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Last night, I subjected myself to twelve straight hours of Mass Effect. After about six hours and several Red Bulls, I had maxed out my mouse sensitivity and I had the reflexes of a coked-up rattlesnake. I'm firing it back up now and may very well pull another all-nighter. Dakka, is there something wrong with me? Who wants to share stories of their all-night gaming binges?

This same thing sort of happened with me when I played Bioshock one night. I was so engrossed with the game that I didn't realize 8 hours had passed and that the sun was coming up.

I also can put in some marathon sessions of WoW.

I completed assassins creed 1 and 2 back to back over 27 hours with no sleep, hard as feth.

When I first got Halo 3 I didn't stop playing until I completed the campaign. As I had chosen to play on Heroic (before then I would usually play easy/normal) it took me all night. Fell asleep in geography the next day

I tend to clock in 3-5 hours on TF2 without knowing how much time has passed. RPGs can suck a lot of my time quickly too (just got new vegas and stayed up til 3 AM last night) Generally though I actually barely eat anything when playing games. Then I get super tired and hungry after playing.

Really? I build up a serious appetite. Sometimes I'll make a bunch of sandwiches and just keep them on the couch next to me.

Got Read Dead Redemption for crimbo and managed to clock up 12 hours on the day.

I tend to play new vegas from around 11 when people start signing off msn to around 5pm then sleep the day away.

Once, my friend and I played MW2 for like, 8 hours straight. After he mentioned it had been about 2 hours I checked and saw it was really 8.
A big laugh was had

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Once, my friend and I played MW2 for like, 8 hours straight. After he mentioned it had been about 2 hours I checked and saw it was really 8.
A big laugh was had

Yeah Me and a few mates did 4 man lan party blackops zombies from about 8pm to about 6am then had a 5 hour nap and went back at it until 6pm I swear I'm posting too much here.

Also, many years back was I was obsessed with Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, I played like, the full day without leaving my room because my parents were out at work

Star Wars Galaxies syphoned away literal weeks of my life. I was perfectly content to play it every minute of every day, not out of some need to grind out levels or get better equipment, but because it felt like a living, breathing world, wherein my avatar was my digital persona. They just don't make MMOs like they used to, sadly, and I'll probably never have that kind of experience again.

Though SWG is the biggest offender, there are countless games that I've played for at least 8 hours straight. Not too much anymore, as I find that I just don't get the same amount of satisfaction from a videogame that I used to.

Today I was on either TF2, Borderlands or Garry's Mod from 8:30 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Also, many years back was I was obsessed with Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, I played like, the full day without leaving my room because my parents were out at work

Wow I totally forgot about animal crossing! dang we rented that 3 times from blockbuster till we finally bought it. Sunk so many hours (days?) in that game, across 3 memory cards to maximize profit from fruits. Having a 2 story house+basement wasnt enough room though! Also those insects annoyed me. Stupid rare dragonfly was uncatchable. Filled up Dino Bones and Aquarium though. I miss playing that game now. Town must be filled with weeds

Oh dear iv had somethin similar, 8amish till about 11pm on Runescape, was very enjoyable haha.

The Dreadnote wrote:When I first got Halo 3 I didn't stop playing until I completed the campaign. As I had chosen to play on Heroic (before then I would usually play easy/normal) it took me all night.

I did the exact same thing.

When I first got Final Fantasy VII I played for 36 hours straight.

My parents were on holiday during the school holidays, so I was quite happy to game my life away.

The most after that was probably 15 hours on Reach, because me, the girlfriend and some friends had a LAN party and just played it constantly.

When Morrowind first came out on xbox I played that for about 2 days strait, pretty close anyways. Then I passed out from exhaustion

KingCracker wrote:When Morrowind first came out on xbox I played that for about 2 days strait, pretty close anyways. Then I passed out from exhaustion

That's why I no longer do gaming exertions. It's always exhausting!

I finished Halo:CE to halo reach on legendary last week over 4 solid days of playing... i get very bored in the holidays! (with breaks)

During classic WoW (prior to the xpacs) I did the AV rep grind from friendly to exalted in pretty much one go. I slept for like 4 hours in between about 20 hours of playing. Never doing that again.

Back during my old Runescape playing days, I was trying to get 99 fletching. Thats the max level you can reach in a skill and requires 100+ of grinding to achieve.

I spent about twenty hours crafting maple longbows without stopping for anything other then toilet breaks and snacks.

Lord-Loss wrote:Back during my old Runescape playing days, I was trying to get 99 fletching. Thats the max level you can reach in a skill and requires 100+ of grinding to achieve.

I spent about twenty hours crafting maple longbows without stopping for anything other then toilet breaks and snacks.

I spent a summer holiday (about 1 1/2 a day) getting my mining and smithing skills on runescape, i got them but at the cost of a summer

EagleArk wrote:

Lord-Loss wrote:Back during my old Runescape playing days, I was trying to get 99 fletching. Thats the max level you can reach in a skill and requires 100+ of grinding to achieve.

I spent about twenty hours crafting maple longbows without stopping for anything other then toilet breaks and snacks.

I spent a summer holiday (about 1 1/2 a day) getting my mining and smithing skills on runescape, i got them but at the cost of a summer

It really isn't worth it when you look back. But the cape and bragging power was nice.

One session? Over 24 hours straight, Halo Reach weekend. We went over my one friends house, and, killing 9 GALLONS of Mountain Dew in the process, we all did it.

IF you fell asleep before the 24 Hours was up, you we're shocked with a battery to the tongue.

Needless to say, I was Captain that weekend...

I only had it with Bioshock, which I played from start to finish in one long go and Dawn of War 2, which I started playing around five in the afternoon and didn't stop until it was past three. These days I take regular breaks.

Splinter Cell: Conviction.

I started playing the day it arrived(a day early, in fact) at 6pm.

Next thing I knew, I finished the game and it was 6am. Oops.

I worked all night (8pm to 6am) and picked up RE2 on the way home. Told myself that I was going to play until I got the the first save spot. Next thing I know, my GF called me and was on her way home after work. She got off of work at around 7pm. Thank God I didn't work that night.

I did have a few different times to where I found myself asleep while playing a FF game.

WoW had some pre-dawn until after dusk days associated with it. For the life of me I can't remember what I did in that game for 12-14 hours a stretch. Nowadays I max out at about 2-3 and I have to walk away for the day.

Fallout 3/New Vegas have both managed to be some serious time vampires. That's one of the last games in AGES I can remember looking up at the clock and going "4AM, wtf?! Wife better be sleeping soundly..."

Civ 4 has logged some good time too - have spent whole weekends on that, albeit usually with generous breaks. Just got Civ 5 and hoping it rings similar.

It's just getting so darn hard to find that kind of time to burn nowadays. It gets worse when I think about the projects and chores I'm putting off to piss away on a video game. Kids also limit the long stretches until after dark, which can be restrictive.

There....Might be something wrong with you. I remember playing the legend of zelda; twilight princess for like 14 hours straight. That game is pretty easy, but I was going for at least 90% completion, so it took that long. Got it the day it came out at around 10:30, played it from 12 to 2 Lots of fun.

I don't play many 'mainstream' games though, so I never have the chance to do such adventurous things. I remember playing pokemon platinum for (on and off) 48 hours straight. But that was the last time :3