ffx the shortest experience?

I thought it was a really good story line and a really long game, once u add on time it takes to do all the optional stuff. i cant really campare it with any others, since i only have X and X-2 though

it takes the longest to train on ffx in my opinion (i mean to get full stats i'm nowhere near it)

This was one of the longest for me probably following FFVIII, think my first game clocked about 100 hours cause I took so long screwing around with secret business.

FFX-2 I finished in 30 hours which was disapointing, didn't do many optional missions though.

i think the removal of the world map also made it seem shorter and more linear

Yeah to get to the end its a tad short but compaired to X-2 its incredibly long:D

FFX is probably the biggest FF game, as well as the biggest RPG ever.
The fact that its only on one disc and there was 4 on FFIX's, you'd think it would be a shorter game, but the hardware of today makes this disc carry alot of *whatever they put onto discs*.
Theres a massive side dish with FFX, the main story is probably the starter, Ive put in more hours into the Monster Arena than the actually game.
I guess the only reason why it would seem that the game could not be as Long ( story wise ) is because the game was easy, I dont think I ever had to stop and do some serious leveling in order to get past a Boss, and back tracking for items and such isnt needed as much as Save points heal you as well.

Don't 4get Dark Aeons and Penace