What game took you the longest to finish?

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

The Longest Journey. Approx. 2 weeks. And if I remember correctly that was also playing alot.

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.

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.

Mine has got to be Law and Order: Dead On The Money! I have been playing this for months and I'm still not done! I just refuse to accept that I'm not smart enough to get the bad guy!

Riven. First game, didn't have a strategy book and didn't know about boards like this yet. It took me a little over 6 weeks.

~Dee

The Beast Within..........took nearly a year and a half to get through it.........but it was definitely worth it!!!!!! Great game!!!!!!!!!

Of the games I played straight through and didn't quit playing in the middle for some reason, Case of the Rose Tattoo took the longest. It was just a big game, with lots of places to visit and lots of things to go back and check once you had new information.

Three games that got delayed for a while when I was partway through them and which I went back to later and finished are Outcast, Schizm, and the first Tomb Raider game.

'Discworld' . . . . Still struggling . . . . I won't cheat 'cos it ruins a game for me. It's been months though ! 'Discworld 2' was easier. I'm sure. Hopefully, it'll be worth it in the end, but intermittent gameplay isn't my favourite way to play games. Second slowest . . . . 'Riven' ! Had to use a walkthru' there though. Still a fantastic game experience for me, even with a couple of cheats !

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Discworld Noir.

I'd have to say "Simon 3D", even with occasional peeking at the walkthrough, this one took me forever, it's such a long game!

Louis

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

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.

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!

Black Dahlia took me 116 hours over 24 straight days. And that included 9 trips to universal hints to solve some of the most difficult puzzles. Loved that game, definitely a classic.

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.

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!

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.

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!!!!!!

Took me three months to finish Lighthouse when it first came out. I had no internet or Gameboomers to help. I spent two weeks under water looking for that safe. I was so thrilled to find it that I called everyone to tell them. They thought I was nuts. That one got me hooked on adventure games. Thanks to Inferno, I was able to play it recently on XP.
Kay

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.

Blue Ice has a walkthrough.
http://www.the-spoiler.com/OTHER/Psygnosis/blue.ice.3/index.html

Heehee ! I was hoping someone would do the shovel work for me. Thanks Jenny. You're a peach ! :kiss:

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.

For me, it was The Longest Journey. I played it for little over a month. It was fun the entire time.

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.

Outcast!

I worked on Shivers on and off for over 3 months. Of course 2 1/2 months were spent trying to crack the Chinese Checker Puzzle. (Which I never did. Finally gave up and checked a WT.)

Diablo II took me months as I got to higher and higher levels. Especially after I added the expansion set.

Lone Wolf

I come to think of three games,
Black Dahlia
Schizm
Pandoras Directive (this one not for tough puzzles but for a really long game)

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

I use Walkthroughs ..... sorry, but even then you have to use your intelligence plus I have no patience. Black Dahlia was my (so far) most difficult ....... second was TOS I think ...... Omega stone was EASY and I was quite disappointed because if that :

Anyway I still feel the excitement and anticipation about a new game but I give up easily (MOTM) Ihave some Nancy Drews still here ........ maybe I should actually INVESTIGATE? You don't die in those ....

Yes you do. But you have the "second chance" option to restore you to life.
Sometimes it turns out to be more of a "15th chance" option.

I vote for The Omega Stone as well. I kept getting bored with it and playing other games , so it took me about 2 months to actually trudge to the end of it.

In a number 9,
It was the second game i ever played.The first was Myst.9 last resort was so different i was lost on the masks puzzle in the second room.
I don't know how long it took but my son was in kinder garden when i started and i remember finishing the horrible organ puzzle around his High school graduation. ron.etti....ha ha

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

My game that took the longest time to finsh was the second game I bought Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.I first started it in Nov 89 and finally finshed it in Feb 92,about 3 years and 3 months.I had a lot of problems getting thru the airport and airblimp scenes

i started KQ7 when it first came out (1994?) it was very slow on my mac and i was annoyed by the gameplay. bought a PC copy last winter and finished it in april of this year!

-emily

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.

Riven, before I knew about walkthroughs or hint boards. I struggled with that game for almost two months before I finally finished.

Black Dahlia

Arthurs Knights 1. Took me an entire summer. About as long as it took the main character to ride his horse from one location to another!! Good game though.

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.

Dark Side of the Moon
Timelapse

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.

Tim

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

I think it had to be Titanic. I had only started doing cd rom games and because I enjoy doing anything with the Titanic (movies, National Geographic, etc.), I just enjoyed looking at the graphics and wandering around the ship. I wish there was another one similar to it, like a Part II.

Butterfly

Definitely Outcast...I installed it about a year ago, and just finished it last month.

There was a 2 month gap between my first and second playing sessions, and again between my second and third playing sessions. After that I started playing more frequently, but progress was slow as I refused to use God mode.

Around April I started getting into it, but as I only played it after my wife went to bed, I wasn't playing more than once or twice a week. Got close to finishing it at the end of June, but was gone for most of July and August, so I didn't get to finishing it until the end of August.

Great game though.

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.

Definitely Riven. I stopped in the middle, walked away for 6 months, came back and finished it over the course of about 3 weeks. Or thereabouts.

TLJ also comes in pretty high here. I actually played through straight to the end, but it still took me a couple of weeks of playing it a few hours a day. Every time I expected it would end, it just kept going