I have an MVP Baseball 2003 franchise on my PC that’s gone three seasons. I played every game. Plus playoffs. It worked out to about 515 games, at about an hour each, for about 21 and a half days of playing time. It’s still going, too, though I haven’t played a game in a month or so. I would probably abandon it if I could get my hands on MVP Baseball 2005.
I had a D&D campaign that lasted from 1989 to 1999. It was multi-generational and even took a several centuries leap into the future with only one PC as a direct link from start to finish. I had another campaign while I was in the Navy and on West Pac that probably logged about 500 hours of playing in only 100 days.
Other than Role-Playing games I recall playing games like Sid Meier’s Pirates for weeks on end and I think Star Craft was another I played for weeks.
Going to board/strategy games, we had a long weekend huge Star Fleet battles game that was played for about 54 hours out of 66. It started with 6 teams and we slowly won even when the last two teamed up against us.
A series of message board based turn-based strategy style RPGs. It was role-playing in the sense that we played as the leaders of different historical states (most notably as various Mediterranean states, like Persia, Egypt, Macedonia, Rome, and Carthage, and another time as the Dukes of various German Duchies around 920 AD) and gave orders on how to run the states, from trade routes to battle orders. It was nice to be able to be completely flexible and use any wacky idea that came to mind, not just what a programmer had allowed for. Those games lasted for as long as two and a half years, allowing about a month per update. I’d love to get something like that going here, actually, if anyone’s interested.
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=146491
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=159835
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=175412
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=128536
Yeah, I know. That’s why I added the winky.
I have *several *hundred hours invested in Pokemon Pearl, and there still are places I haven’t gone yet. (After beating the Elite Four, I “retired” that party and started leveling up other 'mons to evolve them into species I didn’t have, so my party wasn’t powerful enough to survive areas like Stark Mountain.) Way too much of that time was spent farming berries and checking honey trees for munchlaxes (my wife finally traded something for one so I could stop).
nice. it’s a pity modern games do not appear to have anything similar to reward brand loyalty eh?
VGA Planets. Wow, that jogs some memories.
Played World in Flames (version 5) all the way through many time. Six people, 4-5 hours one night a week. Takes a few months.
I played a game of Matrix games’ “War in the Pacific” for over a year and a half, maybe 500 hours of computer time. We only got to March 1943 before my wimpy opponent gave up. Some crap about having children. We were both lightweights.
You can still find a VGA Planets game if you know where to look…
You’re the one who thought of it.
I was in Agora Nomic for a while. It started in the early 90s and is still going on.
God, berry farming…I am literally letting every single berry field in the game lie fallow right now, just because if I don’t I’ll never get the plot finished… But I’ll do a lot of berry farming as a Coordinator.
I have no idea which game I actually put the most time into. Here are a few standouts.
I spent hours and hours and hours playing the original Zelda on my NES when I was a kid. I know I spent way more time on that than Super Mario.
In college I probably put more time into, Escape Velocity than any other single game, even Warcraft or Starcraft. I even played a couple of modded versions. I played a lot of Marathon Infinity during that time too.
I played the original Diablo and the Hellfire expansion through with every character, and I spent over two years playing through Diablo II and Lord of Darkness with all the characters, trying out various builds. I’m not very obsessive there though, since my highest characters in D2 are probably around lev. 60, and there are plenty of people who have multiple very high-level characters both online and off. Heck, there are people who are still playing D2, almost a decade after release!
I’ve played through the single-player and coop campaign in Halo 1, 2, and 3 so many times that I can’t even estimate how much time I’ve put in. That’s excluding multiplayer, which I only started to get into in the last year or so. Even in the original Halo the AI was so good that you’d rarely play any particular spot through in exactly the same way. Even after hundreds of playthroughs you’ll still get surprised by the enemies.