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[Phediuk]

I remember that level where you have to find Boba Fett in Shadows of the Empire being absurdly long. A look at Youtube confirms that, yes, it was long as fuck. Over 40 minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixxU5siBiJg

The other levels took 5, maybe 10 minutes, so this one really stood out.

 

[viewtiful_dru]

Fucking Sandopolis.

 

[purseowner]

de Blob's levels are all around 45mins-1hr long and you can't save and quit mid-level.

Although the first is the better of the two, the sequel rectified this with regular checkpoints.

 

[DecoReturns]

In Fire Emblem Revelations.

A Decent amount of Maps are too long. The worst one was the one didn't allow you to saved so if you lost, you had to redo the one prior as well and it's dumb Fire gimmick

 

[Pinky]

Final Fantasy XII: The Pharos of the Ridorana Cataract

A veeeeery long dungeon. Yikes!

 

[Loona]

Metal Slug 3's final level is bigger than the rest of the game.

 

[Y2Kev]

The ice forest in too human. Interminable. Total shit game.

 

[Phediuk]

Darm Tower, the last level in the original Ys, is quite literally half the game.

 

[Newlove]

Assault on the Control room from Halo sticks out to me.

 

[Vinegar Joe]

Came to say this:

Metal Slug 3's final level is bigger than the rest of the game.

And it is beautiful.

 

[Yohane]

Halo the library

 

[Acquiescence]

Everything in Alice: Madness Returns.

Still love it though.

 

[JediLink]

I'm one of the few people who actually likes Eggmanland. I felt its length was fitting as the final challenge.

 

[xxracerxx]

Halo the library

Was going to say...even if it wasn't that long technically it feels like you are playing it for hours upon hours. What mind-numbingly dull design that was.

 

[KodaRuss]

Pretty much every dungeon in Persona 5 is about a third or fourth too long imo. They all drag towards the end.

 

[NameGenerated]

Assault on the Control room from Halo sticks out to me.

Yup. That level overstays its welcome three times over.

 

[Piston Hyundai]

I've been playing the original Turok and it's insane how long every single level is.

 

[BumperLips]

.hack Quarantine's Bonus Dungeon.

Spoiler

15 floors filled with Data Bug fights

 

[RockmanBN]

Fucking Sandopolis.

Every level in Heroes, especially Dark Teams.

 

[Icyflamez96]

Fucking Sandopolis.

Good level tho

 

[NoKisum]

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: The Thread

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Maybe it doesn't count exactly but level 13 in ffxv took way longer than I wanted to and I hated every minute of it

 

[isaacnukem]

Killzone on PS2. The one on the coastline. It went on forever.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

That one Secrets in the Dark or whatever it is in Witcher 3...SUCKED hard because I felt like I was down there forever.

 

[jelly]

Everything in Alice: Madness Returns.

Still love it though.

Same, although I didn't like it that much becuause of it and other things.

 

[Kyrios]

Star Wars Bounty Hunter's levels were so huge, they were literally separated into parts lol

Everything in Alice: Madness Returns.

Still love it though.

This too, really great game but some of those later levels could have been a little shorter.

 

[TransTrender]

From angry video game nerd it seems Ikari Warriors has absurdly long levels.

 

[Jimnymebob]

I'm one of the few people who actually likes Eggmanland. I felt its length was fitting as the final challenge.

I found Eggmanland OK on PS3. Not good, but not horrible.
The Wii version though, my god. One 5 minute daytime stage followed by 5 Werehog levels. I know it was broken up, but it was still technically one stage.

 

[Renae]

Final Fantasy XV's chapter 13. Awful.

 

[Cranster]

Yup. That level overstays its welcome three times over.

Wish other Halo games had levels that would overstay their welcome like that. It's one of the bets levels in the series and it is still the largest level by playable space in the entire series.

 

[True Fire]

Chapter 13

 

[Grudy]

Final Fantasy XV's chapter 13. Awful.

Was it over an hour? It felt like a lot more so I don't remember the exact time it took me to finish. What a slog.

 

[Kayhan]

Halo the Flood.

Staaaahp.

 

[Imp the Dimp]

FFXV, Pitioss Ruins:

Took me three or four hours

Spoiler

and was some of the best and most memorable FF content I had ever played.

 

[silva1991]

I played Ape Escape 2 on PS4 last year I think

The final stage was way too long I almost gave up on the game.

Final Fantasy XV's chapter 13. Awful.

This too.

 

[True Fire]

Also, yeah, dungeons in Persona 5 were ridiculously long. I think that's the point though, since the game let's you take your time.

 

[Kebiinu]

Snake Pass. Almost all of its stages are entirely too long, with no saving in the middle of a stage. You really have to dedicate time if you want to play a level of the game. I still love it though.

 

[papersleeves]

If we can count dungeons where you cannot save your progress:

Pitios Ruins in FFXV (2-4 hours long)
Wandering Dungeons in Star Ocean The Last Hope (5-10 hours long)

Edit: Obviously talking about first playthrough; both can be completed much faster on subsequent runs.

 

[Goro Majima]

Not sure if MMOs count but Blackrock Depths back in the day was holy fuck long. I remember guildies that fell asleep at their keyboards trying to finish that damn thing.

 

[Ogodei]

There was one stage in Shadow the Hedgehog where if you took the light mission you had to hunt down and kill a bunch of Artificial Chaos that took *forever* because they were in a bunch of weird places. I remember when i did a replay of that game in 2015, it took me 45 minutes to clear that stage.

 

[TedMilk]

Fucking Sandopolis.

Haha exactly!

 

[More_Badass]

A Shadow Tactics level might take you 3 hours to finish

 

[OfficerCrunk]

Recently, the last dungeon in Tales of Berseria. It just kept fucking going and going..

 

[Van Bur3n]

Assault on the Control room from Halo sticks out to me.

Yep. And then you have to go through it again backwards but with the Flood. Oh, what joy.

 

[paragonpro]

Every wherehog stage, some of them were upwards of 45 minutes and it felt like they composed 75 percent of the game, i get why, i remember someone saying the day time stages were super expensive to produce

 

[Tortahegeszto]

Black may not have insanely long levels but despite having checkpoints you always start from the begining of the level after you quit.

 

[Reset]

Persona 5 palaces. Slow turn based battle system, and the palaces will take you more than 4 hours to complete a palace even on the easiest difficulty. Battle system is just a Frazier version of pokemon's. Oh and did I mention it isn't a handheld game.

Dunno how people gave this horrible design a pass. At least in Persona 4 the dungeons were short.

 

[finley83]

Black on PS2 had absurdly long levels, and each was preceded by a 5 minute long unstoppable video. However the game was meant to be a fast paced arcade shooter. It was good, but would have been better with more short levels.

 

[Manu]

Everything in Alice: Madness Returns.

Still love it though.

Was gonna post this. Still love it too.

 

[NESpowerhouse]

Tartarus (250 floors of the same shit)

Also Eggmanland from Sonic Unleashed (a 45 minute Sonic level)