Game Length, Value & Replayability

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MikeRox said:

*good points*

 

You seem to be the kind of guy that would agree 100% with a spanish saying, "lo bueno, si breve, 2 veces bueno" => "the good, if short, twice as good".

One of your (and also mine, tbh) problems with current racing games is the tracks. Nowadays all the games go for licensed real tracks while back then most of the tracks were made from scratch with just one target in mind: to be fun. And also the rise of sim racing games and the lack of arcade ones. Personally I think that this is because sims are kind of easier to make than arcades, but that's another matter.

As I said, length depends on largely on the genre, a 10 hours fps is ok, even 4 would be ok if the games has different paths and has great replayability (though I've being playing Borderlands for more than 40 hours and having fun all the time), but 10 hours for an RPG would be ridiculously short.

Oh, and I don't like movies that last more than 2 hours... after that my butt starts to beg for mercy .