how many hours do these games take?

[Jigawatt]

I only get 2 hours a day to play, if that. I'm frightened that the trilogy will take a year non-stop for me to get through it. Plan on doing most side quests, but probably won't grind endlessly to max out or beat any ultra hardcore bosses, if that type of thing is still in these games

[Scarlet Crusade]

The superbosses are all in the DLC coliseum for XIII-2, and completely optional.

LR they're in the game natively, but still completely optional. Totally up to you.

[Trance]

XIII took me around 45 hours to beat. I didn't do all the optional stuff and did not grind much. I was mainly just doing the Main missions.

From what i've read XIII-2 and -3 are a bit shorter.

[Scarlet Crusade]

XIII-2 the main game is shorter, but there's paradox endings and all kinds of extra content to see and do, especially with the DLC.

LR is a time limited adventure, but you can go through it an infinite number of times.

[Shuurai]

From HowLongToBeat.com:

FFXIII is clocked in at 50h 49m (main story only, based on 279 submissions)
FFXIII-2 is clocked in at 28h 4m (Main story only, based on 115 submissions)
FFXIII LR is clocked in at 35h 10m (Main story only, based on 20 submissions)

That should give you a rough outline for each game.

[Jigawatt]

Originally posted by Shuurai:

From HowLongToBeat.com:

FFXIII is clocked in at 50h 49m (main story only, based on 279 submissions)
FFXIII-2 is clocked in at 28h 4m (Main story only, based on 115 submissions)
FFXIII LR is clocked in at 35h 10m (Main story only, based on 20 submissions)

That should give you a rough outline for each game.

awesome site, thanks!

[Scarlet Crusade]

But if you're playing Final Fantasy games and doing only main story, you're doing it wrong.

[Jigawatt]

so maybe multiply those by 1.5x?

[SpiderMan120988]

Well, FF XIII takes on average 50 hours. I did 29 of the missions of Gran Pulse before finishing the main story.

[NuhUh]

Play it casually. That's what I'm doing, I purchased XIII a few days after release and only recently hit the grind fest of Chapter 11 (Cie'th Stone Missions), clocking in just over 40 hours of game play.

Now I find out XIII-2 will be released in less than a month, I intend on finishing up XIII within the next 2-3 weeks and spend a week preparing my body for XIII-2.

After I finish the main story of XIII, i intend on continuing my game play by collection achievements and upgrading weapons and accessories to their maximum potential.

[Dagný]

Originally posted by SpiderMan120988:

Well, FF XIII takes on average 50 hours. I did 29 of the missions of Gran Pulse before finishing the main story.

guess I'm too slow. 73 hours in and I'm still in the gran pulse (chapter 11)

[dannyj147]

easily clocked over 100 hours on both FFXIII and 2 on PS3

[Silverhawk90]

FF13 took me 55 hours, FF13-2 took me 35 hours, LRFF13 took me 40 hours. There's still a fair amount more I could play around with, but I saw all I felt like I needed to.

[W r a i t h]

FFXIII, 40-50 hours with little content done in Gran Pulse to complete main story (took me 40-42 hours to beat it this time on PC with a bit of farming [sacrifices for perfume and scarletite obviously] and about 15-20 Cie-th stone missions done on Gran Pulse). Probably like 80 with all of Gran Pulse done and some other stuff, depending on your pace and if your grinding and farming.

FFXIII-2, a bit less. 10 hours less I would say. So like 40 hours with little content done and about 70 hours with it all done.

LR:FFXIII is pretty much the same as XIII-2 I would say..

[Warrior of Right]

if you only have 2 hours a day to play don't waste it on this garb could play a bunch of faster better games isntead.

[Jigawatt]

Originally posted by i Fight Ghosts (Base intruder):

if you only have 2 hours a day to play don't waste it on this garb could play a bunch of faster better games isntead.

oh believe me, as you see on my games list I don't own one rpg on steam yet. I'm all about cheap, fast, games. but I'm used to mmo's outside of steam and I played a few other FFs back in the day so.... I'm probably going to get these 3 on sale and just... dag... 150 hours... hopefully nothing else good comes out in the next 12 months :p