Are Next-Gen games too short? (offline)

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Griffin said:

EggsWithLegs said:

This question occured to me today after finishing the main story on Mass Effect. Took me the bones of 15hours on my first place through. Did around 10 side quests too...dead a few times and still it only took 15hours. COD4 took less then 10hours to complete. To be honest I feel slightly cheated out of my €'s. Gears of War and Halo3 also spring to mind.

I'm not a particular fan of replaying the game either. I play games for the story and playing it a second time is repetitive imo.

What do ye think?

You must of skipped through most of mass effect, most people that i know it took 30-40 hours the first time, then they went back to beat it on the hardest level, and played the story an entire different way.

CoD4 my first time took about 5hours on easy, but the story was so fun i want back and played it again and again and beat most of the game on veteran now, plus you get arcade mode after you beat it. Then you have one of the best online games ever to hit a console, the same thing can be said for halo3, There are people on CoD4 with over 35 days of online play.

I finished Mass Effect in just 13 hours, and I wasn't rushing. Anyone who takes 30-40 hours to complete the game is either retarded, or is not good at games but is trying to do every single quest in ME. It was a disappointment Mass Effect was so short.