Games are too long

[Wolf Kanno]

I think Sephex nailed it for me, I'm fine with any length as long as it is engaging and doesn't feel padded. One of the things I actually loved about The Last Story after coming off putting in over a hundred hours into Xenoblade Chronicles was that it was short. Like 20-30 hour range and I did most of everything I could in a first playthrough. It was odd playing a modern JRPG that was the length of the SNES era games but honestly it felt right and I never once got bored or felt the need to over-analyze everything cause I had too much downtime with prolonged cutscenes or fetch quests to give me time to ponder. It just felt right.

Time usually doesn't bother me as long as I am enjoying the experience. I whine about not having much free time but I sometimes find ways to pour 50+ hours into a game I enjoy in the span of a few days. Still, cause I am busy, I do tend to gravitate towards shorter games. I haven't touched AC4 for the sole reason that I just don't have the freaking time to play through it and get my other stuff done. Handhelds are the best for giving me some leeway.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I really do like longer games, but I just don't have the time for them anymore. I'm going through the Shin Megami Tensei games right now (Finished Persona 3 and 4, and i'm currently playing SMT 3 Nocturne), and the 60ish hour length is a bit much for me. Or was it 80 hours for each of the Persona games? I can't remember. 20 hours is about the sweet spot for me anymore.

[Fynn]

Poured way over a hundred hours into Xenoblade Chronicles, and still haven't done all the subquests, but I enjoyed every minute of it and want to come back and finish it up someday.

[*Devore*]

I think you were doing something wrong on Borderlands 2 because you can totally get through it in like 4hrs, excluding side missions and dlc. And thats on the hardest mode.

I love long games, the longer the better and tbh I've been thinking that games have been getting shorter. I was super disappointed when I'm taking my time on a game and it suddenly ends 3hrs in, looking at you CoD. But I've never been one 100%-ing a game, I just beat the main story and try and get the best gear along the way.

[metagloria]

My latest long session was Star Ocean with almost 600 hours. And it was fun. I am already missing it.

W...what?

How do you spend that much time on a Star Ocean game? Or any game?

[Quindiana Jones]

FFIX full playthrough time: ~100 hours
Total number of FFIX full playthroughs: ~12
Estimated time spent playing FFIX: ~ 1200 hours.

Don't even get me started on Elder Scrolls and such.

[Pike]

Once you know what you're doing a Morrowind full playthrough probably takes 20 hours or so. If you break the game you can speed run it in ten minutes

[Sephiroth]

My latest long session was Star Ocean with almost 600 hours. And it was fun. I am already missing it.

W...what?

How do you spend that much time on a Star Ocean game? Or any game?

That is nothing. I have spent 1000s of hours on Final Fantasys or Pokémon.

And Star Ocean requires that. It is not only one save game but multiple, though. That is what is needed for the Platinum Trophy. Two with almost 500 hours together and then the rest.

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/f...w-far-you.html

[metagloria]

My latest long session was Star Ocean with almost 600 hours. And it was fun. I am already missing it.

W...what?

How do you spend that much time on a Star Ocean game? Or any game?

That is nothing. I have spent 1000s of hours on Final Fantasys or Pokémon.

And Star Ocean requires that. It is not only one save game but multiple, though. That is what is needed for the Platinum Trophy. Two with almost 500 hours together and then the rest.

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/f...w-far-you.html

Oh, so you're talking about multiple playthroughs, not playing the game once for 600 hours? If so, that makes more sense. I've spent thousands of hours on a few games that way then.

[Sephiroth]

My latest long session was Star Ocean with almost 600 hours. And it was fun. I am already missing it.

W...what?

How do you spend that much time on a Star Ocean game? Or any game?

That is nothing. I have spent 1000s of hours on Final Fantasys or Pokémon.

And Star Ocean requires that. It is not only one save game but multiple, though. That is what is needed for the Platinum Trophy. Two with almost 500 hours together and then the rest.

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/f...w-far-you.html

Oh, so you're talking about multiple playthroughs, not playing the game once for 600 hours? If so, that makes more sense. I've spent thousands of hours on a few games that way then.

It was still all in 5 months and for one and the same purpose. But if we are talking about one save, then Final Fantasy and Pokémon.

[Bubba]

A while ago I picked up the new Tomb Raider. I was sailing along, reached a point in the plot where it looked like things might be starting to wrap up, so I checked a walkthrough to see how close I was to the end. Turns out I was only 1/4th or 1/3rd of the way through the game. Blarfhg.

Yeah, I'm getting to that point with Tomb raider now actually. Whenever I stop playing it, the urge to go back to it lessens each time. There are some enjoyable mechanics in it (I love the bow and arrow) but I think the setting is getting a bit tiresome now.

I enjoy games that take between 30 and 80 hours I'd say

I read that as "between 30 and 80 hours a day"

[Pumpkin]

Hahaha even I don't have that much free time





plus 80 hours in a day is not possible unless I'm a time wizard

[Dr Unne]

In my youth I used to play FF1 over and over because it's the only RPG I owned. Playtime for that was probably in the hundreds of hours. The moral of this story: children are wasting their lives.

I think you were doing something wrong on Borderlands 2 because you can totally get through it in like 4hrs, excluding side missions and dlc. And thats on the hardest mode.

The hardest mode, aka UVHM, after you've already beaten the game twice? I could see that. Much different than an initial playthrough with no gear. HLTB says main story = 30 hours, main story + extras = 50 hours, based on around 500 respondents, which fits my experience.

[Shauna]

Borderlands 2 took the better part of 3 days (solid games) for myself, Matt and a friend to play, and we stopped doing the sidequests towards the end because we needed to finish the damn game.

[Vyk]

I only get to play games once or twice a week. So the 10 - 20 hour games are a godsend when they're done well. Typically it's just the gimmicky simple games that are that short though. Like, I couldn't get into Bastion or Fez enough for that. And I would have been super happy if I could have beaten Xenoblade Chronicles, or Bravely Default in that time. Sadly I tend to move on once I hit that point regardless, because I start to feel like I'm wasting my time and not enjoying enough games. The time constraint plays a large part I presume, so I tend to quit on some pretty amazing games if they run too long, because I start to feel like I'm missing out on other great titles. I need to just become a bum. I'll set up a TV and console to be powered by a generator ran by peddling a bicycle. I'll just exercise and play video games all day long :3