Western RPG example: Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It takes about 76 hours to get through the main campaign without sidequests or DLC. With the other stuff, my saves files total to about 156 hours. Supposedly it's sequel, Wrath of the Righteous, is even longer... and I just started playing it. Wish me luck.
That's just every first trails game for every new arc. And the good thing about it is that it makes sense story wise and they it so it was not a real deal breaker that players would drop the game due to that
@@shayne604 You will do a lot of travelling if you are doing the all the side quest. Some side quest will make you go back to areas that are not in the same way where your main quest should be done. Part 2 trails do make you go back in forth to town albeit you can fast travel to towns but You will do a lot of on foot travelling from area to area to accomplish missions.
I loved DQ7, one of my favorites (along with 3 and 4). I never finished it sadly, my PS2 died before I could, and since I'm primarily a PC gamer I couldn't really be bothered to replace it (also, I couldnt afford to for a long time). I eventually ended up selling the game when I was badly in need of cash. Cause of its rarity I got quite a bit for it, but its that rarity that *now* has me wishing Id never sold it the longest Final Fantasy game is, of course, 14, but since its an MMO I guess we can't actually count it here ;)
3:00 Agarest was the first game where i just quit and simply watch a play through of it on CZcams back then. The story is good but it's not worth the playtime.
Story is good? I had trouble liking the story,and the cast,lmost all the character other than mc,and his girl were the one getting basic standard characterization in game,the enemy cast was yer usual bad guys for tbe sake of making the mc look cool and all the girl was over the heel for our main character.
@@Dpyrt Didnt have much trouble with the grind, put it on autobattle and go do something else, i did that to get the requirements for the rewards in the guild.
SMTIVA was a blur to me... I really didn't like it. The original SMTIV had such an awesome feel to it, and I found the asset reuse in IVA and the changed story to be a snore fest. IV's neutral route, though, was crazy long.
Final Fantasy IX was by far the longest of the PS1 FF games for me, taking me 50 hours while VII and VIII took me 35. Then again, IX was my first FF, so maybe I just sucked at it, lol.
I'm not sure if I play games slower than most, but some of the games here that you listed at ~40 - 60 hours took me well over 100 hours to complete. I just finished Trails of Cold Steel IV and I'm pretty sure I spent about 150 hours on it. It was so long that I feel like the game was holding me hostage and I couldn't stop playing it because I had developed Stockholm Syndrome. (It just went on and on and on... revisting locations over and over, with the ending never in sight. I loved it, but I would have loved it more if it was just 80 hours long.) My times are a bit skewed because I pause the games and leave my systems on sometimes.
I tried to catch up to Trails of Cold Steel IV by playing all the previous titles. Let's just say I burnt out when I finally got to IV. Still have the save so I can go back anytime.
Seems like he doesn't really do much side stuff, and also plays on either easy/normal. So that'd explain why he tends to get games done faster. I definitely play at a slow pace, cause i love to get caught up in the games atmospheres and do as much side stuff as i feel like. Trails is essential to do every side/hidden quest, it feels super wrong to skip on all the content in that series. Cold Steel IV is my longest game played at about 160 hours.
@@domfabio8850 I definitely do every single side quest, and try to get as many accomplishments as I can reasonably get (e.g. chests, scanning all foes, etc). I do play on easy most of the time just because work is hard and I just want to feel decently good at something at the end of the day. 😅 I also play at a pretty slow pace, going to check in with lots of NPCs after events to see how dialogue has changed... especially the heavily recurring NPCs like Anton... if a game passed where I didn't find Anton and his new obsession (Sharon!), I would feel like I failed. So much work and world building goes into those games that if you miss out on optional scenes, dungeons, quests, etc, it feels like you haven't connected with the game nearly as much as you could have... I just love Zemuria and its inhabitants so much and all the throwbacks (e.g. the Capua family being ripped off carrying through all the way through the series) really endears me to getting as much out of it as I can. Things like the complete history of the Leeves student dorm feel very important to me, how the Capuas lost it to Minnith, and how that rippled to Armorica in Azure with Chief Tolta and his son Derek, how the baths were personally installed by Aurelia Le Guin, etc.
@@vorpal22 No shame on playing on easy, especially if you value your time and are busy working all the time. Although if i was to give a tip on combat. you can easily abuse chrono burst/delay and stack up on tons of action orbs and other items that boost speed, even hard mode feels very easy. By the late game you can just out speed and delay your opponent to the point where evasion becomes completely pointless to focus on. Evasion is always amazing for early-mid game though. Magic is super OP in CS3/4 thanks to that new command system. Musse's command i remember being really OP. and probably some others i'm forgetting.
@@domfabio8850 Good to know... thanks! Eventually, I'd like to play a Trails game on normal difficulty, but since the series is so long and I wanted to catch up on story in particular, I didn't want to struggle on combat... maybe I'll try Reverie or Daybreak on normal. My usual party is Rean, Kurt, Ash, and Juna... Rean could pretty much beat any non-boss battle with gale / second gale. (My partner would hear the starting noise of that craft and say, "Second form... gale!" along with Rean all the time.) I need to use arts more skillfully... the delay in using them has just always made me nervous unless I manage to trigger a no delay effect. I would S-craft the bosses, which usually took care of most of them after increasing break damage, with a few exceptions, so they didn't even get an attack. I do love Musse... she was my choice for Rean. I know Alisa is kind of canon but just saying, "Lady Mildine Juzileth de Cayenne" is way too much fun. I would swap her in for Juna gladly. I had Juna at a stupidly high evasion level and despite her gunner / striker ability, would put her at the front of the party... she would dodge everything thrown at her and counter with gunner. I really appreciate the tips and you taking the time to type them up. What other JRPG series do you like? Have you ever been into ATLUS games?
How did you beat the first and second Cold Steel in 40 hours? Did you skip/fast-forward the cutscenes? And if you can beat those in 40 hours, you can do the same for vanilla Persona 5. And, then again, I wonder why the Cold Steel 3 & 4 took you longer when they are essentially the same length.
All the mainline Xenoblade games turn and look at each other: "There can only be one of us...." XD Surprised to hear Berseria's shorter than some of the others. I guess it was a game that put a lot more into side stuff since you had your own ship and all. It's funny because Arise's traversal is designed to be fairly concise. Not really a lot of getting lost. It's just beefy at its core. :) I will say one thing about the length of Tales games: Nearly ALL of them have an absurdly long final dungeon. Tarquaron, Guardia Shaft, Berseria's final dungeon thing even WITH the geoboard, Rena's core... and yet Xillia 2's is arguably the most painful because it's such a nuisance to get through. Arise's cast didn't know how good they had it getting to skip that place in the postgame. XD
i think the main story of FF9 (or even 7) is longer than FF8. i remember reaching really fast to the end of ff8, even doing some sidequests. breath of fire III is very long too (don't know about IV, i haven't finished it).
finishing Dragon quest 7 on PS1 took me no less than 140 hours and I didn´t even completed all the post game dungeons or got to fight god! Mostly it took me so long because iI decided to beat it without any walkthrus.... Well mostly, near the end I kinda lost my nerve and did the search online for the two final shards...
I would put FFX on the list. The optional content is one of the longest, if not THE longest in all of the final fantasies. Getting ultimate weapons can be extremely challenging as you know. Also the monster arena, shadow aeons/hidden bosses. And of course blitz ball
@B1az1ngSuN but you're referring to ffx having the longest optional content in any FF game, which is completely false, especially where FF online games do exist and as you mentioned they can be endless. Therefore they have the longest optional content in any FF titles, not FFX, where at some point it has a shorter end. Eventually, online FFs have an end to do all its content too, it's just that much further away, and people often have their own goals or burn-out playing and move to another game, but reality is, these are the ones with the most optional content of FF titles, not FFX, and FFX isn't even the longest for single player FFs anyway.
I am Started play Mary Skelter : Nightmare. I play about 20 hour and stuck with a certain Boss, Now need Grinding. Maybe I will finish this game about 50 hours more from experience play Etrian Odyssey
honestly man, how many times are you going to say that Eternal Poison has 3 stories + 1 extra to unlock have you even played the game? i know you dont read comments, but maybe you should because it would prevent you from looking like a fake gamer for many of the games you claimed to have played (especially this one which you have stated you "love"). there are 4 arches + 1 to unlock and THEN there is a final tale where you have all 5 main characters this can easily be seen by simply pulling up ANY walkthrough for this game and checking the table of contents so there are technically 6 story lines, NOT 4
Why is Persona 4 on that list ? It can be done within 40 hours unless you want 100% ie parameters and get all endings then I will agree. Star Ocean 3 and 4 should be on that list. Atelier Totori Brigandine: LOR SAO series Rune Factory 4 Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series Fire Emblem Fates triology Disgaea series If you go for 100%, those games that's what you're looking for.
Lots of the same franchises. I guess after one long game, anything considerably shorter would be disappointing to some players. I never like heavy amounts of playtime added through forced grinding though. Quality over quantity. Loved Final Fantasy X but its main quest can be beaten in less than 30h. Surprised not to see Dragon Quest V/VI on here too. The former has multiple generations, and the latter has a Dream World parallel to the real world with just as many dungeons and bosses, plus a third 'Nightmare' world. Bravely Default is a *much* worse offender in that regard, making you go through the same world several times with minute changes.
30, 40 or even 50 hours isn't exactly long, which some of these can be beaten in. I've played most of these, but until you start playing MMORPGs, that's when you start seeing real long games. My longest was FFXI for a total of 20,000 hours in a span of 10 years off and on and then FFXIV comes close. Since won't play MMOs though, this is a decent list for some fairly long JRPGs
Western RPG example: Pathfinder: Kingmaker. It takes about 76 hours to get through the main campaign without sidequests or DLC. With the other stuff, my saves files total to about 156 hours.
Supposedly it's sequel, Wrath of the Righteous, is even longer... and I just started playing it. Wish me luck.
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Spellforce 1 is an rts-rpg with hours-long battles on excessively large maps
yeah but it's not Jrpg
@@MrSatanislav but it makes jrpgs feel fast-paced in comparison
Congratulations on 100Ks! Great video!
I don't know how long star ocean til the end of time took me to beat back in the PS2 days.
No fast travel in a game would be rough
Yeah …that kinda kills it for me honestly…
Also no costumes.
That's just every first trails game for every new arc.
And the good thing about it is that it makes sense story wise and they it so it was not a real deal breaker that players would drop the game due to that
@@Snzn18 trails works, I've played them, cuz you don't need to go back to other towns hardly lol
@@shayne604 You will do a lot of travelling if you are doing the all the side quest. Some side quest will make you go back to areas that are not in the same way where your main quest should be done.
Part 2 trails do make you go back in forth to town albeit you can fast travel to towns but You will do a lot of on foot travelling from area to area to accomplish missions.
Here I am with 87 hours in Unicorn Overlord on expert and I'm just starting Bastorius. x_x
I loved DQ7, one of my favorites (along with 3 and 4). I never finished it sadly, my PS2 died before I could, and since I'm primarily a PC gamer I couldn't really be bothered to replace it (also, I couldnt afford to for a long time). I eventually ended up selling the game when I was badly in need of cash. Cause of its rarity I got quite a bit for it, but its that rarity that *now* has me wishing Id never sold it
the longest Final Fantasy game is, of course, 14, but since its an MMO I guess we can't actually count it here ;)
3:00 Agarest was the first game where i just quit and simply watch a play through of it on CZcams back then. The story is good but it's not worth the playtime.
Story is good?
I had trouble liking the story,and the cast,lmost all the character other than mc,and his girl were the one getting basic standard characterization in game,the enemy cast was yer usual bad guys for tbe sake of making the mc look cool and all the girl was over the heel for our main character.
Yeah... if the grind wasn't so atrocious, it could be palatable.
@@Dpyrt Didnt have much trouble with the grind, put it on autobattle and go do something else, i did that to get the requirements for the rewards in the guild.
@@Spacefrisian At that point, I may as well play something that's worth my time.
I am the person who spent almost 80 hours on "One Piece: Odyssey"🤣
11:07 is that from Octopath Traveler soundtrack?
Smt IV apocalypse and Growlanser IV?
Growlanser series is good though,all was decent
SMTIVA was a blur to me... I really didn't like it. The original SMTIV had such an awesome feel to it, and I found the asset reuse in IVA and the changed story to be a snore fest. IV's neutral route, though, was crazy long.
SMT Strange Journey Redux is even longer and much better than SMT IV Apo
@@nr2676 True.
I wasn’t asking if you think the game is good but they are very long.
What? XC3 was the longest? It felt like the opposite to me 🤯
Dang, I guess I do extra because all the games on this list that I’ve played have taken me a lot longer than he says.
Wild arms alter code f also takes longtime
Final Fantasy IX was by far the longest of the PS1 FF games for me, taking me 50 hours while VII and VIII took me 35. Then again, IX was my first FF, so maybe I just sucked at it, lol.
I'm not sure if I play games slower than most, but some of the games here that you listed at ~40 - 60 hours took me well over 100 hours to complete.
I just finished Trails of Cold Steel IV and I'm pretty sure I spent about 150 hours on it. It was so long that I feel like the game was holding me hostage and I couldn't stop playing it because I had developed Stockholm Syndrome. (It just went on and on and on... revisting locations over and over, with the ending never in sight. I loved it, but I would have loved it more if it was just 80 hours long.)
My times are a bit skewed because I pause the games and leave my systems on sometimes.
I tried to catch up to Trails of Cold Steel IV by playing all the previous titles. Let's just say I burnt out when I finally got to IV. Still have the save so I can go back anytime.
Seems like he doesn't really do much side stuff, and also plays on either easy/normal. So that'd explain why he tends to get games done faster.
I definitely play at a slow pace, cause i love to get caught up in the games atmospheres and do as much side stuff as i feel like. Trails is essential to do every side/hidden quest, it feels super wrong to skip on all the content in that series.
Cold Steel IV is my longest game played at about 160 hours.
@@domfabio8850 I definitely do every single side quest, and try to get as many accomplishments as I can reasonably get (e.g. chests, scanning all foes, etc). I do play on easy most of the time just because work is hard and I just want to feel decently good at something at the end of the day. 😅
I also play at a pretty slow pace, going to check in with lots of NPCs after events to see how dialogue has changed... especially the heavily recurring NPCs like Anton... if a game passed where I didn't find Anton and his new obsession (Sharon!), I would feel like I failed. So much work and world building goes into those games that if you miss out on optional scenes, dungeons, quests, etc, it feels like you haven't connected with the game nearly as much as you could have... I just love Zemuria and its inhabitants so much and all the throwbacks (e.g. the Capua family being ripped off carrying through all the way through the series) really endears me to getting as much out of it as I can. Things like the complete history of the Leeves student dorm feel very important to me, how the Capuas lost it to Minnith, and how that rippled to Armorica in Azure with Chief Tolta and his son Derek, how the baths were personally installed by Aurelia Le Guin, etc.
@@vorpal22 No shame on playing on easy, especially if you value your time and are busy working all the time.
Although if i was to give a tip on combat. you can easily abuse chrono burst/delay and stack up on tons of action orbs and other items that boost speed, even hard mode feels very easy. By the late game you can just out speed and delay your opponent to the point where evasion becomes completely pointless to focus on. Evasion is always amazing for early-mid game though.
Magic is super OP in CS3/4 thanks to that new command system. Musse's command i remember being really OP. and probably some others i'm forgetting.
@@domfabio8850 Good to know... thanks! Eventually, I'd like to play a Trails game on normal difficulty, but since the series is so long and I wanted to catch up on story in particular, I didn't want to struggle on combat... maybe I'll try Reverie or Daybreak on normal. My usual party is Rean, Kurt, Ash, and Juna... Rean could pretty much beat any non-boss battle with gale / second gale. (My partner would hear the starting noise of that craft and say, "Second form... gale!" along with Rean all the time.) I need to use arts more skillfully... the delay in using them has just always made me nervous unless I manage to trigger a no delay effect. I would S-craft the bosses, which usually took care of most of them after increasing break damage, with a few exceptions, so they didn't even get an attack.
I do love Musse... she was my choice for Rean. I know Alisa is kind of canon but just saying, "Lady Mildine Juzileth de Cayenne" is way too much fun. I would swap her in for Juna gladly.
I had Juna at a stupidly high evasion level and despite her gunner / striker ability, would put her at the front of the party... she would dodge everything thrown at her and counter with gunner.
I really appreciate the tips and you taking the time to type them up.
What other JRPG series do you like? Have you ever been into ATLUS games?
How did you beat the first and second Cold Steel in 40 hours? Did you skip/fast-forward the cutscenes? And if you can beat those in 40 hours, you can do the same for vanilla Persona 5.
And, then again, I wonder why the Cold Steel 3 & 4 took you longer when they are essentially the same length.
Yea, CS1 took me about 70 hours, 2 was similar. 3 and 4 were both 100+ for me.
You did not play it, but we could consider Harvestella in the list.
All the mainline Xenoblade games turn and look at each other: "There can only be one of us...." XD
Surprised to hear Berseria's shorter than some of the others. I guess it was a game that put a lot more into side stuff since you had your own ship and all. It's funny because Arise's traversal is designed to be fairly concise. Not really a lot of getting lost. It's just beefy at its core. :)
I will say one thing about the length of Tales games: Nearly ALL of them have an absurdly long final dungeon. Tarquaron, Guardia Shaft, Berseria's final dungeon thing even WITH the geoboard, Rena's core... and yet Xillia 2's is arguably the most painful because it's such a nuisance to get through. Arise's cast didn't know how good they had it getting to skip that place in the postgame. XD
Tales of Arise seems to have even longer DLC final dungeon. It was a proper grindfest.
I rage quit arc rise fantasia. I think i was mostly burnt out tho😅
Nice. I'm so glad Mary Skelter, and Xenoblade 3 made this list.
i think the main story of FF9 (or even 7) is longer than FF8. i remember reaching really fast to the end of ff8, even doing some sidequests. breath of fire III is very long too (don't know about IV, i haven't finished it).
This list should just be full of SRPGs
Of THESE 50 only DQ7 took me over 200 hours Tales of the Abyss I still beat on NORMAL Mode IN UNDER 30 HOURS on a first run.
Top Tier Games on this video
SMT Strange Journey Redux
Games we played half way & pretend we finished.
Persona 5 took me 156 hours
Ditto. 150.
Can anyone tell me from which game the opening music is 🙏🏻🙏🏻
finishing Dragon quest 7 on PS1 took me no less than 140 hours and I didn´t even completed all the post game dungeons or got to fight god! Mostly it took me so long because iI decided to beat it without any walkthrus.... Well mostly, near the end I kinda lost my nerve and did the search online for the two final shards...
I would put FFX on the list. The optional content is one of the longest, if not THE longest in all of the final fantasies. Getting ultimate weapons can be extremely challenging as you know. Also the monster arena, shadow aeons/hidden bosses. And of course blitz ball
@@B1az1ngSuN ffxi and ffxiv enters the chat.
@@chronofantasy1987 online games dont really count man, they are never ending in a way
@B1az1ngSuN but you're referring to ffx having the longest optional content in any FF game, which is completely false, especially where FF online games do exist and as you mentioned they can be endless. Therefore they have the longest optional content in any FF titles, not FFX, where at some point it has a shorter end. Eventually, online FFs have an end to do all its content too, it's just that much further away, and people often have their own goals or burn-out playing and move to another game, but reality is, these are the ones with the most optional content of FF titles, not FFX, and FFX isn't even the longest for single player FFs anyway.
I am Started play Mary Skelter : Nightmare. I play about 20 hour and stuck with a certain Boss, Now need Grinding. Maybe I will finish this game about 50 hours more from experience play Etrian Odyssey
what is the background song at 11:10 ?
FF7 Rebirth is a freaking long rpg
DQ7 for the 3DS was my first foray into Dragon Quest and if this was my first introduction into RPGs as a whole I wouldn’t pick up another one
What are the OSTs besides the FF8 one used in the video ?
The ones that I picked up on
-Gaur Plain - Xenoblade
-Battle!! - Xenoblade 2
-Silver Will - Trails in the Sky
Where are the Sao games ? SD gundam ? Super robot wars ?
I have more than 100 hours in Evenicle.😁
One Piece Odyssey is well over 50-60+ hrs it's a pretty long game. I spent 100+ hrs when I finished everything nd got the platinum for it. 👍
FFVII for me took 75 hours till i got gameshark
honestly man, how many times are you going to say that Eternal Poison has 3 stories + 1 extra to unlock
have you even played the game?
i know you dont read comments, but maybe you should because it would prevent you from looking like a fake gamer for many of the games you claimed to have played (especially this one which you have stated you "love").
there are 4 arches + 1 to unlock and THEN there is a final tale where you have all 5 main characters
this can easily be seen by simply pulling up ANY walkthrough for this game and checking the table of contents
so there are technically 6 story lines, NOT 4
DQ7 is godly godly godly godly godly
digimon world 2, not a great one but no matter how i try ive never gotten to the 2nd half without maxing out the timer at 99:99:99.
Why is Persona 4 on that list ? It can be done within 40 hours unless you want 100% ie parameters and get all endings then I will agree. Star Ocean 3 and 4 should be on that list.
Atelier Totori
Brigandine: LOR
SAO series
Rune Factory 4
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel series
Fire Emblem Fates triology
Disgaea series
If you go for 100%, those games that's what you're looking for.
FF8, Legend of Dragoon and Tales of Arise wasn't that long
Nino kuni
I'm pretty sure that Tales of Abyss, Destiny DC, and Tales of Rebirth all take around 60 hours to beat. :/
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Dragon quest 7 is 100 hours minimum what are you talking about 😭 why is it the first one in the list
I played the DQ 7 3DS port and that game was rough. The game just became an absolute slog with so many mini stories
Lots of the same franchises. I guess after one long game, anything considerably shorter would be disappointing to some players. I never like heavy amounts of playtime added through forced grinding though. Quality over quantity. Loved Final Fantasy X but its main quest can be beaten in less than 30h.
Surprised not to see Dragon Quest V/VI on here too. The former has multiple generations, and the latter has a Dream World parallel to the real world with just as many dungeons and bosses, plus a third 'Nightmare' world. Bravely Default is a *much* worse offender in that regard, making you go through the same world several times with minute changes.
I remember playing ff8 hot off the tail of 7. Never figured out how to use the regular weapons, haha. Beat it with magic only.
Ys VIII or Ys VII :(((
I think Dragon Quest 7 is the longest
Surprised Lost Odyssey didn't make this list the main story alone was 50ish hours +grinding
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30, 40 or even 50 hours isn't exactly long, which some of these can be beaten in. I've played most of these, but until you start playing MMORPGs, that's when you start seeing real long games. My longest was FFXI for a total of 20,000 hours in a span of 10 years off and on and then FFXIV comes close. Since won't play MMOs though, this is a decent list for some fairly long JRPGs
What's the last song? 🥲 Seems stunning!
The blades....