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I've done 30 in one sitting. This sounds like a challenge. Mr Patnaik, I accept. If I can do 45, i'mma ring GWR and do it again. | |
O.o That's mad. However, I bet there's probably some people who've played games for longer periods, just didn't have it witnessed by folks from Guinness Book of Records. While I know I can stay awake for over 40 hours, I don't think I could play a game for that long. Certainly not just the one title. | |
I'm curious, which game? | |
As much as I'd like to say that I could do it, my record is a lousy 35 hours. I stopped because I started hallucinating. | |
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I think it was probably Oblivion. I got addicted to that reeeeaaaaaal bad, like. And that wasn't doing the story. I have just bought Fallout 3 GOTY so I think I should do a whole playthrough. Should take a good 50 hours. Hehehe. | |
I've always wanted to look into the effects of sleep deprivation first hand. Unfortunately I don't hallucinate, I just get cranky. | |
That's a world record?! That honestly doesn't seem so hard-- I imagine that many gamers will set out to break this goal soon. The most I've ever done in a single sitting was 17 hours on MGS4. | |
What, is this really a record? I've heard of people in Korea dying after 54 hour gaming sessions on WoW and the like. | |
It's less a world record of playing for so long and more a record of actually putting up with the game for so long. I got the achievement for "Complete storyline in less than 30 hours" on my first playthrough. Surely you'd just end up running out of stuff to do. There are only so many car chases before they get boring, you know? | |
i enjoy long gaming sessions as well. this is also why i can't stand most new fps games, as the focus on combat makes for horrendously frustrating sessions that have to be put on hold after an hour or two. yes, i'm talking to you halo, gears of war, resistance, haze and whatever other bullshit shooters out there right now. | |
How is that a good thing? People taking gaming too seriously are the reason we have rabid fanboys, dead WoW players, and the ire of right-wing media outlets. | |
longest i've done was 12 hours.. Also, that's only the official record. | |
That is hardcore stuff. I wish I had his sort of stamina. | |
you need to get a grip on the situation. taking games more seriously does not mean jumping windows or bridges, but could be meant as in serious competitiveness. and i agree, there are way too many casual gamers out there in comparison with the hardcore or even athletic gamers. i wish people took games as serious as elite players of e.g. DOTA do. | |
I agree with all the people here who are saying this wouldn't be hard to beat. I've done some 16 hour sessions before and a few all nighters. Something to do this summer. | |
Too bad my friend didn't try to go for the record. If what he says is true, he played Halo 2 when it came out for ~6 days straight. Only reason he stopped was because he passed out. Not quite sure if the story is true or not, but if it is, I think he wins. | |
Cool. I would have picked another game, but hey. | |
ummm...I don't think I've ever hit 6 hours before | |
Finally! A viable solution for the overpopulation in India! Send more videogames and they will game more, copulate less!! The Indians seem to love it, so there is no down side... | |
This isn't so much "hardcore" as much as it is "insanity/idiocy". 40 hours playing straight and we're talking retinal damage, maybe even brain damage... Although if you're trying to play for 40 hours straight to beat a record, you probably have enough brain damage to not care anymore. | |
i did read this and think 40 hours with breaks? and?..i know ive personally beat this playing fallou 3 or oblivion or the odd strategy game | |
I don't see how you made a connection between the sort of people who will insist that their preferred console/game/character is good and everything else is shit, the kind of person who becomes so addicted to a game that they play it in lieu of doing anything else like eating or sleeping, the way that idiots like Thompson tell everyone that people who take gaming seriously will all become murderers, and the idea of people jumping out of windows or off of bridges. Seriously, what? Neither do I understand the ire some people seem to have towards casual gamers, and this strange desire to be seen as a "hardcore" gamer. What are casual gamers doing to hurt you? Games are meant to be fun, and if people pick up a game and play it occasionally for enjoyment rather than spending every night pwning noobs, whats the harm in it? | |
I hope somewhere in those 40 hours he beat the game 100%. | |
I remember something about a Korean man who played something for over 50 hours, then died. Hm. Perhaps it wasn't a single session though, and was a session of several games. | |
Wasn't there some poor kid in Korea who died from playing too much Starcraft? Anyway, forty hours is pretty damn long. The longest I've been up playing games was at a LAN: I stayed up for TWO AND A HALF DAYS, then I started crying and fell asleep for twenty hours... Good times... | |
well, my record is about 8 hours of playing Cod 4 online. I almost beat him :p | |
im guessing thats just watching the cutscenes :P | |
is this for real? | |
I could never play GTA IV for more than one hour, yet alone 40. I found it really boring compared to the other ones. | |
For feck sake... Do something with skill! Anyone can fucking do that. | |
I am perfectly sure that we could find some gamers in China/Korea playing more than 40h in one sitting. It's just that no-one monitors these things in those countries. My personal record would be, well...16h of Team Fortress 2. | |
OK then. | |
No they can't. I sleep a lot less then your average person, and I can go a bit longer without sleep. While I can and have worked, been up and moving, for that long I still know that I would have a very hard time staying alert and focused on a game while sitting there for 40 hours. I am sure many of you would have dozed of for short periods, and I am also sure that most of you who "remember" these marathon sessions you have had are actually remembering sessions closer to my max of 20 hours then 12 hours after a nap - a combination of tabletop games, then after people starting knocking off some video games, even then for half an hour towards the end of D&D session I dozed off for half an hour. | |
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Indian Gamer Sets New World Record Playing GTA IV
You might think you're hardcore but a gamer in Mumbai, India, has got you beat: He just set a new world record by playing Grand Theft Auto IV for more than 40 hours straight.
There's casual, there's hardcore and then there's Chirantan Patnaik. The 26-year-old spent 40 hours and 20 minutes on Grand Theft Auto IV between September 4-6, setting a new world record for the longest continuous gaming session. The marathon was witnessed by independent observers and recently verified by Guinness World Records.
Patnaik is no nacho cheese-sodden couch hermit, however; he's a certified scuba diver who works at a private equity firm. "I began playing video games since I was in the third standard," he said. "Gaming has, since then, been my passion as well as a hobby."
Oddly, despite being a dedicated gamer, he had never played GTA IV before he set the record. "There are so many other games which I have played for long hours. But I had never tried playing this particular game seriously," he said. "However, I knew that I can do it after I saw my brother playing it."
And while observers in some other countries might be a little nervous about touting Patnaik's accomplishment as something to emulate, in India that's apparently not a problem. "We have always believed in the potential of Indian gamers. Chirantan's success is a proud moment for the Indian gaming industry," said Rohit Sharma, COO of gaming portal Zapak Digital Entertainment, which provided observers for the event. "This will encourage more youngsters to take gaming seriously."
Patnaik's training regimen for the session including running, exercising and practicing yoga, and he said that "staying away from coffee and eating dates" while he played helped him stay alert. Guinness guidelines allow gamers a ten-minute break for every hour they play but Patnaik took only four breaks over the entire two-day stretch. "I enjoyed the game very much. It's fun playing long hours," he claimed. "It wasn't that exhaustive for me, as one might feel".
I told you he was hardcore.
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