I love short games

[sundin13]

First of all, Beginner's Guide was fantastic.

Anyways, I too have found myself gravitating towards shorter games recently. That isn't to say I don't play and love long games (I also put in about 110 hours into Xenoblade), but long games are a bit of a risk.

I put maybe 30 hours into Persona 3 FES and I'm finding that I just don't really care to play it anymore. I want to see the end of the story and the character paths but I don't really care to actually play it. Now I'm feeling like I've wasted my time putting 30 hours into something I'll never finish (How Long to Beat puts it at 81 hours for the main game...it does not warrant that playtime).

The same can be said when it comes to my Steam library. I currently have 146 games sitting in my "to play" list (and many more sitting in my "I will never play this" list). These games largely came from bundles instead of something I handpicked so I'm not sure how much I will like them. Because of this, I find myself browsing How Long to Beat to see whether or not I'm actually willing to take a risk on a game.

About a week ago I started playing Jotun. It was pretty mediocre, but I beat it in four hours. If it were any longer, I probably would have dropped it after one hour and never touched it again, but instead I beat it and I was decently happy with what I got.