d671d0 No.14258639
How many games do you guys typically play at one time? I try to not have more than 3 going at any time but games are so needlessly padded and overlong these days.
I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and its pretty alright but fuck I want to take a break, but I know if I do I might never come back. Just finished Dino Crisis 2 for the first time (great fun, replayable, and short thankfully) so that opens one slot up.
I was thinking, imagine how much better Horizon would be if you didn't have to waste time collecting flowers and raiding bandit camps (literal, actual, bandit camps) and all this crap. If it was just an action packet straight shot like Vanquish (one of my top games of last generation) or something with all the cutscenes strung together instead of extended Ubisoft checklist segments and robotalking WRPG garbage breaking up the good times.
I've always been of the opinion a lot of games today are padded out to feel like "better deals" but nobody seems to agree with me and instead demand a "$ per hr" return, like more shit makes it better or something. Its an art piece not an appliance.
Anyone here agree?
b18c08 No.14258648
>games are too long
>Horizon Zero Dawn
e93b0c No.14258649
>I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and its pretty alright
Good thread
e98db4 No.14258650
You PAID for one of the most pozzed games ever made?
4ad8e8 No.14258689
>vidya is art
>buying AIDS: zero antibodies
Fuck off cuckchan.
ea1ae1 No.14258690
>>14258650
>You PAID for one of the most pozzed games ever made?
Fish memory or a complete reactionist.
Probably both
a01f2e No.14258733
Zero because all games suck
232c0b No.14258815
Arcade and arcade-inspired games are what I spend roughly 80% of my vidya time on today. I absolutely agree. In fact, I sometimes criticize some of these games directly for being too long. Metal Slug 3 and Sin and Punishment 2 are good examples. Sin and Punishment 2 is trying really hard to be an arcade action experience but it is way too fucking long to actually enjoy as a single-credit experience.
06b225 No.14258874
>2010
>In the thick of the COD 4 hour action-packed campaign fad
>/v/ complains about all the short games not being worth your money
>/v/ complains devs are focusing almost entirely on multiplayer, and single player campaigns are an afterthought
>2017
>finally getting some good long-form singleplayer games again
>2 threads I've personally seen this week with someone complaining about games being TOO LONG and wishing they could complete it in an afternoon
Get the fuck out of here. This place isn't for normalfags who have to balance games, work, and social life.
8fcc9c No.14258881
>>14258639
>I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and its pretty alright
you fucked up
64259f No.14258884
>>14258639
>Games are too long
No they aren't
Fuck off cuckchanner
c8b4cd No.14258918
The game's not too long, it's just shit and that's why you're getting "burnt out" on it. Short games can be good, but just because a game is long and shitty doesn't mean it would be better if it's short. You're essentially saying, "Wouldn't it be good if Horizon: Zero Dawn cut out all the bad parts and kept the good ones?" It's a game with predominantly shit content, therefore it's just shit.
c8b4cd No.14258931
>>14258918
Also, as a supplement to that, if a short game has good content there isn't really any reason why it wouldn't be plain better if it had more of that same level of quality content. Hence why expansion content sells.
0c89aa No.14258946
>>14258639
Short games work well when they have a nice pick up and play quality to them. There's a lot of games that need length, RPG's and the like, or else they'd be short and uninteresting. Story-driven games need time to get the player invested, except most AAA story-driven games do this in the dumbest way possible by padding games out with filler content and repetitive gameplay. Not to mention the writing sucks and the player choices don't matter of course.
Vanquish is a good example of a short game done right. The mechanics are fast and furious, it leaves room for player improvement, encourages multiple playthroughs, overall hammy story and cinematics that don't get in the way, and of course can be beaten in an afternoon. Also the credits sequence was dope; you could really tell the devs had fun making the game.
5f5667 No.14259373
>(1)
>Horizon Zero Down Syndrome
rest of the thread says everything for me, check 'em
e598a2 No.14259655
>>14258639
>I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and its pretty alright but fuck I want to take a break
25559f No.14259720
>>14258639
This reads like a Kotaku article. Check em', then consider suicide.
f4c7be No.14262138
I love long games. It gives me the most bang for my buck when I have games with tons of content.
An RPG with a story of 60 hours with 20 hours of side content is way more worth it to me than an FPS that's 12 hours with almost 0 hours of side content.
It's also pretty good for my budget too. I don't finish games and then move on to another as fast as possible. If there's lots of stuff to do and whatnot, I can indulge in a single game as long as possible.
Though this only works if the game keeps you engaged. Games like GTA V and Horizon are boring and you get burnt out quickly. GTA V especially has no incentive to do anything (you don't get rewarded for missions, and if you do it's a paltry sum of money that you don't need because there's nothing worth spending the money on) but has a lot of stuff to do. Because you don't get rewarded and there's nothing to buy, there's no sense of progression. By the end of the main story you can sit yourself on top of billions of dollars and have nothing to show for it aside from some cars and the number.
b65966 No.14262977
>>14258946
>NotHillary blowing her head off when she is exposed as a shitty president.
033cad No.14263277
>>14258639
>horizon zero dawn
I think that's your problem there buddy
in all reality if you have the time to go apeshit on it now you will have the time later, just play something else and come back. They only drawback may be forgetting mechanics but it'll come back soon
76703b No.14263322
>>14258639
>I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn and its pretty alright…
What the fuck is wrong with you? Seek psychiatric help your taste in games is abnormal.
ab2f99 No.14263398
>>14258815
>Sin and Punishment 2 is trying really hard to be an arcade action experience but it is way too fucking long to actually enjoy as a single-credit experience
Isn't every of the seven stages around 20 minutes long or so? I don't think it's really meant to be played on one credit.
ceb12f No.14263402
>Title
strike one
>Horizon Zero Dawn
strike Two
>Its an art piece not an appliance.
there's 3. You're not even worth the (You)s you're getting ITT.
ba521e No.14263508
Try the fucking avernum series, that shit is way too long even if you know what you're doing. Would take an absurd amount of time to figure out where you're supposed to go without a walkthrough.
f38918 No.14264249
can we get this thread back on topic, I am interested.
I have bills and am married with responsibilities, it much time to pour into games anymore.
I want to know some short sweet games that are worth my money and time.
0ad3bd No.14264342
>>14264249
>Can we get back on topic
No, this topic is fucking retarded as there are plenty of good short and long games.
Even with IRL responsibilities you can finish long games by taking your time.
OP is a (1) and done cuckchanner
Now go play Furi and Max Payne and swhut the fuck up.
7e14ce No.14264556
>>14264342
>furi
>good game
kek
You're right though this is a shit thread.
c6db44 No.14265391
>>14258639
>Games are too long
>I'm 40 hours into Horizon Zero Dawn
>Its an art piece not an appliance.
nice dubs thread op
c6db44 No.14265396
>>14264249
Not your fucking blog fuck off nigger
8315f2 No.14266781
What I dread the most are not long games but open games with no ending. Those are the bigger enemy to tye backlog. Things like Doom and Stalker. I love them but there is no end to them.
e78909 No.14266783
>>14266781
>Doom
What the fuck?
8315f2 No.14266788
>>14266783
Doom II 1994. Try to finish all the amazing mods and maps out there..
c3de03 No.14266810
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>14266781
It amazes it me that people are still making gigantic overhauls to New Vegas. Maybe if Bethesda didn't keep dumbing down their modding tools we could see good Fallout 4 mods
064cbf No.14266866
>>14258639
this is a game for you lad!
c3de03 No.14266893
>>14266866
I though Sonic Boom was shorter?
a82d14 No.14266913
There's this strange mentality people have now, that you have to finish a game. Why? There are lots of good games from the old days that I never finished because they were fucking hard. I still enjoyed my time with them.
In the end this all comes down to the cinemafication of video games. You wouldn't walk out half way through a movie. You have to stay and see how it ends.
5a7620 No.14266926
>>14266893
Sonic Boom had an average completion time of ~6-7 hours. Sonic Forces can be completed in under 2.
88434d No.14266937
>>14258639
Just go play some phone games that way you can have more time for your dick sucking sessions
8315f2 No.14266992
>>14266810
I got this game in the Summer Sale of 2012. I still haven't tried it once because I know it needs 800hours..
c6db44 No.14267022
op is a faggot
>>14266913
>You wouldn't walk out half way through a movie. You have to stay and see how it ends.
Nigger no you don't. If a movie is wasting your time you have every right to walk out on it, because time is the most finite resource ever, and I'd rather waste it on something enjoy than watch a shitty movie.
e13a5a No.14268181
>>14258639
Used to always just be one at a time with no exception, but in the past few years since I've started hating vidya for the most part I struggle to ever complete anything anymore and will play several at a time, which ends up with me dropping many games. So few new games manage to hold my interest long enough for me to even make it halfway through.
ea1ae1 No.14268276
>>14267022
>time is the most finite resource ever
>I'd rather waste it on something I enjoy
>mfw can't stop browsing imageboards
c12b51 No.14268350
>OP words his thoughts poorly
>/v/irgins cling to the first sentence and chimp out before they finish comprehending what they've read
Erry time.
I don't think he is necessarily saying that games should be shortened, but rather the tedious gameplay made better or removed. If you can't make resource harvesting fun on it's own and it feels like tedium, you're doing something wrong. Another example is padding out a game with long fucking hallways for no other reason than to make the game seem longer, or making scenes unskippable and having mandatory "walkie-talkie" sections. It is a common problem and the casuals lapping it up don't realize they are being manipulated, right up until they finish the game and realize they don't want to replay it ever and stick it on their shelf to gather dust. You tried OP, but try proofreading your posts some more.
f16b5e No.14268458
>I want to take a break, but I know if I do I might never come back
There is no greater proof than this to determine if a game is shit or not.
e5ce57 No.14268598
42ac90 No.14273561
>>14258639
It sounds like the problem isn't length, but bad padding. A lot of current year games seem to make you do busywork to pad out the game, without bothering to make the padding actually fun.
I'd rather have a 20+ hour long game that's consistently enjoyable from beginning to end. If it's short, it should at least be replayable. But both of those kinds of games are rare nowadays.
6ec00d No.14273641
My issue isn't when games when games are too long, its when the length feels artificial. Like >>14273561 says, needless padding makes games like pic related a dread on second playthroughs.
e98db4 No.14273665
>>14273641
I read that as "fireem blem" and now I can't stop laughing
dca7e2 No.14273667
Completely unrelated question:
Can I use a US Xbox One X (110V) in Australia (240V)?
I know the original Xbones had a power brick, but the new ones use a "jug cord" so will it fry it if I take it on holidays?
46192e No.14273793
>>14268350
I was going to make a serious post and then realized he's a one and done faggot. Shit thread.
f52897 No.14277882