Steam playtime typically reports higher than accurate playtimes because is also counts time spent with the game paused, or in menus. And if you start playing multiplayer on the same game, or replay it, then the external clock is essentially useless.
So yeah, I experimented and checked a few games on Steam where the Steam clock is likely as accurate as I am going to get: Dead Space 2 : "Completionist" is 12 h 56 m, and I took But then again, I took 10 hours for the Extended version of Hard Reset, which is longer than anything on the site so far. It seems that the site seems fairly decent for medium to long games, but is way out to lunch for the "shorter" games.
Originally Posted by Yakoob. Originally Posted by Zerker. Probably true, but it didn't catch me as much as most games of its sort.
Fair enough, and that goes with what I was saying earlier on how an estimated amount of time a game will last the average person for is so subjective. I understand though that completionists like myself are in the minority.
I can be a completionist in some games, but it totally depends on the game; i. I have to really love it. But generally speaking, games like those have a well-balanced amount of content. Thanks in large to the omission of Lightning and the need to play as Serah though, this can feel like a lot of work for very little payoff. The Chocobo racing is a lot of fun, but everything else just feels like busywork. The most recent numbered entry was somewhat polarizing for fans.
It looked undeniably gorgeous, but it was too easy and the battle system was not engaging enough, despite the fights themselves being marvelous spectacles. Its length also wildly varies because of its structure. The first several chapters are brimming with side quests. One can spend dozens of hours doing favors for town folk, greatly inflating the playtime. After a certain point, the story puts the players on rails and beelines towards a finish.
The third entry sees silent protagonists come back for a more straightforward adventure than its predecessor. Despite the simplicity of its narrative, it'll take longer than the prior two.
Like the first game, however, its charm and whimsy keep players glued to the screen the whole time, making the hours fly by like an airship. Final Fantasy X-2 was a fairly groundbreaking game, in as much that it was the first time that Square Enix developed a sequel to a mainline Final Fantasy game. It continues the story of Tidus and Yuna while further expanding upon the lore of Spira.
It's not quite as good as its predecessor, but it's certainly not without its charms. While the PS2 release's main story took almost 40 hours to complete , quality of life updates implemented in modern ports has brought this time down considerably making it a much more palatable experience. The 'True' ending still requires a second playthrough though, and players will need to tackle the incredibly frustrating tower alignment mini-game if they're attempting a completionist run.
Final Fantasy V often gets left out of the conversation. It's not quite an all-time great, but it's not as flawed or outdated as Final Fantasy II , so it kind of just sits there on its own.
Still, one will find just as engrossing a world as the others if they take the plunge. Really, it's hard to go wrong with any of the two-dimensional outings. Not many games this old can say they will occupy gamers' time for more than thirty hours. Not too many people stuck with Lightning through to the end of her trilogy, but those who did likely spent at least hours across all three games. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII accounts for around 34 hours of that, although this time can increase dramatically if players opt to do more than just the main story.
Completing everything that the game has to offer will take players around 65 and a half hours, which actually makes it the shortest of the three games from a completionist's perspective. It provides a fitting conclusion to Lightning's journey and so is definitely worth doing for those who are fans of the character , although getting through XIII-2 first can be a bit of a slog.
Despite only covering the Midgar section of the original game , a standard playthrough of Final Fantasy VII Remake clocks in at a whopping 34 hours. Forum Stats Submit Login Join.
Games List User List. Join Our Community! Log In. How Can We Help? Catalog your gaming collection. Import and conquer your Steam games. Compare your game times to other players. Regardless of platform preference, gamers who gravitate toward rapid playthroughs have more options available than they did a decade ago.
To shift the burden of playtime collection from a user-submitted model to a publisher-provided one would require a well-choreographed campaign. According to an ESA spokesperson, though, any initiative would have to be based on elective decisions by individual publishers, rather than a top-down, industrywide mandate. To keep developers honest, then, a watchdog would have to arise. The League for Gamers , an advocacy group formed in as an intended rival to the ESA, could be one candidate.
In theory, the board could add playtimes to its purview. Does that include cutscenes? Is that with or without all the optional quests in your open-world game? And so on and so on and so on. The picture is even more muddied for games that are highly replayable, with different outcomes or unlocks at the end of each playthrough. Through prerelease playtesting, though, developers can account for at least some of the stylistic variation from player to player.
We even have internal speedrun records. A studio could easily estimate an average gameplay time.
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