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| 17 JAN 2010 at 5:55pm |
Phoenix StarIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 11 NOV 2009
Status : Online | Um I always use walkthroughs and solve within days lol...I guess it would be Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion, since that was the first game I played and I didn't know about walkthroughs. It took me like half a year...lol...
But The Lost Crown I would say is definitely going to be the longest. Can't believe it's going to be a trilogy.
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| 17 JAN 2010 at 8:07pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Starship Titanic probably took me the longest - several months of intermitent playing, if I recall correctly - simply because I was a complete novice to computers and games. I still had great fun with it.
Riven was probably a close second. I took my time and explored everything before I even tried to put solutions together. However, I did have more concentrated playing time because I was on vacation for part of it, so the overall time was about a month. I have no idea how many hours it took.
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| 17 JAN 2010 at 8:20pm |
| Deleted User | First and foremost for me must be the Myst series, because after 7 years, I still haven't finished any of them....
Second for me is probably a tie between Gabriel Knight 2 and The Lost Crown.
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| 17 JAN 2010 at 10:45pm |
FnordSchattenjger
Posts : 2752
Joined: 15 SEP 2008
Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | The one that took me the longest to finish, out of the ones that I have actually finished, would be Schizm. It took me almost a whole summer to finish that game.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 12:40am |
Steve VeaseySpace Cadet
Posts : 115
Joined: 30 MAY 2009
Status : Online | The Black Dahlia, just hands down the hardest game I have ever played and on the old seven cd version just switching between discs took up more time than finishing some modern games
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 2:28am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Riven ranks up near the top in this category, for me. Close to it would be Riddle of the Sphinx, I think I spent a good chunk of a summer playing it on and off again. Though that was probably less a reflection of the size of the game (even though it was decent sized), and more due to the fact I was stuck a good deal of that time trying to find a particular item.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 3:48am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo took me a really long time. Maybe it was when I played it, but I seemed to spend most of my time stuck and going back and forth between places with no idea what to do.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 5:50am |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
Posts : 1093
Joined: 13 AUG 2006
Status : Online | I think the Lost Crown. Hope it could last longer!
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 7:51am |
| Deleted User | [smiley=laughing.gif] hehe, sorry, I just have to comment on Andromus's cool new sig quotes. I especially like this one: "Have I lied to you?... I mean, in this room? "
@ Steve re Black Dahlia: I managed to plow through a large part of this game a few months ago, but eventually gave up in frustration because I was crashing every 5 minutes. Not fun anymore if you have to redo a puzzle sequence FIVE TIMES because you keep crashing before you can quickly manage to save at the end of it.... [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 8:37am |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Don't really remember, but certainly nothing from the most recent adventures is really long (long doesn't equal hard btw). Lost Crown and Runaway 2 were pretty long, but for today's standards. The Longest Journey was very long too. Other Worlds was really long, if you also count indie, freeware games.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 1:40pm |
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Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | The Discworld series, Noir in particular [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 3:02pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 76
Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | Funny how we keep coming back to The Lost Crown :-) What can I say? It was epic. That man must have worked around the clock for four years straight. I just hope we don't have to wait another four until The Last Crown.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 8:44pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Joined: 28 APR 2007
Location: US
Status : Offline | Riven, took months and kept a detailed journal that is online on Mystcommunity still, was a blast. I still have nightmares about the fireymarble puzzle and the domes.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 9:01pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
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Status : Offline | The longest a game ever took me was Uru, about 1 year. I played it on and off getting frustrated with the action parts, then cooling down and craving the exploration. Riven also took me months, but that was before the internet.
I had a gaming partner a while ago and the games we played together were drawn out because of time constraints and discussions, but we did get all we could out of each and every game we played. I remember Black Dahlia taking us many months, as well as Gabriel Knight 3.
Recently, the game that gave me the most play time was the Lost Crown.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 10:26pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Longest game - Obsidian just pips out Riven as the better part of a whole year. I had no internet, had no idea walkthroughs existed and ploughed on resolutely, totally absorbed by the puzzles but I had to upgrade mid-way through which added a couple of months.
Often I would make no progress so I'd sit on the beach in Riven poring over my clues.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 11:04pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (18 JAN 2010 10:26pm)
Longest game - Obsidian just pips out Riven as the better part of a whole year. I had no internet, had no idea walkthroughs existed and ploughed on resolutely, totally absorbed by the puzzles but I had to upgrade mid-way through which added a couple of months.
Often I would make no progress so I'd sit on the beach in Riven poring over my clues.
Obsidian was a fairly long game for me as well, though not in the category of Riven or RotS. There again it was one puzzle I was stuck on most of the time, the wave puzzle.
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| 18 JAN 2010 at 11:05pm |
Steve VeaseySpace Cadet
Posts : 115
Joined: 30 MAY 2009
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (18 JAN 2010 7:50am)
[smiley=laughing.gif] hehe, sorry, I just have to comment on Andromus's cool new sig quotes. I especially like this one: "Have I lied to you?... I mean, in this room? "
@ Steve re Black Dahlia: I managed to plow through a large part of this game a few months ago, but eventually gave up in frustration because I was crashing every 5 minutes. Not fun anymore if you have to redo a puzzle sequence FIVE TIMES because you keep crashing before you can quickly manage to save at the end of it.... [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
I was probably lucky Traveller, I played it on the Windows 95 platform it was developed for and don't remember any problems, but no doubt it was patched at the time. Windows compatibility mode is a bit hit and miss when it comes to playing these older games but its a pity in this case because The Black Dahlia to me is one of the great artistic and intellectual achievements of adventure gaming...
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| 19 JAN 2010 at 11:47am |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Joined: 17 NOV 2006
Status : Offline | Is the topic "the game that took you longest to play, including just thinking about it," or "the longest game"?
URU and its expansions (URU Complete Chronicles) is huge.
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| 19 JAN 2010 at 10:39pm |
JehaneSpace Cadet
Posts : 128
Joined: 15 MAY 2007
Status : Online | Hm. Difficult to say. I know it took me about two weeks to finish Gabriel Knight 3 even though I was playing almost every day. The Longest Journey also took a while, same with The Lost Crown. All three games lastet about 30+ hours, I think, and all three games are among my favourites - not only because they are very long but because they keep you going, they have interesting stories that make you go back to the game over and over again until you've finished it. I remember that I thought "Oh, it's over already?" when I finished The Longest Journey after about a week of very intense playing
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| 20 JAN 2010 at 10:54pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | For me it's probably a tie between King's Quest IV and Gabriel Knight III. I played the first one when I was about eight years old, and my Dutch-english dictionary was my best friend to find all the correct commands you had to type. Took up a lot of time though It took me a long time to reach the end of Gabriel Knight III too, and I loved every minute of it! 8-)
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