When have people started to basically judge a game based on length alone?

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marley said:

tokilamockingbrd said:

actually, the link you pointed was not based on ANYONE's impressions. I am referring to the people who have copies of the full game and have played it.

The past 6 months there was a slew of negative things about the game, but no one had played it, people were saying stuff based on what they though from watch limited gameplay footage. Now people have played it the big negative is its length thus the reason why certain people have run with it. If people were saying "the framerate is unstable" or "the controls are wonky" you rest assured there would be plenty of threads bashing that.

The article is a sum of previews given by critis that have played the demo.  It might not be the full game, but a demo is enough to critique these things:  "Clunky mechanics, Quick-Time Events, and a wonky camera".  Hopefully they just picked terrible parts of the game to demo, but the previews definitely don't paint a rosey picture (full game or not).  

the impressions were based on demos of specific points in the game. Also the people I am referrencing were playing the final version of the game, some things may have been cleaned up from the demo build. Again, the only negatives I have seen in impressions of people playing the actual game are its length and some people were not keen on the ending (no idea why, as I am going to wait to find out for myself this weekend)