Games you found unbearably long

[gabmed]

Kingdom Hearts. All of them are TOO. DAMN. LONG.

D-don't diss my favourite game ever. I get sad. =(
Kingdom Hearts was awesome! And it wasn't that long, although it did have a lot of cutscenes. xD

 

[mikespoff]

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

You, sir, have just won this thread.

 

[Unhappy Crow]

Test Drive Unlimited 2. Getting to level 60 without the Casino DLC will take you a craplaod of time. Even when you manage to find help on forums, the game's online will make all players rage at how messed up the servers are. Even before the patches made online more playable, it was still a mess.

Oh yeah, and the PS3 and 360 version of the game hasn't gotten the Exploration DLC yet.

 

[Inkidu]

Ten minutes of Infinite Undiscovery or The Last Remnant and I would have pulled my own teeth out to get away. Luckily I could move and turn the console off, get in a car, and drive to Gamestop.

 

[Cogwheel]

Arcanum.

Is it an amazing game? Is the length entirely justified and free of padding? Yes and yes.

That said, it makes replays (and, as I learned, LPs) very difficult indeed.

 

[babinro]

Neverwinter Nights 2 - I really enjoyed this game for the first 20 hours...then it began to drag at 40 hours...then I couldn't wait for it to end. That's before playing the other campaigns.

Half-Life 2 - Everyone I know disagrees with me, however, I felt nearly every segment went for too long before introducing the next. Excellent game, with rather poor pacing.

Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne - Orc Campaign - I love the ideas used in this campaign, but it simply drags on for too long.

Most sandbox games - This is a personal opinion because of the major use of driving from point A to B over and over again. I love Mafia 2, but it drags on because you don't get the option to skip needless tasks like driving home AFTER having completed a mission.

 

[Karthek]

Games that took quite a while to finish, but were awesome: Half-Life:Source, Dragon Age 1&2, Time Splitters 2, and Fallout New Vegas.

Games that took too long to finish and sucked: Darksiders, Too Human, Final Fantasy 13, and Farcry 2 takes the prize for biggest PoS AND making me hate the series.

 

[Vault101]

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

Idk, i don't think a game should be shorter than say 6-8 hrs, but i treat games kind of like movies.

I don't go to a movie thinking "this better be at least 2 hrs long", i judge it on its merit after i've seen it. I don't like playing 'filler crap' in a video game any more than i like watching it it a movie. If the story and experience has given me all it's got, then i would rather it just end than pad itself out.

But then again if the movie is too short, it doesn't matter how good it is, it's not a movie, its a 'short film' and i'll be damned if i'm gonna pay full ticket price for that.

well I havnt found agame that I felt was too long, HOWEVER it depends on if I get bored with and how much time I have myself, plus with some games I get the nagging feeling, so I slow down

I mean it also depends of the game, I expected to find portal 2 too short, but it felt good and long which I was really happy about even though if portal 2 was an RPG then I would have felt cheated

I did tend to drag out my games as long as possible in the past, however now that I have a job wich means less time for games..but more disposable income for games I dont have to worry over lenght as much (but Id still be pissed about 6 hours)

anyway with me I think a game feels too long if I lose interest, like mass effect 2 or 1 can be around 20+ hours but it never feels too long because I never lose interest in it

as opoased to Darksiders....an experience I strechted out over a long time, only 17 hours I think..but it felt longer than that because I found the game rather dull aside from its visuals

but I really think it depnds on the induvidual, some peopel think a game is too short, other times its too long for some

I think its just a better option to go for the longer side of things...even if its padding I DO NOT like feeling cheated

like would I have paid $80 for the first portal?..fuck no, and Im glad Valve understood that, and really put some effort into the seaquel...as opased to slapping together a couple of test chambers

because evne though people praise portal for its length, it was never a full release game anyway

 

[LordLundar]

Lessie here:

Final Fantasy 9, just felt like it was plodding along.
Half Life 2. Apparently, I stopped playing just before it "got to the good part", 4 freaking hours in. Pass thanks.

And not really unbearably long, but unbearably slow: Legend of Legaia. For the amount of time it takes to get from town a to town b in other JRPGS I could get halfway across the map.

 

[Jarvaelison]

Fallout 3 and Oblivion were both games I found unbearably long. They're good games and I enjoyed them but 3/4ths of the way through each I couldn't wait for either of them to end.

Not just the main story for each game mind you, guilds in Oblivion and side quests in Fallout dragged it on. The main story for each was too short =P

 

[Sinc3riT]

Red Dead Redemption spent far too much time in Mexico.

Who wants to be in Mexico in the first place?!

I'm totally with you on that one. Especially once you get to the part where it's like "hey I hope you like riding your horse, because you have to go back and forth between America and Mexico now. Have a dandy time."

 

[AbstractStream]

Final Fantasy XII. Seriously, what the hell...
It. Would. Not. End!!

Okami was also really long, but I liked it regardless.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Dragon Age: Origins. I have never beaten that game. I've gotten close (just before teh final boss), but that was as far as I could make myself play.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I would hardly call BioShock long but any part after the big plot twist is torture to play and it feels like it takes forever to get anywhere. Seriously, it should have ended right at the twist.

 

[intheweeds]

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

Idk, i don't think a game should be shorter than say 6-8 hrs, but i treat games kind of like movies.

I don't go to a movie thinking "this better be at least 2 hrs long", i judge it on its merit after i've seen it. I don't like playing 'filler crap' in a video game any more than i like watching it it a movie. If the story and experience has given me all it's got, then i would rather it just end than pad itself out.

But then again if the movie is too short, it doesn't matter how good it is, it's not a movie, its a 'short film' and i'll be damned if i'm gonna pay full ticket price for that.

well I havnt found agame that I felt was too long, HOWEVER it depends on if I get bored with and how much time I have myself, plus with some games I get the nagging feeling, so I slow down

I mean it also depends of the game, I expected to find portal 2 too short, but it felt good and long which I was really happy about even though if portal 2 was an RPG then I would have felt cheated

I did tend to drag out my games as long as possible in the past, however now that I have a job wich means less time for games..but more disposable income for games I dont have to worry over lenght as much (but Id still be pissed about 6 hours)

anyway with me I think a game feels too long if I lose interest, like mass effect 2 or 1 can be around 20+ hours but it never feels too long because I never lose interest in it

as opoased to Darksiders....an experience I strechted out over a long time, only 17 hours I think..but it felt longer than that because I found the game rather dull aside from its visuals

but I really think it depnds on the induvidual, some peopel think a game is too short, other times its too long for some

I think its just a better option to go for the longer side of things...even if its padding I DO NOT like feeling cheated

like would I have paid $80 for the first portal?..fuck no, and Im glad Valve understood that, and really put some effort into the seaquel...as opased to slapping together a couple of test chambers

because evne though people praise portal for its length, it was never a full release game anyway

I agree with you about portal 2. If it was the same length/production values as portal 1, there's no way its worth full price. If it was similar to portal 1 in length, but cost similar too, i would be ok with that.

 

[tylerzd]

Persona 4.

Dragon Quest VIII

Agreed on Okami. I was so insulted by the boss rush at the very end that I turned off the system and never played again. The audacity to put a repeat of every single boss fight in the game right before the conclusion... it still bothers me. It's such blatant braindead length extending in a game that in no way needed to be artificially extended like that.

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

For me it would be Halo, after you fight the giant Hunters, most firefights seem the same until the Flood chapter. It's not as long a game as others on this thread, but when you're fighting the same enemies in the same looking environments it sure feels like it's taking forever.

 

[deserteagleeye]

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.

Ok I can say without a doubt, if anything, Persona 4 is too SHORT! I can fully understand why you would think so from the start of Persona 3,(I haven't beaten it yet either) but Persona 4 has an engaging mystery behind it and such colorful characters that it will keep you pushing through it. I'm sorry but I just recently finished it for the 2nd time and I'm still flustered.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Half-life 2 still haven't finished it

How far have you gotten? Without spoiling anything, it gets better towards the end, and the actual finale is incredible.

Here's a bunch of blasphemy: Half Life 2 and Resident Evil 4.

Both games were incredible, and among my favorites ever. But both games overstayed their welcome. The same could be said for RDR, if only because so much time is spent just traveling the same boring locations.

Yeah, I'd believe that. Not about RDR, haven't played it, but the other 2. I love RE4 and I love HL2 even more, but they are LONG.

Oblivion (Elder Scrolls IV).

I really enjoyed the game, probably played it for 200+ hours, but seriously, I don't know if I was even close to the end. Those damn Oblivion Gates just kept opening.

Far Cry was another. I had fun with it, but after the arrival of the mutants it just went on too long.

Well, as far as Oblivion, that's because it literally never ends. Even after you finish the main quest, there's always more to do.

 

[icame]

RDR should have ended when you attacked their base. Mexico was horribly boring.

FF13, but seeming long was the least of that games worries.

Gta San Andreas

DA:O certainly did at multiple points. The dwarf quest (The one you do too recruit them.) went on forever in endless combat sequences that were still boring when I first did it.

Bioshock 2. It was feeling sammy from the get go, but a few hours in I was ready to turn it off and get back to the other game I playing at the time. Luckily I forced myself through it because the last hour or so was genuinely fun. Game still doesn't stand up at all to Bioshock but it was decent.

Kotor 2. F* THAT STARTING MISSION.