Gaming Game(s) that lasted you for a long time.

[Exbaddude]

With the lack of new DS games, it's hard finding games nowadays that won't bore me. What games have you guys played for a long time? Definitely the Professor Layton series imo. I love replaying the puzzles.

 

[prowler]

Phantasy Star Zero is the only one I can think of.

 

[Raika]

Pokemon HeartGold.

Aaaaand Phantasy Star Zero... 2 years ago anyway. Played the crap outta it online with a few people *cough*.

 

[wasim]

Chrono trigger and Golden sun
but i didn't finish them both

 

[cosmiccow]

Mystery Dungeon - Shiren The Wanderer

I think I put about 100 hours into the first DS game... And I still haven't finished the last 2 bonus dungeons.

Dragon Quest IX took a long time too..

 

[Vulpes Abnocto]

Dragon Quest - Rocket Slime
Disgaea DS
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Rune Factory (1)
Plants Vs Zombies

I logged 100+ hours on all of these games.

 

[ShinyJellicent12]

999
---In the order I got the endings.
1. Safe Ending

Spoiler

Yawn... boring

2. True Ending

Spoiler

Curse you, Sudoku Puzzle!

3. Knife Ending

Spoiler

I knew it was Ace!

4. Today, I got AXED!!!

 

[machomuu]

Rune Factory 1, 2, and 3 (especially 3)
Pokemon Pearl, Platinum, White, and HeartGold
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
Disgaea DS
999
There are probably more, but those are the most notable.

Also, how dare you dis the Safe ending.

 

[Shoat]

Smash Bros Melee.

Last time I checked the statistics (shortly before getting brawl) it had over 700 hours played (almost exclusively 3-4 players). And that's only counting MY savegame, not when we played somewhere else on someone elses console/savegame.


Obvious early pokemon games also.
My Red and Silver savegames each have 200-250 hours on them (glad I never lost those savegames).
The ones afterwards I only played through once, though.


There might have been a few games that also got to the three-digit hour mark (Lufia II for SNES, Secret of Mana for SNES), but I don't remember many of them.
Also I'm not going to count any mmo's I played because I have simply no way of measuring how much time I actually spent playing them over the time that I had an active account there.

 

[machomuu]

Smash Bros Melee.

Last time I checked the statistics (shortly before getting brawl) it had over 700 hours played (almost exclusively 3-4 players). And that's only counting MY savegame, not when we played somewhere else on someone elses console/savegame.


Obvious early pokemon games also.
My Red and Silver savegames each have 200-250 hours on them (glad I never lost those savegames).
The ones afterwards I only played through once, though.


There might have been a few games that also got to the three-digit hour mark (Lufia II for SNES, Secret of Mana for SNES), but I don't remember many of them.
Also I'm not going to count any mmo's I played because I have simply no way of measuring how much time I actually spent playing them over the time that I had an active account there.

We're talking about DS games.

 

[Shoat]

Epic fail. Sorry.

 

[testatura]

soma bringer...i played the shit out of that game

, mario kart, picross 2d/3d, and bangai-o if you manage not to destroy your ds

cheers

 

[yuka001]

DQ Rocket Slime (50hours+), PS0 (80 hours+) and DQ9 (150hours+).
And Tingle, can't say how long exactly since there's no in-game timer, but definitely a loooong time (what with all the items to collect for alchemy, pretty much like Rocket Slime actually).

 

[The Catboy]

I've been playing the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games for quite some time now.
As well I clocked in countless hours playing Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor.

 

[Ikki]

Pokémon Soul Silver, definitely.
Last time I checked I had 300+ hours and I kept playing for a while after that.

Other than that, I have no idea. I have very little notion of time when I play, and I don't check often.
I know I played Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for 100+ hours and Re:coded for a bit less than 100.

 

[bahamut920]

I'd say the only DS game I've clocked a huge amount of time on is Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. About 90 hours and 1.5 cycles before my DS Lite broke.

Super Scribblenauts may also count, but I have no idea how much time I clocked on it, both because there's no in-game clock that I know of, and because I beat it on flashcart before buying the physical cartridge, and I no longer have that save file (I think)...

As for non-DS games with DS ports, I've spent a ton of time on the PS-X Chrono Trigger and the PS2 Disgaea. Chrono Trigger I can definitely recommend, because they added a bunch of stuff to the Chronicles enhanced port, not to mention the SNES original. The only reason I haven't bought the DS version is because I've clocked so many hours on my Chronicles version, that starting over from scratch doesn't appeal to me. Disgaea is much more of a personal choice, because they had to fudge the graphics and especially the sound to fit it on the DS, but they did add a bit of new content, mostly some stages and new playable characters.

 

[Satangel]

Pokemon SoulSilver
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon
Pokemon Diamond
Mario Kart DS
TLoZ PH

That's about it I think.

 

[Ryupower]

Tales of Innocence
Suikoden Tierkreis

 

[koimayeul]

Only one i can think of is Jump Ultimate Stars.. thousand of unlockables for a long, long, LONG gameplay experience

 

[heartgold]

Pokemon Diamond - 999:49 hours clocked on this, my first and most played DS game!
Pokemon Platinum
Pokemon Soul silver
Pokemon White

wow that's it, for other games I usually just play them once. :/