Average game time

[RCBH928]

hello,
I am really slow finishing games. Games like cod4 takes me at least a week to finish. Yet I hear about people that finish a game in two days.

What is your average time finish a game. I know some are longer than others (COD4 and Oblivion) , but i want to know the average.

It took me like a month to finish ninja gaiden which totaled to 24 hours in the end. It took me like 2 months to finish gta san andreas , ocarina of time and banjo kazooie and mario 64 all seem to be at around the 1 month or more period. That is using guides of course, i dont like to be stuck or not knowing what to do for a long time.

I want to know how others play and how long it takes them to finish a game?

while we are at it, I always want to know how many hours is needed to complete any game, but no website seem to offer that kind of service. I want to know how long is shenmue 1&2

[bobbynewmarkiii]

COD4 took me almost 6 months... I've had GTA4 since release and still going strong, same with Ninja Gaiden 2 - just got to chapter 4. Mirror's Edge just did in a weekend. Ikaruga is 2 1/2 years and still going strong:) Sonic 1 took me 17 years (i never had a megadrive as a kid!)

[Curlypaul]

it depends no how much time you spend in a day on games. I started playng Bully in march and I'm still only jsut over 30% because I play for about an hour day and I normally have about 10 games that I play side by side, and a few casual games that I dip in and out of when the main 10 dont interest me. By your measurement I've taken several epochs to finish most games but the game clock tells me I normally finish in just an hour or two more than average.

[deathclaw]

while we are at it, I always want to know how many hours is needed to complete any game, but no website seem to offer that kind of service. I want to know how long is shenmue 1&2

it would be great, but you know, everybody is different..one can finish GTA in 15 hours, while other in 60...and about Shenmue 1 - It is not so long game, I think it will take you something like 15-20 hours, though it depends of how much are you gonna explore and so

[MrPopo]

For me it really depends on the game. Some games I get really sucked in to, and I'll play them basically nonstop until I finish, which is about 4-6 hours a night on weeknights. Other games will be played alongside five others, and may take me a long time. Of course, that doesn't even take into account the length of the different games.

[Pulsar_t]

Games are getting shorter and the sidequests and redundant errands are becoming more annoying. I would guesstimate that average game length is between 8 and 15 hours if you take the main route through a game and don't spend too much time wandering about. I managed to clock Mass Effect in 12 hours, whereas a game like Yakuza 2 took more 20 hours because I played a few side missions. It depends on a) the design of the game and b) your playing style. No place offers concrete statistics for game durations. However if it's not a S/W/JRPG it's safe to assume you can finish most games comfortably in less than 15 hours. I don't care for games like GTA because their mission design is horrendous so I can't comment on those crime simulators (I did enjoy True Crimes: Streets of LA though, but it lasted me 14 hours or so since it was more linear than GTA)

[Dreamstation]

I have no clue how it long takes to beat any game because i play to enjoy the game and i take my time wandering around and checking all the great art work and everything else that people spent countless hour making.

[Droid party]

Depends on the game. Played through COD4 in a day, but CODwaw took me 5 days which for me is still really quick. If the game brings me in I'll complete it quick because it will draw in so much that I can't put it down. The first Metal gear solid was the another I completed in a day. However some games may take me months, if not years to complete.

Chrono trigger is one game I'm in the middle of playing for the first time right now and I haven't touched it in almost a month. Not because the didn't pull me in ,but because I suck at turn based RPG's.The story is so fucking amazing that I have vowed to muscle my way through the battle system that I hate so much.

[Pingfa]

Heh... I finished COD 4 in a night. Finished Halo 2 in two days... Area 51 in 2-3 days... even though I'm not particularly fond of them, most FPS games are a 'walk in the park' for me.
FPS games are definitely the quickest and easiest to get through for myself, but I don't take great interest in them.

I think I finish most games rather quickly, for the most part, but one game I keep on mentally grinding through is Phantasy Star II. That game requires much, much too much time for my liking. This conveys my thoughts about PS II quite well:
http://www.omgnintendo.com/article/6381 ... ossilized/

I enjoyed Phantasy Star I enough to keep playing, but it really is a chore for me to play Phantasy Star II most of the time.

... but that's irrelevant, no? Anyhew, I don't strive to get through a game as fast as possible; I just enjoy the game. If I enjoy it, I tend to go through it quickly; if not, I tend not to play it enough to get through it.

[executioner]

Takes me months to finish anything, unless its a game that draws me completely that I want to sit down 6-8 hours in a weekend to play nonstop. Usually that has happened with games like god of war, call of duty, shadow of the colossus, psi-ops, half life, chrono trigger, killzone and many others.

Usually I like to see reviews where they state how long it takes to finish the game, so I hope the upcoming racketboy database will have an "average time to finish" so you know what you are getting into when starting a game.