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   ElixirelDaath
   Member

   games don't rot in between saves.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   demonview
   Member

   Yes they do! Wait too long, and you'll prefer to start from the beginning than continue from the savepoint.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   RedEagleEX
   Member

   If an RPG is too long to you, then something is wrong with the story's pace or the game's mechanics. (Such as battles.)

   I always found that the best RPGs are the long RPGs that seem short. Where literally time passes me by and what I assume is like 15-25 hours is really 50-75 hours.

   Dragon Quest VIII
   Persona 3
   Super Robot Tasien OG

   Those are 3 examples that are long RPGs but because they are so fun that I don't even realize what time it is. XD

   Of course there are great RPGs that feels the amount that you actually played too.

   Xenogears
   Final Fantasy X
   Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

   Those 3 examples felt exactly as I played them.

   Then there are those that are just too long no matter if its 10 hours or 70 hours because something isn't right about them...>_>

   Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
   Last Rebellion

   Of course not saying those RPGs are bad or anything. They just felt like...I am wasting more time then I should.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   ElixirelDaath
   Member

   demonview said:
   Yes they do! Wait too long, and you'll prefer to start from the beginning than continue from the savepoint.

   that's one's memory, not the game

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   Syd Lexia
   Member

   Long enough to break the ice.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   Hollow_Ninja
   Member

   RedEagleEX said:
   If an RPG is too long to you, then something is wrong with the story's pace or the game's mechanics. (Such as battles.)

   I always found that the best RPGs are the long RPGs that seem short. Where literally time passes me by and what I assume is like 15-25 hours is really 50-75 hours.

   Dragon Quest VIII
   Persona 3
   Super Robot Tasien OG

   Those are 3 examples that are long RPGs but because they are so fun that I don't even realize what time it is. XD

   Of course there are great RPGs that feels the amount that you actually played too.

   Xenogears
   Final Fantasy X
   Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

   Those 3 examples felt exactly as I played them.

   Then there are those that are just too long no matter if its 10 hours or 70 hours because something isn't right about them...>_>

   Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
   Last Rebellion

   Of course not saying those RPGs are bad or anything. They just felt like...I am wasting more time then I should.

   I'll admit that I loved Persona 3 to the point that it's my favorite game on the PS2. But it was a bit too long. Persona 4 fixed that by being shorter, but it was still long as far as RPGs go.

   Still, I had to take breaks from Persona. I couldn't play it straight through, I had to put it on hiatus about 3 or 4 times, and it took me just under half a year to finally finish it. With a backlog of around 70 or so games, sometimes I just want to have fun for a little while and then move on.

   ElixirelDaath said:
   that's one's memory, not the game

   The analogy still holds, though. Your memory of a game can still "rot" in the way food rots, metaphorically.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   ElixirelDaath
   Member

   Hollow_Ninja said:
   The analogy still holds, though. Your memory of a game can still "rot" in the way food rots, metaphorically.

   well, you clearly missed the point >_<

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   Noelpoem
   Member

   Pfft, I like my jrpgs long. If I wanted something short I'd buy a game from a different genre.

   Completely unrelated but, I wish the guy who came up with Katamari Damacy would start making games again.

   Posted 11 months ago #

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