As I enter Azeroth for the 8th year, and am at around 300 days /played. I just kind of wonder what's the longest you've played a game. Anyone out there still rocking a game after many years?

I doubt I have anything approaching 300 days of gameplay. Yowza. My first run through Fallout 3 was a bit over 180 hours. First through Skyrim was about 160. I kept an SNES for a looooong time and played the shit out of some of those games for quite a few years. No idea about time but I could beat Super Contra solo, no code without trying very hard.

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I guess the longest I've played any game is either Diablo II for dunno how long or Some games in the Mass Effect Series, probably the second one, which I played through a bunch of times.

I've had about 300 hours on Fallout 3 (across multiple characters).

Total War games are about 150 hours each (I suspect Medieval II is more, but I originally had it pre-Steam so it didn't count)

I thought I'd played lots of X3, but it's apparently 67 hours.

GalCiv II is probably getting on for 200 hours, actually - 90 hours on Steam but it's another one I had pre-Steam.

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Quit WoW after 7 years. Don't know my /played but I'm assuming it's disgusting. Had something like 11 level 85's. Even now some of my old guildmates are going back for Pandarian. Me, I'm off that horse.

I couldn't give you a precise figure, but hundreds of hours (I would think 500+) would have been spent on Civ4 and it's various expansion packs over the 5 years since it was released until Civ5 replaced it. It was a damn well polished game by the time Beyond the Sword came out, and frankly Civ5 has yet to match it even after 2 years and an expansion.

I was playing Diablo 2 recently, as well as 10 years ago, so that probably wins for the overall longevity of a game for me, but in terms of raw hours played it actually wouldn't be too many. Strategy games are where my time gets sucked.

I still play the original Fallout and Civ 2

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Civ2?

Is this from some kind of hardware limitation? That's a lot of Civs ago.

Does playing with myself count?

I put a lot of hours into TF2. More recently, I've just finished playing through all 3 Mass Effect games over the course of about a month.

If it does I need to change my answer.

For overall amount of hours I think UO trumps everything. There was no /played so I don't know exactly but it had to be hundreds of hours. I only played WoW for about 3 months post release and maybe a dense month in closed beta. Never got beyond level 42.

EVE online might be up there, but a lot of that playing was doing other things too.

For the game that has 'stuck' around for the longest I'd say Counter-Strike if you count it all as one game. That was the game that got me to upgrade my graphics card and actually get into PC gaming. I played a bit of CS:GO a few weeks ago and would like to play more.

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That's a scary number. I'm quite ashamed to say that my WoW hours combined over my characters is actually over a year. I'm glad Blizzard ruined that game (was it even good to begin with you ask) because it made it easier to leave.

Longest play session without sleeping: Syndicate Wars with FiN, or Ragnarok Online. One or the other - a bit over 2 days off memory.

Bite your tongue. If I didn't buy Civ V, I'd still be playing Civ II. That game was near perfection.

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Whoa really? 2 days of constant playing? I assume food and bathroom breaks but that's pretty intense. How did the games hold your attention that long?