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Aeolus451 on 02 April 2016
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Xxain said:
Aeolus451 said:

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.

I pick a random jrpg and I play it to finish. During my time:

I enjoy the story of the  of game.

I enjoy the characters.

Phenomenal music

Attractive art direction

Fun engaging battle system

Good amount of side quest/Post game content

Satisfactory ending leaves me fulfilled.

I look at my end time and its 26 hours. Why does it matter if I was delivered a enjoyable game? Why does not being 40+/60+/100+ even matter? Why is a arbitrary number even thing?    

If you compare a person's experience that throughly played a game to the experience of someone who only beat the main story arc, it's almost like two different games were played.  It's not really an arbitrary number as you put it. How do we measure content in a rpg or any game? How else is someone to really know if they just skimmed the surface of a game versus throughly playing it for all it's worth? Those things are not that easy to define but max playtime and average playtime will give ya a clearer picture of what to expect content-wise.

If a dev tells gamers that their game should take 30 hours to beat on average, you'll have an idea how much content (main story, side quests, crafting) there is for you to do. Anyway, I highly doubt that 20 hours is the normal playtime for Star Ocean 5. It's probably in the 40s to 100s.