Author Topic: Longest game (Read 2891 times)

Hirocon · « **on:** August 27, 2005, 10:52:52 PM »

I'm trying to figure out, what is the longest game ever made? I know that the exact "length" of a game is loosely defined, but I would consider the following:

-To be elligible, a game must have a definite beginning and end. No massively multiplayer rpgs

-Only the length from the beginning to the end counts. So, ignore all the stars after star 70 (?) in Super Mario 64, since only 70 (?) are needed to beat the game. In games with multiple paths from beginning to end (eg Super Mario World), consider whatever you define as the "standard" path through the game. Bonus material not part of the standard game (eg war room maps in Advance Wars) don't count.

-Arbitrarily length added to games by requiring you to do the same thing over and over again (such as the many difficulty levels in The Legend of Zelda, or hours of manditory leveling-up in RPGs) doesn't count.

-Don't consider time spent without progress trying to beat abnormally difficult games. Consider the overall amount of content experienced from beginning to end.

You can challenge any of these criteria if you wish. Under these criteria, off the top of my head, I would say The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was a very long game. I'm sure there are others I can't think of right now that were much longer.

Black Mage · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2005, 11:40:47 PM »

Xenogears.

No, really. That game is amazing, but massive at the same time. It's only two discs for the PSX, but you'd be surprised just how full in content they are.

white_arrow · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2005, 10:37:38 AM »

Link to the Past.

It''s like I''ve died and gone to heaven but they found out it wasn''t my time so they sent me back to a brewery~Peter Griffin

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2005, 12:58:57 PM »

Link to the Past?! Certainly not.

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HolyAarom · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2005, 08:46:37 AM »

Games like Animal Crosing.

Mario, Mario, He''s our man, If he can''t triple-jump and ground-pound, no one can!

Black Mage · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2005, 11:15:31 AM »

"-To be elligible, a game must have a definite beginning and end."

Aarom11 for the win!

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Sqrt2 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2005, 12:38:22 PM »

The pokemon games definitely have to be the longest games(especially Colusseum).

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Glorb · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2005, 02:43:28 PM »

GTA: San Andreas. It took 126 hours to complete with all the stuff to do. The runner-up would have to be FF Tactics. That took me about 95 hours to finish.

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DeadAwake · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2005, 03:08:12 PM »

> Only the length from the beginning to the end counts.

Another winner!

Anyway, I wouldn't count any turn-based RPG's with random battles; those are pure filler. Here's an analogy: Today, in front of all the good people of TMK, I will construct before your very eyes the longest sentence of all time.

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That's a turn-based RPG in a nutshell.

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Hirocon · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2005, 09:19:09 PM »

That's why I said to ignore portions of games where you need to do the same thing over and over again. I was actually specifically thinking of FF Tactics when I said that. The main storyline was awesome, but after it ended the game got SO BORING...just days and days of levelling up before anything remotely interesting would happen. I never did finish all the extra stuff.

Black Mage · « **Reply #10 on:** August 29, 2005, 09:51:21 PM »

Final Fantasy Tactics? Boring?

There were two dungeons to take care of at the end-game, one of which, Deep Dungeon, is quite the challenge. Especially if you're trying to get Zodiac, Ramza's Ultima (If you hadn't already), or the Chaos Blade.

Even maxing levels in FFT is pretty easy, especially with Ramza's Yell skill, and the Dancer's Nameless Dance. Plus, if you couple that with a Knight's Speed Break on any characters you don't want to level up, you can get so many turns very, very easily.

But hey, to each their own, yeah?

EDIT: I said Yell, but I may have meant Scream. Whichever one regular Squires don't get.

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Hirocon · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:41:01 PM »

I'm really not sure what you're talking about. Maybe there was more extra stuff I missed, but after easily winning 100 battles in a row with no plot events or new missions appearing I stopped caring. Mewt's storyline was fantastic; it was probably the most engaging story I've ever seen in a videogame. But after saving Mewt the plot stopped advancing and I lost interest.

Black Mage · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:47:29 PM »

Oh. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. My apologies, I thought you were talking about Final Fantasy Tactics.

Hirocon · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2005, 10:59:48 PM »

My apologies, I thought the two games were more or less identical. I guess I've never played Final Fantasy Tactics. So, maybe it is the longest game of all time, but I wouldn't know.

Edited by - Hirocon on 8/31/2005 10:00:05 PM