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[PA Comic] Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - False Witness
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[PA Comic] Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - False Witness
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You mean you didn't obsess over getting all the stars in the constellation to a point where you actively have to sabotage your progress in the game and waste hours of your time, then complain about how you had to do this and earned no reward, completely missing the entire message of the game, like so many angry internet-commenters?
'40 seconds of gameplay!'
I had to actively check out of the game once I found out about how you get some of those stars. Creative and cool, yes, but... not for me.
Side-Note: As a 30 year old guy, with no kids (yet), I don't have the time to play any lengthy games. A good portable game can last me a half a year, a console game like Dragon Age Inquisition can last me 3 or so months. I only get to play like maybe 2 hours a day tops (assuming I want to do all my other gaming like Heroes of the Storm and any other Mobile stuff I'm caught up in as a timewaster on a bus ride, etc.)
Now that you mention it, that is the picture that Mike tweeted the other day.
No, Tycho is just a vampire.
Is there any 'official' interpretation of Braid's message? I remember that Blow was disappointed that very few people seemed to get the message of the game, but I never heard what was the 'correct' one was.
That's all I have to say.
Also... Raise your hands here if you're also still playing Braid
TL;DR - Time against cost is tough. I tend to compare play time to cost of going to the movies.
If two hours of entertainment is worth $14, I would expect a $60 game to be approximately 8-10 hours.
Obviously in the gaming world, genre makes a huge difference in the length of a game. RPGs and RTS games tend to run on the longer side 30-50 hours are common, and many RPGs more like 100 hours if you're a completionist and like to do everything. Shooters tend to run short, and are often in the 5-10 hour range.
Generally speaking, if I pay $60 for a shooter, and I get 10 hours out of the campaign, I'm pretty happy with the purchase. I also am somewhat of a trophy whore and I very often will replay a game a second time on a max level difficulty to try to get more trophies. So that would turn a 5 hour game into a 10 hour game, and a 10 hour game into a 20 hour game.
I don't know that anyone's ever nailed down a clear story or anything, but it has a very strong message about the warping, destructive power of obsession.
Anyway, I don't read Polygon religiously, so I might be missing something. Does Polygon regularly criticize or emphasize the duration of games they review?
I don't read everything on Polygon, but it is my most frequently read gaming news site. That being said, the only articles I've seen on Polygon about game length are opinion pieces talking about how the market needs shorter games to cater to busy people. I read through the ten most recent reviews on Polygon, and I only found a couple of references to game length: game length padding in Dying Light, and the time it took to unlock things in Evolve.
Perhaps they are reading articles that I am not, but I don't think Polygon is any more guilty of using short gameplay as a negative critique than any other site.
This is a test.
Taken directly from what Washington looked like a couple days ago.
But don't move here because it rains all the time and is completely miserable I promise.
Don't gotta tell me, I live in Oregon.
For just $1 I can buy a stick to poke myself in the eye with for hours on end. Such a great time to dollar value!
Silly hyperbole aside, quality by far outweighs quantity on my appraisal of the value of a game.
So $6 for 2 hours.
I only play long games, ones I can sink a ton of hours into. Skyrim, Fallout 3, etc etc.
I remember finishing Fable in under 20 hours and it being one of my huge problems with it. A role playing game like that should have taken way longer.
It's good when games over deliver in content, while also keeping the minute to minute quality high.
$60 for 6 hours is lame IMO.
That wasn't cool. All hyped up and ready to go, only to get credits.
Steam: pandas_gota_gun
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
As for it being about time available to play: If I get a game like "Dragon Age: Inquisition", then I expect it will just take longer to finish with my available time.(I don't understand why that is a problem)