Longest Gaming Session

[Nominus Experse]

What's your longest, nonstop, continual gaming session? Only causing a brief hiatus whenever one needs to go to the restroom.

No sleep, no leaving the computer/console for any reason other than using the restroom, what is your sad/glorious record of a non-stop gaming session?

Mine was 32 hours with the game Fable: The Lost Chapters.

[Shoeberto]

I hardly have the attention span to spend too much time on a game without taking a substantial break.

My longest gaming session, with switching off between various games, would've been a LAN party I had once where we stayed up playing for probably 18 hours. There was more than one game involved, though; Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament, Diablo II, etc.

[oddler]

My brother and I rented Ogre Battle for SNES way back when. As soon as we got home, we started playing it and never stopped until the next day when were going to bed. A little over 24 hours.

[Sylvie]

On my first day I got FFIV GBA, I played for like 14 hours straight. I got almost to the end of the game, :p

[MageLuingil]

I don't really spend huge blocks of time gaming all at once. I like to have other activities interspersed in there. I think I remember a few occasions when I pushed well past 10 hours of play though.

[Zeromus_X]

Probably 11-15 hours (I have to sleep, you know). I just played FFI DoS all day and completed it before sundown. I also played FFIV Advance all day when I first bought it, and got to the Tower of Babel (the overworld one) on the first day. I beat the game on the second, and did the optional crap on the third. It was awesome.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Probably about 13 or 14 hours playing Civilization IV or Oblivion.

[Moon Rabbits]

11-15 hours playing Final Fantasy VIII, same amount of time playing Dungeon Siege (beat it, too).

The longest time I've spent using a computer though is like...41 hours or something crazy like that. Oh summer, how I love thee.

[fantasyjunkie]

23 hours playing Ultima Online

[Griff]

17 hours on FF7. Start to end. First time I actually beat the game.

[Meat Puppet]

I think I played Morrowind for like 10 hours once. Give or take. I had to stop because my brain started to eat itself. Like, I saw all these black blotches and couldn't walk properly. Man, that was scary.

[Rocket Edge]

23 hours playing Ultima Online
Holy crap

probably around 8 hours max. with FFVIII

[chaos_ghost]

About a month ago, I woke up at 1 in the afternoon and played Kingdom Hearts 2 unitl about 9 in the morning.

[fantasyjunkie]

23 hours playing Ultima Online
Holy crap

probably around 8 hours max. with FFVIII
Yeah, I wanted to grandmaster blacksmithy. it was sad, just sad :mad:

[LunarWeaver]

I fall in 16-20 thanks to Diablo II. That thing was like crack for me back in the day. I literally broke a mouse playing it.

[Rengori]

6 hours of Disgaea a couple of days ago..

[KoShiatar]

I think I never lasted more than 10 hours in a row, though I do play videogames 8 hours a day for a job lately.

[Rengori]

I think I never lasted more than 10 hours in a row, though I do play videogames 8 hours a day for a job lately.
What job do you do?

[Dreddz]

About 20 hours, I spent the day playing FFVII :D. I definately dont play like that all the time, a long session to me is no more than 10 hours, im usually like that when playing RPG's or Fighting game. In fact, I spent a good amount of time playing Valkyrie Profile yesterday.

[Thorn]

36+ is impossible. No games that good. *dodges rocks*

I spent a good 16 hours playing Kingdom hearts. That game can be addictive. I spent about 20 hours playing Warcraft 3 with my american friend. I've spent like 24 hours playing a playerworlds MMORPG (not text based).

So many hours wasted.

In last two years, the most at one time has been maybe 10-8.

[Nominus Experse]

36+ is impossible. No games that good. *dodges rocks*


You might be surprised, humans seem to enjoy going to sick extremes of endurance in some cases. I have yet to actually meet someone who played a game for that long in one go, but I am certain that they must exist.

I mean, I played for 32 hours straight myself, so it's somewhat tangible to me.

[Markus. D]

Guild Wars,.... 7 hours.

[Nakor TheBlue Rider]

my record is around 34 hours
but i was platform jumping
computer to PS2 and back

if you could count sleeping less than 5 hours at a time then my record is around 70 hours

ohh i should be able to count the hours i spent playing PS2 & Computer at the same time as 2 hours LOL, because somtimes i play Final Fantasy or somthing between rounds in counter strike or while im playing an MMO and the group is going afk or somthing. i didnt though, but that would be a crazy record then.

[Carmilla]

Resident Evil 4 - About 12 hours

FF Tactics - About 18 hours

Dragon Quest 8 - About 15 hours

Some games are just way too good. :mog:

[Tavrobel]

I usually clock 16 hours on the internet a day, and most of that is playing games.
Fortunately, I always take a sleep break.

[Ichimonji]

The longest single game session I've had would probably be when I played FFIX for 19 hours straight, and I didn't get anywhere either... It was all sidequests. I know I must've played FFXI for longer than that in one session but I forget how long that would be. There's other games like Suikoden V and stuff that I've played for the entire day, but I didn't note the time like I did with FFIX.

[Griff]

new record! 39 hours, 27 minutes and 19 seconds playing DDR and Guitar Hero at the same time

[Yuffie514]

usually on starting new and interesting games, i would go for hours and forget about meals. it eventually slows down after that. the last time was with Kingdom Hearts II, which i played about 8 hours of the first two days...

[KentaRawr!]

All night long, I played Super Mario RPG. :D

[Ramza Beoulve]

I made a new record for me some weeks ago

69 Hours and 40 Minutes

Gran Turismo and Champions of Norrath

God, I love those games :D

EDIT: oh, it was 40 hours with Gran Turismo and the others with Champions of Norrath. I didn't sleep. After that time, I was a little freaky and paranoic :riiight:

[JaytodaP]

8 straight hours on Mega Man X collection. Ib eat 1 - 3 with all armor e-tamks, heart tanks etc. Resident Evil 4 from 1 PM to 9 PM and now i have better reflexes because of that. Tho longest might have been 11-12 hours from when i got Ogre Battle 64. I love that game. I had a good Chrono Trigger run for 9 hours and completed the main story i think. I Speed Ran that game on a new game plus in about 8 hours.

[Cruise Control]

36+ I got 3 games at once, Red Faction, Megaman X Collections, and timesplitters 3 (I had to have 100%). When I get a new game, I don't put it down until I finished it.

[Mirage]

Something like 24-30 hours. It was during the summer holidays years ago though, when there was nothing I had to do.

[SpiritWolf]

About 11 hours straight with Kingdom Hearts 2. I also played for about that long with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Final Fantasy IX, Tales Of Symphonia, and Final Fantasy X.

[Galbadian Soldier]

I think the longest I've ever played was 8 or 9 hours. It was last winter playing Animal Crossing:WW all the time! It's probably the game I've played the most in the past year or so.

[Cookie]

I can play for hours if a games interesting enough, which most Final Fantasy's are! I don't need sleep! (I actually did an all nighter on the forums last night chatting on these very forums!)

[bipper]

When I was young I would say like 36+ hour easy. Now that I am older, fatter, and out of shape, I just can't go as long as I once could :(

[Jessweeee♪]

When I got KH2 I played for 12 hrs straight and when I got KH1 I pretty much switched off between that and FFX for a good 12-16 hrs. My parents would kill me if I played that long. They think video games are corrupting the minds of the youthful. and that everyone is stupid.

[Griff]

When I was young I would say like 36+ hour easy. Now that I am older, fatter, and out of shape, I just can't go as long as I once could :(
You need to be in shape to play video games?

Video games- the only real sport that tests endurance for longer than a day, well that and Quidditch

[bipper]

When I was young I would say like 36+ hour easy. Now that I am older, fatter, and out of shape, I just can't go as long as I once could :(
You need to be in shape to play video games?

Video games- the only real sport that tests endurance for longer than a day, well that and Quidditch

Yes; you need to be able to stay awake at least, and I have grown too lazy for that. Also the fact that imo games have taken a huge down word spiral when the 16 bit era died out - does not help at all.

Bipper

[Reine]

I played Dragon Quest 8 for a quite a while while I first got it, it had been a long time since a game sucked my soul into it like that. Got up to Maella Abbey before I could play no longer.

The next day, I was at Baccarat :D

Alas, few games are interesting enough these days to enable 36+ hours of continous play