How long does it usually take you to beat games?

[Kenzya]

RE: Re: How long does it usually take you to beat games?

This is an odd question.

I guess I have seen 20-30 hours more than anything. But I dabbled in RPG's a lot. I am seeing 10 hours more recently, but I think that is just because games are shorter now-a-days.

I was fascinated with speed runs for Metroid: Zero Mission and Fatal Frame II for a while. So let's just say I poured the most time in to those.

[XXXsmittyXXX]

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My longest game so far is FinalFantasy 11 which everyone knows about.
368 days.
Realtime days.
And all ive achieved is 75 warrior, 36 black mage, 36 white mage,
56 thief, and massive cap levels on warrior.

[Squeek]

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Most games don't have an in-game timer readily accesible, so I don't tend to find out just how long I've been playing.

The first time I beat Tales, it took 60 hours. 100+ after getting everything done. I might have left it idle doing stuff though.

The second time, I finished it in under 20 before getting everything, 25 after getting it all, and 35 after leveling everyone to 250.

I've put 40~50 into Baten Kaitos and I'm almost done. I know I had something like 20 in all the Pokemon games. Most RPGs like Pokemon will take 20~30. Really in-depth games where I like to read all the dialogue will take much longer.

I don't think Baten Kaitos's timer includes the battle time, because I've seriously spent 3 hours on one boss battle before. It was fun, you know. Playing a party of three against a party of three BOSSES, winning, then having to do the entire battle over again. The only difference is that you're supposedly stronger the second time through (you being the one character, Kalas), but you're not. The one thing that changes is the random last card special that happens 10% of the time and only if you manage to play all but the last card in a set, which almost never happens if you're going for a bonus.

Fun game. I only found out toward the end that it wasn't just magic stuff that is affected by the opposing elements rule, and also applies to defense.. No wonder Savyna was so weak.

~Squeek

[Moogy]

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The final battle(s) against Giacomo and co. is/are actually pretty easy. Just take out the guy first, then the chick, then Giacomo. The second one is exactly the same, so if you beat the first one, it's no problem. Also, Savyna is terrible. I used Kalas/Xelha, Gibari, and Lyude the entire game. By far the best team. Mizuti is also extremely lol. But yeah, if you have a somewhat decent deck, that battle isn't really very hard at all. I had way more trouble with the final form of Malpercio. For once, the final boss is definitely the hardest.

But I digress...

[Bahamut-X]

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Longest time ever spent on a game was FFX, 107 hours.

[jewpinthethird]

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It all depends on the game really. It had about 80 hours on FFVII, but that was over the span of four years. I literally started the game freshman year of high school, and beat it a few months before Advent Children was released in Japan. I took really long breaks while playing the game (the longest being a year and a half).

I usually take my time when playing through games for the first time. I make sure I dont miss anything. It took me about 6-7 hours to play through ICO for the first time, though most of the time I was just admiring the art and level design. Same with Shadow of the Colossus (16 hours). I spent 4 hours solid just wandering around the map in awe of its massive size and beauty while eating fruit and hunting for lizard tails.

Katamari Damacy took me about 3 days to play through the first time. Though last Sunday I bcompleted it within a few hours.

FFX took me about 60 hours to beat which was about two weeks time in real life.

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

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Longest single game would probably be ~75hrs on Orge Battle 64. Then the game that I have played the most,yea they are kinda the same thing, would be stepmania or any ddr simulator. Think up to a 1/2 hour a day, everyday, for the last 5 years. NO this doesn't mean i play every day, but i did play a lot, sometimes too much at one time, to get that kind of average.

Most games don't tae that long anymore. I recently replayed THUG2 on the hardest difficulty and finished every goal within a few hours.

[Brainmaster07]

Lately it seems that there are few games that last for over 10 hours. I got Mega Man X Collections a few weeks ago and beat all 6 in two days, under 2 hours each and I got just about everything possible. I also just beat Lost Kingdoms in 4 hours today for no apparent reason. I cleared every difficulty in DMC3 in a week or so, granted it was insanely difficult (DMD! mode makes me want to kill someone). Even ToS only took me maybe 30 hours, might have been a bit longer, it's been a while. There's really been a lack of epic games lately. Only exception I can think of right now is DQVIII. Beat it yesterday after 90 hours since christmas (Finished at level 36, I could have spent a lot longer leveling). There needs to be more games like Xenogears! I probably spent a good 100 hours on that game, only just finished it last summer.


Of course, the longest I've spent on a game has to be Everquest. Played it constantly for 5 years... I'd guess 150+ days of played time. Disgaea is probably the longest on a console game. I've played it all the way through at least 8 times and have several files with level 1000+s.

[BALLS1242]

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FFX will tell you that I've played the game for more than 400 hours. That just means that I left the game on a boss battle or something for a few days straight before picking it up again. =\

[Grandiagod]

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Only RPGs nowdays have a really long playtime. Unless you choose to make a game last longer, generally most genres will not last as long as RPGs, then again if they made katamari last 80 hours, I probably would not have liked it.

[buuuh]

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I always end up losing interest or forgetting about the game somewhere down the line, it's just an inevitability for me, even though my in game times are always really low because I have a tendency to just blaze through games without really paying attention. :/

Xenosaga took me roughly 35 hours, but that was unlocking literally everything (which isn't much of a feat considering there's hardly anything to unlock aside from Erde Kaiser and the decoder doors which are pretty useless lol.)

F.E.A.R on Hard, first playthrough: 7 hours
Final Fantasy X: 25ish hours
Tales of Symphonia: 60 hours


Comedy option: Diablo 2 rush from A1 Norm to Hell complete: an hour 8)

Oh, and the game I've spent the most time on is easily Diablo 2, but aside from RPGs it would probably be...SSBM recently, but of all time I'm not sure...probably Final Fantasy 8 rofl

[Kefit]

Oh, as far as most time spent total playing a game over a long period of time, that award goes to SSB64. I've been playing that for several hours a week with my friends for the last six years. I probably have several thousand hours in the game at this point, if not far more.

That easily kills everything else I have ever done, including the hundreds of hours I have put into SM.

[Benny1]

It really depends on how much I love the game.

Also, I tend to love to screw around in rpgs, so I always take ages to do it.
For example: FFX, I have not even gotten through the monster arena fully, over 108 hours.
Other rpgs I tend to eventually rack up 100+ hours, Like ff8 I ended up quitting and restarting on the 4th disc, same with ffix. FF7 I played over and over and over again.

[purplepopcorn]

back when I was 9 I had 70+ hours in FFIII (US).
177y b177y 1337

I'm a pretty softcore gamer, spreading stuff out over a while.
I'll start playing a game 5 hours a day then get less and less and less till it's an hour or so.

my record is currently FFTA with 125 hours on one save file. I still haven't beaten it, but Marche is fscking powerful.
FF1-GBA: 37.
gunbound: 40+
MS:85+
Runescape: 100+ (i quit 2 years ago)
oh man I've spent so much time in RPGs. looking back, I realize what happened to my social life

[NuclearShadow]

I don't play many video games. Except for the few speedruns here and there of super metroid, the last time I played a video game was back whenever Resident Evil 4 came out. So I don't really know how long it usually takes me to beat games.

Longest Time spent on a game:
World of Warcraft 1000+ hours easily
Kingdom Hearts 60 hours I believe. I have everything in the game


Sadly enough to say Resident Evil 4 took me 19 hours to get through my first time. Then again it was my first RE game and I didn't really buy my good weapons when I should've. For example I didn't buy the automatic sniper rifle until the boss right before the island.