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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > RPG Thread: SaGa Emeril Beyond
 
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J-Spot
May 7, 2002

Polite Tim posted:

Longevity - ?/10
I'm about twelve hours into the game, and i've covered less than 1/4 of the map, so i have no idea at the moment how the game is going to hold up into the endgame. As it stands right now, i'm having trouble putting the controller down. Quests are quick without being brief and there is a steady stream of rewards. The gameplay itself is varied enough to keep me interested but I can't see myself playing through to the end, at least not without a six month break in between. Sometimes there can be too much to do and you end up with saturation fatigue, but I can't really complain about having lots of content in a game, especially when even modern AAA RPGs are getting shorter and shorter.
My opinions of the game were pretty much the same as yours when I reached the 12 hour mark, but as I went the game started to wear on me. At first it's kind of amazing how much content they put into the game, but eventually you reach a point where you just want to progress and there's another three exclamation points on your map every time you walk an inch forward. The quests start to become more and more repetitive, and I wound up at the point where there was no better loot to be had in the game but I still had nearly half the map left unexplored. Finally I just said to hell with it and killed off the main quest. Ultimately I thought it was a fun game, but apart from combat everything it does is done better in Skyrim. I'd recommend it to fans of the genre, but I suggest concentrating on the main and faction quests and only worrying about the miscellaneous quests during the post-game if you're still compelled to play.

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