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bingo83
29/Mar/06, 05:13 PM
The average game length these days is about 8-10 hours. There appears to be lots of opinions on forums and reviews stating this to be a short game. I actually prefer games to be this short, but with a variety of content, for example HL2.

I don't have as much spare time to play games these days and would be happy if games were even slightly shorter if the content was still varied.
I'd even be happy if some games could be completed in an evening, say 4 hours. With the same structure as a movie. We all watch some films over and over. It would be great if we could have games we'd like play repeated times.

So what I'm suggesting is short action packed games, great stories, but with longevity through...I don't know, mirror modes, adjusted crazy physics, different graphical styles, a different musical score. Not just different difficult modes.

Another thing games really do need is a 'recap' when you continue the game, not the same intro you see every time it's loaded, but a story so far. Sometimes it can be a 2 weeks before I get the chance to play a game and it would be great to have a '24' esc. "previously on Halo 2" in Cortana's voice for example.

WACCOE
29/Mar/06, 05:14 PM
What's the question and i'll give you an answer?

bingo83
29/Mar/06, 05:17 PM
What's the question and i'll give you an answer?

Sorry m8, was editing my original post - should make sense now.

WACCOE
29/Mar/06, 05:20 PM
Ah right, yeah. :D. I think there too short, for 50pounds i'd like to get my money's worth, I also have a lot of spare time nowadays :p, sooooo.

:)

backin-strachan
29/Mar/06, 05:43 PM
Metroid PRIME lasted me a solid 50 hours and the second one was longer. Zelda as well. Some games I cant even finish.

But are you talking about 100% complete i.e Every star in Mario or every mission in GTA

or just complete the final boss but not fully completed the game.

RiLu@
29/Mar/06, 05:46 PM
I think the games today goes from 3 to 150 hours!
You can find all kind of it!