• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It largely depends on the type of game. There’s are plenty of games I’ve played where you’re still in the tutorial after 2 hours. Hell, I don’t think I knew if I liked EU4 until I was like 50+ hours in.

    You don’t need 2 hours to figure out if you like Super Meat Boy though. You’ll know in less than an hour. Probably less than that.

    For those who wonder how you could play a game for 50+ hours and not know if you like it; it’s a grand strategy game with lots of functionally. A full game can easily be 50+ hours depending on how fast you let the game run, and your first game is definitely going to have a lot of pausing trying to figure out various functionality. First game is or two is just figuring out the basic gameplay.

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      10 hours ago

      If you play a game for 50+ hours, you liked it. You don’t spend that amount of time being undecided.

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        9 hours ago

        You’d be wrong. Though you could say I didn’t hate it at least. But I certainly hadn’t made up my mind yet.

        I played the first game with a friend. Which is largely why I even finished it. It’s pretty overwhelming because you’re left to figure out a lot on your own. Second game I played on my own. After that is when I knew I liked it, or at least toward the end of that second game.

        I can’t think of anything other than grand strategy games that I’ve been that indecisive over. Everything else has been within like 3 hours. Some barely even 20 minutes.

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          6 hours ago

          Nah, you liked it. You don’t keep going back to a game for 50 hours if you don’t like it. Most people don’t even put 50 hours into games they like.

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            2 hours ago

            I agree. We’re not discussing “liking a game” in the context of whether or not it deserves 5 stars; we’re talking about whether or not you’re going to demand a refund. There’s clothing I regretted buying after 50 hours of wear, but by that point I’ve taken off the tag and it’s gone through a laundry cycle. I’d be considered trashy to take that back to the store even if within the return window.