The Longest RPG ever?

[metalhead]

Just wondering what has been people's experience is the longest RPG in terms of play time? And in these long ones, do you spend a lot of time level-gaining, or is there a good, really long RPG out there with a solid story whose length is based more on adventuring than level-building/dungeon crawl? I personally remember playing Lunar: The Silver Star for a few hours every day after school for over a month, and it seemed to be a pretty plot driven game.

[Drake Tungsten]

If you're talking about console RPG's, then Xenogears has to be one of the longest. Great story as well.

If you're talking PC RPG's, who knows? You'd could play something like Everquest for ever...

[Traianvs]

Well i don't know morrowind and neverwinter nights enough (right now) but it looks like Morrowind is good for adventuring...

Divine divinity and the BG saga have a plot you have to follow somewhat (but you can still do whatever you want, just not always)... i did enjoy the BG series the most though... in fact i'll never forget it: one the top games ever !!!

[DarkCloud]

I think that Morrowind is actually the longe4st; at least some computer gaming magazines claim that but Neverwinter nights can be made longer with supplements downloadable from the net.

[Comrade Chris]

BG must be long enough, and its definately one of the best

[CapitanGarlic]

Online games probably shouldn't count here...

[Tuberski]

Morrowind is very long and very easy to mod, there are already a lot of mods for it, both official and unofficial.

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[Dis]

Morrowind

followed by Baldur's Gate 2.

As for NWN the original campaign isn't that long. I don't think you can add up original modules. And don't get me started on peristant worlds.

[Urban Ranger]

Well, if you take Wizardry 6-8 as one big story, there's a very, very, long game right there.

[Grumbold]

My longest RPG is the AD&D campaign that has been running for 18 years now and counting. That said, I don't think you can guage CRPG's on their longevity easily. If you stick to the essential plot only then most of them can be finished in 50 hours or less. Its the breadth of alternative paths that expand them out into much longer adventures if you choose. In that respect I think Arcanum, BG II, Morrowind, Wizardry 8 and Fallout 2 are all worthy. Planescape: Torment still caps them in terms of story content, but probably not in time taken to play.

Of all the MMORPG's I think only Asherons Call 1 had a vast amount of time and effort poured into the lore and history. Its hard to piece together parts of it without endless fighting though so I don't recommend it as a story led game.

[DrSpike]

Don't paly that many RPG's but I played BG2, and that was rather long.

[Boris Godunov]

If you take Ultima 7 pts 1 and 2 as one story, that's also pretty long.

[Juggler]

both BG1 and BG2 are long and very enjoyable (although I think BG2 had me occupied for a longer time).

[Boris Godunov]

Of course, isn't "length" relative? I finished BG in a month, but I first played Ultima 5 when I was 14 or so and have yet to finish it...

[DrSpike]

Not really. If a game takes more hours to complete it is longer, regardless of how those hours are spread out.