That's right! When they worry more about marketing than content, the game ends up like the first Punisher movie or Elektra: too long after the first five minutes.
I agree that length is more important in a role-playing or strategy game than in a First Person Shooter.
However, as a married thirty one year old, I still want at least 40 bleepin' hours from a bleepin' USD $60 game! If they can't even come up with enough plot or developements to fill out 40 hours of play, then they need to redo the game.
For me, the best games never feel like a waste of time or money, no matter how long they take to beat. Nothing is worse, however, than to get into a game only to find yourself, before you know it, slugging it out with the end boss. Unless the game has a powerful replay value, which they rarely do,Game Over.
Personally, I think the future is games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which have a great plot, but with a non-linear structure and an expansive, interactive fun-filled environment hearkening back to the glory days of Zork and Infocom where it was fun just to be there, exploring and messing around.
Too true! It seems like anyone who can put on an expensive suit and spew enough vituperative nonsense on TV or radio can make a vast swath of the population bob thier heads in aggreement.
If he wants to talk about being disconnected from reality, he need look no farther than the end of his own nose! I certainly won't get MORE in touch with reality listening to the narcissistic logorrhea of Bill O'Reilly.
He is a flim-flam man of the first order and I feel sorry for the marks that buy what he's selling.
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That's right! When they worry more about marketing than content, the game ends up like the first Punisher movie or Elektra: too long after the first five minutes.
I agree that length is more important in a role-playing or strategy game than in a First Person Shooter. However, as a married thirty one year old, I still want at least 40 bleepin' hours from a bleepin' USD $60 game! If they can't even come up with enough plot or developements to fill out 40 hours of play, then they need to redo the game. For me, the best games never feel like a waste of time or money, no matter how long they take to beat. Nothing is worse, however, than to get into a game only to find yourself, before you know it, slugging it out with the end boss. Unless the game has a powerful replay value, which they rarely do,Game Over. Personally, I think the future is games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which have a great plot, but with a non-linear structure and an expansive, interactive fun-filled environment hearkening back to the glory days of Zork and Infocom where it was fun just to be there, exploring and messing around.
Too true! It seems like anyone who can put on an expensive suit and spew enough vituperative nonsense on TV or radio can make a vast swath of the population bob thier heads in aggreement. If he wants to talk about being disconnected from reality, he need look no farther than the end of his own nose! I certainly won't get MORE in touch with reality listening to the narcissistic logorrhea of Bill O'Reilly. He is a flim-flam man of the first order and I feel sorry for the marks that buy what he's selling.