Longest time to complete a game?

[Trustmeimadoctor]

ive just managed about 30/31 years to complete alex kidd in miracle world without save states and being able to slow it down at one point i dont think id have ever done it on a physical console

Now onto golden axe!

[sparks_190e]

It took me from October 2018 through to April 2019 to finish RDR2. I hammered it for the first couple of weeks fr release and ran out of steam, but then went back and finished it. Only the story mind, there's not many games that I've 100% completed everything.

[Cotty]

I have nearly 400 hours in Skyrim and nowhere near finding every location and doing every mission.

Technically its not possible to complete it as it has a radiant quest engine that will continually create quests to go on.

[Thales]

Runescape, 107 days play time over 10 years. I was still nowhere near completing it.

[thebarrcola]

Thales said:

Runescape, 107 days play time over 10 years. I was still nowhere near completing it.

Didn't think I'd find a fellow runescape player on here!

I quit a few years back with (embarrassingly) a little under 400 days game time. I did have a completionist cape but never got round to the trimmed version so I guess technically never really did complete it.

[Zetec-S]

And I though the 130+ hours I've spent so far on The Witcher 3 was a lot (although still not completed)

Other than that, probably a decade or so for Impossible Mission on the C64. Couldn't do it as a kid back in the 80's, but dug the old C64 out as a teenager and found it remarkably easier than I remembered!

[Prinny]

I finally got all the achievements in fallout 4 last week.

528 hours between 10th November 2015 and 2nd January 2020.

I’m now debating whether I care enough to build a vault 88 to see how far I can go with it (probably not).

Now started on Forza Horizon 4, that should keep me going for a bit.

[Some Guy]

I had about 325 hours in Skyrim before it crapped out on me.

I remember Tomb Raider 2 on the play station took about 6 or 7 months to complete.

[The_Doc]

Tetris.


Kaboom!

I've been playing Tetris on the Gameboy for 29 odd yrs now. Still haven't completed it. It's the perfect game.

Honourable mentions (as other posters have above) for 300+ hrs on Witcher 3 and 200+ on Skyrim.
Hell I've spent 50 hrs alone playing Gwent, I reckon

[ceesvdelst]

Just under 300 hours on Skyrim, and that was the second time through, Probably the same on Fallout 3 and Witcher 3

Played through Half Life 2 numerous times, first time on its release day with a mate until about 5 am doing save point switchovers!!

The best though is Dirt rally, nearly 400 hours, and that was only rally stages, and there were only about 5 locations, two stages split back and forth and in two parts each so 8 total stages in all!

[Thales]

thebarrcola said:

Didn't think I'd find a fellow runescape player on here!

I quit a few years back with (embarrassingly) a little under 400 days game time. I did have a completionist cape but never got round to the trimmed version so I guess technically never really did complete it.

Blimey! And I thought I was addicted . You must've been fairly high up the leader board?

I started playing during the Runescape Classic days! What a fantastic game, I really do miss it at times.

[Hoink]

Thales said:

thebarrcola said:

Didn't think I'd find a fellow runescape player on here!

I quit a few years back with (embarrassingly) a little under 400 days game time. I did have a completionist cape but never got round to the trimmed version so I guess technically never really did complete it.

Blimey! And I thought I was addicted . You must've been fairly high up the leader board?

I started playing during the Runescape Classic days! What a fantastic game, I really do miss it at times.

There's a Runescape thread on here if you search. There are a few of us knocking about although I've not played in years and too started on Classic

Back on topic. Bubble Bobble. I never managed as a child but bought it about 10 years ago and finally got past the last level.

I just give up if it's too tricky these days!

[Jasandjules]

I suspect I put about 200 hours into Skyrim (which in my defence included all the vampire stuff)...

[JonChalk]

Of course, not finished as continually evolving / adding DLC.

But I've slowed to an almost stop in last few months.