Your longest gaming session: do you regret it?

[rossatdi]

I don't know if this is an up or a down on the cool scale from gaming the probably longest continuous game I ever played was actually 18 hours playing Dungeons & Dragons at High School.

It was actually an absolute riot and my first time playing AD&D. It was me, three of my best mates and a teacher as the DM!

I rolled a fighter with max strength for a human, then got a potion of strength bringing me up to 19. Shit, I fail at life...

 

[mintsauce]

DDR for me as well. I've not had a heart attack, but I've been to meetups where I've played for so long that I started to feel faint or couldn't catch my breath.

It's not like I was out of shape either, I was just playing back-to-back 10-footers over and over, and when you enjoy playing Max 300 as much as I do, you kind of forget you're in pain until the end, then it hits you like a brick wall.

 

[PureChaos]

I'm not one to stay up overnight to play games (Unless me and my friends schedule our bi-annual LAN), but my longest stint would have to be 5am on a Wednesday to about 8pm that night on WoW, doing mainly raiding with different people. So that's like... 15 hours. I felt pretty bad straight after it, i wasted a whole day on nothing really.

if you enjoyed what you were doing, time is never wasted.

 

[spikenog]

Heart attack.

A few hours on a dance machine with a dodgy ticker at higher levels became a bit of a deadly activity for me =(

K, you win this thread.
Sometimes if I play for too long my face feels bloated like the blood pressure is building up, also a few times I have tried standing up too fast, got leg cramp, falled over... and believe me, my room is not a safe place to fall over in.

Yeah, Theo wins.

Hope your doing fine now.

 

[Manbro]

Probably the longest I have ever had is around 2 days on WoW. It was a four day weekend, so me and my mates go together and played WoW. I don't regret it as that was by FAR the longest I have been on a game, and it was just one weekend. But I never want to stay that long on a game for a VERY long time.

 

[RhinoTuna]

I'm not one to stay up overnight to play games (Unless me and my friends schedule our bi-annual LAN), but my longest stint would have to be 5am on a Wednesday to about 8pm that night on WoW, doing mainly raiding with different people. So that's like... 15 hours. I felt pretty bad straight after it, i wasted a whole day on nothing really.

if you enjoyed what you were doing, time is never wasted.

Well i guess i just felt a little ashamed. I was an addict back then and i knew it. I certainly did enjoy doing it at the time, had a blast with that game, many friends were made, most of which i've kept.

 

[Theo Samaritan]

DDR for me as well. I've not had a heart attack, but I've been to meetups where I've played for so long that I started to feel faint or couldn't catch my breath.

It's not like I was out of shape either, I was just playing back-to-back 10-footers over and over, and when you enjoy playing Max 300 as much as I do, you kind of forget you're in pain until the end, then it hits you like a brick wall.

If you enjoy playing Max 300, you will love ITG. You don't realise how boring DDR songs are until you play a couple of ITG songs.

Yeah, Theo wins.

Hope your doing fine now.

This isn't a competition! Send your cookies to the fund for homeless Koopa Kids.

 

[742]

it happens often when a game is good "well, its light out now, and it was light out when i started, so it cant be THAT late..." i generally dont regret it, but them im kinda sorta one fifth responsible(not something i would reccomend being if you have the choice).

 

[EzraPound]

40 hours straight with Paper Mario.

 

[crimsondynamics]

20 hours trying (successfully) to get our International Drivers Licence on Gran Tourismo 1 on the playstation. My basement lounge had slugs and i twice found the little blighters crawling on my leg while i played... dont regret it, but it was pretty gross!

I'm sorry to ask, but couldn't you spare five minutes within those 20 hours to dispose of those slugs?

Man, slugs are nasty. They've never crawled on me and I hope they never will.

Ever since I pulled a few all nighters playing Civ, I've thought that games should be measured on an insomnia scale.

I've fallen asleep on the keyboard playing Civ.

The most I've ever played in one sitting is about 16 hours, when I was still young and could take the abuse (there were plenty of those 16-hour nights though). Nowadays, I'm lucky if I get to play 8 hours uninterrupted on a Saturday night, the only day I can really afford to indulge in games.

 

[Riicek]

Hrm, Can't say definitively. When I was younger (like, 15-17 or so) a close group of friends and I used to have pretty much weekly LAN parties on the weekend, we'd only go one night, but it generally consisted of us starting around 6 or 7 on a Friday night and still playing at 9 or 10 in the morning, when we started all getting so overtired that we couldn't really do much anymore, and were pretty much sitting around swapping music and stuff. To be honest, some of my fondest memories from that time in my life are from sitting through the night doing 4 on 4 CS matches, UT, Starcraft (my lord did we ever have some epic Starcraft matches). The admin abuse in CS would always result in someone getting pelted with empty Mountain Dew cans.

Although, come to think of it, the longest was my friend Nick and I spending a weekend with Diablo 2. We networked our PC's, started playing on a Friday, slept for a few hours Saturday, and continued through Saturday night til about noon on Sunday. Not uninterrupted, but still a hell of a session. The most memorable thing is the looting arguments we got in.

And no, I really don't regret any of those long sessions, although some of them carry bittersweet memories, as one of the friends who was most fun to play with has passed on. But I'm glad he and I got to spend that time doing something we both loved.

Sorry, sorta off topic.

 

[CoziestPigeon]

72 hours, playing a mix of the suffering, halo 1 (with 3 friends) and Stronghold for the PC. We were practically zombies at the end of it, but it was worth it.

 

[HeyZeus_Ezekiel_Jesus]

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. All the way through, cutscenes and all.

I don't regret it but my kidneys hurt now.

 

[CommandoUK]

My longest gaming session is more than 30 hours, thts when i went to i34, best lan ever!

 

[scnj]

34 hours. Silent Hills 1, 2, 3 and 4. Didn't realise how much time had passed until I checked the time. And the date. Then I realised I hadn't eaten, slept or taken a toilet break in 34 hours and had a panic moment. Ended up sleeping for 18 hours afterwards and woke up with the worst headache ever.

And, on a related note, it was foggy when I woke up. Kind of freaky, and had me jumping at my own shadow for a bit. Damn, those games are immersive.

As for the original question, I don't regret it, but I don't think I'd ever do it again.

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Just Playing World of warcraft in general

lol

i think im gonna play again.....

 

[DYin01]

I almost pulled a full-nighter with my brother playing Rise Of Nations against eachother. Never played it after that. We built bases around the entire map and created little stories and such. We had a blast. Eventually we nuked eachother and went to bed around 5:30 in the night.

 

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

Longest session: 16 hours of TF2

Worst result: smashed keyboard in rage while playing DIPRIP

 

[Amnestic]

LAN party thing with around 100 people. I took the train up to Scotland (from Sheffield, England) to go meet up with someone I'd encountered over the intertubes. It turns out that they were in fact a 17 year old girl and not a 40 year old sweaty paedophile, so things were getting off to a good start. I gamed for a full 48 hours or so on various things, including playing and completing Portal for the first time on her machine while she was sleeping which was pretty damn entertaining. I was also introduced to DEFCON for the first time and had some pretty awesome multiplayer games with a self-titled King of DEFCON, which made it all the more sweet when I owned him.

I do regret it, though not for the lack of sleeping thing. When I got back to Sheffield at the end of my extended weekend, within the next week my friend who I'd gone up to visit and was really the purpose of the visit spontaneously decided she didn't want to speak to me anymore. She didn't give a reason, didn't explain, she simply stopped talking. That was late October 2007 and I still haven't talked to her. I've often wondered if perhaps we'd still be friends had I decided not to go up to the LAN to see her, but I can't really say.

Chances are as far as reasons go it was her massively paranoid boyfriend making her have no male friends ;/ She told me she'd had to do such a thing already with another friend.
Ah well.

p.s. Theo: Heart Attack? Yeowch! ;o