Do you think games are too short?

[Dante3000]

I've read comments about this very topic many times before, even in the letters page of the latest 360 issue; games nowadays are too short for your money etc. And I write here with a suggestion;
I have a friend, Mr Nameless, who complains about the shortness of the games he plays and recently I discovered that he was playing all of them on 'easy'. If games are flying by too fast for you then bump up the difficulty! I never play my games on anything less than the hardest difficulty, especially after achievements were introduced as a small form of reward.. and whilst most of the longetivity comes from constantly repeating sections until I get through it, I feel I well and truly get my moneys worth once it's all done with.
Think Halo Reach is over too fast? Bang it on Legendary.
Finished Dead Space 2 within 5 hours? See how you do on Hardcore mode.
Homefront too short for you? Well, it is... but bang it on a harder difficulty anyway.
What I'm saying is that you can control the level of challenge you recieve and a greater challenge takes longer time. For some people they may just want to play through a narrative and move on, fair enough... but you can't complain about longetivity in that case.

What difficulty do others play their games on? Do you think that's a fair way to increase longetivity of a game or do you disagree with me?

[ClownTrousers]

Depends on the game doesn't it? I expect FPSs to be fairly short or else they overstay their welcome and get boring (Bulletstorm was a perfect length for example - any more and I'd have nodded off. COD 4 similarly). RPGs and adventure games you expect length and branches and sidequests and so forth - you could finish Oblivion in about 10 hours, but that'd be silly.

[Cerebral_Wolf]

yes

[Venomous Albino]

It's all very well saying "well just ramp up the difficulty", but it's not always as simple as that; in fact I'd say it hardly ever is. Had I tried playing Halo Reach on legendary back in September instead of on normal, I'd still be stuck on the first mission now. That's not getting my money's worth because to get my money's worth surely enjoyment must factor into it somewhere? I wouldn't enjoy trying the same small section of a level over and over again for 7 months.

[The-Marb]

Depends on the game i suppose, e.g. If CoD/Dead Space was 30 hours long you'd die of a heart attack and/or a epileptic seizure.

That said i dont think ive played a game and ever said 'it was too long'.

[Dante3000]

Depends on the game doesn't it? I expect FPSs to be fairly short or else they overstay their welcome and get boring (Bulletstorm was a perfect length for example - any more and I'd have nodded off. COD 4 similarly). RPGs and adventure games you expect length and branches and sidequests and so forth - you could finish Oblivion in about 10 hours, but that'd be silly.

I agree with you on the Bulletstorm thing. But I know that game to be the first port of call recently when it comes to poeple moaning about game shortness.

[Bob]

bizarrely some games are some aren't.

Depends on replayability.. Multiplayer.. type of game. Both BlOps, Halo: Reach and Blur have provided countless hours of fun online..

[Johnny Shoulder]

I try to only purchase games that I know are gonna be time sinks. Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Battlefield Bad Company 2 I have sunk over 100 hours into each of them. Renting games help with this, as with games like Bulletstorm I was glad that I had only rented it.

[Palerider_GB]

It's all very well saying "well just ramp up the difficulty", but it's not always as simple as that; in fact I'd say it hardly ever is. Had I tried playing Halo Reach on legendary back in September instead of on normal, I'd still be stuck on the first mission now. That's not getting my money's worth because to get my money's worth surely enjoyment must factor into it somewhere? I wouldn't enjoy trying the same small section of a level over and over again for 7 months.

I've seen you play Reach... It'd be more like 7 years.




:p

[Bob]

I've seen you play Reach... It'd be more like 7 years.




:p

I think you're confusing him with the Meat Shield.

We should play some Reach soon though. You, VA, Me and whoever that guy we called Meat Shield actually was.

[Palerider_GB]

I've seen you play Reach... It'd be more like 7 years.




:p

I think you're confusing him with the Meat Shield.

We should play some Reach soon though. You, VA, Me and whoever that guy we called Meat Shield actually was.

Meatshield = Sambo

No... not confusing him.

[Bob]

VA was good.

Although apparently he likes to take his sheep to the edge of a cliff so it pushes back harder.

[Palerider_GB]

VA was good.

Yeah, he managed to kill me a few times...




...even though we were on the same team.

[ClownTrousers]

Depends on the game doesn't it? I expect FPSs to be fairly short or else they overstay their welcome and get boring (Bulletstorm was a perfect length for example - any more and I'd have nodded off. COD 4 similarly). RPGs and adventure games you expect length and branches and sidequests and so forth - you could finish Oblivion in about 10 hours, but that'd be silly.

I agree with you on the Bulletstorm thing. But I know that game to be the first port of call recently when it comes to poeple moaning about game shortness.

Aye - more because of the lack of decent multiplayer I reckon - the single player is longer than BFBC2 or COD.

[Venomous Albino]

VA was the best Halo player I've ever seen and am ever likely to see. When I grow up, I want to be just like him. He's my hero.

Cheers very much.

Yeah I might come on tonight if you fancy it. Probably around 10-ish.