http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugge...ming-marathon-record-122-hours-201104147.html << article above So so stupid why would anyone do this ?? so many people die trying or die in marathon sessions in online gaming pretty dumb IMO most i care to play is 10-12 hours when my hands start cramping i wonder how this guy feels after this prob like hell !
well i feel like hell after a drinking session yet that doesnt stop me many people die from it too, 135 hours is crazy tho especially on black ops 2, could have picked a better game didnt think you could get that many hours out of it lol oh and sleeping is cheating pfff light weight
It isn't that hard to do. I do long marathons such as this for the fun of it, Usually to grind stuff out ASAP on a new game. It is suprising how well you can perform in game with sleep deprivation and find so many well rested people suck too haha. Heck if I had sponsorship and someone sad enough to time me as well as the correct motivation to do so I'd happily have a stab at this record myself. The only people who die doing overnighters are compelte and utter idiots. I grab food , eat, drink , piss or shit in the minute or so between rounds, though obviously not all at once. Sure it isn't ideal but it beats dying because I was too much of a muppet to make time for any of the above. When possible or practical I try to play in the prone postiion in bed on my Xbox 360 controller too. Not to avoid a pulmonary embolism, purely for comfort, but it doesn't hurt either. A few problems from my own experiences: The longer you stay up the more you want to eat. Tiredness/wiredness comes in waves. Also if you want to have a break and watch a film and rest your eyes / brain it doesnt work lol and you will promptly have an afternoon nap. Back in my PlanetSide days I once woke up thiking it was 9am (damned 12 hour clock). Nope... I had gone to sleep for 24 hours lol. Yeah thats when you know marathon gaming has taken its toll! I wouldn't attempt it on something such as CoD myself though. I bought the original CoD back in the day (the sound was amazing) and didn't touch anothe rgame until Modern Warfare 2. I had a quick go at killing Zombies or whatever on Black Ops co-op on my cousin's PS3, but given the choice of playing Cod at all or never again, I'd opt for never again. Whoring out the IP every year, long after the creaters have fucked off and sane people have lost interest is just flogging a dead horse because they can. I also boycott EA / DICE Medal of Honor too now they are basically trying to whore out Battlefield every year under a new name hoping no one would notice and cough up regardless. Anyhow it would have to be something pretty special for me to have a crack at this record. Maybe Battlefield 4?
Hmm I juust had a thought. 135 hours * 10 mins break per played hour = 1350 mins / 60 mins = 22.5 hours rest 22.5 hours / 8 hours (average sleep amount) is nearly 3 nights worth of sleep over 5-6 days, so basically sleeping every other night, though usually on a marathon session you'll either have a short 2-3 hour nap or an extended 10-12 hour sleep. So where was the challenge exactly? Provide me with a game that doesn't suck and charitable donations for a good cause and I'm up for a go.
The Guinness Book of World Records explicitly forbids most/all record submissions for things that could be dangerous. Obviously this won't stop some people and if you look throughout history you'll find knife catchers, cannon balls to the stomach, etc by people who had a natural, honed talent for the topic. A gaming marathon session would be tantamount to sleep deprivation and I've read in good detail how bad that can be after just 4-5 days. The assumption has been that after a number of days later you'll end up dead but I'm unaware of anything having died from sleep deprivation. Guinness doesn't want to be responsible for someone's death so in this case you're either a kid on summer vacation (I'm sure I beat this guys record at some point when I was 13) or you have a paid vacation. Hell my problem would be finding a series of video games I'd want to play one after another that I haven't already finished and wouldn't bore the life out of me.
I've done 27 hours straight (Runescape and MxO respectively) before with only 10 hours sleep afterwards. Don't see the point of doing long sessions for a game which becomes obsolete as fast as call of duty unless its a clan war or s/t
If you do the math, I'm pretty sure the period I played through Mass Effect 1-2, back-to-back, far exceeds this world record of his ... only difference is that you can exchange the sleep hours with occasional showing up at work for a few hours every now and then.
im pretty sure during my pc gaming multi-player heyday i surpassed this with lack of sleep, gaming, college / work and drinking although these days the lack of sleep hits me alot harder.
for me it's more like 10-12 minutes before my hands start cramping and thumbs going numb... must be old age...
