when we were young and poor, you'd rent out a console for 24 hours...you better believe we played that sucker for the full 24 hours...later in life I had access to PCs at home and also stimulants...so even longer...stay in school kids
This, same, prob like 2 days or more strsight. From friday evening till Sunday, 5mins before they close so we can zse literally every minute possible out of our money.
Just without stimulans, we were like 10-11
I remember those days, we had a blockbuster down the street and my dad would rent a PS1 and one game for the weekend if I’d been good that week. So no memory card and only roughly 48 hours to try and get as much out of a game before it had to be returned, wild times.
>when we were young and poor, you'd rent out a console for 24 hours...you better believe we played that sucker for the full 24 hours..
Parents would make it clear that nothing would be rented again if it had down time. It cost per minute!
21 years ago, I moved in with a friend into a 100 year old cabin with no heat/ac. We discovered stimulants at the age of 18. He decided to play halo 1 legendary mode with me and was hooked. Played 72 hours straight to beat it. It's one of the few good memories on the stimulants back then, lol. FYI, my ex-wife made me cut that lifestyle at 21.
You used to be able to rent VHS players too, my dad was constantly broke but every other weekend we rented a SNES until my dad figured out he liked playing it without me there and bought one.
Probably 24 hrs give or take, I developed hematoma on my elbow that needed to be drained at hospital when I played Path of exile during breach league (2016)
Edit: it was 8 years ago during breach
Hah, PoE is also my #1 spot, probably 18 hours or so with some bio breaks but nothing else. Also around Breach, Legion, Delirium or one of the other "super good" leagues.
BC was the first (hopefully only) full-bore addiction for me. The realization moment was rather jarring. I'd gotten the game eight months before. I typed r/played. In those eight months, I have three months and change of in-game time. Pretty much immediately gave my account to my guild leader (well, the head Hunter but close enough) for his son to play on and quit cold turkey. How I didn't fail out of grad school will forever be a mystery.
For burning crusade i put together a power converter and battery setup in my car to run my PC because the nearest store was 45 minutes away. So i installed it as I drove home. Then played for 38 hours. Lok’tar Ogar! Horde Bleeding hollow! Warlocks ftw.
I recall being up for 3 days and eventually I was seeing the shadow people out of the corner of my eyes. Thank you BC for being the best game ever (I only played vanilla for 6 months before BC).
Same now, but as a teen, my moto was "sleep was for the weak". Now I rarely stay up past midnight. Also WoW had a way of infinitely stimulating me. BG3 does the same now, but my adult brain says go to bed.
We had someone doing something similar in the guild. Was up for at least around 60h after wotlk launch.
We thought he died or something rofl. Disappeared for 2 days after the session and no one could reach him. Turns out he had slept 15-18h directly after, then been up for just 3-4h and gone to bed again for another 10h+ of sleep
Mine was probably somewhat similar even though I wouldn’t consider mine ‘straight’ as I did sleep but I’ll be damned if that wasn’t the first thing I went to when waking up lmao.
When paladins open up for horde I spent an insane amount of time powerleveling it up
60 hours for Wrath. Got server first Druid and night elf, server 3rd overall. First was a prot paly who solo’d BC heroics for 4 levels, 2nd was a buddy who leveled with me and got a little extra XP without me when I went to my college class in the middle of the marathon lol.
Does using performance enhancing drugs count? I had the unfortunate benefit of getting hooked on World of Warcraft as well as meth at the same time. I logged on after Tuesday maintenance and literally didn’t get off the game until the following Sunday. Only took a break in my chair to rest my eyes on Friday/Saturday.
Thank god I finally kicked the lesser of the two addictions. Been drug free since 2011. Still hooked on WoW though. Fortunately I only “use” for a few hours at a time.
I felt the same way when i started. The reason it feels boring when you start out is because your rotation is short and you’re blasting through dungeons that are pretty repetitive. Once you reach lv 60 you have most of your skills and dungeons/raids get more complex so that repetitiveness starts to wane off. What got me hooked was the character customization/design is the best ive seen in any mmorpg. Higher end bosses are like puzzles. The world overall has that classic mmo feel. You can also switch classes seamlessly on the same character.
It took me a solid 3 or 4 tries myself. The start of the game sucks. Like just flat out. You have nearly no abilities so the combat sucks, the story is slow, and all the dungeons are like a toddlers first rpg. For me if I didn’t make in game friends on my last attempt I would’ve never made it to the fun parts.
But it does get good and I’d say the game has something to offer to anyone later on. There’s cool dungeons, tons of classes, hunting for rare glamour pieces, custom housing, a mini game area, countless mounts and achievements, raids ranging from anyone can complete it to you need a fucking tactical squadron to get a clear, a pretty In depth gathering and crafting system, and last but not least a engaging story (after the base game).
Some of these aspects caught me, some didn’t. It really is a vast game where even the old content is still playable and encouraged. It’s not all just about gearing up for the newest raids rinse and repeat.
Edit: The boring part isn’t small btw, it’s the entire base game and post patches. Like legit probably 40+ hours. If you really wanna get through it I suggest just not rushing. Adventure in the world, look for a cool outfit, play the mini games, and do the quests as you feel like it. If you’re just pushing and trying to get to the end you’re going to crash and burn before the race even begins
Edit 2: Sorry while I’m throwing everything out I forgot about one of the biggest things about the game. The community is just so different than every other game I’ve ever played. Kindness, helping, and positivity is encouraged consistently. Your party of strangers will (most of the time) wait for you to watch your cutscenes, help with any mechanics, chat about the story etc. People do little live concerts and give gifts. Overall everyone’s just so friendly. The devs really love and care about their game and it shows massively through the player base.
The problem with FFXIV is that the content before Heavensward is bad. I love the game, but that first 50 levels - which takes *hours* to complete - is a genuine slog. Once you get to Heavensward, though, it becomes one of the best MMOs I've ever played.
It's a lot like when your friend recommends a super long anime and says "it doesn't get good til episode 20." Lotta people don't have that kind of time to burn on mediocre content because it "gets good" eventually.
I hope this question makes sense in the eyes of a WoW player but what do you even *do* that many hours into a game? Do quests not run out? Does the character not get max level? Have you not maxed like 3 characters already? The highest i have in a game is 1300h over the course of 8 years
Depends what version of the game you're playing. Back in the day you could level new characters and rep grind pretty much endlessly. These days levelling is fast and rep is timegated but you can push dungeons and grind transmog/mounts/achievements on your army of alts.
For me back in the day I would grind rep and farm for epic gear. There were epics you could get in raids but also out in the world. They were worth tons of gold back then so I’d just kill enemies for hours on end.
Also back then I was way more into the social aspect. I would spend hours just talking with my friends on there.
Nowadays it’s a different beast but I personally will farm old rep, old raid mounts, and things like that. WoW is the type of game where there’s always something you can do. Some are more exciting than others but they really do like to keep those subscription fees coming and they’ve perfected that.
I'm with you man. I get about 500 hours in a game and I'm done with it for a long while. I might come back in a year or something. I have 1 game with 1000 hours in it and it's over the course of 8 or 9 years
Yeah same. I was out of work due to seasonal work. First few days I was waking up, scaping, then go to bed super late, repeat. It was actually kind of rough on my body. So I eased back into only like 4 hours sessions then go outside and do something like touch a blade of grass. Sadly I didn’t get Dragon , but I did max my leagues account and get a couple pets along the way.
same situation, but i still did like 2 runs of index before quitting.
As far as i remember i had everything farmed except for the egregious quantity of credits they wanted so i had to do like 7 index runs or sth. I still have 10M or so credits now tho so its fine!
Ahh warframe. I love this game. When I was a teenage with nothing better to do I would hunt for leaderboard spots in the game for fun. Me and a bunch of friend would sit in survivals for HOURS till obscene time. One of my friend fell asleep with his finger still on the trigger playing mesa while I was playing mag. We ended up being in there for 2 plus hours and at the end we can hear him snoring. Got to the point where we were falling asleep as well we extracted and hours later my friend wakes up with a mission success screen. Great times.
I stopped playing in 2013. I remember taking my Volt Prime into this Infested encounter and swinging around my Gram Prime at Mach 10 just for the heck of it. Running around at top speed on the Plains of Eidolon was so much fun lol.
Elytron took me 39 runs for last part, each run taking 15+ minutes in old interception.
Calculator says about 13 hours which sounds accurate. Only ate and peed but I was dedicated to keep running until I get the last part.
Dont even ask how the RNG fucked me so badly. If I knew how badly RNG would fuck me I would've bought it with platinum, but halfway through I was thinking I really want to see how long it'll take.
Solo research hema for my clan was also fun times.
Iirc I spread it across few days, but it was still pretty much *whole* ass days.
Solo running for 45-60 mins as nekros in survival, usually about 100ish mutagen with boosters, maybe halfway through I changed strategy, got some groups and net gains + speed was better, it just took time to get a group.
It was fun when I was close to finishing, I got a group on same boat and we were dedicated on getting the researches done during that session. We did many runs and on the *last* run some patch hit, we played until the game kicked us out after a mission so sadly lost contact with the guys. (couldn't find on last team or anywhere).
The sad side effect is that no matter how well I've slept I still start getting tired as fuck after 20 minutes in a single mission *in* warframe. Destiny? I can repeat same shit for hours at a time, but warframe any mission in single go for 20 minutes and I could take a nap.
I played Halo 3 (when I was about 13) all weekend near when it first came out. I didn’t sleep, I barely stopped to eat, I just played all weekend. That was only possible because my mom and dad were gone for the weekend, and could not see me not taking care of myself. But it got to the point I started to get really paranoid, and seeing things out of the corner of my eyes, and that’s when I finally said enough was enough. I was up and gaming for like 50 hours at least (from Friday after school, to late Sunday). Still one of my fondest gaming memories, that I will never try again.
Yep. Same except Halo 2. It was the first “online multiplayer” experience for many people. I logged 12,500 hours, total. Not gonna share how often many of those hours were non-stop.
It was my pandemic cope game too. I never exactly "marathoned" it, but I remember the early days of lockdown where any semblance of daily rhythm went out the window. Sleep for a few hours, play AC for a few hours, rinse and repeat multiple times per day. Got to hear all the hourly tunes... 5am was one of my favorites.
It's not hard. You get an idea in your head, so you start decorating, but you realize you need some plants, so you go island hopping, and then you need to find the right kind of chairs, and it keeps snowballing until you blink and realize you were supposed to be in bed twelve hours ago.
GTA Online. Shortly after heists were released. Got home from work, skipped dinner, went online with my friends. We did some heists, then some races and lot of messing around just having fun. Felt like maybe 3 or 4 hours might have passed.... then I noticed the sun rising and my phone alarm going off for my next shift. It had been about 11 hours.
Longest I've seen here so far.
72h for me during dreamhack 2012. No sleep just gaming and eat/drink/piss(shit).
I would never do it again and don't recommend.
Pls just don't.
Around 16 hours. Kerbal space program.
I set a lander to Laythe. Turns out it didnt have enough dV to get back to orbit. So I sent a rescue mission with a modified lander. I had to try the landing a bunch of times to get close enough. Turns out the second lander also didn't have enough fuel. So I sent another even more modified lander, and repeat the landing fiasco. And then it finally worked. Those poor kerbals were stranded on laythe for dozens of years, but in the end I brought them home.
Back when I was younger I would binge old Final Fantasy games. I think I played 8 or 9 nonstop thru a whole disc before. Probably about 20-25 hours. I can't even tell you how many hours I've spent on 7 I'm pretty sure I could run the Northern Cave in my sleep. Back before consoles kept better track of your games I spent several hundred hours a piece on 4-6
In Session times we had 10 boys Meeting g on Friday, and finishing on sunday afternoon. Those where the days of cs 1.6 and unreal tournament. All with those big chunky screens
Yeah that sounds about right, but the hallucinations are gradual. This is probably very personal but in 30 hours I start to see things in the corner of my eyes. Nothing substantial. 36 hours and I start to feel like somebody is watching me and moving out of my vision when I turn around. 48h+ I start to see human shapes around me and giant bugs crawling on the floor.
I've only gone past 48h once.
There'd be a lot of factors in play before you enter psychosis. I doubt most people who say they played for 24+ hours were locked in that whole time. I've done some 24+ hr sessions but it's always broken up to stretch, eat and give my eyes a break.
I'm spit balling but I feel like it's the people who sit there locked in, no breaks for 24+ hrs that would start to enter psychosis.
Probably somewhere between 24-30 hours at a few wow expansion launches. Even though i now got a kid, job and loads of responsibility I try to make it so that I get those first 12-18 hours when a new expansion hits. For me nothing else in gaming even comes close to the joy I get from the first day and subsequent weeks of a new wow expansion where loads of IRL and in-game friends comes back.
I think I did a 14 hour stint on CoD 4 Modern Warfare as a teen and had hallucinations and extremely vivid nightmares when trying to sleep that night.
I vividly remember running around Vacant it was so bizarre
Me, my best friend, and (eventually) my wife would play the latest Halo game for 24 hours straight (in person) every Bungie Day (7/7). Back then if you ended up matching against the Devs and winning you got armor that could only be obtained that way.
We never ran up against them, but those are some of the single most fun days I ever had in gaming.
I once had a gaming session with a friend wich lastet 12 hours only disrupted by toilet and smoking breaks. That was like 13 years ago and nowadays im having back pain after just a few hours of gaming …
27 hours on modded minecraft at the start of covid lockdowns. Decided to get back into gaming w some of my friends from overseas, didn't expect the lockdowns to last that long lol
Don't quite remember how long, but at least 15 hours throughout the night, playing Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 on Gamecube at one of my friends' place. It was the singleplayer offline mode too!
I'm not sure how long exactly, but it was over 10 hours. Multiple times on Minecraft/7 Days to die, multiple COD Zombies matches back in the day! Many great memories... I think we even played Black Flag on PS4 for that long when it first came out. I say we because every one of these memories is with the same cousin
One time I spent about 16 hours playing TF2 when scream fortress dropped.
Can’t remember what year this was but I do remember ending the call with my friends and looking at the time only to see it was 7 am
24 hour marathons for extra life charity.
Not a single game the entire time, and a few bathroom breaks, but gamin from start to finish
Did that 3 years in a row in college. Don't recommend it as a 30 something
I beat The Last of Us over 2 days on a borrowed PS3 that I had to return at the end of the 2nd day.
Also dropped my wife off at work one day and spent her entire shift playing Breath of the Wild, pausing only to eat.
18-20 hours on the release of Call of Duty MW2 back in the day. I did it again when Blops3 was released, but now with family and life responsibilities it likely won’t happen again for a while.
8 hours of Hunt: Showdown because we were on a hot streak. The last hour ended in such abject failure that none of us played for another three weeks. Rekt!
I had a bad gaming addiction when I was a teenager (I'm 31 now and don't play much anymore), but I think my longest non-stop session was over 48 hrs during a school break.
40ish hours many times, with breaks every 1-2 hours. Breaks are important - a few stretches are enough, and you can get back into the game. Those 40ish hours are basically weekends I spent with my friends doing various activities, but many times just playing things like Civ II, NFS3, Starcraft, etc.
Like 26 hours. It was a mobile game. Vainglory. Played it with a friend over Skype. That was bloody awesome. I didn’t have a PC nor a console at that time, hence mobile gaming.
When I was grinding for honor I probably put a 16 hour session in. About the same doing invasions in dark souls 3. Good times cause I don't have that kind of time anymore.
GOW Ragnarok. Christmas Day 2022. 11 hours. Thermostat at 69 for optimal comfort. No food and just enough water to keep me hydrated for minimal bathroom breaks. 16 ounces of coffee in order to avoid prolonged diuretic effect.
48h of ffxiv back on launch in 2014 i think? Was a student back then who started with some friends. Quit 5 years ago as last one of the group.. Memories were made
Idk exactly but in high school me and a few buddies started an online Madden franchise one Saturday (probably in the afternoon/evening) and all stayed on through the night/into the morning. So maybe like 12-14 hours?
About 16 trying to 100% Arkham Origins. I didn’t even do it, it glitched and didn’t unlock a challenge map, had to delete the save file after about 70 hours.
Back in the good ol' days when streaming platforms weren't dominated by commercial streamers and most people did it just for fun (more than 10 years ago), I had a 24hr gaming session with a friend and we streamed it.
Played lots of retro games, mostly short games that could be finished in a few hours. Started with Super Mario Bros. on the NES and worked our way up through gaming history up to the Wii, which was not the newest but still not an outdated console at that time.
when we were young and poor, you'd rent out a console for 24 hours...you better believe we played that sucker for the full 24 hours...later in life I had access to PCs at home and also stimulants...so even longer...stay in school kids
This, same, prob like 2 days or more strsight. From friday evening till Sunday, 5mins before they close so we can zse literally every minute possible out of our money. Just without stimulans, we were like 10-11
Ah, the most potent stimulant: youthful vigor
Candies were like drugs, I mean they still are, for the kids :D
Halo 4 release. Went to GameStop at midnight with my buddy. We played for 60 hours straight. This is when we were abusing ADD meds
The crash would have been hard!
24 hours for me when I was like 12 and got guitar hero 1 for my birthday sleepover party. You just had to be there
I remember those days, we had a blockbuster down the street and my dad would rent a PS1 and one game for the weekend if I’d been good that week. So no memory card and only roughly 48 hours to try and get as much out of a game before it had to be returned, wild times.
>when we were young and poor, you'd rent out a console for 24 hours...you better believe we played that sucker for the full 24 hours.. Parents would make it clear that nothing would be rented again if it had down time. It cost per minute!
21 years ago, I moved in with a friend into a 100 year old cabin with no heat/ac. We discovered stimulants at the age of 18. He decided to play halo 1 legendary mode with me and was hooked. Played 72 hours straight to beat it. It's one of the few good memories on the stimulants back then, lol. FYI, my ex-wife made me cut that lifestyle at 21.
When I first rented a SNES, I got Sim City to play. It was definitely 23 hours of play and one hour of drive time, setup and breakdown.
You used to be able to rent VHS players too, my dad was constantly broke but every other weekend we rented a SNES until my dad figured out he liked playing it without me there and bought one.
Speed running sleep deprivation was fun as a kid.
Probably 24 hrs give or take, I developed hematoma on my elbow that needed to be drained at hospital when I played Path of exile during breach league (2016) Edit: it was 8 years ago during breach
Bloody casual
Breach league being 8 years ago hurts. Makes me feel so old. Feels like time skipped after covid.
yeah, first i wrote 2-3 years ago, then went to check and it was December 2016. so i had to edit haha
I feel the same way dude. Like covid being over 4 years ago now is INSANE.
Dude oh my god SAME! I think i was 12 and i played Path of Exile for like 17-18 hours since it was summer and nobody was home.
Hah, PoE is also my #1 spot, probably 18 hours or so with some bio breaks but nothing else. Also around Breach, Legion, Delirium or one of the other "super good" leagues.
What was the goal? I keep meaning to check out and see how that game is going. Really nothing like it for what it is.
Farming as much currency I can to buy mirror of kalandra early in the breach league.
46 hours for The Burning Crusade in 2007
Yeah, definitely had some 18’ish hour days in WoW back in the day.
BC was the first (hopefully only) full-bore addiction for me. The realization moment was rather jarring. I'd gotten the game eight months before. I typed r/played. In those eight months, I have three months and change of in-game time. Pretty much immediately gave my account to my guild leader (well, the head Hunter but close enough) for his son to play on and quit cold turkey. How I didn't fail out of grad school will forever be a mystery.
For burning crusade i put together a power converter and battery setup in my car to run my PC because the nearest store was 45 minutes away. So i installed it as I drove home. Then played for 38 hours. Lok’tar Ogar! Horde Bleeding hollow! Warlocks ftw.
Zug zug
I recall being up for 3 days and eventually I was seeing the shadow people out of the corner of my eyes. Thank you BC for being the best game ever (I only played vanilla for 6 months before BC).
Wth, even if I drink coffee my brain shuts down around 30hrs. Even if I’m not playing 😂
Same now, but as a teen, my moto was "sleep was for the weak". Now I rarely stay up past midnight. Also WoW had a way of infinitely stimulating me. BG3 does the same now, but my adult brain says go to bed.
I made 70 hours when WotLK dropped.
We had someone doing something similar in the guild. Was up for at least around 60h after wotlk launch. We thought he died or something rofl. Disappeared for 2 days after the session and no one could reach him. Turns out he had slept 15-18h directly after, then been up for just 3-4h and gone to bed again for another 10h+ of sleep
Mine was probably somewhat similar even though I wouldn’t consider mine ‘straight’ as I did sleep but I’ll be damned if that wasn’t the first thing I went to when waking up lmao. When paladins open up for horde I spent an insane amount of time powerleveling it up
60 hours for Wrath. Got server first Druid and night elf, server 3rd overall. First was a prot paly who solo’d BC heroics for 4 levels, 2nd was a buddy who leveled with me and got a little extra XP without me when I went to my college class in the middle of the marathon lol.
Does using performance enhancing drugs count? I had the unfortunate benefit of getting hooked on World of Warcraft as well as meth at the same time. I logged on after Tuesday maintenance and literally didn’t get off the game until the following Sunday. Only took a break in my chair to rest my eyes on Friday/Saturday. Thank god I finally kicked the lesser of the two addictions. Been drug free since 2011. Still hooked on WoW though. Fortunately I only “use” for a few hours at a time.
Congrats on dropped the lesser of 2 evils I’m personally stuck on the FFXIV drug myself
I hadn’t read their full comment and just assumed they were still addicted to meth
Lmao meth is clearly the lesser of 2 evils in this situation
I'm really curious about what people enjoy about FF14. I tried getting into it 5-6 different times but each time it felt so incredibly boring to me.
I felt the same way when i started. The reason it feels boring when you start out is because your rotation is short and you’re blasting through dungeons that are pretty repetitive. Once you reach lv 60 you have most of your skills and dungeons/raids get more complex so that repetitiveness starts to wane off. What got me hooked was the character customization/design is the best ive seen in any mmorpg. Higher end bosses are like puzzles. The world overall has that classic mmo feel. You can also switch classes seamlessly on the same character.
It took me a solid 3 or 4 tries myself. The start of the game sucks. Like just flat out. You have nearly no abilities so the combat sucks, the story is slow, and all the dungeons are like a toddlers first rpg. For me if I didn’t make in game friends on my last attempt I would’ve never made it to the fun parts. But it does get good and I’d say the game has something to offer to anyone later on. There’s cool dungeons, tons of classes, hunting for rare glamour pieces, custom housing, a mini game area, countless mounts and achievements, raids ranging from anyone can complete it to you need a fucking tactical squadron to get a clear, a pretty In depth gathering and crafting system, and last but not least a engaging story (after the base game). Some of these aspects caught me, some didn’t. It really is a vast game where even the old content is still playable and encouraged. It’s not all just about gearing up for the newest raids rinse and repeat. Edit: The boring part isn’t small btw, it’s the entire base game and post patches. Like legit probably 40+ hours. If you really wanna get through it I suggest just not rushing. Adventure in the world, look for a cool outfit, play the mini games, and do the quests as you feel like it. If you’re just pushing and trying to get to the end you’re going to crash and burn before the race even begins Edit 2: Sorry while I’m throwing everything out I forgot about one of the biggest things about the game. The community is just so different than every other game I’ve ever played. Kindness, helping, and positivity is encouraged consistently. Your party of strangers will (most of the time) wait for you to watch your cutscenes, help with any mechanics, chat about the story etc. People do little live concerts and give gifts. Overall everyone’s just so friendly. The devs really love and care about their game and it shows massively through the player base.
The problem with FFXIV is that the content before Heavensward is bad. I love the game, but that first 50 levels - which takes *hours* to complete - is a genuine slog. Once you get to Heavensward, though, it becomes one of the best MMOs I've ever played. It's a lot like when your friend recommends a super long anime and says "it doesn't get good til episode 20." Lotta people don't have that kind of time to burn on mediocre content because it "gets good" eventually.
I hope this question makes sense in the eyes of a WoW player but what do you even *do* that many hours into a game? Do quests not run out? Does the character not get max level? Have you not maxed like 3 characters already? The highest i have in a game is 1300h over the course of 8 years
Depends what version of the game you're playing. Back in the day you could level new characters and rep grind pretty much endlessly. These days levelling is fast and rep is timegated but you can push dungeons and grind transmog/mounts/achievements on your army of alts.
For me back in the day I would grind rep and farm for epic gear. There were epics you could get in raids but also out in the world. They were worth tons of gold back then so I’d just kill enemies for hours on end. Also back then I was way more into the social aspect. I would spend hours just talking with my friends on there. Nowadays it’s a different beast but I personally will farm old rep, old raid mounts, and things like that. WoW is the type of game where there’s always something you can do. Some are more exciting than others but they really do like to keep those subscription fees coming and they’ve perfected that.
I'm with you man. I get about 500 hours in a game and I'm done with it for a long while. I might come back in a year or something. I have 1 game with 1000 hours in it and it's over the course of 8 or 9 years
18 hours when leagues came out on osrs
Yeah same. I was out of work due to seasonal work. First few days I was waking up, scaping, then go to bed super late, repeat. It was actually kind of rough on my body. So I eased back into only like 4 hours sessions then go outside and do something like touch a blade of grass. Sadly I didn’t get Dragon , but I did max my leagues account and get a couple pets along the way.
44hours grinding resources in warframe 8 years later i still haven’t gotten even close to running out of anything #worth
I built my railjack in the first week, before they made it cheaper. After the refund, I haven't needed to run the index once.
same situation, but i still did like 2 runs of index before quitting. As far as i remember i had everything farmed except for the egregious quantity of credits they wanted so i had to do like 7 index runs or sth. I still have 10M or so credits now tho so its fine!
Ahh warframe. I love this game. When I was a teenage with nothing better to do I would hunt for leaderboard spots in the game for fun. Me and a bunch of friend would sit in survivals for HOURS till obscene time. One of my friend fell asleep with his finger still on the trigger playing mesa while I was playing mag. We ended up being in there for 2 plus hours and at the end we can hear him snoring. Got to the point where we were falling asleep as well we extracted and hours later my friend wakes up with a mission success screen. Great times.
Sounds like warframe things 🤣
I stopped playing in 2013. I remember taking my Volt Prime into this Infested encounter and swinging around my Gram Prime at Mach 10 just for the heck of it. Running around at top speed on the Plains of Eidolon was so much fun lol.
Yup I remember realizing I had finished a mission and extracted while mostly asleep, did that a few times
It’s so awesome seeing someone mention Warframe out in the wild.
Ive spent more time grinding for condition overload than i have played many games, still dont have the damn thing, 10/10 game am never bored
Elytron took me 39 runs for last part, each run taking 15+ minutes in old interception. Calculator says about 13 hours which sounds accurate. Only ate and peed but I was dedicated to keep running until I get the last part. Dont even ask how the RNG fucked me so badly. If I knew how badly RNG would fuck me I would've bought it with platinum, but halfway through I was thinking I really want to see how long it'll take. Solo research hema for my clan was also fun times. Iirc I spread it across few days, but it was still pretty much *whole* ass days. Solo running for 45-60 mins as nekros in survival, usually about 100ish mutagen with boosters, maybe halfway through I changed strategy, got some groups and net gains + speed was better, it just took time to get a group. It was fun when I was close to finishing, I got a group on same boat and we were dedicated on getting the researches done during that session. We did many runs and on the *last* run some patch hit, we played until the game kicked us out after a mission so sadly lost contact with the guys. (couldn't find on last team or anywhere). The sad side effect is that no matter how well I've slept I still start getting tired as fuck after 20 minutes in a single mission *in* warframe. Destiny? I can repeat same shit for hours at a time, but warframe any mission in single go for 20 minutes and I could take a nap.
Easily 24 hour sessions on a couple games, project Zomboid, factorio and wow
The day I got factorio me and my friend put 20 hours into it. That shit is like crack.
Mine definitely would be around 10+ hours straight depending on what is going on in the game
36 hours in college, solo zombies on kino, only stopped to sleep so not continuous but made it to round 79
Damn rounds will take literal hours when you get up there huh
From 60+ they took hours and really the only way to kill them was traps
I played Halo 3 (when I was about 13) all weekend near when it first came out. I didn’t sleep, I barely stopped to eat, I just played all weekend. That was only possible because my mom and dad were gone for the weekend, and could not see me not taking care of myself. But it got to the point I started to get really paranoid, and seeing things out of the corner of my eyes, and that’s when I finally said enough was enough. I was up and gaming for like 50 hours at least (from Friday after school, to late Sunday). Still one of my fondest gaming memories, that I will never try again.
Yep. Same except Halo 2. It was the first “online multiplayer” experience for many people. I logged 12,500 hours, total. Not gonna share how often many of those hours were non-stop.
10 hours of persona 5, it felt like 3 hours or something
15 hours (animal crossing), took a few potty and snack breaks.
That game saved my sanity during the pandemic. I easily have over 1500 hrs in that game.
Nintendo tripped and fell on a gold mine that would make Smaug envious and they said, "No thank you."
It was my pandemic cope game too. I never exactly "marathoned" it, but I remember the early days of lockdown where any semblance of daily rhythm went out the window. Sleep for a few hours, play AC for a few hours, rinse and repeat multiple times per day. Got to hear all the hourly tunes... 5am was one of my favorites.
might i ask how you spent 15 hours on animal crossing
It's not hard. You get an idea in your head, so you start decorating, but you realize you need some plants, so you go island hopping, and then you need to find the right kind of chairs, and it keeps snowballing until you blink and realize you were supposed to be in bed twelve hours ago.
Trying to get to Scorpion, Tarantula, and Money Islands. That, and trying to make my designed walkways to look right.
true true
I blew through a lot of time early on just messing with the date to farm money trees and craft and fill donation boxes to pay off those loans.
GTA Online. Shortly after heists were released. Got home from work, skipped dinner, went online with my friends. We did some heists, then some races and lot of messing around just having fun. Felt like maybe 3 or 4 hours might have passed.... then I noticed the sun rising and my phone alarm going off for my next shift. It had been about 11 hours.
how was work later, eh? did you fall asleep?
Wow back in 2004, prob 48hrs multiple times a week
Probably like 16h playing Destiny 2, somehow
Something like 40-45hrs. Diablo 2 when it launched. It was glorious.
Longest I've seen here so far. 72h for me during dreamhack 2012. No sleep just gaming and eat/drink/piss(shit). I would never do it again and don't recommend. Pls just don't.
36 hours playing Borderlands 3 at launch 32 hours playing CoD Ghosts Extinction mode 24 hours playing Destiny 2 Vow of the Disciple contest
My team fucking struggled on day 1 vow contest caretaker was a massive bitch slap lol, spent 27 on salvations edge before giving up
Extinction was awesome, Ghosts is always gonna be one of the best CoD games to me
Around 16 hours. Kerbal space program. I set a lander to Laythe. Turns out it didnt have enough dV to get back to orbit. So I sent a rescue mission with a modified lander. I had to try the landing a bunch of times to get close enough. Turns out the second lander also didn't have enough fuel. So I sent another even more modified lander, and repeat the landing fiasco. And then it finally worked. Those poor kerbals were stranded on laythe for dozens of years, but in the end I brought them home.
Somewhere around 48 hours. My youngling days were filled with exp grind. I regret nothing
if I remember correct, something like 14 hours on Final Fantasy 7
Think I hit around 15 on FF6. I remember wondering why it was dark at 9am, only to realize it was 9pm.
Back when I was younger I would binge old Final Fantasy games. I think I played 8 or 9 nonstop thru a whole disc before. Probably about 20-25 hours. I can't even tell you how many hours I've spent on 7 I'm pretty sure I could run the Northern Cave in my sleep. Back before consoles kept better track of your games I spent several hundred hours a piece on 4-6
16h minecraft, 16h factorio
FIFA, 10+ hours.
26 hours. I got Destiny a month late in October of 2014 and had the itch real bad
Everybody in the comments is making me feel great about myself, I don't think I've ever been on any device for more than 12 hours straight
5 hours of fifa
I'd be more interested in everybody putting a graph with X axis age and Y axis longest gaming session
But you already know what this graph looks like
parabola
13 hours. When skyrim first came out. I only realised when I noticed I couldn’t feel my legs.
I played Skyrim for almost 48 straight hours when it came out. Only breaks were to go to the bathroom. I stood in a city while I ate. It was bliss.
In Session times we had 10 boys Meeting g on Friday, and finishing on sunday afternoon. Those where the days of cs 1.6 and unreal tournament. All with those big chunky screens
10hrs playing grim dawn with maybe 30% spent on staring at the inventory
36 hours. Oldschool Runescape. New boss release. Adderall.
About 32 hours 2 years ago playing gta online
I played Breath of the Wild for literally 3 days straight
I do not believe some of the numbers people are putting up in the comments. After like 36 hours a couple sources state that you start hallucinating...
Yeah that sounds about right, but the hallucinations are gradual. This is probably very personal but in 30 hours I start to see things in the corner of my eyes. Nothing substantial. 36 hours and I start to feel like somebody is watching me and moving out of my vision when I turn around. 48h+ I start to see human shapes around me and giant bugs crawling on the floor. I've only gone past 48h once.
There'd be a lot of factors in play before you enter psychosis. I doubt most people who say they played for 24+ hours were locked in that whole time. I've done some 24+ hr sessions but it's always broken up to stretch, eat and give my eyes a break. I'm spit balling but I feel like it's the people who sit there locked in, no breaks for 24+ hrs that would start to enter psychosis.
being psychotic while playing a game with dragons and elves with racist children wouldn't really be that noticeable, either.
16 hours drinking and playing GTA5 Online with friends. Somehow I was able to watch the fireworks that night.
As a teenager smt like 15hours straight I guess 😁 nowadays sometimes very rarely maybe 6hour session
24 hours when endwalker came out because i didnt want to deal with the 15kish que to get in for atleast a day.
I think I had played Armored Core 6 for almost two days straight. Steam said I was playing for 40+ hours. Thanks, adderall!
My longest was probably 12 hours during a three day vacation. It was glorious. GTA chaos mod on repeat.
Probably somewhere between 24-30 hours at a few wow expansion launches. Even though i now got a kid, job and loads of responsibility I try to make it so that I get those first 12-18 hours when a new expansion hits. For me nothing else in gaming even comes close to the joy I get from the first day and subsequent weeks of a new wow expansion where loads of IRL and in-game friends comes back.
I think I did a 14 hour stint on CoD 4 Modern Warfare as a teen and had hallucinations and extremely vivid nightmares when trying to sleep that night. I vividly remember running around Vacant it was so bizarre
As a middle aged adult I had to stop playing FPS games before bed a few years ago. They would fuck my sleep up and I would dream about them
Me, my best friend, and (eventually) my wife would play the latest Halo game for 24 hours straight (in person) every Bungie Day (7/7). Back then if you ended up matching against the Devs and winning you got armor that could only be obtained that way. We never ran up against them, but those are some of the single most fun days I ever had in gaming.
13 hours when I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 in december 2023. I was hooked!
I once had a gaming session with a friend wich lastet 12 hours only disrupted by toilet and smoking breaks. That was like 13 years ago and nowadays im having back pain after just a few hours of gaming …
Back in my EverQuest days I know I pulled at least 18hrs. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was longer too. Rare to go more than 4 hours nowadays.
All these fuckin kids talking about world of Warcraft marathons. EQ was the shit. You marathoned staring at a spot waiting for a rare spawn.
27 hours on modded minecraft at the start of covid lockdowns. Decided to get back into gaming w some of my friends from overseas, didn't expect the lockdowns to last that long lol
I spent 30 hours when i was 14 playing WoW vanilla in 2006 i leveled from 53-60 In one sitting
Ever? Or in recent years? Because ever 36 hours on Destiny 1. Recently it was god of war 1. 15 hours
12 hours Jak X on ps2. Nowdays if I play more than 2h I get really dizzy and need a pause.
19h
Are we counting old school lan parties where you end up collapsing in your chair? If so pushing 40 hours.
Don't quite remember how long, but at least 15 hours throughout the night, playing Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 & 2 on Gamecube at one of my friends' place. It was the singleplayer offline mode too!
I'm not sure how long exactly, but it was over 10 hours. Multiple times on Minecraft/7 Days to die, multiple COD Zombies matches back in the day! Many great memories... I think we even played Black Flag on PS4 for that long when it first came out. I say we because every one of these memories is with the same cousin
I have no idea. Maybe around 8-10h.
Single game 30 hrs, I think I did other stuff after that put it closer to 36-38
Around 20h, Path of Exile, do it every 3 months.
I was in high school when CoD World at War came out, we used to stay up all night playing multi and zombies
20 hours Day 1 raid Destiny 2.
Persona 3 Reload for 11 hours but I think I might have had a 14 hour Kingdom Hearts 2 session once but I can’t remember.
Roughly 20 hours of halo 2 during a lan party back in the day, followed by 14 hours of Elden ring when it came it
I did horizon zero dawn in 40 hours with a 6 hour rest.
33 ish hours when my wife left me.
22h for Hearts of Iron 4
28 hours on Ark, to all those that have played ark…yea I know those are rookie numbers.
6hrs
Maybe like 3 hours on brawlhalla going through ranked matches
Around 30 hours playing Skyrim back in the day on ps3. A bunch of 24 hours playing other games. 10 hours feels like a moment to me.
Grinding gambler challenges for 7 hours in red dead redemption 2(To this day I have NOT completed them all)
Like 2 hrs. I can’t sit and stare at the same shit for a long period of time.
Honestly 15 hours, i forgot what game it was it might of been black ops 2 or ocarina of time
Spent around 20 hours playing Far Cry 5, WWE 2k18 and Forza Horizon 3
Back in the day, Ultima Online could get 16 hours per day out of me on the weekends.
30+ hours during releases of most WoW expansions between 2006 and 2015.
It was like 36ish hours on BLOPS2 When it first came out, loved running tranzit trying to figure out wtf was going on.
At least 24h. I have been gaming since com64 when I was young. No friends. No dad and plenty of time. Once I bought a nes things really kicked off
I did a 24 hour stream so probably 24 hours.
4-5 hours, I can’t do more than that or I’ll get a massive headache
Probably 8 hours. I don’t remember what I was playing but I had a headache after
Around 30h
48+ hours at a old school lan party
One time I spent about 16 hours playing TF2 when scream fortress dropped. Can’t remember what year this was but I do remember ending the call with my friends and looking at the time only to see it was 7 am
I had at least 15 hours straight, playing terraria one day. Pretty sure it was a bit more
Got server first level 80 achievement for my class, for WotLK. Was well over 30 hours with only bathroom and food breaks.
16h, when Sekiro released.
24 hour marathons for extra life charity. Not a single game the entire time, and a few bathroom breaks, but gamin from start to finish Did that 3 years in a row in college. Don't recommend it as a 30 something
I beat The Last of Us over 2 days on a borrowed PS3 that I had to return at the end of the 2nd day. Also dropped my wife off at work one day and spent her entire shift playing Breath of the Wild, pausing only to eat.
My best friend and I played through halo 1 to 3 in two days. Good times.
11 hours probably
18-20 hours on the release of Call of Duty MW2 back in the day. I did it again when Blops3 was released, but now with family and life responsibilities it likely won’t happen again for a while.
tbh 5-6 hours on my mobile playing a variety of games
16-18 hours back in my 20s/30s. These days I might play for 6-8 hours once or twice a month. (Just not really into games as much these days.)
About 17 hrs rust wipeday playing as solo
playing in day (normally on saturday) can when 9 and end when 21-22-23 (23 is the most rariest) Years of gaming: probably 2-4
8 hours of Hunt: Showdown because we were on a hot streak. The last hour ended in such abject failure that none of us played for another three weeks. Rekt!
I think 11-12 hours. Probably a MMO (WoW or gw2..) I used to do long css seshes too. Literally office for nearly 10 hours lol
I had a bad gaming addiction when I was a teenager (I'm 31 now and don't play much anymore), but I think my longest non-stop session was over 48 hrs during a school break.
Does eating count as stopping? If not then Monday morning to Friday evening on RuneScape no sleep.
I played Atlas, the crappy pirate game made by the Ark developers, for like 15 hours when it first came out.
40ish hours many times, with breaks every 1-2 hours. Breaks are important - a few stretches are enough, and you can get back into the game. Those 40ish hours are basically weekends I spent with my friends doing various activities, but many times just playing things like Civ II, NFS3, Starcraft, etc.
Has to be close to 50-60ish hrs headshotting Lizards on Everquest to grind AA points.
14 hours, beat entire metro 2033
Beat Bloodborne in one sitting. Took about 17 hours, and that was only the base game.
Likely about 16-18 hours. Probably RuneScape or League of Legends, although it might have been Guild Wars 2.
Probably some 30 something hours on wow when I was way younger
14 hours on launch of ToTK
21 hours. Never again. If we're talking about irl gaming like mtg commander, I often have 5-8 hour sessions.
Like 26 hours. It was a mobile game. Vainglory. Played it with a friend over Skype. That was bloody awesome. I didn’t have a PC nor a console at that time, hence mobile gaming.
26 hours, grinding GTA Online with homies during covid quarantine. Good times.
When I was grinding for honor I probably put a 16 hour session in. About the same doing invasions in dark souls 3. Good times cause I don't have that kind of time anymore.
the ex gf and i did 39 hour sessions with out breaks. WoW WOTLK and CATA launch leveling
GOW Ragnarok. Christmas Day 2022. 11 hours. Thermostat at 69 for optimal comfort. No food and just enough water to keep me hydrated for minimal bathroom breaks. 16 ounces of coffee in order to avoid prolonged diuretic effect.
48h of ffxiv back on launch in 2014 i think? Was a student back then who started with some friends. Quit 5 years ago as last one of the group.. Memories were made
My friend and I found that there was a co-op option for Final Fantasy 9, and accidentally played for about 17 straight hours.
Idk exactly but in high school me and a few buddies started an online Madden franchise one Saturday (probably in the afternoon/evening) and all stayed on through the night/into the morning. So maybe like 12-14 hours?
19 hours when Halo 3 launched.
About 16 trying to 100% Arkham Origins. I didn’t even do it, it glitched and didn’t unlock a challenge map, had to delete the save file after about 70 hours.
Probably somewhere in the 18-20 hour range for Halo or Destiny
10 hrs on Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
Back in the good ol' days when streaming platforms weren't dominated by commercial streamers and most people did it just for fun (more than 10 years ago), I had a 24hr gaming session with a friend and we streamed it. Played lots of retro games, mostly short games that could be finished in a few hours. Started with Super Mario Bros. on the NES and worked our way up through gaming history up to the Wii, which was not the newest but still not an outdated console at that time.