Gamers "apparently" want shorter, better games

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

funny I was going to start a Morrowind versus Oblivion topic

Do it, board needs moar threads.

[Tondog]

Fo sho! It's sillyness.

[ganonbanned]

the longer the better.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=2741

[Tondog]

But how many of those gamefaqs people are RPG fans? Damn near all of them from my prior experience with the site.

I think the time a game takes to beat should have no bearing on the quality at all, personally. Except when I rip Gears of War for being too short.

[Tan]

funny I was going to start a Morrowind versus Oblivion topic

Do it, board needs moar threads.

 

[Fuyukaze]

I used to think longer equaled better.  Figured if a game cost $50 each, which did you get more bang for your buck?  The game that can be beaten in 3 hours?  Or the game that could be beat in no less then 30 hours.  I dont know if it's old age growing on me or what, but these days I begin to grow tired with overtly long games.  True, more often they are RPG/strat related games, but it's getting out of hand.  Take a game like Disgaea 2 for an example.  Here I am with over 60 hours into it, and I'm not even half way thru getting the FIRST ending.  Not the special endings, not the most difficult of the special endings, just the damn regular one.  I played it for about a month, but sense then I've never even touched it.  Sure, it cost me $60 or so with the strat guide, and sure, I got atleast an hour per buck, but here I am over 4 months later, never beaten, and no real desire to bother finishing it.  Same could be said of Final Fantasy XII where I went and bought the thing new, played it around 70hrs total between 2 different attempts to beat it, and now I dont even want to bother with it.  Got God of War for $10, got stuck, never finished.  Maybe I am just growing old, maybe games are taking too much time.  Or, maybe dare I say, with the always present collection, I've forgoten how it is to have just one new game to play and have become so easly distracted by the mounds of other games that await me playing them.

Short version.

Long games are good but prone to personal interpitations.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

The quality and type of the game must be taken into account. If it's a weird repetitive Japanese RPG it's not going to hold my interest for more than twenty minutes; UNLESS it's very well done, like FFVII was.

[Ando]

That's why I'm holding off on some purchases until they reach the $20 mark (Viva Pinata...

Do you realize what you just said there? *wrath of the Viva Pinata advocate unleashed*

There's WELL over $20 worth of gameplay in that. I'd pay $60 for it easy.

[Shimra]

RPGs have no reason to be less than 20 hours long. How the hell are you supposed to be immersed in the world or characters or stories in that short of a time frame. Oh and Maligned Leon, you need to play some good JRPGs. Give Chrono Trigger a shot then compare it to your beloved FFVII. Or Skies of Arcadia. Oh and FF 6 and X are the ones you need to hunt down.

[phoenix1967]

That's why I'm holding off on some purchases until they reach the $20 mark (Viva Pinata...

Do you realize what you just said there? *wrath of the Viva Pinata advocate unleashed*

There's WELL over $20 worth of gameplay in that. I'd pay $60 for it easy.

  You're right about that.

I guess I've just been tied up with other games. VP is definitely on my list of games to acquire. I guess that I'm hoping that by the time I'm ready to get it, it'll drop to the $20 mark.

[Shimra]

Oh yeah, and I don't care how long a game is. Take Super Metroid for example. It's my favorite game of all time. I can beat it in an hour and 15 minutes with 100%, and sub 1 hour easily. Why do I keep playing it religiously? The game is that ****ing good.

[nester]

When I was a kid all I wanted was ridiculously long games. I wanted every RPG to be 100 hours with at least 4 different worlds, every fighting game to have at least 50 fighters, and every platform game to have 100 levels. I'm still upset that Fireteam Rogue never got released. In recent years this really has started to happen, but I can see why it can get annoying. Games do have a tendency to be a little too open ended sometimes. I like a good mixture between long and short. However I did feel like a king after finishing Dragon Warrior 7 after 127 hours and 2 years of off and on playing. There's just something really special about beating a game that takes up your life for months.

[Tan]

Sometimes I play a game like a weekly TV show, an hour a week until beaten. No different than say watching 10 seasons of SG-1 which would be around 150 hours itself spread over months. It works out much better with games that you can save anywhere at any time.

Time I find in games is just another variable. Short games, long games, first person, third, cel-shaded, bump mapped. Not just RPG's either. I like the fact I can play a NHL game on multiple systems in under half an hour or several hours, or play a quick race in GT or test drive 40 cars in an afternoon.

There's just something really special about beating a game that takes up your life for months.

That's Morrowind to a T.   

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Sometimes I play a game like a weekly TV show, an hour a week until beaten. No different than say watching 10 seasons of SG-1 which would be around 150 hours itself spread over months. It works out much better with games that you can save anywhere at any time.

Time I find in games is just another variable. Short games, long games, first person, third, cel-shaded, bump mapped. Not just RPG's either. I like the fact I can play a NHL game on multiple systems in under half an hour or several hours, or play a quick race in GT or test drive 40 cars in an afternoon.

There's just something really special about beating a game that takes up your life for months.

That's Morrowind to a T.  

I disagree. One day I was bored so I beat Morrowind and it was very lame and easy. I proceeded to go slaughter some people, pawn off my bags full of crappy gear, and keep running around. I downloaded more mods and messed with those...it didn't end at all....

[hXd]

I want a 12-disc Final Fantasy adventure.