Racing games and multiplayer I can put hundreds of hours into, but it feels like single player games are too long these days. I prefer 20-30 hours for the main story although I do enjoy playing 60+ hour jrpgs occasionally.
AC Odyssey took me like 80+ hours, Valhalla apparently takes even longer. I feel like open world SP games take longer (and usually overstay their welcome)
Breath of the Wild can be done in under 30 minutes or take hundreds of hours. I'm about 120 hours in and have yet to finish. I could do the final battle now but there's way more going on in this stunning world for me to enjoy.
Depends some games like Miitopia, Mario Kart 8D, Monster Sanctuary or modding Dawn of War Dark Crusade I've play a lot of hours cause of giving me tools for me to be creative or easily distract myself when my mind is fried, replayabily while being able to play differently or just being able to mod and rebalance the game.
Some of my favourite games are short like Wandersong and the Steamworld Games
Some of the games i play a long time also give me idea of games i'll never make
Some games i know i could of played a lot of hours i don't cause of isolation and that online doesn't fill the hole of local play so now i don't play online games even if i'm interested in them or like playing them.
It's funny, your comment reminded me of Questwood studios, which published a joke flash game marvelous questing experience way back in 2003, I looked it up, and holy shit, they made something else in WebGL that I can't play at the moment because I'm on mobile, but now I have something to check out when I get home.
Looking at Steam, I've got 800 hours in Stellaris, 500 in Factorio, 300 in Deep Rock Galactic, and down rapidly from there. Those are outliers, I buy a lot of single player indie games in the 10 to 20 hour range. Some less than that! I think I prefer shorter games, so I can actually finish them, and try a wider variety.
Then again, I have an unknown number of hours in Doom and Doom 2, since I don't play it on steam and have been playing it since 1995. But, I haven't replayed the base games in years; people continue to make new maps for it, after all this time.
I’ve got 2000 hours in Warframe spread across nearly a decade, most other games that I like clock in at about 100-200 hours, with most story focused games getting about 8-12. It really depends on routine updates and replayability
All over the map here. As of late I tend to be more focused and am putting in many hours to fewer games. If you look at my trophy list or anything else that keeps track, I have an extensive list of games I have only played a few hours of.
Honestly, neither makes you a “gamer.” Enjoying gaming is what makes you a gamer. Doesn’t matter if that is one game or a hundred games.
I go in cycles. Most of the time I prefer highly replayable games that I can sink my teeth into over a long period. Deep Rock Galactic, Monster Hunter, Grim Dawn, etc. Then I'll dip into some shorter experiences for a little while. I have a hard time sticking those games out until the end most of the time. I guess I just dont like endings. It's not a problem I have with any other media, though. Quite the opposite, in fact.
While I'm no completionist, it takes me a LONG time for me to finish games. Whether it be because I bounce between multiple games (Street Fighter 6 and Tears of the Kingdom currently), I do nearly everything in a game, or I set a stupid challenge for myself. I like to kneecap myself for no discernible reason in video games and TTRPGs. I'm attempting a 4 (but might be 3 soon) heart run in Tears of the Kingdom on my first run through. Why? Shrug
@Thebazilly@Mister_Bald I agree, 20 hours is fine, 30 hours is max. Unless the game is really good and sandboxy, then I might get trapped in there for hundreds of hours.
However many it takes to beat them. I typically don't replay games, and I don't play into those insane multiplayer games that require hundreds if not thousands of hours. I beat one, I move on. The only exceptions are NHL and MLB, I play those on Friday nights with some beers to decompress from the week so I have a disproportionate amount of hours in those, but I also don't buy new ones every year; maybe every 4-5 years. I really bounce off of games that are too long or too big, though. No game needs to be 100 hours long. The last time I did one of those was Assassin's Creed Odyssey and that's the last time I'll ever do that.
I generally have a few "forever games" that I sink thousands of hours into. Right now that's Stellaris but in might try to get back into Crusader Kings with the new patch and of course when Civ 7 comes out I'll be all over that.
I generally prefer my other games to be fairly short, especially for story heavy games. I've left hundreds of Civ games unfinished, and it doesn't really matter, but I do actually want to finish games with a strong narrative, and really long ones can be hard. I never finished either of the Divinity original sin games, for instance, despite enjoying then quite a lot. Same with Witcher 3, though in that case it has more to do with rapidly becoming fatigued with the open world and also starting grad school about 3/4 if the way through and not having much time to play. I'm general though, I'd say about 20-30 hours is ideal for a game that I can't just replay forever.
800 in dark souls 3 and elden ring, just over 100 in dark souls remastered and dark souls 2, and all the rest are pretty evenly distributed from 1 to 80
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