Who here beats games too fast?

[MagnetoHydroDynamics]

I really don't know... I finished PREY in 8 hours, but other than that i havent given completion time a thought. But i finished HL2:Ep1&2 in at most 6 hours each.

When I was 7 years I got LoZ:OoT for Christmas and it took me and my dad a full year to finish.

 

[Niniux]

I will usually spend a lot of time just enjoying the game playing through it slowly. Sometimes, if the story is really engaging or presented in a way that I want to keep mowing through it, I'll do the main story/quest/game really fast and then on the replay work on completing everything, sometimes with aid of walkthroughs. RPGs (especially jRPGs) I almost never complete within the advertised time because I often will fight every encounter and explore dead ends looking for secrets.

 

[owensoft]

Nowadays with the cost of games I purpose start playing games on hard so that I can get more play time out of them ( Medal of Honor:H2 for the Wii for example ). Super Mario Galaxy was so easy that I had to limit myself to only collecting 10 stars per sitting. And then when I tried to replay the game I realised that it sucked with luigi because he is the worst at everything.

Most current games are either too easy or resort to stupid boring quests to extend game play. but what can you do? everygame has already been made.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

I vary on completion time, sometimes I beat a game stupidly fast, and sometimes, it gets on top of me and I ignore it. I have a game for the ps1 I have yet to complete, but am too embaressed to say what it is.

 

[nightfish]

I really don't know... I finished PREY in 8 hours, but other than that i havent given completion time a thought. But i finished HL2:Ep1&2 in at most 6 hours each.

you can't really judge FPS since they are generally really short anyway.

i find that people who 'beat' games fast often just go for the end without doing anything outside the main plot. just because you can do a game in half the time the box states means nothing except your not enjoying the game to its full potential.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

Huh...I still don't really fully understand what causes the OCD to kick in and make me play every side-quest. Twilight Princess, I did a couple of the extra things but lost interest in stuff like the Gold Bug hunt. Beat it in about 30 or so. But Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow? For some reason I absolutely had to have every single soul in the game. That, needless to say, took a while.

I don't think I feel cheated by that though, how seriously can you take a box blurb that's doing everything in its power to make you buy it?

 

[portuga-man]

When a game is said to have X hours of gameplay, it's because they're counting with the fetch quests. The main plot usually takes a lot less than that.

Yes, i beat games too fast. the first time i played super metroid, i took nearly 3 hours to beat it. Yet, in games like zelda oot, i beat the game and then came back to do everything, just because i like kakariko vilage's song (in majora's mask, i spent DAYS just wandering around clock town, doing nothing but using the masks and see people's reactions)

 

[Limasol]

I rarely do the collect skulls, orbs, flags, packages. Stuff because in most games after the plots over theres no new intersting events. Take Oblivion, once the gates were all closed there was lesss incentive to play because the game wasn't as interesting.

I tend to complete games fast because the fast pace keeps me interested, otherwise i get bored before the end. Final Fantasy is a good example burning through 10 made me appreciate it less but i know the story and i since traded it in, job done.