bobobologna on 26 October 2008
| Khuutra said: Sorry, I can't take that request seriously when it comes from a person who throws around the word "opinion" like it's going out of style. Look, MGS3 is a prime example (though MGS2 is a better one). If you really lock down and play this game, you can beat it in, what, two hours? Maybe an hour and a half? That's actual gameplay, mind you. We'll say 90 minutes if you're really quick, though I'm betting many can beat it much faster. The game has two hours of cutscenes. Two hours - maybe more. You can check that out in Subsistence if you balk at the idea, one of the special features in that version is watching all of the cutscenes as a movie. When you throw in your radio conversations it ramps up considerably, to about five hours of non-interactivity. Maybe six? I'm not sure, I would never try to record it in its totality. There is far more non-interactive content in these games than there is interactive content. I don't see how that can readily be argued by anyone. |
So all these games are interactive movies?
http://speeddemosarchive.com/gamelist/FullList.html
Just a few for comparison from a variety of platforms:
- Metal Gear Solid for PSX/PC (1:54:02)
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty for PlayStation 2 (1:37:37)
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance for PS2/Xbox/PC (1:09:13)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater for PlayStation 2 (1:25:54)
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes for GCN (1:08:29)
- Ninja Gaiden Black for Xbox (1:41:08)
- Metroid Prime for GCN (1:03)
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for GCN (1:38)
- Splinter Cell, Tom Clancy's for GCN/PS2/Xbox/PC (1:21:45)
- Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Tom Clancy's for GCN/PS2/Xbox/PC (1:16:34)
- Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Tom Clancy's for GCN/PS2/Xbox/PC (1:11:45)
- Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast for PC (0:16:35)
- Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn for PC (0:47:49)
- Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal for PC (1:09:32)
- Deus Ex for PC (0:43:20)
