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[Prospero]

This week I'm going to start clearing out my backlog of PS2 RPGs, and I have enough so that I'll need to schedule them over the next few months. (I get about 30-40 hours of gaming a month--sometimes more, sometimes less.) Sitting in the queue are:

Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Growlanser Generations

If you've played one of these, how much time did it take to clear it? (I don't use walkthroughs unless absolutely necessary, and I tend to loiter and explore, rather than tear through the game on the shortest possible path. So if you went through as fast as possible, let me know that too.)

 

[belgurdo]

This week I'm going to start clearing out my backlog of PS2 RPGs, and I have enough so that I'll need to schedule them over the next few months. (I get about 30-40 hours of gaming a month--sometimes more, sometimes less.) Sitting in the queue are:

Shadow Hearts
Shadow Hearts: Covenant
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Growlanser Generations

If you've played one of these, how much time did it take to clear it? (I don't use walkthroughs unless absolutely necessary, and I tend to loiter and explore, rather than tear through the game on the shortest possible path. So if you went through as fast as possible, let me know that too.)

Both Shadow Hearts take about 45 hours to finish. Not sure on the other two

 

[Prospero]

Both Shadow Hearts take about 45 hours to finish. Not sure on the other two

45 hours each, or 45 hours total?

 

[belgurdo]

45 hours each, or 45 hours total?

Each. Both have quite a bit of side stuff

 

[Roshamboi]

40
40
25
60 if your good

those were my times through those games. Man having to write review and play games sucks somtimes especialy if its for rpgs.

Roshi

 

[Greenpanda]

I blew through Shadow Hearts 1 really quickly (=20 hours), but that's because I didn't do a lot of the side stuff that I didn't know about. Adding that would probably bring up to, what, 30 hours? It's a pretty short game.

In Shadow Hearts 2, I did everything and that probably took me 60-70 hours. Even without the side stuff, though, it's definitely longer than the first game.

I didn't do all the side stuff SMT:Nocturne (but I did some of it) and finished at 70 hours. I was way over-levelled, though, so if you play the game more reasonably and spend less time dicking around in random battles, though, you can probably finish in 50-ish.

Haven't played any of the Growlansers.

 

[keeblerdrow]

Warning: I have sunk over 60 hours into MegaTen and I'm still only half way through it.

 

[Prospero]

So basically, all four of those games will carry me through to late spring or maybe even early summer, by which time all the triple-A titles I passed on this winter will be in the $20-$30 range, if not Player's Choice/Greatest Hits. I don't know if I'm happy or sad. When I was a teenager a sixty-hour game meant three weeks of play at the most. Now I have the money to afford the games and no time to play them.

I'm thinking that if I start now, I might be able to squeeze in Nocturne before TS3 comes out in February. But if I start to rack up sixty or seventy hours on the clock, waiting a couple of weeks for TS3 won't kill me.

 

[NotMSRP]

I clocked in 136 hours in SMT on the save clock timer. Definitely more total time has been invested though since I repeated a lot of stuff.

 

[Date of Lies]

So basically, all four of those games will carry me through to late spring or maybe even early summer, by which time all the triple-A titles I passed on this winter will be in the $20-$30 range, if not Player's Choice/Greatest Hits. I don't know if I'm happy or sad. When I was a teenager a sixty-hour game meant three weeks of play at the most. Now I have the money to afford the games and no time to play them.

I'm thinking that if I start now, I might be able to squeeze in Nocturne before TS3 comes out in February. But if I start to rack up sixty or seventy hours on the clock, waiting a couple of weeks for TS3 won't kill me.

You'll probably lose your taste for RPGs after blowing 70 hours into one. You probably won't be eager to begin a new one.

 

[djtiesto]

Shit, I got SMTIII and Growlanser Generations for Xmas... looks like I have a lot of gaming ahead of me. Hope that it'll be pretty slow next year for a while for games

Both games are really good so far, Growlanser II really makes me feel nostalgic, with it's graphics and awesome artwork (I loved the Langrisser games)... Even though the voice acting is painful. SMTIII reminds me of like oldskool NES RPGs, with it's lack of "safe" areas, bare-bones story, and quick battles.