Wow, who'd have thought that? An RPG that is not very short! Apparently this is news, so let the proclamation be heard across the land that Final Fantasy XIII is scheduled to take up to sixty hours to beat. That's according to an interview with director Motomu Toriyama.
"For XIII, the size of the entire game is considerable," boasts the director. "Just running through the main story takes experienced players over 50 hours. For the first time, I think it's possible to play through in full in about 60 hours or so."
Considering the game was announced in 2006, it damn well better be stuffed full of content. Anyway, if you're one of those guys who get a huge hard-on over long games and need to know that something will take over ten hours to beat before putting a pre-order in, you now have you've been looking for. Go you!
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10:00 AM on 12.02.2009
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also, JOURNALISM! XD
And i definately hope the 60 hours isn't going to be a "complete" play through with every hidden boss beat and ultimate weapons unlocked
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Though I will enjoy this game for hours indeed. In fact, considering my completionist nature, I might spend a hundred hours or more playing it.
Um.. what?
Anyway, I'm up for another 80+ hour epic RPG.
Why is the length of the game so important these days? Chrono Trigger was only about 15-20 hours long, depending on how much of the optional sidestuff you did. I'm far more willing to replay that game again than an 60 hour epic RPG filled with repetetive grinding.
But who knows, maybe they've actually added some interesting content to justify the length of this game.
It's the side-quests that matters, they better be good
My first playthrough of Tales of Vesperia I pretty much did the cliche "go back to the town you were just in" and completed many of the sidequests, got all the "epic" weapons, etc and it took me about 105 hours.
they better not be padding it with unnecessary transitions and inane sidequests and minigames.
I don't care what anyone says, I played FF for the story. Well, I played X and VII for the story anyway (those are the only ones I've beaten but I loved them both). I think I'll just wait for Versus XIII which actually looks at least somewhat aesthetically different.
I remember when the back of the Xenosaga box said it would take 70 hours (more or less) to beat, but I beat it in 20 hours so yeah...
But I think I'm with "silvain" I'll wait til its a lot cheaper then buy it used.
I really can't wait for this.
50-60 hours? I can see them pulling it off, they've managed it before, but only when they've claimed they were doing 80-100. If they're now claiming 50-60, I'm guessing it will actually be 30-40.
trust me