d21lewis said:
People are saying games art too short for $60:
Go back to the 80's and 90's. Some of the best games ever are only a couple of hours long and they cost $50-$70. I played Contra, Super Mario Bros., Bionic Commando, and Goldeneye when they were brand new! I can beat Shadowgate in less than 15 minutes! So, while the experiences are more refined, technically superior, and much longer, the price has only gone up $10 (and, like I said, some games of the age --especially N64 games -cost even more).
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Exactly. You paid $50-70 (and back then, $50-70 was worth more then than it is now due to inflation) for an hour/two hours worth of content. Sure, usually it takes the average gamer a lot longer than 1 hour/2 hours to beat the games because NES games were a lot harder than modern video games. But still, at the end of the day, it's still only 1 hour/2 hours worth of content. All that time re-doing levels over and over again due to death because the games were so difficult artificially lengthed the games.
A lot of gamerson this site are young (born in the early to mid 90s) and weren't even born during those times so they can't relate. I remember paying $64 + tax out of my allowance for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Once someone told me about the Konami Code (yes it works on this game too. Not just Contra), I basically set the game on "easy" mode and was able to beat the game in a 30 minute sitting. A $64 game with only 30 minutes worth of content! Naturally though I had spent many hours playing the game though trying to beat the game's Normal mode (I never managed to do so. :().
But yeah, bottom line, it's still $64 for only 30 minutes worth of content.But as kids, we never really saw it that way. We didn't see these games as rip-offs. It never occurred to us that these games were "too short". I played Dragon Quest II, Zelda and The Magic of scheherazade as a kid so it's not like lengthy games were foreign to me. But I never once got the impression that sub-1 hour games were short. Game length seems to be more of an obsession with the new generation.
