How fast do you play through games?

[Ifirit's Fury]

I'll blast through first person shooters pretty fast. Medal of honor games usually only last a weekend and I've killed every Nazi in the game.

When it comes to final fantasy I'm more patient, like to take my time and explore everything I can.

If I'm just in the mood to kill an hour or so, then it's NHL 07 or GH

[edczxcvbnm]

I take a long time to play through games now but the total time logged is still what it use to be. Pretty short. I blast through games and always have. I like speed challenges and no matter the game I always try to do it fast. I mess around for fun doing stupid for fun all of the time but people who take their time do not fall into my blazing it up category or messing around category. Messing around involves doing the same stupid game ending type of 300 times in a row. Thus that time is never saved

[Dreddz]

A good game fast, a bad game slow. Makes sense.

[Cookie]

I finished Star Fox Adventures in four sittings over four days, the last one taking place this morning.

[Zeromus_X]

The factors that determine how fast I play through a game are how much free time is available and if the game holds my interest. If the game is kinda slow, it takes me quite a bit longer to find the time to finish it. I don't enjoy forcing myself to finish a game. Generally if it's an older game I've played many times before it doesn't take too long to complete.

[Pouring Rain]

It depends on some games. I'm told I play pretty fast, though. I've been replaying through Xenosaga Episode I again, and in about four days I've made it to the Song of Nephilim. Also in Kingdom Hearts, I've been playing for about a week and a half, and I've made it to End of the World. Those are relatively fast, but for games like Zelda and such, it takes me forever. Phailage. That reminds me, I haven't played Twilight Princess in a while. I should probably replay that soon...

[crono_logical]

I've been averaging one PS2 RPG per month for the past half a year or so now, with other non-RPG games interspersed between/during them like God of War or Hoihoi-San taking up the odd day or two or so each, and that's with work in my way limiting me I generally play games slower and clock up more hours than most people though since I like to explore absolutely everything in RPGs

[Mercen-X]

Games with no explorative properties I can pretty much get through in record times . . . unless the game starts being an itch like Shadow of the Colossus where that damn turtle thing won't follow me toward any of them damn geysers. The first time I played, that was like the easiest battle. Now I can't seem to get that turtle where I want him. Damn it.

Games like Final Fantasy however . . . they're a different story. Sometimes, I start out trying to set a decent time . . . but I get caught up in sidequests and collecting and obsessive battling . . . I can never run straight through, I'm too easily distracted.

[Shoeberto]

Depends on the game and what I have going on. I beat RE4 on a replay in like four or five sittings not long ago, but I was on break with like no responsbilities and was having a blast. An RPG can easily take me months.

[BlackDragoon05]

Just depends on the game, what I have to do that day (or the next day if its later at night) and if I feel like playing a lot.

[Dirufan]

The only games I ever play anymore are FF games and Halo. Halo took me 2 weeks on Legendary, and FF games usually take me an average of 12-13 hours, minus the story sequences. But I beat FF IV on my emulator in 3 hours. =/ I don't appreciate the games as mucha s I should.

[The Unknown Guru]

I usually rip through it to find out the story, then I play it a second time and do everything.

[Heath]

Depends how much time I have available really. I ripped through Advance Wars DS and Castlevania: DoS pretty quickly because I had plenty of time available. However, the game I completed before those two, FFXII, took me several months because of the actual length of the game as well as other commitments. Generally though, about two to three weeks of playing when I can will get me through a console game. Less for a handheld. RPGs generally involve me going through the game, completing it and then commencing from an earlier save to get all the little bits and bobs and explore every bit of the game after I've seen the ending though, so longer if you include everything.

[Skyblade]

Slowly. I despise speed runs (although I do complete them in Metroid games for the endings). But I love immersing myself in the world of a game. Running through to the end of a game like Chrono Trigger or Golden Sun seems just criminal to me.

[tidus_rox]

Wow, I have had Xenosaga 1 for like 2 weeks now and I only have 8 and a half hours on it... SLOW.....