What single player game did you play the longest?

[Via]

I started X2 around 4 weeks ago and I'm already near 50 hours (and I'm building my own little economy).

I could literally see myself still playing this same game (off and on) a year from now. I only have 7 or 8 factories spread out over 3 sectors, and I haven't even explored the entire map yet. I figure I'm not very far into the main plot yet, but that doen't matter since it just seems to be a way to get into the various aspects of the game.

I probably played Morrowind for 70-80 hours; Gothic 2 took me about 75 hours.

So, just out of curiosity, what's the longest amount of time people here have played the same single player game.

Does anybody still have a really old game going (like Daggerfall)?

 

[Red Storm]

Baldur's Gate II; I've played it on and off for over 6 years (and counting).

Edit: Oh wait, you said singleplayer. Age of Empires II doesn't count then (unless you count scenario building, which I've always done and still do today).

 

[Via]

Originally posted by: Red Storm
Baldur's Gate II; I've played it on and off for over 6 years (and counting).

How long did your longest single game take? Or do you mean you still play the same game you started 6 years ago off and on?

 

[shortylickens]

BG 2. Nothing else comes close. It may feel like I've spent more time in Morrowind or Oblivion, but I really havent.
Age of Mythology and Act of War would be close behind. I never play them online but I love going against the AI.

 

[Red Storm]

Originally posted by: Via

Originally posted by: Red Storm
Baldur's Gate II; I've played it on and off for over 6 years (and counting).

How long did your longest single game take? Or do you mean you still play the same game you started 6 years ago off and on?

My longest single game took around a month (was happily taking my time and experimenting with just about everything I could). But in the past 6 years I've just about always had a game in progress at some point.

 

[apoppin]

Over One Thousand three hundred hours in Oblivion
- 1,000 (plus) hours (without using the console or cheats) to reach level 92 where Maxx, my character completely maxed out
[i.e. You Cannot Improve Upon Perfection]
--- then, over 300 more hours with the high level mods and expansions

It was not a waste of time imo; i learned the game's mechanics like few others [including the height of the White Tower and exploring the NPC AI]
.. i was the first player to report 1,000 hours on the TES forums
. . . and a 'discovery' or two

 

[Red Irish]

Oblivion

 

[Lonyo]

~100 hours in Oblivion and ~75 in FO3 so far, still haven't completed the main storyline in either.

 

[vj8usa]

Morrowind. I put several hundred hours into each game I played of that (probably close to a thousand hours combined, actually). I tried to do the same with Oblivion but got really sick of it after about 100 hours.

 

[Gothgar]

Single Player.... not sure

 

[alcoholbob]

Probably ~250 in Baldur's Gate Trilogy + MODS (30GB of goodness). FF10 about 160 hours to max everyone and get all the legendary weapons. Resident Evil 5 about 150 hours, 100% unlock. Oblivion around 120.

 

[Pantlegz]

FF7 hundreds of hours, I love that game! newer game, GTA3 I played quite a bit. Never got too into Oblivion the whole npc's level with you kinda pissed me off.

 

[JSt0rm]

there is a guy over at the stalker forums who has been playing the same game of SOC for so long that the seasons changed and it started snowing

 

[KeithTalent]

Technically I'm still on my first play-through of Crysis (I'm about a third of the way through) that I started several months ago, maybe even close to a year ago, but I can't imagine going back and playing it again.

KT

 

[HamburgerBoy]

120 real-time hours for my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate II. Can't think of any other that matches that.

 

[EvilComputer92]

220 hours for Oblivion

Unreal Tournament and all it's mods probably over 500 to 800.

 

[69Mach1]

Baldurs Gate 2 for about 300 hrs. God only knows about Diablo 2 because I haven't counted, and its the game I always play a few minutes at a time when I'm busy doing something and can't play for long. It's been installed on every computer I've had since it came out.

 

[dj2004]

Oblivion here, too. Very easily above a thousand hours. Without mods, it would be twenty hours.

 

[Zenoth]

It'd have to be Oblivion, but I stopped playing it about a year ago. I must have spent/wasted more than 500+ hours in that game. At the moment Fallout 3 is slowly but surely shaping up to be the new winner, it ain't so yet because it's still new, but ask me the same question in a year or two and I'm pretty sure my answer would then be Fallout 3, I don't have much choice either since I'm modding for it, and testing can take me up to 6+ hours per game-play session, that's not even playing for myself. That's for single-player though, multi-player is a whole different story, one which would inevitably belong to Diablo II: LoD.

 

[Mide]

Privateer + Expansion

 

[jlchoi]

Originally posted by: Mide
Privateer + Expansion

Such a great game. You could put in countless hours without even getting to the plot.

 

[videogames101]

300 Hours of Tales of Symphonia, but that was co-op.

 

[Chaotic42]

I can tell that Neverwinter Nights is going to take me a while since I insist on slowly bashing each chest. A single Falcon 4 campaign can run for weeks, I'd imagine.

 

[Dumac]

Definitely Morrowind. Spent at least a thousand hours on my longest active character...

Sadly, I can only play Oblivion for a week before losing interest.

 

[TemjinGold]

Could be BG2 (minus expansions.) Normally people do "challenges" after they've beaten the game silly as part of what makes challenges possible is prior knowledge of how the game unfolds. I was feeling a bit adventurous when it first came out, so I soloed a mage on max difficulty as my first playthrough. Some of the umm... more challenging battles is largely responsible for the number of hours I logged (don't even know how many now)...

Might be Thief 1 as well. When I first got that game, I misinterpreted Expert difficulty's "you can't kill anyone" requirement to also mean you can't blackjack them either. I actually went through the game on expert w/o killing OR blackjacking any humans. THAT was fun (mission 2 alone took me close to a week.) Unfortunately, when I was up to a second playthrough, I found out you COULD blackjack on expert and that took the fun away...