| crissindahouse said:
sometimes long games are good but im happy with a 10 hours game and i think most adult gamers are happy with a 10 hours game who just like to play a game sometimes if the family is anywhere else :) |
Most gamers are still young. While there is an aging population of people who grew up on games that is still no where near the rate that new kids are introduced to the hobby. As one of those adult gamers with a family though I still don't want a ten hour game as average.
A shorter game does nothing to help me squeeze in time. If the little one wakes up in the middle of the night I have to stop for a while and it doesn't matter whether or not I have to play another 5,10, or 1,000 hours to finish the game. The problem is not over-all game length but ability to stop in the middle of it. Most of my RPG time is on the DS because I can pop it out whenever there is a quiet moment, and clam shell it when something interrupts unexpectedly.
You want to appeal gamers with a family then let it be saved at anytime. Save, quit, and pick it back up when you have some spare time. Lowering the over-all time just gives me less value for my dollar. I can not think of a single way in which it helps anyone other than people who just want to beat as many games as possible just to say they beat it.
