For many people growing up in the early 2000s, playing video games took up a lot of their time. Whether it was a heavily story-driven game or a game that required grin💯ding to reach a certain point, there were plenty of long games to soak in.

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The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation 2 had plenty of games that players could delve into for hours on end. From action RPGs to simulation games, the console was fille🧸d with games that kept players' hands glued to the controller. While there are quite a few of these games to choose from, there are only a few that truly feel endless. Times shown are courtesy of .

10 🅺 Magna Carta: Tears👍 Of Blood (51.5 Hours)

Magna Carta Tears of Blood gameplay

As mentioned earlier, role-playing games will have a major role on this list. Starting the list off is a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:lesser-known RPG known as Magna Carta: Tears Of Blood. The land of Efferia has been overcome by war for years between Humans and Yason, who are like humans but with lighter-skin and unique ears. Players are Calintz, a leader of a human-aligned militia called Tears of Blood. In the game, players can move up to three characters, one at a time, and can only attack oꦏnce their "leadership meter" is filled.

9 ♒ Suikoden V (51.🌱5 Hours)

Suikoden V gameplay

While the series has laid dormant for nearly a decade, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suikoden had a good run, with Konami producing five mainline games and multiple spin-offs. Its final mainline game, Suikoden V, did not sell well but was received well by critics. The gam𒈔e♒ is a prequel of the first game as it takes place six years before. Players take on the role of the Prince of Falena as he travels around the world helping citizens and recruiting others to join him. The game has over sixty different usable characters in grid-based combat.

8 🌱 Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (53 Hours) ℱ

Shin Megamio Tensei III Nocturne's protagonist

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Megami Tensei is among the most well-known role-playing game franchises in the world. It has many spin-offs, including the Persona series. It has quite a few mainline games as well, including 2003's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.

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Players are a high school student who turns into a "Demi-fiend" after Lucifer and his cult cause an apocalyptic event to reshape the world to their desires. The game uses a true turn-based battleღ system to fight other demons, but players could re✅cruit them into their army instead.

7 Little B�ꦑ�usters! (60 Hours)

Little Busters! gameplay

Little Busters! was released in North America and Europe only in recent years, but the game debuted in Japan back in 2007. In 2009, th♛e game was brought to the , putting it immediately among the longest games on the console. The visual novel puts players in the role of Riki as he and his friends, known as the Little Busters, are planning to form a baseball team. Riki is tasked with recruiting other girls onto the team to make sure Rin isn't the only one on the squad. However, the w🌄orld they are living in has a secret that will take the player through the game in multiple loops.

6 ൲ Final Fantasy XII (60.5 Hours)

Final Fantasy XII gameplay

Unsurprisingly, a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy game is on the list. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy XII is the last main series game to come out on the Playstation 2. The story takes place in Ivalice, a fictional world that is home to two empires at war: Archadia and Rozarria. The game stars multiple main characters. Most of the game is played through the eyes of Vaan, an aspiring sky pirate, as he and his friends help a princess named Ashe fight back against Archadia. The game uses real-time combat wꦉith a "gambit s♓ystem" that allowed players to program character actions in specific scenarios.

5 🍌 Suikod💃en III (61.5 Hours)

Suikoden III gameplay

Going back to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suikoden series, Suikoden III is canonically the ending of the franchise as the later two installments take place prior to the events of this one. It is also the longest in the series, with an estimated 61.5 hours of the single-player campaign. 16 years after the events of Suikoden II, the player is able to control three different chara꧑cters as they embark on three different arcs surrounding a feud between two areas called Grassland and Zexen, as well as a powerful nation called Harmonia.

4 Dragon Quest VII♒I (62.5 Hours) 🔜

Dragon Quest VIII protagonist and his crew

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest series has been innovative over the years, and Dragon Quest VIII is no different. It was the first game in the series that have three-dimensional environments and character models, as well as allowing players to control the 360-degree camera and view surroundings from the first-personജ point of view.

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The game revolvesꦡ around the Hero, a silent protagonist, and his allies as they go on a journey to save the kingdom of Trodain from a curse bestowed upon them by the evil jester Dhoulmagus. Much like the rest of the series, players randomly-encounter combat and is thrown into a turn-based system.

3 🀅Persona 4 (72.5 Hours)

Persona 4 gameplay

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona series is one of the more popular role-playing game franchises today, and as stated earlier, is part of the grander Megami Tensei universe. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 4 revolves around a high school student who decides to get out of the city and move into the countryside for a year. Unfortunately, the stay is not relaxing as the student gets involved in needing to solve murders. The game, like others in the series, jumps between a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:regular life simulation in Inaba and a dungeon-crawling RPG in the "TV World." Gameplay and combat are also similar as players partake in turn-based battle systems using weapons and ෴their Persona's skills.

2 Gran Turismo 4 (76.5 Ho💦urs)

Gran Turismo 4 cars

Moving away from the role-playing genre for a bit, we move into the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:world of racing as PlayStation-staple 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gran Turismo has many g﷽ames with long single-player modes. Gran Turismo stands as theꦇ second-longest campaign in the PlayStation 2's history with an estimated 76.5 hours. The game has a main first-person driving mode called A-Spec with many race events to participate in. There is also B-Spec mode, which allows players to put themselves in the role of a race crew chief. In addition, there are Driving Missions, which task players to complete specific tasks in the race.

1 🍌 Persona 3 (81.5 Hours)

The Persona 3 Protagonist shooting himself in the head in the Persona 3 Anime

Returning to Persona once more, the other installment on the Playstation 2 is considered to be the longest campaign in the system's history with 81.5 hours. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 3 puts players in the role of another high school student, this time joining his school's Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES). There, they are investigating a period of time called the Dark Hour, which takes place between the end of one day and the start of another. Their investigation leads them to Tartarus, a tower filled with mind-eatin🐭g creatures called Shadows. There, they fight using their weapons and their Personas.

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