Help Julford pull an all-nighter!

[Julford Hajime]

Ok NPF, here's the thing: I just woke up, like, ten minutes ago. It's currently 2:45 PM. Now, I have no job nor other social commitments, so this is fine for the time being. However, classes start back up in two weeks, and I have an early morning class, so I absolutely MUST fix my sleep schedule. Unfortunately, the people in my life are jackasses who keep me up until 6 AM because that's when THEY go to bed. Like, they use the TV in my room to play games and yell at me when I try to kick them out.

The plan: I'm gonna pull an all-nighter, then go to bed at a decent hour so that I get up around 6-7 am and just try to maintain that schedule until classes start. I'll also be removing the video games from my room and placing them somewhere else so that there is no reason for anyone to disturb my sleep.

The problem: I am TERRIBLE about pulling all-nighters. Usually I lose any resolve I have around 7:30 or 8 AM, and just go to bed then. If I try to watch something to keep myself awake, I'll fall asleep during that movie. The only times I've successfully managed to stay up was when I had a game that I became so engrossed in, I managed to completely lose track of time. If I can just stay up until around 10 AM, I can head out to breakfast or something with friends and stay awake for the rest of the day.

Which is where you come in, NPF! Recommend me something to play that will keep me so enamored for AT LEAST five hours, that I will stay awake through the most boring chunk of the night! Any game for any system will do, whether it's a recent game or was made in the 80s. Hell, if you know a way to spice up the game let me in on that, too! I'll give a couple examples of games that I've pulled all-nighters with before:

Fire Emblem 7 (aka Fire Emblem): My first Fire Emblem, and still one of my favorites. The time I pulled an all-nighter I was doing a "Lords Only" run because the game is too easy with a dozen buffed-up units.

Fire Emblem 9 (aka Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance): Twice with this one, actually. Both times starting a game from scratch, once Ike only and the other doing some sort of theme game (Axes only? I forget).

Final Fantasy 4: Kain/Rydia only run. Interesting, though how it kept me busy for five hours I don't know >.>

Final Fantasy Tactics: More times than I can count. I've beaten this game so many times in so many ways that I've accidently pulled all-nighters when I didn't mean to. Sadly I just beat the game again recently, and don't have the desire to pick it up right now.

Halo 2: Twice, once on 1-player Legendary campaign and the other on the co-op Legendary campaign.

So uh, yeah. As you can see I like sRPGs, though I've been playing pretty much nothing but them recently so it's hard to convince me to play one for five hours straight at this point >.> Any suggestions?

[Yrcrazypa]

Planescape: Torment will keep you engrossed for more than five hours easily. I seriously can't recommend this game enough.

[bluestarultor]

I think you just need to get better at kicking people out of your room. That's VERY inconsiderate of them. Your room is your space.


That said, you could always go to Cracked or TV Tropes. Not games, but you'll definitely never know where the time went.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

You might want to try Demon's Crest for the SNES if you haven't. It's a game I like to recommend any chance I get. Basically it's a Metroidvania game from before that term existed. It isn't so big, but still got multiple endings. For the best one you basically have to find every item in the game (not TOO hard to find, though) Help me find out if it's only the Nostalgia that makes me think it's good.

Another Nostalgia game would be Guardian Legend for the NES. It mixes top-down exploration with vertically scrolling shmup action. It's fairly long for an action based game of the NES era

I once pulled an all-nighter trying to get a Platinum award on the final challenge missions inTimeSplitters 2 and 3. I did after innumerable tries.

You could also play Silent Hill 2. You will not be able to sleep as long as this game haunts you.

EDIT: Another time I pulled an all-nighter playing Condemned. Good times. That was at a gamer meeting some friends and I had at my place.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I concur with Blues on the Cracked/TVtropes ideas and also suggest going and reading the entire Badass of the Week list and watching the entire series of Yu Gi Oh; Abridged, Red vs Blue, Zero Punctuation and Unskippable.

This combination will easily keep you awake for as long as you require.

[Julford Hajime]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

I think you just need to get better at kicking people out of your room. That's VERY inconsiderate of them. Your room is your space.

You don't know my family. My room does not belong to me, and any attempts to even close my door to get some privacy are met with shouting matches. It's part of why I tend to not have a problem with stay up late and sleeping in while they are up and about >.>

Originally Posted by Hawk

I concur with Blues on the Cracked/TVtropes ideas and also suggest going and reading the entire Badass of the Week list and watching the entire series of Yu Gi Oh; Abridged, Red vs Blue, Zero Punctuation and Unskippable.

This combination will easily keep you awake for as long as you require.

I was considering Cracked, but as for the others I've read all I care for on TVTropes (After about a month of flipping through pages while bored I've seen just about every article worth linking), and I tend to watch YGOTAS and RvB when I'm tired and want to sleep (It's a comfort thing; I have a hard time sleeping without some level of noise in the background, and if it's something I've watched several times before I know I'm not missing anything new and easily fall asleep).

Plus I've seen all of the ZP videos, and I don't care for Unskippable, sadly.

Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

You might want to try Demon's Crest for the SNES if you haven't. It's a game I like to recommend any chance I get. Basically it's a Metroidvania game from before that term existed. It isn't so big, but still got multiple endings. For the best one you basically have to find every item in the game (not TOO hard to find, though) Help me find out if it's only the Nostalgia that makes me think it's good.

Another Nostalgia game would be Guardian Legend for the NES. It mixes top-down exploration with vertically scrolling shmup action. It's fairly long for an action based game of the NES era

I once pulled an all-nighter trying to get a Platinum award on the final challenge missions inTimeSplitters 2 and 3. I did after innumerable tries.

You could also play Silent Hill 2. You will not be able to sleep as long as this game haunts you.

EDIT: Another time I pulled an all-nighter playing Condemned. Good times. That was at a gamer meeting some friends and I had at my place.

I'll definately check those out. I like to watch TAS's, and just recently heard about Guardian Legend from that; it looked interesting, to say the least. Sadly I already have all the medals for TS 2 and 3, but I've heard of Demon's Crest yet never checked it out before. I'll look into it.

Though I'll probably never touched Condemned or the Silent Hill series, though. Anything that even REMOTELY sounds like it's designed to scare me I tend to give a wide berth.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Julford Hajime

You don't know my family. My room does not belong to me, and any attempts to even close my door to get some privacy are met with shouting matches. It's part of why I tend to not have a problem with stay up late and sleeping in while they are up and about >.>

My family was the same way in high school. Eventually I got smart and started hiding their games and stuff and made it clear that I was the keeper of the keys. If they couldn't respect my space, they couldn't play whatever game was the last offender. I didn't just limit it to hiding things in my room, either. For one game, I hid it in my brother's room and totally forgot about it. He didn't find it until years later, after he'd forgotten he'd ever had it.

Yeah, there was a lot of conflict at first, but when you hold the keys and are good at it, they learn eventually.

It also helps to have periods when you can move freely and a good eye for spots to put things.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I think you just need to learn to tell people to fuck off out of your room so you can get some fucking sleep! Or go and sleep in their rooms.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Hawk

I think you just need to learn to tell people to fuck off out of your room so you can get some fucking sleep! Or go and sleep in their rooms.

Trust me, it's easier said than done, or else I wouldn't have resorted to hiding my brother's games in his own room after I started running out of places in mine. When people don't respect your space, you don't have a right to kick them out in their minds.

[Julford Hajime]

My brother and I normally get along fine, but since I have the biggest TV in the house (Because I bought it with my money) I don't have a right to complain when somebody else wants to use it. Add onto this that my parents are the biggest offenders during the daylight hours, and yeah I absolutely LOVE dorm life because my sense of self-worth isn't shattered every time I ask for a little privacy. Also, not allowed in other peoples' rooms without their permission beforehand, so I can't even sleep in my brothers room while they keep the light on in mine while loudly bitching about their latest Halo 3 death.

tl;dr My family is full of people who pretty obviously hate my guts and step on me with every opportunity. Hence, my sleep issues.

Anywho, forgot to mention a game earlier that I've done an all-nighter with: Suikoden 2. First time I played through the game I ended up playing for something like 16 hours straight without sleeping. Though it was an accident, it totally counts >.>