How many hours to you mean good purchase?

I buy a allot of games and do not finish most of them. I am a slow gamer so I get my moneys worth. I like jumping from game to game and I also replay games twice if I like them. I go through periods where I just want to play one genre of game. At the moment I have a craving for RPG's which is unfortunate as there is nothing new, so I am going replay some classics.
 
single player - time is not directly linked to enjoyment, but something like £1 an hour would be fairly priced

multiplayer - if the game is good, i can easily stretch 200-600 hours of fun from 1 game
 
6 hours on a mediocre game
10 hours for a good game
20+ hours for an awesome game with good replayability.

I can play a 4 hour game if their is enough replayability in it to justify the cost, if it's a one time experience 10+ hours.
 
I was gonna say around 6 hours, since that was about the length of max paye 2 and cod 4... But then i realised i actually replayed both those games.

So maby 10-12 hours.
 
Hours? If a game isn't going to last me at least a number of months then I'm not interested. Be that offline single player or online co-op.

My most played game has lasted me 10 years. Not bad for £30 really. Pitiful replay value and lack of online co-op is the main reason I refuse to spend my cash on run & gun FPS games and other "blockbuster" titles.
 
...back in my Diablo 2 LOD days, i put about 3 years into that game online + unknown ammounts of time on single player before i brought the origional (not sure how many hours LOL) :) i think that justifys that, although since then i have never found a game which would last me much longer then a month :(

other games include:
UT:GOTY - MANY hours on that 'back its time' and then a slow withdrawal from it (on/off)
UT04 - not sure how long, it lasted me over a year :)
UT3 - dont play it neally as much as the old ones, the graphics are great but gameplay hasn't really changed much, but i still have it installed (i guess this would be my 'break-even game')
 
I play for experience, a game is worth it if it was fun / scary / exciting whatever how long it takes doesnt bother me.

although it might with an rpg
 
Depends on the quality of the game really.

I'd say the bare minimum I expect from a full price title is around 5hrs. CoD4 wasn't much longer than that, but it's worth it IMO (plus it has multiplayer of course). Plus I wouldn't discount the chances of me playing through it again in a year or two if I get the time.

I've played some games for over 10 hours that haven't really been worth it, I've just been going through the motions. Stuff like Area 51 and BiA:TRTH30.
 
Hmm

I compare mine with what i would waste money on.

Arcades, slot machines... which are fun.

Then think how many more hours the fun would last in a game :)
 
Not a case of hours really for me, if i buy a game for a single player experience and enjoyed it then in my book it was a worthy purchase (though there are some exception to this i.e. crysis).

Multiplayer wise, i guess you could say 20+ hours amount of hours makes it a worthy purchase :)
 
britboy4321 said:
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?
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I don't have a time limit at all.

Crysis Warhead only lasted me 4 hours, and Portal only lasted me 4 hours, but they were both worth the money as they were extremely fun :)
 
As much quality for as long as possible :P I thought Warhead was great, but i wanted more when i was finished, but i didn't really want to play through the same story again. As opposed to portal which was dead short, but felt more like it should've been that way. With multiplayer i expect 100's of hours tbh.
 
guildwars ~ £35 approx 700hrs
Bioshock ~ £15 3month lol I was trying everything and backtracking and just enjoying it
FF7/8 ~ £35 easily 150-200 hours
CSS ~ Not a clue... 2years maybe :confused:

Now take into account most FPS now last about 6/8 hours in singleplayer mode and RRPs are ridiculous. Most of them aren't even that engaging storywise, I mean 8-10hrs at £35 isnt really a good purchase

As for MMOWise, I played RFOnline for about a year and a half at approx £10 per month so that sounds like a lot however, this was the most fun I've ever had gaming wether it was the game or the friends and community there remains to be seen. We were known at times to play for around 16 hours tho :( unfortunatley I had no job at the time and this was my poison of choice :p Was great fun while it lasted but I wouldnt want to do the mahoosive long stints again
 
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