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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 12:20:03 PM
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How do you know how many times I'm going to die?
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ClayGuida
03/16/24 12:21:19 PM
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They let children play it first and go from there.

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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 12:23:00 PM
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Well

Each death costs somewhere between one-ish and sixty-ish minutes, so the number of times I die affects the time it takes to finish the game.
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TheSavageDragon
03/16/24 12:24:11 PM
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The number is an estimated average, not that hard to figure out.
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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 12:26:02 PM
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Yes, those were weird times.

These days it's like 60 or 70.
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TheGoldenEel
03/16/24 12:30:04 PM
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This is the most annoying thing about gamers complaining about length

turn up the damn difficulty! There are so many games that people complain are short and easy, but that have extremely hard difficulty modes that could double the amount of time the game takes

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DipDipDiver
03/16/24 12:32:08 PM
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It's an estimated measure of the amount of content in the game, and doesn't take into account how much you suck

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NinjaWarrior455
03/16/24 12:34:27 PM
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Tbf a lot of that discussion was dominated by games like the COD campaigns and the various other third party titles that had cheap budgets and gimmicky. That's not to say there weren't a good amount of shorter games that were excellent but back then GTA was one of the only single player non RPG series that had long play times until Ubisoft decided to make all of their games massive grind fests and then everyone else followed suit.

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Rosstin316
03/16/24 12:35:20 PM
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Girth is what matters.

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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 12:37:10 PM
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DipDipDiver posted...
It's an estimated measure of the amount of content in the game, and doesn't take into account how much you suck
If that were true, your average U isoft game would be like a quarter as "long" as cited since 3/4 of time time is just picking up random meaningless collectables ad nauseum.
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PokemonExpert44
03/16/24 12:37:20 PM
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Video games are long

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DarkDoc
03/16/24 1:17:28 PM
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It's literally what some people base their purchasing decisions on.

But then you get stuff like this

https://howlongtobeat.com/game/19348

where length doesn't mean anything because a match is like 3 minutes.
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pfh1001
03/16/24 1:35:26 PM
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DipDipDiver posted...
It's an estimated measure of the amount of content in the game, and doesn't take into account how much you suck
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DarthAragorn
03/16/24 1:37:35 PM
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I wish games were shorter

You get all these games now that are 80 hours long even if you never reload an old save once and it just sucks so much ass

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Strider102
03/16/24 1:37:45 PM
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I don't mind how long a game is typically, but some are too long, like Dragon Quest XI or Persona 5

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Evening_Dragon
03/16/24 2:07:48 PM
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Just halve whatever an IGN journalist says the length is. They purposely hire terrible gamers.

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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 2:09:51 PM
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Evening_Dragon posted...
Just halve whatever an IGN journalist says the length is. They purposely hire terrible gamers.
What I do is double what howlongtobeat says.
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Evening_Dragon
03/16/24 2:11:41 PM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
What I do is double what howlongtobeat says.

Have you considered becoming an IGN journalist?

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RetuenOfDevsman
03/16/24 2:21:40 PM
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Evening_Dragon posted...
Have you considered becoming an IGN journalist?
I just see don't see the value in speedrunning a game on the first playthrough.

Why would you NOT spend some time looking around and getting used to the game world, or see if stuff reacts to being kicked, or read all the NPC dialog? Seems like a miserable way to play the game.
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PowerOats
03/16/24 2:26:44 PM
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Hours spent having fun to Cost ratio

I spent 50 bucks on FF16, and roughly 50 hours till credits. I genuine fun for about 20 of those hours
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Guide
03/17/24 2:00:47 AM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
I just see don't see the value in speedrunning a game on the first playthrough.

Why would you NOT spend some time looking around and getting used to the game world, or see if stuff reacts to being kicked, or read all the NPC dialog? Seems like a miserable way to play the game.

Oh, I thought you just meant you died a lot. No, I agree. Though I stop to smell the daisies in FF9 every time, and it still tops out at 40 hours. Friggin Game Informer told me it would be double that. Not that I'm complaining much, the pacing is good.

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BloodMoon7
03/17/24 2:03:22 AM
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Sounds like a skill issue to me

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