The Last of Us Will Spook You for About 12 to 16 Hours

£50 for 16 hours? No thank you. Will now wait for this to come down before buying it.

I rarely buy games when they are first released but I have this per-ordered. This is Naughty Dog we are talking about so I know I'm going to play it through more then once.

12 hours if you don't wanna actually play the game you bought... Who cares about the estimated play length, anyways, unless you can beat it in 7 minutes like Morrowind or something. Maybe I'm weird for still not having finished AC3, FC3, MGR:R, Oddworld SW, or even freaking FFVII, but I guess I like to draw games out

hope there is a limited edition console for it...would get another ps3 if there is one...loved naughty dog games

@get2sammyb Try moving to Southport. We have Game and that's it, which will charge £49.99. Liverpool has some secondhand shops but they won't have it for a while. Amazon constantly mess up my orders so ain't going to them. If I get it as a download on PSN I'll have to remortgage first. There is no excuse for a game that is that short costing full price in this day and age. When it drops to around £30 I'll pick it up.

12-16 hours sounds great, especially since I plan on playing until it's platinumed.

@get2sammyb We have an Iceland and Waitrose, neither if which sell games. For all I know the game may be worth full price, I just meant companies need to realise in the times we're in at the moment it's an awful lot to ask someone to spend that much money on a game which will last not that long. Look how well Sonic Racing Transformed has done with its half price starting price. Hopefully TLOU will be cracking though.

Buy online, ShopTo or somewhere like that. I got the Joel Edition from Tesco online for £39.99 with a voucher code; even without that, it's still only £44.99 - the normal version will be less.

If you're paying £50 for games these days, then sorry, you're doin' it wrong! Have a look here:

http://www.find-game.co.uk/34128-The-Last-Of-Us.htm

Under £40 at the moment, and probably under £35 by the time it's released.

These hours of course are just for completing the story. You get what you play for (yes, play for... not a spelling mistake), and Naughty Dog's games give me many more hours than that just completing the story. I've played the Uncharted's through endless times, and I suspect I will do the same with this... and I'm not generally one for re-playing games after I've completed them.

@Paranoimia Had never seen that site. Will come in handy. Cheers.

For me a 12-16 h game is more like a 40-50 h game as I really like to take my sweet time. Looking so forward to this game, think it will be the game of the generation.

Sounds like a decent length. I am very intersted in this game, but when I heard that they did this instead of Jak IV, I died a little inside.

Inb4 "Lol sequel nintendo kirby whore"

From my experience games are about 20% longer than stated length. That might have something to do with my exploratory play style. However, not the point. 16 hours for $60 is expensive? Interesting...

$3.75 per hour, assuming only one play through, is cheaper than a movie in theatre. Cheaper than buying a new dvd or bluray. It makes arcade coin dropping of the old days look incredibly expensive (it was.)

What about comparing it to older games whose length was inflated by repetition, artificial difficulty or bad design?

Now what about the replay value? What about the resale value? If you can be done with new title in a week or two you can usually recoup like 85% the value on sites like craigslist without blinking.

Finally, what about the value of the product. Games like this often cost 10's of millions or more to make. It's safe to estimate that for $60 you can take home something that is literally worth more than 50 million dollars. Think about that. It's kind of amazing.