Star Ocean 5 is a less than 20 hour jrpg MORE proof, Amazon japan users complaining

[Aeolus451]

Xxain said:

Aeolus451 said:

Forever games? You have a weird sense of time. I can understand that some of us just don't have the time or patience to play a normal length rpg but don't act like shorter is better. Everyone basically has less content to play and then the game is over that much quicker.  

Let's say you take out the base building, side quests and put a level cap on character levels in Fallout 4. The game will a lot shorter because it has less content.

For the witcher 3, if we took out monster hunting and the side quests. It's alot shorter game because it would have less content. 

Not in this reality or in any other, does shorter = better with video games. 

Im not saying Shorter is better either, though that could be argued. Just that being short should not automatically be detriment to a any game based off some supposed standard vs what the actual games delivers in that 20 hours.  

If the game can be beaten in 20 hrs or less but a normal playthrough is 40 to 100 hours of gameplay/content, I'm fine with it. It's not much different than a Elder scrolls game. You can beat the game very quickly if you wanted to skip everything but the main story but it can hundreds of hours of gameplay from the rest majority of the game.

If everything in the game can be done in about 20 hours of gameplay for a rpg, I would have a big problem with it.