Poll: Your Longest Gaming Session
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My and a friend played some Magic the Gathering battle custom map for StarCraft for about 12 hours straight. Felt pretty craptastic after that.
I've gone from noon to 4AM at a LAN party once. We stopped to eat and play board games though.
The first time I played Half-Life, I played from 8AM to about 6PM straight with no breaks and I didn't eat or drink beforehand. I felt sick for a good few hours after that. Food and water were divine. Those are my three records. Funnily enough I've never finished Half-Life all the way through without getting tired of it and no clipping the rest.
I've gone from noon to 4AM at a LAN party once. We stopped to eat and play board games though.
The first time I played Half-Life, I played from 8AM to about 6PM straight with no breaks and I didn't eat or drink beforehand. I felt sick for a good few hours after that. Food and water were divine. Those are my three records. Funnily enough I've never finished Half-Life all the way through without getting tired of it and no clipping the rest.
I'm a wimp as far as extended gaming sessions go. I can't play for longer than 6 hours without getting bored or tired, and the longest session I've played was last summer break when I played TF2 for 8 hours on a single server. We must have played on every single official map at the time.
8-12. I did that once with Guild Wars and when I got my hand on Super Smash Brothers Brawl (I was really bored on that day, got nothing interesting to do).
After high school, before I got work.
I would regularly game for 20+ hours, sleep for 12, then game for 20+ hours. Longest straight session was at a LAN party where I was playing for 28 straight hours.
I'm old now and work most of my life away, so its down to about 6 at the most, usually more like 3. Getting old sucks.
I would regularly game for 20+ hours, sleep for 12, then game for 20+ hours. Longest straight session was at a LAN party where I was playing for 28 straight hours.
I'm old now and work most of my life away, so its down to about 6 at the most, usually more like 3. Getting old sucks.
I can only think of 3 serious gaming sessions. The two longest ones at 16-20 hours were back in my heyday with SWG (I was just completely enamored with that game), and Face of Mankind around New Years - when an all-out war broke out in-game because the asshole LED faction figured it would be the best time to catch everyone while they were out. They were wrong, and I was one of many that spent at least 16 hours straight moving planet to planet fighting them off. Best PvP experience of my gaming career.
Runner-up vote goes to FFVIII as a teenager. I was sick and staying home from school, and I stayed up all night playing it until maybe 10am the next day.
Runner-up vote goes to FFVIII as a teenager. I was sick and staying home from school, and I stayed up all night playing it until maybe 10am the next day.
Like so many people, when I was totally addicted to WoW I pulled about 72 hours. I knew it was time to stop when a bug landed on the monitor and I tried to shoot a fireball at it by clicking it...yeah.
Also, a handful of times 48+ hours were hit at LAN parties back in the Quake 3 Arena days, and once or twice for TF2 when it was just this cool thing that came with Orange Box.
If it counts, I was DM for a fucking epic D&D campaign for my wife and her geeky family members when visiting during holidays and it reached 48 hours or so. I went all Ultima and introduced a spaceship, and halfway through we landed on another planet and I switched to Star Wars D20 rules. That's a great memory.
Completely unrelated sidenote: I have the NFL channel on because I'm like that and some of you may be delighted (or horrified) to hear that Gangnam Style is becoming a touchdown celebration craze and is being referred to by name.
Also, a handful of times 48+ hours were hit at LAN parties back in the Quake 3 Arena days, and once or twice for TF2 when it was just this cool thing that came with Orange Box.
If it counts, I was DM for a fucking epic D&D campaign for my wife and her geeky family members when visiting during holidays and it reached 48 hours or so. I went all Ultima and introduced a spaceship, and halfway through we landed on another planet and I switched to Star Wars D20 rules. That's a great memory.
Completely unrelated sidenote: I have the NFL channel on because I'm like that and some of you may be delighted (or horrified) to hear that Gangnam Style is becoming a touchdown celebration craze and is being referred to by name.
Eh... never done a 36hr+ one, but gotten close on a few occasions.
The most memorable one was marathoning the second half of SW:KotOR and then headdesking when, in my sleep deprived and addled state, I realised that I hadn't quick-saved before the final fight and got stun-locked when Malak had his fifth regen... or something... ¬_¬
Most others are TW related... lots of battles, screams of dying men and the music to go with it... -_-
The most memorable one was marathoning the second half of SW:KotOR and then headdesking when, in my sleep deprived and addled state, I realised that I hadn't quick-saved before the final fight and got stun-locked when Malak had his fifth regen... or something... ¬_¬
Most others are TW related... lots of battles, screams of dying men and the music to go with it... -_-
Well, seeing as I take school quite seriously (and being a junior in high school), I haven't had much time to game.
Thus, my longest gaming session has been from 6am - 1pm on the same day playing Shogun 2.
Thus, my longest gaming session has been from 6am - 1pm on the same day playing Shogun 2.
I used to be able to manage 14 hour sessions, easy, but now I get restless and nauseous after about five or six.
I beat Batman: Arkahm City in 2 sessions.
Every side mission except for the fucking Riddler.
First session approached 30 hours.
I wish I liked the game....
Every side mission except for the fucking Riddler.
First session approached 30 hours.
I wish I liked the game....
Longest with breaks would be about 3 days and nights (with about 3-hours sleep every night) when me and a few friends played through all of the Halo games and some custom games in a row. EDIT: Come to think of it, might aswell play through them all this weekend seeing as Halo is out soon 
Longest without breaks would be about 24 hours when I went to the night release of Skyrim and got home, and didn't shut off my Xbox 360 until a day later when there was a power outage (is that how you spell it?) due to a thunderstorm.
Would probably have kept playing it if it weren't for that thunderstorm.
(Captcha was "filthy dirty mess", why yes, yes that is how I live)
Longest without breaks would be about 24 hours when I went to the night release of Skyrim and got home, and didn't shut off my Xbox 360 until a day later when there was a power outage (is that how you spell it?) due to a thunderstorm.
Would probably have kept playing it if it weren't for that thunderstorm.
(Captcha was "filthy dirty mess", why yes, yes that is how I live)
Most I can manage is about 6 hours before I get bored and toddle off.
I think last time I did anything like that, I got in at work at 5, played Minecraft looked at the clock like 10 minutes later and it was 11:30pm
I think last time I did anything like that, I got in at work at 5, played Minecraft looked at the clock like 10 minutes later and it was 11:30pm
I think it was maybe about 10 hours. I remember I was finishing the second half of Dragon Age: Origins (Love that game). I haven't played for quite that many hours straight in a long time, but I'll get in an occasional 8 hour one if I have a 3-day weekend, or something like that.