What is the latest you have stayed up till playing video games?

Gra76

Regular all-nighters playing Final Fantasy XI Online, often extending into double all-nighters if it was the weekend (Friday evening through to Sunday evening stopping only for toilet and food breaks). The downside to having a lot of online 'friends' situated all across Europe and the other side of the Atlantic...There was always someone wanting me to do things with them!

For non-online games probably Metal Gear Solid when it came out on the original Playstation. I'd stay up playing that till the sun came up when I first got into playing it.

These days midnight is late enough as I'm getting too old and sensible to stay up much later!

somethingcorporate

I've played whole nights through when the original WoW came out, 40-man raiding Molton Core and a few other select dungeons.

Those were the days!!

Despite being 30 and a father/husband I still pine for the good old days

MrJester

Back in the day (teens) I would often play games overnight until 6-7am, go to bed for a bit, then have to get up for school very shortly after. I did most of my sleeping at school, fresh for a new night of gaming.

Is it any wonder I have insomniac issues to this day !

fozmcfc

When I was a teenager and in my earlier 20's, I used to take my Amiga up to my mates house.

We used to have gaming sessions, sometimes until 4 or 5 in the morning, as his mum, worked night shifts. Quite often, I would then have to go home, get showered and off to work, with no sleep.

Nowadays as a 44 year old, I extremely rarely play till late, if I'm up a 4.30 in the morning. I work shifts though, so if I'm late turn, occasionally I'm still up playing at 1 or 2 in the morning.

Kunfuslippers

i spent many nights playing guild wars up until even mid day when i was in a top 10 GvG guild as most of my guild mates were american.

Nowadays i spend a 1-2 nights a week up until 3-4am playing Call of duty with my GF on the xbox

Retrogamer

I'm in my early 30's now and went to my first LAN event last year for PC gamers.
Most of us played until silly o clock...11am etc.

Crazy_Jamie

As with most others, when I was younger I pulled more all nighters than I would care to admit to, only going to bed the next morning when I was pretty much physically unable to stay awake.

Nowadays it's rare that I go to bed much past midnight for any reason, but that's just what happens when your career and family become more important than computer games.

StockportGerbil

Feeling old here - but all nighters playing MUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1) were a regular event back in the day mostly because it only started at 2am. In theory it was supposed to be switched off at 7 although that didn't always happen.

Marvel1

Difficult one really to answer, I had 3 weeks off from work in January, saved my leave for it. I slept in day and up all night.

A normal day/night I think was about until 1:30am it was GTA Online.

Sheepster

mustang121 wrote: »

I played a weekend and night of Mass effect 1 through to 3 and felt like a loser for it. What had I achieved? What a waste of time and effect that would have been better served at learning piano or home improvement tasks.

Thank you.

It's not only me who sometimes feels like this then Maybe we should abandon this, one of our hobbies?

Could the same be said though for sat watching TV repeats of Friends or the X Factor etc? Could the same be said for going to watch your team play? I don't know

ps for me, half 3 to 4am playing Skyrim, or was it Oblivion