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Originally Posted by Balder  Nowadays most games are short, cheap to buy and rushed, I would easily pay 150 dollars for a game and then knowing that they have put a lot of time and thinking into the game, and not rushed the game. |
Are you trying to say that all games (no matter the genre) should be long? FPS, RTS and action-based games have a duration of 15 hours max (and sometimes 20 hours but that depends). If they go beyond that limit, it will become boring, tedious and frustrating. RPGs are different because in an RPG, they're long becayse of the many side and main quests.
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Originally Posted by Balder 40-50 hours of gameplay isn't all that much, look at BG 2 you get far more attached to a game when you play it for 300 hours not 40, and yes I know you can finish BG 2 more quickly, but if you do all the sidequests and don't check any walkthroughs I guarantee it will take you some time. |
Let me be honest here. Do you think anybody will like to get stuck in a game for that long (300 hours)? No. From my perspective, I find that 40-60 hours is more than enough. Anything more than that will make the game become a drag and frustrating. Take for example Gothic 3. 2 months into the game and I already became frustrated with it and I quit cold turkey as a result.