Your longest gaming marathon?

[Carmilla]

A few weeks ago i found myself on vacation from work with two weeks off, and a few games that needed playing.

During those weeks i found myself playing Resident Evil 4 from midnight to noon one night. Thats 12 hours of straight gaming, which i couldnt believe i did after it was over.

Then about a week later i found myself playing Final Fantasy Tactics from about 6pm one night to around noon the next morning. That one clocks in around 18 hours!

Obviously, i took bathroom breaks, snack breaks, and breaks for breakfast, dinner, etc, but those are still my records.

So anyone else have some marathon gaming sessions like this? And if so than with what games? :choc2:

[Lost Number]

Once, I made over 20 and a half hours on FF8. I made it halfway into the second disc.

[black orb]

>>> The first time I played FF9 I went crazy, I cant remember for how many hours or days I played it non stop, I think I just made short breaks for eat and go to the bathroom..

[Ashi]

I don't know about console games, but on an MMORPG I pulled off an 18 hour run. My character was almost complete, though, so I got a bit too excited. It's been nearly two years since I've done that. I don't think I'd ever do it again. :mog:

[Lindy]

Ragnarok Online and WoW have done it to me.

RO was...nigh-on constant during a month or two, finish the game at 6am, up at 12pm, play all day.

WoW was when trying to get from 39 to 40 on one character, I spent about 12 hours, and another was 34 to 36, which I think I spent about 10 hours on.

[Dreddz]

Tekken 3 with mates, 11pm till about 2pm next day ( somewhere around that), We stripped every bit of Goodness out of it, and that was the first time we drank alot, we felt Ill around 2pm next day and felt it was time we stopped, maybe not as long as some of the ones mentioned, but that was the longest Gaming Marathon Ive ever done, if its solo, then I put in a good 6-8 hours into Dark Chronicle, only one of two breaks.

[edczxcvbnm]

I beat most games faster than other people so I could never rack up the huge times that some people do. I also have a job and stuff so I have this 10 hour gap every day that can't be filled with gaming :erm:

Oh yeah...the time. I will guesstimate between 8 and 12 hours. Who really knows??!!?!

[Rase]

I think it's only three hours, playing Call of Duty: United Offensive's Multiplayer mode. I rarely play games for extended periods of time.

[oneandonly_sephiroth]

the biggest marathon i have ever had was when my friend stayed over and he brought Super Mario RPG I was like cool and all then when i got into it from 3:00PM to 7:00PM the next day Man i was bushed but had so much fun...

[roxy]

Finished tony hawk american wasteland in 5 hours... I probably did longer, though.

[Vermachtnis]

It was playing Digimon World 4 with a kick ass friend. We got the bright idea of going after the signiture weapons for both our characters (Beelzemon and WarGreymon). For those of you who don't know, you have to beat the Hard Difficulty w/out turning of the power and then go to the very first area and fight "King" Numemon.
The Dreadnought took over an hour to get through, both times. We almost died fighting the final boss. We leveled up alot. We started Sunday morning around Lv. 110 and finished Monday morning at Lv. 137 (Beelzemon, Me) and Lv. 133 (WarGreymon, Friend). Sure, that may be enough for some people, but not us. We started a game in Ultra Hard difficulty and made it to Apakarimon (Boss of Death Valley), before we realized we were tired.

[DMKA]

Sixteen hours and fifteen minutes, when I played Final Fantasy VII from begining to end in one sitting.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Two and a half days. I can't remember what game I played. Infact I can't remember anything at all from those hours...

[Madame Adequate]

Probably 18 hours? Something around that.

I have no idea what on. I have a suspicion it was when I first got Xenogears, though.

[Venom]

When I got FFX i played it from 8:30 PM to 1:00 AM.

It was awesome, I think thats the longest ive ever played for.

[Lindy]

Probably 18 hours? Something around that.

I have no idea what on. I have a suspicion it was when I first got Xenogears, though.
Dude, I could have spent 18 hours just playing freakin' fighting mini-game!

[Raistlin]

I used to play and beat Lunar SSSC, Suikoden, and Suikoden II within a week. It'd be six days or so of playing video games all day (say, 8-10 hours a day).

[-N-]

FFVII, maybe eight hours. Only because my ankle was sprained. :p

[Chris]

I did use 10 hours straight on FFIX. But now, I can't even play for an hour without losing interest.

Edit: The only game I spend hours on is POKÉMON Emerald. :D

[Erdrick Holmes]

7 Hours on Guilty Gear X2 #Reload. Figure out what I was doing for that long in the game and you get a prize.

[Lindy]

Staring at the female character's pixelated breasts most likely.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Close.

[RSL]

I think it's somewhere around 10 hours. When FFVII came out, I bought it right as soon as the store opened and played it until I had to go get a hair cut. If it wasn't for that hair cut, I bet it would've been closer to 15 hours (because I definitely played again after the hair cut.)

[Miriel]

I had like a 10 hour stint in FFXI. That was ages ago though, when I first got the game, and I was participating in my first level 1 death run that lasted for hours because too many people kept surviving the death run.

[Del Murder]

Once I played Super Mario Bros 3 with my brother, start to finish, beating every level, in a straight go. It went like 10 hours. Afterwards we could still hear the sounds of the game even when it was turned off.

[Captain Maxx Power]

No one's beaten my record yet ^_^

[Crossblades]

9 hours

[Channing]

I've played nearly 11 hours of Socom before but I was too exhausted to continue.

[MAS82587]

i cant stomach playing video games as long as most of you guys. my best ever is 7 hrs maybe, and thats cuz i was tryihng to play straight through a game.

[DMKA]

i cant stomach playing video games as long as most of you guys. my best ever is 7 hrs maybe, and thats cuz i was tryihng to play straight through a game.
Oh, for me, that was then and this is now. No way in hell could I sit and play a game all day like that anymore. I'm lucky if I get myself to play for an hour now.

[Shlup]

When I started FFVIII I didn't stop for 27 hours except to get food and pee. I'm not exaggerating. TheAbominatrix went to sleep, woke up, and I was still sitting in her room playing.

[Samuraid]

Around 8 hours or so...all night lan party.

[Yamaneko]

Not lan, but all night DoD gaming session. Ten hours maybe.

[Ashi]

i cant stomach playing video games as long as most of you guys. my best ever is 7 hrs maybe, and thats cuz i was tryihng to play straight through a game.

Oh I can't do that anymore either. On my current game I get from save point to save point (which is an hour or two) then stop for the day (or stop for a few hours). There's no way I could do the 18 hours thing again. x__x

[Mo-Nercy]

I think my longest was about 12 hours. I remember getting woken up early on a weekend by the new electronic school bell (there's a school across the street) and saying to myself, "Might as well whip out FFIX". Parents weren't home at the time so I had to feed myself (ordered a pizza). The only time I wasn't in front of the screen was during the toilet breaks I took. Fun fun.

Oh and I've spent up to 6 hours on the same machine (Soul Calibur 2) in the arcades. :eek:

[a nirvana fan]

I once played FFVII for approximately 18hours non stop.

[Rengori]

I once spent something like 4 hours playing FFVI. Yeah, I suck.

[Carl the Llama]

for me it was 26 hours, when i first got Final Fantasy X I caught "finalfantasyitus" from the very begining of the game all the way to Zanakand and i only stopped cause my brother came over lol

[Shadow The Red XIII Thing]

I playeed Madden online for 60 hourd straight excusing bathroom breaks

[Carl the Llama]

I playeed Madden online for 60 hourd straight excusing bathroom breaks
Im sorry but I find this impossible to believe under any cercomstances 60 hours? 2 and a half days? sorry but no way.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

When I got Metal Gear Solid 3, I played it from beginning to end without stopping. Took eighteen hours. Good times.

[Sephex]

When I got Metal Gear Solid 3, I played it from beginning to end without stopping. Took eighteen hours. Good times.

I went 11 hours before I was FORCED to stop. I beat it later the same day. If I wasn't forced to stop, I probably would have had the same experience as you.

[fantasyjunkie]

23 hours grandmastering blacksmithy in Ultima Online

[kikimm]

Eh, maybe like, 10 hours. Something like that. And with some computer game I bet, like Vampire Masquerade:Bloodlines or Morrowind. I haven't done that for awhile either; I usually get stuck and frustrated and quit, or I get frustrated just because I've been playing so damn long so I quit. I hate playing games for hours and hours and hours straight.

[Lindy]

When I got Metal Gear Solid 3, I played it from beginning to end without stopping. Took eighteen hours. Good times.
Did lack of sleep actually mean you began to understand the story?

[Jess]

When I first played through Final Fantasy IX I played from 9am in the morning until 3am in the morning, so around 18 hours. Excluding food and toilet breaks. With all the breaks it probably took a couple of hours off, so I'd say 16 hours. :p

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

9 hours (combination of games)

[Marche]

9 hours and I htink I might have been foaming at the mouth by the end but then again I was on an airplane.... all one game too oh how I love ffta

[Old Manus]

Probably about 4-5 hours

Unlike all you nerds, I get BORED

[Sephex]

Did lack of sleep actually mean you began to understand the story?

What was so hard to understand about the story?

[Lindy]

I guess lack of sleep just kills your sense of humour then.

My mistake.

[Yamaneko]

That was MGS2.

[Sephex]

I guess lack of sleep just kills your sense of humour then.

My mistake.

Sorry. I thought you were being serious.

[Lindy]

That was MGS2.
MGS3 had a pretty weird story too, when you figure out that everyone is playing someone else against the middle.

[Chibi Youkai]

I did 15 hours on one game, don't remember what it was...
well, unless eating and going to the bathroom mess the count up.

[mega_tonberry]

2 weeks off. First 15 hours I spent pwning on xbox live. Next 15 hours I spent going through GTA 3, vice city, san andreas, and liberty city stories. Then I got bored with video games and spent the rest of my time living my social life.

[Thoughtless]

WoW got me doing about 12-14 hours a day for 2 weeks at one point. :(

[Eiko Guy]

i pwn all of you i did a 100 hour marathon during sumer im 14 now so 2 years ago and i dint stop till i had beaten nine and ten of ff and thats only 10 minutes of switching disks since i already played before i used the cutscenes to go to the restroom and i didnt notice i was hungry till i stopped playing and ate 2 pizzas it was amazing i ended up starting kh but i finally fell asleep cuz kh starts out boring

[Rengori]

I would completely believe you if I could read past "100 hour marathon".

[Khaotic]

i pwn all of you i did a 100 hour marathon during sumer im 14 now so 2 years ago and i dint stop till i had beaten nine and ten of ff and thats only 10 minutes of switching disks since i already played before i used the cutscenes to go to the restroom and i didnt notice i was hungry till i stopped playing and ate 2 pizzas it was amazing i ended up starting kh but i finally fell asleep cuz kh starts out boring
lol! honestly, I doubt a 12 year old could even stay up 48 hours, let alone 100. Anyways, as for me, probably 24 hours max, but I have no life anyways so I play games atleast 15 hours a day, everyday.

[Zeromus_X]

i played ffI on the DoS, started in the morning, and beat it, when the sun came down (i dont remember how long, but my hands hurt..)

thats how easy it is :p

[squall64]

Once when i was off school sick i completed the first disc of ff8 in 8 hours had an allnight gamecube multiplayer session for about as long aswell

[JackNapier]

12 hours of Final Fantasy IX. I made it through the 1st and 2nd discs and got half way through the 3rd.

[kboleen]

I can't play that long in a single seating either, however, after a hernia surgery last year I played Final Fantasy Origins for two weeks straight except for sleeping while I recovered.

[Tempest]

My longest was about 13 to 14 hours of playing FFVI. Felt like crap afterwards too from staring at the TV all day.

[thedrummer488]

36 hour laning party, now that was fun, and then 42 hours on assorted RPG's over summer break

[X-Master]

Pulled an all nighter with Resident Evil 4. Yeah...

[Such Great Heights]

This week as been one long marathon! No school! I get up, have some coffee and chill out with CNN for maybe forty-five minutes. Then it's Tales of Destiny until my mother comes home, and I usually "socalize" with her for about half an hour. Two or three hours later, when my father comes home and kicks me out of the basement, I either play FFTA or FF8 (PC port).

Factoring in eating, bathrooming and the occasional load of laundry, I'd say I've probably played about 14 hours a day this week! Ah...how lovely gaming can be.

[amratis]

Once, I made over 20 and a half hours on FF8. I made it halfway into the second disc.

Pretty much ditto. Dunno what it is about the first 2 discs of that game. Never played a game for longer.

EDIT - allthough thinking about it I got further then half way through disc 2, pretty much finished that disc, must have been playing faster maybe.

[Cruise Control]

3 days, I had blisters all over.

[~SapphireStar~]

I played Final Fantasy 8 my whole 2 weeks holidays in Ireland in the summer of 1999. I wanted to get every last item, weapon and GF. From the moment I woke up, to tea time, then bed I played it. I only really stopped for food, the bath room and seeing a relative every now and then.

[lady yunalesca]

i once did 17 hours of ffix during an insomnia bout