Very Long Games

How many games do you know, that it takes about 30 hours or more to finish the single player. I am not talking about MMOs or games with multiplayers. Could you list me some of them? I have been looking fors some very long game.

Titan Quest I think is taking 40 hours to get through.

Oblivion and its expansion would take you ages if you explored everything.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R could take a while.

X3 Reunion would take foreever if you like space sims.

I dont beleive its about the length but about the content and how immersive it is. Bioshock, FEAR Company of Heroes are all very good games that are between 10-20 hours depending on how you play them. Very satisfying games to complete.

that's a tough question to answer because i don't think there are any games with 30 hours of play to them unless you choose for it to take that long

most roleplaying games, for example, have quest arcs that last x hours (15, 20, whatever), but that number can be stretched out by several times through all the submissions (to 50+)- if you choose to do them... i'm sure i've spent well over 100 hours with single player diablo 2

every gta game ever made probably lasts around 15-20 hours campaign wise, but you could spend over a hundred hours playing before finishing the campaign, then another hundred hours playing after finishing the story

same with turn based games like civ, a typical game might last around 10-12 hours... but that number can be stretched far beyond 30 hours

and then there are tycoon games, or stuff like total war...

when it comes to straight up linear singleplayer campaigns, the closest i can think of to a 30 hour game is resident evil 4, it took me about 25 hours to play through... i don't know of any linear singleplayer games that run on that long, without somekind of sandboxyness to them - maybe boiling point? i never did finish that.... but again, a lot of submissions, a lot of sandbox to it...

Simcity :D

How many games do you know, that it takes about 30 hours or more to finish the single player. I am not talking about MMOs or games with multiplayers. Could you list me some of them? I have been looking fors some very long game.

Titan Quest I think is taking 40 hours to get through.

Behemotpetus

Dude if you ask me there hasn't been a game like that in a HELL of a long time. You remember all Squaresoft's RPGs? They were expanded across 3 discs, at least. Why can't we just go back to those good old days, but with our uber graphics? Those were games you could look forward to beating next month.

Commandos 2

Oblivion

Supreme Commander

UT2k4 (ladder)

Half-Life 1

Comes to mind right away - Thought I would never get to the end.

Baldur's Gate 2 + expansion probably has one of the longest non-freeform singleplayer campaigns there is. About 450-650 hours average on the original if you complete all the side quests too, or so I've heard a few times...
ShotGunBunny

I've never heard this before. Can anyone else verify?

Whoa. Morrowind hasn't been mentioned here yet? The game is much longer than Oblivion.

It simply doesn't end...

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How many games do you know, that it takes about 30 hours or more to finish the single player. I am not talking about MMOs or games with multiplayers. Could you list me some of them? I have been looking fors some very long game.

Titan Quest I think is taking 40 hours to get through.

Skullheart

Dude if you ask me there hasn't been a game like that in a HELL of a long time. You remember all Squaresoft's RPGs? They were expanded across 3 discs, at least. Why can't we just go back to those good old days, but with our uber graphics? Those were games you could look forward to beating next month.

Yup Squaresoft... FF series are notoriously long... and addictive if u ask me, but unfortunately no PC releases from the eighth up (excluding that MMO XI)(thank God I also own a PS2...). Come to think of it except Oblivion in recent times I haven't spent more than 40 hours single-player story mode since Fallout on a PC game ...

I actually finished Stalker pretty fast, thought the game was shorter that what i was expecting.. i wasn't expecting the game to end so fast, with the ending i got, was rather disapointed. Im going back now, doing all the side missions i can to make the game last longer and to get a different ending.

Morrowind was very long. Most games these days, especially FPS games are VERY short, compared to the older classic FPS that started the genre (Wolf3d, Duke3D, Doom, Quake etc etc), FPS these days, (MOH series, COD series etc) all end way to fast. The only reason they take as long as they do is because you have certain levels where you keep dying, like sniper town level. And even with those levels where you have to play over and over 50 times, the games are still over in only a few gaming sessions.

Games these days (FPS especially) concentrate to heavily on graphics, and not enough of actual game length. Even RTS games are pretty short, while the missions in COH can be very hard, there are still only a handful off them.

I know this will be slightly off topic but some seem to have asked why games are getting shorter.

If you think back to Baldurs Gate games had very little 3D elements in them. So to paint (and I do mean paint) a new area was quite easy. You only had to worry about one perspective and very little interaction between objects. Additionally resolutions were very low - Baldurs Gate 2 showed off with it's amazing new 800x600 resolution. This meant very little detail had to be painted in. To create a crate would take but a few minutes.

Now a days a crate is a complex object. It is three dimensional, has textures, deforms when you hit it, animates and interacts with characters and physics. To do all that takes days. The time it took Bioware to make a whole area that could hold hours of content is less than it now takes to make your basic ammo box.

However, something really interesting is starting to happen. Graphics can only be so good. There's a ceiling you hit where the effort it takes to make a blade of grass look better simply isn't worth it - the point of diminishing returns. So rather than make a whole new blade of grass for your new game developers simply drag one in from their library of component parts and drop it in the game. Suddenly making new content is easy! What takes weeks of todays time takes but a few hours again.

The end result being game length once again increases.

OR we decide flat displays just don't cut it now and games need to be seen in true 3D and we start the whole darn process again and creating that silly crate takes months.

[QUOTE="ShotGunBunny"]Baldur's Gate 2 + expansion probably has one of the longest non-freeform singleplayer campaigns there is. About 450-650 hours average on the original if you complete all the side quests too, or so I've heard a few times...
Herrick

I've never heard this before. Can anyone else verify?

Dunno about over 400+ per playthrough, but I can assure you that playing from the very start of the first Baldur's Gate, through the second and to the final chapter in Throne of Bhall (with one character no less) generally takes about 200 hours, more if you stop to smell the roses along the way. Plus considering how much replayability each game has, multiple endings and outcomes for certain quests depending on your alignment, who you have with you, how you do the quest, etc, not to mention the dozens of various characters you meet throughout the games you can recruit to your group for unique dialogue, interactions and often quests... yeah, I don't have any timer, but I'd be willing to bet I've spent atleast 700+ hours with the games, and I still enjoy em. Replaying Baldur's Gate 2 right now actually, and despite having played through the series a couple times now, I'm still finding new things. Plus the games have an active and very talented mod community to boot!

Games just don't have the lasting power they used to. Ah well!

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

they say it has more than 200 hours of play

I'm not sure how many hours Knights of the Old Republic is supposed to last, but I spent over 50 hours playing through it. Herrick

I clocked about 60 hours on KoToR I. I played about 83 hours on Oblivion.

Games these days are rarely long because of the high cost of doing great 3d graphics. Aah, for the days of the 200 hour game....how I miss thee Baldurs Gate 2.matthewjackman

Yeah, I think some of the best, and epic games came from that era. What they lacked in graphics, they more than compensated for in depth and story.

well most of the statergy games with hard difficulty will take more than 30 hours. If you also try to accomplish the optional objective, it will take some time as well.