Seen a lot of people speculating that they might bundle it with the GTAVI launch - which I might actually be tempted by tbh
Out of curiosity, would you (and everyone else reading this) be okay with shorter games? I'm not talking 3 hours here, something more inline with around the 360. Because I seriously think the market at the top will crash or get very dull if not.
The strange thing is its time warping as you've got older
Ok yeah that makes more sense haha - I bought mine Dec 2022, didn't realise they'd been out that long
Yeah I got mine when they came out in Nov 2020
Well I just played through the uncharted/TLOU series over Xmas to see how long it would take me. UC1-3 took me around 24 hours each and then UC4 around 20 hours. TLOU 1 took me 17 hours and TLOU2 26 hours. Plus I play in short bursts or complete a chapter.
PS1 - that takes me back. I remember seeing Gran Tourismo on that in my dorm mate's room and being blown away by it and knew I had to get myself one. Pro Evo games with my uni housemates until early hours of the morning and metal gear solid. Happy days!
See, for a single player with reply value, I think 26 hours or 24 hours is too long really. During the PS2 era, silent hill 2 for example was about 9 hours - keep in mind that's if you know what you're doing. Mass Effect (storyline only) was about 25 hours each. There's a lot of replay or extra content in these games that bump them up, so to have a story game over 20 hours seems excessive to me.
I skipped PS3 (360 instead) but had the rest,
i was having a chat with a mate about prince of persia, he just got the new one on switch and was having fun
A lot of those games had replay value too. I just find it very odd how this idea of a longer game means it's better that we seem to be stuck in. A lot of the older games we're no where near this long.
i do get the "value for money" argument though, AU$70-90 for a 200hr game is good "value" compared too the same price for a 10-20 hr game
It depends I find. Like, some games do have 200hrs of content, but what exactly is that content? In open world games it's usually 'collect 2000 items' for no reason and it's just pointless and boring - not something I would ever do either. Shorter games that have new game+ where you can replay the game with unlimited ammo, extra items, secrets or harder difficulties tend to be far more rewarding.
i think that depends on how good you are maybe, witcher 3 was over 200hrs for me and there was no collections like that, BotW and TotK both had their korok seeds but i got over 200hr out of them without doing more of the korok seeds than i needed to max out my items, skyrim is another
I guess it's a more personal taste thing for me. Thankfully the smaller studios have me covered as they have an older style of game design
