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Post by Ex on Apr 27, 2019 10:43:45 GMT -5
By "long" I mean over 30 hours to beat.
By "RPG" I mean any kind of RPG; JRPG/SRPG/WRPG/DRPG all that stuff.
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The poll is for fun, but looking for deeper conversation on this topic as well. I for one own a considerable amount of RPGs I'd like to beat. I'm wondering what some of you RPG hounds do to beat these meaty things in a relatively terse amount of time. Or maybe you don't beat them tersely? How do you handle this genre?
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Post by toei on Apr 27, 2019 11:42:33 GMT -5
Binging is the only way to go through them. When I played a lot of RPGs, that was my only hobby, so it wasn't a problem. When I played a few SRPGs in a row last year, it was like that; I ended up playing it like 8 hours a day when I was off. With older RPGs that stuck to a town/dungeon/town/dungeon formula, I'd usually take a break between each dungeon, unless they were really short. I'd have a hard time getting through some 50 hours game one hour at a time. Just the idea of stretching it over two months... playing a game shouldn't be a long-term project. I also don't do breaks, because if I do I'll lose my momentum and probably never go back to finish it.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Apr 27, 2019 18:48:41 GMT -5
As a married man with two young kids, the idea of "binging" a game is just laughable to me now. I pick away at 'em.
Though even as a bachelor I was never into gaming marathons. I have a hard time sticking to one thing for too long. I remember one Sunday I spend something like 7 hours playing a Wii RPG. I split it up into sections, but even so I ended up feeling gross and disheveled and embarrassed and weird. Just too much screen time for me.
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Post by Sarge on Apr 27, 2019 20:32:57 GMT -5
I attack with a vengeance. Thing is, with RPGs, you can usually tell which ones are going to be binge-able. There are quite a few that don't hold my attention for those periods of time. When I hit on one that is worth playing, then the binging will come naturally. I have a graveyard full of JRPGs I put tons of time into, but ended up falling away from because they hit slow points and just didn't hold my interest, or ridiculous brick walls that didn't feel meaningful.
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Post by Ex on Apr 27, 2019 21:19:03 GMT -5
I've never been a binger myself. The closest I ever came to that, was when I was unemployed and single for six months in my early '20s - back in 2002 actually. During that time I would play games for five or six hours a day. The most ever was twelve hours in one day, during said time period. In my later '20s all the way to the present, I've not played games that long in a single day again. If I'm really into a game, I might play three hours in one day max. Any more than that, and I start to get the same feeling bonesnapdeez was describing. "There are far more important things I should be doing right now." <-Is the feeling that creeps in and overwhelms me should I play too long in one day. While I am married, I don't have young kids; my daughter is a grown woman now and is hardly home much. I could probably pull 5 hour stints most days if I wanted to, but I've got other hobbies and interests, aside from endless chores/responsibilities. Which is kind of a drag, that mental block I was describing. Because there are lots of RPGs I want to finish, as that's really my favorite genre. But for now I just chip away at long RPGs to finish them. An hour here, two or three hours there. Sometimes I will go a few days without playing the RPG at all. If for instance I'm on a road trip for my job, or maybe participating in a group gaming event that necessitates playing something else.
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Post by Sarge on Apr 27, 2019 21:20:41 GMT -5
Now, when I say "attack with a vengeance", that's really just an hour or two a night, and more on the weekend when I can. I think my longest sessions were around four hours before I have to step away.
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 28, 2019 12:56:59 GMT -5
I can't fathom I'll ever have that mental block / guilt creep up on me anytime in my life going forward. I am inherently lazy when it comes to some stuff, like work. I'd love to work less than 40 hours if it were possible and would love to retire immediately (I'd love to volunteer and do other stuff to fill time). But for my whole adult life, I WANT and need at least one day of the week where I'm planned to do NOTHING! Usually my Sunday's after I do the morning grocery run. I'm sure it'll be challenging but even if I have kids or whatever down the road, I'm going to want that one lazy day... where I can binge games too of course. Recharge the battery day.
Lately I've been chipping away at the Mass Effect trilogy. This series has something that I like about some modern games, the ability to save anywhere. So it makes it easy to hit up small portions at a time. But I still get a little anxiety about it on week nights and don't love playing too much. It might be memories of the 90's when we couldn't skip cutscenes and sometimes JRPG's would go for long periods before you could save again. So to this day I sometimes worry in an RPG, is this going to trigger a chain reaction of events? Is this a point of no return? Will it be hours before I can save and put the controller down? I'd rather never leave my consoles on overnight, nor do I want to miss sleep because I was playing games too late. I pretty much always cut off two hours before bed time.
Since I'm single with no kids then yeah, on the weekends I binge games big time. Weirdly enough I didn't do this as much in my later teens and early 20's... I think maybe I had some crazier ADD then or was just busier in general. I played online games more then like CoD4 or whatever, but I can only think of a few games where I sat down and ran hardcore for hours at a time. When I got out of the parents house though everything has been more relaxing and fun, so I sink into the long binges like when I was a younger kid. I dunno, our habits change without explanation sometimes. Last year I remember beating Gun Hazard pretty quickly over a few weekends and played that one in huge chunks.
I think I've said this a dozen times here lately, but games in the Deus Ex mold are the ones that really sap my time. I just get totally engrossed in those FPS/RPG hybrids. However, I took a long time to finish the Thief trilogy. Because I'm so thorough with this genre, those levels took me hours each and since it was broken up into separate maps, it was easy to take a break after I finally finished one. But stuff that isn't fragmented like Deus Ex, System Shock 2, Bioshock, etc, I can play for hours on end. I know they're not totally RPG's, but yeah.
I definitely only play one big RPG at a time and usually want something to buffer before and after, some short games. In the 90's once I discovered SNES/PSX JRPG's I devoured them like a machine back then.
For as long as I can remember, 70 hours for a single game tends to be my threshold. There's been plenty I've beaten that are longer or didn't let up even after then, but that 70 mark is like... damn you better be good or I'm done with these side quests and wrapping this up asap.
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Post by Ex on Apr 28, 2019 20:26:48 GMT -5
if I have kids or whatever down the road, I'm going to want that one lazy day Nope, you won't get that weekly binge day if you're ever married with a kid(s). You may be able to take a vacation day in the middle of the week from work once in a while, and binge a day that way. But even then only until the kid(s) and wife come home. In addition, when you're no longer living in an apartment, but instead own a house and a yard, that stuff takes lots of time to maintain. Unless you pay someone else to do it. I know what you're talking about. When I'm playing a JRPG especially, if I know I'm about to be on the final dungeon and last boss, I'll save that for when I have three consecutive hours to do the run. Even then, I've still gotten stuck on surprise bosses and such, and stayed up wayyy too late finishing JRPG endgames. Many times. Yeah those two genre hybrids seem to lock me in hard too. (Thus I'm sitting at 65 hours in New Vegas - no end in sight.)
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Post by Xeogred on Apr 28, 2019 22:58:46 GMT -5
Haha yeah I sounded a little selfish there. Family comes first for sure and would be the priority. I can reclaim those lazy days in old age when the potential kids are grown up and moved out.
With JRPG's, sometimes it even feels wrong to leave off in the middle of a dungeon, even when they have a save point or two. But yeah, JRPG's love those boss rushes and those final dungeons are always a beast to tackle. I've also always had the rule with Zelda... when I start a dungeon, I'm not stopping until I've cleared it. Across all the Zelda's in my lifetime, I seriously can't think of a single time I've stopped a session mid dungeon and went back to it later. Never!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2019 0:40:46 GMT -5
I attack with a vengeance. Thing is, with RPGs, you can usually tell which ones are going to be binge-able. There are quite a few that don't hold my attention for those periods of time. When I hit on one that is worth playing, then the binging will come naturally. I have a graveyard full of JRPGs I put tons of time into, but ended up falling away from because they hit slow points and just didn't hold my interest, or ridiculous brick walls that didn't feel meaningful. This applies to me too. If I put down an RPG for more than a week or two chances are good I'll never finish it.
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