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What's your preferred RPG length?
Under 5 hours
5 to 10 hours
10 to 20 hours
20 to 40 hours
40 to 80 hours
More than 80 hours
It's not what he's eating, but what's eating him that makes it ... sort of interesting.
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A. It's mostly extra stuff to do and not actually main line content.
or B. Really badly designed and needs those extra hours to play
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It is decidedly NOT about having an average play time / finish time that's over or under a certain number. Aside from cost efficiency.
Okami has padding because you can't skip or fast-forward the dialogue but hopefully you get the idea.
It's a trope in Dragon Quest games to have a hard last boss the requires grinding; this I consider padding.
For example, the recent Final Fantasy game World of Final Fantasy would have been better if they rebalanced such that enemies give more exp for defeating them. To the point that I'm sure if the grinding was balanced better it would have received a higher score. When players need to grind it's a sign of poor game balance. How much more I don't know, I'm not a game designer.
I haven't finished DQ7 yet, but it doesn't seem to have what I'd call 60+ hours of plot per se. It may not require grinding, but I wouldn't equate repetitive fighting of the same monsters while navigating dungeons "plot." I'd tend to agree that the length in DQ7 feels pretty worthwhile with some caveats, such as too much limitation on warping magic that makes for a lot of wasted walking time.
As an aside, I feel like many design choices these days are intentionally done to fluff the "XX hours of content" tag on the box without providing any value to the player. Particularly, in modern JRPGs they have all these boring travel/connector zones that took the place of the old "world map" that you get forced to run through multiple times, between all the places with actual content.
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I always feel like a 20 hour or less RPG is just not enough to warrant my investment or interest.
It is very clear in this poll that the vast majority of players still want longer RPG's.
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40 to 80 hours 876 42.63%
20 to 40 hours 608 29.59%
More than 80 hours 493 23.99%
10 to 20 hours 59 2.87%
Under 5 hours 11 0.54%
5 to 10 hours 8 0.39%
Total Votes 2055