Games you found unbearably long

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Okami could have ended at multiple points in the game. First I thought it was over with Orochi, then I went to the capital, and for some reason before the game was over I ended up in space. It wasn't a bad game, it just felt like the developers could have made a trilogy if they elaborated on the three stories.

That's exactly how I felt. Probably the best game I've played but will never, ever finish. I thought that I'd reached the end with Orochi, and that would've been a perfect place to end it as a single game in a straightforward way...but wait! There's more! The stuff after that just kept going and going and going, and eventually I just burned myself out doing optional stuff and couldn't bring myself to finish the main storyline anymore.

Dragon Age: Origins is the current runner up for me. I'm a bit more than 30 hours in, and every single thing I do feels like it takes about three times longer than it should, and it's getting really tedious. Odds of me actually finishing it before getting sick of it are not terribly good, despite historically really liking most BioWare games. I did every side quest and read every book/codex entry in stuff like The Witcher and Mass Effect, so I'm not averse to sinking a lot of time into a game if I get into it, but I just can't bring myself to care about DAO enough to get over the pacing...

 

[Lolth17]

Dragon Age: Origins and every Final Fantasy game for me. Oh, and Infamous.

 

[Duskflamer]

Not sure if anyone here remembers them but the .//Hack games went on far longer than they were welcome, particularly with all the length padding over having to find virus cores. I up and stopped playing the series for months about 3 times and I'm still not finished with them as I type.

 

[Seydaman]

Tbh portal 2. Great game though.

What? I beat Portal 2 in 7 hours.

But uh, Two Worlds 2 maybe, felt like it dragged on too much.

 

[scorptatious]

Mirror's Edge. I was honestly expecting the game to end after that one bit where I had to snipe that car. But nope! I still had one more level to do. One more level of endless deaths and mistimed jumps.

Goddamn it I hated Mirror's Edge...

 

[GNR8218]

I'm suprised, nobody said any of the metal gears. I only went through the first page though.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

My picks were already mentioned.

1. LA Noire. I have no desire to finish it.
2. Red Dead Redemption. I lost all interest halfway through and had to force myself to finish it.

 

[Firetaffer]

Off the top of my head I would have to say KOTOR. Not sure why but I found it a little drawn out, perhaps it was just me doing all the side missions and the sort-of awkward pacing.

I can name some games that were long in a good way though! Like Deus Ex and Half-Life 2.

 

[WorldCritic]

Xenogears had the very obvious problem of dragging itself out ridiculously. The first disc itself took me around 50 hours to finally finish and while they could have just moved on to the end of the game the second disc had to go and bring random plot points out of nowhere before making me sit through horribly long cutscenes that made me feel like I was playing Metal Gear Solid, but at least MGS didn't make you press X to scroll through dialogue.

 

[Inkidu]

Now that I think about it Xenosaga is way, way, way too long. It's so long it needed three games to tell one story (from what I hear) I got to where you pick up some annoying young kid... not the redhead, I think his hair was grayish purple... anyway. I spent most of that game playing the in-game trading card game. Best part as far as I'm concerned. They didn't need all that other crap.

 

[Thespian]

Tbh portal 2. Great game though.

What? That game was way too brief. I finished it in a few hours, deeply dissatisfied.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

None, I've yet to find a game with satisfying length.
[sup]Aside from the pokemon games where it takes really long to catch them all...[/sup]

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

I haven't gotten that far to get that feeling yet, but I have a feeling that it's going to happen with Persona 3. Persona 4, too, probably.

Well, I really never had those feelings until around you fight the final boss. In both games, it just seems comes the final boss, everything just doesn't matter anymore. in their respective last moths, there's nothing to do! (P4, I'm looking at you!)

There still really good games though.

OT: Final Fantasy 12, hands down. I will never finish that game, ever...

Runner's Up:
Okami: Good game, but it just seems to drag on after Nine Tails.

Pokemon Platinum: I found Diamond and Pearl to be the worst in the series. So Along with hte main game and the Battle Frontier, this game just screams tedious. I know that's really the point of an updated release, but God this game took forever to complete!

Kirby and the Amazing Mirror: Took a bit too long to beat, at least for me.

 

[shadyh8er]

Metal Gear Solid 4. I make it a point not to skip cutscenes on my first playthrough of any game. I had to make an exception for this game. Mainly because I ignored all the warnings that newbies to the series would be confused by the story. Had a friend explain it to me.

 

[Vault101]

If I had to choose Id rather a game be too long than short, if its short I feel cheated

 

[XIGBARx13]

I haven't gotten that far to get that feeling yet, but I have a feeling that it's going to happen with Persona 3. Persona 4, too, probably.

Being unbearably long is part of the appeal of the Persona series, isn't it?

That's definitely true. As much as I love Persona 4, it starts to get pretty fatiguing towards the end of the game, but I think the length of it just adds to its depth and greatness.

 

[Luthir Fontaine]

ff 13 it was horrible

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I thought LA Noire would have been fine, except that most major gunfights were boring slogs through gray sewers and that every single case made you do the same things. Find clues, solve easy ass puzzle, interview witness, go here, catch guy running / driving away, interview guy, receive grade... it wasn't nearly as complex as the developers made it out to be. And the sidequests for 100% were mindnumbing and awful. I've got to get in every single car? And the film reels... the boring pointless film reel hunt. GTA San Andreas was triple the content / fetch quests and it never got boring because the hiding spots and methods were fun and clever. In LA Noire they just hid the film reels on front porches and in back alleys. I considered going for the platinum trophy on the PS3 thinking there was so much more beneath the surface, but there really wasn't.

My personal long ass single player experience was Okami on the Wii. Everyone raves about that game, but it just went on and on seemingly with no point. I killed the big bad villain and then suddenly there's another big bad villain. Battles just got so repetitive. Parts of it were cute and all, but it just was so in love with itself it was grating. Put me off a lot of Japanese culture based video games, and this is from a guy who loved Shenmue.

 

[blankedboy]

Portal, man. 3 hours is FAR too long for a commercial game release.

 

[teebeeohh]

civ 5 on the highest time setting(where everything takes forever)
also the last section in max payne 2 somehow felt too long.
every sandbox game ever. with the exception of ass cred 2(and i was really bored at the time) I didn't finish any sandbox game, though i did clock over 100 hours in just cause 2