I do love to try new games, but, with Steam for example, I tend to pick up anything cheap that looks potentially good. The intent to play these "gems" at some point is there, but it isn't as strong as the want to fall back into something I love to play.

Back when I was in college, I used to play Final Fantasy VIII about once a year. There are a few other games, like Final Fantasy X, that I played more frequently as well. In more recent years, I haven't really done that very often. I did replay a few Zelda games a few years ago, though.

Since you mentioned Red Alert, after playing Red Alert 3 a few months ago, I was thinking of replaying the entire series, but didn't. I used to often play the original C&C when it came out.

Lately, I seem to be jumping around to different games.

I usually have very limited play time and it's just easier for me to sit down and replay Final Fantasy Tactics, or Mega Man X, or Earthbound or something because I already know how to play and I know pretty much exactly how much I can get done in a certain amount of time. As my kids are getting older though it's getting easier to play, so I've been playing more new-ish games.

I have a couple games I plan to reply this year, like Kotor2 (with the restored content mod!) and the Majora's mask 3DS reissue, which I just started today. And of course we just played through Kotor1 as our games club.

These posts are great arguments in advocating shorter games. If the majority of games were the length of a Portal or Journey (and priced accordingly), it would be so much easier to cover a lot of ground, and still get that sense of satisfaction.

I find myself on the other side of the spectrum here. I pretty much always prefer longer games. I'm not sure how long I've felt like that, but I can definitely see it in different parts of my gaming past. For instance, when I was playing Command & Conquer, I enjoyed the length of the game. Also, when Travis introduced me to Final Fantasy VIII and I became obsessed with Final Fantasy, I then really started enjoying longer games. I enjoyed that I could easily get maybe 60-100 hours in a good Final Fantasy game.

As for shorter games, I've often found myself disappointed that they were so short. Even Final Fantasy is guilty of disappointing me with a short game such as Dirge of Cerebus. Also, Mario games usually only take a couple or few days to finish and I think I had one Harry Potter game that also disappointed me after I completed it in such a short time. Also, my only complaint about Grand Theft Auto V was that it was too short, although still a great game. Sometimes I like short games, it just depends on what I'm doing, what I want to do, the game itself, and how much time I have or want to put into it.

I feel like GTAV is pretty long, but then again I had to start over after my PS3 froze while saving and corrupted my save file. :P So I had to play through the first half of the game twice. It's kind of my fault for forgetting to save multiple save files.

I wonder how many hours I spent on GTAV. I could most definitely check some time. I just thought the story mode was kind of short, or at least I expected it to be longer.

Yeah, Skyrim, I don't know how many hours I spent on the PS3 version, but I've apparently played the PC version for 108 hours. That really surprises me because I thought I spent less time on it than I had on the PS3. To me, for a game like Skyrim (and Final Fantasy), that's really damn good!

Terraria on the other hand, says I've played for 375 hours, which is AMAZING! Yet, I'm sure some of you have probably spent more playing it. I'm really surprised by that number. I also know for sure it's going to jump much higher in June when 1.3 is released. I'm not sure how much time I spent with Minecraft.

I pretty much agree with you about the game experience and price, it's all up to the player.

Wow, that's quite impressive!
49 minutes Dota 2
141 hours Oblivion (I'm surprised, although I also played it on the PS3, though not sure how long even though I completed the game and the majority of the quests, so my PS3 hours are probably close to my PC hours.)
71 hours Fallout 3

Ha ha ha, that's awesome! I especially like the Duck Hunt one.

Thanks for sharing! I don't think I've played any of those games, but I'm going to install them. I haven't played WoW either, even though I believe I could play it for free until my character reaches level 20. I'm currently playing (and loving) Hearthstone. I have unlocked a mount, which you get by getting an achievement in Hearthstone. I believe it is available after you win 3 games in "Play" mode (which is when you play against real people, not the AI).

Actually, I think I have played Rock N Roll Racing before, a very long time ago. Thanks again for the links.

If you look on the list of heroes you'll also see E.T.C. I think Rock N Roll Racing is his game. While it says "coming soon," I was able to play as him last night.

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/

"Do you have free time but lack games to play?"

lol

I noticed this a few days ago because I thought I'd see what was "on the house" via Origin. I'm one of those that has free time, but lacks games to play. I have plenty of games to play, but days ago I wasn't sure what to do with myself. Then I found Hearthstone. Hahaha. I've heard of this game, but I can't say I know any more about it other than name recognition. I'm installing it now.

You were right when you said the game is like Dota 2 and fun. I probably spent more time playing it than I have Dota 2. I thought the story was cool and interesting, that Blizzard characters were brought together in a realm to battle. This isn't exactly new (take a look at Smash Bros. and Dissidia Final Fantasy for instance), but it's still cool. I played through the tutorials and I played Practice mode with each available character. It was fun as each character has their own abilities, attributes, and phrases familiar with those that have played their games. There are a few Blizzard games I have not played, so I'm not familiar with all of them.

I noticed a few bugs that weren't really major. I noticed a visual bug, with a weird square tile perhaps not properly rendering. The only other bug I noticed was just kind of annoying. The game often said things that weren't correct. For instance, at times it told me I had died, when in fact I didn't. These were kind of minor and probably easy enough to fix.

I'll probably play the game again. I'd like to see what I can do as a solo gamer, as that's the kind of game I'm used to playing. I didn't really play the game any differently, pretty much going straight forward towards the enemy base. Many of the maps have their own "perks" to achieve, which I think I could spend more time to focus on. Although, I noticed my NPC teammates going for these things on their own. On many of these, you can unleash a beast that becomes your character for a period of time.