Quote: "
Games these days are too short."
Really...REALLY?
Currently:
Oblivion ~100hours (not all quests yet done...all main and main expansion quests done)
Fallout 3 60+hours (Original game complete. 3/5 expansions complete. Plenty of other quests to do)
Mass Effect 20+hours
Star Ocean 4 completed in 45hours (no side quests)
Lost Odyssey 30+ hours (incomplete)
Last Remnant 40+ hours (complete...not all sidequests)
Final Fantasy VII was a breakthrough for its time for being so long. Doing a lot of the side things I completed in 35 hours in the first run.
Though if you're referring to FPS games - some of them are easy to run through - the ending bits of Halo 3 my sister and I just ran through (we played 2 player campaign) because we couldn't be bothered to kill all of the enemies along the way and it was possible to do, but I think stuff like Halo 3 don't seemed to be geared towards the campaign modes, though the feels though to exist as something for when you want to play alone and that you have something to shoot at...and to satisfy fans with an on-going plot line. The first thing I wondered before buying Halo3 was whether or not it have a single player mode - as Multiplayer was all I heard about. It took my sister and I 3 hours to complete.
Crysis and Far Cry 2 on the other hand have given me many hours of game play. I've not completed either yet...Crysis I traded in when buying Fallout 3 - so I still can't complete it...but I was very close to the end, however, I still have Far Cry 2.
Some FPS games I think, if made longer, would get boring - EG Doom 3 failed to sustain my interest, the only reason I kept playing was because I though maybe there would be a good ending, but there wasn't and I was disappointed. I suppose it's good to just shoot stuff with, but it gave itself too much of a plot to follow to warrant that and a plot that was overstretched in my opinion (it would have been more enjoyable to me if it were shorter) - so I get my shooting kicks from Left4Dead and online shooters or online modes. And Halo 3 I found more satisfying despite being a 3 hour game.
Though CoD is one of those series I'd probably expect to last longer (6-9 hours maybe?), though Multiplayer seems to be its bigger appeal now.