Just One More Turn....

RedMageDarion

It doesn't happen very often, but I do it. It's mostly pushing myself to finish a game.

The farthest back I can remember was Front Mission 3 on the PS1. By around midnight I had reached what I thought was the final boss. Then there was another mission. Ok, no big deal. Then another. Then another. Eventually, the credits. Woohoo!... ANOTHER MISSION!?

Phoenix Wright, and the sequel. Both of the final cases kept me up until 3 or 4 in the morning. Just one more Objection!...

And most recently, Earth Defense Force on the 360. The final missions were just too damn good to stop playing. I replayed the final mission, just because it was so awesome.

SteevL

Last week, I downloaded the Puzzle Quest demo. I finally started playing it Thursday night, which kept me up a bit later than normal. The next day...well, I pretty much played that damned demo all day. "I'll just get enough gold to buy towers." "Ah, hell...I'll level up my rat a bit."

I was much worse with World of Warcraft. It usually started with "I'll just do this one quest so I can level up" which led to "Ooh, I have a new spell, let's test it" which became "Man, that spell is awesome, I'll just play until I figure out the best way to use it in combat" which, by the end, comes back to "Ah hell, I only need one more quest to level up, why not..." At the higher levels, it was "Just one more Stratholme/Scholomance run..." I'm taking a break from WoW for a while.

Rikatix

Back when i was in high school, one friday night i was planning on going out with some friends....but no one was camping the Ancient Cyclops in the Ocean of Tears in EverQuest. I ditched my friends and camped his ass till 5am but I'll be damned if I didn't get my Traveller's Boots.

I have never regretted it.

Core

I can recall getting Guitar Hero 2 and playing it for hours and hours one day. I beat all songs starting from easy going to about half of hard. I was having a lot of trouble on hard and I had to keep practicing them when I get a phone call turns out I had forgot about band practice and my band was waiting at the practice space for about an hour and a half while I sat at home and practiced Guitar Hero heh.

Cynic Jester

Finishing System Shock 2 in one sitting. On my first try. It think I have a hedonist in me some where, because that shit is frightening. And it just keeps getting worse. And worse. And then you notice the daylight slowly growing outside the window just as you finish the game. Which seems strange, because you distinctly remember the sun going up 8 hours into the game when you went upstairs to make some food. And it hits you that you've been sitting in front of the computer for nearly 36 hours. I don't think I've ever enjoyed a game that much since. Any game that can make me forget a whole day gets an A+ in my book.

Garris

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

TacoMan

Man, this thread reminds me of how much I hated hearing birds singing.

"Counter Terrorists Win" is the best part of staying up. Screw Folger's.

deowolf

august wrote: »

Morrowind.

I put in a couple twelve hour days on that fucker.

Axen

Ace Combat 4. I rented it from a local place so I only had it for 3 days. I never slept for those 3 days. Thank God for Army training its helped double my gaming time.

Dodge Aspen

When I first got my DS, the only game I got with it was Mario 64. I played it probably 8-9 hours a day straight until I got all 150 Stars. That was how I spent my summer vacation. Or a week of it anyway.

Doronron

A game I quit playing for this very reason was Fate. The game could get pretty unforgiving pretty quick, and everytime you die, you would either have to give up experience, gold, or get randomly transported to a level either three higher or three lower -- with your gold left at the spot you died. I've had several fifteen minute games turn into six hour corpse runs. Too much time sucked away by that thing.

Transporter

METAL GEAR SOLID 2.

brought my PS2 over to a freinds house. While we were out, we bought it. Found out that I forgot my memory card.

Started at around 7pm.

Next thing I know, freinds asleep, and it's 1 in the morning.

Get to the final showdown with Solidus, and it's 8 am and his mom's making breakfest.

jclast

I know I said Front Mission 4 earlier, and that is true. Mech customization is awesome, but my soul has been eaten again.

By Puzzle Quest. I've played from a full charge down to the red light three times now. Each time I swore to myself I'd just play one battle and then go to bed. Next thing I knew the battery was dying and my wife had gone to bed hours ago.

Lunker

As others have said, Puzzle Quest takes all of the addictive juices of Bejeweled and stirs in the OCD collectathon nature of JRPGs. It's the most delicious cocktail I've had in months.

Funny this came up today; I'm all bleary-eyed today from staying up until 3 a.m. in a marathon gaming session. My wife's out of town, so I figured I could catch up on my backlog, so I powered through the last 5 Colossi on Shadow of the Colossus and then spent about 45 minutes with God of War II. I'm maddedningly tired and my head hurts ... but goddamn, was it worth it.

EDIT: As far as unscheduled gaming marathons, I've only had a few but they were all when I was sick. My favorite was when my roommate was out of town and I was snowed in at the apartment; between 10 p.m. on a Saturday and midnight on Monday, I spent about 17 hours rocking my face off with Resident Evil 4. I just couldn't put the controller down. I even tried going to sleep because I was sick and tired, but I couldn't because of a stuffy/runny nose, so after two hours of tossing and turning I just got back up and went back to shooting ganados in the head.

Echo

I don't do it with games.

I do it with books.

And then I'm all "Oh shit it's 4 am".

darunia106

I've done this a couple times with Wow but in my defense it's more the game's fault. I start an instance at a good hour and assume that I would be in and out before bedtime. Turns out the instance isn't as easy as I thought and after multiple wipes and corpse runs my group finally finishes the instance at 1 AM.

Dystopia though is what I'm really guilty for. I'd be in the middle of a game and say, "next time I die I'm going to bed." *BOOM* "HEADSHOT," "Uhhhh... That doesn't count" I don't recall correctly how long I staid up but man there were some good times with the demo. Maybe I should start getting into the full version...

The_Lightbringer

darunia106 wrote: »

I've done this a couple times with Wow but in my defense it's more the game's fault. I start an instance at a good hour and assume that I would be in and out before bedtime. Turns out the instance isn't as easy as I thought and after multiple wipes and corpse runs my group finally finishes the instance at 1 AM.

Dystopia though is what I'm really guilty for. I'd be in the middle of a game and say, "next time I die." *BOOM* "HEADSHOT," "Uhhhh... That doesn't count" I don't recall correctly how long I staid up but man there were some good times with the demo. Maybe I should start getting into the full version...

Its a free download

darunia106

The_Lightbringer wrote: »

darunia106 wrote: »

I've done this a couple times with Wow but in my defense it's more the game's fault. I start an instance at a good hour and assume that I would be in and out before bedtime. Turns out the instance isn't as easy as I thought and after multiple wipes and corpse runs my group finally finishes the instance at 1 AM.

Dystopia though is what I'm really guilty for. I'd be in the middle of a game and say, "next time I die." *BOOM* "HEADSHOT," "Uhhhh... That doesn't count" I don't recall correctly how long I staid up but man there were some good times with the demo. Maybe I should start getting into the full version...

Its a free download

I know and I already have it, I just haven't played much of it.

Raggie

"Make You Happy Tonight" by Tripod.

azurice

Disgaea 2. Oh god, I'm playing it right now and it's already almost 2am. I have to get to a lecture early tomorrow and I won't have slept and I'll probably spend the whole day thinking about how much my archer sucks and why the hell did I let Adell get to like, level 500 whilst the rest of my party is at level 90 or something.

The same thing happened with FFTA a year or two ago. The ultimate "I'll just finish this battle and then I'll go to bed no wait the next one won't take so long" game.

Stigma

Diablo 2. Co-op on a LAN with a friend.
Roughly 48 hours.


Lately Puzzle Quest has been keeping me up at night when I know I need to work in a few short hours.
God I even squeezed in a few rounds so I could pound some two headed ogre while I was here.

Cullen

This used to happen all the time when I was younger with games like X-Com. In recent years Rome: TW and X2 have made me stay up to 3 in the morning, after staying 'just one more....' at about 11pm.

HappylilElf

cemetery man wrote: »

I think EQ has made entire weekends fly by for me back in the day. WoW not so much since it's very pick up and play and get back out. RPGs definitely since you don't get sore hands etc like with an action game so you can zone out for hours. Thinking I'll clear a few more rooms of this cave and that's it...

I passed out during a recovery from a wipe in Chardok. I woke up on the couch with no memory of how I got there and when I groggily went back to my PC my character was standing at bind naked. Thank god for corpse summons.

My true bane is 4x games and RTS games that allow me to turtle though. I used to have a reputation for always being about 45 minutes late to damn near anything.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Disgaea 2. Oh god, I'm playing it right now and it's already almost 2am. I have to get to a lecture early tomorrow and I won't have slept and I'll probably spend the whole day thinking about how much my archer sucks and why the hell did I let Adell get to like, level 500 whilst the rest of my party is at level 90 or something

Haha. Yeah I just reincarnated everybody. Right after I did it I start thinking...What the hell have I just done. I didn't NEED to do that. I could've easily finished without doing that.

But yes, Archers suck. Gunners too actually.

The_Lightbringer

Garris wrote: »

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

You son of a bitch

Christ Puncher

I'm like this for pretty much every game. most recently Rogue Galaxy.

Synthetic Orange

The_Lightbringer wrote: »

Garris wrote: »

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

You son of a bitch

Well there goes my afternoon.

Death of Rats

Synthetic Orange wrote: »

The_Lightbringer wrote: »

Garris wrote: »

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

You son of a bitch

Well there goes my afternoon.

Fucking cockgobblers.

Jensen

I'm playing God Hand right now and every night before bed I tell myself "I'll just play up to the next save" at which point I say "I'll just see what's coming up and then quit" I usually end up playing through to the next save and realizing I'm about to get only like 4 hours of sleep. I then play to another save point and realize I'm about to get 3.5 - 3 hours of sleep. Usually I force myself to turn it off at that point. Thank goodness this doesn't happen too often or I'd be a zombie all day.

breakz

TacoMan wrote: »

Man, this thread reminds me of how much I hated hearing birds singing.

"Counter Terrorists Win" is the best part of staying up. Screw Folger's.

i agree on the first part. for me, it was seeing the morning light creep under my curtains.

Colt

Occationaly I will game and not know the time. Thus, time will fly. I will not become tired. In fact, I will stop being aware of anything else. Then I will see the sun in the window. Look at the clock. 9am. And sleep will hit me like a fucking train. I would have to be in bed in 30 seconds else I would just hit the floor. If I am in the game lab at school and this happened, I just find an empty table and lay on it. This happened about once a month.

Colt

Death of Rats wrote: »

Synthetic Orange wrote: »

The_Lightbringer wrote: »

Garris wrote: »

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

You son of a bitch

Well there goes my afternoon.

Fucking cockgobblers.

God damn it!!

breakz

Death of Rats wrote: »

Synthetic Orange wrote: »

The_Lightbringer wrote: »

Garris wrote: »

Currently I am addicted to this


http://65.98.116.171/DesktopTD/

You son of a bitch

Well there goes my afternoon.

Fucking cockgobblers.

i just spent like an hour and a half on that shit. dammit.

mark

Diablo 2. Co-op on a LAN with a friend.
Roughly 48 hours.

O_o

I've spent a few nights on Kotor 2... finished it in a few days, I was absolutely crazy with this game.
I've just begun playing Kotor 1, and I feel it will be the same... :^:

Trevor

Stalker had me in its grips for a couple of nights. I'm not sure what it is about that game, but it just seems to lend itself to being played into the wee hours.

deowolf

mark wrote: »

Diablo 2. Co-op on a LAN with a friend.
Roughly 48 hours.

O_o

I've spent a few nights on Kotor 2... finished it in a few days, I was absolutely crazy with this game.
I've just begun playing Kotor 1, and I feel it will be the same... :^:

It will be. It will be.

DasUberEdward

Give me a good FPS or RTS. When there's human competition it's either.

"Fuck, I have to redeem myself!"

or

"Fuck, i'm on a roll!"

Flesh Into Gear

DasUberEdward wrote: »

Give me a good FPS or RTS. When there's human competition it's either.

"Fuck, I have to redeem myself!"

or

"Fuck, i'm on a roll!"

So fucking true

or if someone gives you shit, you do not relent until you shut him up

DasUberEdward

Hmm...what's this Dystopia I hear about? It's already 5 am. I might as well give it a shot

Colt

http://www.dystopia-game.com/

Cyberpunk mod for HL2. Very good.