Longest Video Games to Fully Complete (On Average) (1 Viewer)

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I could play Skyrim and Destiny forever..

 

[DiAnna]

I can't upload a screen shot, so you'll have to take my word for it: Skyrim, 5, 746 hours. Honest. Been playing it for five years, almost constantly, 4-5 hours a night. Can't even count the number of characters I've created, lol.

Thing is, I STILL stumble into quests, people and places that I have never even seen, met, or been! I absolutely love that game.

 

[Drawdown]

reminds me of a story I read about the quirks of artificial intelligence. Researchers basically set AI loose as a player on video games and found the machines playing the machines doing some rather unexpected things. Some of them would find loops in the code that allowed them to just play endlessly for maximum points without ever trying to finish the games as that is what the AI saw as "winning".

 

[PeteEU]

Everquest... Its in the name, it never ends. The size of the game world dwarfs most games out there.

Sent from my Honor 8X

 

[Mr Person]

If we include MUDs (text-based MMORPG), Dragonrealms. (or it's older brother, Gemstone IV).

I think it's calculated that if you want maximum ranks (aka skill level) in every single skill, it would take close to 5,000 hours. Naturally, the only people who reached that are "scripting" (aka, having a program enter commands). Levels cap at 200, and max ranks are way beyond what is required for 200.

There's no goal to reach a particular level or really any sort of goal, so I'm not sure it really fits this thread, since there are discrete goals identified in those games. It's a sandbox text-based roleplaying game, but all on one server. Had about 2,000 max on at a time on some nights ~1998. It is what you make of it (well, back in the day there were enough players and GMs that the GMs would basically invent storylines on the fly, playing NPCs; they don't seem to have the staff for that anymore). Somehow it's still around.

 

[dex4974]

Been playing it for five years, almost constantly, 4-5 hours a night.

...seriously? I wouldn't be bragging about that.

 

[Deuce]

reminds me of a story I read about the quirks of artificial intelligence. Researchers basically set AI loose as a player on video games and found the machines playing the machines doing some rather unexpected things. Some of them would find loops in the code that allowed them to just play endlessly for maximum points without ever trying to finish the games as that is what the AI saw as "winning".

One AI playing Tetris discovered it would never lose if it just paused the game forever.

 

[Lutherf]

Many of the open world games simply don't have an end so I don't know that I'd count them as such. Skyrim probably requires a couple of hundred hours to completely fill out the map and do all the major quests and side quests. I have no idea how long it would take to do all the achievements. Fallout 4, similarly, could probably be played forever.

As far as a game that actually has an end, probably Civilization on the one year at a time timer and a huge map.

 

[Redress]

It depends on the game type. I was going to snidely suggest Everquest, but someone beat me to it: to experience every zone, each named mob, and all the raids, would take thousands of hours. On the other hand, to level to max level would take far less(though still a considerable amount of time). To be fair though, many MMOs are similarly large(though none quite so over the top large). But to get all the achievements in Europa Universalis 4 would probably take even longer, if that is a goal for you(some of those are damn near impossible). For open world games, it would depend on what your goal is.

 

[DiAnna]

...seriously? I wouldn't be bragging about that.

Why not? What do you do for 4-5 hours in the evening? Watch tv? :lol:

 

[Mr Person]

It depends on the game type. I was going to snidely suggest Everquest, but someone beat me to it: to experience every zone, each named mob, and all the raids, would take thousands of hours. On the other hand, to level to max level would take far less(though still a considerable amount of time). To be fair though, many MMOs are similarly large(though none quite so over the top large). But to get all the achievements in Europa Universalis 4 would probably take even longer, if that is a goal for you(some of those are damn near impossible). For open world games, it would depend on what your goal is.

It definitely took me several years before I'd quested through each zone in WoW, and I doubt I finished off every last quest (at least before they made everything scale to level).

I started ESO a year ago, and I think I still have one zone to do on the main character before I've been through the whole map. But of course, theye're poised to add another zone soon so...

 

[dex4974]

What do you do for 4-5 hours in the evening?

...for 5 years? Lots of things other than play the same video game. I have a wife, a son, various hobbies, a business to manage and even friends to hang out with. I'm not saying I don't waste time sometimes, particularly in a place like this, but good lord. That's a huge chunk of your time devoted to one video game. What else could you have accomplished with all of that time and energy? I mean, do you...but jeez.

 

[DiAnna]

...for 5 years? Lots of things other than play the same video game. I have a wife, a son, various hobbies, a business to manage and even friends to hang out with. I'm not saying I don't waste time sometimes, particularly in a place like this, but good lord. That's a huge chunk of your time devoted to one video game. What else could you have accomplished with all of that time and energy? I mean, do you...but jeez.

Well, my husband and I are both disabled, there isn't much I am physically able to do, and I gain some measure of enjoyment from playing the game. Thanks for the repeated insults, though, in a thread I thought was supposed to be a fun diversion.

Stay safe and have a nice day.

 

[Deuce]

...for 5 years? Lots of things other than play the same video game. I have a wife, a son, various hobbies, a business to manage and even friends to hang out with. I'm not saying I don't waste time sometimes, particularly in a place like this, but good lord. That's a huge chunk of your time devoted to one video game. What else could you have accomplished with all of that time and energy? I mean, do you...but jeez.

You should stop being so concerned with someone else's hobbies.

 

[Jetboogieman]

I am terrible, with the amount of Games I had, most I haven't got too far into them, I've definitely got an issue with attention span, I know I've got something special on my hands when I just have to beat it, collect every single thing and it's got me hooked, I think the next game that will PROBABLY get me there is Cyberpunk 2077, but the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to get that feeling.

One time I had way too much time on my hands at work and for fun went through this list on Wikipedia to see how many games on this list I would have played.

List of video games considered the best - Wikipedia

So at one point or another, if only briefly I played about 90% of them.

But of that 90% I only completed 25% and right now I've gone back because I never played the DLC and am Trying my hand at Witcher III again and man, I want so bad to continue through it but I attempted this time around to do EVERYTHING.

Every side quest, every contract, every location and I'm so burned out on it I don't know if I want to continue, same thing with World of Warcraft Classic, got two chars through to 40's, got my mounts and I just can't seem to want to continue.

 

[dex4974]

You should stop being so concerned with someone else's hobbies.

Oh? Why?

 

[Deuce]

Oh? Why?

It's weird.

 

[gdgyva]

If we include MUDs (text-based MMORPG), Dragonrealms. (or it's older brother, Gemstone IV).

I think it's calculated that if you want maximum ranks (aka skill level) in every single skill, it would take close to 5,000 hours. Naturally, the only people who reached that are "scripting" (aka, having a program enter commands). Levels cap at 200, and max ranks are way beyond what is required for 200.

There's no goal to reach a particular level or really any sort of goal, so I'm not sure it really fits this thread, since there are discrete goals identified in those games. It's a sandbox text-based roleplaying game, but all on one server. Had about 2,000 max on at a time on some nights ~1998. It is what you make of it (well, back in the day there were enough players and GMs that the GMs would basically invent storylines on the fly, playing NPCs; they don't seem to have the staff for that anymore). Somehow it's still around.

if you include those

Torn City

a friend of mine been playing for 14 years and still going strong

i just got into the game last year....after giving up other MMORPG games

 

[gdgyva]

It definitely took me several years before I'd quested through each zone in WoW, and I doubt I finished off every last quest (at least before they made everything scale to level).

I started ESO a year ago, and I think I still have one zone to do on the main character before I've been through the whole map. But of course, theye're poised to add another zone soon so...

couldnt do every zone in Vanilla....at least not that i was aware of....

and raising 6 toons to 60 was EPIC

took me seemed like FOREVER

 

[Mr Person]

couldnt do every zone in Vanilla....at least not that i was aware of....

and raising 6 toons to 60 was EPIC

took me seemed like FOREVER

I started in BC. I know it was Feb. 2007. I had a week or so off and no trip planned. Around 10pm on the first night I gave in and downloaded the demo. It was another 28 hours or so until I went to bed...

I stopped around 2015. Maybe I played a bit in 2016. No matter how much they expanded, it was just the same damn thing over and over. I'm sure that'll happen with ESO at some point.

 

[Mr Person]

if you include those

Torn City

a friend of mine been playing for 14 years and still going strong

i just got into the game last year....after giving up other MMORPG games

I actually got back into the Dragonrealms MUD in 2017. I've played on and off. It's weird. I played thirty years ago, and there are still some of my friends from way back then in it. It really is an odd experience, because I finished growing up while playing that game.

Sadly, it's a shell of what it once was. They need a proper staff to make it the way it was. Sure, you can do all the same things. But there are no game-wide events made up by GMs playing NPCs lasting months. No wars where cities are taken and retaken. Etc. No game has yet matched what they could do. And how could it? Even when WoW had its cycle of "invasion", they were on a timer and exactly the same every time. Events in DR were one-time-only, unique. Text or not, it was its own world.

 

[poweRob]

I can't upload a screen shot, so you'll have to take my word for it: Skyrim, 5, 746 hours. Honest. Been playing it for five years, almost constantly, 4-5 hours a night. Can't even count the number of characters I've created, lol.

Thing is, I STILL stumble into quests, people and places that I have never even seen, met, or been! I absolutely love that game.

I game but stick to only two games. Diablo and Starcraft. I started decades ago with both of these. Primarily Diablo. I only play what is called hard core in diablo anymore. Which means when your character dies... that's it. You have to start all over with a level 1 character. Makes you make better decisions and not just hack and slash your way to boredome. I'll boost one of these characters way up and when they die... I put the game down out of sheer disappointment for about...oh... a month. Then I'm back at it again. Or I offload onto Starcraft for a bit. But I alway come crawling back to playing Diablo.

 

[Mr Person]

I game but stick to only two games. Diablo and Starcraft. I started decades ago with both of these. Primarily Diablo. I only play what is called hard core in diablo anymore. Which means when your character dies... that's it. You have to start all over with a level 1 character. Makes you make better decisions and not just hack and slash your way to boredome. I'll boost one of these characters way up and when they die... I put the game down out of sheer disappointment for about...oh... a month. Then I'm back at it again. Or I offload onto Starcraft for a bit. But I alway come crawling back to playing Diablo.

I'm not that great but I do like SC2

 

[Mr Person]

...for 5 years? Lots of things other than play the same video game. I have a wife, a son, various hobbies, a business to manage and even friends to hang out with. I'm not saying I don't waste time sometimes, particularly in a place like this, but good lord. That's a huge chunk of your time devoted to one video game. What else could you have accomplished with all of that time and energy? I mean, do you...but jeez.

How strangely spastic. Where on Earth did that post come from?

 

[poweRob]

How strangely spastic. Where on Earth did that post come from?

Loneliness.