How long does a game have to grab you?

[SvennoJ]

10 hours sounds about the same for me. And sometimes that's not enough. I dropped HZD and RDR after 10 hours, yet came back to them later and became favorites. I nearly dropped TotK after 10 hours banging my head against the tutorial island, and now I'm still playing it after 200 hours. Yet there are also plenty games I have dropped sooner and not gone back to.

There are also games that instantly grab me yet fizzle out later. Open world games tend to go like that. Do all the fun stuff first, explore the map, then all the 'work' is left over. Open world games usually have good starts, great middle, no idea how to end it but get bored and move on. Usually dragging it out too long by avoiding the main story line, then getting bored and grudgingly finish the story :/