most action games and games on ps3/360 seem really short. 10 hours or less is nothing. galaxy took me i think 23 hours maybe. thats a good length for an action/platformer. so then when you look at these high profile games like halo, cod4, heavenly sword that sometimes take only like 6-10 hours, its just sad. i blame metal gear solid for starting this. that seemed like the first really short highly praised game. i consider an rpg short unless its at least 40 hours. with 45-60 hours being what an rpg should be. and it seems like even rpgs these days are sometimes under 30 hours which is ridiculously short.
so yes games are too short these days. up the length or up the difficulty so you can't just coast through a 10 hour game and be done in a couple days.
end of '08 predictions: wii - 43 million, 360 - 25 million, ps3 - 20 million
Games I've beat recently: Super Mario Galaxy, Knights of the Old Republic, Shadow of the Collossus
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