Gucci wrote:I’d imagine some of the RPGs of the time were the heavy hitters of “time to beat” which is something that continues to this day.
How Long to Beat pegs the two Lufia games on the SNES at nearly 30 hours with story + extras. Mario RPG is at nearly 20 hours.
Regardless, as we all know, time does not equal quality all the time. I had a wonderful time with the 10 to 11 hours I spent on South Park: the Stick of Truth, which was probably the shortest time I spent on an Obsidian game from New Vegas and onward.
I'm in the middle of playing indie game G String, which is basically a Half Life 2 reskin. But all the levels feel about twice as long as they should be and honestly thematically should be split into two levels each (so far each one has had a point where it feels like you're in a new thematic level but it's still the same episode). I think they got combined because it's already 15 episodes long and splitting it into 30 would scare people away or something.