I've seen a few reviews of these games, but haven't seen anything related to how many hours it takes to beat SOA or Xenosaga (granted, the latter is a very new game). I ask, because I don't really feel like plucking down $50 for a game I'll only play once and could probably beat with one rental. Just wanna make sure, one or both of them don't take like 60+ hours (e.g. Suikoden III).

btw, I'm surprised to find no discussion currently about Xenosaga given the anticipation by many RPG goers.

SOA is like 40 hours, I hear Xenosaga is around the 80 hour mark.

But something like half of Xenosaga are cinemas. I read, either in EGM or PSM, you spend most of the beginning of the game watching instead of playing.

I haven't finished SOA yet but it seems pretty beefy to me. There are tons of extras too to increase your enjoyment.

As for Xenosaga...I haven't played it yet but I'm thinking it's about 1000 hours long with around 10 minutes of actual gameplay.

Xenosaga have great graphic but not compare to Xenogear

Xenosaga is about 40-45 hours to finish the game.

Dreamcast version took about 40 - 50 hours. Lots of random battles.
But the ship battles are really fun even though it was turned based.

More than one game magazine has listed Xenosaga as 80+ hours, although at least half of that is cinemas.

40 hours of cinemas?!? WOW....and I thought FFX had a lot

Anyway, thanks for the responses...

btw, what aspects of SOA are you talking about that give it more replay value??