ddobson on 05 August 2007
| gitanil said: 12-15 hours for an action-beat-em-up is more than enough. Both Gears and RE4 were shorter than that. Games like these are usually in the range of 10-12 hours. |
Ouch -- I'm about 17 hours into RE4 right now and just coming up to the end of Act 4. I'll admit to being a little bit methodical and careful with these kinds of games, and doing a fair amount of backtracking to save points when I'm in uncharted territory and feel like I've accomplished something (holdover from my text adventure days, I suppose!) But I don't think it would be common to complete the game in less than 12 hours unless you had already played through it once or used some kind of a strategy guide. Or am I just extremely slow? The style doesn't really encourage run-and-gun, and there are definitely scenarios I've replayed after realizing I could get through them with significantly less ammo/health resource consumption.
