Mine would have to be The Omega Stone. I just disliked it so much that it was like a chore for me to play it but, I was determined to finish it. I think it took me a month and a half.
Rusty

The Longest Journey. Approx. 2 weeks. And if I remember correctly that was also playing alot.

We just finished Case of the Rose Tattoo, and it took us weeks. Not that we didn't like the game, but there is SO MUCH dialogue, reading and detail in it that we had to take it in little 2-4 hour chunks. Any longer and we started getting bored. By comparison, I think we spent about a week on TLJ, the next longest amount of time we've spent on a game.

Outcast and NOLF. I know they are not adventure games. Well Outcast to me is an adventure/action hybrid.

For adventure games - Black Dahlia and Pandora Directive the first time.

Mine has got to be Law and Order: Dead On The Money! I have been playing this for months and I'm still not done! I just refuse to accept that I'm not smart enough to get the bad guy!

Riven. First game, didn't have a strategy book and didn't know about boards like this yet. It took me a little over 6 weeks.

~Dee

The Beast Within..........took nearly a year and a half to get through it.........but it was definitely worth it!!!!!! Great game!!!!!!!!!

Of the games I played straight through and didn't quit playing in the middle for some reason, Case of the Rose Tattoo took the longest. It was just a big game, with lots of places to visit and lots of things to go back and check once you had new information.

Three games that got delayed for a while when I was partway through them and which I went back to later and finished are Outcast, Schizm, and the first Tomb Raider game.

'Discworld' . . . . Still struggling . . . . I won't cheat 'cos it ruins a game for me. It's been months though ! 'Discworld 2' was easier. I'm sure. Hopefully, it'll be worth it in the end, but intermittent gameplay isn't my favourite way to play games. Second slowest . . . . 'Riven' ! Had to use a walkthru' there though. Still a fantastic game experience for me, even with a couple of cheats !

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Discworld Noir.

I'd have to say "Simon 3D", even with occasional peeking at the walkthrough, this one took me forever, it's such a long game!

Louis

Shorah,

Well we havent finished Omega Stone yet, so that may be the winner. Mostly because we like it enough to *really* solve it (thanks for help in the hint forum, folks) & not just use a wt.

Schizm took awhile once we got back to it, even with a hint or 3.

Susan

My longest game was Sanitarium,it took me a few weeks to finish.I got the game before I knew you could get a walkthrough or there were adventure gaming sites.

Like catsmom, mine too was Sanitarium. I got VERY stuck at a maze-like stone structure that you walk through (up and down stairs and dodging electrical currents that come up through the stones under your feet). I eventually got SO frustrated with this lone puzzle that I set the game aside for MONTHS before returning to complete it. However, it remains one of my top ten favorite games to this day. When I returned to finish it, I found the same puzzle quit simple and finished the game that same day. It's a fantastic game!

Black Dahlia took me 116 hours over 24 straight days. And that included 9 trips to universal hints to solve some of the most difficult puzzles. Loved that game, definitely a classic.

For me it was TLJ. I played that for close to a month, and when it was over I was sad to see it end. It felt like a friend was leaving. I can't wait for the sequel.

I hear you on Black Dahlia. I was looking at my son, Michael and I's notes just the other day.

Just for the rune puzzle, we had a full chart of runes. Then did a geometric schematic organized by solid positions, hinted at positions that we felt fairly secure about and then alternates with the few remaining ones. There were 4 runes that we decided were the iffy ones. We and two other playing teams worked on the possibilities through email and finally achieved consensus.

Not to mention the log cabin box, the Raven club door and a host of others. And then when you thought you were near the end in Germany - a whole other section of the game started up. What a great game!

For me it was Blue Ice. It took four years and several people working together to finally get the solution to the end contest puzzle. Along the way we managed to contact the game developer by email for hints but his hints were so obscure that we gave up that method. One of our group who lived in the same country as the developer finally phoned him and asked for more direct hints.

WWhat a loaded question. I have a couple dozen or more games in progress that have been going on for almost five YEARS!! Every now and then I see a new tip on our 'Hints' forum, and give them another shot.
Right now our dear Tally Ho has me (I hope ) on track with Atlantis, the Lost Tales.
NEVER SAY DIE!!!!!!

Took me three months to finish Lighthouse when it first came out. I had no internet or Gameboomers to help. I spent two weeks under water looking for that safe. I was so thrilled to find it that I called everyone to tell them. They thought I was nuts. That one got me hooked on adventure games. Thanks to Inferno, I was able to play it recently on XP.
Kay

Hi lspace !

Please don't mind me asking, but I have this game an would like to play it, but I've read it is a competition game and is, therefore, very, very tough to finish. Do you know now whether there is anywhere that I will find a walkthrough for the game, because I don't fancy starting it if it's going to be nigh-on impossible to finish ?

Cheers,

Gelert.

Blue Ice has a walkthrough.
http://www.the-spoiler.com/OTHER/Psygnosis/blue.ice.3/index.html

Heehee ! I was hoping someone would do the shovel work for me. Thanks Jenny. You're a peach ! :kiss:

I am in the middle of Blue Ice and Kofun, have been playing these two on and off for a year or more. I leave them for the interesting new games than I get back to one of them and play a litte.

For me, it was The Longest Journey. I played it for little over a month. It was fun the entire time.