Darth Tigris said:
Unless you put it on the easiest difficulty and skipped almost all of the dialogue and side quests, there is no way you completed the games that quickly (and your comment makes it obvious you're not talking about the initial playthroughs .....). 'Within reason' is about the most subjective justification for blowing off side quests in an RPG that I've ever heard. Plus saying a 20 hour game is short is simply ridiculous, especially as how that is longer than the overwhelming majority of games out there AND ME games have among the highest replay value of any other games out there to due to all of the different options (genders, classes, decisions, etc). I've played through both games 3 times and the quickest I ever did was 35 hours, and that's not with all of the sidequests completed. ME2 was consistently 40+. I will never understand those that complain about a game being short yet do everything possible to rush through it. Especially RPG's. I stand by original charge of trolling. |
Different playstyle. I don't care much about the shooting, so yes I played it on easy and went through the combat parts as quick as possible. Hence my disappointment in ME2, since there was even more combat. I did not skip any dialogue, that's the part I like. And I took my time exploring the citadel and other locations. I did skip sidequests involving the Mako however. (is what I meant with within reason, that thing did not behave rationally)
A 20 hour game is maybe not short for a shooter but it is for an RPG. I played DA: origins on easy as well, also not all that interested in the combat, yet that still took almost 50 hours. Maybe I missed a whole load of stuff? As far as I know I talked to everyone I saw.