Sakaguchi: "Make no game for a while if The Last Story is poorly received"

[MrT-Tar]

RolStoppable said:

Soriku said:

The main story in DQ8 took me 90 hours and I never grinded. You don't need grinding to have a story that long. Tales games also have like 60 hour stories, no grinding really necessary.

Just how are you playing those games? I know that you can reach that amount of playtime in those games, if you try to do all sidequests and such, but 60 or more hours just to finish the main storyline? You must like going on sightseeing tours in JRPGs.

If I remember correctly, Tales of Symphonia took me about 60 hours to do.  I did a  bit of side questing, but not much and I can't remember doing any level grinding.  It's just a massive game.  I remember Skies of Arcadia Legends took me just over 50 hours to beat as well with some side quests done.

And don't get me started on Pokemon.  I have over 280 hours on my Pokemon Diamond, with a full pokedex (including all events) and everything done legitimately without cheats.