When you finish a game it should leave you wanting more not being glad that it’s over, people for some reason think that the amount of content is more important than the quality of the content, I’d much rather pay for a 10 hour game with all 10 hours being amazing than a 40 hour game with only 5 hours of amazing content, I feel like peoples expectations of having way more hours of content is killing the pacing of most games as developers are forced to add meaningless content just so people feel like they got their moneys worth.
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Tbh I agree. Most games you’ve got to put a good few hours in before you start to get anything back. Great if you have the time but I just want to load up, shoot some badies and go to bed sometimes
I don’t think they are way too long. I think quite a few are stretched out with bs.
I think consuming videos on Youtube and Tiktok has changed the viewing habits of many people. Short bursts of entertainment bleeding into expectations in other forms of entertainment.
I do agree to a point, I still think if you pay eg 70 or 80 dollars, then the game either have to be REALLY good, great optimization, low amount of bugs, good story and gameplay, all that, then it’s more fine if it’s short, but it really needs to be good.
If not then you’ll end up comparing them to some other game, if I need to pay 80 dollars for a decent 10-20h game, vs 20-40 dollars for a none AAA game, that is also either decent or better, that has at least the same amount of hours, then the 80 dollar game doesn’t look as good.
Hours isn’t a good way to really measure it for sure, as how much you enjoyed it also plays in, but it’s better than nothing I guess.
But I do agree, a lot of games are just drawn out, like assassin’s creed and their newer games, I would rather have a smaller game and map that is more dense in quality and things to do.
the last game i completed 100% was spiderman 2 on ps5, before that i can’t even remember the story of a game i’ve finished bc i find them all way too long
You might be right but when I was young it took me wayyyy longer than 40 hours to complete games 😭 ocarina of time, Mario 64, pokemon blue, gta sa all took me years to complete.
I honestly like games like kcd now that let me take my time like I did back then.
(I also love playing games like rimworld, x4, city skylines that really don’t have a limit on playtime if you aren’t aiming for the end)
I was pleasantly surprised when I finished Wolfenstein 2, it ended just when it needed to. And I got some sweet end-game content missions to have fun with if I wanted.
Almost 30 hours in Hollow Knight Silksong now, and while I love the game I’d much rather have it shorter and play it as two games.
I would never watch the extended versions of LOTR and am glad Kill Bill was split into two movies for the same reason.
There’s a very very loud contingent of people who have no lives outside of video games and who are constantly demanding that games let them exist in them forever, no matter what the actual obvious intent of the experience is.
New Game+ is, for instance, a constant whine. So are raised level caps. So is the complaint that environments and mechanics are only there to service the story that the studio wants to tell.
And these people whine and whine and review bomb and send death threats and bad talk the product and call the devs stupid…
So devs are giving the audience what they think they want.
The community is the biggest problem that gaming has, and the people who do nothing else but game are the biggest problems – they become precious and entitled, lack any awareness of the world and how it runs, and because gaming is all they have, every little thing that upsets them about it is a huge percentage of their total life experience.
I like long games, but they should def be the occasional experience. Much as I just LOVED Horizon Forbidden West, it was so big and so long for a single player game that I switched to Story mode to power through the last 5th of it because I was pretty done with grinding and big fights for weeks and just wanted to get to the end of the story.
It’s the addicted and entitled fans who are the problem and teaching the devs what they want.
As a warthunder player, what is a sleep schedule?
i agree. its not the length, its the density and pacing of good content. open world games are filled with slop. so. much. slop.
games like hollow knight are really long but the gameplay is varied and fun, with very unique content. im totally okay with those games being 80 hours.
cyberpunk 2077 also took me 60-70 hours and i was totally ok with that too coz the quests are so well written and i just wanted to do everything and i never felt bored. so much to do and to see.
ghost of tsushima had really good combat, but the content was ultimately extremely repetitive and sloppy. the main quests were great and had a good story, but the open world stuff was just very sloppy…. and its already a LOT better than what AC has…
Depends on the kind of game. I expect a JRPG to be around 40 hours, if not higher. A fighting game story should be relatively short if it has one. An action game can be closer to the middle as long as the gameplay stays interesting.
Timely thread. Just thinking about this right now. The thought of a 40hr game just kinda puts me off these days. Now if it’s a great game that is fine. But honestly, 90% of games become boring after about 10hrs. I just don’t know how people sink 100+ hrs into some of these games. Most of them are just “repeat this same thing over and over without having to think too hard”.
Like I’m trying to play Expedition 33 atm. And don’t get me wrong. It’s an objectively good game and I totally get why people love it, but… I’m essentially just running from fight to fight and my performance in each fight essentially comes down to how well I can block/parry. I’m 12hrs in and I dunno, let’s just say I’m not rushing to boot it up any more.
Strongly dissagree
I’m not even willing to pay for a game with under 500hrs of possible use… not for what they’re now charging… I’ll wait for that shit to come to game pass/game catalog (I have both)
I’d agree with you if games were cheaper.
I mostly agree. But i think its mostly about what the game does with all those hours than how many hours there are.