Originally posted by Trongu
Hmmm ok maybe i wasn\'t understood then. I AM NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT GENERAL HIGH PRICES OF GAMES. What I meant is that some of the great games which came out for PS2 this time of year are too short. The referal of OneBillyGun to FFIX actually proves my point. I could pay $40 to play an incredible game like FFIX for 40hrs, then pay another $40 to play The Bouncer or Ominusha (which may or may not be as good as FFIX) for 1/10 of that time! That, you must agree, is different value for money.
The pricing of games for me is OK, what I\'m complaining about is the length of some of the games which might make the money I spend unworthwile. 3hrs, 5hrs, or whatever to complete a game is much different than those 40 long but very interesting hours of FFIX.
Come on, length of RPG\'s in comparison to the length of a game that takes 5-20 hours to beat? Think about it for a second, if Resident Evil took 50 hours to beat like RPG\'s, people would get REALLY bored of it. The fact that people liked it is because they can go through it several times with different characters in a relatively short amount of time (about 5 hours or so). Imagine the Bouncer, most people reported the game to get really repetetive really fast much like old beat\'em-ups on the golden-age 16-bit consoles, but thankfully, the game is only 2 hours long so it\'s not too much of a daunting task to play it for 50-60 hours just to beat the damn thing. Yet still, most people praise it\'s 4-player multiplayer and the quest mode and besides that, there\'s 4 characters to go through the game with for up to 20 hours of play on a game that takes about 2 hours to beat.
All games can be long or short, but replay value along with it\'s pure genius to want to make you play it again is what keeps people coming back. I sure as hell didn\'t want to play FFIX again after I beat it and that took about 40 hours or so, but I\'ve played MGS for a total of about 100+ hours multiple times and the game still isn\'t boring even with it\'s 10-12 hours in length. You see, it\'s all about what you prefer and what appeals to you as far as length goes. Fighters take about 30 minutes to beat, but the fact that there\'s multiple characters, VS modes, team battle modes, and tons of secrets to keep players coming back, you easily clock about 50 hours or so playing them.
Point is, most people think games nowadays are too short, but think about what you\'re playing the game for. Did you buy it just to see the story and then the ending? Did you buy it so you and your friends have a game to play on weekends? Did you buy it because the graphics looked cool and later *****ed about it cause it was too short? Just think about it for a second and realize game length is only relevant to specific genres. RPG\'s take about 20-40 hours to beat while fighters can be played for anywhere from 20-100 hours, sports games can take 100 hours as well with multiplayer and action games can take anywhere from 2-20 hours of play time. Just think about what tpe of game you are playing and then finally beat the game and then decide if you\'d really like to continue playing it for the amount of time it takes to beat RPG\'s and trust me, you\'ll be glad it\'s as long as it is.
