Live 12-Hour Oblivion Marathon

HarvardFrankenstein writes "Gamespot's Greg Kasavin will be playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for 12 straight hours tonight (Monday, March 20th) and the entire marathon session will be broadcast live. Kasavin will be 'offering commentary about the experience as it transpires. Subscribers will see a picture-in-picture view of Kasavin as he spends an increasing number of successive hours playing the game, and they will be able to chat with each other over the course of the event.'" The event starts tonight at 6pm PST, if they get started on time.

The Koreans do it better

[DrSkwid]

50 hours
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Aug/bga20050 810031766.htm [geek.com]

Second gamer dies after massive binge
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2120472/second-g amer-dies-massive-binge [vnunet.com]

etc.etc.

In related news...

[ZombieRoboNinja]

David Cross has seen remarkable success in his business model of eating barbeque pork ribs and describing the experience to Orthodox Jews.

"Mmm, this is delicious! Falling off the bone! Too bad your God won't let you eat this, mine doesn't give a crap!"

Seriously. I want to PLAY THE GAME, not watch some media guy play the game (and almost certainly ruin the plot for me in the process). What kind of masochist would watch this?

I won't be tuning in...

[mackil]

because there is nothing more frustrating then watching someone else play a game you'd love to be playing yourself. It's a frustration and anger that can be tied directly to road rage. You just want to take a tire iron to someone who just can't make a certain jump or keeps shooting the enemy in the feet instead of the head. I think I'll wait until I can pick up the game itself, save myself the consternation.

This can only end in tears.

[Keith Russell]

Bethesda Nightmare Scenario #1:

T + 1:00:00: Oblivion.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close.
T + 2:20:54: Oblivion.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close.
T + 3:54:29: Oblivion.exe has experienced a problem and needs to close.
T + 7:32:47: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Bethesda Nightmare Scenario #2:

T + 9:29:30: "Done!"

Not impressed...

[dud83]

12 hours?
My grandmother could play 12 hours straight... Get back to me when you've played Elite for 2 days straight you damn toddler!

Re:Well, remember, this *is* Greg Kasavin.

[syukton]

Nobody will be comfortable in the same sitting position for 12 hours

Hi, I'm Nobody. Pleased to meet you.

Umm what?

[ClamIAm]

Subscribers will see a picture-in-picture view of Kasavin as he spends an increasing number of successive hours playing the game

As opposed to what, a decreasing number of successive hours?