Originally Posted by
TheDomesticInstitution
I do like some classic RPG's, and I believe the point the OP brings up is a valid one. And agree that some RPG's are too long, which can be a good or bad thing. When you have a significant other, a house, a job, and kids (no kids for me yet), it gets hard to find 100+ hours to put into a game. I can do it but I really have to spread it out. My problem is I leave it for 7 months and have a hard to figuring out where I'm at when I get back.
I'm not a handheld gamer, so I really have no good opinion on this, but aren't there some simpler ones on the DS or GBA? I'm afraid the days of the simple RPG may be nigh though, as all the current gen consoles are obsessed with bigger and more is better. Except for the Wii maybe, but I don't know how many RPG's are on that one.