Longer games vs Shorter games

[DomePatrol]

good point on the FF games. Most of them in the beginning dont have anything to do with the main villain or the main story until the second disc or so.

[Herm]

So a developer that puts out a painfully short psn title tries to tell us people are tired of longer games? WRONG.


Actually if games are short i wont buy them i will only rent them. I will only buy games i know i can get over 60+ hours out of. I beat Uncharted 2 in one 5 day rental period. I wouldve bought it but i had no interest in the online portion of it with MW2 coming out.
I want 60+ hours out of a game with singleplayer and multiplayer combined. Games like fallout 3, have to have long campaigns or im not wasting my money on a short singleplayer game.

[DomePatrol]

So a developer that puts out a painfully short psn title tries to tell us people are tired of longer games? WRONG.


Actually if games are short i wont buy them i will only rent them. I will only buy games i know i can get over 60+ hours out of. I beat Uncharted 2 in one 5 day rental period. I wouldve bought it but i had no interest in the online portion of it with MW2 coming out.
I want 60+ hours out of a game with singleplayer and multiplayer combined. Games like fallout 3, have to have long campaigns or im not wasting my money on a short singleplayer game.

Besides fallout 3 how many games are 60+ hours? I miss these games personally and have been looking for good RPGs and long adventure games

[Herm]

Besides fallout 3 how many games are 60+ hours? I miss these games personally and have been looking for good RPGs and long adventure games

Oblivion, Dragon Age: Origins, Demons Souls are some that come to mind that you can play that long if you do all the quests.

[Saluki]

Oblivion, Dragon Age: Origins, Demons Souls are some that come to mind that you can play that long if you do all the quests.

True but one of those games just came out and one of those isnt even out yet. There isnt a huge selection of long next gen games like there were for the last gen, especially PS2. That's why i don't buy a whole lot of games, cuz i feel like if i'm dropping sixty bucks the story needs to take some time to beat. fifty to sixty plus hours at least for me to buy it new thats not a sports game

[Maynard]

i didnt read the article. but i think any game with a 10-15 hr SP mode is a rental....unless its a game that i know i will play online. Games like Arkam Asylum are fantastci games, but have no replay value for me and are not worth more then the cost to rent them.

a game like fallout is a great value because you spend 80 hrs completeing it. But those 80 hr games better be dam good and worth playing that long, which most are not.....like MGS4

i used to think sports games had the best value cause you play it over and over. But sports games are now nothing more than a yearly roster update. Since the next gen systems came out i feel like all sports titles have come to a halt in developing a new fresh feeling game. It feels like the same old same old. Next gen is now all about shooters and RPG's and action type games. And the people making these types of games are really pushing the envelope in quality

which is why those games are now thought of a GOTY and sports titles are blah

[Buzzman]

it was much easier to make these type of games back on the ps2 because it didnt cost nearly as much so it wadnt very hard to make there money back. RPGs have never been great sellers, sure there are the few big ones that sold millinos but for the most part they always had average sales but they could get by on average sales with the ps2, but on the ps3 where it costs a lot they cant take that risk so they put all there marbles into one RPG and if it fails so does that company and it takes a while to climb back up.

[SethMode]

Honestly, I'm so busy most of the time that I like 12-15 hour range games. I don't know how much I like the constant push for a) multiplayer in everything; and b) that everything be so damn long. I just want the game to be good. If it can be good and long, great. If it's like UC2 or Batman: AA and the single player isn't super long, but incredibly well-crafted, then great, I'm happy. Too often games single player experience suffers from tacking on multiplayer or trying to unnecessarily lengthen it (while I personally loved Brutal Legend, this seemed to suffer from that).

Games like, say the Final Fantasy series I enjoyed back when I was in grade school because I'd actually have time to play them. Now if I try to start one, I either lose interest due to the awful stores they have now, or I have to put it down for a while and when I come back, I can't remember what the fuck was going on.

[Derrville]

Star Wars the Force Unleashed is the only short game (10 hrs) that ive bought and play over and over again. I prefer longer games not only because usually the story is more developed but i feel like i get more bang for my buck. Games like Bioshock suffice, the campaign is long and well developed, and the gameplay is great too.

[CrimsonGhost56]

as long as its a good game it doesnt really matter how long it is. shadow complex is one of the best games ive played this year and its 6 hours tops. batman and uncharted 2 were in the 10-15 hour range but well worth the sixty dollar price tag since they were both amazing games. id rather play 10-15 hour games and be done within a few weeks than play a 60 hour RPG and spend months on it.

[A Tasty Burgerr]

I am more interested in re-playability than how long a game is. I have admittedly made a few poor decisions as far as what to spend $60 on, but I usually probably look for about 20+ hours in a game for it to be considered worth buying full price.

[Saluki]

I don't give a shit how long the game is, I just care if it's good or not. Then again my style is different than many others on here. Many people dog Mirror's Egde for being short and unpolished, but I think it's one of the best games. I also like some RPG's and not others. I like FF7 and 10, but hated 8 and 9.

like i wanna play a good game, but if im spending sixty bucks on it i dont wanna be able to finish it in one weekend and never pick it up again ala Assasins Creed 1

[theMINI]

I don't enjoy extremely long games. Halo was kinda on the short side but great... GoW2 was pretty good also in terms in length. Maybe its just me and my A.D.D. I dunno....