Oh crap...birds chirping?! How long have I been playing?!

[SimuLord]

Spent tonight playing Crusader Kings (going from Count of Moskva and trying to become King of Rus or Khazaria as part of a Paradox 900---by the time I get to HoI2 it'll be a world-spanning Soviet empire!)

Trouble is, at no point did I look at the clock or I'd have realized that maybe 5 AM is too late to be playing when I've got finals coming up in school Monday-Wednesday of this week. So now I have to try to get some Z without throwing my sleep cycle completely off a cliff.

It's foolish for me to ask "has this ever happened to you?" OF COURSE IT HAS! So here's your discussion question:

When's the last time you accidentally stayed up all night gaming...and what was the game you were playing?

Bonus questions: What games consistently have this effect on you? And do you ever pass on playing a game because you know you'll be up all night if you start any later than, say, 5 PM the previous afternoon?

 

[Cherry Cola]

Pokemon.

Pokemon Pokemon Pokemon Pokemon.

Gold nearly ruined my childhood!

Also, World of Warcraft kept me up until 1 PM. But you all saw that one coming anyway.

 

[Jenova65]

It was about 5 years ago, tbh and the culprits were Eternal Darkness and Skies Of Arcadia (I played those games far too much)
I do play for too many hours on ME and ME2 but have a one year old baby so no playing through the night for me
That said I stayed up til 5.30 on Thurs/Fri watching the general election and got up at 7.30 before realising I am too old to get by on 2 hours sleep ;-)

 

[TimeLord]

Pokemon Yellow,

Bioshock 2 I played all night then felt bad about not getting any sleep and having to go to work

 

[Beefjerky]

Happens to me every weekend. The first game that had me hooked like that was Mount & Blade though. I played it with my friend and we just forgot time. We sat like 12 hours in a row playing it...

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Nothing. EVER. Yet...

 

[Zing]

WoW
Every BioWare game, most recently KoTOR
Heavy Rain

Happens to me with any decent game that keeps me interested.

Mostly because I lack a life and have no reason to be up early.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Normally, on weekdays, I play until 11 o' clock, whereas on Sunday, when there is is no paper round or school in the morning, I do whatever I want 'till I want until I'm tired, then I go to sleep and wake up 10:00 - 12:00 ish.

 

[Razvelius]

Last night when I was playing Heroes III WoG with my girlfriend.It is unbelievebly addictive for a 12 year old game.

 

[Dienekes]

I remember years ago at the great age of 14 playing runescape accidentally until the next morning when I heard my parents waking and hastily scrambled to turn my computer off and get in bed before they realized, that was the first time I ever stayed up all night, the same type of thing has been repeated many times since, most recently when I played GTA 4 on the pc (only last week) and was determined to complete it as I got bored with it on PS3 before I had a chance to finish.

 

[Silver Patriot]

I was playing the Halo: Reach Beta, and then it was tomorrow. Weird.

This usally happens to me on two occasions. Either a new game comes out (Like ME2 most recently, or Heavy Rain.) and I get really into the story, or I am playing multiplayer with my friends and time just blends and then I have work.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

I played MGS4 into the small hours many times on my first playthrough. So much cutscene.

I also played the first LEGO Star Wars until 4am twice. Co-op with the same person both times.

 

[Darth_Dude]

Spent tonight playing Crusader Kings (going from Count of Moskva and trying to become King of Rus or Khazaria as part of a Paradox 900---by the time I get to HoI2 it'll be a world-spanning Soviet empire!)

OH MY GOD

Another one! I freaking love doing that! Going from Crusader kinds to Europa Universalis then Victoria then Hearts Of Iron 2! YAAAAAAY!

OP: The last time I did that was..last night. The only reason I'm still awake is because I drank a lot of coke. I was playing Mass Effect 2, STALKER: Shadow Of Chernobyl and Hearts Of Iron III. I always do that with long strategy games, like HOI, Total War, Galactic Civilizations 2, Civilization 4, all that.

Yes, I have to limit myself from playing Empire Total War because I know I'm just going to get sucked in for hours.

Rome Total War has this effect on me.

And I still havn't beaten a Campaign on it yet, I always start new ones.

I shall wipe out the Carthaginians and Numidians this time.

You motherfuckers are going to DIE!

Yep thats me, I have never finished a campiagn. Ever. And I've had the game for 2 years now. I just can't finish them, i just can't...

 

[PhreakyDee]

Last night actually... Penumbra Requiem. But that doesn't really count since I spend a good two hours afterwards cursing at my monitor for playing stoopid..
Gradia held me up till 6 once as well..
Otherwise it must have been when I was playing WoW... When I find out it's 5 in the morning and have two hours to sleep I usually just go: "Meh... Coffee" and stay up till 8pm next day... That also resets my sleeping pattern ^^