FFXIII-2 Impressions: 102 hours in

[lestatdark]

Christhor said:

lestatdark said:

Lyrikalstylez said:
How the hell can you play a Final Fantasy game for over 100 hours??
This isnt Skyrim were talking about..

You're kidding right? Some FF games could easily rival any Elder Scrolls game in terms of sheer extra content.

FFVII with Chocobo breading, Chocobo racing, Emerald and Ruby weapon prep and so on could topple the 100 hours mark too.
FFVIII had Triple Triad in which you could easily spend 50+ hours before even leaving Balamb for the first SEED mission
FFIX ditto with Tetra Masters plus the Chocobo Forests and Chocographs, Treasure Hunts, Ozma preps. 
FFX with Blitzball, Monster Arena, Sphere Grid completion and so on could easily take over 300 hours.
FFXII with the License Plate, Hunts, Espers could easily reach 200 hours. 

And that's only Main FF games, because some spin-offs could topple the 100 hour mark easily as well. FFT, both Dissida games, etc.

"Final Fantasy games have tons of extra content because they have never-ending card games!"

Let's take Skyrim like you do. If someone plays Skyrim, does EVERY quest in the game and doesn't fast travel anywhere, then it can probably take upwards of 1000 hours. Getting every skill to 100 should take quite a while as well.

Are you even serious? Did you gloss over every other sidequest that I listed just to create your strawman argument? 

Oh i'll take skyrim like I did, because you know what? I've already done what you described there. I've visited every dungeon, done every quest (other than the infinite Radiant Quests), have 100 on almost every skill except pickpocket and speechcraft on my level 75 character, barely used Fast Travel (Shadowmere travelling FTW) and you know how long it took me? 206 hours. By that mark, on FFX, I was nowhere close enough to finish the Monster Arena and the Dark Aeons, but then again, it seems you only considered the card games for your argument.

And let's not forget the single fact that in terms of main quest only, any FF game total game time overcomes, in strides, the total game time of the MQ of any ES game. Oblivion MQ could be finished in 4 hours, Skyrim in less than 10, Morrowind's in less than 10 as well, Daggerfall in less than 3 and Arena in less than 5. Any FF main storyline easily climbs over the 10 - 20 hour mark. 

So my point still stands (the one that I made to Lyrikalstylez). A lot of FF's can easily last to over 100 hours, so the consideration that he made (which was clearly to belittle anyone who does play a FF game for over 100+ hours) is false.