FFVII is not longer than the Mass Effect trilogy. What the hell are you doing in FFVII to last that long? I guess if you just line up the required story content for each game FFVII is longer than any of the ME games but that kind of goes against one of the main draws of the ME games. With everything, FFVII is at most 50% longer than a single ME game. And, unlike the ME trilogy which has three self-contained plots that are part of a larger narrative, FFVII is one continuous plot. I'm not against the FFVII episodic format in theory, but this type of approach is not really comparable to any of the major series right now, except possibly the Telltale games.