Gaming: I'm Glad I Waited 25 Years To Play The Longest Dragon Quest Game

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I didn't play Dragon Quest 7 when it first appeared on Sony's PlayStation back in 2000. It was an expensive import RPG (even in its translated US form) in my part of the world, and as I already had plenty of those clogging up my shelves I was happy to leave it alone. By the time the 3DS remake came around the one and only thing I knew for sure about the game was that, whatever I happened to play it on, it was long. Really long. Somewhere around "You've got to be kidding me" long.

At the time of writing, the average rushed completion time for the main story on Howlongtobeat is comfortably over the 60 hours mark. And the honest truth is, I just didn't want to play a game that long that badly. I already have plenty of other, shorter Dragon Quest games to play, and my shelves and Steam library are filled with RPGs famous for being complex, engaging, exciting… basically anything other than ridiculously time consuming.

Source: PC Gamer