Pfft, 100 hours my ass. Thats far from the average, at least for single player shooters.FrankTrollman wrote:I think that there's a real loss to the fact that a modern game costs sixty bucks and takes a hundred hours to play.
I heard Yahtzee has been pissing a lot of people off.
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I'm approaching 200 hours on Disgaea 2 :3
Also, I didn't like Drawn to Life: it could have been so much more, but instead it's a dull platformer (with very annoying bosses) that simply gets you to do the art for half the stuff. And even then, most of them are basically "how do you want to colour this _____-shaped object?"
Also, I didn't like Drawn to Life: it could have been so much more, but instead it's a dull platformer (with very annoying bosses) that simply gets you to do the art for half the stuff. And even then, most of them are basically "how do you want to colour this _____-shaped object?"
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I generally expect full-price RPGs to take about 50 hours to play, adventure games (Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, etc.) to take 20-30, and action-intensive games (Prince of Persia, Mirror's Edge, Devil May Cry, etc.) to take about 10 hours. Exceptions exist, but I haven't played many games that deviate far from that. And of course games sold at less than the usual price (e.g. Portal, XBLA/WiiWare games, etc.) are shorter.
Of course, many games are worth playing multiple times (possibly on multiple difficulties), doing special challenge modes and achievements, or playing multiplayer matches essentially forever. So getting hundreds of hours of entertainment from a single game isn't that rare. But to simply play a single-player game straight through, those are my expected times.
Also, Mirror's Edge is awesome. The combat was excessive and I'll understand if you couldn't get past that, and the console version needed a 90-degree turn button, but it's still probably my favorite game released in the last year or two.
Of course, many games are worth playing multiple times (possibly on multiple difficulties), doing special challenge modes and achievements, or playing multiplayer matches essentially forever. So getting hundreds of hours of entertainment from a single game isn't that rare. But to simply play a single-player game straight through, those are my expected times.
Also, Mirror's Edge is awesome. The combat was excessive and I'll understand if you couldn't get past that, and the console version needed a 90-degree turn button, but it's still probably my favorite game released in the last year or two.
What gets me is that someone totally expects me to pay the same $40 for a simple game that I paid for a hundreds of hours epic game.
I totally will pay more money for Final Fantasy or Harvest Moon. But I will not pay that for some side-scroller who gives me my hours of play in the twenty attempts I make on each level.
-Crissa
I totally will pay more money for Final Fantasy or Harvest Moon. But I will not pay that for some side-scroller who gives me my hours of play in the twenty attempts I make on each level.
-Crissa
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