Does Videogame Length Vary By Territory?

asphyxiation_query writes "I've been looking at the relative length of videogames (in terms of overall gameplay, how long the game stretches out from start to completion) based on region. Can Slashdot Games readers discern any obvious regional patterns or variations in this information? For example, are games from Korea typically longer than Japanese? How do European and North American titles stack up in this respect?" Or is content similarly long if part of the same genre, regardless of country of origin?

Comments

What the?

[SmallFurryCreature]

Game length depended on region? Well it all depends on the type of game and what you consider game length. Exactly when do puzzle games like tetris end? Flightsims do they end or do you simply upgrade to a new version and keep flying?

How about Neverwinter Nights or morrowind (pc edition of course)?

Multiplayer FPS and MMORPG's obviously last a different amount of time depending on the player not the game. People are still playing Counterstrike. Noone ever played motorcity online.

I think this is one of the more idiotic questions I have heard in a long time. If he had specified the question to a certain type of game. Say RPG's then we could talk.

Oh okay allright lets give it a try anyway. I don't know if this is even true. Does japan have any Flightsim type games, if they have they remarkedly shy about it. Then again we got almost no Hentai/porn games wich japan seems to produce by the bucketfull. Africa seems to produce exactly zero games with Israel the only exception (Decent).

The old soviet union seems to have produced some excelltent teams although most of their games are known for their unpolished look. Operation Flashpoint and Republic are techinaclly intresting games but lacked the polish needed for the americans. (One review lauded an american game for including that .50 sniper rifle completing ingnoring the fact that the theather where less then half a mile accross, yes lambasted OFP for the fact that you could not hit a target 5 miles away.)

Oh well. Perhaps more intresting question is why certain types of games seem to come from certain regions.