What's the ideal length for RPGs?

[rusty_shackleford]

your odds of making money as a streamer are probably high than a chef unless by making money you mean being paid $12 an hour to be a prep cook at some shitty backwater restaurant

 

[undecaf]

40 sounds about right. I’ve noticed that if the game reaches and passes the 60-hour-mark (for a single run), the repetition therein starts to get unbearable.

 

[Hobo Elf]

10-30h is pretty good.

 

[JarlFrank]

People who need 100 hours to play through BG2 are probably really slow readers who take an hour to get through each dialog. It's okay. Some people are just born retarded. You don't have to feel ashamed for it.

 

[Valdetiosi]

Ideally depends on a game, though I do like games that manages to keep up same pace of interest from beginning to end, no matter what duration.

 

[Late Bloomer]

People who need 100 hours to play through BG2 are probably really slow readers who take an hour to get through each dialog. It's okay. Some people are just born retarded. You don't have to feel ashamed for it.

 

[Butter]

Asinine topic. Imagine I said 100 hours is the ideal length, because that's how long it took me to beat Wizardry 7. Then I replayed Wizardry 7 and was able to beat it faster. Does that mean the game got worse because it was no longer the ideal length?

 

[Potato Canon]

How long should a novel be? Long enough to not be a short story at least. Beyond that, what the story calls for.

 

[gaussgunner]

Most novels should rightfully be short stories.

 

[Artyoan]

I use a few soft rules of thumb. I like to get at least one hour per dollar spent. No length of game time is too long if my mind is still enjoying something beyond just efficiency for it's own sake. For the most part, I rarely replay a game even if it has choice and consequence so the first time is the charm. I like to do every side quest thing I can find the vast majority of the time.

There isn't really an ideal length of time. My time is cheap tbh.

 

[barricade]

the longer the better, as long as i'm enjoying it of course. if i have to play overrated games like fallout i want it to last like 10 hours. oh wait, it did took me 10 hours to complete that game lol. ok i'm lying, took me like 11 hours :/

 

[ZidaneZireael]

30-40 hours is the sweet spot for me honestly

 

[Oropay]

As long as the game needs to be without too much grinding. A game like King Arthur Knight's Tale is about right for me; I finished the main campaign but didn't touch the end game content

 

[Jack Of Owls]

I'm good with 20-40 hours now. Pathfinder Kingmaker gave me an epiphany about RPGs (including DLC) over 100+ hours.

 

[Bigg Boss]

40-80 hours is my sweet spot to where I feel like maybe doing another run.

 

[Alienman]

Good RPGs are rare now, so the longer the better.

 

[JamesDixon]

25 feet is a good length for RPGs.

 

[JarlFrank]

25 feet is a good length for RPGs.

That's 7.62 meters in normal units.

Therefore, the ideal RPG:

 

[Ereshkigal]

Asinine topic. Imagine I said 100 hours is the ideal length, because that's how long it took me to beat Wizardry 7. Then I replayed Wizardry 7 and was able to beat it faster. Does that mean the game got worse because it was no longer the ideal length?

We're discussing first time playthroughs.

 

[gaussgunner]

Good RPGs are rare now, so the longer the better.

Are you sure? Longer play time means prolonged development, AAA budgets, troonification, niggerization, and filler. It could be a rule of thumb: take a game's innate playtime, double it, and get a second half that isn't worth playing.

 

[curds]

40-60 is good. Used to like em shorter, but I played through Risen and Fable recently, and they both felt too short.

Archolos and Elden Ring took me 92 and 70 hours respectively, and they both felt much too long. But I suppose the real problem with them is feeling artificially padded out, rather than the length itself.

 

[Funposter]

25 hours, such that it can be completed comfortably by taking three days off work.

 

[Zlaja]

I don't know what option to pick. I go through games slowly, so any game that's not super short is gonna take me a fair amount of time to finish. When people say that a game takes 30-40 h to finish, that usually means 50-80 h for me.

I like to get at least one hour per dollar spent

Going to the movies with you would be pretty gruesome.

 

[Lady Error]

600 hours

 

[Ol' Willy]

No less than 100 hours for a single playthrough