Quickies vs Hour-eating games

[voltz]

I love arcades! While I prefer the quick run, I still like to have something to last while I'm at home.

[Psx]

Quickies! Because I havent finished an hour eating game in a long time ;(

[Zerodash]

Quickies, with the occasional epic quest.

There are too many good games worth playing, both new and old.

Plus, there are too few hours in the day to play long games.

[Spike]

Quickies.

I used to love RPG's and adventure games that took hours and hours to complete. At least that's what I thought. The only RPG's I ever actually completed were Chrono Trigger and KOTOR. I own virtually every big name RPG release, and none of them have been finished.

Yet, I still to this day play games like Tetris Attack, Sega Rally, and Chu-Chu Rocket. I disagree with anyone who says they don't get their money's worth from quickie games. In fact, I find I get a better mileage with these types of games.

[Gooch]

Quickies, definitely. There's so much that I want to do in my free time that I can't afford to spend long hours gaming. It's gotten to the point that even a game of Madden against friends takes too long. It's weird, but I can spend more time in one straight sitting playing a quickie game, like PGR or GGXX, than I can a game like Dark Cloud 2. Of course, there's always the occassional exception that can get me immersed in a gaming marathon like Halo or KOTOR.

[PaCrappa]

I just realized a problem I'm about to have. Once the rain starts (any day now), it's going to be shitass piss-poor weather outside for six months. During these times I usually pick some sort of an RPG or other form of hour eater and sit around alot. Twitchy reflexive action games'll burn me out when I play too long.

Pa

[mindfield]

I will enjoy a quicky when playing with others. Soul Calibur or a round of GTA3 free-for-all-until-you-die-then-pass-the-controller are always fun. But those are not multiplayer oriented games like Super Monkey Balls, Fusion Frenzy or Mario Party.

But I mostly need a fix of lenghty games on a rainy day. I'm not talking about RPG that requires to level up for hours. I'm talking about adventure games that keeps me involves whatever I do (Ico, Shenmue, Zelda). I've never been able to keep interested in traditional RPGs because.. I guess leveling up is not my thing. It's not what I'd call adding hours of gameplay. But hey!if there are people who likes it, more power to them.

[Adman]

Like most people here I definitely prefer a mixture of both. Sometimes I'll have half an hour to kill, and it's ideal to throw in a game like Super Monkey Ball.

I tend to play the 'quickie' games for long periods of time though. I've had a 6 hour session of Burnout 2 before, and I've played WarioWare Inc for a couple of hours at a time, and that's the 'quickie'est of them all.

I like epic RPG's a lot and other similarly long games, but I only tend to play them for a solid amount of time during the first couple of weeks I have them, then they get forgotten and I go back to the quickies.

[Shapermc]

I have come full circle in my gaming. I use to play quickies. Then when the PSX came around it was hour eaters only. Now the novelty of "wasting time"* with a RPG that you essentially have no control over is gone. Since ... Chrono Cross the only RPG that I have played for more than 5-6 hours total was Morrowind. That was a RPG. FF is a STG (Story Telling Game). Anyways I am not here to argue that.

Coming full circle, right. Well now just about everything I play could essentially be completed in an hour or less.

The thing that gets me are the semi-hour-eaters. Like Devil May Cry. I beat it once on normal and then the next day beat it on hard. I returned the game after beating it 2 in less than a 24 hour peroid. That leaves a worse taste in my mouth than STG's.

Anyways Kenshin (GameOverDude) said it the best in his reply, go read that.


*My opinion, so eat it