I share the sentiment expressed by some of you in that I simply don't have the time to play through long games. In fact, so precious is my time at the moment that I haven't even been able to post in this thread, as much as I've wanted too. I also find hobbies like reading and poker a lot more difficult to find time for these days.
Anyroad, so as an indicator as to how long 'long' games take me, I've spent the best part of a year trying to finish Chrono Trigger, and that's not even that long a game. Spent the odd evening here or there playing it, got up to
and couldn't really be arsed to go back and grind enough to beat the bastard. I couldn't even be bothered to play through all the sub-quests towards the end of the game as I felt I had spent an eternity playing it and was eager to play through something new.
Right now I'm playing through Shining Force CD S-L-O-W-L-Y. Yeah, I like the shorter games these days like Snatcher with around, say, ten hours' of gameplay. Gives me a fighting chance of finishing them before I get sick of the sight of them.
I would also like to mention that handhelds get more use from me than 'real' plug-in-the-telly consoles. My Wiz is easily my most used console these days and right now I'm giving Earthbound a whirl and, with it's rapid progression and lack of a necessity to grind, it fits perfectly into my 'not too long' prerequisite.
Go on, do it. A couple of years ago I reduced my collection from thousands of games across platforms such as the Saturn, PCE and Neo AES to just a Megadrive/Mega CD, a SNES and a handful (and by that, I mean fewer than ten per platform) of games, and I've never looked back. Ikobo can back me up here; less is certainly more as you can devote yourself to just one or two games at a time.
Anyroad, so as an indicator as to how long 'long' games take me, I've spent the best part of a year trying to finish Chrono Trigger, and that's not even that long a game. Spent the odd evening here or there playing it, got up to
and couldn't really be arsed to go back and grind enough to beat the bastard. I couldn't even be bothered to play through all the sub-quests towards the end of the game as I felt I had spent an eternity playing it and was eager to play through something new.
Right now I'm playing through Shining Force CD S-L-O-W-L-Y. Yeah, I like the shorter games these days like Snatcher with around, say, ten hours' of gameplay. Gives me a fighting chance of finishing them before I get sick of the sight of them.
I would also like to mention that handhelds get more use from me than 'real' plug-in-the-telly consoles. My Wiz is easily my most used console these days and right now I'm giving Earthbound a whirl and, with it's rapid progression and lack of a necessity to grind, it fits perfectly into my 'not too long' prerequisite.
Originally posted by Max P.
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Glad I'm not the only one. However, it was a lot easier way back in the day - had one console (SFC) and used to rent games from Megaware so played one game flat out for a week and the next week a new one. Then over the last 15 years gradually got a N64/MD/PCE/PS/Saturn/DC/MVS... blah,blah, blah. If I was ever brave enough I'd out the lot and keep the SFC and a core of 15 games or so. But I'd regret it for the rest of my life. 
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