Poll: Your Longest Gaming Session

[JasonKaotic]

Come on. We've all pulled off a 36-hour gaming streak before. Admit it.
Yeah, mine's about 36 hours. I would probably do it much more often if I didn't have college. That's probably not a good thing.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Fallout(yes the first one) played it through repeatedly, last playthrough I eradicated everyone, after achieving maximum level minmaxed as the ultimate energy weapons user, armed with a turbo plasma rifle and the alien blaster, wearing hardened powered armour, nothing could face me and hope to live(except the vault 13 overseer, who as far as I can tell is invulnerable). That gaming session was interspersed with breaks only to collect food from the refridgerator, and use the toilet periodically as needed, and lasted for somewhere over 3 full days, not sure when I finally fell asleep, all I know is that I woke up on the floor next to my chair... so over 72 hours, not really sure of the exact length of time.

That was a long time ago.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Had a few solid weekends of gaming (meaning, about 48 hours), a few years back. Can't do them anymore, though, and not just because I don't have the time.

 

[Zio_IV]

Longest ever has been between 21-23 hours for me, but I don't like doing that simply for the sake of the console/PC, rather than myself. Most sessions are between 8-10.

I also remember doing a "no bathroom/eating/drinking" one just for the hell of it. I made it to 17 hours. Never doing that again.

 

[TK421]

Longest I've ever played was about 8 hours. We played almost all night on Champions of Norrath 2 once. That was really fun.
I also used to do about 8 hours at a time at halo night, when halo was still cool. (halo 1-3)

 

[Gabanuka]

I did the ExtraLife thing last weekend so 24 hours exactly. Never again. Well maybe again.

 

[RJ 17]

Guess "Sleep when I'm Dead" is the only choice for me since there's no 48+ hours option.

It happened back in high school, me and some friends had a weekend-long LAN party (for lack of a better term) when really it was a Final Fantasty Tactics (original PS) competition. The objective: who can beat FFT first, completing every possible side mission (i.e. getting Cloud, Beowulf, doing the Deep Dungeon, etc). Everyone tossed in $10, winner got to keep it all, and about 54 hours later, I found myself about $70 richer. :3

One person was literally a battle ahead of me, I was on the first part of the final battle and he was on the 2nd. But he ended up dying and had to start the fight over, by that time I had already started it and ended up beating him by about 5 minutes or so.

 

[King of Wei]

Longest was around 48 hours. It was a campaign on ROTK VIII with some friends. Best weekend ever!

 

[Dark Prophet]

Don't really know for sure but if I had to guess I'd say around 20 hours, because after that my mind starts to get somewhat laggy and I start to get killed a lot. There are severl games however which I have played that long Mass Effect, Fallout 3 GOTY, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SoC, Mass Effect 3, Resident Evil 4, Borderlands GOTY.

But the most wicked run like this was with Doom 3, I have no idea how long I played it but I did play it all the way through, mind there is a catch prior to playing Doom 3 I had spent 35-40 hours preparing for my philosophy exam and then took the exam and only then I started to play. It is kinda cool to think about it now but in retrospect I would have never done that because I had svere headaches for weeks after that.

 

[Yureina]

For someone who plays as much as I do... I don't really have any abnormally long gaming sessions. What I do have however is consistently large amounts of playing. My Steam profile should give you evidence of that. XD

 

[Ieyke]

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.

I once played a SINGLE ROUND of TF2 for over 8 hours.
Map was Toy Fort Elite with a 9 hour time limit.
I was the most persistent player on the server, I have a mic, and I was my team's VERY active Medic, so I eventually became my team's General and directed my team in the battle.
It was by FAR the most organised game of TF2 I've ever played, and the longest and hardest fought battle I've ever seen in the game.

Ended up that my team FINALLY captured the 3 CP right as the time limit ran out....but then for some reason the game kept going and nobody was awarded victory, so that's when the game pretty much fell apart.

 

[purf]

Ask me again in about 2 weeks when I will have had not only 1, but 5 days in a row all for myself for the first time in ... [insert really long timeframe here]

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Probably about 5 hours.

I fairly regularly play through the Max Payne games. I can do MP2 in 1 sittiny, I reckon that's about 5 hours. I need a break to get through the first.