SlorgNet on 31 January 2008
| Dodece said: Some of those final battles taking up almost an hour of game time. |
An hour is just too long. 10-15 minutes is about right, anything beyond that gets in the way of something called Real Life (TM, Pat Pending). You know -- jobs, families, partners.
DMC3, MGS3 and FF12 all have 10 minute final bosses, and that's one of the reasons they're great games.
The whole idea that final bosses should be Ueberchallenging or close to impossible is a hangover of the earliest coin-operated arcade games, which were designed to extract as many quarters from players as possible.
