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1. RickyWicky
   Member

   Title says it. This includes games with multiplayer on the side but the focus is on the single player.

   My shortest has been Dino Crisis 2. I've finished it so many times in the past that I've been able to notice an average completion time of a mere 3h20m. It's quite a fast paced game in comparison to Capcom's other titles. I remember the first Fighting Force game to be quite short too.

   I know this isn't a very productive topic to discuss, but so what? It's interesting to know which games have terribly short SP, probably so that you can know to avoid them completely at any point if you're looking for a substantial game. So please share your experiences. Not so much the game was actually GOOD or not, though. Just if it was painfully short.

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Gekidami
   Member

   D on PSX. The game actually has a time limit of 2 real life hours. So you either beat it in 2 hours or its game over.

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. RickyWicky
   Member

   Woah...that sounds like a pain in the ass.

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Blerk
   Moderator

   Heh heh! If we're going there, the original Prince of Persia has a one-hour limit, real-time. So you're done within an hour.... or you're dead. Whichever.

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. Suikoden Fan
   Member

   Full Metal Alchemist Dual Symphony, completed the game in 50 minutes

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. RickyWicky
   Member

   Oh, Portal should be included. As a recent game, it's unfortunate that it's so short. The second time I played it was like 2 hours and 15 minutes. Give or take. But I do like to think of it as being a bit of a prototype title from Valve. Portal 2 will be more substantial.

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. Christopher Jack
   Member

   I absolutely love the original Dino Crisis, one of my favourite games of all time, Dino Crisis 2 was meh @ best in comparison.
   I've completed several games within 5 hours, but not much comes to mind straight away, I remember beating Crash Team Racing within a few hours, same with Crash 3 (exc. all the crystal, gems etc).

   Posted 2 years ago #

8. M. K.
   Member

   Max Payne 2 - one of the shortest, but also one of the best games out there. Don't know how often I've played through it :)

   Posted 2 years ago #

9. Kerplunk
   Member

   "You have to burn the rope". Can be beaten in seconds.

   Bruce Lee, around 20 mins.

   In fact, most 8/16-bit games had short play times compared to the games people are familiar with today.

   Posted 2 years ago #

10. RickyWicky
    Member

    Yeah. Like Contra. You can beat that in less than 30 minutes. Perhaps 20 minutes.

    Posted 2 years ago #

11. Ireland Michael
    Moderator

    Yeah. Anyone born before 1994 will easily remember games that could be finished in the time it took to eat your dinner.

    Where in the World is Carmen Santiago, for instance, could be cleared in less than 15 minutes, if you already knew the answers to the clues.

    Posted 2 years ago #

12. M. K.
    Member

    Eh, come on! It's not fair to mention some games like contra or any point and click stuff :P

    Posted 2 years ago #

13. RickyWicky
    Member

    Naw, man, Contra was kickass action! Relatively... But true, it doesn't REALLY count because it has no actual story. So, sorry for my inclusion of it.

    Posted 2 years ago #

14. G1GAHURTZ
    Member

    I think I could do both Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3 in a matter of minutes using warps.

    Can't remember the exact numbers.

    Posted 2 years ago #

15. Hunam
    Member

    ICO took around 3 hours, but it worked well.

    Kane and Lynch 2 took less than 4 hours (including deaths) but felt like 8, because it was rubbish.

    Posted 2 years ago #

16. spiderLAW
    Member

    Really, this should be strictly current Generation as length is much more a focus now with game saves and hard drives being standard.
    This gen, the shortest game i played......The Lord of the Rings Conquest.
    My ex wife and i beat it in something around 1.25 - 1.5 hrs.

    Posted 2 years ago #

17. mathare92
    Member

    Machinarium. Took around 4 hours. A quite brilliant Indie game, though some of the puzzles are almost impossible to figure out.

    Posted 2 years ago #

18. Robo_1
    Member

    Dino Crisis 2 rocked hard back in the day. Running around with the anti-tank gun was great fun, the force from each shot was really quite a kick.

    Posted 2 years ago #

19. Dr.Ghettoblaster
    Member

    Limbo

    Posted 2 years ago #

20. Psychotext
    Member

    Probably Portal. Still awesome though.

    Posted 2 years ago #

21. Naaame
    Member

    Half life 1, bunny jumping took me around 55 minutes lol

    someone's done it in like 45 haha

    Posted 2 years ago #

22. Robbins
    Member

    Kane and Lynch 2 was about 5 hours long and crap

    Posted 2 years ago #

23. ejams
    Member

    The Wanted game takes 45 minutes but its so fun

    Posted 2 years ago #

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