to skim suns to never run out of fuel. Let you explore the whole galaxy provided you were a damn skilled pilot not to die doing so. I got about 100,000 lightyears round before my Amiga 500+ died on me.
As far as heavily storybased single players go, I think one of the longest you'll find is probably the original Fallout. The new Fallout 3 has quite a similar storyline, but in terms of depth it's like Fallout 3 is the abridged 3D cliffnotes.
Most of the Final Fantasy games generally are long but as a rule tend to be only about 30hours of gameplay if you just go from story area to story area. It's the overworld that expands the game as well as small side missions and the want to complete everything.
Longest RPG I've played was the original Grandia, my brother told me it has 80hours of basic storyline in it; I think it took me around 140hours in all to complete it. I'm not so good at RPGs.
There are so many games people could choose for this but the problem is games like say Fallout 3, personally I have a game that has ~200 hours of gameplay on it; but the first play through where I did nothing but the main storyline was closer to 14hours.
I think if you're going to compare lengths of games it should be for the adverage gamer who will play just the basic storyline. GTA4 is a good one because even going through just the basic storyline missions it is extremely difficult to keep under 30hours of gameplay hense why there is an achievement for it.
Maybe one of the Heroes of Might & Magic games...? Or Galactic Civilizations II... any strategy game whose gameplay seems to be very much designed for single games, yet for some inexplicable reason has a bunch of them strung together with an unconvincing plot and sticky glue. =_=
How about one of the Total War games? Depending on your speed, the level of micromanagement, and the amount of battles you wage, it can take hundreds of hours to conquer the world with a faction. After that, there are about fifteen more factions you can play with. They are my favourite single player games I think. Especially Medieval II Total War.
The old pokemon games for the gameboys,every single one of the took me way over 200 hours of gameplay and I still haven't got all pokemon(in any of the games).
GTA is a pretty long campaign game, although I found the missions and goals of GTAIV to be a liitle less fun and tolerable than previous installments. Bioshock can take a very long while if you try to get everything. Also, KH and FF games can take quite a while if you try to go for 100%. MGS games can take some time as well, it being stealth and all. I never managed to beat the first and people say 4 takes quite some time and determination.
I suppose it'd make sense to name any number of RPGs here, but if we're going to mention games that are actually....y'know, fun... then I'd have to say Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.
I think it's most noticable because of it's utter linearity. While you can chalk up countless hours on a JRPG grind-fest or explore miles and miles of one of Bethesda's titles, these are, after all, open-world games. Metal Arms is just one long series of missions, the difficulty, variety and amount of which resulted in a game so long it was almost exhausting to finish. Which, in my opinion, proves there's no excuse, certainly these days, for the 6 to 8 hour games that developers spend years on.
I think it's most noticable because of it's utter linearity. While you can chalk up countless hours on a JRPG grind-fest or explore miles and miles of one of Bethesda's titles, these are, after all, open-world games. Metal Arms is just one long series of missions, the difficulty, variety and amount of which resulted in a game so long it was almost exhausting to finish. Which, in my opinion, proves there's no excuse, certainly these days, for the 6 to 8 hour games that developers spend years on.
