RPG binges

[metagloria]

What's the most you've ever played a game (and, obviously, which game) in a day/week/consecutive period of time?

My personal "bests":
–Played Star Ocean 3 for 56 hours in one week between Christmas and New Year's Once. (My friend later one-upped me by beating the game in 80+ hours in just six days.)
–Played FFXIII for 31 straight hours shortly after it came out. (During this stretch, I finally got to Gran Pulse, which opened up a massive chunk of interesting gameplay and helped me keep going.)

[Shorty]

Jesus, I consider my binges like 7-10 hours at a time xD

[Pike]

This was legitimately the best two weeks of my life.

[Madame Adequate]

I played FF I through IV/TAY a month or two ago. It was pretty great!

[LocoColt04]

I mean, I assume MMOs don't count for this, because I put a couple hours into FFXIV almost every night, so that's more of a "habit" than a binge.

Last time I had a good binge though? I have to save them for when I'm either on vacation, or playing something for the sake of writing a review. In that regard, I suppose my last binge was Lightning Returns. Before that though, I'm pretty sure I dumped dozens of hours into Dragon's Dogma. I'm still only one trophy away from a platinum and I reeeeeeally need to go back to that at some point soon to finish it up.

And for what it's worth, I full-complete FFVI at least twice a year, and usually do it within a week or two every time, split into decent chunks between other things.

[VeloZer0]

I consider 5-6 hours just a good play session, not a binge. That said, I get time to do that only a few times a year.

Longest I have ever played a game straight is when a friend dared me to beat FF7 in one shot, with no eating or sleeping. Final time was 21:42. I probably could have shaved a couple hours off, but I was (relatively) taking my time and enjoying myself because I hadn't played the game in quite a while.

In terms of over a week, I am sure there exists weeks where I have played for 12 hours a day, every day. Ah, back in the day....

[Yellow_Magic]

I'm a notoriously slow gamer (especially compared to you speed demons @_@): The fastest I've ever played an RPG was probably the 2 weeks I spent on Persona 4! Think I only amassed like 60-70 hours at that.

[Pumpkin]

Probably 15 hours.

[Skyblade]

Yeah, I don't "binge" on RPGs like this. This is just sort of how I play all the time. If I'm awake I'm either working, going to school, posting here, or playing video games. RPGs make up about 90 to 95% of what I play, so this is just sort of how my free time goes.

Also, getting my total time played is incredibly hard, because game time is not even close to accurately reflecting that.

[NeoCracker]

There was that one time in my youth I beat Mario RPG in one sitting.

And yeah, I play all games like this, where I will sit down with it for hours on end.

But yeah, me and Skyblade seem pretty much entirely on the same page on this one.

[Dat Matt]

Does borderlands 2 count as RPG? We played that for like 6 hours, slept 6 hours and played 6 more hours a fortnight ago. The previous weekend we did something similar, but from 4pm to 3am.

I tend to binge on games, but I don't have much time for it these days.

[Raistlin]

I haven't done anything remotely like this since early high school, but I beat three of my favorite, but also shorter, RPGs in less than a week: Lunar SSSC, Suikoden I, and Suikoden II. I literally only had breaks for meals and bathroom, and probably played over 10 hours/day for 6-7 days straight.

I loved every second.

I had some binges through longer games as well (especially my first playthrough of FF7), but I don't remember the specifics.

[Del Murder]

FFXI definitely. Back in the day when you got a good experience party, you didn't let it go. I probably spent 10 hours in a single party, let alone a single play session.

[Raistlin]

Oh god, I didn't even think about MMOs. I wasted most of one summer on EverQuest. And there was a time where I would get home from school and play Ultima Online until 12 AM, breaking only for dinner.

[black orb]

>>> The first time I played FF9 I played it for like 50 hours. I only paused the game to eat and go to the bathroom.
I was young back then I doubt I could do something like that now..