Maybe. This is just an interest thread for now.

Currently, I have two bets going on. If my friend can play 48 hours of Secret of the Magic Crystals in a week, I get him Kingdoms of Amalur. If he fails, he gets me Legend of Grimrock. Now, I've just accepted another challenge for me to play 48 hours of Secret in exchange for a $15 of my choice (Grimrock goes to the challenger if I fail).

How many of you would be interested in challenges such as this? Note that it may not always be Secret that is the game to play. I may decide to test you on another awful game that I might find. Who purchases the challenge game (if not already owned) would be decided based on what the reward is.


Read the damn thread please before you bring up the stupid idling argument yet again. It's been dealt with repeatedly.

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This idea is awesome, though I wouldn't participate for a couple of barriers (0 money to buy challenge game, limited hardware). It still would be great. Perhaps you could force a stream in certain interesting challenges.

I'd love to see someone who only plays FPS genre playing Dwarf Fortress for example :D

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I'm up to the challenge of playing 5 minutes a week. Will be hard but I think I can make it.

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ye, but how do you make sure he is not just turning the game and going afk? Make him stream!

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Im down. Come at me bro.

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I've got Secret of the Magic Crystals as part of the "Indie Kids Pack", the other games in it were pretty decent. Decided to try it just for lulz, I knew it was a game for little girls, but man, even knowing this I was disappointed. It didn't even have any achievements back then.

As for other boring games - try Eufloria. Got it with some of the bundles too, had some hopes for it, was disappointed. Extremely boring.

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I love Eufloria and could easily play it all day.

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El Diablo approves and would be interested in such a challenge (terms acceptable, of course)

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I'd take the challenge.

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lol my 8 year old sister has 28 hours in secret of the magic crystals

DON'T MOCK THIS GAME

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I'd be pretty interested in this type of challenges if it weren't for my crappy IGPU and my availability to buy games... Otherwise, it's a great idea if you have the rig and the money.

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Oh man i cant do this challenge because, my other games would feel rejected -_-

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Good luck with that! I´d probably kill myself if I had to play that game 48hrs xD

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i could play dota2 for 50+h in a week (currentaly i got 35 so thats 85 for a week) and for that i want The Walking Dead preorder, deal? :D

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This sounds interesting. Would be interested, although I don't know if I could stand playing 48 hours in a week of any game that boring. Even 48 hours of a game I'm interested in, I don't know.

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I challange you Jade, to Rogue warrior!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/22310/

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And to prove you played, we have to get the achievements too! Not all of them, but enough to disprove idling ;)

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Are your 48 hours in one week, too? If so, good luck! This is more than 1/4 of every day spend on ponies.

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Yep...

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Then you are either brave or totally crazy :D

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i give up

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48hours a week is 7 hours a day. That's a lot for me now, maybe when I'm on holidays :P

But that's a tempting idea I must say

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Sounds like it could be fun, though I'm not sure if I'm strong enough to do it. Bad Rats...yuck :s

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I would happily do this when I have finished Uni for the summer.

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I love these challanges, nice one Jade ◕ ‿ ◕

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Not a bad idea per se.

Try to make people play Gangwars for 50 hours, you'll get an increase in psychatric internment in different parts of the world and they will hate you :p

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I would lol

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Nice idea in principle. The main problem for me however, would be my general lack of time these days. To do something like 48 hours in a game I would have to use almost all of my free time in a week, which I can't see myself doing.

I'd be happier for something like arbitrary skill challenges, like completing a specific Super Meat Boy level in < X seconds (where X is insanely difficult for the level, but somehow assessed as being possible). Something that I wouldn't necessarily have to spend all my time doing, but still represents some kind of challenge. Maybe even inventing interesting meta-games within games (adding constraints like time or no weapons to existing challenges in a game or creating your own challenges within the game world). This at least can be difficult without being thoroughly unenjoyable or completely impractical.

Also, due to a lack of disposable income, I wouldn't feel prepared to give a game if I failed and I'd likely be iffy about getting the challenge game if I didn't have it as well.

So yeah, this probably isn't for me.

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About the arbitrary challenges: it could be a competition between several players. They all have some time to play and the one that did the best wins (easy to measure if the goal was go trought a level as fast as you can).

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I would be very interested in this :O

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I sadly don't have the time to play for that long these days. I could pull 20 or 30 hours, but definitely not 48. It's a cool idea though, and I could see some very fun times being had all around depending on the game chosen.

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