What's your personal pet peeve in gaming?

[ElkinFencer10]

I have no problem if a game is only 5 or 6 hours if those 5 or 6 hours are solidly good. What I bitch about is when a game is 20 hours but just slogs on and on and on and on with repetitive and pointless gameplay. Give me 5 solid hours over 20 bullshit hours any day.

[samsonlonghair]

I want a 2 hour game, tops.

[isiolia]

Speedruns >____>b


I'm not sure how many two hour (or less) games would only take that long without significantly more time spent practicing or building up skills prior.

[Tanooki]

Arcade games would fall into 2 hours, if you could just sit and finish it, or just attain a hi score and move along until next time.

I totally am on board with the 5 for 20 concept. 5 real hours of steady consistent fun, not something dragged painfully out over 20 hours to artificially longer for whatever the reason (boss runs, dumb side quests, prolonged grinding for XP/Gear/whatever, lots of unskippable rambling or movies that do that, etc. A game I really got big into which was on the shorter side I miss is Dragon's Crown, if I were to ever buy up a PS3 game again or spot a stupid cheap Vita somewhere it tops the list with Uncharted.

[Ack]

Meanwhile I just beat a game that HLTB considers takes 50 hours(it didn't, I beat it in about 35) and had an absolute blast with every minute.

[Sarge]

HLTB is more accurate than checking GameFAQs, though. Boy, there are some insane estimates over there.

[Exhuminator]

Some people don't seem to understand the way HLTB works.

The bluer the number is, the more accurate it is. The redder the number is, the less accurate it is. So take purple numbers with a grain of salt and red numbers with a bucket of it.

[Ack]

Isn't HLTB composed of averages from a variety of players? I tend to look up games there to see how long they are listed for as a blueprint, but I accept that it is always possible I will be an outlier.

[Exhuminator]

Yes the numbers are composed of averages.

The more numbers composing the average, the bluer the number becomes. Meaning if the number is very blue, it's very accurate. If it's red, that means there aren't enough time submissions to sample for the number to be considered accurate yet.

Alternatively, GameFAQs' game completion times are a complete (and insane) joke.

[ElkinFencer10]

From my experience, HLTB has been extremely accurate for me, even with the redder numbers usually. Then again, I'm not that great at most games, so I guess I'm exceptionally average.