What game took you the longest to finish?
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Mine would have to be The Omega Stone. I just disliked it so much that it was like a chore for me to play it but, I was determined to finish it. I think it took me a month and a half. Rusty
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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The Longest Journey. Approx. 2 weeks. And if I remember correctly that was also playing alot.
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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We just finished Case of the Rose Tattoo, and it took us weeks. Not that we didn't like the game, but there is SO MUCH dialogue, reading and detail in it that we had to take it in little 2-4 hour chunks. Any longer and we started getting bored. By comparison, I think we spent about a week on TLJ, the next longest amount of time we've spent on a game.
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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Outcast and NOLF. I know they are not adventure games. Well Outcast to me is an adventure/action hybrid.
For adventure games - Black Dahlia and Pandora Directive the first time.
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The Beast Within..........took nearly a year and a half to get through it.........but it was definitely worth it!!!!!! Great game!!!!!!!!!
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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Shorah, Well we havent finished Omega Stone yet, so that may be the winner. Mostly because we like it enough to *really* solve it (thanks for help in the hint forum, folks) & not just use a wt. Schizm took awhile once we got back to it, even with a hint or 3. Susan
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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My longest game was Sanitarium,it took me a few weeks to finish.I got the game before I knew you could get a walkthrough or there were adventure gaming sites.
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Like catsmom, mine too was Sanitarium. I got VERY stuck at a maze-like stone structure that you walk through (up and down stairs and dodging electrical currents that come up through the stones under your feet). I eventually got SO frustrated with this lone puzzle that I set the game aside for MONTHS before returning to complete it. However, it remains one of my top ten favorite games to this day. When I returned to finish it, I found the same puzzle quit simple and finished the game that same day. It's a fantastic game!
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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For me it was TLJ. I played that for close to a month, and when it was over I was sad to see it end. It felt like a friend was leaving. I can't wait for the sequel.
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I hear you on Black Dahlia. I was looking at my son, Michael and I's notes just the other day.
Just for the rune puzzle, we had a full chart of runes. Then did a geometric schematic organized by solid positions, hinted at positions that we felt fairly secure about and then alternates with the few remaining ones. There were 4 runes that we decided were the iffy ones. We and two other playing teams worked on the possibilities through email and finally achieved consensus.
Not to mention the log cabin box, the Raven club door and a host of others. And then when you thought you were near the end in Germany - a whole other section of the game started up. What a great game!
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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WWhat a loaded question. I have a couple dozen or more games in progress that have been going on for almost five YEARS!! Every now and then I see a new tip on our 'Hints' forum, and give them another shot. Right now our dear Tally Ho has me (I hope ) on track with Atlantis, the Lost Tales. NEVER SAY DIE!!!!!!
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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Originally posted by lspace: For me it was Blue Ice. It took four years and several people working together to finally get the solution to the end contest puzzle. Along the way we managed to contact the game developer by email for hints but his hints were so obscure that we gave up that method. One of our group who lived in the same country as the developer finally phoned him and asked for more direct hints. Hi lspace ! Please don't mind me asking, but I have this game an would like to play it, but I've read it is a competition game and is, therefore, very, very tough to finish. Do you know now whether there is anywhere that I will find a walkthrough for the game, because I don't fancy starting it if it's going to be nigh-on impossible to finish ? Cheers, Gelert.
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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I am in the middle of Blue Ice and Kofun, have been playing these two on and off for a year or more. I leave them for the interesting new games than I get back to one of them and play a litte.
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You guys are horrible! Having helped write Olga's WT for Dahlia, and her and Janet Blackburn's WT for Lighthouse, I think playing a game over and over again to make sure you get the solutions right is the most tedious thing there is.
The longest game I ever played solo was Rhea.
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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Diablo II took me months as I got to higher and higher levels. Especially after I added the expansion set.
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I come to think of three games, Black Dahlia Schizm Pandoras Directive (this one not for tough puzzles but for a really long game)
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Toss up between TLJ & GK2, but two of my favorite games because of it. I hate those short games! You just start getting into it and then it's over! Ann
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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LOL! I'm still trying to play Jekyll & Hyde. I hate action games....I have absolutely no coordination!
and haven't finished The Time Machine either.
so I gues there are the longest...been about 4 or 5 months for each of them. Inferno
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It is a little hard to say since I have, except for some of the earliest games, a day started and the day finished recorded, but I do not know how many hours actual playing time that involved. I have a "rule of thumb" that it will take an average of a bit less than a month/game. This works out fairly well. I have been playing 5 years and have played 56 games, so that is closer to 11/yr. However, with experience I am speeding up a bit. Of course, that is an average. I recently played ROAD TO INDIA in a single day. That's the fastest that I have ever played a game. I have taken as long as 3 months to finish a game. SANITARIUM took me 4 months, but a good bit of the delay was that I couldn't get through the "cabbage patch" because of a bug in the game. When I got a patch to cover that, it began to move along. I am sure that the game that took me the longest in actual hours of play is BLACK DAHLIA. It also happens to be #1 on my list of favorites. Part of the reason I spend more time getting through games than most players (aside from the fact that I am not as sharp as many of our "hot shots"), is that it is my practice to forego walkthroughs and to write extensive notes in a game journal devoted to the game. I also will, when I think it worthwhile, type up my notes. BLACK DAHLIA has the record - 189 pages of typewritten journal notes, not counting the numerous HyperSnap pics that I took. Ah, but I can "replay" a game simply reading its game journal. But on the rare occasion that I actually do replay a game for real, I leave that game journal in its binder in the file cabinet and play "afresh." However, I only take the minimum notes in that case. If I find, after finishing the game, that I have approached it differently enough or find interesting things that I missed when I first played it, I will then augment my earlier notes. I have so many games "on the shelf" yet to be played and, despite dire announcements about the "death" of Adventure games, there seems to be a good many still coming out, I figure I am set for many years to come.
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Re: What game took you the longest to finish?
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OK, I know I did say Reah. Not only because of the total number of puzzles, but also because of their difficulty. The three endgame puzzles probably could not be solved by mere mortals without a WT.
That said, Black Dahlia does rank up there. While our process was to save a game, solve a puzzle, restore the game, see if the solution could be duplicated, write the sequence for a WT, and move on to the next puzzle.....which takes a lot of time....a straight play of the game would still have taken a loooong time. So it would rank up there with Reah, although I never had a chance to time it from start to finish.
There are a few others that probably deserve honorable mention.
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I never finished TLJ because of technical difficulties, but I imagine that it would have taken some time based on how long it took me to get to the point where the game became unplayable.
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Hi, Quiet Week-End in Capri took me a month to play (playing nothing else at the time) and Black Dahlia took me about a year and a half to get through (while playing other games too). Thanks, Leigh-Anne
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Ahhh Outcast what a great game. Took quite a while for us too. We played half way - ran into some weird glitch. Stopped - then started it up with the right fix. Played without cheats also.
Had one of the best endings. Sigh.
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