Which SPRPG is known to be the longest?

Obviously, I'm talking about pure game-play time and no fucking around, same side quests over and over again or high difficulty time wasters.

In other words, which SPRPG is filled with the most ( non-repeating ) content?

 

SPRPG?

I've heard of sRPG, but never SP.

 

Well hear it now. Single and player are two separate words. So technically SPRPG is correct. But that's not important. Let's move on with the question.

 

Fate: Gates of Dawn probably. I think some guy set the Guinness world record for longest time playing a game on it with like 170 hours. Has anyone here ever actually beaten it?

 

single player RPG?

Does Morrowind's hiking count as "fucking around"?

 

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Actually by fucking around, I exactly meant Elder Scrolls games and nothing else.

170 H doesn't sound like the longest RPG ever. I had 300-400 hours in my mind.

 

There was a guy who came up with some kind of script to automatically generate random dungeons for Morrowind. Very small file but huge dungeon (just random shit -- think roguelike in Morrowind) and he released a 1,000 level dungeon.

 

It took me pretty long to finish Baldur's Gate II (plus the add on). It's very content rich. Icewind Dale was also pretty long. Fallout 2 is too long for its own good.

 

In a single sitting, not to complete. How could you have a record for taking the longest amount of time to beat a game? The game is massive, possibly the largest, non-procedurally generated area in an RPG. It really depends though, you need to refine the question. A lot of people play games with randomly generated worlds for hundreds of hours. Fate is probably the game with the largest static world, but you could play any game indefinitely.

 

The longest RPG I played was FF X. I finished it at 150 hours. Non emulated RPGs didn't have counter, and rest of emulated RPG were finished in 58-68 hours.

 

Yes FFX is surprisingly long but it doesn't feel that way. I also put 100 hours in it but most of the hours are just post-game stuff.

If you want a long RPG for only the main story stuff, the longest I know is Dragon Quest 7. I played it for 100 hours and still didn't finish it.

 

Try playing Nethack without spoilers.

 

I guess Planescape Torment, but "fucking around" and "content" are very diverse terms so making specific recommendations is pretty difficult. Pretty much any combat in any game ends up being repetitive.
If you mean quest content only, there are tons of RPGs out there which have very varied quests. So take a pick of the codex favorites I guess (Fallout, Arcanum, BG2, etc...)

 

Baldur's Gate Trilogy, which combines BG1 and BG2 plus all the expansions into one game, is almost definitely the longest game there is. While it's technically 2 games, it plays as a fluid experience and it's easily a good 200+ hours of content with no grinding at all if you do everything.

Demise: Rise of the Kutan with the Ascension expansion is a game I've never finished, but I believe it takes people hundreds and hundreds of hours to complete. A lot of that is grinding, though.

 

Try the Big World Project which combines that as well as many other mods and megamods, heres a list: http://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/bwpmods.php


Reeeally big game

 

The Baldur's Gate games are quite short if you don't ignore the plot and slug through the mostly empty side areas in fear of missing something.

 

BG1 isnt as content rich as BG2 where you can expect at least several quests in every area.

I have to vote for BG trilogy. With all the side quests its massive, and thats not even the random content.

 

Well, if we are going by game series, Might and Magic, Wizardry, Ultima and so on have a lot more content than the BG series...

 

A heavily modded Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim, with lots of landmass and quest mods, could probably give 1000 hours of play time to explore everything.

 

Probably something along these lines.

By longest game, the only meaningful way to look at it would be non-repetitive content like in Diablo series.

Some other basic constraints may be:

1) No exploit to reach the endgame quickly.
2) No unskippable cut-scenes.
3) No cheats

It is OK if there are narrative barriers that do no let you cross some parts of the game until certain time has passed, as long as the content is non-diablo like.

 

I read strategy rpg, question is less interesting now.

 

The point is that you can combine BG1 and 2 into a single game with a mod, sort of like M&M 4 and 5. Yeah, it's kind of stretching the rules, but you can play them as one continuous game.

On that note, World of Xeen (MM4+5) is a pretty damn long game as well if you don't know it inside and out. Otherwise you can finish it in something like 2 hours or less.