Why is House of the Dead: Overkill a full price game?

[averyblund]

Graves said:

twesterm said:

So last night I went to go see X-Men Origins: Wolverine with a friend and we got fairly drunk at the movie (hooray Studio Movie Grill) so even though it was midnight or so we came back to my place and decided to play games since he didn't want to drive home.

We pick House of the Dead: Overkill because I had started it and the humor was awesome. 

So we play it and we're absolutely loving it.  By the third stage we get the auto shotgun and we just start ripping through everything.  We actually were never even in danger of dying and didn't die until the final boss (friend died once but he just continued so no big deal).

Anyways, I thought the game was fun even though it was ridiculously easy.  We were constantly laughing (which is hard to do in a game), and the game itself is just fun, but there was one problem: we finished the game in under 2 1/2 hours.

What the fuck!?

This was a full priced game and it was only 2 1/2 hours?  What the crap were they thinking?

I don't mind a short game, I don't even mind a full priced 6 hour game if it's really fun, but there's no excuse for a full priced 2 1/2 hour game.

Bah.

 

 

Either way I don't think a rail shooter is worth more than $20 maybe $30. 

 

I for the most part agree. Which is why most of the other ones have performed better thus far. Though a price cut will make a difference.

 

To the people using UC as an example of a longer game I think that is sorta unfair. UC is the slowest railshooter I have ever played. Everything about it is slow paced from the camera movement to the zombies. Now I'm not ripping it apart, but it is a totally different kind of shooter.

To me the length of a shooter is less important that the replayability. That is why Ghost Squad sucks if you ask me, I never had any reason to want to play it through more than a couple times. In that way I think Overkill is worth it.

Despite thinking the game was worth it, I do think they should have lengthened it considering its full price. But I also think when one buys a rail shooter they should not expect more than a couple of hours of content.

To those who simply dislike rail shooters, thats fine, but I think to make it sound like those who do are settling for less is just missing the whole point. Rail shooters are like speed runs. They are meant to be practiced and perfected. Not run through from beginning to end like most FPS without caring about precision and perfection.