How many hours to you mean good purchase?

britboy4321

britboy4321

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I have lots of PC games. Maybe too many. This gives me an ability to ditch games when I don't like them.

Do you have a particular approximate 'hourage' after which the game, to you, was psychologically worth the purchase?

A 'break even' point of hours of having fun, at which deep down in your soul you think 'OK -- even if I never play it again -- I've now had enough fun to make it officially worth the money I paid. Worthy purchase'

??

Or am I the only one that thinks like this?

Me? 10 hours fun is my 'point'.

At approximately 10 hours play I, to myself, think 'I'm glad I spent the wodja even if I bore of it now'. Before that, if I just can't bring myself to double-click on the icon again, I think 'Well Britters .. daft choice to buy that game eh?'.

Where's your 'OK, it was now officially to me worth the purchase' personal hourage level for a game?
 
10 hours doesnt seem too much, I could easily play a game for 10 hours in a day.

If I can play a game, and enjoy it enough to play again then its worthy purchase.
 
10 hours used to be mine, but then I got Left4Dead.....and have got over 300 hours out of that.

I'd say about 20 hours; but it depends on the game really.
 
COD 4 Modern Warfare was quite short in hours imo. Worth every penny in content though. Same for Crysis Warhead

A DVD of a new release is not a million miles from the average PC game price, and how many hours of enjoyment do you get from that?!
 
It's different for each game.

Some games can be finished in 10 hours, have a fantastic story and be the perfect length, in this case I think that's value for money.

Whereas other games which have a lot of replayability, e.g online games, they're also good value for money.

I don't think you can judge it in terms of hours/cost, I think you just have to decide if you've enjoyed it or not.

Edit: d_brennen's example of CoD4 being short but a great game is a good example I think.
 
Aslong as it keeps me busy for a week or 2 i'm fine with that.

I have a low attention span anyway...

in the last 8 months i still havnt got anywere near half way on bioshock, fallout, farcry 2 ( for a reason), gears of war, cod4 single player.. etc etc etc :D

Left 4 dead in an exception though, think i found my soulmate.
 
Single player game - 20 hours seems to be the sweet spot

Single player RPG - 50 hours for game completion, 100 hours for a '100%' completion

Multiplayer - as long as possible.
 
Multiplayer can take a game from just being good to being the best online experiance. Games like cod waw sp will take maybe 10 hours or so but you can spend 100's online. RPG's can take 100's of hours and sim\management games like Railway tycoon can swallow the hours.
 
Depends on the game. If I don't wish to complete a game straight away or even at a later date I may consider it a bit of a waste of money.
 
all depends on the enjoyment you get out of the game, if a games takes you 100 hours to complete, but mainly because its being an arse, then you won't get a similar level of enjoyment from a game that may have only taken you 10 hours to finish, but you loved every minute of it.

Everything is subjective.

Al
 
Streeteh said:
Single player game - 20 hours seems to be the sweet spot

Single player RPG - 50 hours for game completion, 100 hours for a '100%' completion

Multiplayer - as long as possible.
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Same as this. Though it seems a lot of games these days are about half the above lengths or worse :(
 
Well so far i have had 752 hours on CoD4 and 348 hours on WaW, and not even completed the SP on either!
So fantastic value for money imo.
 
Depends on the game really, Portal for instance is less than 5 hours long but its 5 hours of awesome, but normally I'd go with atleast 8-10 hours of a (non sandbox or RPG) singleplayer game as long as the gameplay & story are good, a rubbish game can last 20+ hours and still be a rubbish game and if its got a multiplayer option as well I'd expect atleast 4-5hours on that as well at a minimum.

For core multiplayer games (red orchestra, BF2 etc) or proper RPGs I'd aim for atleast 30-40hours of gameplay.

BTW these are all minimum times I would expect.
 
This is actually a very good question.

My answer would be 100-200 hours plus for single player games.

If I only got 10 hours out of a full price game I would feel robbed and never buy anything from that company again.

Games I like, not surprisingly, are the Kohan series, civilization series, Elder Scrolls series, MOO2, Galciv series, Empire Earth series, Thrones and Patriots series, C&C series and so on.

I am appalled to see my youngsters buy games, even console games which are even more expensive and see them finished in a weekend of hard playing.

Of course the games manufacturers would love to see us all playing full price, low content, possibly buggy, unsupported, trivial, simplisitic games.

We must not let it happen.
 
A movie ticket on Orange Wednesdays costs me £6.

I'll average that to a £3/hour enjoyment ratio.

Using maths, 10 hours would be the sweet spot, but I personally like to get 20 hours out of a game for it to be worthwhile.
 
i'd say 25+, all depending on price / game type

I was happy with the HL2 episodes, because of their cheap prices
 
1st game I played online lasted over 4 years no stop, same as the last game I got interested in BF2, I have played that for the last 4 years.....I dont get bored, I dont buy to many games, and I enjoy what I play....get involved with a clan, the community spirit always adds to the enjoyment.....
 
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