I’m currently playing “Cassette Beasts”. Pretty fun game that takes the pokemon formula, and turns it on its head.
I will not play long and involved 300 hour games. It’s too much. I want bite sized games.
The internet said this game is 25 hours long. Except thats bullshit. There are 130 monsters. I’ve caught 16. I’ve been playing for 17 hours. I don’t know if this game has “gym leaders”. But if they do, I haven’t seen them yet.
I have no bad words about the game, other than the fact that it takes 10 minutes (I timed it) to go from not yet opening the game, to get to a title screen. It also crashes pretty regularly. Meaning you gotta wait 10 minutes AGAIN.
But the point is, I’ve barely scratched the surface of this game, and I’m approaching the time period where most people have beaten games.
Am I just bad at games?
No it’s just a very open game. Probably you just didn’t do the quest that unlocks gym leaders (which is joining the rangers)
The game is loose in terms of goals. There are “Ranger Captains” that serve as a gymleader-like position, but you do not need to complete the ranger challenge to finish the game. If you focus on each arch-angel challenge, you can finish the mian story. I believe each companion character should lead your right into an arch angel. The rest you have to sort of explore and discover.
Does it matter if you are? As long as you are having fun and enjoying yourself.
But oof… the game crashing and 10 minute load times. Either that game is horribly optimized or you got something wrong with your machine.
cassette beasts is like that™
That ten minute boot time is not normal. Something’s very wrong with your PC, especially if other games or programs have minutes-long launch times.
They’re using GameNative to play the PC version of the game on Android. Considering the 10 minute startup time, it sounds like it’s recompiling the game every time it launches.
No, Cassette Beasts has a lot of issues like this. For example, sometimes it instantly drains my entire battery for no reason
Either a dying HDD or their main drive is completely full.
They didn’t give us a reference point of their other games’ launch times, but my first thought was this is a HDD gamer.
An HDD from 1990 maybe. Modern HDD wouldnt load that slow.
No need to rush, you are playing for yourself.
Enjoy the game at your own pace.
I always seem to take at least twice the stated play time to finish a game. Yeah, I think I’m just a bit slow. But if I’m enjoying myself, no stress. I’m playing baldur’s gate at the mo, 140 hours in and I’ve only just started act 2.
Wow I’m not alone lol… I’ve got about 120 hours in BG3, and still in Act I. Haven’t played the game in a while though
you’ve made it to act 2?
Dude, I bought Fallout 4 at launch. I still haven’t beaten it. You’re just taking your time. Sorry about the crashes, that’s super frustrating. But I can relate, I remember New Vegas at launch.
I have no bad words about the game, other than the fact that it takes 10 minutes (I timed it) to go from not yet opening the game, to get to a title screen. It also crashes pretty regularly. Meaning you gotta wait 10 minutes AGAIN.
I just started up the game now and it took 20 seconds to load into the title screen and then less than 3 seconds to load into a saved game. It sounds like you have some other issue causing the slow loading.
According to howlongtobeat.com, a leisurely pace takes about 28 hours to beat it. If you’re particularly slow, you could probably take a good amount of time more. That doesn’t mean you’re bad at games though, especially since this type of game can be played very slowly since it’s turn-based and there’s nothing pushing you to play fast.
Play at whatever pace it takes you to enjoy whatever it is you’re playing. As long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right.
The shit that says a game is X hours long is, generally, about how long it would take someone on the easiest difficulty and possibly using a guide or walkthrough to simply finish the main story when focusing all their attention on it. It does not include doing anything else, like collecting all the collectibles or doing any side-quests.
But the devs can also be pretty bad at getting to that number, especially inexperienced indie devs or other small teams that can’t actually do the research and get a realistic number.
howlongtobeat.com is usually where people are looking for these numbers. It has numbers for “main”, “main + extra”, and “completionist”. I usually play games on at least harder than normal setting and I pretty reliably hit ±10% of the “main + extra” number with some rare exceptions, so I don’t think your description is accurate at all.
I imagine some people are slower or faster at certain types of games but can still use the number as base to adjust from. For instance a slow reader might add a percentage to a text heavy RPG
You might be, but at the end of the day, does it matter? The core point of gaming is to have fun, no matter how long you need. As long as you’re not frustrated by the game, I think that’s fine.
Maybe the game also isn’t for you - there’s so many different genres. Some people are shit at soulslike games, and there is nothing wrong with NOT enjoying a game. They might enjoy something different.
Now, what I personally have a gripe with is people being shit at games and crying online that it’s “too hard” and they NEED to make it easier instead of, you know, not playing the game they apparently have no fun with. But in your case - take all the time you need, have fun and if you start to not have fun, stop the game.
With the crashes, idk, but that could be fixable by asking in communities for the game or maybe submitting a bugreport directly to the developer.
No? No. You’re just taking your time in your own pace.
Howlongtobeat also rate Deathloop 16.5 hours to beat, yet i took 38 hours to reach the ending for the first time. Some goes for Monster Hunter Rise, they said 23.5 hours for the main story but so far i spend 28 hours to reach high rank. Why? Because i took my sweet time to enjoy the game. It’s your game, don’t rush it if you like it.
10 mins to get to a title screen sounds like a red flag without having actually played it myself
Assuming you’re playing on PC, have you got it installed on an SSD rather than an HDD? Some games really don’t like being run from an HDD these days
I have no clue what OP is playing on, but I just booted it up on Steam Deck and got to the title menu in 75 seconds, and I shit you not 15 seconds of that was actually downloading an update and I didn’t restart the timer.
Maybe OP is playing it off a cassette player like on C-64 ;)
Those figures are based on median scores submitted, but it’s not very accurate when it’s a self report because you lose slower people.
Anyway, you’re also allowed to just enjoy a game, it doesn’t matter how long it takes. I like to take things in, go afk randomly, search all over the place for Easter eggs and such, etc; I usually end up taking longer than those times and I assure you, I’m fantastic at playing games so no, you’re not bad at games. Lol
Probably slower people don’t even bother posting their times?
Why waste time on that when you can take yours playing? :D
I’m also a slow gamer. Take HLTB as a rough estimate, then add ~15-20% over if it’s not absurdly bite sized like a tiny puzzle game and has quests, exploration, narrative, etc.
HLTB is also a matter of averages, and the people who are likely to report are also a self-selected sample. Don’t beat yourself up for it; as long as you’re enjoying your time that’s what matters most.
I’m always wildly over the HowLongToBeat hours when I’m done with a game. I care more about whether I’m having fun playing rather than hours taken.
