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This is a topic of preference really...did you consider the games Vol.1 through Vol.3 one game or special and long enough to each be considered their own game. Really, to me, it's one heckuva long game. LINK will be the official "third" part of the series, which is fitting in a way...one big game to end the series. I just hope it lives up to past .hack// games...but that's beyond my point. Which do you perfer to think of G.U. as...one game or three separate games?

When I first played the 3 volumes, Vol.1 took me 20hrs or something.. Vol.2 took me a while finishing it because I was having fun with the scythe. I think 35 hrs for vol.2, i can't remember.. Vol.3 took me 15hrs.. I thought it was long but when I played the 3 volumes nonstop. It took me less than 35hrs.. For me.. I think I will consider it a one game.. And I was thinking.. Maybe the cut scenes are the ones making it long...

I think of it as one game really, albeit extremely long. I mean, it uses the same engine throughout, even though it keeps adding more features. But, Rogue Galaxy was kind of like that, they kept adding new features to it, but it was ONE game. That's the way I think of G.U. one long game.

It might be long as one single game, especially because on each part several features were added (Crimson VS, Bike, etc), and some others were constantly refreshed (Quests), however i've seen longer games than that and all in a single game too (like FFXII xD). And though you can keep playing each volume and have like 60 hours of gameplay on each one, that'll be mostly for things you do post-game...things that, in the case it was a single game, it wouldn't really happen. You can finish all 3 games in less than 24 hours....though that might be quite a pain and you'll need lots of restarting so, while being 24 hours of gameplay, it'd be like 40 of actually playing xD

That said, GU is just one single game for me, divided in 3 parts that allow to enjoy each part more, but it also ends up being pointless and you have to pay for 3 games to finish it entirely.

Actually, it's hard for me to choose between classifying it as one thing over another for some reason. The games feel like three separate entities while also seemingly one, I dunno how to describe it exactly. XP
Maybe it's my factual side interfering right now, since it keeps saying, "But... there are three games! D:"

I think of it as one game because the story and gameplay is not too changed between each volume. I mean the story is added to and gameplay is improved but there is not enough changes for me to call it 3 seperate games, and I think it's better this way.(if there was major changes in each game that would just be annoying)