Game Length, Value & Replayability

[TornadoCreator]

Scoobes said:

TornadoCreator said:

Scoobes said:
Where on Earth did you get those numbers from? How on Earth of FF6 and Zelda only take 5 and 6 hours respectively?

I based the numbers off three things. Personal Experience, the times listed on howlongtobeat.com and the YouTube longplay community. Some of them I disagree with slightly, but generally they're quite accurate and the longplays can't really be argued with as you can physically watch them play them. (Admittedly, I'm using speedrun times for FF6, it's open ended in many respects so it's entirely possible for the game to be 30 hours long depending on how you play it, but it's possible to complete the game in around 5-6 hours, in fact some people can do it in as little as 4 1/2 hours).

Link To The Past in 6 hours, now that's perfectly reasonable, and I've done it multiple times myself.

Those times are far away from the average though. The first time you play a Zelda game, it does not take 6 hours unless you've followed a guide, in which case I'm not sure what the point in playing is.

True but the same is true of the modern games I've listed as well. I'm using "main story" completion times for them, we're talking going through from beginning to end, not exploring every inch, doing side missions, achievements etc. After all, Journey is maybe 2 hours long for a single playthrough but it'd take maybe 4-5 playthroughs to find all the secrets and that'll easily run you around the 10 hours mark, I'm actually fairly sure it's impossible to get them all on one playthrough too. Maybe I'm simply good at Zelda, or perhaps it's because I went into it knowing what to expect, (I played it on GBA and already knew the basic structure and such from word of mouth, online culture etc.).